The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-05-20
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

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-Ex-Sheriff Charles A. McGaw is erecting
a neat and comfortable dwelling house in
Abingdon.
Mr.. John Ayres has bought the Robert
Kirkwood property, of 80 acres, near Black
Horse, for 1888.
Mr. Joseph Andrew, Gamer near Oar
lington, finished setting out several acres OF
tomatoes last Saturday.
The Town Commissioners of Aberdeen
have organized by electing George Walker
Chairman and j. A. Swingley, Secretary.
The colored Methodist congregation of
Gunpowder Neck have purchased for 1925 the
brick Methodist Episcopal Church, near Mag
nolia.
Mr.. s. n. Hyde offers at low rent nice
cottage at Hyde's station, B. and l.. Railroad,
with work on his farm at high wages for one
or two men.
Mr. William H. Reckord's fine horse Or
ange Chief, driven by Mr.. Wilton Greenway,
won a race for 81 200 purse, at Pimlico, on
Monday, in $50, 2.293 and 1924.
Governor Brown has pardoned w. Scott
Standiford, of Hartford county, who was SEN
fenced to six years imprisonment in the Pen
itentiary, from December 10, 1889, for man
slaughter.
Complaints are being made that the pub
lie road leading from the Joppa road to
Franklinville needs immediate attention,
..l.:ol, A. roo1 fhara0n will no
doubt give it.
A jury of inquistion with regard to the
sanity of Barney Wright was held at Bel Air,
last Saturday He was declared insane and
ordered to be sent to Spring Grove Asylum,
at the expense of the county.
Samuel Curry, colored, was before Justice
Richardson, last Saturday, charged with steal
ing gun from D. II. Lee, colored. lie was
committed to Jail in default of $500 bail to
await the action of the Grand Jury.
William Chapman, colored, was arrested
on Wednesday by Officer John II. Fisher,
charged with trespassing on the property OF
James K. Jones, near Bel Air, with dogs and
gun. Justice Proctor fined him SIS and costs.
Mr.. John T. Wilson, well known resi-
dent Of Abingdon, was slightly paralyzed, on
Monday afternoon Mr.. Wilson was engaged
in merchandising for many years in Abing-
don but retired from business several years
ago.
Mr.. VIM. P Husband, of Hartford coun-
ty, has purchased from Mr.. Jacob Tome the
wharf, warehouse and hay house of the Sus-
quehanna Steamboat Company, at Port De-
post, and intends to build a flint mill on the
property.
Mr.. William F. Hanna, formerly train
dispatcher on the Baltimore and Lehigh Rail-
road, has been appointed train master on the
same railroad, and will have charge of all the
agents and trainmen. Mr.. Hanna is son of
Mrs Martha A. Hanna, of Bel Air.
The York and Peach Bottom Slate Quarry
has been leased to Arthur E. Edie for five
years, at "a 600 year. This quarry contains
the best body of slate now open on Slate
Ridge, and Mr. Edie it is stated, will largely
increase the production of the quarry.
The burning of the ice houses of Freder-
lex & Son, at Havre de Grace, on Thursday
morning of last week, involved loss of $20,-
of $4,000 The structure was 800 feet long,
40 feet wide and 80 feet high The fire de-
partment was unable to cope with the fire.
The thunderstorm last Sunday evening
was very severe in every part of Hartford
county. In the southern part the rain was
mingled with hail The wires between the
station house and the telegraph tower at
Aberdeen were melted and dozen telegraph
poles between Bel Air and Fountain Green
were shattered.
Mr. VIM. l. Price, of wilma, has field of
crimson clover which is just coming into
bloom. In few days it will be as brilliant
and beautiful as flower garden. The heads
of this clover are Simmer than those of the
ordinary red clover and it is said to be more
readily grown. 1t requires, however, to be
newly seeded every year.
Mr.. James Worthington, who recently
purchased the McCabe property, a short dis
lance above the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
station at Havre de Grace, has greatly improv-
ed the general appearance of the place by a
new and bright coat of paint, both on the
house and on his handsome octagonal barn.
He has also entirely repaired the tenant
house. Mr. Worthington is an energetic and
successful farmer.
MIR. William j. Robins, a cousin Of
Mrs. james B. Craighill, was accidentally
drowned at Norfolk, Va, lately, his dead
body having been found floating in the har-
Dor. 1t is supposed that in crossing
a footbridge he made misstep and
fell overheard. Mr.. Robins was formerly
travelling salesman for the grocery house of
Dinsmore & Kyle, Baltimore. subsequently
he was engaged in the fertilizer business in
Norfolk He was well known in Bel Air.
The Spencers, of Lapidum, who are
among the most extensive fishermen of the
Susquehanna, state that the pack of herrings
in that neighborhood for the past season did
not go above %, 600 barrels. The Susquehan-
ma season has now closed, the floats having
cut out. All the fisheries in the river have
paid well. In the Potomac it is stated that
the contrary is the case, the reports generally
agreeing that the season Just closed was
about the worst ever known in that river