The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-05-12

The health Of General Cass is decidedly better
atpresent than for some timepa All reports Of
his great danger, or of his brain being affected
are untrue
The Treasurer Of the United States has been
instructed to pay unuatured United States Ger.
tifcates Of Indebtedness to the extent Of 800,
O00, 900, il presented TO him before the first o.
he month";
A late Wisconsin paper tells of farmer who
in the recent freshet, had eighty rods Of line
fence, running east and west, swung around by
the water, carried quarter of mile from it
original position, and left in an exact line north
and south, and on the identical spot where ht
proposed building fence, and all this without
displacing rail from its original position.
marriage recently took place in South Caro-
lima, wherein the bridegroom was ss, the brid,
55, and the parson So. 1t was runaway
match-the parents of the blushing damsel being
averse to it.
Stockholders, who so ANONYMOUSLY left theil
British Province to escape duty, are now called
upon to pay tax of three dollars to the crown
become liable to military duty, if they do not
otherwise they must leave the country.
The Philadelphia Ledgers Washington CORE
spondent says that an order is understood tt
have been received at the office of the Attorney
General, from the Pre- sdent, yesterday directing
that the dockets of applicants for pardon be clear
ed entirely, which is almost equivalent to the IS
sue of a general amnesty, the leaders and promi-
nent individuals being alone excepted. Certain il
is the issue of general order cannot now be
much longer delayed.
An old physician of Troy, who has passed
through two cholera visitations, and suffered
from the disease himself, gives it as his Judg-
ment that the present summer will not be strong
ly marked by the epidemic. He says the symp-
toms which precede the disease do not exist, and
though they may be sporadic cases throughout
the city and country-even pretty severe visi-
tation in some localities yet the scourge will not
prevail anywhere in this country as an epidemic.
An amusing incident is related of Gen. Meade's
visit to PASSPORT In the midst of popular
oyature. and as the General was about driving
away from the wharf, an Irishman came running
breathless into the crowd, crying, "Where IS
Gineral Meade? want to see him." The Gen.
caught the reins, stopped the horse, and putting
his head out of the carriage, said, "Here am
look at me-" The man was speeches., and the
crowd enjoyed laugh at his expense.
A couple of Captains became desperate in a
saloon in New Orleans few days ago, and their
friends provided them with fowling-pieces for
bloody duel. They stood but few PAGES apart,
and both combatafs fell, one covered with mush
and the other with molasses, the seconds having
loaded the pieces with that sort of "vittles.'
Miss Stebbins, of Chickasaw county, Iowa, has
received an appointment as Notary Public for
that county. She is the first female ever having
received such commission, and is represented
as eminently competent.
A young lady of Cincinnati, on the verge of
the other day discovered that her be-
trothed was already married, and poisoned her
self Immediately.
A sleeping car, full Of passengers, on the Grand
Trunk Line between Montreal and Portland, was
thrown off the track on Saturday morning last,
and fell down fifteen feet embankment without
seriously injuring person. The car took fire
in the descent and was entirely destroyed.
The Washington Republican of this morning
makes the following statement in language which
indicates "by authority
The initiation trial of Jefferson Davis is posi-
lively going on in Virginia, by authority of the
Government and his early trial, in civil court
is fixed fact. 1t is not uncertain that Chief
Justice Chase will preside on the OCCASION