The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-04-02
Focal Affairs.
LITTLE LOCALS

II 10 staitu tnut engineers are at work i'll
Chester county, Pa, running the line for the
proposed broad gauge railroad from Phiadel-
phia to baltimore. ...5. ..l..
The Republican primary meetings will be
held on Saturday, April Gath. The County Con.
vention will be held April Goth, and the State
convention in May.
DIR. j. b. L. Swentzell, dentist, has removed
his Office from the NJ P. Parsonage, Bel Air, to
Mr.. A. Preston Gilbert's new building, ON Office
street, near Main street.
MIR William Webster, woll-known. citizen
of Baltimore county, who has been very ill near
ly all winter, has now sufficiently recovered to
be able to ride out.
The Easter celebration of Emmanuel Pro-
tcstant Episcopal Sunday School, Bel Air will
be held on next Sunday afternoon, at O'Clock.
with choral service.
The Hartford County Medical Society has
been invited to attend meeting of the Medical
Society of Lancaster city and county, Pa, at
Columbia on the 18th instant
Last Friday, John Corrcll, while engaged in
loading corn in horse cart, at Prospect Hill, on
the Philadelphia turnpike, near Clayton, acct
dentally fell from the cart and dislocated his
shoulder.
Mr.. Charles w. Norris sold the stock of
hardware in his store on Main street, Bel Air,
on Tuesday, at public sale. The building will
in few days be occupied by Mr. Henry Rcckord
for the sale of fertilizers, feed, &c
Mr.. W. II. Paul has in his possession a
Spanish coin of the denomination of four reals,
bearing the date 1776. 1t is less worn than any
coin of the kind we have ever seen, and has been
in his family for at least scyenty-fivc years
A new species of bass or sunflsh is said to
have been founed in the Susquchanna river 1t
is game fish and corresponds with the dcscrip-
ton of the am1lopltcs rupest,is which has here
totore been found only in western waters or
Lake Erie.
| MIR. D. a. Spicer, contractor on the Balti.
more and Delta Railroad, who has been i'll for
several months past, has entirely recovered his
| health, and on Monday morning resumed work
on his contract near Falston, with an increased
force.
| The York Ga=etr says: "ThCre are posters
| out signed by eight pilots, who agree not 10
| take less than $50 for n raft and not less than
| slG for half raft 10 run from Peach Bottom 10
Port Deposit. They have adopted The firm name
| of Whitaker, Moore Il Co."
The Trustees of the Bel Air Academy held a
meeting, ON Monday, and appointed commit.
Tee to confer with the comfy School Commits
sioncrs in relation 10 the proposition for the ex.
change Of the Academy building for the public
school house, on Main street.
The copper factory property on the Hartford
road, which was purchased for the use of the
Gunpowdcr permanent water supply by Balti
more city, but which was afterwards found TO be
unnecessary, is now being laid off in lots and
will be offered for sale by the city 1o,rSoatoaa
| iniou.
We are indebted to Mr.. Joseph Harris, OF
Moreton Farm, Rochester, n. Y, for an assert.
ment of choice garden and flower seeds. Mr.
Harris is the wellknown breeder of pure Essex
swine, and is also largely engaged in raising
garden and flower seeds. His catalogue will be
sent on application.
The Forest Glee Club gave free concert OF
vocal and instrumental music, in Forest Hill
Hall, on Tuesday evening. The hall was full
and the music was received with applause. It
will he repeated in Fallston public school house,
on Saturday evening, April Sd, at ~ O'clock
Admission free.
The congregation of Spesutia Protestant
Episcopal Church on Easter Sunday contributed
s17 to the Irish Relief Fund.- and SIS was also
contributed by the Sunday School, Mr.. Charles
w. Michael, Superintendent. The amount, S32,
will be forwarded to Bishop Pinkncy for trans
mission to the proper authorities.
Mr. Hugh l.. Spencer, formerly of Hartford
county, writes TO his brother, W. A. Spencer, OF
the Upper Cross Roads, that the snow is six
feet deep in the mountains, six miles from Lead.
vile, Colorado, where he is engaged in mining,
Leadville is 10000 feet above tide and the point
where Mr. Spencer is at work is IL, 900 feet above
the sea.
Mr. Geo. NJ. Halle, son of the late Charles T
Halle, of Long Green, last week shot two grey
eagles, one measuring feet inches from tip to
tip Of WINGS the other 6 feet 10 inches They
came down near the house after chickens and
were frightened away when they flew TO a woods
near by where Mr. Halle followed them and shot
Them To~SoufOr0 .IonjW0J
An interesting report of trial test of plows,
which was held on the farm of Mr. Thomas A.
Hays, near Churchville, will be found in another
column. The Oliver Chilled Pillow was consid.
cred the best, by the scale of points agreed upon,
but all the plows did excellent work, compare.
| lively little difference being seen between them
A farmer would be perfectly safe in buying any
one of them.
CoNrlRMATInNs nl THE SENATE. The Senate
on Thursday Of last week confirmed the follow.
| ing appointments for Hartford comfy:
| Registrars: First district, John A. Cunning
ham second, Jarrett 7. Baldwin fourth, Thorn
as Butler; fifth, Samuel NJ. Whiteiord; sixth,
| John :. Morgan. The third district was not act
| ed upon.
Inspector of hay, straw and cattIcat liayIc dc
Grace, Joshua Bryant.
SHEEP KILLED ny DoGs.--On Thursday night
OF last week dog attacked flock of sheep be-
longing 10 Mr.. Henry c. Amos, who lives at
Five Forks Dublin District, and killed eleven
of the flock, valued at $50. Mr.. Amos discover
ed the dog in the field early in the morning and
identified il. He subsequently went 10 the own.
or OF the dog, who immediately gave M the
animal, and Mr. Amos killed it.
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Local LAWS PAssED.-The following local
laws relating TO Hartford county have passed
both houses of the Legislature, and have been
sent to the Governor for his approval:
Senate bill regulating the fees of the Sheriff
for boarding prisoners and transporting them to
the penitentiary and elsewhere
An act to appropriate one hundred and fifty
dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary