The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-11-10

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Upon the north tablet is
He Was Born m
AT Drumsnagh, Ireland
na1 Came to America
In 1850; r
Settled on Sans Greek, Frederick CO., Md,
And Began to Preach Christ
In His Own House.
Upon the south tablet is:
He Built
1858 The Log Meeting House
In Frederick County, Maryland,
/ 1854, 4'ftaL
The FIRST IN AMERICA.
adf He Died in Peace
in 1881,
At Mr.. John Wheeler's, Baltimore County,,
Whittier He Had Gone to Preach. ~
The east tablet is blank
/ The exercises were opened with brief prayer
by Rev. VIM. H. Holiday. short opening
statement was then made by Rev. Isaac p Cook
to the effect that short time SINCE as ~ If
the Local Preachers Association of Baltimore, ne
i was informed that this monument had been do
mated to perpetuate the memory of Strawbridge
who was the first preacher, either local or travel
| ling, and the founder of Melhodism in Maryland
The ashes of Robert Strawbridge repose at a point
within eight miles of Baltimore but be doubted
whether anything of them could be found ii an
! effort were made to remove them.
Rev. G. O. NJ. Roberts, D. D., then read brief
history of the life and services of Strawbridge
from the Centenary Album published by him.
Rev. W. Hamilton, d. D., was next introduce
ed, and delivered brief and interesting address
| He said
There is no harm in celebrating departed worth;
indeed, the act may be virtuous and useful. We
honor the gratitude of Maryland in rearing a
monument to the memory of the Father of his
Country, and we esteem that act as a virtue wor-
| thy of all praise. God has 80 constituted the
| human soul that it is ever ready to do homage to
great and good mems ever seeking to give ut
terance to this Unborn sentiment of the heart to
embody it in some tangible form; to chisel it on
marble; to write it in books, or to publish it on
the platform and in the pulpit. Westminster
| Abbey has its monuments to statesmen, warriors
poets and historians; Bunker Hill has its monu-
ment of the Revolutionary struggle even Balti1
more has its Battle Monument; and shall Jacob
| have no Ebenezer?
We are now in good position to estimate in
measure the blessing which the pioneers of
Methodism have conferred upon posterity. The
| good which holy men accomplished is scarcely
visible in their own day.
The good effects of long life of useful and
sef-sacri6cing labor are but partially seen during
the laborer's brief life. Just few blades appear
from one or two of those seeds of truth which
had been scattered during his long life. The
myriad seeds which, as sower he scattered, lie
hid beneath the soil when he returns to the dust;
| liehid for the suns and showers to quicken into
| life and develop to perfection. Thus the world
requires ages 10 form anything like an estimate
of what its best men have wrought for its good
One new stream after another of national bless
| ngs comes down to our age; it dffuses its bene-
| fcent influence throughout the land; men begin
to trace it to its fountain, and then they find that
| it sprung from some old statesman, reformer =
some great thinker or divine that lived some CEN
turtles in the almost forgotten past Thus men
| have better opportunity for ascertaning the
value of the services which departed men have
rendered the world, than they have to discover
what good the living are doing now.
The speaker concluded with some good sug-
gesons to those around him, and the exercises
were closed by singing the Doxology, when Rev.
Edw. HeffDer pronounced the benediction =
| On last Thursday week, the remains Of Mr..
| Strawbridge were removed from the farm of Mr..
Lee to Mt. Olivet Cemetry. They had reposcd
there since 1881. A poplar tree had grown up
over his grave and has now grown to mammoth
proportions Under this few of the bones Of
the departed good man were found. We were
kindly sh own them as they passed through here
on their way to the city. The skull was entire,
and when first taken up the teeth adhered TO the
iaw-bone, but they soon shook off it. The thigh
bones were perfect, but evidently greatly shrank
up. These, with few bones of the arm, were
all that could be secured.
We are sorry to say, however, that there is a
doubt whether these are really the remains. of
Mr.. Strawbridge. Reports have always indica-
ted that they reposed directly beneath the large
poplar tree from which these were dug, but there
are numbers of old persons in the neighborhood
who positively assert that the old patriarch was
buried some distance from this tree. No one
seems to know exactly where he was buried, and
probably never will -
DISORDER AT THE PoLLs.-A serious row occur
red at the polls of the Third District on Tuesday
last. All the information we have on the sub
ject comes from copperhead sources, and from
these it seems that party came out from town,
hurrahing for Congress, and attempted to take
possession of the polls. The citizens, without
distinction of party, rallied and drove the ntru-
ders from the ground. In the melee about one
hundred pistol shots were fired. Two or three
of the Baltmoreans were seriously injured, and a
citizen of the county, man named Rice, was
shot in the foot. -
In the Twelfth District, also, difficulty oc-
Cured At an early hour three omnibus loads
of Copperheads went out from town and took
possession of the polls, and ii is said that the
Union party did not poll vote after their arri-
val. These visitors all residents of the city,
were armed with guns and revolvers, and were
headed by a notorious rebel named Howard, now
an attachee of the Custom House.
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A FIGMN AND AN OvERcoAT SToLEN.--On We'd
nesday last, party of Conservatives from Bal
timore, dined at the Smedley House, in this
town, and while at dinner took occasion to abuse
the Police Commissioners of Baltimore and eve
ry body who supported them. Mr.. Elias
Walker, of this county, was at the table at the
time, and made some reply to the insulting re-
marks of the Baltimore rowdy, when an attack
was Immediately made upon him. Mr.. Walker,
although not a fighting man, defended himself
and the result was that the Conservative got de-
Gently whipped. Later in the evening the party |
returned, armed with revolvers, &C., and tried
hard to raise another row, but did not succeed. |
They then left for Baltimore, but one Of them,
in mistake of course, stole an overcoat belonging |
to Mr.. Eberly ofMechanicsburg, Penna. The |
coat was hanging in the hall of the Smedley, and |
their is proof positive that one of the Baltimore |
party appropriated it,
NARROW EscAPE.-Mr Michael Of Baltimore
County, and three other gentlemen, made mar
row escape of their lives on Tuesday, the 30th Of
October, by being carried down the stream while
crossing the big Gunpowder in an ox-cart, at
the county road crossing near Phoenix Station. |
Doctor Thompson, also made narrow escape |
the same morning, whilst crossing at the same
Fording. A young man attempted to cross in
boat, when he too, came near losing his life.-I
The bridge at this important point was washed
away last June, and persons compelled to cross
to and from Phoenix Station and other points,
have been subjected to the great risk of losing /
life, stock, &C., ever since. Whose fault is this
The County Commissioners should look to it and
have the bridge replaced at once, ere a serious
accident occurs involving the county for damages.
PAPER Mill DESTROYED By FIRE-The large
paper Mill known as "White Hail." situated near
the Parkton Station of the Northern Central i
Railroad, in this county, belonging to Mr.. Thos.
E. Ensor, took fire in the boiler house on Fri
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