The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-04-18

PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMISSIONERS. The
Commissioners on Monday appointed Jacob
Lantz General Supervisor of Roads for the First
district.
1t was ordered that 500 be levied in 1879, for
the repair of the stone pavement in Bel Air, be-
tween the Court House and Jail.
The bids for the collection of taxes for 1879
were opened and read, but the Board postponed
action upon them until the next meeting, in or
der to consider the sufiiciency of the bonds of:
fered and the qualifications of the lowest bidders
ACCIDENT ON THE RoAD.-Last Saturday
while Mr.. George NJ. Wiley, of this county, who
lives near Fawn Grove, was returning from
York, in buggy, with his wife and little girl
driving pair of colts, they took fright at COW
and SHE'D to the side of the road. In trying to
check them, both bits broke and the colts start
ed to run. The buggy struck the fence, tearing
otfth top, and landing the occupants of the car
rage on the ground. The colts then jumped the
fence and made things lively for while, but
were caught after time without having in
ficted material injury upon themselves or their
owner. The buggy was considerably damaged
NOT FINISHED Y ET.-The Towsontown Journal
says:
We learn that ten new buildings are now in
course of erection at Bel Air 1t being the impe-
tus furnished by the construction of the Balti-
more and Delta Narrow Gauge Railway. f"Al
fred Jingle" were alive now he would come to
the conclusion that what he prognostigated con-
corning Bel Air about 1874 is not correct, the
town is not yet finished
"Alfred jingle must have spoken merely in
Pickwickian sense. Bel Air has been steadily
improving during the last fifteen years We
towns in the State, and intend to keep on i'm
proving, railroad orno railroad.
AcoIDESTs-On Sunday afternoon, March
3Oth, Mrs. Lee, wife of Mr.. David Lee ofJerusa-
lem Mills, received an accidental fall and broke
her right arm just above her wrist. Dr. R. R.
Bouldin reduced the fracture.
On Friday of last week Cyrus France, living
near Reelsord's Mills, was cutting down tree, O
limb of which in its fall struck him on the head,
knocking him down and breaking the thumb Of
the left hand.
"A few days ago little colored boy named
Williams, aged nine years. living with Elijah
Waters, colored on the Mountain, in the alb
ScHcc Vi tIe luillliy, tooh plstol WHICH WIS nlu
under the bed, and accidentally shot himself. The
ball entered the abdomen. He is likely TO recov-
err DR.. Bouldin attended the above cases
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BIDS FOR COLLECTING TAxEs.-The business
of collecting taxes in Hartford county must be
very desirable one judging from the number of
bids receivedby the Commissioners, on Tuesday,
and the exceedingly low rates offered. The high.
est bid was 4 per cent, and the lowest 1.39. The
bids were as follows
First District James Billingsea, per
cent; Edward F. Johns 2 per cent; Joseph A.
Price, ~ per cent.
Second District. -Wiliam Carsins, 24S per
cent; B. F. Cronin, 2.O7G per cent; William
Chesney, $40 per cent
Third District.---Wiliam Munnikhuysen, s. 80
per cent; Charles Whitaker, 2.29 per cent.
Fourth District.-James s. Calder, 10 per
cent; David ST. Clair, 139 per cent.
Fifth District-M. N Whiteford, 275 per
cent; Charles Rigdon, 3 per cent; David Harry,
800 per cent; silas B. Silver, 3.95 per cent
The Commissioners will appoint the Collectors
at their meeting next Monday. u