The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1884-03-07

lhc directors OF tue tariord County Agri.
cultural Society did not transact any business
Tuesday, for want Of quorum. The next
meeting will hc held on Monday, March 3ist.
Tho Susquehanna river was again frozen
over, BY the late cold snap. The canal boat
Lyman Clark, owed in Baltimore, was cut
through by ice and sunk at Stony Point, Salur-
day.
MIR. John D. Stearns has bought and taken
charge of the store formerly kept BY Messrs
Bowen d Co., at Pylesville. Mr.. Stearns intends
to increase the stock and keep first class
store.
Edward Culver, formerly of Bel Air, who
now lives in the Cherokee Nation, writes that
$4,000 acres of prairie land in that region are on
fire. Many cattle, sheep and ranches have been
destroyed.
Measles prevail 10 Il considerable extent
around Jarrettsville, as In other parts Of the
county Whooping-cough, which has also gone
the rounds of the children of the Eeighborhood
mentioned, is now happily on the decrease.
"A mule valned at 5000, belonging to MIR.
Abram Sherizer, of Churehville, died at the
Changers Hotel stables, Wednesday morning.
The animal was taken sick in the team the
evening before, while on the way home from
Baltimore.
A colored boy, IL or IA years of age, was
found frozen nearly to death Monday morning
in the railroad coal-shed at Ilavre de Grace. He
is stranger there, and until found was last seen
on Friday. The boy was unable to give an ac-
count of himself
-Messrs. Emmord IL Taylor, of Perryman,
are pushing ahead in the construction of their
large and imposing store house. 1t is three
stories high and will contain town hall They
expect 10 occupy it for business on or before
the LIST of next May.
Capt. Eldridge W. Gallup, of the Dairy
Farm, who has been suffering from liver trou-
BILE and dyspepsia for several months past, is
getting better llisphyslcian, DR.. Chapman, has
given him permission to drive out, as soon MS
the weather is suitable.
Admiral John Rodgers Post q. A. K, of
Ilavre de Grace, A. j. Rouston, Commander is
making an effort to establish drum corps In
that city. An encampment will he held at
llavre de Grace, next Fourth of July, 10 which
othel Grand Army posts will be invited.
MIR. James Young, formerly of Bel Air, who
was severely injured, several weeks ago, in Bal
timore, by Il heavy box of dry goods falling
upon him, has rot yet recovered sufficiently to
be able to leave the house, The accident hap
pen'd at Messls. Holiday u Co.'S dry goods
store, in which Mr.. Young is a clerk.
"A Queen Anne's county man has ascertained
hat i,il1
number in his crab-box, last fall, anchored in
| creek. few days ago they were found alive,
| although frozen in the ice This is contrary to
the general belief that crabs exposed TO hard
weather will die.
AT the public sale of personal property of
the late Thomas W. Hail. Jr., near Abingdon, on
Monday, steers sold at S. 80 per 100 lbs cows
from $45 TO sos; one horse al $2O7; yearlng
| colt at $S5 one pair of mules $3.50 and anoi her
pair at $3.50 corn, SO so per barrel; potatoes, 50
cents per bushel.
Samuel Cohen, q respectable and we'll
| known colored man, died on Monday at his
home on the "Forty Acres" near Wilma lie
was about 67 years of age, and besides working
his little farm, was cooper by trade. For
| many years he worked on the farm of the late
Rev. John r. Keech and afterwards for DR..
Lenox Birckhead
MIR. j. j. Driscol, foreman for the Manhat-
tan Dredging Company, who went to Cecil
county in charge of the steam excavation, to op-
crate on the new b, and o. Railroad, some two
or three weeks ago, was taken i'll few days
ago and has lost his mind. The atflction is
thought to have been brought on by excitement
and troubles in his business affairs.
The farm of the late John Joshua Street,
Will be offered at public sale, al the Court
House, on the nth instant, by Messrs. VIM. H.
Waters, VIM. Oldileld and Geo. Y. Maynadier,
trustees. 1t contains 200 acres, and is one of
the most highly improved farms in the county,
being desirably situated near the line of the
Maryland Central Railroad, and the Rocks of
Deer Creek.