The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1871-08-05

| LOCAL BREvITIEs.-
The Commissioners were in session this week.
They had snow two inches deep in Virginia
last week
A friend sent US this week list of seven new
subscribers. Let the good work go on.
Have you paid your dog tax? If not, walk up
| to the captains Office
George II. Carman, Esq, has announced him
self as q candidate for tne State Senatorship.
The August term of Court will commence on
the fourth Monday of the month-the 29th
The prospects for large yield Of corn are
promising.
The dog days are passing away-we wish the
dogs were also.
There was a mad dog in town on Tuesday last,
and bit several worthless CANNES Be careful.
Everybody and everybody's wife will be at
Emory Grove camp meeting tomorrow Sunday. J
We are going to have new walk on Penn
sylvania avenue. Hip, hip
The hog cholera is very destructive in some
parts of Howard county.
Don't forget the stage line from Towsontown
to the camp meeting on Sunday.
The Maryland Editors Association start on
their third annual excursion on Monday morning
next, over the B. & O. RR
The band met on Monday night, and elected
Henry W. Sheaey, president, and James &. Dun
ply, secretary.
Messrs. William and Joseph Bowen are making
much needed improvement in the steps in front
of the Court House.
A. P. Burt Esq one of the directors on the
part of the city in the Western Maryland Rail-
road, has resigned.
The Office of the Towsontown railway has
been treated to a. new coat of paint ~ Messrs.
Porter & Bowen.
William Meade Addison, prominent member
of the Baltimore Bar, died at White Sulphur
Springs last week.
1t is probable that the Methodist Protestant
denomination will hold camp meeting at this
place some time during the present month.
Summer is rapidly drawing to close. Soon
the season OF the oscar aud yellow leaf' will be
upon US.
Mr. Benjamin r. Anderson, of Monkton, is
supplying coal TO this neighborhood at reasOna-
BILE prices Lay in your stock before it goes up.
Our thanks are due Mr.. Lewis VOgle, for some
beautiful plums, about the size of Il hens egg,
raised in his garden.
Charles Ridgely Ware, formerly resident of
this town, died in Franklin county, Ohio, on the
22d of July.
We are panied to announce the death of Levi
X. Bowen, Esq, which occurred at his residence,
fifth district, on Tuesday last
The grand banner meeting and barbecue takes
place at the 'tWhite House." fifth district, on
august AAlu n Jig LAtAI -hN q OiE
beef are expected.
Earl SOMEBODY once said that all men of sense
were of one religion and upon being asked what
religion that was, replied "That, men o. sense
never tell ="
A bird paid US a visit this week Our devil
tried TO put ''some salt on his TAIL" but in his
efforts to do so pulled the tail out and the bird
left, minus that useful apendage.
Active preparations going among the
Al a
which is to be held in the Court House the latter
part of this month.
The colored camp meeting in Mrs. Stansbury's
woods, near this town, is still in progress. 1t
has been largely attended and the best order pre-
walls.
Peaches are very plentiful and are selling on
the wharves in Baltimore at twenty-five cents
box. We are paying twenty-five cents GPeck for
them here.
A young man out West was instantly killed
recently by being struck with base ball bat in
a game He was playing too close behind the
striker. Boys, beware.
Spring gates are fast taking the place of the
old style. 0ne has recently been placed at the
entrance TO the residence of Frederick Harrison,
Esq. They are an excellent thing andeverybody
should have one.
On account of the editorial excursion on Mon
day, hand trunks are in demand in our town.
The editors of the Union will carry their ward
toothbrushes and four paper collars
in a segar box.
Virginia avenue, in the clown of Towson-
town" looks well The beautiful trenches that
extend through the centre of it indispensable.
The Commissioners should go over and look at
it Watkins Glen will soon sink into insignifi
canoe beside this grand work Of Rature-or rain.
Judging from the number of baby carriages
on our streets in the evening we should say the
population of the town was increasing rapidly.
If the mothers of some Of these children knew
how they are treated by theinhuman nurses, they
would keep them At home.
Pritchard, who is in Jail at this place under
sentence of death, was visited this week by Mr..
Wash. Danskin, of Baltimore the great spirit
ualist We understand the condemned is firm
believer in spiritualsm, and is something of a
medium.
We make cur most profound bow and return
our most sincere thanks to the three young la
dies who visited our office on Thursday morning
and presented US with basket of delicious fruit,
beautifully garnished with flowers and ever
greens. Nothing serves So well to tighten the
burdens of business and brighten the usually
sombre aspect of our sanctum as the appearance
in it of a bevy of charming maidens, whose
smiles are as Sunshine and whose checks bloom
with the tint of youth and beauty.