The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-05-06
The ECISAND INTELLIGENCER.
BEL AIR, ND, MAY 6, 1892.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

NINJhI
The May Term of the Circuit Court for
Hartford county will begin on Monday next.
Mr.. William T. Easter, of Glenville, has
been suffering with asevere attack of sciatica
st. Marks new Catholic Church, at Falls
ton, will be dedicated next Sunday, May Sth,
by Cardinal Gibbons.
Mr.. s. H. Kimble has been appointed post
master at Michaelsville, to succeed the late j.
j. Michael, deceased.
The Deer Creek Farmers Club will meet
at the residence of Mr. William B. Hopkins,
near Darlington, on Saturday, May 18th.
--Rev. E. d. Fitzsimmons, of the senior
class at Princeton College, has been called to
the pastorate of Deer Creek Harmony Presby-
terrain Church.
Mr. Robert T. Cairnes, of the Fourth dis
trict, has been appointed farmer at the Mary
land Hospital farm, Spring Grove, and remov-
ed there this week.
Mr.. N Oscar Stokes was driving two
hogs to Bel Air to be sold, on Thursday,
when one of them was overcome by the heat
and died on the way.
DR. j. l.. Windolph, of Darlington, has
sold his interest in the fine standardized
horse Thorndale Idol, to Mr.. N. Newlin
Smith, of the same place, for -, 100.
Sample Bros. have lately caught great
many herring in the Susquehanna river, at
the mouth of Broad Creek, for which they
havefound ready sale at 20 cents per hundred.
William Patton, who accidentally fell
from scaffold at tenant house belonging
to Mr.. George B. Rigdon near Cooptown, last
week, and was severely injured, is recovering
Mr.. E. L. Ramsay, agent of the Baltimore
and Lehigh Railroad at Delta, was painful in
iured in his side and back on Tuesday of last
week, by accidentally falling off the platform,
while handling butter box.
Rev William A. Price, of Princeton Col
lege has been chosen and called as pastor OF
Bethel Presbyterian Church. The yearly
salary promised is 5000 and the free use of the
parsonage and grounds.
Mr. Archer II. Jarrett, with Strasburger
& Son, clothiers, corner of Gay and Front
streets, Baltimore, has secured for his house
contract for uniforms for the employees of the
Baltimore and Lehigh Railroad.
Mrs. August Martin, near High Point, was
taken violently ill, last Thursday week, with
Inflammation of the stomach and for several
DAYS her life was in imminent danger. She
is now better DIR. Charles Bagley attended
her.
Rev j. A. Oertel, of Vienna, Va, offici-
ated at st. Mary's Church, Emmorton, last
Sunday morning. The rector, Rev. DR.. Brand,
who was taken i'll during service, on Easter |
Sunday, is much better. He has been suffering |
with bronchial attack.
DR.. j. 7. Heaps on Monday of last week |
killed, on Broad Creek, near the residence of
Mr.. Hugh T. Heaps, heron that measured 3
feet and inches from tip to tip of its wings |
Dr. Heaps took the bird to his home in Delta, |
where he will have it stuffed and mounted.
Mr.. Fred Scarborough of Dublin dis
trict, is in Chicago, where he is employed |
with Messrs. Bartlett & Hayward, of Balti- |
more, in putting the gas plant in the Worlds |
Fair Building. This plant, it is said, will be |
the largest in this country, if not in the |
world.
MIR. William II. Starr, who has been pro- |
prietor of the Chenille store for the past "a |
years, has bought the store goods of Harkins q |
Shaw, at Shane, Baltimore county, and will, |
for the present, manage both stores. MIR. |
Starr is an enterprising merchant and intends |
to enlarge his stock of goods at Shane.
"A heavy wind-storm, on Monday, damag- |
ed the scale house on Mr. w. q. McCoy's farm, |
Broad Creek, besides slightly injuring his |
dwelling house, tearing down quantity of |
fencing and uprooting several large trees. |
Other fencing and trees in the neighborhood |
were also blown down.
Mr.. William S. Forwood, Jr., Clerk of |
Court, and his deputy, Mr.. Harold Scarboro,
were in Havre de Grace, last Friday and Sat
urday, engaged in issuing licenses. Liquor
licenses were granted to George Drechsler,
Isaac Hecht, Michael Fahey, Charles Lamm,
Francis j. Boyd and Joseph A. Hergenrother.
Mr.. Grant Stocl;ham, proprietor of Rum
ney Stock Farm, has presented to the Rev. |
Harry ID. Mitchell, preacher in charge of East
Hartford Circuit NJ. E. Church, a three year old
horse by Steve Bailey. Rev. Mr.. Mitchell has
also received as a gift from some of his MEM
bers, set of harness made by w. A. Harkins,
of Aberdeen.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CLERKS OFFICE
County Clerk William s. Forwood, Jr., has
provided for his office index books for DEGREES
in equity, like those used in the Superior
Court of Baltimore city. These, it is claimed,
will facilitate the search of the records The I
law requires these indexes but they have not
been made heretofore Judgments on the
al. ,,,;Il, II, H. It'd ~ Mr.
wood.
CHURCH REPAIRED.-Calvary NJ. E Church,
which has been closed for several weeks, will
be reopened on Sunday afternoon. Extensive
repairs have been made, including the entire.
repainting of the inside, which not only add |
to the attractiveness of the building but also |
to the comfort of the worshppers. Rev. Harry |
d. Mitchell will have charge of the exercises |
and at close of the sermon the Communion |
viii be administered.
Town ELECTIoN.-The annual election for |
Town Commissioners took place at the Court |
House on Monday. The Judges were o. NJ. |
Whitaker, j Ohm b. Hanna and John w. An
derson. The former board was reelected, |
consisting of F. r. Williams, DIR. j. c. Butler, |
George w. Carver, John Smith and VIM. T. |
Billingslea. Scattering votes were cast for |
John &. Rouse, Charles w. Proctor and Frank |
L. Gorrell.
A LARGE GRAY EAGLE.-Mr. Martin Pyle, |
of Fawn Grove, last Friday morning shot and
killed at Otter Point, Bush River, gray eagle
which measured seven feet across its outstetch- |
ed wings. Mr.. Pyle, who had gone there the
night before for load of fish, went about
daylight to tree wherein eagles occasionally
alight. Hiding himself, shortly afterwards
the eagle came to the tree, when Mr.. Pyle
shot 1t.
FELL FROM SCAFFoLDING.-Last Monday
week Edward and Robert Klinefelter and Ed
ward Sweeting were precipitated to the ground
by the slipping of rope which supported a
scaffold on which they We're working, at Mr..
Marion Anderson's house, near ShawsVille.
They fell distance of over 30 feet. guam
tity of slate which was on the scaffold fell on
them. All three were injured. Robert Kline
letter and Edward Sweeting are still in a crit
lead condition.
ADDITIONAL jurors DRAwN.-On Tuesday
Judge Waters drew the names of Robert N.
Ramsay Ellis Tucker and VIM. Enfield, of
ct Eynrha rlt IIil1t Nm ID