The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1897-11-26
LOCAL AFFAIRS.


-Protraeted services are in progress at Me
Kendree NJ. E. Church, near Black Horse.
The orders at the Shirt Factory at Havre
dc Grace are increasing to a very gratifying
extent.
The estate of the late James G. Bell, of
Couowingo, is estimated at from two to ten
millions of dollars.
The annual session of the Grand Com
mandery of Maryland, Knights Templar, is IN
session in Baltimore.
The programme published in last weeks
ISSUE for the celebration at Aberdeen, was
carried out in every particular.
There was no session of the Circuit Court
on Thursday, Judge Walters having adjourn
ed the pending case on account of the holiday
-Rt Rev, William Paret, p. Z. Bishop of
Maryland, will make his annual visitation to
st. Johns church, Havre de Grace, on January
3Oth 1898.
The third quarterly conference Of the Bel
Air Circuit, Methodist Protestant Church, will
be held in the Bel Air church on Saturday
next, November27th.
-ETdlh bhlCS lSai S'NA NA4A-N
of Constable Hoffacker of the first district,
was recently kicked in the face by horse
and badly injured.
About forty members of Venus Council
O. L. A. NJ. of Havre de Grace visited Port
Deposit on Friday last, as guests of Riverside
Council of that place.
The trial of John 7. Shipey, the Balti-
more county constable, who is charged with
the murder of Jared Wilson, at Phoenix, will
begin at Towson today, Friday.
The net receipts of the fair which was
held recently by st. Patrcks Catholic Church.
Havre de Grace amounted to $2229.5T. Father
Fitz Gerald is the pastor of the church.
Deputy Sheriff Frank Bateman took
Charles Anderson, colored, to Baltimore on
Saturday and delivered him into the safe
keeping OF the Warden of the Penitentiary.
MIR. Charles NJ. Norris, of Norrisville,
who has been extremely i'll, has so far recoy-
cred as to be able to resume charge of the
school at Carea, of which he is the principal.
A license was issued on Monday in the
Baltimore county Court for the marriage of
Lemuel H. Amoss, of Hartford, and Miss |
county.
Several slight hurries of snow fell in Bel |
Air on Tuesday, although the promised cold |
wave failed fortunately to materiaIize. If the
old-folks saying is true, this indicates very |
snowy winter.
We again call the attention of our cor |
respondents to the fact that we cannot publish |
MI pr those signed |
by initials only, unless we are advised of the |
writer's full name.
Mrs A c. jackson who has been under |
going treatment at the Johns Hopkins Hos
pital, Baltimore, for tumor of the stomach,
returned to her home in Havre de Grace on
Sunday, entirely recovered.
Mr. Charles NJ. Harkius, of Chestnut |
Hill, successfully passed the CiviI-Servce ex-
animation in Baltimore which was held in !
March. The names of the successful APP |
plicants have just been made public.
Letters testamentary opon the estate of
Sarah Everett have been granted by the /
Register of Wills to Amanda STREET., and |
letters of administration upon the estate of
Sarah Merryman to Nelson o. Merryman.
was seriously injured last week while alight-
ing from cab in Washington, is improving.
His injuries while very painful,are not danger
GUS Two of his ribs were found to be broken.
Mr. Samuel Amoss, of Fallston, and Miss
Mary Dora Benson, of Bereau, Baltimore
county, were married. on Wednesday at the
residence of the brides parents, by Rev. j. L.
Benson. The young couple left Immediately
after the ceremony for Northern trip.
Duck are said to be plentiful the |
cunning grounds, canvas backs especially |
SO, the latter being in very good condition.
They are reported as being very shy although |
some gunners are getting as high as from |
fifteen to twenty per day by bushwhacking.
Thanksgiving day passed very quietly in
Bel Air. The banks, public offices and many |
of the stores were closed. Services were held |
in several of the churches and the genera
aspect of the day was Sabbath like. num-
her of the young men spent the day cunning |
"A strange young man hired team from
Henry B. James, in Aberdeen, on Monday,
claiming that he was going to seeing {. t.
Courtney, who resides about two miles dis
tapt. Neither the man nor team has been
heard from since, and Mr.. Courtney has not
seen the man as yet.
Miss Alice NJ Youse, of the Shaftesbury
College of Expression, Baltimore, will give
one of her unique and enjoyable entertain
ments at Thomas Run School on Friday even
ing Dec. Sd, at eight O'Clock. Music will be
furnished on the occasion by Prof. Mahoney.
Proceeds for the benefit of the school.
An indenture of Lease was recorded on
Monday from Thomas H. Meior ct al, to
George H. Ehen, transferring the lands of
the Farmers Creamery Company, of shaws-
vile, for the unexpired portion of the forty
years for which the Company was incorpo-
rated, containing one and one-fourth acres OF
land, together with all of the rights of said
Company as manufacturers and dealers.
"A series of services will be held at the
Fallston Presbyterian church, commencing on
Sunday evening, November 2Sth and continu-
ing for one week, services being held nightly.
Rev. Wesley NJ. Hyde, pastor of the church,
will be assisted by Rev Samuel e. WATSON,
of Churchville, and other clergymen may
possibly assist. Gospel Hymns Nos. and
will be used. The public is invited TO these
special services.
The commissions of the recently elected
officials Of Hartford county have been signed
by Governor Lowndes and forwarded to the
Clerk of the Circuit Court. AS announced
last week, Mr.. Forwood will bond on Decem-
Der 1st By a special act of the General AS
sembly, Mr.. Forsythe will succeed Mr.. Cooley
on January list, and the members of the Leg
tn, bop hn
same time, as that body conVenes on the first
Wednesday in January.
Peter Cooper, an aged colored man, fell
through Stansbury's trestle, which crosses the
Baltimore and Lehigh Railroad on the Joppa
road, on Monday night, and was so badly in
iured that he died from the effects of the fall,
on Tuesday. 1t is supposed that he was walk
ing over the bridge, which is about thirty feet
high and fell through. He was taken to his
home. on the Cromwells Bridge road, near
BY, where he died. DIR. Massenburg testified
that Cooper died from congestion of the brain
and exposure, he having laid upon the ground
for several hours before being found.
On Tuesday night Mr.. f. X. Asher, the
agent of the Philadelphia Wilmington and
Baltimore Railroad at Aberdeen, was vicious
ly assaulted by an unknown drunken man
who tried to effect admission into the office.
Mr.. Asher attempted to eject the the intruder