The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-06-17
Focal Affairs.


VIM. w. Wade has been appointed postmas-
ter at Joppa, Hartford county.
The Baltimore Quarterly Meeting of Friends
will be held at Darlington, on the 10Th instant,
| at 10 o'clock, A. NJ.
Mr.. Augustus Knofer has purchased from
MIR. William F. Hays five and a-quarter acres
| of land, situated on the Hartford turnpike, near
| Bel Air, for $3.50 an acre.
VIM Griffith caught an empty coffin, whilst
| engaged in capturing logs in the susquehanna
at Havre de Grace, on Sunday. Its appearance
| indicated that it had been occupied.
| AT the commencement ofthc Western Mary
land College, Westminster, on Tuesday, Miss
Mamie James, daughter of Mr. George James,
of Bel Air, was awarded prize for an essay.
Mr.. j. A. Spicer has 5000 well-burned
| brick on hand, at his brick yard, Fallston. By
| the first of August he expects to have as many
more burned in the neighborhood of Bel Air.
| Rev DIR. II. B. Martin, rector of st. Johns
Protestant Episcopal Church, IIayrc de Grace,
who has been extremely i'll, for several weeks,
with typhoid fever is reported to be II little bet
| ter.
The Postoillce Department has announced
| that from and after June 30th mail service will
| be discontinued from Perrymansvilc to Booth
| by Hill. The latter postoiiice will be supplied
/ by another route.
Tuesday was the festival of Corpus Christi,
| instituted in honor of the Eucharist 1t occurs
ON the first Thursday after Trinity Sunday
Services were held in the Roman Catholic
churches of the county.
Frank Glenn, while on the porch at Hanna s
hardware store, Delta, received stroke of light
ming last Tuesday l.. j. Dodson had slight
shock from electricity while helping to put the
| engine in the round house at the same place,
| last week.-HerdM.
"A "Clrcular Mcetng' ofthe IIicksite Friends
| will be held at Deer Creek Meeting House, ON
| Sunday, June 10Th, at 10 o'clock, A. NJ, and at
| 3 o'clock p NJ, OF the same day, at Broad Creek
| Meeting House. A number ofpromncnt Friends
| from distance are expected.
The Baltimore Ame,'inon sent out to its sub
| scribers, on Wednesday, miniature reproduc-
ton of its issue of May 2Sth, executed by the
hoto-lithographc process. 1t is about one
| eighth the size of the regular edition, and not
withstanding its diminutivc size can be read
distinctly without the aid of magniiying glass.
"A lecture will be delivered in the NJ. f..
| Church, Bel Air, on Thursday evening, June
ed at ~ O'Clock, by Rev. Austin NJ. Courtenay,
Mr.. Courtenay resided in London for some time,
and being perfectly familiar with the sights and
scenes of the great metropolis, we have no doubt
his lecture will be entertaining and instructive
Last Saturday timber boom at Wlliamsport
on the Susquehanna river, broke away, and an
immense number of logs hoatcd down the river,
covering its entire surface, at some points. A
great many of them were caught at Peach Bot
tom and other points. Fifty cents salvage
money is paid for each log taken up.
Mr. r. b. Mccoy, of this county, recently
returned from II trip through Baltimore, CARROLL
Frederick and Montgomery counties, having
been engaged in introducing the Pennock road
scraper. II is economical arrangement for
mending the roads and could be used on many of
the roads of Hartford county TO great advantage
To kill the cabbage worm, sprinkle the
plants with strong solution of satpetrc This
will not only destroy the worms but will make
the pldntS grow All 'AloTu lllDTlllS lHt
Press that she has tried il this season with sue
cessful results. Dissolve an ounce of saltpetrc
in gallon of water and apply when the worms
appear.
"A week or two ago the name of Mr.. John
Arthur. of Fork, Baltimore county, was pub,
lished among those against whom judgments
had been entered in the Baltimore county cir
cult court, at the suit of the Baltimore and
Delta Railway Company. Mr.. Walters, Pres-
dent of the company, informs us that the judg-
ment was enormously entered, the claim hay
ing been already paid. Mr.. Arthur is an earnest
friend of the road, and merely asked for and OBJ.
tanned little delay in the payment of his sub
scription on account of an accident that pre-.
vented him from working at his business, which
is that of wheclwright.