The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-05-13
Focal affairs.


-Messrs barnes " Archer recently bought
at trustees sale, at Port Deposit, the upper
wharf, at Lapidum, for $3.50.
Judge Walters on Monday appointed Mr..
Frank B. Glenn bailiff in the Circuit Cont,
in place of John Mooney, deceased.
VIM. +. Pannell, Esq, has returned
from Baltimore city TO hia home near Hartford
Furnace, considerably improved in health
DIR. Benjamin Smith has purchased from
Kew. w. b. Browne the lot adjoining the Pres
byterian parsonage, in Bel Air, for $50
Newton Simmons Esq, of the u. $ Fish
Commission, is distributing Penobscot salmon
IN the lower tributaries of the Chesapeake.
On Tuesday the County Commissioners
| awarded the contract for building bridge over
Bark Mill branch near Glenvlle, TO VIM. II.
Carr, for 500.
MIR. ii. Cunningham Whteiord, of Slate Ridge,
plowed this spring fourteen acres ofground in
six days. Pretty good for two hundred and
tifty-iive pourd der.
-iiayre de Grace Ia being raked with fine.
tooth comb TO find enough ex Union soldiers to
form post of the Grand Army of the Re.
public Wilmington NeWS.
We were gratifed, on Thursday, by a visit
from Mr. q. f. Haddaway, editor of the Easton
Leclger, and Mr.. VIM. II. CouncelI, editor of
the Gazette of the same place
MIR. W. f.. Prgg, formerly of this county,
has recently been appointed telegraph operator
and agent at Bridgewater Station, Pa, on the
Philadelphia and Baltimore Central Railroad.
Since prohibition went into effect in Cecil
county, travelling statesmen carry their OWE
whisky and drink il in the bar-rooms, using
the hotel keepers ice water to cool 1t withal.
MIR. James Lee recently sold u registered
Short Horn bull calf, ten months old, by Judge
Stump's Lord Clan Charlie; dam Lady Heddc-
stone I'd; to Mr.. James smith, of Aberdeen, for
So.
MIR. Elijah Heaps, an cstimablc citizen of
the Fifth district, died ut his residence near
Prospect, on Tuesday, aged about ~ years.
The interment was at Slate Ridge Church, on
Wednesday.
-Messrs J, 7. c, Hopkins and s. A. williams
have begun the erection of o new two-story
brick building, on CORTLAND street. When
finished it will be fitted up for law offices or
other purposes. 49,
-Messrs. Murphy IL Burke, of Havre de Grace,
propose erecting a canning house at North
East, Cecil county, for the purpose of canning
tomatoes. They intend to pay twenty cents
bushel for tomatoes.
The Cooperative Mail and Passenger Trans
portation Company have discontinued the trl-
weekly stage line between Bel Air and Balti-
more over the Baltimore and Hartford turnpike.
Mr.. Peter Casey is about 10 establish new line
over the same route.
We have received from the composer Prof
Theodore Ascherfrld, of Havre de Grace copy
of his Artillery March, which is dedicated to
his cousin, MIR. Alfred krupp, the world fl,
nous great gnnmaker of Essen, Prussia The
music is simple but very pretty
Mr.. ID. r Hollingsworth has on hand about
1000 lbs Of cheese made al his factory, near
Fallston. He ia about completing large fac
tory, but announces that his cheese making
will not interfere with the manufacture of the
Rochelle Dairy Ice cream.
DIR, Charles A. Baldwin, OF Long Green Val.
ltf' "Hp was HluIIltu ld5l summer 10 Il uuupn
ter OF DR.. d. Fahrney, of Hagcrstown, has pur.
chased the residence and professional practice of
Dr. dos. Riddlemoser, OF Smithbnrg, Washing,
ton county, and removed to his new home last
week. Tonsont I'M Uaina
MIR. Frank l. Wheeler, of Westminster, has
been appointed superintendent Of the House o +
Correction. No better selection could have been
made. Mr.. Wheeler has had experience in deal.
ing with the criminal classes, having once been
sheriff of Baltimore county He is native of
Hartford county, and has many warm friends
here
Prof K. s. Henry, principal of the Wash
ington county tMdJ High School, has resigned
h- position, aud Mr.. Geo. A. Harter, of Letters.
burg, elected to fill the vacancy. Prof Henry
designs lifting himself for some speciality In
the medical profession. Prof. Henry t. native
of Hartford county, being son of the late Prof
Robert Henry, of Abingdon
MIR. q. W. Mahoncy, representing Messrs. A.
Nogeler ~ Co., of Baltimore, was in Bel Air,
last Thursday, with gaiy painted wagon, ON
the side of which appeared the familiar picture
of "Si Jacob" with bottle Of his oil in his
hand. Mr. Mahoney was engaged in distrbut.
ing puzzles and other matter calling attention
to the virtues of 81. Jacobs OIL and for few
days the children of the place were distracted in
their efforts TO find the "wolf chasing the rab.
Bit" Nc.
We cheerfully comply with u request to
state that the announcement, in our issue of
April 29th, of the marriage of j. Howard Hanna
to Miss Anna b. Preston was not correct No
such marriage has taken place. We exercise the
greatest care in publishing notices of this kind,
but in common with our newspaper brethren
everywhere we are occasionally-as In this case
imposed upon. The writer and sender of a
fictitious notice Of this kind, anonymously or
under an assumed name, must be at heart
coward and possess moral nature of the very
lowest order, AS piece of wit it is ex-
ceedingly low ard contemplate.
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ORGANIzED.-The newly elected board of
Town Commissioners of Bel Air met on Wed
nesday night and organized by electing Ohio s.
Lee President and Treasurer, and r. I. Martin
Secretary.
PUBLIC SCHOOL ExAMINATIoNs.-M VIM
Fl. Harlan, Secretary of the School Board, re-
minds the trustees, patrons and all persons in
terested in education, that public examinations
will be held in all the public schools of the
county, from the 18th to the Goth of May incu.
sive. Ifpersons interested in the welfare of the
rising generation would attend these examina.
tions il could not fail to have good effect upon
the children, which, IL not seen now, wonld bp
seen at suhsequen eXaminat ions
FISH GLrT.-Ihe run of fish the past week
has been something very unusual Not Tor the
past twenty years at least, has there been so
many herring taken. Several millions have
been turned out from the seines, ut the several
shores and floats in this locality, for want of