The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1868-12-05
PU1'0U7'UDHic.


A brides cake six feet high was feature
of a late Western wedding.
Postmaster Kelly, of New York, has 42i SOL
dier clerks in his office.
Waves that do not drown-the waves of Ia
dies handkerchiefs.
Hartford, Conn.,, is to have Grecan Bend
ball, with premium of $40 for the largest bend.
Seven hundred trains pass each other daily
at the Chaplain, London, Junction.
The Emperor of China is fourteen years old,
while his intended wife is nearly eleven.
Four brothers in N. Hampshire were lately
christcncd Europe, Asia, Africa and America.
There is an old lady in Columbus, Ohio, so
years old, who is cutting her third set Of teeth.
Some herring have family of only 100000
| young ones every year.
Three thousand mechanics and laborers are
out of employment in Louisville.
| The divorces in Vermont for five years have
numbered one to every twenty marriages.
Sight seers are already engaging rooms in
| Washington for Inauguration week
Mr.. Alden Goldsmith, of New York, has sold
his celebrated trottlng mare Goldsmith Maid
for $4,000.
C. N. Payne, the pedestrian, has succeeded
in walking 100 miles in % hours, 20 minutes,
| 81 seconds.
MluHcsoGd pays @lU apiece LOT VOL ScdipS,
and in the past year has expended $4,000 in
such purchases. Reliable--if true
John Powell died in a New York ball room
on Thanksgiving night. Too much dancing
and heat disease were the cause.
The Boston Post thinks might re-
sumo specie payments from the number of
"silver weddings announced.
A colored man has been admitted us stu
dent of law to the University of Michigan-the
first instance of the kind in that State.
The municipal election in New York on Mon
| day last resulted in the success of the Demo-
cratic candidates for Mayor and Corporation
Attorney by over fifty thousand majority
All o'clock on Tuesday afternoon last,
Edward Weston started on his great walk of
five thousand miles from the steps of the court
house in Bangor, Maine, to st Paul, MINI.
The costumes of the ladies who promenade
| Broadway, New York surpass those of
the theatre in gorgeousness. Such briliancy
in colors was never before witnessed on the
arena of fashion.
1t is stated that there are now over three
hundred graduates of female medical colleges
in active practice in the United States, some
of whom are in receipt of $4,000 per annum
from their profession.
On the passenger train going east Tuesday
morning there were twenty five persons. Eigh
:, teen of the twenty five were named Smith, and
four of them were named John Smith-DG Dan
uUle Regjster
The Union Pacific road conveys passengers
one thousand four hundred and thirty miles
from Chicago. "Only ten days to California =
is advertised by the company, in connection
with the Wells Fargo Express.
A clergyman once took for his text these
words: THE World, the Flesh and the Devil"
and commenced his sermon in this manner =
81 shall pass over the Flesh, touch lightly upon
the World. and hasten on as fast as can to the
Devil" Wonder what the sequel was
1t is stated that Clarkson n POTTER of New
York, gets a fee of $00000 from the London
bankers, Overend Quincy & Co., for prosecut-
ing their suits against the Atlantic and Great
Western Railway Company. Mr.. Potter is a
son of Bishop Potter, and democratic Con
gresham elect.
: In Marathon county, Wisconsin, alone, one
hundred logging camps, averaging ten men
r each, will be in full operation by the first or
/ middle of December. Each camp will average
2 100000 feet of lumber, making in the whole
5O,OO0,OOO feet as the lumber product of one
county.
Once, when jeff Davis was crossing the Cap
itol Square in Richmond, a drunken North
Carolina soldier stopped him and inquired
"Say, mister, be'ent you Jefferson Davis ~
Sir" returned the President, chat is my
name" 81 thought so," returned tar heel
''you look so much like Confederate postage
stamp"