The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1888-02-17

give employment to large number of hands,
and this, of itself, will add to the general pros.
perity of the county.
ST. VALENTINES DAY, SHRovE TUESDAY AND
ASH WEDNEsDAY.-ruesday was both st.
Talentine's day AID Shrove Tuesday. ST. Valen-
tine was Christian martyr who persisted A. D.
27O, but why this festival day should be devoted
to sending love-missives or caricatures is not
known.
shrove Tuesday, the day preceding the begin
ming OF Lent, is so called because peni,ents, on
this day, ia the Roman Catholic churches at tend
confession and arc shriven or absolved by the
priest. 1t is also popularity known as Pancake
day, the belief being general that unless the
good housekeeper provides pancakes TO: the
family dinner, on this day, she will not have
good luck with her young poultry
Ash Wednesday is the first day of the peniten-
tial season of Lent 1t derives lis name from
the ceremony. in earlier ages of the church,
of the priest making the sign of the cross with
ashes upon the forehead of the penitent worship
err at the same time repeating, in Latin, Ere
member man, that thou art of ashes and into
dust wilt return"
Services were held in most of the Roman
Catholic and Episcopal Churches, Wednesday.
PERsoNAL.-Mr Thomas Ady, who lives with
his brother, MIR. VIM. NJ. Ady, is very ill with
a severe attack of rheumatism.
Judge Price, of Darlington last Monday re-
ceived letter from Hon. Hugh j. Jewett, of
this county, who is in New York, in which he
says his health has been greatly restored lie
still suffers somewhat from the effects of his &C.
cidental fall.
Misses Mamie and BERTHE Hanway, daughters
of Mr.. B. Frank Hanway, Of Creswell, are visit
ing Mrs Rawlinson Colburn. in Washington.
Mr.. Geo. A. Kimble, Of VanBibber station.
recently visited Philadelphia in the interest Of
canning.
DR.. Lewis j. Williams, who has been
extremely i'll at his home in Baltimore, is report
ed much more comfortable, his symptoms be-
ing ALI more favorable. His son, MRS. A. Will
liams, of Bel Air has been with him almost con-
stantly.
Mr.. James NJ. Jacobs, whose serious illness
at the residence of Hon. Stevenson Archer, wQs
mentioned last week, is somewhat improved.
Mr.. Arthur Vosbury, of Havre de Grace con-
tnues to be critically ill., His friends are
much alarmed at his condition.
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DgATu OF Two VyRY A0Bp PsRsoSs. jacob
Sherman, the Oldest and probably the best.
known toll-gate keeper on the Hartford turn
pike, died at the toll gate near Copper Factory,
on the 9th instant, in his 92d year. For As years
Mr.. Sherman collected tolls at this gate but at
last himself paid the last toll on life's journey.
He leaves four sons, Washington, Andrew,
Madison and Marion Shearman and daugh-
tiers, who are Mrs. Asbury Guyton, Mrs. Owen
Donayan and Mrs Edward Burton. Mr.. Shear
man was buried ut Waugh Chapel, on Sunday.
Mrs. Margaret Stevenson, the Oldest resident
of Havre de Grace, died suddenly, on Wednes-
day night of last week, at the residence of her
daughter, Mrs. Mary G.. Carver in that place,
aged "a years. Mrs. Stevenson had been ailing
for several months, having been greatly affected
by the death of her son-in-law, Mr.. Henry Car.
yer, which occurred few weeks ago. On Wed.
nesday evening she retired early and about 10
o'clock q member of her family on entering the
the room found her dead. She was native of
Cecil county, her husband being Jno. Stevenson,
who died So years ago. After her marriage she
lived in Baltimore many years. Mrs. Carver is
her only surviving relative In liavre de Grace.
She was member of the NJ L. Church. Her
funeral took place last Saturday afternoon.
MEETING OF THE MEDICAL SocIETY.-The
Medical Society of Hartford county held an in
tercsting meeting Mt the Changers Hotel, on
Tuesday. DR.. Pearson Chapman, President,
was in the chair; DR.. W. Stump Forwood,
Secretary, and DR.. X. ID. Lee, Treasurer.
A general discussion took place on the sub
jects of cancer, typhoid fever and malaria, in
which Drs. Chapman, Forwood Lee, j. Ward
Scott and J. f. II. Gorsuch participated.
Dr. J. T. Payne was elected a member of the
society.
A bright and entertaining paper was read by
DR.. j. Ward Scott, on the Failure of Medical
Journalism. DR.. Scott attributed the want of
success of medical journals to the verbosencss
and technically of the articles they contained.
medical journal to succeed and to be of value