The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-06-10
Focal Affairs.

LITTLE LOCALS.
f-Woodcock may be shot in Maryland after
June TO-
The B. q o. surveyors are said to be hover
ing all over lower Cecil, uncertain where to
light
The Mutual Union Telegraph Company are
about to establish an Office at Reckord, on the
Baltimore and Hartford Turnpike.
Mr.. James Thompson died, near Shawsville,
on Sunday, aged about 50 years. His remains
were buried at Fellowship NJ f. Church, near
Fawn Grove, on Tuesday.
Mr. VIM. GLADDEN., of Chrome Hill, counted
PIT strawberries on one plant, in his garden
1t is of the Agriculturlst variety The earth
around it had been mu,ched with charcoal
Mr.. John w. Anderson has neatly fitted up
his new building, adjoining his store in Bel Air,
as confectionery and ice cream saloon. Mrs.
Anderson has charge of the new department.
"A trial of self binder harvesters is to take
place In Mr.. Henry Fulford's field, Bel Air
Farmers and their families are TO be invited.
The day for the trial has not been appointed.
-Saalheld's 10 cent Libraries comprises six
teen pages of music and is issued every month
by Il. A. Saalheld 800 Broadway, N. Y. The
number before us contains two instrumental
pieces and twosongs.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
are engaged in taking soundings of the
Susquehanna river, off Watson's Island, at
which point it is thought bridge will be built
for the new through railroad.
MIR Christopher Slade, who lives in Balti.
more county, near Shawsville, in this county,
has profitable cow Last year she produced
two calves and this year three. When three
weeks old he realized SIS for the three.
We have received, through the courtesy OF
Mr.. Jefferson Dalam, of st. Johns College,
Annapolis, an invitation to attend The 18th an.
niversary of the Phlokaian Society of the col.
| lcgc, which will take place on Monday evening,
June 18th.
William Armstrong, formerly of Port De.
| posit contcmplatcs starting an iron foundry nj
| Pcrryvillc. 100000 have already been sub
| scribcd to the capital stock of the company and
arrangements have been made TO purchase scv
eral acres Of ground.
The little son of Mr.. II. II. Clayton of IIavrc
de Grace who fell ont of the second story win.
dow of his fathers residence, on Tuesday Of
last week, is somewhat better, and his attend
ing physician has hopes of his ultimate recov
| cry.
| The Maryland State Agricultural Society
will hold a fair mt Pimlco in October. new
branch railroad has been built from Arlington
station, on the Western Maryland Railroad, &c
Phmico which will make the grounds more
accessible than they have heretofore been.
Mr.. Robert T. Bovine, OF this county, l.
now travelling through the west. Last Friday
he was in lola, Kansas, which he describes II,
"a lively little town, with every evidence of
prosperous future" We are indcpted to Mr.
Bovine for numbeyof Western newspapers
DR.. w. II. Rose, d. V. s., of Baltimore visited
Hartford county last week for the purpose of in
speeding the condition of horses and cattle. DR.
Rose is a U. 8. Government inspector, appoint
ed by the Agricultural Department at Washing
ton. lie found no cases of pleuro pneumonia
anywhere In the county.
| AT the residence Of Mr. Isaac Mechcm, neal
Bel Air, ON Wednesday, a horse belonging ia
Mr.. w. II. Riddle of Fork, Baltimore county,
ed at n clap OF thunder and escaping from Il col
ored boy who was leading it TO the stable, ran
| away. The buggy TO which il was attached was
Conideably injured.
MIR. f. Wyatt Baker, of the Bel Air Drug
Store, sends us some specimen hickory leaves
| from the Big Woods The largest measure six
| teen inches in length and are over nine inches
| in breadth. The Big Woods is solidy Demo
| cratic, which may help to account for the size
| of the leaves on its old hickory trees
During the five years of the Passionate of the
Rev. George Morrison, fifty one members have
been added to the Grove Presbyterian church,
Aberdeen. During the same time there has
been collected for the permanent Uses of the
church, in building a parsonage, $1,000, and
for ministerial support and benevolent uses,
$500.