The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1878-05-24

LITTLE LOCALS.

We are indepted to Mr.. John p. Dallam
of Perrymansville, for some old and interest
ing Baltimore newspapers.
jarrett B. Standiford has been appointed
postmaster at Hopewell Cross Roads, Har-
ford county, in the place of James B. Kenly,
deceased.
MIR. Thomas Bradenbaugh, of Pleasant
vile, sends us by mail specimen Early Rose
potato, of this years growth 1t is as large
as hulled walnut
The Grand Jury adjourned on Thursday,
after session of ten days. They found
eighteen presentments, five of which were for
rape, one for horse stealing and the remain
der for petty offences.
Mr.. James H. Michael, of Perrymans-
vile, has our thanks for box of most beau
tiful roses, of nearly dozen different varie-
ties. Mr.. Michael has upwards of fifty va
reties of roses, and is very successful in their
cultivation.
Edward G. Price has been appointed
mail carrier on the route from the Hickory
to Bel Air, by way of Forest Hill. Mr.. Price
leaves the Hickory at 6 o'clock, A. NJ, and
has made arrangements to carry passengers as
well as the mail.
by mistake the strawberry festival for
the benefit of Emmanuel Church. Bel Air,
was advertised for the 21st and 22d inst. 1t
will take place next Tuesday and Wednesday,
May 2Sth and Goth, in the Town Hall, when
the ladies will be pleased to see their friends
and the public generally.
We have received from DIR. II. Clay
Whiteford, Secretary of the Hartford County
Medical Society, for publication, copy of
the address on "Higher Medical Education"
delivered before the society at its regular
meeting in Bel Air, on the 18th instant, by
the retiring President, DIR. W. Stump For
wood. Our space for reading matter being
limited, we are unable to find room for this
excellent but lengthy address.
We are indebted to Mr. James Delevett,
of Chestnut Hill, for copy of The MARYLAND
journal and the Baltimore Adgertiser, dated
August 20th 1878. This relic of ante revo-
lutionary days contains an advertisement by
George Washington, offering for sale 20 900
acres of land ON the Ohio and Great Kama.
wha rivers, and enumerstng among the adj
vantages of the land the probability that the
seat of government would he fixed at the
mouth of the Great Kanawha.
"A hen belonging to Miss Harriet E. Hol
loway daughter of j. E. Holloway, Esq, who
lives near Perrymansvile, has slightly sur
passed the feat of the hen mentioned last
week, by regularly laying eggs of four ounces
weight. Two of them have been sent to us,
which measured respectively u by 81, and "
by 81. She is said to be common hen, but
such extraordinary efforts must be very ex.
hausting. Miss Holloway also sends us, by
way of contrast, n tiny little hens egg, which
weighs less than half an ounce, and is not as
large as pigeons egg.
Mrs. John Q. stockham has not vet en-.
tirely recovered from the effects of a fall re
ceived short time ago. She was returning
from Baltimore on an evening train, and had
two children and number of packages witt
her. In order to be ready to get off MS soon
as the train stopped at Perrymansvile
she went out on the platform of the
era, and accidentally fell off, upon the
platform of the station, before the train
ance of her husband and the brake
had come to full stop. Without the assis,
man she would probably fallen under the
train.