The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1873-12-27
Local BREvITIEs

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The misiOrtunes OF others should teach US
prudence.
The oyster supper for the benefit of Tow
soniOwn NJ. Z. Church, Melted about $75.
The York road has been lined this week with
wagons going to aud returning from market.
The influence Of example is terrible re-
sponsbility on the shoulders of every individual.
We have another cunning accident to re-
cord this week. When will people learn to be
carefully
For the week ending Monday, December 22d,
there were one hundred and seventeen deaths in
Baltimore.
The grading on the Towsontown branch of
the Baltimore and Swami Lake Railroad has
been completed.
"A family chop will be given at the hotel
Of Mrs. Ady, Hartford road, on Tuesday evening
next, Both instant
"A lawyer out West advertses for the chairs
of Rebecca Long. 1t must have been a
| 'swtchn she lost
The new Visduct Hotel, built by the B. &
| o. R. R. Co.. at Relay House, has been opened
to the travelling public.
The examination for scholarships in st.
Johns and the Agricultural College takes place
on Monday next. Don't forget it.
We hear of a nice young man, who, at a
musical party being told TO "oring out the old
| Tyre" brought out his mother-in-law."
| The Grand Jury for the December term OF
| the Circuit Court adjourned On Saturday last.
Its report may be found in our columns to-day.
The new buildings al Mt. Vernon Mills, have
nearly been completed, and spoken OF as be-
| ing very attractive in appearance, and at the
| same time substantial.
The annual meeting of the stockholders of
| the Duaney's Valley turnpike will be held at
Ady's Hotel Towsontown, on Monday, January
5th, at IL O'Clock a. III.
| The New Year begins Thursday next.
| We wonder bow many neW resolutions will be
| made in this vicinity on that day. Some fellow
| has said that if these resolutions were made of
potter's clay the noise caused by their breaking
| would equal that OF an earthquake.
| Our baker, Held, drives fiery s,eed. On
| Saturday last he took notion TO deliver bread
on his own hook and accordingly went out the
Dulaney Valley pike al a rate OF speed surpass-
| ing that Of 40 express train. The contents OF
| the wagon were well mixed when be was brought
back.
| Our friend Vanderiord, of the Westminster
| AdUocate, appeared ia role this week. On
| the evening oi the 9th inst, amateur theat-
| rica peIfOrmanee. Tor the benefit OF a church, !
was given, wh-u he appe ,red in the character Of
| "Lord Plato, in the farce entitled "Rough Dia-
mond " If there had been any special trains on
| the W NJ. R. R to convey passengers to West |
minister TO witness his debut we most certainly
would have been hand We know he did the
| "heavg" to perfection.
| We had = little farce in TowsontOwn on |
| Monday, and thai rOsd convention did il. 1t |
was the briefesi lling on record. 81 move Mr.
| - takes the chair - 81 move the members of
| the Legislature from Baltimore county make the
| roads" 81 move we adjourn Exit delegates |
These are the proceedings in full AS late as
half-pas IL o'clock we saw gentlemen spying |
| around for something that looked like q conven- |
tion but behold there wasn't any thing to be |
seen. Verify, We live in fast age.
A RABlD HoRsE-A REMARKABLE CAsE.-The |
| Belair 1Egis of 10Th instant says: Yesterday |
horse belonging 10 Mr. Walter Cunningham, who |
lives near Highland Store, in the neighborhood |
of Thomas Run. was seized with most terrible |
| fit of rabies szd burst from the stable where be
| was kept. The horse was blind but hearing |
noise at the house, situated short distance from |
the stable be rushed towards it with open mouth, |
| fiery eyes and oaming jaws, biting and swapping |
ierociously, aud actually making his way up |
several of the steps to the porch. His attention |
| was next diverted by noise made by person |
| ia the yard when he started in the direction of
the individual, who barely escaped being run |
| over and perhaps bitten. The animal not being |
able to see, ran headlong against tree, at which
he bit viciously until again attracted by noise
made BY a neghbOr who arrived on the scene |
with gun in hand, when the excitement was at
| its highest pitch The mad horse charged upon |
eudeavored to shoot the animal, but the gun |
would not go off
"Matters looked serious No one dared to ap- |
| proach the furions horse, which galloped around |
| in every direction in his blind rage biting and |
swapping at everything he touched, and tearing |
huge pieces of flesh out of his fore legs At last
he became fastened in a fence, and being unable |
to e1tricate himself was knocked in the head and
| killed
at appears that about month ago large
| dog belonging TO Mr.. Cunningham evinced an
unusual disposition to bite nearly everybody and
everything that came in his way, although at the
| same tme fully under his masters control The
| dog became more and more violent, until Mr.. @.
was compelled to chain him. He broke loose
however, and bit this horse, COW, some hogs
and several other dogs. Mr. Cunningham then
| killed him, and little more was thought about
the matter until the horse went mad. The neigh
borhood is greatly alarmed for fear that the dogs
and other animals bitten may yet 60 mad, and
therefore every dog is eyed with suspicion.
SAD AND FATAL AccIDENT.-It is seldom that
| we are called upon to record a more sad affair
than that which occurred almost under our own
| eyes on Tuesday last. The facts are as follows
| son Of Mr. Thomas Anderson, of the 10th dis
trict aged about fifteen years, in company with
his father, was returning from Baltimore with a
| two-horse market wagon, and was seated on the
saddle horse, fractions young animal. At
| Jackson's hill, about one mile below this place,
the horses took fright and started TO run. They
| continued their course until reaching a point
near the toll gate where the unfortunate lad fell
| from the saddle to the hard road, both wheels
| Of the wagon passing over his chest. He was
taken up soon after and brought to the public
house of Mr.. Lewis H. Urban, where several
physicians were called in TO see him, but all pro-
| nounced bis case hopeless as be had received
| ceriOus internal iniury that M human Aid |
could save him. Upon being informed of the
condition of his son, the almost heart-broken
parent left bis bed side and proceeded towards
his home for the purpose of conveying the sad
intelligence to his family, and also to bring the
mother Of the unfortunate boy to his dying bed,
but before he had time 10 return the dread mes
senger came and relieved him of his suferugs.
The little fellow conscious up to the time of
bis death and talked pleasantly with those about
him, saying that be KIN, would die, and that
the only thing he soi for was that be was
not at home. The body was taken home about
eight o clock on the same evening.
! ANoTHERGUNNING ACCIDENT.--William Bayne,
Jr blacksmith by trade, living at Baynesville,
on the Joppa road, two miles east of Towson-
town, met with an accident on Saturday last
which will make him cripple for life, and
| which mi ght have proved fatal He was gun
ming and meeting one or two neighbors stopped
| TO Talk Win JnetIi, TeSbluS inc UubG Vi buO gun
upon the ground, with both his hands over the
muzze. Whilst in this position, from some un-
known cause, the gun was discharged, the shot
tearing his hands into shreds and number of
them lodging in his face. He was brought to
TowsontoUn and in Company with DIR. ]. II.
| Jarrett went to Baltimore where DR.. Butler,
amputated the index finger of his right hand
and the thumb of his left. The other fingers,
| it is thought, can be saved. The unfortunate
young man has the warmest sympathies of
the entire neighborhood. He is now doing as
we'll as could be expected.
| SS~
A GENEROUS AcT.-The Baltimore Gazette of
10th nst says: ain this time OF general dis
tress, there are many generous acts, and occa-
sionally one or two of a notable character be-
come known in spite of the efforts of the gen.
erous persons to conceal themselves. Such
one is in the following circumstance. A lady
from Ireland was here with three children in
the greatest distress, unable to obtain the means
of living here, or of returning to ner home in
Ireland. Her condition became known to DIR.
R. S. Stewart, President of the Maryland Hos
pital for the Insane, near Gainesville, who vol
UNFAIRLY and most generously paid the passage
Of the family in one of the Allen Line, from
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