National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-10-14
MARYLAND NEWS.

It is reported that the Baltimore and Ohio Raj
road Company WILL about November !, put on
train from HagerstoHn to Baltimore, via Wash
ington.
The political IRE in " Washington county is grad
uRlly getting warm. The friends OF both Mr.
LOwndes and Mr.. Walsh are confident Of sue
cess.
One hundred and seventy. five thousand pounds
of peaches have been shipped from Washington
county to Baltimore and Washington city this
year.
Mr. John T Ford introduced in the first branch
ofthe Baltimore city council Monday an ordinance
proposing raise the grades Of the streets flooded
by the freshet of Jones Falls July "A, 1858.
For the week ending Monday there were IA
deaths in Baltimore.
The bell for the new City Hall in Baltimore,
weighing SOFT pounds, was placed In position
Monday. 1t is the largest bell ever cast in Bal
timore.
House No. 3s2 North Stricken street, Baltimore,
occupied by Ar. Travers, is visited by large
crowds of people to investigate the mystery OF
the bell ringing.
Monday ?, 500 children Of the public schools Of
Baltimore visited the Maryland Institute fair.
The body Of a man was found on the bridge
crossing the Washington road, near stockholm
street, Baltimore, Monday morning. The re-
mains were identified as those Of Henry Burke.
Coroner DOnavin viewed the body, and pro-
nouneed the cause Of death to have been an cpl
leptic fit.
After delay of many weeks the work upon
the new Roman Catholic church building at
ReisterstOWn was resumed last week. The walls
nave Deen erected ana covered IN WIN u suluklo
roof. The belfry is finished and the sashes and
doors made. 1t now requires $1,000 more to COM
plete Il and to erect suitable building for resi-
dence and school. which are necessary adjuncts Of
every church. Both Catholics and Protestants
in the neighborhOod Of Reisterstown have con-
tributed literally towards its erection thus far,
and the Rev. Father Waldron, Of Pikesyille, is
now seeking elsewhere means to complete the
building, and prepare at least in some way for
place Of worship during the coming month.
The great trotting match between Jay Gould
and Bashaw, IT., which comes of tomorrow after
toon on the Herring Run course, continues to at
tract attention.
The mammoth tunnel on Howard street, Balti-
more, is rapidly approaching completion.
A resolution by Mr.. Ford, in the first branch Of
the city council, has been adopted requesting the
commissioners Of the fire department to have the,
bells Of the various enginehOuses rang at suitable
hours, morning, noon and evening, on the 18th of
this month, and requesting the mayor to have the
bell Of the new City Hall rung at the same hours
on the same day. This will make a bell-ring-
ing jubilee in honor Of tea-burning centennial Of
Maryland.
The Maryland synod Of the Lutheran Church,
which has been in session at Martinsburg, VIVA,
has adjourned.
A bloody murder occurred Monday, near Aber-
deem, Hartford county, in which Miss Susan
Taylor, aged forty years, was the victim, and the
murdereraJ oshua Griffin. aged twenty-h years.
He had been in the family since he was two years
OF age. Griffin was arrested and taken to Belair,
where he was lodged in jail. The affair caused
great excitement.