The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-04-18
LOCAL BREvITIEs.-
Bets for and against extension are now in

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8 shot and about as nutritious.
The State tax for the next two years will
be 20 5-;6 cents on the $500. The rate for the
past two years was IL cts. on the $780,
| Nicholas Treadway, who, for twenty five
years, had been employed as an engineer on
the N. c. R. R., died in York last week.
Another remedy has been discovered for
rheumatism in London. 1t is a hot sand bath.
| This makes 1884 remedies-all infallible.
| ID. j. Cox, the well-known proprietor of
| the old Three Mile House, Hookstown road,
died on Tuesday last, after short illness.
Joseph B. Mitchell, ESQ.,, Register of Wills,
has commenced the erection of brick dwell
ling, near the York road, south of Towsontown.
The engineer of a freight train on the N.
c. R. r., broke his collar bone in jumping from
his engine at Phoenix, on Friday of last week.
Hugh Bolton, ESQ.,, an old and much re-
spected merchant of Baltimore, died at his res
idence in that city on the 9th inst, in the 18th
| year OF his age.
DIR. Edward NJ. Greenway, of Baltimore,
has erected at Stonyhurst, near Hampden vii
lage, Falls road, three handsome stone cottages
in Gothic style.
| H. l.. Bowen, ESQ.,, real estate agent, OF
this place, has recently sold number of farms,
| lots, residences, &c. His business seems to be
on the increase.
"A boy was fooling around the cage of lion
belonging to Forepaugh's circus, in Baltimore,
| off for his pains.
A swooning woman can't be handled. You
may hold an eel, pckpocket, pickle or a
politician but woman nohow. Take sam
pie home and try.
Samuel Young, of Hampden. Falls road,
employed the Pikesvlle railway, last week
had one of his eyes seriously injured by a
| piece of stone striking in it.
There were forty-fve gallons of writing
fluid used in Congress last session. This was
only writing fluid, mind you there were 9TH
err kinds that were used, of course.
The law taxing dogs 81 per head passed
the Legislature. This will be the signal for
killing lot of worthless brutes. People who
own good dog won't object to paying the tax.
Mr. Samuel |. Donaldson, Jr., of Baltimore,
died in N. Y. on the Sth inst, aged 80 years.
Mr.. D. was well known IN this community, he
ha wing spent several summers at the Smedley
DR. William r. Wilmer, Collector of Inter
nal Revenue for the 9Th district, Maryland,
called on US on Thursday last. The DR.. is
shrewd business man and an excellent officer.
Mrs Ann Stitt. mother of Rev. j. B. Stitt,
until recently pastor of Towsontown M. E.
church. died at her residence, Piermont, N. Y,
on the 10th inst, in the 18th year of her age
The Baltimore city passenger railway COM
pany has reduced the wages of conductors and
drivers to 50 per day. The men are obliged to
work between seventeen and eighteen hours
each day.
There will be seven voting places within
the territory proposed to be taken in by the
city The part 10 be annexed--or not to be-in-
cludes portions of the LIST, 81, 9th, 18th and
18th districts.
An editor, who speaks with the air of a
man who has discovered Il new fact by expe-
rence, says that the way to prevent bleeding
at the nose is to keep your nose out OF other
peoples business.
"A model husband from the land of fiction.
"He admired his wife so much that he used to
light the candle three times every night to
look at her /; and he became very celebrated
bankrupt two or three times"
The Commissioners of Hartford county last
week appointed Joshua H. Scarf, Esq, to con-
fer with the Commissioners of Baltimore coun-
ty with reference to the repair OF the bridge
over the Little Gunpowder, at Baldwin's mill.
"A subscriber to the Union, residing in San
Francisco, California, on Tuesday last paid for
his paper four gears IN ADVANCE. Is there
another paper in the State that has such sub
scriber? We expect not. Ours is the cham
pion.
At convention of farmers, held in Balt
more last week. DIR. Merryman, of the sth dis
trict, offered a series of resolutions proposing
to establish a weekly newspaper solely IN the
interest of farmers. The resolutions were
adopted.
BY order of the Postofice Department,
mail route No. 1925, Baltimore to Pikesville,
from April 18th, instant, service was discon-
tinued and contract annulled. Service will
hereafter be provided by the Western Mary
land Railroad
Under the new assessment law Baltimore
county has been divided into seven assessment
districts, with three assessors to each district,
at salary of 81 per day. The assessors are
required to be property holders, and resident
in the district one year.
81 fear" said a country minister to his
flock, "when explained to you in my last
charity sermon that philanthropy was the love
to say Specie. which may account for the
smallness of the collection"
AT general meeting of the stockholders
of the N. G. R. r. held in Baltimore on Thurs
day of last week. the proposition to lease the
road at six per cent. to the Pennsylvania Cen
trail, was rejected. At the same meeting
loan of $40 900, 900 was ordered.
The Ladies' Mite Society of Woodbury. M.
E. church will hold fair and festival the lat
ter part of May, the proceeds to be devoted to
the erection of a parsonage. A suitable lot has
already been offered, and $1,000 promised on
condition that the ladies raise an equal amount.
Alpha Lodge, No. II, Independent Order
OF Mechadics, of Woodbury., has been in ex'
istence little over three years, now numbers
one hundred and eighty seven members, and
has paid out among the members of the Order
over three thousand dollars in the way of ben
efts
The commissions for Magistrates, officers
of Registration and Coroners were received at
the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court for
Baltimore county, on Tuesday, 14th instant.
Those interested are required by law to quail
fy within thirty days, otherwise the commits
sions will be returned to the Governor.
There are to be twenty-one assessors APP
pointed by the Governor for Baltimore county.
We expect there are twice that many appli-
cants from each district, half of whom are no
more fit for the position than they are for that
of President of the United States. We trust
none but competent men will be appointed.
"A correspondent of the Herald says that
"There are some politicians in or on the Dem
ocratic party of Baltimore county, who will
have to be shelved, or the Democratic party of
Baltimore county will be shelved." This far
seeing correspondent should be awarded
leather medal. Couldn't he fix the date at
which this SHELVING" will be likely to take
place.
For some time past the people of Waverly,
York road, and vicinity, have been greatly
annoyed by night prowler who carried off
all the chickens he could come across. white
man named Harker was suspected, watch
was set on his house, and on Monday night the
scamp was captured with a number of chick
ems in bag. About three hundred fowls had
been stolen from different persons. Harker
was lodged in Jail.
4uo vi iOSlo dsioh Aoi lhO iSeS
bordering on the city, held meeting in Balti-
more on Wednesday to take some action with
reference to opening their books for the pur-
pose of registering before the coming May cleo
ton There is some difference of opinion
among the registers in regard to the meaning
of the law, and therefore no definite action was
taken. We are unable to state whether the
books will be opened or not.
The annual meeting of the Prisoners Aid
Society was held at the Friends Meeting House,
Baltimore, on Tuesday night last. Among the
reports from different county prisons, &C., we
| find the following "Towsontown jail, Balt-
more county, is kept tidy, and the new aims
house is plete and excellent. On the Oath
of last August, when the visit was made, there
were 20 inmates of the almshouse, IL of them
insane, at the temporary almshouse near the
village of Texas"
There is a couple known as "Jane and
| John"--husband and wife-who usually win
ter at the Baltimore county Jail, always man
| aging to be committed for some trifing offense
| about the time cold weather commences. They
| spent the past winter in their old quarters,