The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1885-02-20
Eneal Affairs.
LITTLE LOCALS.

The old and well-known firm of nursery
men, D. F. Atwood Il Co., are advertising with
us for men. Read advertisement.
"A considerable amount of damage has been
done this winter, by the ice on Deer Creek,
which has several times passed down in unusu-
ally large quantities.
A large party of young ladies and gentle
men, of Bel Air, went to Havre de Grace, on
Thursday, in carriages and buggies, to see how
the ice is cut and stored at that place.
Work has been temporarily suspended in
the mills of the Susquehanna Water Power and
Paper Company, in consequence of the ice,
which interfcres with running the machinery.
Mr.. Thomas H. Robinson has purchased
the house, in Bel Air, in which he resides from
Mr.. Jacob E. Bull. The lot fronts 1856 feet Oh
Broadway. The price paid has not been made
public.
We call the attention of any of our readers
who are in want of a situation to the advertise
ment in another column of R. &. Chase d. Co.,
headed Statesmen Wanted" Write to them
for particulars.
sale of the Remington force pumps. These
pumps are easily operated, have brass cylinders,
need no packing, and consequently do not east
ly get out of order.
"A Big Woods farmer last week killed lamb
2S months old, which weighed, when dressed
1913 lbs This weight is regarded as remarka-
BILE for lamb of that age. 1t was cross of
the Shropshire and Southdown.
The rain of Monday caused the streams in
the county to rise rapidly and to height al
most unprecedented. The roads would doubt
less have been badly washed, if the ground had
not been covered with snow and ice.
The Grand Jury, on Wednesday, made their
report to Judge Walters and asked to be dis
charged. Judge Waters thanked them for
their promptness and attention and discharged
them. Their session lasted only nine days.
We are indebted to the Pope Manufacturing
Co., of Boston, for beautiful valentine, of UNI.
ique and original design, representing the pleas
ures of bicycling. Upon the back of the val
entine is poem descriptive of the picture.
We call attention 10 the advertisement of
chants for the sale of tobacco, grain fruit, wool
and all country produce. They are also dealers
in seeds and fertilizers. The firm is a reliable
one Their place of business is at lO6S. Charles
street, Baltimore.
-Observant farmers say that the rain of the
9th instant and the succeeding cold wave were
very damaging to the wheat AS quickly as the
earth melted, under the warm rain, it was
washed away from the roots of the wheat plants
and while thus exposed the severe freeze came
on. Before the last snow wheat looked extreme.
ly unpromising.
"A framed pencil-drawing of the Richmond
Female Institute, exhibited at the last county
fair with the public school exhibits from Havre
de Grace, was lost, probably by being carried
away by mistake. The person having it will
please inform Prof. EuDank, of the Havre de
Grace High School, or Mr. Noble l.. Mitchell
Public School Examiner, Bel Air.
"A few days ago Mrs. Joseph Lively, who
lives near Bel Air, went to her spring-house to
get some butter which she had ported in the
summer, for winter use. But when she got
there the spring-house was bare; some one hay
ing opened the jar, and after taking out the but
ter had covered the jar again as neatly as Mrs.
livezey herself could have done it.
The next monthly meeting of the Deer
Creek Farmers Club will be held at the resi-
dence of Messrs. S. B. and George E. Silver on
Friday, February 27th, instead of Saturday, the
2Sth, as heretofore announced. The subject TO
be discussed will be as follows: "The com.
parative advantages of this and other regions
of the United States for young men to settle in"
Last Saturday night colored boy named
Titus Giles was arrested by Baliff Small for rid
ing horse over the board walk on Broadway,
Bel Air. Justice Fulton fined him 81 and costs
amounting altogether to S2.25. Not having
any money with which to pay the fine, Titus
was committed 10 Jail, but was released upon
the payment of the fine by kind-hearted clerk
in Mr.. Rouse's store.
Mondays food is said to have caused much
damage in Cecil county. On one of the roads
near Elkton ice is banked four feet deep. The
County Commissioners have decided that the
estimated cost of cutting it away is SO heavy
that they can not pay it, but would let the sun
melt 1t away. In the meantime people have to
drive three miles or more around to reach
Elkton, half mile away.