The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-04-22
Enca1 Affairs.
LITTLE LOCALS.

--IhebsrS. seneca ~ Manan, OF fihVrc ue TRACE
are shipping from thirty to forty barrels oil
fresh shud daily to the northern markets
The Presbytery of Baltimore, OF Its session
last week, appropriated $500 for the support of
the Presbyterian Church at High Point, Hartford
county.
"A petition is being circulated to change the
name of Churchyille postoffice to "Harlan," as
a compliment to DIR. David Harlan, who lives
near the place
MIR. Barnet r. Clark, who sold his crop of to-
bacco from five acres for nearly 81 400, intends
to try ''the weed" again. and probably on more
| extended scale.
Mr. George W. Baker, has torn down his
dwelling house, near Aberdeen, and removed
the material, preparatory to erecting hand
some residence in its place
Last week Mr.. J. Morris Baldwin, of Long
Green Valley, lost three fine horses from n dis
ease supposed to have been pleuro.pneumonia
- TopSonto'cn Union.
MIR. Jonathan Norris, formerly well-known
citizen of the Long Corner of Hartford, but now
a prominent real estate broker of Baltimore,
was in Bel Air on Tuesday.
AT their next meeting, which will take place
at the residence of Messrs. s. B. Silver d Bro,
May nth, the Deer Creek Farmers Club will
discuss the question: "Roots as winter food for
stock"
Mrs. Amelia j. Rowland, formerly a teacher
in the public schools of this county, has been
appointed by Secretary Kirkwood to clerk
t., J,ta NJ aala nf
$500 year.
Mr. J. R. Ely, of the Clerks office, who has
been very i'll for several weeks past at his home
in Darlington, has recovered, and last Friday
paid visit to Bel Air. His friends here were
pleased to see him out again.
Last Friday Constable John B. Price ar
rested David Jones, colored, of Abingdon dis
| trict, charged with assaulting his wife, Mary
Jones. Justice Henry Richardson committed
Jones to Jail, for the action of the grand jury.
The engineers surveying the line for the new
railroad in Cecil county, say the route up Rock
Run hollow from the susquehanna lie the best
| The bridge will cross the Susquehanna diagon-
ally, and be about 80 feet above the water
| Wilmington NeuS.
Rev. Samuel REGISTER, D. D., preached at
| Aberdeen Southern Methodist Church, last Sun
day morning, and at Perryman at night The
music, appropriate to Easter day, at both places
was very fine. Orion c. Michael has been ap-
pointed leader of the choir at Aberdeen.
Major A. NJ. Hancock, of this county, has
been elected q corresponding member of the
Anthropological Society of Washington city,
This is the society of grave and learned gentle
men who meet to discuss the natural history of
the human species.
The concert mentioned in last weeks pa.
| per, to be held in the Court House Bel Air, on
| the evening of the sixth of May, by Mr.. Wood
row, of Havre de Grace, under the auspices of
the ladies of the Presbyterian church, is inde6-
nitely postponed on account of sickness in Mr..
| Woodrow's family.
| MIR. James Whiteock has rented from Henry
| W. Archer, Esq, Rock Run Mills, with the
wharf and warehouse, and intends to engage in
the sale of coal, lumber and fertilizers, in con-
nection with the mill. Mr.. Whitelock is n
| practical miller, of many years experience, and
he will no doubt re.establish the reputation of
these old and well-known mills.
Capt. Moses Galloway died on Wednesday
! night of last week at Havre de Grace, aged e..
years. For great many years he was captain
of the ferry boat Maryland, used by the Phila.
delphia Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad
Company in ferrying cars and passengers be-
| tween Havre de Grace and Pcrryyllc. He was
| in the employ of the company at the time of
his death.
H. Naoln dali, L.
Temperance lecture in the Court House, on
Monday evening, small owl huttered into the
room and alighted on the topof one of the window
| frames As the audience were Dispensing 1t
| flew to perch over the door, from whence it
regarded the crowd in knowing and comical
manner, as though trying to ascertain the
effect of Mr.. BOWS speech upon them.
| Miss Mary Cockcy, grand daughter of
Col. Edward Cockey, an officer in the colonial
army, at Braddock's defeat, died in New York,
| q few days ago, at the residence of her nephew,
| Mr. Edward &. Cockey, at the age of SO years.
| Her remains were buried at Greenmount on
Wednesday afternoon. Mr.. Edward c. Cockey
formerly owned and resided on n farm near
| Churchvile, in this county.
MI. Sulhuei huhkin' or', sun Vi oahiuci W.
Rankin, Esq, prominent farmer ofLong Green
Valley, Baltimore county, has become mem
Der of the well.known firm of Drury 81 Ijams,
corner ofGay and High Streets, Baltimore, and
the style of the firm will hereafter be Drury,
| Ijams & Rankin. Mr.. Rankin has been for some
time connected with the house, which is one of
the most reliable In the city.
No CAMP MEETING THIS YEAR.-At the First
Quarterly Conference of East Hartford Circuit,
held at Bush NJ. f. Church, April 9th, 1t was re-
solved not to hold camp.meeting by that circuit
this year.