The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1894-02-23
The EGISAND INTELLIGENCER
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

Mr.. Thomas II. Robinson, of Bel Air, has
been appointed director of the Female
House of Refuge.
A supper for the benefit of Fork Christian
Church, Baltimore county, was given at
Shirley Hall, Friday and Saturday evenings.
Mr.. Henry A. Whitaker has our thanks
for an invitation to attend the public exercises
of Commemoration Day, at Johns Hopkins
University, on Feb. 22d.
Rev j. NJ Slarrow will deliver lecture
on the Worlds Fair, for the benefit of the
Epworth League at Mt. Zion Church, on Fri
day evening, March I'd.
School Examiner John d. Worthington
left on Tuesday, for Richmond, Va, where he
will attend the annual meeting OF Public
School Superintendents of the United States.
"A change in the schedule of the Baltimore
and Lehigh Railroad will go into effect next
Sunday. The train leaving Baltimore at 615
P NJ. and the train leaving Delta at SIS A.
NJ. have been withdrawn.
-sStonewall jackson, IA well-known Patrick
Henry horse, belonging to DR.. w. w. Hop
kins, of Havre de Grace, died last week, at
the advanced age of 80 years. He was never
sick day in his life and was always ready for
a long drive.
The contested election case of Clinton j.
White, Republican, VS.. John A. Boyd, Demo-
crat, for the Office of sheriff of Cecil county,
which has been before the Circuit Court for
several months, was decided on Monday in
favor of White.
William Crawford, a special ducking
ground policeman, arrested Yves. McCabe, on
the flats near Havre de Grace, Monday night,
for having big gun outfit While rowing
ashore the boats became separated in the drift
ice and McCabe escaped.
Two boys named Helmsley and Oster-
kamp, ran away from their homes, in Balti
more, and walked up the Baltimore and Le-
high track to Bel Air, on Wednesday. On
Thursday Mr.. VIM. Helmsley came up and
took the runaways back.
"A handsome doll, named ''Mary," was
won by Miss Lizzie Mckinney, of Cecil coun-
ty, in a guessing contest, last week. The pro-
ceeds of the contest were devoted to the rec
tory of Rock Spring Church, of which Rev. L.
J. Sothoron is rector. The project was carried
out by Miss Josie Lyle
Mr. Ralph Rigdon, postmaster and merch-
ant at Aldino, requests us to say that the re-
port that the postoffice at Aldino has been
discontinued is mistake. The Office was
merely placed on regular star route. Mr..
Rigdon has been keeping store at that place
since last Novem Der and is an accommodate
ing and reliable merchant.
j. Thomas Webster, of Calvary, is erect
ing large canning-house at Lisbon, Howard
county, to can tomatoes. j. s. Ward and
Bonfield Gorrell, Of Level, expect to can this
year at Lynch Station, Kent county They
have contracted with farmers for $50 acres of
tomatoes at 75 per ton. Other Hartford
Gamers will can this year at Still Pond, Mill
ington, Elkton, Odessa, Smyrna and other
points on the lower peninsula.
Mr. James o. Grafton, of Chestnut Hill,
has been hauling white oak logs to VanBibber,
for shipment to New York where they are used
for piling for wharves. A stick he had on
his wagon, on Monday, cut on Mr.. Corbin
Grafton's farm, near Bel Air, measured s.
feet in length. A log cut in the Big Woods
measured 80 feet in length and a Baltimore
county log, sent to the same destination,
measured so feet in length.