The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-03-10
Local Affairs.

LITTLE LOCALS:
The Cheese Factory mt HopcwelI Y
Roads is offered for rent
The Senate has confirmed The appoint
ment of Capt. John Harrington as assistant
weigher of grain.
-"Forcst Hill" sends the first correct So
luton of the enigma published last week. 1t
is, "a good name is rather to be chosen than
great riches"
Mr.. John H. Scarf, son of Joshua ii.
Scarf, Esq, late County Commissioner of
Marshalps district, graduated recently at the
Washington University School of Medicine.
-Breathcs there man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
/ will family paper take,
Both for my own and children's sake?
If such there be, let him repent
And have the AyiS TO him sent.
Mr.. Augustus Wann dug up some potato
bugs, day Or two ago, near the surface of
the ground. They were alive and kicking,
apparently ready for work. 1t is TO be hoped
their ravages will not be so extensive this
year.
The plan of awarding the collection of
taxes in this county 10 the lowest response
Bile bidders, we learn, has been discussed by
the delegation from this county in the Legs-
lature, and it is probable bill of such u
character will be framed and passed. 1t
would meet with general favor.
-Messrs. ]. ]. Smith & Son, whose cstab-
lishment for manufacturing phosphate, bone
dust, &c, is situated at New Windsor, Car
roll county, have opened II branch house at
Aberdeen, in this county, where they pro-
pose to furnish our farmers with reliable fer
tiizcrs of every kind. Their advertisement
appears in another column this week.
Dublin district steps gaily forward, this
centennial year, with a chicken recently
Matched, that has four perfectly formed legs
and four wings. II did not live, unfortunate
ly, or it might have been sent to Philadelphia
to astonish the foreign aristocrats who dis
parage American products. This curious
quadruped was Matched on the farm Of Mrs.
fiughcS, Olllc ltluSc.
AT recent public sale in Elk Neck,
Cecil county, horses sold at from 800 to
$175; cows from $40 TO $50; calf $50;
sheep So rs per head; hogs weighing 200
pounds, at 20 cents per pound live weight !;
clover hay $40 per ton; corn 20 cents per
bushel At another sale near by work
horses sold at $GS to S1G5 COWS VERY ordi-
nary) ut $40 to 1873; hay Common herd) $25;
corn 50 cents and other things in proportion.
Mr.. VIM. j. ii. Gluck, the cnterprsing
stove dealer, No. SO N, Gay street, between
the Bridge and Front street, Baltimore, again
calls the attention of the public TO the cele-
bratcd Times cooking stove, which he claims
possesses peculiar advantages over any other
cooking stove in the market This stove has
been introduced only short time but has be-
come exceedingly popular. Cali and see it
before you purchase.
On Monday last we handled lot of can.
vas-back and red head ducks, shot on the up
per Chesapeake two days before The ducks
were in very fair condition, the canvas.backs
selling for So per pair We should not at
all wonder if from this time to the middle of
March the fowl.shoeling should be better
than it has been on those waters at any time
since the season commenced =. Tuf, Field and
Farm.
Joint resolutions have been Introduced
in the Legislature, insGuctiDg the Maryland
delegation in Congress to vote and exert
their influence to haYc the appropriation for
the improvement of navigation in the Sus-
quehanna river, passed in such q shape that
it can be used for removing the canal boats
loaded with stone and other fragments which
remain of the government defectors built in
the river below Havre dc Grace for the pur-
pose of deepening the channel. The residue
to be used for deepening the approach TO the
river by dredging. The dcflectors, it is urged,
cause the ice 10 gorge at the mouth of the
river, thereby flooding the adjacent lands
and endangering the towns of Port Deposit
and Havre dc Grace.
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