The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1895-05-10
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

The Whitaker slate quarry, near Cambria,
has been reopened by Sterns & Co., OF balti-
more.
Mrs. John Mitchell, of Havre de Grace, is
spending few weeks with relatives in Phila-
delphia and elsewhere.
Mr. John Hawkins, of Cedarville, while
scoring post last Tuesday morning, cut his
left foot very seriously. physician stopped
the flow of blood and sewed up the wound.
Father Frederick of St. Ignatius Catholic
Church, Hickory, made stirring address to a
large audience of temperance workers at the
W. c. I. U. Hall, at Mt. Zion, Thursday
night of last week.
Two settlers who had driven all the way
from Kansas in wagon recently Joined the
German colony in Dorchester county. They
started December 6, and the distance covered
was about 1900 miles.
The Harford County Temperance Alliance
met in Bel Air last Monday and elected j. B.
Hanna, N. n Mock and Samuel Montague as
delegates to the State Temperance Alliance
meeting in Baltimore.
The recent sharp advance in the price of
leather adds about 80 cents to the wholesale
cost of an ordinary pair of shoes. At this
season, however, this fact has but little inter
est for the ordinary small boy.
Last Tuesday Mr.. James I. Smithson,
auctioneer, sold for Walter w. Preston, trustee,
the VIM. F. Stirling property, consisting of
20 acres of land near North Bend church,
to Peter Hartman for 1851.
"A committee of the directors of the Agri-
cultural Society met in Bel Air last Monday
aud arranged the race programme for next
falls exhibition. Solicitors for special pre-
miums were were also appointed.
Although DIR. c. A. Bagley, the popular
physician of Bagley and vicinity, has purchas
ed a farm, he will not allow its care to inter
fere with his medical practice, but will con-
tinue to look after the health of his patients
as heretofore.
MIR. f. W. Scarborough, who recently pur-
chased the Jacob B. Kelly property, near
Highland station, has since built stable,
carriage-barn and poultry house. done lot
of new fencing and generally improved the
appearance OF the property.
Mr. A. Preston Gilbert of Bel Air, son of the
late A P. Gilbert, has been commissioned by
Governor Brown justice of the peace for the
third district, and qualified and entered upon
the duties of his position last Tuesday He
will have his Office with Mr.. George l.. Van
Bibber
A delegation of the striking garment
workers, OF Baltimore, visited Bel Air last
Monday to ascertain if any ''sweat shop"
goods were being sold here Their intention
was to organize boycott against any stores
found selling them but it is presumed they |
found none.
Marshall Z. Price, who was found guilty |
of the murder of IA year-old Sallie Z. Dean, +
in Caroline county, was sentenced last Friday |
to death by hanging. On the following Tues
day night he made full confession to the |
sheriff of the county stating that he, and he |
alone, was guilty.
The Hezekiah Dsughton property, situat- |
ed near Clement Mills, was sold at the Court |
House door last Monday by Thomas Fl. Rob
inson, trustee, to Richard Rampley for 81 ,225. |
of land, improved by buildings, and is good |
blacksmith's stand: Mr.. j. 5. Richardson was |
the auctioneer.
"A number of our citizens are identifying |
and improving their buildings and fences this |
spring with New Jersey Enamel Paint, for
which Mr.. c. p. Knight lU2 south street, Bal
timore, is sole agent. This paint is SO well |
known as good article that people will have |
it and besides, Mr.. Knight is deal Ter of such |
standing that people are satisfied that an arti |
Gle recommended by him is sure to give salts
faction.
1t has been discovered that Franklin W. |
Knapp, who was resident of Chenango, n. |
Y, hut who at the time of his death was |
travelling with a small circus and ''medicine |
man. combination, was murdered at Elkton
while there with the circus last July and his |
body weighted with stones and sunk in the
Chesapeake bay, off Turkey Point. A COM
panion, known as "Arizona Boil" is charged |
with the crime, but his whereabouts are I'M
known.