The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1885-02-13

WoRKMEN SERIOUSLY lNJURED.-On Mon
day morning as six men were at work on
swinging platform, putting on extra iron plates
and strengthening the p, w. and b. Railroad
bridge at Havre de Grace, the board on which
they stood, which was two inches thick and
eighteen inches wide, suddenly broke in the
centre, without any warning, throwing four of
the men on the ice, six inches thick, through
which they cut like cannon ball. The other
two saved themselves by holding on to stringers
of the bridge. Those who went through the ice
were John Barnes, the railroad company's in
spector of the work, who was seriously hurt in
the back and legs besides being bruised and in
jured inwardly, and John Shurtz, Samuel Flem-
ing and Peter Peterson, who were seriously in
jured.
MIR WILLIAMS LARGE YIELD OF WHEAT
Last fall we published an account of an unusu-
ally large yield of wheat on the farm of Mr.
Stevenson A. Williams, near Churchville Mr.
Thomas F. Nagel, Mr. Williams tenant, has
since given us the exact statement. He said:
son IL acres of clover sod ground l raised
622 bushels and 80 lbs. of Fultz wheat, or 81
bushels and 53H lbs. per acre. On another lot
OF acres of stalk ground the yield was PAL
pueueioi VI OF o. UuSHelS per acre. Inc clover
sod was plowed in August. Immediately after
blowing 800 lbs ofdssolved bone was drilled in,
at right angles to the way the wheat was to be
drilled. Two hundred and fifty lbs. of high
grade phosphate was also drilled in with the
wheat about the 18th of September. The same
field, in 1889 yielded 3S bushels of wheat per
acre, from stalk ground. Clover was sowed on
the wheat, about the 1st of April, 1882 a crop
of clover was cut In the summer of 1858 and the
second crop turned down for wheat. On the
stalk ground about the same quantity of bone
and phosphate was applied"
New INDUSTRY PROPOSED FOR FARMERS
Mr.. Samuel N. Hyde, of Hydes Station, Mary
land Central Railroad, Is certainly an enterpris-
ing business man. In addition to his large farm
and canning operations he has engaged in the
ice business, having stored in houses on his
farm about 800 tons of beautifully clear, solid
ice, ten inches in thickness. He proposes 10
sell this ice in the northwestern section of Bal
tmore city, supplying it from North Avenue
Station. He has ascertained that he can send
ice from his station to North Avenue for about
one-half the cost of drayage of Maine ice from
the whatves of Baltimore city to the same point
Mr.. Hyde's effort is somewhat in the nature of
an experiment, but he thinks farmers along the
find it profitable to ship ice to Baltimore. His
idea is to get ice dealers to build storage houses
at North Avenue and ship the ice as soon as it
is cut in the winter
LARGE TREEs.-Mr. Daniel NJ Whiteford,
who lives near Constitution, last week had a
| chestnut tree cut down, near his house, which
measured feet in diameter and was Is feet in
| height. Some of the limbs were two feet in d.
ameter. No one living in the neighborhood
knew its age, but 103 distinct rings were count
ed in the wood, each of which represents one
years growth. 1t was therefore at least 103
years old. Part of this venerable old tree died
two years ago and the remainder last fall. 1t
formerly bore large crops of chestnuts, six
bushels having been gathered from 1t one year.
Six men with axes chopped it down together
Mr.. Hugh c. Whiteford, of John, has near his
residence, in the neighborhood of Pylesville, a
poplar tree which towers aloft to height of so
feet, The trunk is five or six feet in diameter
and for the first so feet from the ground is with
out knot or limb.
Two years ago Elijah Jones assisted in cutting
down two large cherry trees on Mrs. Elijah
70 years before. Mr.. Jones is still living, near
Constitution, at the age of 81 years.
TELEPHONE COMMUNICATION PRoPosED.-Mr
A. s. Gilbert of the Chesapeake and Potomac
Telephone Co., was in Bel Air, on Thursday, en-
deavorng to make arrangements for extending
the Company's lines to Bel Air, and opening an
office here. The company, he states, has con-
nection with the entire telephone system of Bal
timore city, and with Washington, Annapolis,
Philadelphia, Frederick, Westminster Towson-
town and intermediate points, and in fact with
nearly every prominent point in the State. The
company's proposition is that the citizens of
Bel Air shall guarantee certain amount of bus
mess to the line, to be paid for in advance, upon
the completion of the line and the opening of
the office in the town. Coupons, good for two
years, will be issued to each subscriber, to the
amount of his subscription. These can be used
in payment for messages at any o flee of the
company in the State. A telephone connection
with Baltimore alone would be great conve
nience to the people of this neighborhood, and
we have no doubt if the line is built it will
prove to be paying Investment Mr.. Gilbert
the arrangements, if possible. The line could
be extended in month from Towsontown.
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A TRAIN STOPPED IN TIME.-The morning
train from Delta, on Tuesday, came very near
running into very large washout, on the farm
of Mrs. Drusilla Street,, near Pylesvillc. Mr.
Robert N. Ramsay, who lives near the place.
fearing that the heavy rain of the night before
had injured the track, examined it early in the
morning, and found gulley 25 feet long and 10
or IL feet deep, washed out under the track, the
ties and rails remaining in position, to all APP
pearances as safe as usual Mr.. Ramsay signal
led the train, but the engineer did not see him
and the train was rushing into the dangerous
place when passenger, Mr...John o. stearns, of
Pylesville, saw Mr.. Ramsay and called Conduc-
tor Johnson's attention to his signals. The
train was stopped Immediately and within q
short distance of the gulley. Mr.. Ramsay de-
serves great praise for his thoughtfulness,
which saved the train from being wrecked and
doubtless averted loss of life. The track was
temporarily but safely propped up aud the mail
train from Baltimore passed over the place
about o'clock. The morning train from Delta
was also delayed several hours, Wednesday
morning, in consequence of the water tanks at
Delta and Fern Cliff being frozen up.
PERsoNAL.-Mr. VIM. A. Forsyth, of Dublin,
is still very i'll.
Mr.. Thomas Kemp, who has been very i'll, at
his residence, near wilma, is improving.
Mr.. w. II. Riddle, who recently returned from
New Orleans, where he has been experimenting
the exhibit of the Carroll Decorative Glass
Company, speaks in glowing terms of the
Worlds Exposition. The people are now COM
ing in large numbers and it is an assured sue