The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1873-04-05
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Massachusetts has shown her devotion to
science by voting in her Legislature $50, 900 for
the benefit of the Agassiz's Museum, at CAM
bridge.
The people are beginning to be furnished
with candidates for Offices. Vast numbers of
these modest mon are blessed with "many
friends
is all the bottom out Of the decayed Libcr
al-Greeley- Buchanan-J ackson-Je Jefferson Dem
ocracy of Baltimore county that it has to stand
ON "Ground Floor?"
The Journal of last week was vigorously
engaged in fighting the "wind.' From all the
circumstances things look as if somebody has
been Cruising the wind.
There are under currents at work among
the ringboned Democracy that are likely to
sweep the pins from under it this fall Look
for a smash when it falls.
Hon. Frederick A. Sawyer, Ex-senator from
South Carolina has been confirmed by the
United States Senate as Assistant Secretary of
State for the United States
The Virginia Legislature has passed reso-
buttons endorsing Gov. Walkers recommends
ton in his message to that body that the nation
al Government assume the payment of the State
debts.
Ben. Butler says the extra $1,000 paid
members of Congress costs each taxpayer Just
three cents. He offers to forward a postage
stamp to every man dissatisfied with the pass
age of the bill.
Mrs. President Lincoln is entitled to the
usa of tho from Ein0 nriv;Ia0a bx, 1,.t,,o &c n
special law of Congress which conferred it up
on her for life shortly after the assassination of
her husband
Ex-senator Cattell of New Jersey, has been
appointed by President Grant as the coniden
tial financial agent of the Government to go
abroad and negotiate Ehe new loan and teke the
| transfer Of bonds
The Tnfallible" has appointed the follow
ing bishops of the United States: Very Rev. M
A. Corrigan of the diocease of Newark, N. j.,
and the Rev. Mr.. Gross ofthe diocease of savan-
| nah, Georgia.
Robert E. Lee, Jr., the son of the Ex-Con-
federate General, is candidate for the next
Governor of the Old Dominion. If he does not
have record enough under ground to get him
INC pidCcs OhcIo ID HVpe lOr tue pcOpio VI VIZ
ginia.
What will be the amount of our necessary
expenses next year if the party, that has not
discovered its death, continues to run the ma
chine? A new lease of power will necessitate
a new outlay to furnish proper equipments for
the new. corners.
Credit Mobilier is being forgotten while
people are considering the propriety of Con-
gressmen taking an extra $4,000 from the Uni
ted States Treasury for their services when
| they contracted, at the time of their election,
to serve for that much less.
President Grant has pardoned Sherron
Childers and William Montgomery of South
Carolina, who were serving out two years
sentence in the Albany penitentiary for ku-klux
crimes committed in their native State. This
is the harsh President
-"Ground Floor" is very good place for the
remains of the old Greeley house, but we do not
think it will be long before they are put under
the ground. Thomas A. Hendricks is now at
work with his spade endeavoring to put it
where the bones of the departed rightfully be-
long.
The unfi nshed portion of the Western Ma
ryland railroad between Hagerstown and Will
Transport, it is believed, will soon be compile
ted. Greenberry Watkins of Montgomery
county, Maryland, has been given the contract
for its completion and will resume work along
the line very vigorously in short time.
Some fellow was so enthusiastic in his de-
votion to the collection of old relics that he
stole from the city archives of New York, one
of George Washington's old letters and sold it
for s., 500 Mayor Hall then, as an evidence
of his unquestioned integrity to the duties of
his position, sued the purchaser and recovered
it at a cost of $4,000.
Elk Senator James Dixon of Connecticut,
died at his residence, at Hartford, on 9th ulto.
He was Senator fros1 1857 10 1850, period of
twelve years He stood faithful to his trust
until Andrew johnson created his tornado in
the political circles of the country. He then ar
rayed himself on the side of "MIy Policy" and
consequently retired from political life at the
expiration of the term.
Admiral John B. Montgomery of U. S. N,
died at Carlisle, Penn, on 2jth inst. He en-
tered the service during the war of 1912. He
was with Commodore Perry in his great naval
victory on Lake Erie in 1914, and was midship-
man on the Niagara. He was in command of
the Washington navy yard in 1864. He was
twenty lone years and nine months in sea service
and seventeen years on shore duty.
There were 1000 arrests made in the city
of New York in the year 1872 This is num-
Der equal TO the whole number of criminals in
confinement in the United States at any one
time. in the same virtuouS city during the
same time there were one hundred and forty
murders and only one Of them was compelled
to pay the penalty of his crime upon the gal
lows
Five millions of the new postal cards will
be ready for distribution by the lst of May
They are being manufactured by the Morgan
Envelope company of Springfield, Massachus-
etts. They are three inches by five and one
eighth inches in size and will bear one cent
stamp with the inscription "U. S. P. o. d.
why not use up the alphabet? The law au-
thorizing their issue provides for lOOOOO,OOO
the first year, but Postmaster General Cres-
well thinks it will require about one third
more.
Dr.. Turr's REMED1Es.-W call the attention
of our readers to the advertisement of DR.. TUFTS
Remedies The celebrated Liver Pills are a
purely vegetable compound, and are the only
pure ones in the market that act gently but
thoroughly on the Stomach and never fail to
afford relief in the severest cases of Dyspepsia
and Indigestion. DR.. Tutt has an exclusive
practical knowledge a pharmaceutist and
chemist and has devoted the closet personal at
tention to this subject, hence we speak for all
his remedies which have degree ofsuccess and
popularity rarely attained among our people.
The other preparations will be found to he al!
that DR.. Tut claims for them and which trial
viii satisfactorily prove.-Gasette, Meridian,
Mss. Feb. 25ts, 1874
AN INVITATION TO VIRGINIA. The Richmond
State Journal makes an earnest appeal for good
men and women, without distinction of party or
sect, TO come and settle in Virginia, and promises
them an honest welcome. 1t says
Wehaveevery needed natural resource; we want
only population, skilled industry, and capital TO
make an Eden of fertility and beauty. Our State |
stretches over vast of various soils, lifted in
TO attitudes by grand mountains shellering love-
ly valleys, and belted by grand forests Beneath
them lie unused and unexplotd, exhausIless
stores of .cal iron marble slate, granite and all |