The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1873-01-25
LOCAL BREvITIEs.-
February l4th is St. Valentines day

1OCAL DhENlIlkS.-
February l4th is St. Valentines day.
The days are now nine hours and forty-eieht
minutes in length.
The Grand Jury adjourned on Saturday last
The report will be found elsewhere in our columns
"A family HOP" will take place at Govans-
town Hotel, York road, on Wednesday night
next, Goth inst.
When are we going to have that new pub.
lie school house in Towsontown "Hope defer
red makeih The heart sck'
We think, by little more application and
practice, the choir of the new NJ. E. Church might
be greatly improved. There is room for it.
A clean" man named Pork was arrested
in Baltimore on Tuesday tor immoderate driving.
He saved his bacon" BY paying 6ue of SIS.
The Susquehanna river was higher on Sun
day aud Monday last than it hes been for years
before and an immense destruction of property is
the result
The case Of John Schwartz and John Weaver,
indicted for the murder Of Casper Eichelman, is
set for trial in the Circuit Court on Friday next,
Jan. 3ls..
The case of the Western Maryland Railroad
Company VS.. A. B. Patterson, was concluded in
the Superior Court of Baltimore on Tuesday and
held sub caria.
Our thanks are due Prof. NJ. A. Newell of
the State Normal School for copy of "Circu.
for November, 1872"
More Suicide inducers'' around this week
in the shape OF four men with brass horns, max
ing noise which was supposed by some to be
an imitation OF music
The Western Union Telegraph Company are
about putting up a line between this place and
Riders Switch. We have not learned where the
Office is to be established
Property along the line of the Baltimore and
Pikesville railway is rapidly enhancing IN value.
The road passes through one of the most beauti-
full sections OF our county.
"A valuable mule, belonging TO Mr.. William
Brooks of Woodberry, broke one of his legs by
falling on the ice in Baltimore on the 10th inst,
from the effects of which be died.
A satisfactory arrangement has been made
by which the right Of way through the Hamp-
ton estate has been granted TO the city for laying
the pipes for the temporary water supply.
"A motion made in the City Council of
Baltimore ON Tuesday to repeal the ordinance
providing for temporary supply of water from
the Gunpower A vote was taken and the mo-
ton was lost
-"If there is anybody under the canister of
heaven that | have in utter excrescence," says
Mrs Darlington, iii is the Islander going about
like boy constructor, circulating his calomel up
on honest folks p"
1t was Daniel. " ho said MANY shall run to
and fro, and knowledge shall be increased" He
clearly referred to reporters in this remark and
this suggests the idea that Daniel was in that
line himself; it is certain at all events that he
was allowed 10 pass in Tree to see the lions.
The hands at work on the Md. & Pa. rail-
road, near this place, were paid off on Saturday
last aud all, black and white ''went in" for a
good time. As natural consequence the stock
of ''the ardent was greatly diminished and
drunkenness regned supreme. No disturbances.
e B. Almoney, Esq, Clerk to the Board of
County Commissioners, was married on Thursday
last to Miss Matte, youngest daughter OF VIM.
Gent, ESQ, of this town. On the same day S.
Parker Bosley, Esq, led to the altar Miss George
j. Price, daughtero OF William Price, Esq, of this
county.
We noticed large black spot on the fourth
page of the York True Democrat of this week
and were puzzled to know what it was until we
read beneath it, prize Mule Jenny" The edi-
tor deserves credit Tor telling his readers what
the Spot was intended for. 1t would have
been quite as Ineligible had he left the space
blank and said-''this is a mule.'
A young lady writes to an exchange giving
a receipt for having fun. She says, invite half
dozen boys and girls 10 your house when your pa
and ma are away put a half-dollar silver piece
in dish with molasses an inch deep in it, aud
offer it TO the boy who gets it with bis mouth
The more the boys try TO geti the more fun will
there be. That girl deserves a diploma.