The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1890-03-21
Focal Atfatrs.
LITTLE LocALs.

Gamers are offering from Is to 20 cents q
bushel for tomatoes this season.
MIR. John p. Leight took {, 900 herring In hid
pound nets at Otter Point, Bush river, last Fri.
day.
MIR. Thomas Moulsdale, near Abingdon, ex-
poets to plant five or six acres of peas for can
ming.
The new NJ. P. Church at Delta was dedi-
Gated on Sunday, 10th, with interesting SER
vices. large congregation was present.
MIR. Samuel Deets, Of Jarrettsville, hauled
out load Of wheat, on Monday, and got only
SO cents bushel for 1t. There Is no profit in
wheat growing at this price.
Petitions are being largely signed by tax
payers, praying the County Commissioners 10
make permanent improvements on the road be-
tween Churchville and Bel Air.
The Washington Conference NJ. e. Church.
colored, in session at Frederick, on Tuesday, re-
appointed Rev. A. d. Valentine to Bel Air, and
Rev. Daniel Collins to Hartford circuit.
We call attention to the card of II. Rosen-
helm & Son, 413 W. Baltimore street. This lie
an old-establishsd firm and has the reputation
of handling standard and reliable goods.
Mr.. James c. Bell raised last year, on his
farm near Conowingo, seven hundred bushels of
corn on seven acres. The corn Is white vari-
ETY. and grows from two to six ears on q stalk.
MIR. Bertram N. Stump has taken some ex.
cellent Photographic views of spesutia church.
which have been printed and mounted in an ar
tistic manner by Mr.. B. 8. Romer, photograph.
er, Bel Air.
An esteemed subscriber at McSherrystown,
Pa, former resident of Hartford, in remitting
her subscription, says: 81 would consider it q
great trial to do without the Hartford news con-
tanned in your paper"
Mr.. VIM. G. Lockard, of Forest Hill, show
ed us, on Tuesday, small and perfectly sound
ear of corn which be found In bundle Of fod-
der grown in 1885 and left with other bundles
entirely unprotected from the weather. 1t Is
of q Canadian flint yellow variety.
Last Saturday morning Messrs. Tydings,
Bartlett and Hayward killed, on Bush river,
near Cedar Grove, SO ducks, in g few hours
They were mostly redheads and coots, only
two of them being canvas-backs. The latter
are growing scarcer every year.
The bench show Of dogs opened at Balti-
more, on Tuesday. Among the beauties on exhi.
bition are Mr.. Henry W. Archer's Chesapeake
Bay dogs Beaver and Rose, and Mr.. Robert
Archer's bull terrier Grover Cleveland. Mr..
Robert Archer was awarded premium for his
terrier.
The County Commissioners, on Monday
and Tuesday, made number ofabatements and
transfers. They also ordered $50 to be levied
to improve the public road leading from De-
MOSES Shops to Bynum's Run bridge, 1st dis
trict, persons interested agreeing to contribute
an equal amount.
The Cyclorama Of the Battle Of Gettsburg.
near Union Station, Baltimore, is opened every
day, from nine in the morning until ten at
night. Without leaving Baltimore one can
visit this historic field aud get better idea of
the battle than would be possible BY q journey
to the actual scene Of operations.
Monday. the 18th, was the day set apart 10
commemorate the good st. Patrick, the patron
saint Of Ireland, who first brought the know
ledge of Christianity to the Emerald Isle. On
this day Irishmen love to wear a sprig of sham
rock, or clover, which, it is said, st. Patrick
used to illustrate the doctrine of the Trinity.
Mr.. W. o. B. Wright, Of Fork, met with
painful accident, last Tuesday week. He was
getting into his buggy at Towsontown, when his
horse started suddenly, throwing him forward.
In endeavoring to catch himself he struck the
middle finger of his left hand, knocking 1t ont Of
place. DIR. Massenburg put the injured men,
Der In splints.
"A colored man named John Brown, who
was convicted in Hartford county and sentenced
December 18th, 1871, to twenty years In the
penitentiary for assault with intent to kill, lar.
ceny, killing horse and other crimes, was re-
leased last week after serving eighteen years,
two months and eighteen days, the balance of
the time having been taken off for good be-
hsvior.
8. NJ E. CHURCH APPoINTMENTs.-TheS South.
ern Methodist Conference adjourned In Balti:
more on Wednesday. The following are among
the appointments
West Hartford Mission, Rev. c. e. Simmons :;
East Hartford, Rev. C. l.. Damaron.
Tauy Row pporuN Qafurday niuht