The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1890-08-22

BEL AIR NoTEs.-Rev. j. NJ. Slarrow will
deliver lecture, in the NJ. E. Church, Bel Air,
on Friday evening, August go, at s o'clock.
His theme will be Curious Superstitions."
The lecture, no doubt, will be entertaining
and Instructive.
leroy Austin. aged years, of Baltimore,
while picking apples at the residence of his
uncle, Mr. Edmund Lee, last Friday, fell from
the picket fence on which he was standing.
His left arm caught on the pickets and was
badly torn. DR.. E. Hall Richardson, Jr., sew
ed up aud dressed the wounds and the little
fellow is now doing well.
Mrs. Jane League aud Mrs. Susan Magness
have been visiting their niece, Mrs. George
Anderson. Mrs. League had not been in Bel
Air for 40 years and Mrs. Magness, who is the
wife ofMr. Thomas Magness, formerly propri-
etor of the Rising Sun Hotel, Baltimore, had
not been here for 35 years. While in the neigh
borhood they paid visit to their old home, on
1t formerly belonged to their grandfather, Mr..
VIM. Magness.
Mr. Frank E. Gorrell who is recovering from
a severe illness, left on Monday for sojourn at
Blue Ridge Summit, Franklin county, Pa.
liOfficer Fisher on Monday arrested James
Wood for drunkenness and disorderly conduct.
Justice Proctor imposed fine of 81 and costs.
The next day the same officer arrested Jerry
Quick, on the same charge. Justice Proctor
quickly sent Quick to Jail for ten days, In Or
der to give him time to get sober.
Mr.. j. NJ. Steett returned home, on Tuesday,
much improved in health, after a sojourn Of
several weeks at the seashore and in the noun
tains.
Charles Earl, a mlkman in the employ OF
Mr.. j. Lawrence Mccormick, was arrested by
Bailiff Small on Tuesday and had hearing be-
fore Justice Allen, on Wednesday, on the
charge of removing barricade erected at the
corner of Franklin street and Broadway for the
purpose of excluding travel from portion of
Broadway while the street is being macadamized.
Earl admitted that he removed the obstruction,
but there seemed to be no specific town ordin-
ance covering the case Before decision Yves
given the case was compromised by the defend
ant paying the costs and obtaining permission
to erect bars in the barricade, for the purpose of
passing through to serve his customers.
The Town Commissioners at their meeting on
Monday night, began their review Of the new
assessment lately made by Mr.. Joseph E. Bate
man. The assessment will amount TO about
$49S, 900, being an increase in the taxable basis
of the town. compared with last year, of
about $4,000. The Commissioners also ex-
amined samples of fire hose and determined
upon the character and quality of hose required.
At their meeting next Monday night, they will
compare prices and order as much as may be
needed.
Mr.. 2. F. Ball, hard ware merchant, is making
arrangements 10 procure water pipe and fittings
and take orders tor plumbing in all Its
branches.
MIR. j. Lawrence Mccormick is quite sick.
Rush Williams, youngest daughter of Mr.. s.
A. Williams, who has been i'll with typhoid
fever, is slowly improving
Sunday School Reunion.
Reported for The Egis.
The annual reunion of the Sunday Schools of
the West Hartford Circuit NJ. f Church took
place in the grove attached to the Cooptown
NJ E. Church, on Tuesday, and was the most
successful event of the kind which has ever
been held there. The schools, seven in num-
Der, viz: Cooptown, Ebenezer, Fellowship,
Jarrettsville, Centre, McKendree and Vernon,