The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1891-01-30
Focal Attatrs.
LITTLELoCALs.

LITTLE LOCALS.
The Baltimore County fair of 1891 will be
held on Sept. 8, 9, 10 and IL.
Mr.. Gerard Cover, near Glenville, is very
i'll with a second attack of paralysis.
The semi-annual examination in the public
schools is now in progress in the county.
Mr.. David T. Day has our thanks for copies
of Census Bulletins on Anthracite Coal and
Slate.
Mrs. John H. Barrow, of Chestnut Hill, was
stricken with paralysis, on Monday, and is in
precarious condition.
Mr.. D. C. Wharton Smith, of Darlington,
expects to leave for the South, on Monday, to
be absent perhaps two months.
We have received from Messrs. Guggen-
heimer, We'll & Co., stationers, Baltimore,
copy of their large and handsome calendar for
1891.
We are indebted to the Morgan Lithograph
Company, of Cincinnati, for a copy Of their
unique and handsome calendar for 1891. 1t is
work of art.
"A small unoccupied house belonging to
George P. Leight, near Joppa. was burned on
Tuesday night, Goth instant. 1t was insured for
$500 in the Hartford company.
Mr. D. W. Order, of York, Pa, a director
of the Baltimore County Hedge and Wire Fence
Company has been elected President OF the
National Hedge and Wire Fence Company, Of
Pennsylvania.
-Messrs. Charles W. Baker and Wilton
Greenway, of this county, attended the sales of
Senator Stanford's horses, in New York, on
Wednesday. The total sales were about $50, 900,
the horses averaging $1,000 head.
The marriage of Mr.. Thomas j. Ayres, of
Shawsville, and Miss Sallie M. Carlin, daughter
of MIR. Josiah Carlin, of Baltimore county, was
announced to take place on Wednesday evening,
2sth instant, at McKendree Church.
George Maggie, of Curve, Tennessee, son of
Mr.. Emmanuel Maggie, of this county, is re-
ported to be seriously i'll. His brother, Mr..
Thomas F. Nagle, left on Saturday last, for
Tennessee. to visit his sick brother.
Mr.. j. A. Hancock's card as commission
merchant appears in this weeks paper. His
place of business is at 1000 Linden avenue, Bal
timore. Mr.. Hancock has the reputation of be-
ing a reliable business man, making quick sales
and prompt returns.
In consequence of Indictment weather, last
Saturday evening, the oyster supper at St.
Stephens Hall, Upper Falls, was postponed
until tomorrow evening, Jan. 81. If that day
should be stormy the entertainment will again
be postponed until the next fair evening after
Sunday.
Next Monday, Feb. I'd, will be Candlemas
day. There is g universal superstition that
good weather on this day indicates long con-
tinuance of winter and bad crop, and that its
being foul is, on the contrary, good omen.
Therefore, look out for the ground hog, on
Monday.
Mr. Robert A. Mcgowan, of Havre de Grace,
has recovered q verdict of s645.SS against the
Continental Insurance Company of New York
city, for the loss of his barge South America,
while'engaged in carrying stone from Whining
ton to the Delaware Breakwater, for the U. 8.
Government.
The marriage of Mr.. James Daugherty, Jr.,
of Constitution and Miss Ella McDermott, Of
Evansville, Pa, is announced to take place in
st. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Deer Creek,
on Wednesday, Feb. 4th. The announcement
of the marriage of Mr.. Albert Wheeler to Miss
Gussie Whiteford has also been made.
Last week the citizens of Havre de Grace
captured floating fields of ice on the susque-
hanna river and towed them into a dock where
the ice was sawed into blocks and secured.
Messrs. Seneca s. Mahan and Mr.. Thomas Vile
man gathered ice from seven to ten inches
thick in this manner.
Mr.. Charles w. Baker, of Aberdeen, has
added to his extensive stables the standardized
mare Lucy King, by Mambrino King, dam
Lucy, by Hamlin's Patchen. Mr.. Baker pur-
chased her at auction in Baltimore, for 81 900
She is one of the most fashionably bred animals
in the country and Mr.. Baker secured prize.
The Lapidum Debating Society on Friday
night Of last week wrestled with the question,
s'Should Gold be made the standard of value in
the United States w The affirmative was ably
upheld by Mr.. George r. Stephenson, and Mr..
Wm. Fl. Paul as earnestly contended for the
negative. The judges decided in favor Of the
negative.