The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1886-03-19

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acres OF land, to Mr.. VIM. II. Chenworth, for
$1,000. This property, about 10 years ago, was
purchased for $4,000.
Mr.. Chas. l.. Dallam has sold to Mr.. p. +.
Ball the house and lot at the corner of Main
street and Hickory avenue, Bel Air, for 81, 700,
cash. Mr.. Ball intends to build a large hard
ware store on the property.
TURNPIKE COMPANY INCORpORATED.--A
turnpike company has been incorporated at
Towsontown, with the following named ncor-
porated at Towsontown, with the following
named incorporates and directors to manage
its affairs the first year: Pleasant Hunter,
Thomas l.. Parrish, William Wise, Christopher
Slade, Charles E. Cathcart, Thomas Lyle and
Samuel Black, of Baltimore county, and Jas. b.
Ayres, of Hartford county. The capital stock is
$4,000, divided into 900 shares, at $40 each. The
new turnpike will run from White Hall, on the
Northern Central Railway, to a point ON the
Hartford county line, near Shawsvlle, being
nearly five miles in length
HARTFORD FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY The
directors of tue Mutual Fire Insurance Company
in Hartford county met on Monday, Col. John
Carroll Walsh, President, in the chair.
Messrs. Jno. G. Walsh, Jno. S. Dallam, Thos.
Gorsuch, John Sterling and &. G. Kinsey were
reelected as the Executive Committee.
The risks on steam threshers were revised, by
decreasing the distance which the steam engine
must stand from the barn from 40 to so feet and
making the application good during the contin-
uance of the general policy.
Notice was given of the burning, on the 18th
instant, of the dwelling house oil Stephen
Doughcrty, at Gardenvllc, Baltimore county,
on which there is an Insurance of $3.50 in this
company.
INTRODUCING FINE HoRsEs-Mr VIM. A.
Peasants, of Falston, was one of the purchas-
ers at Mr.. s. w. Fcklin's large sale of horses
and cattle, last week. at Belmont stock farm,
near Charlottesville, Va. lie bought Clyde.
Norman, superb Percheron- Norman stallion,
weighing LOCO lbs and standing 1917 hands
high, and two brood mares of the same stock
Mr. Peasants will engage in the breeding of
Percheron-Normans and will give his brother
farmers an opportunity to improve the stock of
farm horses of the county. He deserves the
cious enterprise
DIR, j. L. Windolph, OF Darlington, returned
home from Elmra, N. Y, on Wednesday, with
the trotting stallion "Thorndae IDOL" No. 1858.
This horse is remarkably handsome and will no
doubt be an acquisition to the county,
HABEAs CORPUS CAsE.-On Monday Judge
Waters heard petition for the release of a boy
named John Lynch, aged IA years, from ST.
Mary's Industrial School, Baltimore. His coun-
sci, Mr.. John W. Walter, of Baltimore, in the
petition, states that the commitment does not
show that the boy was committed at the request
of the father
The superintendent of the school, Brother
Bernardine, answered, through his counsel
Hon. Henry W. Archer, that John Lynch was
committed to the school by Justice of the
Peace, on the the Goth ofJuly, 1883, and that he
has been there ever since, learning trade, with
the assent ofhis father. Further, that the same
case was heard on the 4th of March, by Judge
Yellott, who remandcd the boy to the school.
Judge Walters, after examining the papers,
&c, ordered the writ of habeas corpus quashed
and the boy sent back to the school.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE COUNTY COMMISSION
ERs. The Commissioners met on Monday, the
entire board being present. Mr.. Robert walk
er, President, in the chair.
A communication was received from the Bal
timore County Commissioners to the effect that
the old bridge lying in the stream at GREEN'S
Ford, Little Gunpowder, is obstrucling the
flow Of water, and proposing TO unite with the
Hartford county commissioners in removing and
selling the same Mr.. Poole was appointed to
meet the Baltimore county commissioners at
GREEN'S Ford, yesterday.
Messrs. w. G. II. Williams, of Baltimore, and
j. B. Hanway were before the Commissioners,
asking their consent 10 an amendment of the
charter of the Baltimore and Havre dc Grace
Turnpike Company, by which the company
would surrender to Hartford county that portion
of their road between Bush and the Little Falls
The Commissioners declined the proposition.
On Tuesday the Commissioners took an in-
yentory of stock at the Almshouse. They found
the farm and buildings in satisfactory condl
ton.
The Commissioners viii meet again March
Goth.