The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1893-12-22
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

MI u. L. i@SOf sun VI W. o'4S -
Lee. of Bel Air, has been admitted to practice
in the Court of Appeals.
"A fue in the residence Of Mr.. e. A. Mark
land, Dublin, caught fire, last Friday night
endangering the building. The fire was ex
tingushed without loss.
MIR. James W. Knight, of Philadelphia
and Miss Sadie S. Foard, of Level, will bt
married in Rock Run Church, on Wednesday
December 9th, at O'Clock, P. NJ.
Elk Postmaster j. Frank Woodrow, OF
Havre de Grace, has accepted the position Of
choirmaster of Madison Avenue Methodist
Episcopal Church, Baltimore.
Mr.. Harry Demoss, son-in-law of Mr.
John Winkler, of Emmorton, has bought the
truck farm of Mr. Ross, "a acres, near Upper
Falls, Baltimore county, for $4,000.
Navigation on the Susquehanna and Tide
water Canal has closed for the season. The
last shipment was ., 700 bushels of wheat sent
by j. @. \. McConkey & Co., of Peach Bot
tom, to McCall's Ferry.
-George W. Rupp, train dispatcher of the
Baltimore and Lehigh Railroad Company at
York, was on Wednesday appointed ticket
agent and treasurer of the company at York,
vice Edgar L. Ramsay, deceased.
Mr.. and Mrs John Stump, parents of
Judge Frederick Stump, celebrated the fifty
ninth anniversary of their wedding on Mon
day, at Perry Point, Cecil county. None but
the Immediate family were present.
The great Baltimore Belt Line Railroad,
which encircles the greater part of the city,
is fast nearing completion and it will not be
long before trains, propelled by electrical
engines, will be running through it.
The announcement is made of the mar
riage of Mr.. Edward G. Davis son of Mr.. s.
Griffith Davis, of this county, to Miss Winifred
Steward, to take place on Wednesday, Decem-
Der 9th, at the residence of the BRIDES par
ents, Edgewater, suburb of Chicago.
The case of Richard Manning, of Govans-
town, who sued the City and Suburban Rail-
way Company for $4,000 damages Oh account
of having broken his leg, as alleged, by falling
into hole after getting off an electric car,
was removed from Towson to the Hartford
County Court.
William Biggs, of the Big Woods, by a
lucky throw with a stone struck and stunned
large hawk, which he afterwards killed.
The bird measured feet and inches from
tip to tip of its outstretched wings. The
poultry raisers of the neighborhood propose
to give him nice Christmas gift for Kidding
them of this destructive foe.
A horse which Amos Peters, of South
Delta, was about to mount, became frighten-
cd at a basket which the young man was car
rytng, and threw him on his back in the
street, with one foot fast in the stirrup. The
horse ran, dragging his rider. Fortunately
the sole was torn from the young mans shoe
and he was released from his perilous position
with but slight injuries.
Witnesses were heard, on Thursday, be-
fore Judge Walters and jury, on an inquiry
into the sanity of Charles H. Warfeld, color
ed The jury, of which Mr.. Charles w. Proc
tor was foreman, decided that he was insane
and Judge Waters committed him to the
Almshouse. The certificate of two physicians
could have accomplished the same result, at
much less cost to taxpayers.
MFR. William Wesley, storekeeper and
postmaster at Sunnybrook, Jarrettsyille turn
pike, is erecting a large building on his prop
erty that is intended for public hall-some-
thing that has been very much needed in that
neighborhood and that the people will appre-
ciate Mr.. Wesley is doing atlourishing bust
ness and his customers and friends COM
mend his erprise.-T0wsot Union.
MIR. E. Watkins, who has been working
up the Electric Railway project, informs us
that a survey is being made of a route from
the Susquehanna Paper Mills to Aberdeen,
and from the same line, at priesthood Bridge,
to Bel Air He has also, he States made a
contract for part of the poles for an electric
light plant in Bel Air. Mr.. Watkins has re-
turned to his home in Worcester, Mass, for
the Christmas holidays.
The Peerless Slate Company, of Delta,
are furnishing 16-inch roofing slate for the
magnificent palace George Vanderbilt is erect
ing on his recently purchased farm Of three
thousand acres near Asheyille, n. e. Two
hundred and fifty out of total of about 500
squares have already been shipped The slate
is extra thick. Young Vanderbilt's house is
to be a wonder and will cost in the neighbor-
hood of $2,000,O00. Some of the very fine
ornamental stone for the building was also
sent from the Cambria Egyptian Marble
quarry, mile from Delta.-Delta Herald.
GoRED BY A GOWNS. Eleanora Stiegler,
who lives with her son, Mr.. Simon J. Stiegler
at Bensont was gored and terribly lacerated
on Wednesday, by cow. Mrs. Stlegler had
just caught chicken and while she had it in
her hands the animal which heretofore had
been perfectly quiet and kind in disposition
attacked her, goring her in the stomach. DR.
j. c. Butler, who was called to attend her,
considers her condition serions.