The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1894-12-28
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

MIR. John A. Evans, agent of the Massa-
chusetts Life Insurance Company, has our
thanks for a beautiful calender, the handsom-
est we have received this season.
-Messrs. Frank Pulket & Co., who recent
" bought Al acres OF land at Abingdon from
Mr.. w. G.. Ford, intend erecting two dwelling
houses on the property immediately.
MIR. and Mrs. Jesse C. Lukens, Miss Mabel
G. Lukens and Master j. Norvin Lukens, OF
New London, Pa, are spending the holiydas
with Mrs Iukens' mother, Mrs. Mary Riley,
of Churchville.
Rev. Calvin d. Wilson preached an eio-
auent sermon at the Churchville Presbyterian
Church Sunday evening, his theme being "A
Reply to Ingersoll." His discourse was
forcible and logical denunciation OF the Inn
del's views.
Mr.. Harvey L. Fraysier and Miss Bessie
L. Scarborough, daughter of Mr.. Jason H.
Scarborough, were married at the home of the
BRIDES parents, at Scarboro, on Wednesday,
December 26, by Rev. John G. Sadtler, rector
of Deer Creek Parish.
Judge Waters heard the case of the lunacy
of John Fl. Heaps last Saturday. jury was
empanelled by the Sheriff by order OF the
court, and they decided that Mr.. Heaps was
of unsound mind. The Judge signed an order
committing him to Spring Grove Asylum.
Last night, being st. Johns eve, was the
occasion of the installation of the new officers
of Mt Ararat Lodge, A. f. and A. M. After
the installation ceremonies a banquet was
served at the Rouse House which was very
ENJOYABLE number of felicitous speeches
were made.
The public schools of the county will be
reopened on Wednesday, January 2. We
hope teachers and pupils have enjoyed the
Christmas holidays and wish them all a Happy
New Year. The board of School Commission
ers will meet on Thursday, January Sd, instead
of New Years Day-the usual date.
"A shooting match was held at Trump
postoffice, Baltimore county, on Christmas
day in which great many young men particle
pated. Some fine scores were made at glass
balls and clay pigeons. Mr.. George Phillips,
of White Hall, was the successful contestant.
Shooting matches were also held at Gorsuch's
Willis, ouu AAoHohho'
The work of the Bel Air Road League on
the Emmorton road has been pushed to
point this side of Mr. H. ID. Farnandis' gate.
The following gentlemen have furnished
teams in addition to those mentioned last
week: w. H. Bevard & Son, K. L. Wilson,
John Winkler, Henry Reckord Manufacturing
Company, H. B. Bruins and Elisha j. Rogers.
Mr.. Almony, whose store near White
Hall was recently robbed, has discovered
some of the goods on the farm of Mr.. Moore,
half mile from the store. Mr.. Almony has
employed Horace knight as night Waterman.
Mr.. Knight recently arrested a man whom he
found prowling around the store as a sus-
picious character and took him to Towson
jail.
"A few day ago Sheriff Hughes informed
one of the leading lawyers of Bel Air that he
had prisoner in Jail named Fox, who had
been arrested for stealing chickens and wished
to obtain counsel. The lawyer quickly re-
paired to the jail, where he found healthy
fox which the Sheriff had confined in cell
awaiting a bag hunt. The legal gentleman
took the joke kindly, telling the Sheriff he
didn't know he had SO much fun in him.
Yesterday evening George Holt, colored,
found a strange looking bird fioundering
about on the snow in Mrs. Fannie Boarman's |
field, near Bel Air. 1t had evidently been |
crippled by flying against the telegraph or
electric light wires, but was full of game and |
fought viciously with its long, sharp BILL
The stranger was shown to Mr. Joseph w. |
Chamberlane, the ornithological expert of
the clerks office, who pronounced it a loon.
The prisoner, Fox, who is in Jail on a
charge Of stealing chickens, and who was to |
have been tried for his life yesterday, gained |
q respite on account Of the storm and his case |
has been postponed until the weather is more |
favorable. When day is set notice will be |
given, by the newspapers if possible, if not, by
postal cards, to those who wish to set on the |
jury. In the mean time the prisoner occupies |
the cell vacated by Sage and, like him, is |
ready to take the first opportunity to escape. |