The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-11-28
Focal Affairs.
LITTLE LOCALS :

LITTLE LOCALS:
Thursday being Thanksgiving Day, court
was not in session, the stores in Bel Air were
closed, and the streets presented Sunday APP
pearance.
The sky last Sunday is said to have been
without cloud, from the Atlantic to the Pacif-
ic Ocean. This is shown to be the case by the
map on exhibition at the Signal Office in Wash
ington.
The Susquehanna river was covered with ice
from shore to shore, at Lapidum, last Saturday
morning. strong wind in the evening broke it
up and the current cleared it all away before
Sunday morning.
A charter has been obtained for railroad
to connect the Philadelphia, Wilmington and
Baltimore road with the North Pennsy lvania
road, and thus make an unbroken line between
Baltimore and New York
DR.. E. Hall Richardson and Arthur Vosbury,
Esq, School Commissioners, and Mr.. Vim. H.
Harlan, Examiner, of Hartford county, attended
the annual meeting of the School Commission
ers of the State, in Baltimore, on Tuesday.
"A colored man named Stewart, while at
work loading hay, on the farm of Mr. Daniel
Scott, near Bel Air. last Tuesday, accidentally
fell off the load. His leg was badly cut and his
back injured. He is attended by DR.. r. D. Lee.
Mr.. Andrew Cunningham, ofDublin district,
member of the petit jury, was taken very ill
at Mrs. Finney Hanna's boarding house, in Bel
Air, and was obliged to be taken home on Tues
day. His physician thinks he will scarcely be
able to attend court again during the term.
in the case Of John Harris VS.. the Baltimore
and Delta Railway Company, Messrs. Talbot
and Grason, as counsel, have filed exceptions to
the ratification of the mquisition allowing 81,
100 damages to MIR. Harris upon the ground that
the damages were inadequate to the value of
the land taken, &c.-Tom$onto'cn Union.
On Wednesday of last week, while attend
ing the sale of the effects of Mr.. James o. Amoss,
near Fallston, Mr.. Jesse Hoskins was upset by
a large hog running against him, and severely
injured his knee. He was taken home and has
| been suffering very much ever since He is i'm
proving slowly, under the care of Dr. r. d. Lee.
The property of Hugh G. Ramsay, situated
near the Susquehanna river and Pennsylvania
line, was offered at trustees sale, at the Court
House door, on Tuesday, by j. s. Richardson,
auctioneer for Cunningham r. Glasgow and
George L. VanBibber trustees, and withdrawn
at bid of $4,000. 1t can now be purchased at
private sale
On Sunday evening" between seven and
eight O'Clock, fire broke out in the woods OF
the Old Bay farm, near Havre de Grace. 1t
swept over the woods with great rapidity, burn.
ing the leaves and some of the small timber,
but very little timber of value was destroyed
The view of the fire from distance is represent,
ed to have been grand.
On Tuesday night, at 0 o'clock, Mr.. Charles
Jessup, 70 years of age, living with his son-in-
law, Levi Ferguson, nine miles from Baltimore
city, on the Hartford road, was knocked down
and robbed of his pocket book containing an
unendorsed check for S45.23. Mr.. Jessup had
just stepped out of the back door of the dwelling
into the yard, when he was assaulted
A few days ago Ambrose aged nine years,
son of Mr.. John A. Gennett, formerly of Bush
River Neck, but now of Burlington county,
New Jersey, while playing in neighbours wagon
shed, accidentally fell from height and caught
upon two trace hooks, njuring himself serious.
ly. Mr.. Gennett had been on q visit to this
county, but arrived at home the evening before
the accident