The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1883-11-23
Focal affairs.
LITTLE LOCALS.


"A valuable COW belonging to Mrs. John 4.
Evans, near Webster, died one day last week
Mr. Thomas W. Hall, DR., OF Abingdon
district, is still suffering greatly from neuralgia
of the stomach.
The telephone line along the Maryland Cen
trail Railroad has been completed to Loeb
Raven, but is not yet in operation.
New and comfortable chairs have been sup
piled in the courtroom for the comfort of the
petit jury while engaged in hearing cases.
The second district, especially Bush River
Neck, is said 10 be unusually free from fever and
| ague, this season. Hardly any cases are known
MIR. Joseph l.. Mackin has been drawn as a
juror for the November term ofthe United States
Circuit Court for Maryland, which met in Balti-
more on Tuesday last
"A Thanksgiving service will be held in En-
manuel Protestant Episcopal Church, Bel Air,
Rev James b. Craighill, rector, on Thursday
morning, next Nov. Goth, at II o'clock.
The first National Bank of Havre de Grace,
which began business on September |, has de-
posts aggregating $4,000, and the earnings
have been between $1,000 and $4,000. A. Vos,
bury is president.
Mr. Henry Macatee, of Clermont Mills, has
sold his tobacco crop from acres TO Messrs. b.
f. Kendg ~ Co., of Lancaster, al good prices.
lie received for the wrappers 20 cts, for sec
onds cts. and for filters 8 cts.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
has mt a fnrp of mi of Wotspni @
island, in the Susquehanna, to make ready for
the building Of their bridge. Timber is being
cut and stone quarry has been opened.
An insane man giving his name as McCles-
ter is detained at Aberdeen, by Justice Geo. Har
ris, awaiting the arrival of Frederick A. Burt, OF
Springfield, Mass, who heard of his where
abouts and telegraphcd asking his detention.
The total receipts of the late fair of the Bal
timore County Agricultural Society were
SS,064,6G, and the disbursements $7,siS26.-
Leaving balance on hand Of $2l6.46. The so
ccty was never in more prosperous condition.
Gov. Hamilton has appointed Mr.. Donald
Mclean, of New York, Commissioner of Deeds
for Maryland. Mr. Mclean is q son-in-law OF
Judge Richie, OF Frederick comfy, and q
nephew of Mrs. Edwin fl. Webster, of Bel Air
Elder VIM. Grafton, of the Baptist church,
Hartford county, on Thursday OF, last week united
in matrimony, at the home of the BRIDES par.
ents Mr.. Harry Patterson, of Phgn nix, to Miss
Mary f. Dance, daughter Of Mr.. Milton Dance,
of Dulany's Valley.
The watchhouse on Big Gunpowder bridge,
p, W. and B. Railroad, caught fire from de.
fective stovepipe, about O'Clock on Monday
morning Of last week, and was entirely destroy
ed. The bridge itself was endangered, but was
saved by the eXertions Of number of duckers
who were Assem- bled in the neighhorhood, wait
ing for daylight that they might begin shoot
ing.
We are indebted to Mr.. Daniel Grant Emo
ry, general agent, No. Postotfice avenue,
Baltimore, for a copy of the handsome illustrat-
ed almanac for 1854, issued by the Washington
Life Insurance Company, of New York. Last
year the Washington Almanac illustrated and
described various kinds of birds. This year the
same has been done for Insects, and the result is
a beautiful, valuable and handsome little work,
well worth preserving.
-Messrs. John s. Dallam and George K.
Cairnes, of Bel Air, who crossed over to POOLS
Island, on Thursday of last week, ON insurance
business, could not return TO the main land un.
til Saturday morning. on account of furious
gale that was blowing. They were Hospitality en-
tertained by Messrs. Homer and Marsheton, of
the island but to person as restless as Mr..
Dallam the Imprisonment must have been al
most as irksome as that which he endured in
1868, at the hands Of the federal authorities.