The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-03-30
Tie Eels and 1ptellitepccr:
FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 80, 1900.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

pastor Of the Perryville NJ. E. Church.
The dedication Of the Southern Nethodis
Church at Aberdeen has been uha'oiuap'.
postponed from April to April ~.
Rev. X. G. Murray of the North Hartford
CircuIt. will leave for Washington, ID. C., OF
Monday to attend the annual conference.
-Ex-County Commissioners George B
Silver was slightly stricken with paralysis a
his home In the Second district, last week.
Miss Mabel Owens has resigned as assist
ant teacher In the school at South Delta and
returned to her home In Baltimore county.
The interest of Benjamin Wilson in the
Peach Bottom Slate Company, has been pur'
chased by Messrs. Harlan & Webster FOL
$1,000.
A license was issued at Towsontown on
Tuesday, for the marriage of Alvin ). Trout
of Gorsuch Mill, and Miss Mamie A. Hershey,
of Shane.
The marriage of Mr.. j. Alexis shriver
and Miss Harriet VanBibb has been an
nouuced to take place in the early part Of
June next.
The old sPost Road'' has been covered
the entire distance between Aberdeen and
Havre de Grace with shells and is in first
class condition.
The wilma W. C. T. U. will hold its
regular business meeting at the home OF Mrs.
q. w, McComas on Thursday April 9Th at
half past two.
john Trago of Fulford, exhibited at this
Office on Wednesday, double beaded cab
bage of the Drumhead variety, which is
veIitable freak of nature.
Mr.. George NJ. Wiley, lately Of Constitu-
ton, has rented the property of Mrs. Carsins,
at Maryland Line, New Market,) Baltimore
county, and will shortly remove to that
place.
The steamer "Kitty Knight" will take
the place Of the steamer Sasssfras, on the
Baltimore, Havre de Grace and Port Deposit
route, until the latter steamer has been re-
paired.
John Scott, q colored employe OF Mr.. j..
Royston SITTER, was struck in the eye by q
piece Of wood, while engaged at the woodpile
on Monday, and badly injured. DIR. Munnik-
huysen attended him.
Mrs. Amos Hughes, the aged mother Of
ex-sheriff w. Oliver Hughes, fell down
stairs at her home near Lapidum, one day
last week. She was severely bruised, but
fortunately no bones were broken.
Letters testamentary upon the estate Of
the late Henry d. Farnandis have been grant
ed by the Register of Wills to Bessie D. Far
nandis, George &. Farnandis and Thomas II.
Robinson. They have filed bond for SIS, 600.
The boilers by which the Delta public
school is kept comfortable, were repaired
lately ON Sunday, in order that tuition might
be renewed on Monday, and the strict Sab
batarans Of that vicinity are aghast at the
wickedness Of 1t.
"A meeting of the stockholders Of the
will be held at the Second National Bank on
Monday evening, at which the officers for the
ensuing term will be selected.
The annual meeting of the Washington
Conference OF the NJ. E. Church, (colored) adj
iourned this week. Among their appoint
ments are Abingdon, W. II. Jones; Bel Air,
J. W. Carroll; Fallston, C. W. Matthews;
Michaelsville. j. C. Lane.
"A lecture on sour Legacy to the Future,'
was delivered in the Court House on Monday
night by Mrs. Hoffman, Of St. Louis. The
speaker who is an attractive orator, paid her
respects to President Mckinley, Secretaries
Gage and Bliss, and the Republican Congress
in forcible manner. A good audience was
present.
The famous pritchard viii case, or as
probably better known "The Cat Swamp
case" which was heard in Bel Air in 1898, has
again made Its appearance In public, this time
In the State OF Delaware, where action has
been taken to GUST Henry Henderson, who Is
In possession. One half Of the farm being in
Delaware, it is claimed that the hartford de-
cisIon did not affect that part Of it.
The Jarrettsville Junior Base Ball Club
has recognized for the season of 1900. Fill
more Smithson has been chosen as the captain
and Howard Tucker as manager. The players
are W. Smithson, c.; j. Jeffery, p; ). W.
Tucker, /. f.; H. e. Tucker, 81 b; W. A. Will
son, Sd b.; C. NJ. Merryman, 1st h., G. II. Tay-
Tor, C. f.; F. 8. Stoneburner, s. 8; c. Ii. Spen-
Ger, r. T.. A. j. Wilson and j. H. Bay, substi.
tutes. They announce their willingness to
play any junior club in the county.
On Tuesday Sheriff Kinhart took Joseph
Bush, colored, who WAS convicted of COM
plicity in the murder of Edward Lee last
August, to the peniteutiary, to which he had
been sentenced for term OF five years. Joseph
Young, who was sentenced to be hung for the
same crime is still in jail awaiting further
developments. The papers necessary to enable
the Governor to appoint the day for his ex-
ecution having not yet been completed. A
paper asking for communication OF his
sentence is being circulated.
"A new industry for Havre de Grace, and
set 81 old industry In some other sections,
has been introduced In this city. The indus
try 10 a novelty here, and consists OF tapping
sugar maple trees for syrup. Mrs. George
Buuce, who spent several years In western
Canada, where the industry is engaged in to
. profit, is thoroughly conversant with the
method Of taking the syrup and the manu-
factura Of maple sugar. Two or three weeks
ago she noticed several sugar maple trees on
Girard street, near her home, and proceeded
to tap them. She secured two or three quarts
OF the syrup, and brought to the Ledger office
specimen glass Of as pure and clear syrup
as, probably, 1t Is possible to make. The pro-
cess Of taking the syrup from the trees at
trscted much attentlon.-Democratic Ledger.
Bel Air Notes.
Mrs. Julia A. Reckord was paralyzed at the
home Of her son, Mr.. d. B. Reckord, on
Thursday morning.
Patrolman John 2. Flowers, of the Balti.
more City Police Force, was q visitor among
his old friends in Bel Air this week.
A Tribute TO a HarfordOnian.
Max O'Rell, the famous French author, paid
a visit not long since to the GEORGETOWN, Ky,,