The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-07-22
BEL AIR, Nd, JULY %, 1892.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

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The Hartford Historical Society will meet
in the Court House, Bel Air, on Saturday,
July 23d, at IL o'clock, A. NJ.
The display of Northern Lights, last Sat
urday night, was a rarely beautiful spectacle.
1t presaged the cool spell which followed.
Mr.. Ira George, of Emmorton, found a
well-developed double cucumber in his patch,
day or two ago. tits regarded as curiosity.
Rev. s. A. Hoblitzell will please accept
our thanks for copies of Western papers con-
tanning full accounts of the labor riots in
Idaho.
Rev. DR.. Maurice E. Wilson, of the First
Presbyterian church, of Dayton, Ohio, VIII
preach at the Churchville Presbyterian church
next Sunday morning.
Thomas Osborn, colored, while at work in
Shadrack Johnson's tomato patch, near
Churchville found an English halfpenny, in
good preservation, bearing the date 1I75
MIR. John B. Scarborough was sunstruck
last Friday while working corn at his home
near Scarboro. He was rendered unconscious
and fell across the cultivator. He is still very
weak but improving.
The Emmorton Cornet Band serenaded
Messrs j. c., B. E. and II. j. Hollingsworth,
of the j. c. Hollingsworth Wheel Company,
last Saturday night. The band is largely
composed of employees of this firm. q,
The colored people will have railroad
excursion to Loeb Raven, Baltimore and Le-
high Railroad, on Saturday, July 30th, for
which specially low rates for the round trip,
from all stations, have been secured.
Mr. John W. Spencer, of Emmorton, had
the little finger of his right hand mashed, while
adjusting a reaper, during harvest. After
wards Inflammation set in, his hand and his
arm nearly to the elbow became greatly in
famed, causing him great suffering.
1t is understood that Governor Brown
will appoint as School Commissioners for Bal
timore county Messrs. Samuel NJ. Rankin,
John 2. Clark, John S. Wilson, W. 7. Cox, B.
F. Jordan and N. Bosley Merryman. Messrs.
Rankin and Clark are members of the present
board.
"A pleasant entertainment was given, on
Monday evening, at the residence of Mr. and
Mrs. VIM. K. Wallis, near Forest Hill, in hon
or of Miss Maggie Wallis Mr.. Reuben Wallis
and Walter Goodwin, of Greenwich, n. j. A
large number of persons were present and the
hospitality of Mr.. and Mrs. Wallis was great
ly enjoyed.
The Omaha Bee gives glowing account
of the turning of water into the canal of the
Belmont Irrigating Canal and Water Power
Company, of which Mr.. q. j. Hunt, OFFS Oma-
ha, formerly law student in Bel Air, is one
of the projectors. The canal is intended to
irrigate and render susceptible of cultivation
$4,000 acres of land in the North Platte valley.
A large and enthusiastic Cleveland club
has been organized at Towson, with Col. d.
G. Mcintosh President. Its title in full is
1.-THE Cleveland, Stevenson and Talbot cam
paign club of the 9th district of Baltimore
county" 1t is composed of some of the most
active and earnest Democrats of Baltimore
county and will doubtless make its influence
felt in the campaign.
The mass meeting arranged to be held on
Saturday afternoon, July 23d, at Jarrettsville,
by the Democratic Campaign Club, of Mar
shall's district, will doubtless be largely at
tended The club has the promise of several
eloquent speakers from Washington and Bal
timore. Democratic enthusiasm in old Mar
shall's is always ready and the club desires to
see an old-fashioned turnout on Saturday.
Last Monday morning, as Mr.. John Ill.
Maggie, of Churchville, came out of his house
he saw large black snake emerging from
naoll hafy ha yaath arhOa r1inp and
the foundation. The snake turned back but
before it got out of sight Mr.. Nagle pinned it
with a piece of board and procuring an iron
hook dragged it out and dispatched it. The
snake was nearly six feet in length 1t had
probably entered the house in search of mice.
Rev. David Barr, General Missionary of
the diocese of Maryland, preached an earnest
and effective sermon to large congregation,
in Christ Church, Rock Spring, last Sunday
morning. In the afternoon he OBLIGATED at
the Church of the Holy Cross, near the Rocks.
Next Sunday morning, at IL o'clock, he will
administer the Holy Communion at the Holy
Cross and in the afternoon, at o'clock, he
will have service at Rock Spring Church.
"A number of farmers have threshed their
wheat, with widely varying results, and it is
now believed that the entire crop in the coun-
ty will not be a full one. Mr. George E. Sill
yer in threshing the produce of three fields
found that one field yielded 81 bushels to the
acre, another IS bushels and another Is BUSH
els-making the total average about 81 bush
els Other farmers, whose fields, from the
amount of straw, promised large crops, have
found the yields small
MIR. B. j. Williams, of Darlington, calls
our attention to what he supposes to be an err
ror in the levy list ON the part Of Clerk Chas.
w. Proctor in footing up the amounts levied
for States Attorneys accounts, by which the
sum total of the levy appears to be 800 more
than it ought to be- The error was typo
graphical one, for which the printer and not
Mr. Proctor is responsible. The amount lev
led for States Attorney Preston was 81 ,2l6.52
and not 81, 1852, as heretofore printed.
ATTEMPT TO INJURE SLATE QUARRY.-On
Wednesday night of last week an attempt
was made to blow up the machinery at Proc
tor Bros. slate quarry, near Delta, with dyna-
mite, five sticks of which, with a partly burn
ed fuse, being found under the boiler. The
dynamite had been arranged and the fuse
lighted, but fortunately it had gone out.
SHOT IN THE SHoULDER.-Last Saturday
night parade and celebration by colored Odd
Fellows took place in Jones' Grove, at Delta.
white man, John Davis, of Delta, became
engaged in fight with Henry Butler, color
ed man, and in the excitement another colored
man shot George Giles, colored, the ball pass
ing entirely through Giles shoulder. The
wound is not serious.
WHEAT STACKS BURNED.-The thunder
storm, early last Friday morning, was very
severe in Bush River Neck. Lightning struck
Miss Mary Taylor's stack-yard, at Cole post
office, setting stack on fire. Three stacks
were burned. A few neighbors, whose arriv-
al was timely, succeeded in pushing the burn
ing wheat away from the other stacks, which
were thereby saved.