The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1871-01-07
The peach trees are blooming in Texa,


adjudged not guilty.
The peach trees are blooming in Texas.
Young ladies don't like self-fastening
skates.
The sweetest things in bonnets- pretty
face.
Salt Lake has apopulation of IL, 545 against
1926 in 1860.
"A. 7. Stewart says half the colored kid
gloves were once the hides of puppies.
Forage is so scarce in Paris that horses are
fed on bread
jeff Davis is expected to lecture in Cincin-
natl this winter.
The Southern freedmen own nearly six
hundred schoolhouses.
Previous to the war ninety religious papers
were published in Paris.
"A special event OF the old year was the en-
trance of cOiOred men into Congress.
Needing to be looked after when the mer-
curry is near zero-the poor and railroad iron.
The total product of corn last year is es-
timated at over eleven hundred millions of
bushels.
Lawrence Sullivan, sentenced to be hung
in New York on the 10th instant, has become
insane.
"A New Yorker has dog which he has
named Peanuts on account of the thinness of
his bark.
"A New York gentleman is gaining fame by
making his young lady friends presents of $500
baskets of flowers.
California people use, on an average, ten
gallons of wine each, annually, and sixteen
and three-ffth pounds of coffee.
DIR. Doddridge's prescription for the hour
0EOrnaf no oil
Ia thy way, e-4 -.
-spurgeon thinks some ministers would
make good martyrs-they are so dry they would
burn we'll.
Cincinnati arms her policemen with steel
nippers for Selling their victims, instead of
clubs and revolvers.
Indiana is emphatically railroad State.
Out Of ninety three counties in the State,
seventy one are crossed by one or more rail
roads.
Maine has produced a saving machine
which the other day sawed a cord of wood in
five minutes and a-half, cutting each stick
twice.
"A joint stock company is forming at
Meriden, Ct, with the object of prosecuting
liquor dealers under the new law, which makes
"adulteration" crime,
"A cetemporary in Indiana tells how a
brakeman, who was left by his train the other
day, took short cut on foot and beat his cars
fifteen minutes in walk of five miles.
The Presbyterian Banner insists that stu
dents in theological seminaries should be
taught music-that minister's should know how
to sing as well as preach.
Six venerable Wings of Mississippi, after
enjoying an uninterrupted slumber of nearly
twenty years, find themselves, on awakening,
"justly alarmed" at the political situation.
AN Indiana journal is trying to promote
pedestrian exercise among the students of the
State by urging law to prohibit the sale of
liquor within three miles OF any institution of
learning.
"A sale of ready made collins at auction
took place at Lincoln, Nebraska, recently. A
black walnut article, with silver trimmings,
brought $50, the purchaser being man whose
wife was very sick.
The people OF Springfield, Mass, are much
excited over the milk question. They quietly
submit to milk and water, but when it comes
to chalk, magnesia and other unpalatable sub
stances, they revolt.
old Hanks, the Illinois patriarch, who car
red in his arms the infant Abraham Lincoln, |
and who now carries Lincoln's first watch, |
lives in Montana, and is the oldest man in the |
Territory.
During the year just closed there were 49,
$50 deaths in Philadelphia, against 14,7S5 in |
the previous year. The number of building |
permits issued during the past year were 5,297 |
against 5,5O3 in the year previous.
The Providence (R. ~ Journal has the |
chest of authority" for saying that comet of |
large size will suddenly make its appearance |
On the night of June 10, 1871, and during the |
next four weeks the fate of the world will be |
decided"
"A Connecticut deacon, who made sharp |
bargain by trading lame horse to the minis
Ter, was asked what he thought the Lord would |
say to him for cheating so. He said there was |
40 evidence to show that the Lord knew a I
oundered horse any way.
"A life prisoner in the Massachusetts, state
prison has been solitary man for fifteen years,
Turing that time not hearing q footstep or see
ng human face save that of his daily atten-
liant. He is allowed plenty threading, but that
has at last palled and become undressing
Somebody quietly dropped a hundred dol
ar greenback in the money bag at one of the
Nellsburg (0hio) churches on Thanksgiving
Day. He has the satisfaction of hearing his
lone paper say that his gift was either a mis-
AXE or conscience money!
"A Geoegia editor is in luck Twentv-four
leathen Chinese walked into his sanctum the
ther day, and through the medium of an inter
'reter, paid cash down for twenty-four sub
crlptions to his paper. The editor wondered
realty what they wanted of an English nap err
lot being able to read it, and was informed
hat they took it for the pictures" in it, the
'aper having Costors rat cut, a catarrh cut,
uano trade mark, and an umbrella picture"
AT funeral at Newport, r. l., last week
instead OF hearse being used to convey the
emalns to their last resting place, an express
'agon completely enveloped in evergreens
inside and out was used for that purpose. A
alsed dais In the centre of the wagon, also
overed with evergreens, sustained the cofin,
hitch was profusely decked with flowers. The
ovelty was in accordance with the expressed
fish of the deceased