The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1873-03-01
LOCAL BREvITIEs.

LOCAL BREvITIEs--
The March term of Court commences on Mon-
day next.
Those in want of fresh and reliable garden
seeds call at c. r. Chew's store, Towsontown.
&C. Bohn Slingluf, Esq has purchased the
f1e large residence of Hon. George Yellott, in
this town.
We hear that the contractors are at work on
the Baltimore and Swami Lake railroad. This
looks encouraging.
The Sewing Society supper, at the residence
of Mrs Dorsey, on Thursday night of last week.
was a decided success.
The meeting at Towsontown NJ. L. church
on Wednesday evening was well attended and
was entirely satisfactory.
A valuable dog of the English Mastiff species,
belonging to o. P. Macgill, ESQ, was poisoned
on Friday night of last week.
Monday last was another very cold day. the
thermometer at clock in the morning indica-
ting only two degrees above zero.
ON Wednesday night last the ground was
again covered with snow to the depth of about 4
inches, and sleighs were running.
Joseph Durham, aged %, hung himselfin a
barn near Bel-Air, on Tuesday last. A love az
fair is said to have been the cause of the rash act
On Tuesday night q coal oil lamp exploded
in the residence OF William S. Keech, Esq, in this
town, but fortunately did no damage, the flames
Allen Wilson, formerly resident of this
county and well known here, died in Baltimore
last week. His remains were inferred at ST.
James church, My Lady's Manor
The railroad hands were paid off again last
week and on Wednesday they INDUCED in a
heavy drunk, the result of which was several
fsticutfs in streets. Where was our ''police
force ?"
MIR. G. c. Carman, for the last seven years
overseer for J. II. Reiman, Esq, on the York
road short distance below Towsontown, has
removed TO the farm of Prof N r. Smith in the
LIST district.
Thomas II Moore, Esq Of this county, has
Withdrawn his suit for libel against The Mountain
City Times, tba, paper having made full and
complete retraclion of the article published re-
fleeing upon Mr.. Moore.
Foundations are being dug for number of
houses ia and around Wayerly, Friendship, &c.
We wish we had some Of The enterprise Of those
aourishng villages. But why talk Wait till
we get a steam railroad
1t has been rumoIed that the great corpora
tion--the Pennsy lvania Central Rairoad-has
swallowed up another great corporatiOn-the
Northern Central This, if done at all has been
consummated by lease.
The first OF series of lectures in aid of the
NJ. p. parsonage at this place, 10y Rev. Mr.. Mich
OILS, was delivered in EPSON Church on Wednes-
day evening laSl. The next will be given on
Wednesday evening next, March 9Th, commencing
at o. clock
"A fine team Of spirited hcrses, attached to a
wagon loaded with fodder, and belonging to Mr.
Samuel Evans away from in front of Mr..
Chew's store On Tuesday morning last They
came down the turnpike at break neck speed but
were stopped AT Shealey's scales without doing
any serious damage.
Bill Holiday, who made bis escape from the
Jail at this place with Levin Palmer about two
years ago. and who was afterwards arrested, tried
and convicted upon another charge, and sentenced
to the penten,iary for one year, was brought here
on Thursday morning, his ;erm Of sentence hav-
ing expired on that day. At the time of his es-
cape he was awaiting trial on a charge of larceny.