The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1891-12-11
Focal affairs.
LITTLE LOCALS.

LITTLE LOCALS. A
-Protracted meeting began at Mount Yer
Vernon NJ. E. Church, Prospect, on Wednes-
day night.
The Deer Creek Farmers Club will meet at
the residence of Mr.. r. Harris Archer, on
Saturday, Dec. 18th, at P. M.
Correspondents are again notified that no
attention will be paid to communications I'M
less accompanied by the name of the writer.
The wife of Ben. Pearson, colored, at Alb
ingdon, is sick with varioloid. The house has
been quarantined by Health Officer DIR. j. C.
Butler.
Mr.. 8. N. Hyde, Of Long Green, Baltimore
county, has removed with his family into his
city home, at No 10S West North avenue, Bal
timore.
MIR Henry Depka has bought from Mr..
Robert Archer the farm of IS acres, near Kell-
willie, formerly occupied by the late John Hur-
ley, for &, 900.
Mr.. William M. Barton and Henry Merry
man, of Fswn Grove, and Samuel J. Whiteford,
of Slate Hill, left on Tuesday for Virginia,
where they will spend several days in hunting
deer, wild turkeys and cartridges.
"A little daughter of Mr.. William Hess fell
from q wagon, at the residence of her grand
father, MIR. John Price, and had her collar-bone
fractured. DR.. r. r. Bouldn adjusted the frac-
ture. Mr.. Hess is also quite sick.
The Judges of the Orphans Court, Messrs'
John w. Barton, James M. Cain and Hugh T.
Bay, all of whom were reelected for the ensu-
ing four years, were again sworn in on Mon.
day by the Clerk of Court. Judge Barton was
re-commissioned Chief Judge.
The canning house OF Mr.. Joseph Arthur,
near Glenarm, 18th district, was destroyed by
fire at an early hour on Thursday morning OF
last week. The fire is supposed to have been OF
incendiary origin. About 60 cases of corn and
q small lot of tomatoes were burned. Loss
about $780, Union.
Last Saturday evening William L. Bur-
kns, son of Joseph T. Bnrkins. of Prospect,
returned from Baltimore with his team and
put the horses in the stable. An hour after
wards his father went into the stable and found
one of the horses dead. The cause of the ami.
malls death could not be discovered, as it was
apparently we'll when placed in the stable.
1t is stated that the Baltimore and Lehigh
Railroad Company are making contracts all
along the line of their road for broad-gau
ties. to be delivered on or before the 1st of next
April. Contractor McCabe has a number Of
mules wintering in the county, preparatory to
spring work. 1t appears probable, therefore
that the road will be broad-gauged next sum
mer.
We have received neat and attractive cal
ender for 1899 from Mr.. Grant Stockham. pro-
prietor of Romney Stock Farm, Bush River
Neck. 1t is embelished with fine picture Of
Sunol, the phenomenal California trotter
whose record is 2.0sH. Romney Stock Farm
is the home of Pure Gold, Indian Boy, Nut
wick, Angelo, Romney and Velocity-all high.
grade trotters.
The Committee TO secure a representation
of the resources of Hartford county at the
Worlds Fair at Chicago met in Bel Air yester
day. Mr.. w. Beatty Harlan was in the chair
Various matters connected with the proposed
display were talked over and another meeting
called for Monday, December 2lst, in Bel Air
at II A. M. Every member of the committee
should be present.