The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1893-05-12
The EGIS acknowledgement.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

Monday, for naturalization papers
"A COW belonging to James Barber was
accidentally killed by the cars between South
Delta and Delta stations, last Friday evening.
"A son of MIR. Emmor Beaumont was run
over by wagon and badly injured, at the
residence of Mr. Samuel Scarf, last Saturday.
The VGnBibber School, Miss Mary G.
Smallsbeck, teacher, will give musical and
literary entertainment on the evening OF Fri
day, May 26th, at O'Clock.
MIR. W. b. Gemmill has assumed the edi-
torial management of the Stewartstown Nelcs.
in place of his father, Mr. John B. Gemmill,
who has removed to Bellville, Pa.
Fish have not been plentiful in the bay,
since the storm last week, but the fishermen
in the Susquehanna river have been taking
large quantities of shad, rock and herring.
Mr.. Iraac Robinson is building fine resi-
dence at Highland station, on the land pur
chased by him from Captain William Lowe.
1t will be completed and ready for occupation
this summer
DR.. B. II. Howlett's daughter, aged ten
years, who died in Baltimore, will be buried
at Statewide church to-day. DIR. Hewlett lives
in Washington, Pa. He is native of Hartford
county.
Greenwood school spent Wednesday after
noon, from $50 to 4 O'Clock, in natures
school, gathering specimens of flowers, the
children enjoying themselves as happy chill
dren know how to do.
The marriage of Mr.. Thomas E. Wiers and
Miss Edna Somerville took place at the resi-
dence of the brides parents, Wheel, on We'd
nesday, April Goth, instead of ON Friday, April
2sth, as incorrectly printed last week.
The W. C. T. U. of Bel Air, have sent a
petition to the Grand Jury, now in session,
concerning the reports of the violation of the
local option law in Bel Air, asking them to
investigate the matter
Mr. William G. Michael, of Baltimore,
has purchased the schooner Idaho, capacity
$500 bushels of grain, for Capt. Will am A.
Byrd to run between Swan Creek and Balti
more. The Idaho was formerly in the oyster
business between Hooper's Straits and Balti-
more.
A small house near Berkeleyville, occu-
pied by James James, colored, and his fami-
ly, was slightly damaged inside by fire, on
Wednesday. James and his wife were both
away from home, having left the house in
charge of children. The neighbors extin-
guished the flames.
--Messrs Christopher Wilson and Albert P.
Silver are soliciting contributions towards re-
building the fence around the old Stump
burying-ground, near Stafford. This bury
ing ground is nearly one hundred years old
and representatives of many of the old fami-
lies of the county repose there.
Mr. James Bowling, Jr., caught black
bass weighing seven pounds in his seine at
Rock Run, last week. His father, about
year ago, caught one with hook and line, at
Conowingo. which weighed pounds and one
ounce These are the two largest bass ever
caught in the Susquehanna river.
The first convention of the Epworth
League Chapters, of Hartford county, will be
held in the Bel Air VI. Z. Church, next Thurs
day, May 18th. The afternoon session will
begin al 2. 30 o'clock and the evening season
att Dr. Lucien Clark, of Baltimore, will
make an address during the evening.
john Burk, the veteran ferryman at Peach
Bottom, reports having caught bass the
other day in a singular way He was pushing
his boat among some bushes skirting an isl
and, when he saw something at the side Of
his boat he thought was snake. But the
creature sprang into his boat, when he found
it was a bass weighing 81 pounds.-Deltd
Herald
Mr. David Powell, who lives a mile and a
half south of Delta, has an American copper
cent dated 1874. twas among the first pieces
of the kind coined by the government after
the establishment of independence. 1t is
thicker than the ordinary copper cent and has
cnt in the rim the words Zone Hundred for a
Dollar" Mr.. Powell plowed it up in one OF
his fields.
Mr. Charles E. Creswell, of the Mountain,
left at our office, on Monday, specimen of
crimson clover from the field of Mr.. William
|. Price, near wilma. The specimen. which is
the product of single seed, contains 81 dis
tinct stalks. This clover is an annual and
must therefore be sown every year. 1t is said
10 be enormously productive and to afford
nutritious hay.
Mr. William Coulson, of Delta, sends us
a variety of mineral specimens found Oh his
farm, on Mason and Dixon's line. They con-
sist of fine pieces of green serpentine, green
granite, marble, asbestos and iron ore. Geolo-
gists say that this region of Hartford and York
counties was in ages past the scene of ire
mendous CONFUSION of nature, which has
thrown near the surface great variety of
valuable minerals and ores.
A game of base ball will be played on the
Aberdeen grounds, on Saturday, May 18th, be-
tween the Nonpareil club, of Aberdeen, and a
good club from Baltimore. The game will be
called at $50 z. NJ. The grounds have been
put in excellent condition and grand stand
has been erected, which will seat 800 people.
The home club has been provided with an en-
tire outfit of new uniforms, &c, and its mem-
beers will give good account of themselves.
The conversion of the Baltimore and Le-
high Railroad from 4 narrow to standard
gauge already appears to have given an i'm
petus to improvements along the line OF the
road Handsome cottages are springing up
and the demand for property adjacent to the
railroad is increasing. No railroad running
out of Baltimore city passes through coun-
try so beautiful and picturesque, and when
the contemplated improvements are COM
pleted the entire length of road will be bene-
fitted