The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1894-09-07
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

The Republican Club, of Havre de Grace,
has reorganized for the coming campaign anu
has its headquarters fitted up ready for busi-
ness.
Mr.. 2. Barton Gibson has been made
principal of the Parkersburg Business College
in West Virginia. Mr. Gibson formerly lived
in this county and is nephew of Judge j.
W. Barton, of the Orphans Court
The Baltimore and Lehigh Railroad Com
pany on Saturday made a uniform rate of two
cents per gallon on both milk and cream,
from all points, Heretofore the rates have
shown a discrimination againt cream.
A prominent farmer living near Cambria,
recently spent day riding over the country
searching for hog which he thought was lost.
After giving up the search he found the hog
in the field where it had been all the time.
The ladies of Highland Presbyterian
Church will hold peach and ice cream festi-
val in the grove adjoining the church, on
Thursday and Friday evenings, September ID
and IA. Supper will be served each evening
from to $50
The question of whether the claims of the
employees of the Baltimore and Lehigh Rail-
road Company, amounting to about $4,000,
have priority over the claims of the bondhold-
ers or not will be argued before United States
Judge Morris next Saturday. The employees
are represented by Mr.. William L. Marbury.
The yacht Susquehanna, owned by the
Emerson Drug Company, of Baltimore, has
arrived at Havre de Grace from Delaware
Bay, where she has been on two-months
cruise in charge of Capt. E. T. Mitchell. The
crew will now be occupied getting the gun
ming outfit in order for the fall shooting,
which commences November l.
"A pleasant evening was spent last Friday
evening by party of young folks at the resi-
dence of Mr.. John Grier at Chestnut Hill
The time was occupied with various games
and many choice musical selections were rem
dered by Misses Louise Pauche, of Baltimore,
and Maggie Baden, of Washington, ID.
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Miss Jennie Galloway, Of Havre de Grace,
returned home last week from Baltimore,
where she has been for month past with her
daughter, Miss Sallie Galloway, who has been
under treatment at the Johns Hopkins Hospi-
tai for throat affection which rendered an
operation necessary, causing the removal of
the vocal organs. The young lady has lost al
together the power of speech.
On last Monday Jesse Clayton, white
man living near Fork, Baltimore county, was
arrested, charged with attempting to shoot
AZ H.. AlNn,.
in Bel Air. He was taken before Justice
Richardson who fined him 81 and costs for
carrying concealed weapons, the charge of as
saut not being sustained. Clayton was COM
mitted to Jail in default of payment.
John G. Watmough's sloop yacht Carrie,
Capt. II. j. Poplar, left Havre de Grace on
Wednesday for the Patuxent River. The use
of the yacht was rendered w. j. Latta of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and few
friends, who will meet her at Upper Marlboro
in day or two and spend several days rail
and reed-bird shooting on the Patuxent
marshes. The yacht has been out of commits
sion for some time past, Mrs. Watmough
having been paralyzed while cruising on the
bay some months ago, and the yacht has not
been used since.
On Saturday Sheriff Hughes brought
Samuel Kelly, Alexander Murdoch and Peter
Pagan to Bel Air jail. Murdoch and Pagan
were arrested on the charge of larceny and
Kelly on the charge of shooting with intent to
kill Thomas III. Haycock The shooting took
place near Oakington Station, Philadelphia,
Wilmington aud Baltimore Railroad. The
men were accustomed to loiter around Mr..
Henry A. Oshorn's canning house, near Oak
ington. Samuel Kelly and Thomas II. Hay
cock became engaged in a fight, and Kelly
shot Ilaycock, the ball striking beneath the
right nipple, but it struck rib and glanced
off, probably saving Haycock's life. The
wound is not a serious one. Kelly will be
held until the November term of court