The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1894-07-13
BEL ALB. ND. July 10, 1894.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

Saturday.
Port Deposit has ice-gorges In winter
freshets in the spring and dudes in the sum
mer.-EfcSS.
&C. X. and VIM IL. Sewell, of Abingdon
sold pair of fox hounds to the Elkridge
Club, of Baltimore, for $50.
The following physicians have registered
at the Clerks office since July list: F. F.
Forwood and Elizabeth z. Marshall Knell.
Crops generally in the neighborhood OF
Upper Cross Roads are reported as looking
remarkably well. Potatoes especially promise
large yield.
Drills will be resumed by Company ID,
|. NJ. n. g., this friday evening. IL is the
intention of the officers to recruit the compa-
nv ND to its full complement of sixty men,
Miss b. NJ. Gleason, Messrs. T. c. Lawder
and William Letter, of Havre de Grace, and
Mr.. Alfred Richardson, of Bel Air, are among
the graduates at the Eaton & Burnett Business
College, Baltimore.
An order for the sale of the Pennsylvania
end of the Baltimore and Lehigh Railroad
has been obtained from the United States
Court in Philadelphia, and the property will
soon be advertised.
--Thirty-two lots of milk at the North ave-
nue. station of the Baltimore and Lehigh Rail
road were examined last Friday by the inspec-
tors, who returned to the shippers seven lots
not up to the standard.
Mt. Carmel, NJ. P. Church, at Emmorton,
l.. ..ao,o,>o1 for niuina sarvipa NEXT Sum-
day July 18th. Prominent Ministers from
Baltimore are expected to be present. See
particulars in church column.
A Bel Air gentlemen recently remarked
T.it has cost me good deal of money to find
it out, but have discovered Tat If man
wishes to rest and recuperate his health the
best thing for him to do is to stay right at
home"
Prof. r. R. Lloyd and Mrs. J. Ross Scar
borough have been appointed delegates from
the Slate Ridge Presbyterian Sabbath School
TO the County Sabbath School Convention, to
be held IN the Chestnut Hill NJ. 2. Church,
July 18th and 18th.
A game of base ball was played at Joppa,
between the Joppa Club and the Royal Blues.
The former won by a score of 20 to II. Win
ming batteries W. and j. Bosley, Losing bat
teries G. Gray and F. Sullivan. Struck out
by Bosley IA, by Gray g.
List of letters remaining in the Bel Air
postoffice Persons calling for letters in this
list will say they were advertised otherwise
they may not receive them: Mrs. M. Bond.
care Mrs. Keymo, B. r. Conard, A. j. Haw-
kins, Miss Herman, Mr.. NJ. Jackson, Mrs.
Ella Washington.
A gentleman, living in the upper part OF
this county, who is more noted for his good
common sense and sound judgement than for
correctness of pronunciation and spelling, in
speaking of the situation at Chicago this week
said sblamed if can see what those dnchOriteS
are after anyhow"
One day last week as Mr.. George Sweeting,
OF Chrome Hill, was working in his barn, a
harpoon hay fork became detached from the
rafters and FELL striking him on the right arm,
making an ugly wound about four inches in
depth He is recovering rapidly under the
skillful care of DIR. T. B. Hayward.
The Victor Base Ball Club, of Bel Air,
nave lalu Out new anu NCll SiOuhuo Oh
Gordon street extended near MIR. VIM. Lees
greenhouses and have signed several new play
ers. They are now one of the strongest
amateur teams in the State and will accept
challenges from any State organization.
MIR Lewis ". Bacon, Clerk of the Circuit
Court for Baltimore County, sent on the 28th
ult. to the State Comptroller check for
S19524 10. and to G. Albert Mays, County
Treasurer, check for S39, O45, for fees re-
ceived for the annual issue of licenses of
all kinds. These amounts are greater than
the corresponding payments of any previous
year. The total was $5s, 56916.
The storm which visited the lower half of
the county last Friday morning before day
break was particularly severe just north OF
Havre de Grace. Trees were uprooted and
growing crops were laid fiat on the ground
Seven trees in DIR. Hopkins lawn were torn
up, one of them striking and demolishing the
chimney. COW belonging to Mr.. Robert P.
Mitchell was killed by lightning while lying
beneath tree short distance from the dwell
house.
Sandy Richardson, the colored man who
was shot at Aberdeen ON the Fourth of July,
is at the City Hospital in Baltimore, and ap-
pears to be recovering. The ball struck near
the right temple and broke into several pieces.
The physicians at the hospital have removed
three pieces. States Attorney Preston has
requested that post-mortem examination be
made, if Richardson should die, in order that
testimony can be prepared against Luster, the
l., -, t.rifb oh ff
ing.
The Second National Bank, of Bel Air,
received new safe last Tuesday. 1t will be
used for storing books and checks. The Sec
ond National is q very safe and well conduct
ed financial institution with a capital of
5000 and surplus and undivided profits
amounting to $1S,500. The late financial
stress has been hard on banking institutions
throughout the country, but the Hartford
county banks have all stood the storm bravely
and the confidence of the public in them has
never wavered for an instant.
The Maryland Hotel more recently known
as the Hotel St. George, at Annapolis has been
sold to stock company of which Col Luther
ii. Gadd, State Librarian, and Mr.. George T.
Melvin are principal owners. The price paid
for the building and furniture complete is
$4,000 The new proprietors expect in the
near future to make some very necessary
changes and improvements. The property is
assessed at $34 900. and was sold some years
ago to Messrs. Vickery and George, of Balti-
more for SIS, 800. 1t was newly furnished
about years ago at cost of about $1,000
1t originally cost when built by Robert
Fowler Il b., in-1s6s, the sum of $4,000.
For many years it has been the leading hotel
in the city. The sum paid is considered very
low
KILLED AT THE PAPER MUL.-John Norris
young man who worked at the Susquehanna
Paper Mill was killed on Wednesday by the
breaking of a belt. No one knows exactly
how the accident occurred, as he was working
alone in the basement fixing pipe, when the
breaking of the belt attracted the attention Of
the workmen above and running below they
found him with his side badly crushed and
diving or dead. He was brother of Mr.. VIM
Fl. Norris, at Glen Cove.
CATTLE HIGHER.-The railroad strikes have
performed good Office for some of our farmers
by raising the price of fat cattle, as none can
be shipped from the West, thus giving an IL
lustration of old adage sits an i'll wind thai
blows nobody good" Last week Mr.. Benia
min Hope bought four car loads from different
parties in the neighborhood of Churchville