The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1891-02-06
Focal affairs.
LITTLE LOCALS.

A<SSAScs
Court will begin on Monday next, February
9th.
Paradise postofice, near Aberdeen, having
been closed, mail for that place should hereafter
be sent to Aberdeen.
-Messrs. George and John H. Baker and T.
L. Hanway are each preparing to build hand
some new residences at Aberdeen.
Probably the largest tree in the county is
on the Silver property, near Chenille. 1t Is
poplar nearly twelve feet in diameter.
On Saturday last Messrs. Henry w. Archer
and James J. Archer were admitted to practice
in the Circuit Court for Baltimore county.
Mrs. David Carman, of Kalmia, last week
received information of the death, in Pennsyl-
vania, of her son, Harry Sitter, son of the late
Hartman Sitter, of Norrisville.
We are indebted to Rev. 8. A. Hoblitzell
for copies of the Independent and the Journal, of
Helena, Montana, the latter published by Rus
sell Harrison, a son of the President.
"A reception was given, on Tuesday evening,
to Mr.. and Mrs. j. Ruff STREET., at the residence
Of the BRIDES parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Silas Bald
win, near Baldwin station, NJ C. Railroad.
"A new postoffice has been established at
Berkeley, Hartford county, with Mr.. George W.
Shure as postmaster. Berkeley is on the road
leading from Darlington to Conowingo Bridge.
States Attorney J. Edwin Webster was
elected one of the Vice Presidents of the Mary
land Princeton Alumni at the banquet held in
the Lyceum theatre, Baltimore, Monday night.
MIR. George H. Glenn, of Jerrettsville, has
sent us for inspection q halfpeuny, issued by
the State Of Connecticut In 1857. 1t contains
the motto, In Latin, "Independence and Liber-
ty."
"A valuable horse belonging to Mr.. AlphSn.
90 Robinson, was seriously hurt, at Fallston
| station, by getting one Of its feet caught be-
tween the rail and The boards. About one-hslf
OF the horses hoof was Palled of.
1t is proposed to hold public meeting, In
the interest of better roads, in Bel Air, the last
week in February. Mr.. l.. Haupt, Professor oil
Civil Engineering at the University of eDneyl-
vania, has promised to deliver an address.
The ground hogs reputation as weather
prophet has been fully sustained. The oalmy
air of Monday was q delusion and snare, for
bad weather set in on Tuesday, which was fol-
lowed by q cold wave and a reduction OF 10 OF
| 20 degrees In the temperature
MIR. James Wynde. a son of Mr.. WilliaH
| Wynde, OF Darlington, has recently completed q
| course of short hand and type-writing at the
BRYANT, Stratton and Sadtler Business College,
! Baltimore, and has obtained good situation in
that city
| Invitations are out for the edding of Mr..
John Base to Miss Selda Hess, daughter of Mr.
Jacob Hess, of Tayler. The marriage will take
place at Good viii Church, on Wednesday
Feb. 18th, at O'Clock, p. NJ, by Rev. W. Fl
Douty. reception will Afterwards be held al
! the residence of the BRIDES parents.
| Mr.. John W. Bay. as executor Of the date
Charles 7. Gallup, will sell st public sale, neal
Perryman, on Tuesday next, Feb. 10th, mum
Der of fine horses, pair OF mules, 20 dairy
COWS and q large number Of farming nipple
meuts. &c. On the following Tuesday, Feb
18th, Mr.. Bay will offer ct public sale. q
| Peruvian, the farm of the deceased, situated
near Perryman and containing 400 acres.
| Mr.. Harry w. Whistler has resigned bill
position IS salesman and clerk for the Henry
Reckord Manufacturing Company. Mr.. Whist
Ter entered the employment OF the late Henry
Reckord, thirteen years ago, and has been witt
his successors al4nost uninterruptedly eveI
since. Mr.. Whistler is now representing the
firms of VIM. Dawson d. Co., manufacturers o.
fertilizers. and John Bullock 81 Son. manufac
turers of bone dust, both of Baltimore.
Col. Richard Malcolm Johnston, OF Balti
more, author OF the popular Dukesborongt
Tales, will give Readings in the new hall al
4 wilma, on Tuesday evening, Feb. nth, at {
o'clock, for the benefit OF the Wilma Library
Association. Col. Johnstonss stories give vivid
pictures of life in middle Georgia before the
war, and are Irresistibly funny, especially wher
read, as he reads them, with the information Qe
culiar, in those days, TO that section II yor
wish to enjoy hearty laugh and help laud-
\ able enterprise at the same time. buy ticket
| and 60 hear him.