The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1870-12-17
Tur M.nvL.Nn CrnrRAL R-The FOLLOWING

OF the baltimore Udzeue.
1.-THE people of Baltimore and Hartford coun-
ties, through which the contemplated Maryland
Central Railroad is intended to pass have cause
to be deeply thankful to the Gazette for the zeal
Gus and able manner in which it has advocated
its early construction.
''As has been truly stated, there is no section
of the State which possesses more of the requi-
sites necessary to furnish large and profitable
local trade TO a railroad than the country which
will be traversed by this road, from Baltimore TO
the Susquehanna, and beyond the latter, if the
road should be continued to the Pennsylvania
line, then to connect with a road to Philadelphia,
and from thence to New York, thus furnishing
another and independent route to the Eastern
cities, and accomplishing measure fraught with
advantages of the greatest moment to the interests
OF Baltimore and the State.
''While road from Baltimore to the Susque-
hanna, on the rout laid down for the Maryland
Central, would afford railroad facilities to a sec
ton of country rich in resources of every descrip
ton, still if il is to become merely ''sideling"
of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore
Railroad which is entirely controlled by the
former Company, we lose the great benefit that
would result from our having competing road,
and thus the question of great, if not paramount
importance arises, whether the effort at present
should be confined to merely constructing road
from Baltimore to some convenient point in Har-
ford, and there stop until the proper place for
crossing the river was determined upon, so as to
form connection that will no doubt, at no very
distant period, be offered by other companies
DESTROYS of establishing, with the assistance of
the Maryland Central, the independent route
above alluded to.
1.-The local travel freight and passenger, from
the above mentioned point to Baltimore, would,
no doubt, prove amply sufficient not only to keep
the road in repair, pay its working expenses,
&C., but in all probability leave surplus to be
divided among the stockholders or to be used in
the future extension of the road. After proper
consideration, ii will, no doubt, he conceded that
our true policy will be not TO permit our great
anxiety, in having the Maryland Central built,
to force us into any entangling alliance with
road whose interests are in continuing the present
monopoly of the trade between Baltimore and
the eastern Cities
s'If an earnest effort is made by the citizens OF
Baltimore and Hartford counties, with the assist
ance Of the citizens and city of Baltimore there
can be NO question but what the road may be
built TO such point in Hartford, near the Susque-
hanna, as may be fixed on, and then we can
bide our time, recollecting the old adage,
''There is luck in leisure" HARTFORD.
We CLIP the following items from the BelAir
Eqis Of the 9th instant:
Distressing Casualty and Subsequent Death
One day last week. Mrs. Hannah Archer, wife of
Mr. John Archer, residingon Winters Run, near
the Red School House, in this county, while par
taking of meal accidentally lodged a small
rabbit bone in her wind pipe, below the gullet.
Though suffocation did not ensue, the bone gave
great pain to the sufferer, and DR.. E. Hall
Richardson was called in, but his professional
skill failed to extract the obstruction. Upon his
IL NJ for D.,lf To
seek surgical aid. The surgeon applied to, Prof.
N. R. Smith, desired to open the wind-pipe
and extract the bone but TO this the sufferer OBJ
jected and the surgeon resorted to another method
that of forcing the obstruction from the wind
pipe. The operation, it is supposed, lacerated
the lungs, for bleeding ensued, and the unfortu-
nate lady expired within three hours after the
operation. The body was brought back to the
county, and the funeral took place on Sunday of
this week
Pursuit Of Stolen Property.-A gentleman
from Baltimore county, whose name we did not
learn, arrived in Be-Air last week, shortly after
the departure OF the gipsies, lately encamped
near this place, in pursuit of those wanderers, TO
recover a wagon, which he had given them in
counts they had not been caught.
Improving are glad to learn that our
townsman, DR.. Jesse G. Dance, whom painful
accident took suddenly from our streets the other
day, is rapidly improving. His injury was a
severe fracture of both bones of the right leg.
The EcLIPsE-The eclipse of the sun to take
place on the 22d OF December, and the coniigur-
alton, or relative position of planets toward each
other that will attend it, are beginning to cause
ofro III ,-;1l bor
upon the earth. 1t is remembered that the total
eclipse of 1868, called the Indian eclipse, was &C
by a series of tremendous earthquakes
along the South American coast and tidal
wave that made itself perceptible in many parts
Of the Pacific. The planetary juXtap0sition that
will attend the eclipse of December attended the
eclips in 1868. and it is conjectured that the dis
turbing effect on the earth will also be more
violent. 1t will be one of the greatest modern |
Total eclipses Of the that has taken place for
not only does it occur when the moon is partcu- |
arly near to the earth, but at period when the
earth is nearest the sun, and also at the time of
The winter solstice the moon likewise occuItatng
the planet Saturn; the planet Venus on the same
day being in confguration with the moon, de-
gree and minutes SOUTH the moon at the time
approaching her conjunction with the planet
which latter body will be only degree
10 minutes south of the moon. The planets
Jupiter and Uranus will also occupy such posi-
tons that the sun, the moon, the earth, Mercury,
Venus Jupiter and Uranus will all be in nearly
q right liue-a con6guration, as il is called such
as does not take place once in centuries
Being thus situated in a right line, their
attractions, and it is predicted that the eff
feet on the earth will be enormous tides, storms,
hurricanes, cyclones and perhaps earthquakes.
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A CoRREsPoNDENT of the Baltimore Sun, writing
from Ellicott City under date of December 10th,
says:
1.-THE Circuit Court for Howard county was oc-
cupied to-day in hearing the argument on the
motion for new trial in the case of Nisbett ct
al, VS.. Price ct al, tried at the late September
term of this court. The motion was sustained
by Gen. Kenly, and opposed by Thos Donaldson,
Esq, and Hon. Reverdy johnson. The court
adjourned until Saturday next, when a full bench
will be present to hear the concluding argument
in favor of new trial by l. hewitt Steele, Esq.
The amount of property involved in the contro-
versy is some SO, 900. The question is as to the
validity of the will of the late Miss Chacilla
Owings, of Baltimore county, which the jury at
the late trial refused to sustain, and found ver
dict for the plaintiffs for seven undivided tenths
of the real estate"
PENALTY FOR OPENING LETTERs.-Many people
seeing letters advertised are in the habit of think
ing there must be mistake in the address and
call for and open letters belonging to other
parties. There are also letters that occasionally
through haste or mistake, get into the wrong
boxes and are opened by parties TO whom they
do not belong. 1t would be as we'll TO let our
readers know that the penalty for any person
opening letter not addressed TO himself varies
from fine not exceeding $500 to Imprisonment
for ten years, (sec. 300, laws 1861 One half of
the pecuniary penalty shall be for the use of the
informer, (sec. 3l8, laws 1861
STATE SCHOLARSHIP IN ST. JOINS CoLLEGE.-It
is, perhaps, not generally known that Baltimore
county is entitled to five State Scholarships in
St. Johns College There are at present several
vacancies and it would be well for parents, de-
sirous of giving their sons good education, to
take advantage of this generous offer of the State.
Applications for appointment can be made to
any of the County School Commissioners, or to
the Secretary, who will lay them before the
Board and who will cheerfully afford persons
applying any information desired.
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SALE OF FARMS IN BALTIMORE COUNTY On Mon
day Messrs. Trego & Kirkland, auctioneers, sold
a tract of land containing l26 acres, 2 roods and
20 perches, located about mile from Reisters-
town, on the Western Maryland Railroad, having
on it new frame dwelling, with dairy house
and outbuidings; purchased at SIS per acre by
Mr.. J. ]. Jackson. Also several other lots, con-
tanning in all l39 acres, having a frame dwelling
and outbuidings; purchased at S7T50 per acre