The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1885-06-05

was sold TO Mr.. Hugh l.. Heaps, FOL SS.50 per
acre.
No. ID, s acres, no bid.
No. IA, 2S acres, withdrawn at $3.50 an acre.
No. ID, "a acres, withdrawn at So an acre.
No. 16, so acres, no bid.
No. II, 81 acres, withdrawn at S7.25 an acre
No. Is, 0 acres, containing vein of iron ore ;
no bid.
Mr.. VIM. L. Cooley was the auctioneer.
Much of the land offered was equal in natural
fertility to any land in the county. The apathy
of bidders and the low prices offered indicate
the depressed condition of farming interests in
that section Of Hartford, attributable, perhaps,
in great degree, to the recent heavy failure of
the Northern Hartford Packing Association.
There was good attendance at the sale Mr..
Fairman Rogers, of Philadelphia, was present,
representing the interest of the heirs.
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE SCHOOL COMMISSION
ERs.-The board of School Commissioners met
on Tuesday. Present, Messrs. A. Vosbury,
President f. Whitaker and W. II. H. White
ford.
Clement Sewell was appointed trustee of No.
l, first district, in place of John W. Wilson, re-
signed, and Augustus Pyle trustee of No. Z,
third district, in place of Corbin Grafton, re-
signed.
The Secretary was directed TO close the public
schools June Goth, and to have the examina-
tions held from June 22d to Goth, inclusive
Teachers examinations were fixed for June Goth
and 30th and July LIST and ID.
An order was also passed TO pay teachers
term reports, when passed and presented at the
proper time
Miss lacey Matthews and Miss Bertha NJ.
Walton were recommended for scholarships in
the State Normal School,
The entire corps of teachers in Havre de
Grace school, No. ], was reapponted.
The Secretary reported that the Hartford coun-
ty Mutual Fire Insurance Company had refused
to pay the full amount of insurance on La
Grange public school house. DESTROYED by fire
last winter. The board thcreupou passed an
order notifying the insurance company that
they desired all their policies on school houses
insured in the company annuled on the LIST of
January next.
A delegation, composed of Mr.. John II.
Price, Dr. w. Stump Forwood and DR.. II. G..
Whiteford, was heard with reference to the re-
pairs at the Darlington Academy. The board
promised to give attention to the matter.
The board determined to ask the County
Commissioners to levy 90 cents on the 500 for
the necessary school purposes and for building
the following school houses, in the order nam
ed
Addition to No. 5, Third district Forest Hill.
Addition to No. 10, Fourth district, Enter
prise.
New House at No. IA, Fourth district La
Grange.
New House at No. 8, Second district, colored,
New House at No. Q. First district, McComas'
Cross Roads.
New House at No. - Fifth district, Heaps
Cross Roads.
Hew House at No. 5, Fifth district, Mt Yer
non.
New House at No. Is, Fourth district
In the event of the County Commissioners
granting the request the Secretary was directed
to advertise for building the houses named
COURT Recommendations was again in
session, on Monday. The case of Edmund
Mitchell VS.. Cornelius P. Mitchell, administra
tor of Paca Mitchell, deceased. was begun.
Messrs. Hopkins and Williams appeared for the
plaintiff and Messrs. Stump and VIM. Young
for the defendant. The suit was brought to re-
cover payment of promssory note, dated June
9Th, 1878, for 81 1885, alleged to have been given
by Paca Mitchell to his brother, Edmund Nit
chell, the plaintiff.
The witnesses for the plaintiff were Messrs.
George Harris, John Paca Mitchell and Ohio s.
Lee, who testified that they were. familiar with
the signature of Paca Mitchell and believed the
signature on the note to be that of the deceased
Mr. JOS P. Webster testified that Mr. Paca
Mitchell, about a year before his death, told him
he owed his brother Edmund some money.
Mr.. VIM. Taylor did not identify the sigma
ture, but testified that Mr.. Cornelius 2. Mitch
ell, the administrator, had expressed willing
ness to pay the note If the interest were deduct
ed.
Mr. Edmund Mitchell explained the crcum-
stances under which the note was given. He
testified that in 1859 he loaned his brother Paca
$500 to aid him in building house. From time
to time until the note in dispute was given they
| had business relations, and whenever settle
ment was made new note was given him by
his brother for a larger or smaller amount than
the last according to the state of the account
between them. His brother died in 1882 In
January 1884, he went to see his nephew, Cor
nelius 2. Mitchell, the administrator, with ref
erence to the note, who said he did not have the
money, but would try to raise it. He told his
nephew that if he would pay the interest he
would wait on him. subsequently the admins
TRAITOR told him that in order to protect himself
he had been advised to let his uncle (Mr. Edmund
Mitchell, bring suit.
On the part of the defence Mr.. Oakley Mitchell
son of the deceased, denied that the signature
on the note was that Of his father.
By agreement number of notes, &C., bearing
the signature of Paca Mitchell, were shown to
the jury with the note on which suit was
brought
Alfred Mitchell another son, also testified
that the signature was not his fathers, and that
being present when the conversation occurred
between his brother Cornelius and his uncle
the former did not promise to pay the note, but
satd he would have to see the others.
Mrs. Raymond, Il daughter OF the deceased,
said the signature resembled her fathers, but
she did not believe her father wrote 1t.
Henry Mitchell testified positively that the
word "Mtchell" on the note was not his faith