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The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-11-14

New RULES. The management OF the Fennsyl-
vania railroad has prepared new SET 81 rules
and regulations for the government of fheir en-
ployees which went into effect on the Is, inst
Below we print an abstract Of all of them OF in
terest to the public
Depot masters and assistants, passenger con-
dnciors aud brakemen and baggage masters must
wear suitable badges.
No passengers shall ride on IN engine or tender
without order from the General or Division
Superintendent of motive power
No passengers shall ride on freight trains
Passenger conductors must seat passengers and
see to their comfort aud enjoyment as much as
possible; see that none stand on the platforms or
ride on baggage, mail or express cars pnt off
passengers refusing 10 pay, at the next station ;
not permit drunken and dis0rderly persons on
trains, nor allow profanity.
Baggage agents and masters must handle bag
gage carefully; the former to charge for extra
weight invariably; the latter to carry only such
packages, bundles, money, etc rs the Division
Superintendent authorizes.
No tickets on credit
No tickets to persons so intoxicated as TO b. in
capable of taking care of themselves, or who by
reason Of such condition might risk their lives by
travelling nor to any one Incapable of selfcare.
Loungers are not permitted in telegraph Offices
No person except employees allowed 10 cross
bridges
United States mail agents, express managers,
sleeping car conductors, porters, news agents.
and individuals running private cars are to be re-
Garded and consider themselves as employ es,
and conform TO these rules and regulations.
Newsboys on trains will not be permitted to
individually mportune or annoy passengers, but
may announce in low voice, at intervals not
exceeding four times in each car the articles Of
fered for sale. Nor will they be permitted to de-
posit their papers, books. &c, ou the seats of the
cars, in the laps of passengers
All employees are TO exercise The utmost cour-
tesy toward passengers, giving all required infor-
nation never drinking, cursiug nor smoking
while on duty
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-11-14
COTTAGE DWELLING,

with Stable and Il Hot House, &C.. there being
also an abundance of fine Fruit Trees, as well
as grove of fine large Oak Trees, &c.
The terms OF sale are-0ne-balf cash, bal
anco in six months, or all cash, at the option
of the purchaser the credit payment to bear
interest and to be secured to the satisfaction of
the Attorney for the Mortgage. A deposit of
$500 will be required OF the purchaser at the
day of sale.
For further particulars apply to
SAMUEL II. COVER & SONS,
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-11-14

THANK GIVING PROCLAMATION President Grant
has issued the following proclamation, appoint
ing day oil thanksgiving aud prayer:
"Reminded by the changing seasons taat it is
time to pause in our daily voca,ions, and offer
thanks to Almighty God Tor thr mercies and
abundance OF the year which is now drawing to
a close. The BLESSINGS 0f "a rec government con-
tinue TO be Veuchslied To US. The earth has re-
has been tree from pestilence, Internal order is
mantaincd aud peace with other powers has
prevailed IL is flung That AT stated Periods we
should cease from our accustomed pursuits, ,.d
from the turmoil OF our daily lives, aud unite in
thank'ulnesS Tor the blessings o The pas and he
cultivation o. kindly feelings towards each nhe: !;
now, therefore, rtcDgn !Zing these considerations
|, U. ). Graal, President o. the United Sjatcs
do recommend to all citizens to assemble in their
respective places of worship, on Thursday, the
26th day of November next, and express their
thanks for the mercy and favor OF Almighty God !;
and LAYING aside all political contentious and
all secular occupations, to observe said day as II
day Of thanksgiving and prayer.
an witness whereof, have herewith set my
hand and caused The seal of the United States to
be affixed, Done Mt the seat of government, at
Washington, the 9th day of October, in the year
1874 aud of the independence of the United
States, the Doth. By the President
gu S. GRANT
HAMILTON FISH, Secretary of State"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-11-14
JAMES W. owINGs, Auctioneer,
PUBLIC SALE
PERSONAL PROPERTY IN BALQIMoRE
COUNTY.

ID ~ order of the Orphans Court for Balti-
ID more county, the undersigned, as Execu-
tor of William Beard, deceased, will sell at
public sale, at the late residence of the deceas-
ed, near Merryman's Mill, Sth District, and
near Warren Factory, on
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-11-14

SOMETHING New. The following under lie
head Of Friendly Inn," is taken from the Ur-
bana (Ohio) Gazette of late dale:
ga Friendly Inn is to be opened with nppro-
Thursday, October Goth. The Inn is an Offering
of the friends of the Temperance cause in that
city to young men, and it is to be made popu-
lar and attractive resort, being provided with
every variety of innocent and harmless amuse-
ments, among other things 1--WE have heard) bill
lizards and teu-pns.
owe know that billiards, and amusements OF
that character, are tabooed by very many good
people, yet we cannot but think. this movement
of the Springfield Temperance people is in the
right direction. 1t is very common thing to
cry down every variety OF recreation, because, it
is said, the associations are bad and there is
just the difficulty the associations should be i'm
proved We believe that people will yet learn
that billiards and pins suhserve the in
tereStS OF mortality by proper recognition aud
that VIXEN that lesson is learned we shall see the
dawning of better day Young men, especial
~ those who are thrown upon the world without
a home and its attractions, must have some kind
OF recreation, and il they cannot have il in the
society Of those who practice morality they will
GaeksiL snntewh eEe ,alse and iheY Uan&l4y indS Il
where the allurementS ale y4nares f1I ftieir "a
trapment, and they are gradually led into evil
cOndecension upon the part OF the people who are
right at heart and in purpose, but who verify
strain al gnat and swallow a camel "
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-11-14
JOHN S. BIDDISON, Auctlone
POSTPONED MORTGAGEE'S
SALE

-, VALUABLE REAL ESTATE, X,
GSssON THE BEL AIR ROAD, 10 -
MILES FROM BALTIMORE,
IN BALTIC. COUNTY.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-11-14

Azy- Gov. Hendricks, of Indiana, and Senator
week. What do they mean?
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-09-11
A DUMB DIALOGUE.

It wrenehes one badly to step on the
wrong stair, but few can help laughing
at the awful stride he makes. 1t is
equally funny to see man meet the
wrong customer" and go to talking
and gesticalating at him as if he was
somebody else.
Jones went to the deaf and dumb asy-
lum the other day to inspect the insti
tuition. Upon entering he encountered
man, evidently an inmate, and he at
once endeayored to explain to the man
by making signs upon his fingers that
he wanted to look through the place.
The man also made signs, which Jones
could not comprehend. Then Jones
made other and more elaborate mo-
tions, which set the man at work with
great violence, and for the next ten
minutes they stood in the hall gesticu-
1ating and twisting their fingers, with
out being able to comprehend what the
other meant. Finally Jones became
angry, and in an outburst OF wrath ex-
claimed:
s'Oh get out, you idiot I'm tired
of bothering with you y
Whereupon the man said, '' That's
just what I was going to say to you. .
"Oh you can speak, can you
Then why didn't you do SO, and not
keep me standing motioning to you?
thought you were deaf and dumb"
"Icame here to inspect the asylum,
said Jones, "and I took you for {
patient.
"That's what came here for, and
thought you were an attendant" sale
the man.
Here Jones and the man shook hand
and hunted up genuine atten dant an,
went away happy. After this Jones vii
always use his tongue, no matter wher
he Youths Companion.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-09-11
IT'S MIGHTY LMPROVIN'

The Irish peasantry have tales of
parabolic character-stories which, by
means of some striking action or cir
cumstance, set forth hearty moral.
On hearing such, their usual phrase is,
"Oh, it is mighty improvin'." And
that, too, is what Molly Malone, a
worthy washerwoman, used to say-and
say almost invariably-after hearing q
sermon on Sunday. One day, however,
her clergyman, who was not quite con-
tent with this generality, spoke to her
respecting his discourse, and Molly sud
denly became what they call in Ireland
little bothered. Nevertheless, she got
out of her difficulty with one of those
parabolic answers which are such ia
vorites with her class, and which, while
it completely evaded the question, sat
isfactorily replied to it.
Rev.-Well, Molly, you liked the SER
mon, you say?
Mol.-Oh, yes, your riverence-it was
mighty improyin'.
Rev.-And what part of it did you
like best ?
Mol.-Well, sure, sir, I liked every
part.
Rev.-But suppose there were some
portions of it that you were more struck
with than you were with others.
Mol.-In troth, please your river
ence, I don't remember any part ex
actly, but altogether twas mighty i'm
provin'.
Rev.--Now. Molly, how could it b'
improving if you don't remember an,
part of it?
Mol.-Wel1. your riverence sees tina
linen I've been washing and drying Oh
the hedge there?
Rev.-Oh, certainly.
Mol.-Wasn't it the soap and wathe
made the linen clane, sir ?
Rev.-Of course they did.
Mol.-And isn't the linen all the bel
ter for it !?
Rev.-Oh, no doubt of that, Molly.
Mol.-But not dhrop of the soa
and water stays in it. Well, sir, it
the same thing wild me. Not word I
the sarmint stays in me-I suppose
all dhries out o. me-but I'm the be
ter and the cleaner for it, when it
over, for all that.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-09-11
How to Use n Bog Nlendoxv.

Mr.. John B. Sands, of Vailsgate, n.
l., read paper on the best method OF
reclaiming bog meadow, before the
New York Farmers Club:
ga gentleman wants to know Low to
reclaim or improve a bog meadow.
There are different kinds of soil on
which bogs grow, but they grow no.
where, except there is an excess of water.
They are a nuisance they start grass
early on their hummocks, but it is soon
SO coarse and tough that no COW or
horse will eat it. The first thing is,
drain it well, cut a main ditch then if
there are springs en- its border on the
outside, dig your drains SO as to cut
them all off. If you have your outlet,
that is, the main drain, SO low as to
carry all the surplus water off, your
bogs will die in short time, making it
an easy matter to cut them off by using
a stout bog hoe made for the purpose.
Do not pile them up on the ground, but
draw them off, make pile of old rub
bish, wood and stumps that will make
or start a good fire in the heap once
well on fire they will burn till they are
all consumed, making you fine lot of
ashes. Make your bitches somewhat
in the shape of the letter V, slanting ON
each side toward the bottom. Be sure
and not leave the bog dirt to remain on
the side of your bitches, but draw off
to some upland it will pay you well
for so doing. The first year plow as
well as you can, harrow well some dry
hay, SOW it with turnip seed in July,
using guano, about 400 pounds to the
acre. I have raised them to weigh Is
pounds each. If the ground on the
meadow is pure bog dirt, with mari un-
derneath, you can next year venture to
SOW onion seed. They are the best crop
to raise on sucn ground, at least L find
they pay che best. Cabbage is the next
best, cucumbers are the next, but they
are apt to grow crooked if the ground
is not kept dry enough. Beets, carr OTIS
and parsnips have tried, but they will
not grow to any length, owing to the
continued moisture below. I am now
setting out large piece with the colos-
sal asparagus, as I find it takes kindly
to the soil. Have tried potatoes, but
if the season is too wet the potatoes will
set on the wines above ground, and the
crop will be failure. Fodder corn I
raise in large quantities, and with but
little labor.
It requires deep drainage the water
must be got off, or else your labor will
be lost. It also requires good judg-
ment, common sense, labor and indus
try to keep it so. Your bitches must be
kept well, and at least once year
cleaned out. The top of the water in
your bitches should always be two feet
from the top of the ground and if the
soil is deep you can raise crops for
many years with but little manure OF
other fertilizers.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-09-11

House WINDOWS more light
admitted to apartments the better for
those who occupy them. Light is as
necessary to sound health as it is to
vegetable life. Exclude it from plants,
and the consequences are disastrous.
They cannot be perfect without its vivl-
flying influence. Tt is a fearful mistake
to curtain and blind windows SO closely
for fear of injuring the furniture by ex-
posure to the suns rays; such rooms
positively gather elements in darkness
which engender diseases. Let in the
light often, and fresh air, too. or suffer
the penalty of aches and pains and long
doctors bills which might have been
avoided.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-09-11
POTTERY OF THE MOUND-B UILE-


Prof. T. T. Cox read paper upon the
above subject before the American
Association for the Advancement OF
Science lately in session at Hartford. he
said that the so-called pottery of the
mound builders resembles in many re-
spects that made by the Aztecs or Iol-
tees of South America and Mexico, and
furnishes another link in the chain of
evidence which serves to trace these
remarkable people to common origin.
The pottery from the mounds OF In
diana is represented by great variety
of vessels, fashioned after quaint de-
signs and adapted to multltudlnous
uses. Jugs with long necks, and necks
terminated by figures made to repre-
sent the heads of men, quadrupeds and
birds pots with ears and shaped like
ordinary cast iron dinner-pot of to-day
drinking cups basins of great size, used
for making salt by solar evaporation
smoking pipes, etc., etc.
A great many whole vessels and frag-
ments OF this ware have been examined
by me from all parts of the Western
States, and I have been unable to find
any evidence of its having been hard
ened by fire, nor do I believe that it
mixture of river mud aud, most gener-
ally, pulverized fresh water shell,
united in such proportions as to make a
cement that hardens in the air, or when
exposed to moisture, like the concrete
of the ancient Romans, and may, con-
sequently, be classed as artificial stone.
In chemical composition it agrees very
closely with the concrete made of or
binary cement stones.
These facts lead to the conclusion
that the art of manufacturing concrete
or artificial stone did not originate sole
ly with the ancient Romans, but that it
was alike understood by the earliest
aborigines of America. Though it is my
opinion that the so-called pottery of the
Mound-Builders was fashioned by hand
without the use of lathe, yet am
| convinced that the ancient pottery of
Peru and other South American States
was largely made of pieces formed by
pressing the cement into molds, and
these pieces we're subsequently united
| together to form the entire vessel. The
lines of union are usually covered by a
band or some grotesque image. The
| numerous tubercles and other raised
ornaments which cover the surfaces of
| jugs, vases, etc., could only have been
formed in this way. I do not, however.
find any pottery of the Mound Builders
that would lead to the belief that his
skill went SO far as to enable him to
mold it in parts or to fashion it in any
other way than by the hands.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-09-11
How willie Fcm Into the Cistern.

How Willie Fell Into the Cisterm.
An old straw hat lying on the ground,
and right out of hole in the straw hat
grew a little tuft of curly yellow hair!
How did it get there?
Two little shoes kicking in the air,
and right out from hole in one of the
little shoes grew wee dusty toe.
How did it get there?
Ask Willie's mother.
There were blue eyes under the straw
hat, too-blue eyes that were almost
black from looking way down in dark
hole! And for all their looking, they
could just see the piece of white bone
with bits of red meat hanging to it, that
Willie had dropped into the cistern.
Poor old kitty was looking down, too,
and mewing for her dinner, for Willie's
mother had said
"Now, Willie, take it right between
your thumb and finger, just SO, and go
and call the old cat. Be quick, for
poor kitty is hungry"
And Willie meant to do it all right,
but kitty did new SO hard he thought
it would be a good plan to teach her
Johnny Clark's dogs trick.
Now bark" said he, holding it
away off; ''bark and 90 sail have it,
kitty"
But kitty couldn't bark, and SO she
jumped, and Willie jumped, too, and
forgot to jump the bone, SO down it
went with a thump that showed at least
there was bottom to the cistern. II
wasn't much of a cistern, to be sure
only a great "hogshead sunk down
in the ground, and not particle of wa
ter in it.
Still it had that awful name, an6
wasn't Henry Scheid's little brother
drowned in a cistern?
Poor kitty, how she did new What
mean, mean boy to lose the old cats
dinner! Willie thought he would
never dare to go into the house to eat
his own, for wouldn't she come in and
new it out to everybody?
Willie got long stick and poked
but it only made the white bone go whirl
ing around. He wondered what made i
so dark down there. What an awfu
giant hog it must have been to have sucl
a head Perhaps they kept such pigs
at circuses. He meant to ask the show
man.
just then kitty mewed louder. Will
gave great push with his stick an
tumbled right down into it Into tn
darkness Into the cistern
The bugs all ran, but great worm
came crawling over his hands to see
they knew him, and big black spider
got on his head and shoulders to haul i
the lines he had broken through. U
above kitty's two eyes shone like fire
and Willie thought he was drowning
and began to call, '' Mamma, mamma.
And mamma way off in the kitchen fry
ing doughnuts: that sang very loud
heard the call and ran to the back doc
Mamma mamma ~
She looked into the barn, she locke
into the shed. No Willie, but
ssMamma mamma -
She ran up stairs, she opened all Il
closet doors. No Willie, but
Mamma mamma ~
She looked in the sugar bin and flo
barrel, she went down cellar. No w
lie, but now it came palmer
"Mamma ! mamma I'm drowning
e'Willie, where are you?"
SIN the cistern." 4"
Poor mamma. She caught a new 70
and ran out to the real, new cistern;
was fast screwed down, but she ha
mered away until she got it open, a
looked in. No torn straw hat foati
on the water No little fingers rea,
four legs kicking him on the head.
go myi there's a horse tumbli
down here 70
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-09-11
JOttings.


RIBBONS should be washed in cold
suds and not rinsed.
To CLEAN marble rub first with soda
and soft soap, then wash as usual with
water.
THE fumes of birthstone match will
remove berry stains from book, paper
or engraving.
A LITTLE black pepper in some cot
ton dipped in sweet oil is enc of the
quickest remedies known for earache.
To REMOVE iron rust from linen apply
lemon juice and salt and expose to the
SUM- Make two applications if neces-
sary.
AS a simple remedy for surface
wounds, such as cuts and abrasions of
the skin, charcoal is highly recon-
mended. Take coal from the stove,
pulverize it, apply it to the wound and
bind up with cloth. The charcoal
absorbs the fluids secreted by the
wound, resists or corrects putrefaction,
and also prevents the bandage from ir-
ritating the flesh.
COFFEE STARcH.-This is an excel
lent starch for black calicoes and col
ored linens, much better than that made
with water, for it increases rather than
lessons the depth of the color. Take a
cup Of strong coffee, boiling hot, and
turn Ii upon two tablespoonfals of
starch mixed with just enough water to
Il L. of
it boil for fifteen or twenty minutes,
and stir it around two or three times
with paraffine or spermaceti candle.
When nearly cold, starch dark-colored
calicoes, black muslins, and brown
linens with it.
BLACK ANTs.-A chalk mark, at least
half an inch in depth, around the upper
edge of sugar buckets, barrels, ETC.,
will not admit one ant into their in
terror. The same mark drawn on the
edges of shelves will also prevent the ap-
proach of an ant, as they are not able
to crawl over the chalk. But if they
are numerous among jam and Jelly pots
take large sponge, wet it in cold
water, squeeze it nearly dry, and then
sprinkle fine white sugar over it. Place
it on the infested shelf, and next morn
ing dip it quickly and carefully into 6
bowl of boiling water. tried the ex
pertinent in my jelly closet recently
and killed at least hundred in morn
ing. Have set the trap again, and shall
= continue to do so while one ant runs
= Red pepper busted over their haunt
will also destroy them, but the spong
is the surest method.
n VALUE OF FODDER CoRN.-At meet
ing of the Massachusetts Cheese Fac
tory Association, Addison Fl. Holland
n Barre farmer, read an essay on fodde
corn. With seventeen COWS he expert
mented to see what its value was i
t. producing milk; during the month c
July he turned his COWS into q goo
pasture, after having fed them wit
70 fodder corn, and they showed a lare
g falling off in milk. He then, throug
O. August, soiled them in the stable, feet
it ing fodder corn, and there was gai
t. in the production of milk. In Septen
"a Der they were again turned into til
moving Gull feed) and they fell OF
Mr.. Holland cures his corn by sprea,
is ing it upon the stone walls, and regart
lie it as valuable feed for milch COW
an when well cured. He thinks fodd
d. corn the best crop there is to bridl
ovor a dry time with fo1 sixtv or co
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-09-11
WHAT YOUNG MAN MAY DO.

Mr.. Thomas, in an address at Adrian,
Mich, said many good things, ard
among them this: ''Every person may
have a comfortable competence as he
advances in years. Suppose that
young man at 21 begins merely as day
laborer. IF he can lay up only $100
yearly, and add interest to interest at z
per cent, he will at forty years, or at
the age of 81, have accumulated No less
than 500, 200. Many will, however, lay
aside 5000 year, in which case they
would have, at 81 years, $40, 900. There
are some leaks which prudent man
will stop and thus add to the accumula-
tions. Suppose, for example, he is
willing to forego the use of tobacco,
which may happen to cost him but $50
yearly, this saving alone will amount to
Sd, 900 in his lifetime of forty years.
These facts show that every Industrious
person may at least secure for himself a
pleasant and comfortable home"
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-09-11

In one of the Indiana Congressional
nominating conventions, last week, the
final ballot was: Whole number of
votes, 1862; necessary to majority, 80 !;
A. B., 813; G. D., SOa. It was de-
cided, after debate, that 81 was a
q majority" and the nomination was
declared. So. again, in one of the
Iowa district conventions, this week,
the final ballot was Whole number OF
votes, 124; necessary to a majority,
So; E. F., 81 8o-266 G. H., sc
1926: scattering, 4. It was decid
ed again in this case that the fraction
go 1850 carried with it the nomination