The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1884-09-05
FOCAL Affairs.
LITTLE LOCALS.

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Col. E. ii. Webster, Monday evening
Don't forget the fruit festival at Cranberry
Church, second district, Wednesday and Thurs
day evenings, September 10th and 11th
| MIR. VIM. Ehrhart has been awarded the con-
tract for the erection of the masonry of the Sus-
quehanna bridge at the mouth of Deer Creek
York Gazette.
| Several Philadelphia and New York duck-
| ing clubs intend to run a telephone line from
Perrymans to Mr.. Harry Hydes High House and
the residence of Nathan Barron, on Rumney
Creek
1.-Two boxes of matches for one cent" said
| a clerk in Mr.. Rouse's store, Bel Air, to a
| customer, on Tuesday. Merchants say that
prices of goods of all kinds have not been as
low for many years as they are now.
-Messrs. Cochran d Young give notice that
they will open their new store in Bel Air on the
10Th OF September, with complete stock of
dry goods, groceries, carpets, house furnishing
goods, &c. All their goods will be entirely new,
| oil the best quality, and of attractive styles.
Gamers in the neighborhood of Level are
| paying 4O cents per case for green sugar corn,
the Gamer cutting and the grower hauling the
corn. The price of green corn is generally reg
ulated by the price at which the canned corn is
sold. The grower is thereby nearly as much
| interested in rise as the packer.
On Wednesday of last week. VIM Wisner
a hand employed on MIR. B. F. Ford's farm, near
Fork, Baltimore county, was seriously injured
| by a runaway accident. Two horses attached
to cart ran away, Wisner being struck by the
shaft of the cart Several of his ribs were brok-
en- and one of his lungs was also injured.
Mr. Benjamin Silver, Jr., of Chenille, re-
| Gently packed in one day 2s, 200 cans of corn.
| His average pack for week was nearly % GOO
| cans per day. Messrs. S. b. Silver " Bro. are
also packing from 1900 to 10000 cans of corn
q day. DR.. Charles A Rutledge u Bro, of
Taylor, expect to put up 900 cases of corn
Mr. John G. Rouse fills the space allotted
to his advertisement with an announcement that
he has new stock of pure spices and every
thing else housekeepers need and want for their
| fall picking, together with glass jars, &C. His
usual large stock of groceries, dry goods, &c.
will be kept up to the standard in quality and
price.
Mr.. Benjamin s. Elliott, brother of the late
VIM. NJ. Elliott, formerly of this county. whose
| death occurred in Washington, had policy of
life insurance amounting to 81, $50 in the Wash
ington Life Insurance Company, of New York
Mr.. Dan'l Grant Emory No. Post Office Ave
nue., Baltimore, is the General Agent of this
popular and reliable company.
The Lawn Festival, held on the rectory
grounds, Bel Air, for the benefit of Emmanuel
Church, Wednesday afternoon and evening, was
well attended and pleasant affair." Lawn
| tennis and croquet served to amuse those who
came before nightfall, and afterwards feasting
and social enjoyment occupied the remainder of
the evening.
BURNED TO DEATH.-Last Sunday week lit
Tie son OF George jackson, colored, who lives on
MIR. Henry Macatee's farm, near Pylesville, was
burned TO DEATH While starting fire with
coal oil the flames entered the jug, which ex-
poded' throwing the burning oil over him.
MRS JANE MORRIS, wife of James Morris,
died at her late residence, near Broad Creek, on
the nth of August, in the 10th year of her age
The interment was at Dublin NJ. f. Church, the
services being conducted by Rev. Mr.. Peters,
The pall-bearers were Messrs. I. j. McCausland
IL. Clay Whiteford, d. II. Reynolds, s. Orr, X.
c. Reynolds and W. 7. Adams.
LAND SALEs.-Messrs. John s. 81 G. l.. Dalam
real estate agents, Bel Air, last Saturday sold
to Mr.. Harry Whistler handsome little farm
Oh oO acres, with improvements, near Fountain
Green, belonging to John Spencer, for 50, 700.
They have also sold lot of ID acres with new
house, situated at Sandy Hook, belonging to s.
Richardson Scarborough, to VIM. Douglass,
colored, for $3.50
STUNNED BY LIGHTNING.-Last Saturday
evening as Mary E. Pitt, colored, was standing
in the door of her home, near Michaelsvlle.
looking at storm, a vivid flash of lightning
came and she fell back into chair. Her hua
band ran to her and found that her right side
and arm were slightly paralyzed. She says she
saw the lightning coming into the garden, like
the blaze from gun, and burst into fiery par.
ticles. Then all grew dark before her. She
was not seriously injured, but still feels the eff
fects of the shock
SHEEP KILLED BY DoGs.-Last Saturday two
dogs, belonging to colored men of Bel Air, at
tackled flock of sheep belonging to Mr. Wake.
man Morgan, who lives on the Fendall farm.
adjoining the Almshouse property. When dis
covered they had killed six of the sheep out
right and had cruelty torn the throats ofanother.
The dogs escaped and returned to their owners
One of them, Mark Moore, promptly killed his
dog by dose of strychnlne The other, Levin
Wilson, refused to dispatch his dog, but the
next morning it was found dead, some one hav.
| ing poisoned it.
| OUTRAGEOUS CONDUCT OF UNKNOWN MEN,
On Friday night of last week, during the alb.
sence of Mr. John Carroll from his home near
Pleasantville, several men came to the house
and to protect herself Mrs. Carroll fired at them
five or six times, with pistol. The men, prob.
ably as an act of revenge then set fire to the
smoke-house, which was burned down, with its
contents. Shortly afterwards some men, sun
posed to be same who set fire to Mr.. Carroll,s
smoke house, visited the premises of his neigh
Dor, Mr.. John Chatterton. They pulled his
buggy out of a shed into the road and set fire TO
1t. burning the body from the wheels. The men
are unknown.