The aegis & intelligencer., 1899-09-15
The EGISAND lNTELLlGENCER.
FRIDAY MORNING. SEPT. is, 1899,
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

opened a store near BLACK ltOrse.
Miss Helen Lost has been appointed a
teacher of the school at Michaelsville.
MIR. John Divers is lying i'll at his hom'
near Upper Cross Roads, with typhoid fever
-Rev. j. II. Jeffrts, Junior Pastor of Yves
Hartford Circuit of the NJ. E. Church, preached
in Bel Air on Sunday.
A special collection was taken at st
Ignatius' Church, Hickory, on Sunday, fo
the benefit of the Porto Rican sufferers.
The total contributions for the Monu
ment fund of Rodgers Post, e.. a. r., oi
Havre de Grace amount thus far to $i1l.G
The Cecil County Telephone and Tele
graph Company was enjoined, last week
from cutting the trees 10 the Court House
square, Elkton.
Letters testamentary upon the estate oi
DR.. William Dallsm have been granted by the
Register of Wills to A. H. strasbaugh and
William Dallam.
The dance which was to have been held
at the Rocks Of Deer Creek last Friday even
ing was prevented by the storm and wilt be
held this evening.
The south bound &. & l.. trains ON Mon
day and Tuesday carried large number of
Harford's citizens to witness the Dyer cele-
bration In Baltimore.
Mr.. Wilton GreeRway's Lord Hartford
won the $50 trotting race, at Rockville Fair,
on the 7ih instant, in three straight heats.
Time 2S34, 2.34, 2.43
-Protracted services will commence in the
Norrisvine Methodist Protestant Church,
next Sunday night, under the direction Of the
pastor, Rev. James l.. Elderdice.
Rev. X. J. Stewart, pastor of Statewide
Presbyterian Church, received telegram, on
Monday of last week, announcing the death
Of his father, at Port Penn, Delaware.
Nelson Title, a wellknowu colored resi-
dent of Marshall's district, died last week at
his home near Cathcart. He was parayzed
several months ago aud never recovered.
The meeting of the VanBibber Improve
ment and Social Association, announced for
last Saturday night, was postponed until to-
night, Friday, September Is, at VanBibber.
"A marriage license was issued by the
Clerk of the Circuit Court, on Monday, to
Mr.. William E. Lewis and Mrs. Theresa
Wachsmith, both of Baltimore. The appli-
cant was 7. A Cronin.
There have been an unusually large num-
ber of summer visitors to Hartford county this
year, and as the beauties and advantages of
our county become more extensively known,
the number will naturally increase.
The young men of Upper Falls gave
dance at the Casino Tuesday night, in honor
OF Miss Edna Latrobe, of Baltimore, who,
with her mother, Mrs. r. Steuart Latrobe, is
spending September in the neighborhood.
DIR. F. Lee Hughes, the eldest son of ex-
Sheriff W. Oliver Hughes, expects to leave
his Hartford homo for JOPLIN, Missouri, to-
day. He will enter upon the practice of his
profession there. May success attend him.
Mr.. William L. Cooley, as auctioneer,
sold at sheriff's sale, on Monday, at the Court
House, the Ruth johnson property, near
Jarrettsville, containing so acres, to Mr..
Robert Archer, who now offers it at private
sale.
Friday afternoon was an exceedingly
close and sultry one. 1t was succeeded BY
heavy thunderstorm at night which wss ac-
companied by great amount of electricity,
which purified the atmosphere to gratifying
extent.
During the storm last Friday night, the
large barn of A. P. Crockett, in Cecil county,
was destroyed by lightning, with its contents.
The loss was 81 500, the insurance being $780,
The property was occupied by Benjamin
Boyles.
MIR. ]. W. Mitchell, of Level, sends us
SPECIMENS of the kind of tomatoes he raises
Two of them, on the same stem, weighed 2
pounds and IA ounces, the larger one weigh
ing 2 pounds and ounces. They were raised
with Reckord's Special Compound.
MIR. David Hanway's Major secured
second place in the 225 class trot at the
Dover, Del, Fair, on Friday. Time 2.234,
222i, 2 23!. Mr.. Wilton Greenway has made
entries for the races at Prospect Park, near
Baltimore, from September IL to 16.
Rev. John w. Lee, colored Presbyterian
minister, OF Annapolis, has instituted through
his counsel, g. L. Pendeton, proceedings for
divorce from his wife, Lavinia Lee. The
couple were married eight years ago. Lee is
from Bel Air, and his wife is from Baltimore.
Plans aud specifications have been COM
pleted for extensive Improvements to the
Methodist Episcopal Church at Havre de
Grace. 1t estimated that the cost will reach
$1,000. The building will be extended about
Is feet, and the pulpit will be removed from
the east to the north side of the auditorium.
Mr. William Drysdale, son of the late
Rev. DR.. Drysdale, who was pastor Of the
PRESBYTERIAN Church at Bel Air, during the
civil war, is a resident of Crawford, New
Jersey. Mr.. Drysdale, when young man,
became reporter and is now an author of
repute, having written a number Of popular
books.
On Thursday night of last week freight
accident occurred on the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad bridge, on the Cecil county side.
The front wheels of coal car slipped from
the rail and tore up about 5000 feet of the
angle plate from the rails. The train was
stopped and the other cars remained on the
track uninjured.
Mrs. Ella Busher, of Havre de Grace,
through her attorney, MIR. 8. E. Penning, has
filed bill for divorce from her husband,
James F. Busher, to whom she was married
In 1889. The allegation In the bill is desertion
and non-support. They have one child. The
bill further alleges that in 1897 the defendant
took the child, without her knowledge and
consent, to New York, and has kept him there
ever since.
Rev. J. F. Baggs, the popular pastor of
Grace NJ. E. Church South, Aberdeen, has
been suffering for the past two weeks with
nervous prostration. On Wednesday with his
wife he left for visit to Talbot county, where
he will rest for a fewweeks. During his
absence Rev. c. l.. Damaron, a former
pastor Of the church, will fill the pulpit.
Next Sunday, September II, Rev. Mr.. Dana
ron will preach at Aberdeen Town Hall, at
SP. NJ. and at Perryman NJ. E Church South,
at II A. NJ.
County COmIRisstOners.
Road Checks Issued-John Ernest, $l0SS:
Josiah Bailey, $25; James Hamilton, $40; F.
j. Hopkins, $3.50; Alfred Thomas $22 so;
Morgan Whiteford, S25; Charles RAINBOW, so;
Alexander E. Cullum, $24069.
Certificates sIssued-Eugene F. Guilott,con-
stables account, 1890.
W. T. Clark, Calvin Galbreath and 2. L.