The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-07-08
local Affairs.
LITTLE LOCALS.

LITTLE Locals.
Dir. j. q. Dance, of Bel Air had one Of his
ankles spraincd last Thursday, by Il fall from a
cherry tree.
The mail route from Casileton, via Shure's
Landing and Lapidum, 10 Havre de Grace has
been let to John A. Burkins, of Hartford county,
for 5000.
MIR j. W. Anderson, has had the front Of
his new ice cream saloon, on Main street, paint
ed in cool, refreshing colors making it Ms at
tractiyc outside rs il is inside.
The Postoffce Department has ordered that
after July |, 1881, service on the star route from
Baltimore to Kngsvilc, Baltimore county, Md,
shall be increased to six times n week.
The Lancaster Mteilgence' says The last
lump of the ice gorge was taken from the
'neck," about mile from McCall's Ferry by
repairmen on Thursday. Ice in July, just think
of it
Charles 7. stansbury, while cutivating
corn with shovel pillow at the Almshouse,
plowed up an English halfpcnny of the time of
George II. 1t is an old coin and shows the eff
fccts of time.
Mr.. Edward Reynolds, of Sherwood, near
Upper Falls, Baltimore county, has field of
oats, the stalks in which measure fully six feet
in length. 1t is ofthe Challenge variety, and the
seed weighed AZ lbs to the bushel
The First Presbyterian Church, of Redding,
California, of which Rev. |. n Waterman, for
mcrly of this county, is pastor, was dedicated,
with impressive services, on Sunday, May 18th,
1891. The church is free of all indebtedness.
Mr.. Edward II. Frazier, of No. 1872 Thames
street, Baltimore, has obtained letters patent on
Il combined proccss-kettle and boiler, for the
use of Gamers. By this invention one apparatus
is made to serve the same purposes for which
two or three have heretofore been required.
Last Wednesday morning DR.. Wake b.
Munnikhuysen was called to attend q two-year
old son of Mr.. William I. McGee, living on the
Bel Air turnpike, near Archer ~ Towards Mill,
the little fellow having accidentally spilled
cup of boiling hot coffee, which severely burned
his breast and stomach.
AT the last meeting of the Anthropological
Society, in Washington, Major A. NJ. Hancock
of this county, late consul at Malaga, delivered
a most interesting lecture on the Pre- Historic
Caves of Spain. The lecture was illustrated by
a series ofdrawings, which the Major presented
to the society when he had closed.
Rev. Dempstcr Davidson son of Mr. j. NJ.
Davidson, editor of the Carthage (ll) RepuJt
can who recently paid visit to Hartford, in a
letter to the Rpubiicm speaks in glowing
terms of the beauties of our county, and espe.
cially of "The Mound" Col. John Walsh's resi-
dence, where he was Hospitality entertained.
The Gamers of this region have organized
themselves into Il society called the "Northen
Hartford Packing Association, for their mutual
protection and benefit They propose using
the same label-the one known as the "Red Seal
Brand" The officers chosen are W. Scott
Whiteiord President; g. Day, Vice Presidents
F. q. Whitaker, Secretary. y Deiid Heraid.
The large black snake recently killed by
Mr.. James p Beale, in the Big Woods, contained,
when opened, seven Young meadow larks, near
ly full -iedged. Some idea may be formed, from
this fact, of the amount Of food required TO feed
large serpent 1t measured seven feet and
two inches in length, and seven inches around
its body.