The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1885-08-28
Focal Aftairs.
LITTLE LOCALS.

LITTLE LOCALS.
-Messrs NJ. E. Pue u Son, near Bel Air, have
lately lost rs hogs with hog-cholera and have
% or 30 more sick.
"A colored camp meeting commenced al
Clarks Chapel, on Sunday, in charge of Rev.
Mr.. Brooks. 1t will close next Monday.
The Republican primary meetings will be
held tomorrow, August Goth, and the county
convention on Wednesday, September Cd.
The Executive Committee of the Mutual
Fire Insurance Company in Hartford county will
meet in Bel Air, on Tuesday next, September
LIST.
The Town Commissioners of Bel Air have
been doing good thing lately by utilizing
tramp labor to break stone for the repair OF
Main street.
Mr.. VIM. Wann, of Bel Air, left at The
Egis office, last Saturday, cucumber 1Ok
inches in length, IL inches in circumference and
weighing 2M pounds.
The County Commissioners were in session
on Monday and adjourned after examining and
passing number Of road accounts. They will
meet again next Monday
Both Of the morning trains TO Delta were
filled, yesterday, with passengers for the Rocks
of Deer Creek, where the Harvest Home took
place. large crowd was in attendance. The
Harvest Home will be continued to-day.
MIR. A. Keuchel, matchmaker, has removed
from the corner of Main and Howard streets,
Bel Air, to his old stand, recently occupied by
Mr. VIM. G. Jeffrey. The latter has remove
into his new quarters, nearly opposite
Ne ind
chairman of the committee ON invitation for an
invitation to attend the second annual encamp.
ment of Dushane Post, &. A. R., which will be-
held at Baltimore September 9TH to 18th, inclu
sive.
One of the finest fields of corn in the county
is on the farm of Mrs. NJ. r. Preston, near Oar
lington. 1t contains Is acres, the stalks being
tall and large, each one bearing from one to two
ears. The most of the ears are at least a foot il
length and very thick.
The fair and festival at st. Ignatius' Church
Hickory, which closed on Friday evening of las
week, was pleasant affair and was very sue
cessful pecuniarily. The returns from the vari
GUS tables have not been made but the receipts
will probably amount to 5000.
Mr.. E. II. D. Pue, living nearBel Air, raised
this year a quantity of Pride of the Valley pota
toes. They are very large and uniform in size
bushel of them containing AZ potatoes. Tit
largest weighed * lbs. Mr.. Pue says they
are nearly as early as the Early Rose, and keel
we'll until May.
The Rev. j. Worrall Larmour, rector of st
Johns Episcopal Church, Kingsville, held ser
vices last Sunday afternoon, in Mr.. j. Augustus
spcer's dancing pavilion, at Fallston. Mr.
Larmour expects to continue services in til,
same place every other Sunday during the sum
mer
Mr.. s. A. Williams, trustee, last Saturday
offered at public sale Sc building lots in Fall
ston, but failed to receive bid on any of them
probably for the reason that the terms of sal,
required each buyer to erect on his lot dwell
ing house costing 81 900 within one year from
the time of purchase
The barn of Thomas Natey, near Port De
post, was struck by lightning, last Sunday at
ternoon, and consumed together with his entir
crop of wheat, hay, &c. George Frowds ant
his son, who were working in an idjoining fielt
near wire fence which ran to the barn, wer,
thrown to the ground by the shock, but neithe
was seriously injured.
MIR, j. G. Wrenshall, receiver of the Mary
land Central road, has appointed Mr.. Charles A
Roe, acting general passenger agent, in con
nection with his duties of cashier and paymas
ter. Mr.. Free Bond has been appointed genera
freight agent in connection with his duties O
dispatcher. Mr.. John Wilson Brown, the au
ditor of the company, will devote his attention
exclusively to the duties of that position
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