The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-08-12
Mountain Affairs.

Mountain Affairs.
CLAYTON. Aug. 9-Ifarvesting being fin
ished tomato picking aud packing are now
coming on and the prospects are for an eX-
cellent crop and large pack. There is Il
good prospect also for large yield of sugar
corn. Field corn is also looking well.
Mr.. AlphonsO Robinson packed about one
hundred cases of tomatoes last week, they be-
ing the first packed in this neighborhood.
The rains OF last week have put the ground
in fine condition for blowing and the farmers
are taking advantage OF 1T.
Mr.. Alphonso Robinson has been travelling
the road from Stockton towards Fallston, and
as far as done has changed it from nasty red
mud to d smooth dry road. lie deserves the
thanks of the travelling public.
The recent rains have washed some of our
roads very much.
The tax gathcrer has been around and the
bills he has presented have set some OF the
people to thinking and talking also. Between
the county taxes and the Mckinley tariff the
poor farmer will soon have to go out of bust
ness. When it takes about all the wheat
which an average farmer grows to pay his
taxes there is small show to pay the tariff on
the clothes which he must buy for himself and
his family, to say nothing of the tin ware for
his household and dairy use.
Politics in the first district are quiet, but
old Abingdon can be relied upon for a good
solid Democratic vie in November, and
Cleve, Steve and Talbot will receive an old
fashioned majority in old Hartford. {.
A Pleasant Entertainments.
TAYLOR. Md, August 10, 1S92-Miss
Marion Gross entertained q number of
her friends, on Tuesday evening, in honor of
her cousin, Miss Sadie Albaugh, of Baltimore.
An enjoyable time was spent. An elegant
repast was served to which the guests did
ample justice. Among those present were
Mr.. and Mrs. James kirkwood, Misses MIN
ME Cairnes, Minnie Marsh, Carrie Watt, Alice
Gross, Gertie Gross, Carrie Stritehoff, Julia
Miller, Ida STREET., Bessie Anderson, Ada Car
man, Matte Anderson, Nellie McComas, Ma
LISA Brookhart, BERTHE Hope, Miss Walker,
Messrs. McLaren Spencer, George Bay, Nor
man Hamilton, Samuel Street,, Robert Wiley,
II. Wilson. Charles Carman, Nicholas Hope,
A. Galbreath, VIM. Whiteford, Emory Nc
Comas, Henry Jarrett, Harry McComas, John
Upton, Chas. Dcvoe, Frank Deets and others.
A GUEST.
Searching for Mitchell on the Eastern
Shore.
Baltimore Sun.
Superintendent G. E. Topping, OF the
United States Express Company, of New
York, was in Salisbury, on Monday, gathering
information in regard to the absconding eN-
press driver Albert Mitchell. He has been
ocean CltN ana OIneT tOWHS Ill LilS stcIlOil
for a week past surveying the ground and d.
recting the search for the fugitive. From in
formation at the hands of the detectives
there is no doubt that Mitchell passed through
Salisbury Thursday, July 2Sth, bound south,
and he has since been seen at Princess Anne.
1t is evident from his movements that he is
making for Crisiield, where he may chance to
get on an outgoing ship for some foreign port.
The express officers say they propose to catch
him if it costs twice as much as he took.
$780,
Col Herman Stump's Work in Congress.
Baltimore sun.
Mr.. Stump, of the second district, has been
most Jealous worker as chairman of the
committee on immigration and naturalization,
and as such carried through an investigation
of the whole system of immigrant inspection
and exposed the irregularities of the Treasury
Department in the matter of the construction
of the immigrant station buildings at Ellis
Island, New York harbor. He has given the
matter of immigration careful study and has
drawn up Il bill calculated to make effective
the laws prohibiting the landing of undesirable
immigrants. This bill was adopted by Sena-
tor Chandler, chairman of the Senate COM
mittce, and passed that body. 1t will prob
ably pass the House early in the next session.
Magnolia Affairs.
MAGNOLIA, August 1s-Miss Lydia Bran
bic has returned to the city after delightful
visit here.
Miss Grace Timmons has gone to Baltimore
to visit relatives and friends.
Mrs. John Logue and her little son are Wis
iting i'll the neighborhood. Her husband and
son, Warren, spent Sunday with her.
Mr.. John Sweeting, who removed to Phila-
delphia with his family several months ago.
has returned with them to this neighborhood
again.
\ large crowd left here on the morning
train to attend Aberdeen camp meeting.
Miss Philena Hutton, our former school
teacher, is visiting Mrs. Skillman.
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