The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-07-11


The Cecil Democrat tells that Cecil county
has harvested the finest crop of wheat that she
| hee produced fer sony yoarS-and her grass
crop is excellent.
The State of M ichgan is now in the midst
of the fever of agitation over the question of
female suffrage. The question comes up at
the fall election in the shape of constitution
al amendment. The partsans for and against
it are making things warm. But we are in
formed through the press that there is not
much prospect of the amendmer being adopt
ed.
Allegheny city, Pennsylvania, came very
near dedcating her habitations to the celebra-
ton of the Fourth of July Saturday last.
sportive youth in an ebulition Of patriotism,
threw FIRE cracker into carpenter shop and
square and a half was consumed. 1t was
feared at one time that the city would end
in one grand bonfire in honor of our indie
pendence Day
Lieutenant General Sherman aud his staff
will soon take up their Headquarters il st.
Louis, from which Gen. Sherman will make
occasional pilgrimages to the city of Magnifi-
cent Distances to make his reports and to
range Military Matters with the Secretary of
War. Some folk declare this is ting entering
wedge to the removal of the capital to the
banks of the Mississippi
The new bridge across the Mississippi at
st. Louis was formally opened on the 4th inst.
A procession five miles long wendell its way
|, oh 4bo ~ 4 o,,II Of fbo bri1 0a
when salute of one hundred guns was fred
at each end The structure cost $4,000, 00O.-
B. Gratz Brown, the distinguished gentleman
who assisted the amented Horace Greedy in
1872 'to shake bands" with the Democracy
"across the bloody chasm," delivered the ora
ton.
The Commissioners for the Government of
the District of Columbia have organized and
are now ready for the transaction of business
The Commission is a good one and the public
has an unquestioned right to expect good work
from it, There is evident room for improve
ment over their predecessors, and discrimi-
mating people will look for it with deep So
licitude. Their opportunity and responsibility
are full of importance to them and to the tax
payers of the District.
We are informed by western gentleman
that there was never fairer promise fora bun-
dant crops of every description there than
there is this season. Wheat in every portion
of the west is excellent in quality and album
dant in quantity. Being farmer himself and
an observant man our informant tells us he
would pay eighty cents per bushel for wheat
as speculation. The only thing that can
make the price of wheat stand at good point
under such circumstances is foreign war and
demand in consequence
On Saturday afternoon last there was
tornado passed over several sections OF coun-
try. Lake Erie was considerably agitated.
A boat was capszed and two of its inmates
drowned. railroad bridge at Lewiston, Pa,
was blown down with train of empty freight
cars upon it. number of boys who were
playing base ball took refuge from the storm
under the bridge and several of them were
killed and others badly injured. In Washing
ton city the steeple of the Metropolitan church
was much damaged aud moved five feet from
the perpendicular. Telegraph wires and tops
of tall buildings were much injured.