The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1889-09-06
local Affairs.
LITTLE LOCALS.

Several interesting communications have
been deferred for want of time to get them in
type. Some of them will appear next week
MIR. Cornelius Murphy, near the Rocks of
Deer Creek, has three acres of very fine Havana
tobacco. Experts estimate that it will yield
1909 pounds to the acre.
Hog cholera is reported in the neghbor.
hood of Prospect Kennedy Bay has lost five
or six, and John Wallace and Thomas Heaps !
have also lost hogs by the same disease.
Last Saturday night valuable brood sow
belonging to Mr. Boyle, of Prospect, died. In
1883 this animal, which was cross between
the Essex and Chester, with her two pigs, pro-
duced him S2S5.
The young ladies of Churchville Presby
terrain Church will hold lawn fete, at the
parsonage, on Thursday and Friday evenings,
Sept. 9TH and 9th, the proceeds TO be devoted to
repairs on the parsonage.
The Mountain Sunday School and Reading
Circle gave picnic and fishing party, on Au.
gust 2Sth, at VIM. Thomas shore, Gunpowder
bridge. About six dozen crabs and some fish
were caught. a pleasant dvy was spent.
We are for the second time indebted to
MIR. George L. Scott, of Darlington, for figs
from u tree on his premises. Ripe figs grown
in Hartford are novelty to be appreciated. May
he long dwell beneath his own vine and fig tree,
with none to make him afraid
Mrs. William Oliver, of Hartford Furnace,
sends us q box full of large hops raised by her
this year Many ofthem are nearly 3]4 inches
in length. They are worth exhibiting at the
Hartford fair. Mrs. Oliver says she has grown
this same variety for thirty years.
! On Monday little boy aged o years, son of
Mr.. Will lam Norris, of Baltimore, who was
visiting his aunt Mrs. q. W. McComas, near
Clayton, accidentally fell out of a tree, fractur-
ing one Of his ribs and injurng his back. Dr.
Lee was summoned to attend him.
Visitors to Mr. John p. Leight's fishing re-
sort, Otter Point, report crabs more plentiful
than at any previous time this summer. The
perch and rock fishing in Bush river is also
said to be better than for ten years past at this
time of the year. Rail and reed bird shooting
is also said TO be good on the marshes.
On Wednesday of last week as Mr.. George
Archer, a Gamer living near wilma, was assist
ing in backing wagon, he took hold of one
of the fore.wheels, and accidentally got his left
hand caught between spoke and the Wagon
body The hand was badly bruised and cut but
no bones were broken. The injury was very
painful.
Among the knights selected to take part in
the tournament at Pimlico, Tuesday night, are
o. A. Bay, Knight of Pyesville VIM. NJ.
"a, ,I,rin I
ham, Knight of Bennington John ard Chas.
Howard, Charles IIutchns, Edward Pearce,
Harry Pearce, J. NJ. Pearce, II. c. Burdete and
c. NJ. IiUshall.
"A valuable family horse belonging to Mr.
, Daniel Keeny, of the first district, WAS badly
:, crippled, day or two ago, by stepping on 0
rolling stone in the road. Picking up scattered
stones in the road is a duty which too many
e road.menders neglect. Many of our road.
would be vastly improved If the supervisors
r would have the loose stones picked of of them
--In a local paragraph, last week, it was sta
D ed that the Sunday excursion train over the b
:, and .. Railroad, on the 2oth of August, did no
G stop at Van Bbber, in returning from Balti
i more, and several persons were injured b.
q w Ut 'hut PIuSS' ihoh'"o u
q sullivan, agent at VanBibher, asks us to sa
y, that three sections of the train stopped ther
, at least five minutes and number of passer
. gers alighted safely
The will of the late John w. Mccoy, G
Baltimore, has been published. He bequeath
u to Dr. W. W. VirdiD of this county. 81 900
u to Mrs. Emily Virdin Foard, of Baltimore
r S., O0O trust fund is created, ont of whic
d Mrs. Kate Z. Virdin, wife of DR.. W. W. Virdir
n is to receive $500 year for life, and upon he
death each of her children, Martha Lee Nrdlr
r, Mary Vlrdn, John Mccoy Virdin and Josep
= Dunn vhdin, 81, 800 each.
" We are obliged to Messrs Hopper, Meta
II " Co., the popular groeers, No. 22O aud q
" North Charles street, Baltimore, for an invit
y ton to witness the bombardment of Fo
'e McHenry, on the 18th, from the steamer jar
r Mosely, which the firm has chartered Tor Il
e. occasion. The boat is capable of carrying 2,Ot
persons, but Messrs. Hopper McGaw " c.