The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1869-08-14
Panoramic.

1WSUVSCGEISccCs
Paris has steam omnibuses.
The Postal Service for the last year received
$3O,OOO,OOO.
Real estate in Philadelphia is reported on
the decrease.
Each West Pointer costs the government
$4,000.
Real estate transactions in Chicago average
81, 100000 per week.
Arkansas is expected to make $30,00O,00O
from her cotton crop this year.
Eight hundred new liquor saloons were Ii
censed in Chicago last year.
Blackberres, among the ancient Greeks, were
considered a preventive of govt.
John Ford, a jockey has been ruled off the
Saratoga course for fraudulent riding.
The temperance societies of the United States
have membership in total of 100000
Baltimore manufactured 22,54l, 1S4 cigars
during the last year.
California pears are sold at retail, in Chicago,
six for a dollar.
Mules sell readily in the West at $l3jaSl65,
for use on the street railways.
The Annapolis Gazette says "From Balti-
more Roughs, go Lord, deliver us "
Montgomery county, Ohio, produces $4,000,
900 worth of tobacco per annum.
A famous bull known as ''Sweepstakes," was
sold last week to an Ohio planter for $1,000.
VIM. B. Astor, of N. Y, is going to complete
the Washington monument athis own expense
All the Chicago gambling houses have been
closed by order of the superintendent of police
Masked highway robbers, it is said, infest
the central and southern parts ofPennsylvania
10000 Cinnamon now dwell in the United
States. Their numbers will soon be a million
In 1860 there were but 402 miles of horse
railroad in the United States. 1t is estimated
that there are at least 1000 miles today.
The reason why Chicago thinks she is to be
the great watering place of the country, is be-
.s.'-e ns-flace is so uniformlysgainy.
Somebody has figured up Commodore
Vanderbilts wealth at 500 900 600. This places
Vallandgham says that the honest men of
his party are obliged to take back seats. That's
why Vallandigham is so prominent.
Nowadays, in refined society, mans nose
is not "pulled." 1t is gently and quietly
turned" That's all.
| A number of farmers in st. Clair county, H.,
have bought steam threshers manufactured in
| the east, and thresh their grain by steam
power.
To such state of cleanliness has Cincinnati
been reduced, that firm in the West End have
been compelled to put up sign of "Dirt
| Wanted"
Five years imprisonment is the sentence of
an Illinois villain who robbed q house, then
fired it, and burned widow and her daughter
| in their beds.
A great fire occurred at Philadelphia on
Wednesday night of last week. The loss was
about ten millions of dollars. Twenty thous-
and barrels of whiskey were destroyed.
1t is said that Simon Cameron, United States
| Senator from Pennsylvania, owns seven hun
dred acres of land near Harrisburg, estimated
| to be worth 81 900 per acre.
The ability of the female tongue to keep a
secret is proved by the conduct of st. Johns
girl who did not tell her lover that she was
worth four millions in her own right until af-
| ter the marriage.
Novel reading and croquet playing absorb
the attention of the majority of the young Ia
dies at the seaside watering places. THEN
mammas and maiden aunts are engrossed in
| gossip and scandal.
At the Springfield street Chapel, Boston, the
other day, DR.. Chapins father, who is SO years
old and lame from fall, was supported down
| the aisle by Father Cleveland, aged 9S, and
another spry veteran aged 100
Among the curiosities at the late Philologi-
cal Convention at Poughkeepse, a man
who protested to have invented method OIL
learning every language on the globe, and who
was willing to sell his patent for $4,000!
The Prince of Wales annual income cannot
be much, if any less than $l5O,OO0, and may
exceed that sum. And yet it proposed to ap
| peal to parliament to pay his travelling eXpen
ses in the East, in consideration of his marrow
resources.
Charles II. Loomis quite intelligent color.
ed man, who halls originally from Fredericks
burg, Virginia, and who has been acting in
the capacity Of barber to President Grant, and
who performed the same service for King Andy
has been appointed to a clerkship in the Third
Auditors Office Wash. Cor. RbilG. Ing.
An ingenious man in Illinois has patented a
self-acting water elevator. 1t is about the size
| of quart cup, but will raise thirty gallons OF
| water from a well or cistern in am hour, and
by use of the necessary piping will lead it all
over the house. In old times water would not
run up hill.
lady gathering berries in a field in Central
| New York, was very much frightened at dis
covering corpse with its throat cut She ran
for assistance, and when she returned found
that it was only some rogue who had stained
his neck with berry juice, and profted by her
alarm to steal her pail of berries.
1t seems to be settled that John Chinaman
| and his sister make good servants-a fact that
causes thousands Of households to long for
| GHclH. 1HOSt WO udNc HlIcu Jutul ueCldI0 tHd
they can be brought to almost any point Of
perfection and punctuality, while they are eco
nomical from the beginning. Let them come
say we ALL
The planting of trees is encouraged in Iowa
| by law which, it is stated, provides that the
planter Of forest trees is, for every acre. releas-
ed from taxation for ten years on one hundred
sdollar's valuation and for each acre of fruit
trees planted from taxation of fifty dollars
valuation for five years. The same provisions
as to fruit trees are applied to the planting OF
shade trees and hedges along the highways.
The Berkely West Virginia. Union says =
ga man who is too stingy to advertise farm
he has for sale, put up written notice in one
of the hotels the other day. A man who was
inquiring for q small farm was referred to the
written notice. He replied 4 can't buy land
at fair price of any man who advertises in
that way. He'll steal the fence, the pump
handle, and barn doors before he gives up pos
| session."
A saving man who deposited $1,000 in Uni
house, writes to the Treasury Department that
his wife, ignorant of the hiding place of the
| money, lighted fire in the furnace, and the
bonds were reduced to cinders The man also
| forwarded the ashes and charred pieces, and
| experts of the Departments having made out
the full amount $1,000 in good notes were sent
| to him.
INCIDENTS AND MORAL OF A BANK FAILURE OF