The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1871-02-25
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A thirty eight year old pony has inst
died at Worcester, Mass.
- Rose-colored letter paper is now quite
fashionable.
= California is expecting a visit in April
from President Grant and Secretary Fish,
- Boston reports an ice crop in that neigh
borhood of 500, 900 tons.
"A man in Columbus, Ohio, died of too much
laughing-gas in dentists chair last week.
- Detectives have arrested man supposed
to be one of the Kensington Bank robbers.
- During last year $40 new buildings, valued
at $765,3OO were erected at Wilmington, Del.
- The total resources and liabilities of all
the National Banks in the United States are
81, 53S, 99S lO5.
- The cost of leeches sold in Europe exceeds
$40, 600, 900 per annum. The finest are said to
come from the Murray river, Australia.
Paris once more has theatrical amuse-
ments, and strangely enough the most popular
play just now is called "The Siege of Paris"
The American gold mines west of the
Rocky Mountains are said to produce a little
less than 900 a year.
About $4,000, 900 worth of artificial flowers
are used annually in America. They are
chiefly made in France.
King Amadeus, of Spain, brought to
be very fond of these quadrupeds.
A Massachusetts, bootmaker in North
Bridgewater made l2,O25 pairs of boots last
year.
= Mr.. Sullivan, of Lockport, n Y, intro
duced new fashion in suicide by cutting his
throat with a handsaw
Mr.. John Marsh, an old citizen of Mar
riottsville, Howard county, Nd, was found
dead in bed last Saturday.
- Mrs Susan Rusk, of Allegheny county,
Va, died last week, at the age of III, leaving
an orphan daughter only 9S years old.
An Eastern ice company cut last week
some ice two and half feet thick, and so clear
that a business card could be read through it.
- In New Hampshire, during the year 1870
three hundred and thirteen applications for
divorce were brought before the Supreme Court
Of that State.
OF 9O,OOOO 600 railway travellers in France,
last year, only two passengers and four railway
servants were killed, and III passengers and
81 servants wounded.
- The Chicago Times, announcing the fact
that married man there tried to get out of
Jail, remarks that "some chaps have queer
idea of liberty"
The ingenuity of Chinese swindlers in pc
culiar. They split half dollars, take out
third of the silver, fill the space with lead,
and adroitly close up the cut
- Many ofthe democratic papers of Kentucky
are following the lead of the louisville Courier
Journal in favoring the admission of negro tes-
timony in the courts OF the State
The jail at Keene, n. H., being tenantess,
the local paper suggests that "as the rogues
seem to be all outside, it might be used as
safe retreat by few honest people of retiring
disposition"
Dell has been arrested in West Virginia by
the Freedmen's Bureau for alleged frauds on
colored bounty claimants, and taken to
Wilmington for trial.
- There is man living in the mountains of
North Carolina who, it is said, has reached the
age of one hundred and forty-three years. At
the time of Braddock's defeat he was twenty
years old and had wife and three children.
The New York Express says thatupwards
of 5000 cart loads of snow during the late
snow storm, were taken from the streets and
dumped into the river, at q cost of over $751;
600 to the city.
- The navigable portion of the Missouri
river amounts in all to 3, 80 miles. The channel
varies from 800 to 500 yards, except at low
water when it is from 500 to 700 feet. The
river and tributaries drain $4,000 square
miles.
"a girl of twenty, at Alton, ILL.,, is digging
a well for her father, at seventy-five cents a
foot. She has already put down two feet
Usually when a woman puts her foot down it
bodies no good but in Illinois, when she puts
down two feet, it means well.
An ingenious wife out West cured her hus-
band of snoring thus She had gutta-percha
tube with two Gup-shaped ends one she puts
over his nose and mouth and the other over his
ear. He consumes his own noise, as a stove
does its smoke, and wakes up instanter.
"A party of English emigrants have pur-
chased 5000 acres on the Cumberland river,
So miles from Nashville, Tenn. The land was
purchased for 50 per acre, with five years to
pay for it, The company numbers 300 per-
sons, all farmers and mechanics, and are soon
to arrive.
The pine forests of Pennsylvania are rab-
idly melting away. For ten years past the
consumption of timber to supply the numer-
Gus mills at Williamsport alone has been
immense. The amount of logs RATED out OF the
boom for the present season will cut over 215,-
100000 feet of boards.
"A Newspaper correspondent gives this as
full report of the response of United States
Senetor elect to a serenade. ''Those who know
me best, know that would rather work than
talk. | an for the people. for liberty and the
Constitution. hope to meet you all while
here in the Legislature in social talks, and, l
had almost said, drinks
A Big SALE.-As was announced in the adver-