The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-04-04
LOCAL BREvITIEs.-


eth instant
There are in Baltimore city $50 physician
and 450 lawyers.
Confidence may not be reciprocal bu
kindness should be.
Baltimore sustains drinking saloon fol-
every 13l of her inhabitants.
The patent office has just reported favor
ably on three new kinds of cork screws.
The petit jury for the March term of Cour
was finally discharged on Wednesday last.
The second trial of the Price will case, al
Frederick, will commence on the 2Sth of this
month.
March departed in snow storm of ne
| mean pretensons, determined, no doubt, mo-
to let us off easy.
| The dining saloon and lunch counter OF
| Guys Monument House, Baltimore, are now
| open on Sunday.
The base ball nuisance has agein broken
out. Two games were played by the boys Of
this place and Govanstown last week.
| The new ten cent note is calculated to de-
ceive, in that it is so much like the ffty-cent
note. Look sharp in receiving change.
The owner of Govanstown hotel is making
some i'm provements about the building. The
bar-room is being re-ftted and improved.
The Philadelphia turnpike is said to be in
a wretched condition and those who travel il
have been holding an indignation meeting
| The Thornton mill property, owned by
Mr.. Thomas H. Matthews, and offered at pub
lie sale on the 26th of March, was withdrawn
| During the coming Summer, Mr.. Lewis
Held, our enterprising baker, will supply
| Shrewsbury ice cream to families, pic-ncs, &c
The Grand Jury for the March term, ad-
journed on Saturday last. They were twenty
three days in session and disposed eff 1875 cases
The Danbury philosopher observes thai
the placidity of expression worn by man
who is "next" in a full BARRIERS shop cannot
| be counterfeited.
The contract for building an open wooden
bridge over Gwynn's Falls, near Lyons old
MILL was on Tuesday awarded to Thos. Todd
for the sum of $4,000.
| "Wednesday was a rough day for the first
of April. The month was ushered in rather
| dismally, and the snow and hail falling did
not much remind one of spring.
| Two more of the "roughs" who engaged in
| the barley Park riot last summer, Woods by
| name, were arrested in Baltimore on Wednes-
day and sent to Towsontown Jail.
On Monday of last week little daughter
of Mr.. VIM. T. Scott, living at Friendship
York road fell into spring in the yard of her
| fathers residence and was drowned.
-"Did you execute this instrument without
| fear or com pulsion from your husband ?" bland
ly asked the Judge. Fear Compulsion He
| mpel me You don't know me, Judge"
Rev. A. W. Rudisill, pastor pfWaverley M
E. Church, York road, was visited by his con
gregation on Wednesday evening of last week
| and made the recipient of numerous suitabl
presents.
-Highlandtown, 18th district-just outside
of the city limits-is HUe place. 1t has hook
and ladder company. gas, and fine hotel will
be opened there the coming summer. Some
enterprise there.
The bill authorizing the County Commits
sioners to pay Messrs. Cooling Lishear, con-
tractors for the new almshouse. an additional
1000 for extra work, &C., passed the Senate
the other day and is now law.
Mr.. William Brooks of Woodberry, has
| been elected president of the Baltimore and
Hampden horse railway. 1t is said the road
will be completed in about two months from
| the commencement of the work.
If the York road railway company would
| try to introduce some means by which to keep
| passengers on their line from being smothered
with clouds of dust with which they are en-
veloped, this community would return it a vote
| of thanks.
Sunday last being fine day for driving
| the York road between Baltimore and Govans
town was thronged with light vehicles going
| to and fro. There were number OF "steppers
on the road and the result was any quantity OF
| lively "brushes."
A majority of the Baltimore county dele
CATION, to whom was referred the bill author
izing the County Commissioners of Baltimore
county to subscribe SAC, 900 to the Parkton and
Manchester railroad, have reported unfavor-
ably upon the same.
We learn that as soon as the West end of
the Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York
Railroad is ready for the running of cars it
will be operated by the Northern Central Com
pany. If this is true it won't be long before
we have steam to Towsontown.
The Towsontown string band will give a
concert at the Court House, on Thursday even
ing, May 9TH. 1t is perhaps proper to state
that the "band" aoiU not perform on that &C.
cssion, which announcement will no doubt be
hailed with delight by those who intend to be
present.
Alexander D. Brown, ESQ., of this county,
has now at Pimlico, in training for the spring
meeting of the Jockey Club, his horses "Coro-
net" "Astral" and "Wanderer." These prom
| ising ones are in the hands of Jeter Walden.
an experienced trainer, and are said to be do
ing we'll.
We made slight error last week in re-
ferrng to the bill for the protection of fish in
| the Gunpowder. 1t should have read thus
at shall not be lawful to take or catch fish in
| any way one mile above tide water in the
Gunpowder, or within mile of the mouth Of
| its tributaries"
| in compliance with an Act of Assembly
the Board of County Commissioners and the
President of the School Board ON Wednesday
| last elected Miss Sophrona Jordan, daughter
| of Mr.. Geo. w. Jordan, of the 9Th district, a
| free pupil at St. Mary's Female Seminary, To-
Gated in st. Mary's county.
The last Grand Jury want something done
with the ceiling of the Grand Jury room. II
hangs together in very threatening manner
and If it don't soon fall down and hurt some
body we have no doubt the Grand Inquest will
be greatly disappointed. 1t ought to oe repair
ed, though, and that at once.
The boy Goojwin-the one-armed villain
who SO brutally assaulted his mother, at Hamp-
| den, Falls road-was tried in our Court on
l. Iank 20 foil
| for two years. He should have been sent for
| life, and thus rid the community of a desper-
| ate character and nuisance.
Two "smart" young men, who thought
they knew how to drive, got pitched out of a
| buggy on Sunday last, in this place. In turn
ing corner at pretty good speed the wagon
| upset, with the driver underneath. He was
dragged around several times on the turnpike
but wasn't much hurt. The wagon was dam
| aged slightly.
The Baltimore county Teachers Associa-
ton will meet at the State Normal School build
| ing, Baltimore, on the LIST and I'd of May. The
School Board expects every public school teach.
| er of the county to attend these meetings. The
programme for the coming meeting is very
attractive one, and the occasion will no doub
be one of much interest.
| The man Fowler, who was assaulted by
| the negro Jim Smart, about three weeks ago
in the l1th district, and who was held as 6
witness against said Smart, has violin which
is said to be one hundred and ffey years old
of course Fowler hasn't owned it all tina
time, but he says there is no doubt about it.
age. 1t is very sweet toned instrument anc
its owner values it very highly.
ON receiving the report of the Grand Jury
on Saturday Judge Yelott said that no mem
Der who may be hereafter drawn on the GRAND
Jury will be excused, unless Immediately af
ter being SO drawn he makes application to the
court to be released from serving, either in
person or by letter, and upon furnishing an en-
be excused. This action is deemed necessary
because of the trouble incident to getting the
last jury together.
DONATION FOR PUBLIC PARK-In the Sec
ond Branch of the City Council on Tuesday
last proposition was presented from William
Wyman, VIM. Remington and the Peabody