The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-07-11
AT the last meeting of the Farmers Unior

AT the last meeting OF the Farmers union
Mr.. Alfred ]. Gent as chairman, was author
lied to appoint a committee of thirty to get up
grand picnic to be held some time in Au-
gust. The committee has been named and the
members thereof are requested to meet at Cock
eysville hotel on Saturday, July 18th, at 2
o'clock p. m.
Tho congregation of Orem's Church, 18th
district, held festival in the grove adjoining
the residence of Wilson Townsend, ESQ.,, on
Thursday, June 25th, which was largely at.
tended. 1t was most enjoyable affair. Mrs.
Townsend takes very active interest in the
affairs of the church, and is always formost in
these good works.
"A brilliant wedding took place at the res
idence of Mr.. John Van Dewater, on the CAL
verton and Powhatan Railroad, on Thursday
afternoon of last week. the occasion being the
marriage of his daughter, Miss Emile, to Mr..
j. Alex Solberg, vice consul in Baltimore for
Sweden and Norway. The presents were very
rich and were valued at $4,000.
The Carroll County Agricultural Society
has received from the agent of Weston, the
great pedestrian, proposition for the Society
to exhibit him ct the Fair next fall. His terms
are moderate, (?) as he proposes to walk five
miles, one-half mile backwards, in one hour,
for which he only asks the modest sum of $3.50 !!
We don't think he will walk at Westminster
The Sabbath School attached to Hiss
Church, Hartford road. held grand festival on
the 4th of July, which was very largely at
tended by the children, their parents and
friends. A most agreeable time was had. Mr..
George W. Parlett is the superintendent OF the
school which now numbers over seventy schol-
ars. The church is under the pastoral charge
of Revs. Macnamar and Robinson.
The Woodberry Gazette says petition is
now being largely signed by the citizens of
Woodberry, asking of the County Commission
ers the right of way to lay railroad track in
Park Ayenua comm0n1v known as Wood berry
Lane, from its intersection with Hookstown
Road to Woodberry. The Pmlico and Pixies
vile II Il. Co. is prepared to execute the
work, so soon as the right of way is secured.
The new postoffice, Sunnybrook, on the
Jarrettsville turnpike, seven miles from Tow
sontown, at Kings tavern, has been opened for
business. Subscribers to the Union, who de-
sire their papers sent to the new office, will
please notify us at once. Mr.. Isaac King is
the postmaster. The office is supplied from
Towson town, once a week. Mr.. John Brown
has been awarded the contract for carrying
the mail.
Among the pupils of Notre Dame College,
near Govanstown, who received awards at the
commencement last week, were the following
from Baltimore county: Louisa Adler, Mollie
Birmingham, Ambrosia Connolly, Mollie Con-
oily, Emily Dugan, Mary c. Dugan, Harriet,
Mamie and Jennie Dugan, Louisa Engel, Mary
Gallagher, Fannie Hosmer, Hattie Jamison,
carrie jenkins, mamie Johnson ana hate Nell
sendorf.
Col. Elijah Stansbury, the venerable ex-
Mayor of Baltimore, and now a resident of
that city, was born in Baltimore county, at
place known as "McGaw's Mills" on the Man
or, near the Hartford county line, in May, 1901.
Col. Stansbury fought at the battle of North
Point and gained for himself high reputation
for bravery. He is the sixth son of Elijah
Stansbury, Sr., the scion of family widely
a "a L q
In our advertising colamns to day will be
found the programme for the grand tourna-
ment, races, &C., at New Market, Baltimore
county, on Tuesday, July 2lst. This will no
doubt be one of the grandest displays of the
kind ever held in this county, and will bring
together an immense concourse of people. New
Market can be reached by taking the cars Of
the N. C. r. R. to Freelands station, and from
thence by public conveyances which will be
run on that day. The distance from the rail-
road is about one and a quarter miles.
There are three or four owners of horses in
Towsontown that always on Sundays and some
times through the week permit their animals
to run loose upon the streets to the great an
noyance and danger of ladies and children 60
ing to and returning from church and Sunday
school. A few Sundays ago we noticed one Of
them, vicious animal, actually running after
some little children. This nuisance ought to
be broken up and if the owners of horses will
not keep their stock inclosed, they should be
made to feel the weight OF the law, if there is
any to reach them.
The County Commissioners, at the request
of Justice Waltemeyer, of the 18th district,
some time ago appointed ten constables for
said district to serve for two weeks in the i'm
mediate vicinity of the city. The officers made
a number of arrests for violations of law, the
fines accruing from which paid all their ex
penses and left balance of S2l in the bands
of the Justice, which sum he returned to the
Commissioners on Tuesday last. Two of those
to Jail were released on appeal, and
one was held for the action of the Grand Jury
for violation of license law.
Two or three weeks ago the Baltimore pa
pers reported that colored man, driver of the
team of Mrs. Klchenstein, on the Hartford
road, was run over in the city by his wagon,
and after being conveyed to his home, died.
1t now turns out to have been all huge joke,
practiced upon some of the "smart" city po-
lice. The man did fall off the saddle horse
but the wagon did not run over him, and the
only reason why he did not speak when pick
ed up was because he was too drunk to do so.
The "dead man" may be seen any day on the
Hartford road, driving his team as usual