The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-03-04

lMPRovEMENTS.-Mr. j. q. Rouse, the we'll
known enterprising Bel Air merchant, has made
a new departure, by which his numerous Gus.
TONERS can hereafter have their wants supplied
more satisfactorily and with greater dispatch
than heretofore He has enlarged and entirely
refitted his store, and arranged the goods in sep
arate departments, so that all goods of the same
class may be found at one counter-thus facili-
tatng the labor of the clerks and adding to the
comfort of the customers. For instance, in the
gentlemen's goods department will be found IL
fine new line of gentlemen's furnishing goods
shirts, underwear, &c The dry goods depart
ment contains n large assortment of dress goods
suitable for the season. In the ladies' depart
ment there are always some of the latest novel
ties, the uses whereof are known to and appre-
ciatcd by ladies, but which no masculine pen
can properly describe The shoe department
contains large stock OF goods for the spring
trade, which were made to order during the
winter The stationery department contains
everything in the way of fine writing and legal
papers, envelopes, pens and ink, papeterie, &c,
to suit every taste. The notion department EN-
braces hundreds of articles of various kinds
The tin ware department, up stairs, is filled with
Il large assortment of all kinds of housekeeping
goods. In short the entire store has been great.
ly improved, both in appearance and general
arrangement, and Mr. Rouse is entitled to be
called the "Wanamaker" of Bel Air.
His store is nov one of the best ar
ranged in the State, and MIR. Rouse himself gives
the closest attention to all the details of his
large business. His clerical force consists of
Miss Agnes Greenfield, James G. Young
Robert A. Richardson and Edward Hanna,
with Mr.. A. H. Greenfield bookkeeper
and cashier.
Mr. William II. Bauer intends to build a
new harness shop on the lot now occupied by
him, on Main street, adjoining the " Good
Samaritan" drug store
Mr.. Isaac Amos ia preparing to erect o
large canning factory, on his farm, near Bel Air.
| DEATH OF EX-Gov. BRADFoRD.-ExG Governor
| Augustus W. Bradford died at his residence In
Baltimore city, on Tuesday morning. March LIST,
| in the 10th year of his age. His health had been
| gradually failing for some mouths past, and
| eliminated IL few weeks ago in disease of the
heart, which caused his death Governor Brad.
ford was born in Bel Air, January 9th, 1906, in
house on the lot occupied by the residence OF
| Capt. A. Lingan Jarrett, adjoining The 1Egis
| office. His parents were Samuel and Jane Bond
| Bradford whose ancestors settled in the neigh
| borhood of Abingdon before the revolution
| Governor Bradford after course of study at
the Bel Air Academy, under Rev. Reuben II.
Davis, entered st. Mary's College, Baltsmore, in
1922, where he graduated in 1894, in his 18th
year of his age. He studied law under the late
| Ohio Scott, and was admitted to the Bel Air
| bar in 1927. lie practiced law here until 1888
| when he removed to Baltimore. He always
cherished the warlnest feeling for his native
| town and county, and since released from the
cares of Office annually paid visit to the coun-
ty. In early life he was u Whg and was one
of the Henry Clay electors in the Presidential
election of 1874. In 1915 he was appointed
Clerk of the Baltimore County Court and held
the Office until 1851. In January, 1861 Cover
nor Hicks appointed him as one of the represen-
tatives from Maryland TO the Peace Conference,
then about to assemble in Washington In the
summer of 1861 he was elected Governor by the
Union party and WAS lnaugurated in January,
1862. He continued In Office until 1866. In
1867, President johnson appointed him survey
or of the port of Baltimore, but was removed
by President Grant in 1859. Since that time he
has held no office, In July 1864, his dwelling
house. near Baltimore city was burned by Con
Tolerate soldiers during raid in retaliatio on for
the burning 10y Gen. Hunter of the dwelling
house of Governor Letchcr, of Virginia In
1895 he was married to Miss Elizabeth Kell, the
youngest daughter of the late Judge Kell, of
Baltimore. lie has had twelve children, seven
of whom-thee daughters and four sons-are
still living. lis eldest son, Augustus W. Brad
ford, Jr,, haa been in charge of his fathers farm
His second son. Thomas Kell Bradford, Is a
partner in the law firm Of Bradford Il Boyd
The youngest son, Samuel W. Bradford, was one
Of the American commissioners to the Austria
lian exhibition. Gov. Bradford was one of the
directors of the Baltimore and Delta Railway