The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1894-03-16
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

Abraham Almony, of Cooptown, has beer
granted an increase of pension by the govern
ment.
Joseph Stokes has been appointed post
master at Line Bridge, Hartford county, vice
j. T. McNutt, resigned.
The marriage of DIR. w. S. Gorsuch and
Miss Elizabeth Maud Riley, both of Church
vile, is announced to take place April 25th.
The farmers and business men of Queens
town, Queen Anne's county, are about to es-
tablish a canrery, with capital stock OF
$1,000
The time for holding the Baltimore coun-
ty fair at Timonium, has been changed from
the first week in September to the last week
in August.
The steam ferry-boat City Belle, Captain
Hohn has been renovated and has resumed
her regular trips between Port Deposit and
LapIdum, Hartford county.
License has been issued at Towson for the
marriage of Joseph NJ. Norris, Of Norrisville,
Hartford county, and Ida Bell Almony, of the
seventh district of Baltimore county.
The Susquehanna river rose ten feet or
more, on Thursday and Friday of last week,
backing up the water and compelling the Sus-
quehanna Paper Mills to suspend operations
The first herring of the season were
cadsht on the Susquehanna flats, below
Havre de Grace, last Saturday. If the wealth
or continues warm the fish will soon be up in
large quantities.
The colored Methodists closed their con-
ference at Washington, on Monday, the fol-
lowing being among the appointments made
for Hartford county: Asbury, j. w. Dams
bury Bel Air. j. T. Moten.
Mrs. Annie P Beattie, as eXecutrix, on
Saturday last sold at public sale, on the prem
Uses, the farm of John Beattie, deceased, con-
tanning 100 acres, situated near Cambria, to
Robert W. Lloyd, for $2,65o
The morning weather forecasts for Mary
land and Eastern Pennsylvania are tele-
graphed daily by the Baltimore and Lehigh
Railroad to the stations at Bel Air, Rocks
Baldwin, Loeb Raven, Towson and Home
land.
"A loaded self-actipg revolver, which
George 7. Huff, of Dublin district, was hand
ling, last week, went off in his hands, the
bullet SCATTERING vase and breaking pic
ture frame He is thankful to have escaped
getting the bullet into himself.
Mr.. George Brown, President of the Green
Spring Valley Game Protective Association,
Baltimore county, has ordered six hundred
Kansas cartridges to take the place of the
Texas quail, which died while in the coops
awaiting distribution upon the preserves of
the association.
james r. Whitaker was before JUS
tice Richardson, in Bel Air, last Saturday, on
the charge of killing three milk cows belong
ing to Mrs. Dora Gahrmann, of the Big
Woods. He was discharged on bail for his
appearance at court.
Daniel F. Waltemier, of East Hopewell
township, York county, attempted to thaw
stick of dynamite on his kitchen stove. 1t
began to smoke aud Mr.. Waltemier and his
wife became frightened and rushed from the
house. They had hardly left the building
before the dynamite exploded, wrecking the
building completely. Not one log remained
on the foundations Mr.. and Mrs. Waite
mier escaped without injury.
Mrs. b. e. Hanway, of Forest Hill, sends
us four Easter eggs, which are marvels. Their
combined weight is 49, ounces and the largest
measure around u inches one way and ct
the other. They were produced by breed of
chickens combining the Brahma, Plymouth
rock and white and black Langshan strains.
Mrs. Hanway's hens have been laying freely
all the winter, and if they always produce
eggs as large as these she should sell them by
weight instead of by the dozen.
Several acres of sedge field were burned
cover Tuesday night upon the property of the
Maryland Real Estate Company along the line
of the Baltimore and Lehigh Railroad, short
distance east of Towson. Fire was commune
.cated to the dry grass from passing locomo-
tive On Wednesday another fire occurred in
the woods belonging to the same company,
near ta4e property over which the fire burned
Tuesday night. The Towson engine COM
pany succeeded in saving the buildings on
the place of the late Richard Peasants.