The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1891-01-02
Focal Attatrs.
LITTLE LOCALS.

AlTTL6 LOCALo.
"A Happy New Year to you.
Mr.. George P. Whitaker, President of Prin-
cipio Furnace, died in Cecil county, Dec. 81,
aged 81 years.
"A valuable mare belonging to Mr.. R. F.
Harkins was badly kicked by other horses and
seriously injured by getting loose in the stable
on Monday night.
President Gilmor, of the Maryland Central
Railway, presented IS gold piece to each en-
ploye who has been in faithful and continuous
service with the company for five years.
The cunning season in Hartford, for par
tridges and rabbits, closed the day after Christ
mas for woodcock January 1st For pheas-
ants the season will close February LIST.
We have been shown sun-dial of slate,
made in 1752 by Thomas Archer, whose initials
and the date are engraved upon it. He was
grandfather of the late Judge Stevenson Archer.
Charles Henson, colored, charged with rob-
bling a warehouse at Bradshaw station, B. q o.
Railroad, was arrested, on Tuesday, at Will
mington, Delaware. He was handed over to
the Baltimore county authorities.
The County Commissioners were In session
on Monday and Tuesday. The Board offered
s35 in compromise to George Lyle for injury to
his horse while crossing defective culvert.
Adjourned to 18th instant.
MIR. Peter o. Herman, miller at st. Omer's
Valley Mill, (Hoopes) has leased Archer q
Towards Mill, Winters Run. He intends to
put new machinery in it. Mr.. Herman is a
6rst-rate miller. He had charge of this mill
several years ago.
An illustrated account of the battle OF
Gettysburg will be given in Masonic Temple,
Bel Air, on Monday evening, January 9th, for
the benefit OF Forest Hill Post, g. A. R., by
Profs. Long and Ziegler. Over 800 life-like
scenes of that great battle will be presented.
Every progressive farmer should attend the
Farmers Convention to be held In Bel Air on
Friday, January 9th. Interesting addresses
will be delivered by Profs. Alyord and Bruck,
of the Maryland Agricultural College, DR..
Robert T. Ward, State Veterinarian, and others.
Mr.. Charles D. Anderson, of Washington,
who spent last summer al his home in Emmor-
ton, met with painful accident lately. While
riding bicycle on wet pavement the vehicle
slipped, throwing him to the ground, breaking
one of the bones of his left leg and dislocating
the ankle-joint, besides bruising him severely.
Clarence W. Bowen, Secretary, PSI Broad
way, New York, desires information regarding
George Gale, a member from Maryland of the
first Congress under the Constitution, to use in
the memorial volume on the Centennial of
Washington's Inauguration. The dates of
Gales birth and death, facts in his public ca
reer and an authentic portrait, are specially
desired.
"A merry party, consisting of Misses May
Butler, Mary and Lille Hubbard, Fannie Rob-
erts, Samuel Ady, Beauregard and Harry
Butler and William Whiteford, left the
residence of Mr.. Thomas Butler, about
six O'Clock on Tuesday evening, in q
four-horse sled, to attend q dance in the
town hall at Perryman. The distance is over
twenty miles but the young folks we're un-
daunted and faced the keen night air in the gay
est mood. They passed through Bel Air on
their return at about five o'clock Wednesday
morning.