The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-11-23
Local Affairs.
LITTLE LOCALS.


Next Thursday, November 20th will be
Thanksgiving Day.
"A lodging house in South Baltimore adj
vertises clean beds for 10 cents, and meals at
5, 10 and 10 cents
Thomas G. Archer, formerly of Bel Air,
has opened the Swansbury House, at Swans.
bury Mills, two miles from Havre dc Grace
Sheriff johnson has appointed DR.. Wake
b. Munnikhuysen physician TO the JAIL and
has also retained Isaac G. Pyle as one of his
deputies.
The many friends of Mr. A. w. Scar
borough, our correspondent "Alars," will re-
greet to hear that be is seriously i'll with pneu-
mona at his home near Dublin.
Lewis Brown, owner and proprietor of
Browns Hotel, High street, Baltimore, died
on the 7th inst Mr.. Brown was well known
throughout Hartford and Baltimore counties
"A radsh in Mr. Charles Halls garden
put forth an effort this season to rival the
1t was ofihe long red variety, which are gen.
orally no thicker than mans thumb.
"A colored school teacher complains,
through the Hare Republican, that teachers
of his color were not invited to attend the
recent Teachers Institute, and hopes the
school authorities will consider the matter
and invite them to the next meeting.
The paragraph published last week stat
ing that Miranda Holiday colorcd, had teen
fined So and costs for disturbing a religious
meeting in Bel Air, we are informed was not
altogether correct. The fine was RENTED
and further healing granted by the magis-
trate, at which the charge was not sustained
by the evidence and the accused was dis
charged.
Mr.. Charles T. Adams, formerly with
Asbury Jarrett, has permanently connected
himself with Charles N. Oehm & Son, cloth
iers and merchant tailors, No. 239 West Pratt
street. Baltimore. Mr.. Adams has host of
friends in this county, who will doubtless be
glad to learn of his whereabouts and take
him their custom. The firm he is connected
with is good one, and know how TO please
their customers.
AT Joseph Hanway's public sale, near
Pleasantville, on Wednesday, a Kirby reaper
sold for $3.50; q wheat drill 1886, horse rake.
S16; 2 sows, weighing about 200 lbs. each,
at 1915 a piece; a full-bred Berkshire boar,
$40; shoats from So to 81 SOW and 6 pigs
$780, pair of mules, $27O; horses at from
$50 to $780, four-horse wagon, SIS yoke of
oxen, Sill Attorney heifer, $50 cows from
$40 to $40.
-Messrs. Drury e. Ijams have just opened
at the old corner, Gay and High streets, Bal
timore, a first-class grocery store, from which
they are ready to supply the people of Har-
ford county with everything in the grocery
line, including choice wines and liquors, at
the very lowest market prices. Their expe-
rience in the business will enable them to
furnish the very best groceries. In buying
Christmas good things, do not forget to give
them a call.
One Good Puff Deserves Another.-We
arc indebted to our enterprising young
friends, Skinner & Bradbury, for samples of
good segars they have for sale at their new
store, on CORTLAND street, opposite the Court
House. In addition to choice imported and
and domestic segars, they sell chewing and
smoking tobacco, snuff, pipes, &c. They al
so intend to have news stand in connection
with their other business, and will supply
the various magazines and periodicals of
the day, together with other literature
Mr.. John A. Calhoun asks us to correct
several errors made by the compositor in his
report ofthe proceedings ofthe recent Teach
ers' Institute Mt Bel Air Professor Jackson
was made to say that there were not half
dozen places in the country" where Double
Entry Bookkeeping is used. His words
were sin the county," Miss Lottie perry"
should read Berry" In the discussion OH
the metric system, the word areas was used,
instead of ares. The latter is the French
term for The unit of land measure, and is
equal to about 1l9 square yards, or about
one fortieth of an acre; so that man who
owns hundred acre farm, will under the
new dspensation own one of 1000 ares
What good time surveyors will have when
acres give place TO ares and hectares