The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1893-06-16
THE EGISA AND INTELLIGENCER.
BEL AIR, ND, JUNE 16, 1898.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

The season for shooting wOodcock IL
Hartford county opened on June 10th.
The children of the public schools OF
Hartford contributed sl.a6 in pennies, to the
Columbian Liberty Bell.
Elsie Baker, the little daughter Of Mr.
Harvey Baker, who has been sick for several
months, is slowly regaining her health
Ala Bib Jones, of Delta, Pa, was one OF
the speakers at the annual society contest
at the Western Maryland College, Tuesday
evening.
Newton Smith was badly scalded about
the face and eyes by the explosion OF a soda
ash furnace at the Singerly Pulp and Paper
Mill, in Cecil county, ON Monday
Mr. William $. Bowman, of Level, is suf-
fering severely from an injury to his lett
hand, received while engaged in surveying
The hand is swollen and very painful.
Isaiah Preston, colored, convicted of viola
ting the local option law, was sentenced by
Judge Walters, last Saturday, to pay fine OF
500 or go to the House of Correction fol-. six
months. gt Ft 10 t5t
--Children's Day was appropriately obs erv-
ed at Smiths Chapel, last Sunday afternoon.
Addresses were made by Rev. Messrs. Young
and Lamar Miss Minnie James presided at
the organ.
DR.. William W. Virdin, of Lapidum, has
been appointed member of the auxiliary
executive committee of the Pan-Americah
Medical Congress, which will meet in Wash
ington, next September.
--Childrens' Day will be observed at the
Methodist Protestant Church, Bel Air, next
Sunday, June Is, morning and evening. Also
at Providence on Sunday, June 18th, at 10 A.
NJ, and Union Chapel, June 25th, at 3 Z. A
The John II. Hall property, at Lapidum,
comprising IA acres of land and two houses,
was sold at the Court House, on Monday, by
Mr. s. A. Williams, trustee, to Samuel 5.
James, for $780, J. s. Richardson, auc-
tioneer.
Mr. William NJ. Proctor has been ap-
pointed Justice of the Peace for the 18th dis
trict of Baltimore county. MIR. Proctor is
nephew of Justice Charles w. Proctor, Of
Bel Air, and formerly lived at the old Proc
tor homestead, near Emmorton.
The picnic in Mr.. Charles, F. Creswell's
grove, on Friday and Saturday nights of last
week, for the benefit of Emmorton cornet
band, was a pleasant and successful affair.
The receipts were about 500 The band in
tends to erect hall at Wheel postoffiee.
Mr.. George W. Toby, of Hartford county, |
an inmate of the Confederate Soldiers Home,
died on Wednesday, aged fifty years. In the
war he was member of Company A, First
Maryland Calvary, Capt. Frank A. Bond. He
was a good soldier and served throughout the |
war.
Here is a snake story from the Big Woods. |
A farmer in walking through field of tall |
grass, last Sunday morning, stepped upon |
something which moved under his feet, carry |
ing him along few yards. He discovered |
that he had encountered huge black snake, |
and killing it with a club he found it measur- |
ed feet 81 inches in length.
Receiver Bosley is paying off the en-
ployes ON the Baltimore and Lehigh Railroad |
for services rendered since the road passed |
into his hands. 1t is proposed to pay the men |
twice month hereafter. AS soon as the |
legal complications are settled it is understood
that Mr.. Bosley will make arrangements to |
pay the Indebtedness to the railroad men.
Mr. Murray Vandiver, the newly appoint
ed Collector of Internal Revenue, is prepar-
ing to take charge of the office. He has wait |
ed upon Mr.. F. Snowden Hill, whom he will |
succeed. The latter had already told him he |
was prepared to turn over the Office and !
stated that he would show him through the |
Office and explain the details of the work
John Robert Corns. violently insane |
person, escaped from Mount Hope last Tues |
day, and fears are entertained that he might |
do damage before he is reeaptured, having |
threatened to kill his mother and sister,
His mind is supposed to have become affect
ed by the death of his father, John Corns, |
who was killed by the cars at Convention, |
Baltimore county.
Mr.. Andrew ii. Scarborough, Of Dublin |
district, received painful injuries, on Monday. |
He was engaged in hauling logs over a rough !
place when the saddle horse which he was |
riding fell down, throwing Mr.. Scarborough |
on the tongue of the wagon. At the same
time the off horse fell entirely over Mr.. Scar |
borough, who was bruised but not seriously |
injured by the accident.
Among other attractions at Aberdeen on |
July 4th will be Lawn Fete, to be held at
the parsonage of East Hartford Circuit, occu-
pied by Rev. Harry d. Mitchell, where lunch, |
cake and cream will be served from z. NJ
From $50 to $50 there will be an open air |
concert, at which time an interesting pro-
pramme will be presented. The proceeds are |
for the renairs on the narsOnape
Mr. John L. Griffith Lee, son of Col. Ohio
s. Lee, of Bel Air, was one of the graduates
at the annual commencement of Johns Hop
kins University, Wednesday afternoon. For
the first time in its history the university
conferred a degree npon a woman, Miss
Florence Bascom, who received that Of PHI.
D., being the only female student who has
SO fac been permitted to offer herself for that
honor.
There is law now in existence to tax
dogs in Baltimore county, passed in 1874, and
is a good and sufficient law If it was enforced.
There was lot of tags procured by the
County Commissioners in 1874, but the law
was allowed TO become a sort of dead letter.
1t is useless to be pililg law upon law when
there is good one on the statute books neces-
sary te meet all the requirements in the case
All that is needed is the present low to get
rid of'worthless ours which are allowed to
run at large Tocson Journal.
DROPPED DEAD WHILE AT WoRK-Mrs.
Susan Lear, wife of Mr.. John w. Lear, near
Michaelsyille,, while attending to her house
hold duties, on Tuesday night, June 18th, be-