The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1893-01-06
THE EGIS AND lNTELLIGENCER.
BEL AIR, MD, JAN. 6, 1893.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

The Agricultural Society, of Baltimore
CO., ty, has cash balance on hand of s., l5l.-
50, after paying all its debts.
MIR. Peter Hartman has on his farm, neal
the Rocks, a cherry tree which has defied the
winters cold and frost and has lately appear
ell in full blossom.
John Street,, tenant on Mr.. H. B. Bruins
farm, near Bel Air, fell from a hay NOV, on
Friday of last week, and painfully bruised.
No bones were broken.
Hartford county will re ;eive Se,SoS.63 FOL
hef white schools and S7S2.S3 for her colored
schools from the recent quarterly distribution
of the State public school tax.
Il correspondent writes that Mr.. d. B.
Arthur, of Aberdeen, shipped $500 pounds OF
turkeys to Philadelphia, few days before
Christmas Our report stated 1850 lbs.
A license for the marriage of Marcus j.
Dclevett and Priscilla Walbeck, of Hartford
county, was issued by the Clerk of the Circuit
Court for Baltimore county, Wednesday.
x Miss Lillian Woodali, the popular teacher
sof Hartford Seminary gave her pupils Christ
mas treat of candy. She has returned after
her vacation, and resumed her school duties.
The ladies of St. Stephens congregation,
tUpper Falls, held an oyster supper at st.
iStcphen's Hall, on Wednesday, and will hold
sauother Oh Saturday evening, ''snow, rain OF
I shine"
The ice ON the Susquehanna at Lapid is
over ten inches thick and affords the best
/ skating had there for years. The farmers OF
the neighborhood have their ice-houses filled
with fine ice.
] -EX-State Treasurer Stevenson Archer Is
sreported to be seriously ill. His physician,
Abr Theodore Cook, says he is extremely
weak, his nervous system seems to have col
hapsed and he cannot get we'll
The County Commissioners and General
Road Supervisors of Hartford and other coun-
les have been invited to attend the State Road
convention which will meet in Baltimore on
Z The 18th, 18th and 18th of January.
Y 81 A correspondent writes that the heading
sSf the article in last weeks -E,giS The Tomb
,Af Gen. Lees Grandfather" was incorrect.
Nine tomb described was not that of Gen. Lee 5
Grandfather but is located on land once owned
him.
APPROXIMATIONS are being made in Elkton
the execution on January 2Tth of Alfre d
( 4 y nut, colored. convicted at Bel Air of the
s. IH.rder of George Ditmar, of Cecil county.
= ut denies all gui]tof the crime and says lie
is eady to be hanged if the Lord is willing he
sould.
AT the last meeting of the Forest Hill
mers Club Frank B. and A. llaviland were
ointed to represent the club at the meeting
he Hartford County Farmers Association
Bel Air. on January 9th, and Messrs. Jos.
Afoopes and II. B. Twining to represent the
4 at the State Road Convention to be held
Baltimore on the 18th, 18th and 18th of
hlary.
SOn Monday, Messrs. Jacob II. Brookhart
Andrew Kinehart, representing the con-
gresation of Salem Evangelical Church and
othe friends. gave New Years surprise to
the pastor Rev. James 7. Cleaver, by present
ingto him fine suit of new clothes. The
pastor was taken completely by surprise and
coule scarcely find words in which to express
his gratitude.
On January first the firm of L. c. Zirckel
& Bro, of Baltimore, was dissolved. Mr..
Geo. A. Zirckcl, who attended to the whole
sale business of the firm, has taken building
No. II South Charles street. and has secured
the agency of Towers Fish Brand Oiled
Clothing, as well as the other specialtics
which he has handled so successfully in the
past. Mr. Zrckers push and energy, togeth-
cr with the desirable quarters which he now
occupies, will insure for him large and in
creasiI 9 business.