The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-06-11
Focal Affairs.
LITTLE LOCALS.

LITTLE LOCALS.
The Oxford (Pa.) Fair was held on Wednes-
day, Thursday and Friday Of this week.
We are indebted to Hon. Jesse X. Hines, In.
surance Commissioner of Maryland, for copy
ofbis annual report to the Governor.
MIR. Philip II, Love, on the farm of Mr.. VIM.
G. Scott near Bel Air, cut and saved a field of
orchard grass, on Saturday, May Goth.
The blight is said to be seriously injurng
the wheat in the upper part Of Hartford and the
adjoining region of York county, Pa.
Correspondents should write plainly, with
ink, and on one side of the sheet. Use no alb
| breviations, and above all spoil it down"
DIR. II. c. Whitcford, of Darlington, sends
us cluster of eight strawberries in one. They
are all from one blossom and Joined together as
one berry.
The county levy will close on Tuesday next,
June 18TH Persons who have not passed their
accounts should do so al once, or they will be
laid aside until next year.
Hon. John Carroll Walsh, of the county,
has been appointed by the board of public works
Director on the part of the State in the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad.
MIR. c. A. McAlliater is making nearly 200
lbs of butter n week, at the Cheese Factory,
near Pewymansville. He receives every day
about one hundred gallons of milk.
| "A Temperance society, organized on the 9Th
of March last, with Mr. Andrew Boyle President,
holds its meetings regularly in Susquehanna
Hall, 9Th district, near the Line Bridge.
| On Wednesday valuable mare belonging to
Mrs. Lizzie NJ. Glenn, of Clermont Mills, while
on the way home from trip to Edgewood, was
taken sick and died on the road, near Rocl;
Spring Church,
For a freezer fun of ice cream, we are in
it to the public in the pavilion at Rocks of Deer
Creek. 1t was pronounced perfectly delicious"
an opinion in which we fully concur.
Mr. Benjamin W. Ady, one of the proprie-
tors of the 9NIe House, Hartford road, was mar
ried at st. Mary's Catholic church, Govanstown,
on Wednesday evening of last week, 10 Miss Eli
IN Parlett, of Baltimore county.
The Rev. j. D.. c. Hanna, who has for the
past several years had charge Of the public
schools at Port Deposit, has resigned the same
and accepted the appointment as pastor of the
NJ. f. Church at Pocomoke City.
Prof r. Saunders Henry, Principal of The
Washington County High School, lIagerstown,
will please accept our thanks for an invitation
to attend the second annual commencement, TO
he held on the oath instant.
"A few days ago Mr.. John Toy, who lives
near the Hickory, was severely bruised by the
upsetting of his buggy, as he was driving along
the road. DR.. d. Preston Wysong dressed his
wounds, which were painful but not serious.
Mr. D. P. Holllngsworh, of Fallston, is sole
agent in Hartford for the excellent dairy nipple.
ments, manufactured by the Vermont Farm
Machine Company, including the celebrated
Cooley crcamer, the Davis Swing Churn, Eureka
butter worker, &c
"A few days ago son of Mr.. Philip II. Love,
shot and killed on the farm of Mr. VIM. G. Scott,
near Bel Air, great blue heron or blue crane,
which measured over five feet across its out
stretched wings. Its body was small but what
it lacked in weight it made up in length of legs
and bil-the latter being seven inches long.
On Thursday of last week horse belonging
to Mr.. William Bowling, who lives near Forest
Hill, was taken sick and died, after grazing
along the roadside. A small quantity of Paris
green was found in the horses nostrils and it is
supposed that the animals death was caused by
eating grass over which the poison had been
carried by the wind from potato patch.
Mr.. b. F. Forwood, formerly of this county
but now of Warren county, Illinois, in enclos.
ing the amount for two years subscription to
The A'giS, in advance writes that the crops in
that region are looking finely and are more for
ward than at this time last year. Since the last
days of April the weather has been warm, with
occasional showers, and everything is growing
rapidly.
SALE OF LAND.-On Monday j. s. Richardson
auctoneer, sold at public SALE at the Court House
door, for William Young Esq, trustee, Richard
b. Wilson's one-half interest in farm of 25C
acres, situated near Forest Ill., to Mrs iona