The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1893-10-06
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

Miss Bertha Scarboro has been appointed
postmaster at Scarboro, Hartford county.
Shows Maryland Battery will hold a re-
union at Port Deposit, on Saturday, October
9TH.
Special mail service from Upper Cross
discontinued.
Mr. w. s. G. Williams, of Baltimore, has
been appointed receiver of the Baltimore and
Havre de Grace Turnpike Company.
Augustus A. Piper has sold to William
c. Piper for $4,000 twenty acres of land near
Kingsville, Baltimore county.
A horse driven by a colored man named
Hackett ran away on the Hickory road and
wrecked the buggy, near Bel Air, last Sunday.
Joshua Fowler, white man supposed to
be insane, is in jail, having been taken there
by Constable Charles w. Thompson, of Aber-
deem.
The champion PAGER Mascot, who holds
the worlds record of 204, broke the track
record at Pimlico ON Tuesday by pacing mile
in 200.
Sheriff James s. Calder, has bought for
s., $50 the farm Of Mr.. j. Frank Devoe, near
Federal Hill, containing 60 acres of well i'm
proved land.
The case of John II. Callahan against
Harrison Hopper will probably be heard in
Court of Appeals at the October Term, which
began on Monday.
Doi,l So ha rs a
tomato in his field that weighed 24 lbs. 1t
was Matchless in name and matchless in size
and quality.
Deputy Court Clerk Scarboro, OH Monday,
in the presence of the Judges of the Orphans
Court and in pursuance of law, burned the
ballots cast at the election of 1892.
Mr. Benjamin Hope, of Wilmington, DEL,
bough: about 15O head Of fat cattle in the
vicinity of Churchville, this week. The aver
age price paid was cents per pound
Comptroller Marion deK. Smith has
made his quarterly distribution of the public
school tax, by which Hartford gets S2,S0S.63
for the white schools and 1872 43 for the colored
schools.
Rev. J. Fred. Heisse, pastor of Reisters-
town and Glyndon NJ E. Churches, Baltimore
county, has been chosen editor of the Balti-
more Methodist and will take charge on the list
of January next.
Forty Hours Devotion began on Sunday
at st. Johns Catholic Church, Long Green,
closing on Tuesday morning. Rev. Joseph
B. Houck, the pastor, was assisted in these
services by clergymen from Baltimore.
The Race Committee of the Hartford
County Agricultural Society have added three
additional races to the programme, the purse
being $500 in each. They are for three-minute,
the two-fifty and two-thirty seven classes of
horses.
tart in Shoes is the motto of the artis-
tic shoe dealers King & Arnold, No. w.
Lexington street, Baltimore. They have new
and exquisite designs in footwear and our
lady friends will find this a satisfactory and
reliable firm.
Mr. Lewis Troyer, of Black Horse, last
week found one of his COWS at the bottom Of
his ice house She had gone down several
steps, attracted by some chop and watermel-
ons, of which she ate heartily. 1t took sew
eTal nleu Will RUPEES W cAtIlCd1c uCi.
-Messrs. Muller Bros, No. 1O4 N. Gay
street, near Fayette, Baltimore, invite the at
tention of their Hartford friends to their large
stock of harness of all kinds, together with
an assortment of lap robes, at very low prices.
They sell good horse blanket at IS cents
Mr.. George A. Hahn, sussessor 10 the late
Alexander McComas, offers to the sportsmen
of Hartford county fine assortment Of super
Tor guns and all the paraphernalia for hunting.
Mr.. Hahn is an experienced gunsmith and
those who deal with him cannot fail to be salts
fled with their purchases.
Prof II. II. keech last week rode from
Bel Air to Baltimore, on the Hartford turnpike,
224 miles, landing at the corner of Calvert
ana Franklin streets, in two hours and six
minutes. He arrived at the intersection of
the Hartford turnpike and the Boundary in
one hour and fifty-eight minutes.
Mr. John d. Roe, of Towsontown, who is
supreme Secretary of the Equitable League of
America, has entered suit in Baltimore
court against Newton T. Hall, claiming $lO,-
900 damages The plaintiff alleges that Hall
slandered him by giving rise to the report
that he was short in his accounts as an officer
of the League.
Mr. E. B. Peasants, of Baltimore, one of the
first engineers employed in the construction
of the Baltimore and Delta, now the Baltt-
more and Lehigh Railroad, has been appoint
ed engineer of roadway for the Atlantic Coast
Line Company. Mr.. Peasants married a
daughter OF Mr. Jos. E. Wetherill, formerly
of the Rocks of Deer Creek.
The announcement is made of the mar
rage of Miss Mary Wingfeld, daughter Of
Bishop Wingfeld, of Northern California, to
Mr.. James Hamilton Scott, of Richmond, Va.
The ceremony will take place in st. PauPs
Church, Benicia, California on October 18th,
1893. Bishop Wingield was formerly rector
of Christ Church, Rock Spring, Hartford coun-
ty.' >-.
Mr. Walter z. Reckord's great stallion
eOrange Chief won heat at the Gentle
mems Driving Park races OH Wednesday in
the remark able time of 2194. He was driven
by Wilton Greenway, who developed the
horse and who is recognized as among the
very best drivers in the country. Baltimore
county has reason to be proud of this very
superior animal and Mr.. Reckord is to be
congratulated on his TOpsOas
Union.
PERUVIAN LOCALS Mr. and Mrs. William