The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-12-02
Focal Affairs.
LITTLE LOCALS.


Mr.. William B. Hitchcock, who lives near
Upper Cross Roads, is very ill with typhoid
fever.
There will be no service at st. Mary's
Church, Emmorton, next Sunday, December 4th,
the rector, Rev. Mr.. Brand, being absent on
call of duty.
MIR. Peter o. Herman has rented Dunkale
Mills, Winters Run, from Mr. Frank Whitaker
Mr.. Herman is succeeded at Moores' mill by
Mr.. Charles Walters.
The trustees of the Bel Air Academy are re.
quested TO meet at the office of Hon, Henry w.
Archer, in Bel Air, on Wednesday, December
18th, at one o'clock, P. NJ.
The sale of Mr. Evan Thompson's farm and
personal property, near Rock Run church, ad-
yertised for December LIST, has been postponed
until Thursday, December sth.
Rev. Mr.. Flippo, of Alexandria, Va, will
deliver his celebrated lecture entitled "Ice in the
Pulpit" at the Court House, on Monday even
ing next, December 9Th No failure on account
of bad weather.
While attempting to raise the engine on the
Columbia and Port Deposit railroad, which re-
Gently ran into the Susquehanna river, the other
day, the tackle gave way, injuring five men, one
of them fatally.
-Messrs. Clarence Cochran and David Fack,
of Baltimore, on Thursday oflast week, made the
trip from Baltimore to Bel Air on bicycles, They
returned on Saturday, accomplishing the dis
lance, % miles, in 3]4 hours.
NJ, Son,,oI NJ ATo,;rold or
the Peach Bottom Railway, has been offered the
position of Supervisor on the Western Maryland
Railroad. Mr.. Manifold is an experienced and
thorough railroad man.
james A. Towson, of Harrisburg, recently
purchased 40 car loads of Peach Bottom slate
With q railroad through the slate region, con-
Meeting it with Baltimore city, the operations
| in this article would be more than doubled.
Eight hundred ducks, principally coots, are
said to have been killed from Gunpowder Bridge,
on the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore
railroad, last Tuesday. Samuel j. Whiteford,
James Weeks and Hugh Boyle came through
Bel Air on Wednesday with IS.
MIR. B. j. Williams has opened furniture
ware room in Darlington, and can supply any
article of furniture, spring beds, mattresses, &c,
TO order at lowest prices. Feather renoyating
is also speciality at this establishment. Mr..
Vim. S. Croft is TIE manager
"A deed was recorded in the Clerks office OF
the Circuit Court for Hartford county, few days
ago, conveying from VIM. Callow and wife, OF
Baltimore county, the Bankers and Brokers'
telegraph line, from Washington to New York,
to the Western Union Company, for $780, 600
Long Contour friend, Mr. j. P. Silver, OF
Chenille, is noted for raising the largest ears
Of corn in the county. He comes again this ycal
in length. We doubt if this length can be equall-
ed on any other farm in the coHnty this year.
-Dr. F. NJ. Hawkins, formerly pastor Of the
Mountain Christian church and homeopathic
physician, residing at Falston, died at the latter
place, on the 2lst of November, in his 37th year
Dr.. Hawkins had been living for several years
past in Michigan, but his health failing, he re
turned TO Hartford, He was native of Delaware
and was popular both as physician and pastor
"A correspondent of Port Deposit says The
B. " o. engineers are still taking soundngs.-
The water at the foot of the mountain is forty
four feet deep. Between Watson's Island ant
the shore on the Cecil side, they drove thei
boring machine down 120 feet before striking
rock. A peculiar substance was brought up b,
the boring machine tina. emitted gas which
burned like tar as soon as match touched it.