The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-04-07
Local Affairs.
LITTLE LOCALS:

The Tide Water Canal is open and boats
are making their usual trips.
The firmname of Davis, Pugh 6 Co, of
Port Deposit, has been changed % Duycliinck
6 Co.
Last weeks Cecil Wig contained an ex.
cellent likeness of Hon. Jacob Tome, of Port
Deposit, with a sketch of his life
The richest man in Prussia is Krupp
the cannon manufacturer He is near rela.
tive of Professor Ascherfed, of Hayre dc
Grace.
"A package ofletters reached the Havre
de Grace postoffice few days ago which had
been mailed at Philadelphia and other points
NORTH last November
The Republican primary meetings will
be held on Saturday, April %. The county
convention meets on the 25lh April, and the
State convention on the 4th of May.
On the night ofthe 25th March, the barn
of Isaac Boyd Lower Chanceford township
York county, was set on fire and destroyed
with all the lay and grain of the farm.
-Messrs. jeremiah p. Silver and Richard
F. Bishop, of Hartford county, have been
selected as petit jurors of the United States
Circuit Court for Maryland, for the April
| term.
The tomato Gamers of this county, we
learn, intend to plant, this year, more largely
of the General Grant" variety than any
other. 1t is said to be the best for canning
purposes.
Under the new assessment law Hartford
county will be divided into two assessment
districts. The second, fifth and sixth election
districts to be No l the first, third and
fourth to be No.. o
The registration law provides for cor
rection of the lists instead of new registra.
ton. The registers in the counties are to
receive 81 for each day they are necessarily
employed in discharge OF their duties
The tax payers will rejoice to know
that the State taxes have been reduced s.
16 cents, making the total State tax for the
next two years II cents on the 500. Ten
cents of this tax is for the public school fund.
We arc indebted to Hon. Murray Vandi.
Yer for n copy of the speech of Hon. j. ].
Donaldson, in the House of Delegates, March
o. 1876, on the subject of the State of Mary.
lands relations with the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company.
Mr.. D. G, Emory, General Agent of the
Washington Life Insurance Company, will
accept our thanks for neat and useful
Guide to the Centennial Exposition" and
also for u convenient and handsome calendar,
issued by the company.
On Monday, March 18th, Mrs Elizabeth
Wheeler, living near Hereford, died of pncu.
monia, and on the following day her hus.
band, Mr.. Josiah Wheeler, died of the same
disease. Husband and wife died within nine
hours of each other, of the same disease, and
were both buried on the same day. Their
ages were 81 and 50 years, respectively.
-7oa0s0nt0aca Union.
The steam ferry boat w. C. Mccall,
Emil Holm, captain, as will be seen by a
notice in another column, Will resume her
regular trips between Lapidum and Port De-
post next Monday, April TO- This boat
makes close connections with all the railroad
trains to and from Baltimore, and being a
much needed facility at that point, it is to be
hoped it will be patronized
A correspondent of the Elkton Democrat
says that on Wednesday of last week large
rock, forming part of the peak known as
Lovers Leap at Port Deposit, became de-
tached from lis high position and rolled down
to the foot of the hill demolishing portion
of Leonard Sitzlers bakery, and breaking the
legs and back of Mr.. Sitzler's fine Newfound
land dog. The rock is ten feet long, five feet
in width, and weighs upwards of fifteen tons.
The Legislature of Pennsylvania has
passed q bill directing the Attorney General
to proceed against the State Line and Juni-
alta Railroad Company to ascertain if they
have not forfeited their corporate franchises
II the proper courts find the company has
violated its privileges, the charter will be
annulled. The survey of II railroad from
Baltimore TO Philadelphia, passing through
Oxford, three years ago, was made under this
charter.-Oyord Pres
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