The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1890-09-19
Focal affairs.
LITTLE LOCALS.

Focal affairs.
LITTLELoCALs.
"A government pension has been granted to
Henry Gier, of Havre de Grace.
MIR. R. Emory Taylor, of Pslryman, had his
foot injured, last week, by mill burr falling
upon it..
Mr. VIM. 8. Bowman has been appointed
Assistant Register of Voters for the second
election district.
Augustus Laugreder, native of Germany,
received his final naturalization papers, in the
Circuit Court, last Saturday.
MIR. James Patterson Is building q large
frame dwelling house near Federal Hill. Mr..
Benjamin Mason is the contractor.
On Monday Messrs. s. A. and F. R. Will
liams sold the real estate OF Mr.. George l..
VanBibber, to James Lee, for 81, 500, subject to
the right of dover.
"A valuable Orange Blossom horse, belonging
to ]. 8. Ditch q Bro, of Baltimore, died at
Bateman's livery stable, in Bel Air, ON Thurs
day, of pneumonia.
"A barn on the farm Of the late Lambert
Cuttings, on the Hartford Turnpike, IL miles
from Baltimore city, was destroyed by fire, on
Thursday morning Of last week.
Mr.. VIM. Gainor on Mr.. Edward H. Halls
place, raised tomato which weighed within an
ounce of 3 lbs. Mr.. Gainor says the tomato
crop in that neighborhood is very fine.
| "A fine Thorndale Idol colt belonging to
Hon. Herman Stump was severely injured by
being caught In barbed wire fence on his
farm, near Bel Air, last Sunday night
| Mrs. A. T. Ross, near Bel Air. has a duck,
which although only four months old, lays an
egg every day. This is regarded as very pre-
cocious, indeed, quite eggs-traordinary.
| Laura V. Bay and Alice NJ. Bay, by their at
torneys, George Y. Maynadier and VIM. L.
Cooley, have applied to Judge Walters for
writs of habeas corpus. Their petitions will
be heard to-day.
The barn Of Adam Magraw, near Colora,
Cecil county, is reported to have been destroy
ed by fire, early Thursday morning. The light
was seen at Darlington, Dublin and other places
on this side of the river.
The bridge over Long Branch, q tributary
of Winters Run, near High Point, was injured
by freshet, on Thursday, 18th instant. Part
of the abutment was washed away and the
| structure made unsafe for heavy wagons.
The case of Joseph P. Merryman against
| the County Commissioners of Hartford county is
now on trial at Towson. This suit was insti-
tuted to recover fees for alleged professional
services in the case of Wise against the County
Commissioners.
We are obliged to Mr.. VIM. Kessling, who
lives on the Bel Air turnpike, near the toll-gate,
for cantelope weighing about Is lbs, and
basket of nice tomatoes, all grown in his own
garden. He had number oftine cantelopes,
but all except two were stolen.
Mr.. John Winkler has raised fine crop of
| tomatoes on Mr.. VIM. T. Sawyer's farm, near
Emmorton. Three specimens shown at our
office, last Saturday. weighed, respectively, lbs.
9 ounces, 2 lbs ounces and Id. II ounces
The three weighed together 6 lbs. 6 ounces.
Mr.. Jas. M. Herman, miller at Mooreland
Mill, near Bel Air, has sent us samples of the
-four and meal he is making. Both are very
good. This mill, Mr.. Herman says, will soon
be supplied with complete roller process
machinery, in order to make snow white -four
MIR. James T. Walker, Of Perryman, will
please accept our thanks for an invitation and
complimentary ticket to attend the second
annual race meeting of the TrottiDg Horse
Breeders Association of Maryland and District
of Columbia, which took place at Bennings, on
Sept. II and IS.
The County Commissioners of Baltimore
county have appropriated q sum of money equal
to that already subscribed by persons interested
to macadamiZe the road leading from Fork,
Hartford turnpike, to Baldwin station, NJ. c.
Railroad. Mr.. T. Harry Gorsuch was appointed
to superintend the work.
1t is understood that the receipts of the
recent county fair at Timonium will ag-
gregate from 5000 to $1,000, and if they do
reach that sum Mr.. H. c. Longnecker, Secretary,
says the society will have surplus sufficient
to pay the Indebtedness left over from last year,
which amounts to about g., 900, and still bal
ance.
Some of the contestants In the bicycle tour
nament at the Hartford county fair, on Thurs
day and Friday, Oct. I'd and Sd, are Charles c.
Maggie, James Farnsndis Mitchell, Devereaux
Prigg and Calvin Amos, of Bel Air, VIM. Han
ma, of Fountain Green, and Edward Shannon, of
Vale. Several young men from Havre de Grace
are also expected to take part in this interest
ing feature of the fair.
The son of DR.. K. Emory, OF My Lady's
Manor, who was taken to the Johns Hopkins
Hospital about fortnight ago to be treated
for serious pistol shot wound In the leg, Is
improving. 1t was feared his limb might have
| to be amputated, but this danger has been hap
PLY averted. Mrs. Emory, who was seriously
sick with typhoid fever, is rapidly conyalesc-
| ing Union.
| The passenger business of the Maryland
Central r. r. is something remarkable. The
afternoon trains from the city are always crowd
ed and some people don't understand how this
can be. Well, it is a popular road and when
it is broad gauged and the Belt Line is in opera
| ton, it will carry twenty passengers where it
| does one to-day. This may seem an extrayagant
| prediction, but watch and see how far wrong
| it is Union.
Last Friday, as Mr.. Edward Ely was driving
a wagon loaded with empty tomato boxes along
the road near Creswell, some of the boxes slip
ped forward and fell on the horses, causing
| them to run away. Mr.. Ely fell between the
horses and the wagon, but managed to hold on
to the coupling pole for while, but let 60 and
and the wagon passed on without touching him.
Several boys who were on the wagon jumped
| off without being hurt. The horses ran to Mr..
Ely's home, on the farm of the late Judge Bill
lingslea, and strange to say, the wagon was un-
injured.
AHANDsoME IMPROVEMENT AT FALLsToN.-
Mr.. Paul F. Kolk, contractor. of Bel Air, has
nearly completed very convenient dwelling
house for Mr.. Daniel P. Hollingsworth, at
Fallston. 1t is supplied throughout with water,
by means of force pump and tank in the
attic, and will be heated by q furnace. The