The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1873-08-16
LOCAL BREyITIEs,-

LOCAL BREvITIEs.-
Rain has been plenteous.
-Towsontown has not been built to the rail-
road yet.
The Colored Campmeeting commenced in
Tows0ntown on Friday.
Palmer will be executed at this place on
Friday next, August 22d.
Hon. Richard Grason met with slight &C.
cident on Sunday morning last, by falling into
his ice house.
VIM. s. Keech, ESQ.,, has gone on a trip to
Burlington, Vermont, and will visit Montreal,
Canada, before his return.
The Camp of the M. P. Church at this
place, was brought to aclose on Tuesday morn
ing.
The Colored Campmeeting held in the
woods of jackson Wilson, Esq, near Sweet
Air, was attended by hundreds of persons on
Sunday last.
Our. esteemed friend and excellent caterer
Francis l. Wheeler, ESQ.,, of Westminster, is
keeping the Hotel at the Emory Grove Camp
meeting. His guests will receive courteous at
tention and agreeable accommodations.
"A Habeas Corpus case was tried in the
Circuit Court for Baltimore county on Wednes-
day, for the person of Mary E. Leach by Eliza
Cole from VIM. Leach. Mr.. Hack was counsel
for the petitioner. Judge Yellott was on the
Bench. The petition was dismissed.
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THE FIFTH ANNUAL AGRICULTURAL AND Me-
cHANIcAL STATE FAIR.-The fifth annual fair of
the Maryland State Agricultural and Mechan-
ical Association will be held at the fair grounds,
at Pimlico, Baltimore county, from the 9TH to the
18th of October next, inclusive. The meeting
of the association, held last fall, was very
successful one, and the display to be made by
exhibitors this year. it is thought, will be larger
than ever before, as the means of access to the
grounds, which have heretofore been precari-
GUS and expensive, will by the expected COM
pletion of the Pimlico horse railway become
much cheaper and more certain at the coming
fair. The track of the railroad is now all laid
and nearly in condition to place the cars upon
it. The only impeachment now remaining to
prevent the completion of the road is the ina
bility so far of the directors of the road to OBJ
tain a right of way through Druid Hill Park,
through which the road must pass. It's hoped
that this difficulty will be overcome, however,
by October. The president of the association,
Mr. George S. Brown, assisted by the secretary
and treasurer, Mr.. D. C. Trimble, is now en-
gagged in making preparations for the meeting,
with the hope that it will be the most success
full yet held in the State. The premium list has
been somewhat enlarged, and the value of the
different premiums to be distributed for sue
cessfully competing animals and articles OF in
dustry amounts to about $4,000. The grounds
at Pimlico are now in excellent condition and
are covered with fine turf. Additional build
ings have been lately erected by the society and
many repairs made. We learn from the Off
GERS of the society that the number and the varie
ty of the breeds of thorough bred cattle will be
greatly increased this year, and the aid extend
ed the State Poultry Association is expected to
make the poultry department an unusually ex-
cellent and interesting one. The superintend
ents of the various departments are as follows: :
Cattle, Jesse Slingluff; horses, Ii. o. Devries;
sheep and swine, VIM. 7. Trimble; poultry and
other birds, Chas. X. Harrison agricultural
productions, Z. Whitman implements, W. S.
g. Baker; carriages and leather manufactures,
Hon. A. Bowie Davis. Trials of speed will take
place each day under the direction of Messrs.
George B. Milligan, George Brown and Geo.
P. West, committee.
There are sixteen premiums offered for the
different breeds of swine, varying in amount
from eight to twelve dollars. The awards for
the best specimens of poultry and other birds
are numerous and liberal, varying in amount
from 81 to 49, with So additional for the best
collections. In class of the premium list,
embracing nearly all of the agricultural pro-
auctions of the State, together with articles of
domestic and household manufacture, the pre-
miums range from one dollar up to twenty, in
proportion to the value of the article exhibit
ed. Glass III embraces carriages and all kinds
of leather manufactures, with eighteen premi-
ums, running from 50 up to $50.
The premiums offered for the best agricultu-
raj implements are numerous, and amount to
nearly seven hundred dollars, with discretion
airy premiums to the amount of 500 to be dis
tributed according to the judgment of the COM
mittee for any especially new and valuable
improvement. The premiums offered for the
different trials of speed which will take place
each day during the fair amount to 81, 800, in
sums ranging from $50 up to 5000. Workmen
are now busily engaged in whitewashing and
repairing the buildings under the personal d.
rection of Mr.. Richard F. Maynard, marshal
of the association, and W. D. Breckenridge,
superintendent of the exhibition hall