The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1890-04-04
Focal affairs.
LITTLE LOCALS.

Mr.. George L. Scott, of Darlington. sowed
oats on the Goth of March.
w. NJ. Martin has been appointed post.
master at McGaw, Hartford county.
&C. K. Sewell Il Bros black more Mabel B.
dropped fine FLY by Thorndale Idol, on
March &c.
Surveyors are again at work surveying q
railroad route from Baldwin station, to Sharon
station, M. Z. Railroad, by way OF Twining's
Valley.
Mr.. Aquilla B. Hanson has resigned the
postnastership at Churchville, having been ap-
pointed clerk in the Census office at Wash.
| ington.
We are again indebted to Mr.. Frank Cook
for trophies of his skill as 9 msrksman. This
time they come in the shape of q couple of brace
of jack snipe.
MIR. VIM. D. Bartleson, Of Pleasantville,
lately killed a ten-weeks-old lamb which weigh
ed g. lbs and dressed IS lbs. 1t was fit for the
table Of an emperor.
NO better garden or field seeds can be
bought anywhere than those sold by Messrs. j.
Bolganio & Son, % South Calvert street, Balti-
more. This firm was established in 1925.
Mr.. Charles T. Scarf, near Upper Cross
Roads, has pair Of twin calves, so much alike
that it is impossible to tell one from the other
Mr.. Scarf is quite proud Of his pets.
MIR. William A. Wheeler, postmaster at the
Rocks, has resigned and recommended DR.. Chas.
A. Rutledge as his successor. DR.. Rutledge's
store is some distance from the station, where
the postofice is now kept.
AT the sale of Mr.. R. Archer Hopkins per
sonal property, at Darlington, on Monday,
corn brought $3.50 q barrel, and oats % cents q
bushel. Thorndale Idol colt, two years old,
was bought by Mr.. Charles D. Anderson, for
$155.
Col. w. w. Taylor, who erected the water
works at Ravre de Grace, Westminster, Easton
and other places, has recently completed SINH
lar works for Upper sandusky, Ohio. The re-
servoir is 16 feet deep and 100 feet in diameter,
the water being supplied from a river.
Invitations have been issued TO the.mar-
rage of Rev. E. T. Helfenstein, lately minister
| in charge of Christ Church, Rock Spring, to
Miss Grace Nelson, daughter of Prof. Nelson,
of the Protestant Episcopal Theological Semi
nary, Alexandria, Va. The wedding will take
| place on the 9Th of next April.
"A delightful scenic entertainment will be
| given by Mr.. W. E. Lowering, 10 Rock Run M
E. Church, Wednesday and Thursday evenings,
| April and 10. Mr.. Lowering will carry the
spectators on trip around the world, and the
journey will be interpreted with scenic sur
| prises, illustrated songs, &C.
DIR. W. 8. Gorsuch, of Churchville, stated
to the County Commissioners, on Monday,
| that there are q number of children In his
neighborhood who have not been vaccinated
and whose parents are unable to pay to have it
| done. The law requires every pupil in the
| public schools to be vaccinated.
Mr.. Samuel P. Griffith, near Bel Air, has a
quaint old note for 81 cents. issued at Peach
Bottom. Pa, 1S41, by Joseph d. Wiley. In
| those days merchants issued printed notes which
| passed from hand to hand, as bank notes. They
became so numerous and SO many were worth
less that they were called "shin-p lasters."
Mr.. c. w. Brewster, of Philadelphia, will
| give q monologue entertainment, in the Town
Hall, Darlington, on Monday evening, April
7th, at o'clock. He will present series OF
wonderful effects, which through Ignorance
and superstition have been attributed to so.
called spiritualistic agencies, and amirth-pro.
voking exhibition of ventriloquism, besides
magnificent pictorial tableaux, represe nting O
voyage to Rome.
! Agreeable to the old adage March which
came in like lion, left us on Monday soft-foot-
ed and feece-clad like q lamb. Mature has
been in her most tickle mood during the past
season, and has constantly prepared surprises
for us. We wake up in mid-winter to find
the flowers blooming, soft airs blowing, and
the earth robed in green. Now when ''the time
of the singing Of birds is come" we have snow
and ice, and winter seems to have resumed his
reign.