The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1895-03-29
THE ECIS acknowledgement,
BEL AIR, Md, MARCH 20, 1895.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

The engagement of MIR. Wilton Greenway,
of Hayre de Grace, and Miss Jessie Hilles, of
Baltimore is announced.
The county tax rate for Prince Georges
county has been fixed at IS cents. This Is an
increase of five cents over the rate of last year.
The new assessment of Havre de Grace
shows that city's taxable basis to be ST. ls5, 446
This is gain of S17S,77S over the assessment
of 1889.
MIR. George Mulligan and Miss Sarah
Frances Hitchcock, both of Hartford county,
were married yesterday by Rev. s. A. Hoblt
zell. at the NJ. 2. parsonage, Bel Air.
The fourteen year-old daughter of Jacob
Dean, of Harmony Caroline county, was bru-
tally murdered last Tuesday evening on her
way home from school. No trace of her as
sailant has yet been discovered.
The Baltimore County Democrat, which
has heretofore been owned by private con-
Germ will be hereafter managed by stock
company. Mr. Frank l. Duncan will continue
in charge as editor, and Mr.. B. H. Scott as
business manager.
Senator Pinckney }. Bennett, of Carroll
county, purchased last December sixty head
of dehorned cattle averaging 1000 pounds
each in weight He fattened them entirely
on wheat, and when he sold them recently
they averaged l, 400 pounds each.
School Examiner John ID. WORTH ngton
states that hereafter, unless ordered other
wise by the Board of School Commissioners,
permits to coored teachers to visit white
schools for the purpose of observing the
methods of teaching will not be granted.
Numerous flocks of wild geese have been
seen and heard flying northward during the
past week. Robins have been singing their
love songs and ground squirrels fir SIX gayy
along the fences. All these things indicate
that spring is upon us.
Judge Waters granted a new trial last
Monday in the case of Seth Smith VS.. Charles
W. Baker The suit was for commissions on
the sale of one of defendants farms. 1t was
tried last November when the plaintiff recov-
cred a verdict for $9s6.12, the full amount of
his claim with interest.
"A dwelling house occupied by Mr.. Buck
Moore on Mr.. John p. Leight's fishing shore,
Otter Point, caught fire in the roof from
sparks from f1ue, Tuesday morning. A
number of men were at work on the shore at
the time by whom the flames were soon ex-
tinguished.
The large frame dwelling on the Findley
farm, near Mcintyre, occupied by Mr.. Charles
w. Sweeting, was burned to the ground with
all the contents Friday night. The dwelling
was insured in the Hartford Company and the
Farmers, OF York, for 81, 900 each. The ORR
gin of the fire is unknown.
A little girl in Bel Air is the proud pos
SCISSOR of Plymouth Rock hen that on some
occasions lays three eggs day. Two eggs
day is regarded by this Puritan fowl as no
more than her duty, and even during the bliz-
zard she never missed her diurnal egg, which
was frequently double yolked.
Last Monday was the two hundred and
sixty-first anniversary of the landing of Leon
ard Calvert and his two hundred followers
from the Ark and the Dove on st. Clements
Island in Chesapeake bay. Two days later
they landed at st. Mary's and began the set
Element of the province of Maryland.
In 1872 John L. Williams deposited s..
in the Baltimore Savings Bank in the name Of
St. Johns P. E. Sunday School of Havre de
Grace Mr. Williams died the same year, and
this deposit was overlooked. Last week no
tice was received from the Savings Bank of
the deposit, and the amount has been paid to
the Sunday school authorities.
Both the candidate and alternate selected
by Hon. j. F. G. Talbot for appointment to
the West Point Military Academy failed to
come up to the standard. One was turned
down on the physical and the other on the
mental examination. This will leave the
vacancy to be filled by Congressman-elect W.
b. Baker.
Mr. Alexander II. McFadden, of Philadel-
phia, aged "A years, and Mrs. Belle kessler,
aged 80 years, widow of the late Henry Kes-
sler, were married at the home of the bride,
near Fountain Green, last Tuesday at noon by
Rev. E. c. Gallaher, of the Bel Air NJ. E.
Church. Only the relatives and intimate
friends of the contracting parties were present.
-Perrymans Lodge, Order of the Golden
Chain, has arranged to attend the grand de-
monstration celebrating the thirteenth ami
yersary of the order in the State of Maryland
at the Academy of Music, in Baltimore, on Mon
day, April 8. Perrymans Lodge will go and
return in a special car and have invited the
friends of the members to accompany them.
Mr.. Robert II. Gilbert, of Baltimore,
member of the wholesale grocery firm of T. A.
Brown & Co., and brother of Messrs. John
NJ. Gilbert, of Havre de Grace, and Daniel
Gilbert, of the second district, accidentally
shot himself in the right foot while lying in
sink-box on the fats Wednesday of last week.
He was taken to the Maryland University Hos
pital where it was found necessary to smpu-
tate his great toe.
The annual report of the Equitable Life
Assurance Society, which has just been made
public, presents gratifying exhibit to the
policy holders of that institution. Its assets
are constantly increasing and large amount
was carried last year to the surplus fund
The fact that nearly one-ffth of the total in
surance applied for during the year was re-
jectcd, shows that the company is exercising
great and proper care in the selection Of its
risks.
BEL AIR NoTEs.-Thieves broke into the
smoke-house of DR.. }. &. Dance last Monday
night and stole thirteen or fourteen pieces of
meat, including a number of hams.
Last Sunday night some impecunious indi-
vidual, probably suffering from hard times,
attempted to force an entrance into the store
of Messrs. j. G. Rouse s Son. The would-be
burglar bored a hole through back shutter
in an attempt to reach the fastening, but bored
to low A hole was then started on the other
side, but Mr.. John Heuer, who lives next door,
heard the noise and called to the intruder,
thinking he was one of the clerks. This