The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1891-05-01
Eura1 Attairs.
LITTLE LOCALS.

LOCALS.
The Town Commissioners OF Elkton are
about to have water works for that place.
The Baltimore Presbytery has appointed
Rev. E. d. Finney moderator of Falston
church.
DIR. George A. Bran, who was arrested in
connection with the Richards murder case, was
released, on Saturday, having made out salts
factory alibi.
MIR. j. Wilson Moore, of Fallston, accden-
tally trod on a nail, which inflicted severe in
jury to his right foot. He was obliged to walk
on crutches for few days.
MIR. James r. Massey, of Darlington, is now
engaged in selling the Osborn reapers and now
ers and the Buckeye fertilizer drill-both good
and reliable farm implements.
Hog cholera has attacked Mr.. E. H. D. Pue's
swine, on his farm near Bel Air. Several large
fat animals have died. few years ago MIR.
Pue lost 140 hogs from this disease.
"A fine horse which was driven by Mr.. d. 7.
Benson, of Benson postoflce, to Baltimore, on
Monday, was taken sick with lung fever and had
to be left there in charge of a veterinarian.
"A petition was received at the Postoffice de-
partment, at Washington, on Tuesday, for the
establishment of mail route between Como
wingo and Slate Hill.
"A two-story frame dwelling house, owned
and occupied by a colored family named Boul-
din, situated near Clayton, Abingdon district,
was destroyed by fire, on Wednesday morning.
On Wednesday Rudolph King, native of
Prussia, was granted final naturalization pa
pers, by Judge Waters, in the Circuit Court for
Hartford county. His witnesses were s. A. Will
liams and Richard N. Wiley.
AT the request of States Attorney Webster
County Surveyor Mclean, of Towsontown; ex-
pected to make an examination, this week, of
all the trestles on the Maryland Central Rail-
road within the limits of Hartford county.
-Messrs. Samuel Maggie and j. B. Wilson are
at work laying granite curb and brick pave
ment on the south and west sides of the Court
House square. The work, when completed,
will be great improvement to the county pro-
perty.
"A reception was given, on Monday evening,
by Mr.. and Mrs. Silas Baldwin, at their resi-
dence, near Baldwin station, NJ. c Railroad, to
Mr.. and Mrs. Ruff STREET. and Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Baldwin-Mrs. Street, being their daugh-
ter and Mr.. Baldwin their SOB. The affair was
a pleasant one.
Apple, peach, pear and cherry trees are in
full blossom, and the fields, with their emerald
carpet of grass and growing wheat, dotted with
flower laden trees, are as pretty as gardens.
Frost was observed in low places, on Saturday,
Sunday and Wednesday mornings, but it is not
believed any injury was done to the fruit.
-Messrs. Thomas Poole & Son have remov-
ed their saw mill from Owen Murphy's, near
High Point, TO the woods of T. Burlington Han
way, in the same neighborhood. Messrs.
Michael & Robinson, on Tuesday, also moved
their steam saw mill from Delta to William
Evans, in Chanceford township, York county.
The fivestory building, occupied by ]. r.
Jones & Co., who conducted an extensive book
publishing business, in Philadelphia, was COM
pletely destroyed by fire, on Sunday morning.
The loss is $4,000. Mr.. Jones, the head of the
firm, is native of York county, Pa, and is
well.known in that county and in the upper
end of Hartford county.
The new trestle across Oyershot branch,
Maryland Central Railroad, was completed at
O'Clock on Monday morning, and shortly after
wards locomotive crossed 1t. Engine No. 3,
which was the first to go down in the wreck,
having been righted up, was taken to Baltimore
for repairs. Trains are now running regularly
on schedule time. Superintendent Kerchner
deserves credit for the energy he has shown In
having this large trestle replaced so promptly.