The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-11-14
Focal Affairs.
LITTLE LOCALS ::


| -Protracted meeting will commence at Avon
dale, next Sunday, November 16. Rev. DIR.
Crane, pastor.
In Cecil county 3,245 votes were cast foi
Local Option and t., 1O7 against it. Majority for
Local Option, 2,13s. Nearly 1900 voters failed
to vote on the question.
Mr.. James Forwood, who lives near OAR
lington, has raised some very large turnips this
year. The boss one measured So inches around
and weighed seven pounds.
"A box full of large and fine fallawater apples
was left at The AEgis office, last Friday, by Mr.
Thomas G. Hopkins of Darlington. They were
duly appreciated and he has our thanks
-Messrs. Martin & Anderson have erected
tall flag pole on the top of their popular store,
| in Bel Air, from which the Stars and Stripes are
to be thrown to the breeze on high days and
holidays.
Miss Bette Merryman, daughter of John
Merryman, Esq, of Haytclds, Baltimore county,
was married at the residence of her father, on the
9th instant, to Lieutenant Commander Charles
IL. Black, U. S. N.
"A flock of sheep belonging to Mr.. William
N. Hughes, who lives near Jarrcttsville, was at
tackled by dogs, on Friday night the It'll inst
Four sheep were killed on the spot and eight or
nine were badly crippled
"A reward of 800 is offered by members of
the congregation, for the arrest and conviction
of the party or parties who broke into Centre
| NJ. E. Church, near Forest Hill, and destroyed
the organ, on the night of the 4th instant.
-Messrs. j. Wesley Guest, cashier of the Cit
liens National Bank, and James w. Hewlett, of
Baltimore, in day and a-halflast week, baggcd
y cartridges and woodcock and 90 rabbits. The
game was killed on The Dairy and in the Big
| Woods.
The Baltimore SIN says that the beet sugar
question is attracting attention in that city, and
the owners of one of the Baltimore molasses
| boiling rclneries are making inquiries into it,
with a view of turning theirs into beet sugar
| refinery.
| MIR, Andrew Lindsay, of Dublin, brought to
The 4fqiS office, on Wednesday, a beet that beats
all other beets 1t measures BOZ inches around
| and weighs fully 10 lbs. He has another beet,
| from the same patch, which weighs IA lbs. Mr..
| Lindsay also showed a radish of curious growth.
Robert Crosedale, a minister in the society
| of Friends, preached to a large congregation, in
| the Methodist Protestant Church, Bel Air, on
| Friday night of last week Several short adj
dresses were also made by Darlington Hopes,
of this county. The remarks of both speakers
were earnest and impressive.
Rev. William f. Brand, of this county, was
severely cut and bruised by accidentally walking
from the end of a platform at st. Andrews
Church, High street, Baltimore, on Sunday
night, November I'd. The platform, which had
been erected for the purpose of making some
repairs TO the church, was four or five feet above
| the surface of the ground
A few weeks ago a correspondent stated
that Mr.. Randall Atkin had filed objections to
his grant of the right of way through his farm,
near Pylesville. The statement was incorrect,
our correspondent having been mised by SINH
larity of names. Mr.. Atkin not only cheerfully
gave the right of way, but has done and is doing
all in his power to promote the building of the
railroad.
Some fine specimens of Lancaster Mammoth
corn grown by Messrs. j. P. Benson and Sons,
of Fallston, have been left at The 1Egis Office
There are two varieties, white and yellow, and
the ears are filled out to the very end of the cob
One ear from the Mcssrs Benson's field had
l,5O0 grains ofcorn upon it. Last year the yield
was ID barrels to the acre. This year it was
not so much, owing to the drought
Capt Frederick NJ. Colston, of Wilson, Coils
ton Il Co., Bankers, No. 1874 West Baltimore
street, is agent in Baltimore for the managers of
the fund to provide for the support and educa-
tion Of the ten bercaved children of the late
General Hood Last week Capt. Colston rcceiv-
cd $500 for the fund from Mr.. A. S. Abel, of the
Baltimore San and an equal amount from Mr.
Geo. w. Childs, of the Philadelphia Ledgcr
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