The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1893-02-24
THE ECIS Acknowledgement.
BEL AIR, Nd, FEB. pa, 1898.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

LOCAL AFFAIRS.
A Kent county fisherman caught thirteen
crabs in his drift net, last week. Fish: are
very scarce.
Col. Frederick Raine, of the German Cor
respondent, Baltimore, who has been seriously
Ill, is in an improved condition.
Joseph Dolan and George White, hunters
OF Abingdon district, have caught, this winter
with the aid of two young dogs, 81 'possums
and 'coons.
Mr.. c. c. Cronin, formerly of Fountain
Green, has been appointed railroad agent and
postmaster at Hartford station, Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad.
MIR. Benjamin ]. Williams, of Darlington,
has applied for the benefit Of the insolvent
laws Mr. F. R. Williams has been appointed
preliminary trustee.
The roads were SO much blocked by
snow-dhfts. Thursday morning, as to make
1t difficult for jurymen and others attending
court to get to Bel Air.
Mr. James A. McComas and Miss Minnie
Limerick were married on Wednesday even
ing, at Bethel Presbyterian Church, by the
pastor, Rev. w. A. Price.
The Washington Birthday entertainment
at Dublin was postponed on account of the
storm. II win be given on Tuesday evening,
2Sth inst, at 1880 o'clock.
Henry Erb, Jr., of Kingsville, Baltimore
Ii. Il, Inv ha
kick Of a horse, is in critical condition. DR..
j. F. II. Gorsuch is attending him.
Mr.. Isaac Robinson has rented the Pyles-
vile canning house from E. E. Pyle and will
carry on business there the coming season.
He is already making contracts for corn and
tomatoes.
The editor of the Port Deposit Press, de-
scribing the crowd of reporters In that place
last week, says sit is surprising how much
'tangle-leg' some reporters can imbibe and
still attend to their assignments
DIR. j. L. Windolph, the pioneer breeder
of standard, pedigreed horses in Hartford, will
sell at public sale, at Darlington, on March
21st, number Of good horses, Jersey cows
and heifers, farming implements, &c.
School Examiner worthington has invited
the Baltimore county school board to meet
the Hartford School Commissioners in Bel Air
ON March It'll to adjust the difficulties with
regard to interchange OF pupils between the
two counties.
The Baltimore Forwarding Company on
Tuesday formally appointed Mr.. l. W. Tro1ell
Chief Engineer James Cunningham, Super
intendent of Motive Power; J. Summerfield
Bull, acting Freight and Passenger Agent, and
VIM. f. Hanna, Master of transportation.
A change has been made In the star route
mail schedule between Shawsville and Dry
Branch, as follows: Leave Shawsvllle daily,
except Sunday, II A. M, arrive Dry Branch
by II NJ; leave Dry Branch daily, except Sun
day, Q A. NJ, arrive shawsville by 10 A. M.
Prof Turner's illustrated lecture announc
ed to take place on Tuesday evening, In st.
Stephens Hall, Upper Falls, was postponed,
on account of his failure to receive some Of
his apparatus 1t win be given on Monday
evening, 9th, without regard to the weather.
Sheriff Calder left for Annapolis ON Tues
requisition on the Governor of Pennsylvania
for William Fantom, confined In York jail on
the charge of stealing $75 from Richard T.
Nansant, of Hartford county. The Sheriff re- |
turned with his prisoner yesterday evening.
Mr.. William Harrison is building large !
hotel in South Delta. It will contain forty |
rooms and all the modern hotel convcniences,
will have mansard roof, with a porch all |
around 1t, and will not only be an ornament |
but great addition to that thriving place. 7
It will be heated throughout by steam and |
will be strictly frst-class house. !
"A representative of w. S. Armstrong, !
Aberdeen, Maryland, was in town last week |
looking for canning site. After viewing |
locations and interviewing our enterprising |
farmers he decided 30 erect the csnnery in
time to commence operations the coming sea-
son. In few hours over 200 acres of toma-
toes were contracted for and the erection Of
the building will commence in a short time
Ctestertowa Transcript, Feb. 16. !