The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1885-10-09
Iucai Attairs.
LITTLE LOCALS.


The School Commissioners did not meet, on
Tuesday, their regular day for meeting.
Construction trains are now running on the
new b. aud o. Railroad beyond Abingdon.
Mr.. John 0. Stearns has declined to accept
the postmastership at Pylesville, Hartford coun-
ty.
Mr.. &. Howard Groscup, who accidentally
cut his foot with chopping axe, few days ago.
is improving.
Several hogs belonging to Mr. VIM. IL,
Waters, of Watervale, have died with hog chol
era and Others are sick with the same disease.
The entries for the Hartford fair are coming
In rapidly in all the departments except that of
swine. The household departments, particular
ly, promise to be very full.
Rev. F. G. Lee, of Havre de Grace, will de-
liver an illustrated lecture on "India." in the
Court House, Bel Air, on Wednesday evening,
October 14lh, at ~ o'clock Admission %
cents
Comptroller Turner's quarterly distribution
of the public school tax gives to Hartford county
49, 0S1 IA for the white and SS42. 80 for the COL
Baltimore Sun.
The rain on Tuesday nterfered with the
opening of the Cecil county fair and it will
therefore be continued on Saturday. The ex-
hibition is said to be one of the best ever held
by the society.
Deer Creek was SO high, last Sunday, from
the rain of the preceding night and early morn
th,4. - t.
one O'Clock, P. NJ. The crossing at Deaths
Ford was also extremely dangerous, Saturday
afternoon.
DIR. A. s. Baldwin's new store house at
Baldwin station, NJ. G. r. R has been finished
by the contractor Mr.. Frank Colder and bust
ness has been resumed in it. 1t replaces the
store house destroyed by lightning several
months ago.
The Baltimore county commissioners on
Tuesday awarded the contract for building an
| open wooden bridge on the county road leading
from Long Green Station, on the Maryland Cen
trail Railroad, to the Long Green Posloffice, to
| Robert Dilworth for S245.
The Welsh Choral Singers gave concert
in the old Presbyterian Church. last Friday
night The audience was small, on account of
the rain. There were in all, about thirteen
singers. Mr.. John Jones, of Delta, was the
leader. The singing was very good
| Rev. W. w. Campbell's mare and buggy
were taken from a hitching- post at Aberdeen,
on Thursday night of last week, and driven
away. Mr.. Alphonso swartzs mare and buggy,
which were taken from in front of the Hartford
Inx 40
| ton woods.
Two handsomely finished cutter seghs left
by Messrs. Heuer & Debow, of Bel Air, in the
exhibition rooms at the fair grounds, were mu-
| tilated and defaced to such an extent that they
will have to be newly upholstered and painted.
The authors of this piece of vandalism deserve
severe punishment.
-Messrs. Charles c. McColgan IL Co., No. IS
Light street, Baltimore, will exhibit the Ross
| ensilage lay and straw cutters, and the Bissell
plows, at the Hartford fair next week. They
| claim that the Ross cutters are the best in the
world, and challenge dealers in other cutters to
engage in cutting match on the fair grounds.
Mr.. Thomas Poole, one of the Democratic
candidates for County Commissioner, has a
cider mill running by steam, and is making large
quantities of cider for his neighbors His press
has capacity of 1,5O0 gallons day. Cider
vinegar ought to be cheap in Hartford after a
while, as the cider can not be sold when it be-
| comes hard.
Mr.. Cornelius Murphy is engaged in
quarrying stone for the new bridge at John N.
Nelson's Mill. Mr.. Murphy has had much ex-
perience in quarrying, having worked for seven
years in the Maryland Marble quarries, in Bal
timore county, and elsewhere. We can re-
commend him to those who wish to have work
| of this kind done.