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The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1875-07-17
Death of Gen. #. II. Blair.

Gen. Francis P. Blair, Jr., eff ST. Louis, Mis-
souri, died at his home in that city on Friday oil
last week. He belonged to family that has &C.
cupied considerable prominence in the country
rssiss. &c
of high honor. His brother-Montgomery Blair,
of Maryland-was a member of President Lin.
coins Cabinet.
The subject of this notice was born in the
shadow of Henry Clay's home, in Kentucky, in
1921, graduated at Princeton in his twentieth
year, removed to St. Louis and studied law, where
in due course he was admitted to the bar. In
1916 he made an expedition to the Rocky Noun
tains with party of trappers. His chief object
in this was the restoration of his health.
When the war with Mexico began he entered
the army as private and went through the SER
vice with Kesrney. At its close he resumed the
practice of his profession at st. Louis. He be-
came member of the Free Soil party at an early
stage of its existence. AS Free Seller he was
elected to the Missouri Legislature in 1852 and
again in 1854. In 1856 he was elected to Con-
gress. He espoused the cause of African ccloni'
cation and labored earnestly in its behalf. He
held his seat in Congress till the outbreak of the
rebellion. He entered the army and did credit
able service in number of campaigns with Gen.
erals Grant and Sherman. In 1864 he was COM
was editor of the st. Louis Democrat Republi.
can paper. He was brilliant and erratic. The
entire family went off with the johnson portion
of the Republican party, mainly because that
party could not discover as much craftsmanship
in it as it thought it possessed. In 1868 Gen
Blair wrote very revolutionary letter to Col
Broadhead short time previous to the nomina.
ton of Heratio Seymour and himself as Presiden-
tial candidates of the Democracy. The letter was
infamatory in the extreme-just suited to the I'm,
tanned ardor of the Confederates. 1t secured bis
nomination on the FIRST ballet for Vice President,
and in our humble opinion cost the Democracy a
hundred thousand votes in the country. In 1871
he was elected to the United States Senate to fll
out the term Of Senator Drake, who was appointed
Judge of the Court of Claims. His term expired
March 4th, 1873. He has been in delicate health
for several months past, being effected with
paralysis. His physicians have been treating
him by infusing the blood of a healthy man into
his veins. Under this treatment he was growing
better. On Wednesday, previous to his death,
he rode out. But contrary to expectation he
suddenly dropped off.
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RAREY's HORSE "CRUIsER." Probably no horse
was ever more generally known than the celebra-
TED horse Cruiser imported from England in
1861 by John S.Rarey, whose system of horse
tanning was for some time the sensation in this
country and England. When Mr.. Rarey went
to England his system was thoroughly put to the
test by contact with Cruiser, an animal that was
80 vicious that he was closely and continuously
confined in stable, in such a way that he could
by no possibility reach anybody, either with
his mouth or heels His feed was delivered to
him through a sort of funnel, nd be seems to
have been kept seely as an extremely wicked
curiosity. His speadid muscle and activity gave
him the widest scope for the exercise Of his in
corrigibility, and he is said to have kicked so
high as to strike board floor fourteen feet above
the floor on which he stood. Ordinarily, it was
only the work of few minutes for Mr.. Rarey to
tame a horse, but it took him three hours to sub.
due the terrific Cruiser.
After putting Cruiser under control, Mr.. Ra-
rev purchased him and brought him to this coun-
try, and put him on the Rarey farm, at Grove
port in this county, where he became popular
among breeders. He became SO gentle that the
people about the Rarey farm could fondle him
as they would kitten, and his colts where no.
ted for their kind disposition. Strangers, how
ever, were not permitted to have much to do with
him. This was to prevent teasing and the revi-
val of the cid propensities.
| Cruiser died at the Rarey farm on Wednesday
last, in the twenty-third year Of his age. His
| teeth were worn so much that he could not eat
hay, and prcvender had to be specially prepared
| for him AS contemplated by the will Of Mr.
Rarey, be received the kindest care in his old
age and it was only recently that he fell into a
decline. Ohio State Journal.
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Health Nuisance.

According to the best accounts that we have
the health Of Baltimore city is at this time not
very favorable to that metropolis The mortali-
ty among infants is fearful. The chief disease
among adults at this season of the year is typo
malarial fever. 1t isreported that there are more
than three hundred cases Of this malady there
now. 1t seems to be the opinion of physicians
that the bad state of health existing in the city at
this time results from the maarious filth that fills
Jones Falls and the Basin. In connection with
THE there are many filthy sewers in some sections
of the city which contribute very largely towards
the creation and spread of disease.
All of these causes of disease are offensive in
tai City. The malaria from the Basin and the
Falls spreads over most of the city. At this sea-
SON of the year it is calculated to work more mis-
chief than at any other. Everybody sleeps with
open windows. While asleep this malaria To-
Gates itself in the system aad lays the foundation
of SEINE type of fever in adults and cholera infan
tum in infants. This theory is confirmed by the
fact that diseases generated by this influence are
more prevalent in the vicinity of the Basin and
the Falls and decrease in every direction as you
get away from these localities.
When enc takes into consideration the amount
of fuss that has been made over Jones' Falls and
all that has been said concerning the nuisance in
the Basin for the past Eve years one would natur-
ally suppose that impertuRacy-i nothing else
would have awaited something towards the re-
moval of the abemineble nuisance. Two hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars have been spent
on Jones' Falls during the past six or seven years.
and yet this filthy stream is more offensive to de-
ceRcy and health than has ever been known in
IT'S history. Tnat o city vi ''rv' =" '-'- "~'
dred thousand inhabitants and millions of wealth
should have a large portion of its people sick and
nearly all of them continually offended with the
dreadful smell of these miserable nuisances after
wears of discussion and outside agitation is dis
grace to any civilized government 1t does seem
as if those whose duty is to see that these fruit
full causes are removed are exercising malice
against the people they are supposed to represent
by persistently pursuing course to keep the ma
laria up to its highest point. If some folks de-
sire the slaughter of the people by some slow pro
cess, we do not think they could adopt plan to
consummate that object that would be more eth
catious than that adopted and executed by thu
| CITY Council and those who have the genera
management Of affairs-that of deliberately CIV
ing the Basin and Jones' Falls an unlimited Ii
cense to kill off as much of the citys popula
ton as they possibly can.
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Gss~ The Japanese Empire is on hand al.
ready to make ample preparations for the
proper representation of her "mild-eyed chill
dren" at the great centennial next year. Sec
rotary Fish has been officially informed by the
japanese Minister at Washington that two Of
the Japanese Centennial Commissioners have
arrived and desire to be introduced to the
proper authorities that they may begin at once
to get ready for next years exhibition. This
is creditable for the "Heathen" Japanese
What does Maryland propose to do Does she
intend to wait until the Narrow Gauge is COM
pleted that she may take Towsontown along
and exhibit her railway Kings?
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IL o'clock NJ,
on Tuesday, July 10th, 1875,
For the Masonry, &C., and superstructure of a
THREE TRUSS DECK BRIDGE
over Gwynn's Falls, on the line of EDMOND
SON AVENUE, length 448 feet, in three spans,
one 100 and the others ia feet each ; width 40
feet depth of truss not to be less than % nor
more than 25 feet.
Masonry for two abutmeuts and necessary
wing walls, one of the abutments will be about
AZ and the other SO feet in height from the sur
face of the ground. The two abutments and
wing walls will contain about 300 percbes of
stone; also for the masonry for two peirs, the
height Of which will depend upon the depth
of truss bridge.
Proposals will also be received for
SIX CAST IRON CYLINDERS OR COLUMS,
to be A inches in diameter and one inch thick,
and to be set and filled with concrete and to
be properly braced.
Masonry to be frst-class rock rubble work,
to be laid in the best hydraulic cement; ma
sonry to be estimated by the perch and cylin-
ders by the lineal foot.
For Superstructure proposals will be receiv-
ed for an IRON, COMPOSITE OR WOODEN
BRIDGE.
Masonry to be finished by the first day of
November, 1875, and all the work to be COM
pleted by the first day of April, 1876.
For specifications and particulars apply at
this office, or at the Office of SIMPLIFY & CAR
MAN, No. IL Morse Building, No. so West Fay
cite St., Baltimore.
Proposals to be sealed and addressed to the
undersigned.
DANIEL J. MCCAULEY,
EDWARD RIDER,
BENJAMIN F. JORDAN,
County Commissioners for Baltimore County.
June 26.-td.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1875-07-17

A LIFE SPENT IN THE PENITENTIARY There is
a werld of thought in the intelligence that the
oldest convict in the Ohio Penitentiary, john
Gull, OF Stark county, is dead He had been an
inmate of that institution for thrty-eight years,
under life sentence which was literally carried
out 1t is impossible TO imagine the horrors of
thirty eight years experience in prison. He
vent there IgnFH lXp NfREY Er6
was never famed by the breezes of nature, ex-
cept so far AS ii came through iron bars and the
oppressive atmosphere of the cell. For nearly
forty years to all the world he was dead while
actually living. During much of that period
even the torch of hope must have been extin-
guished, and the darkness Of despair substituted
in its stead. AS to what had been going on
since 1887 he knew no more than if he had never
been born. He must have beeI remarkable
man to have survived an Imprisonment so loug
pretracted-an Imprisonment the horrors and
sufferings of which are inconcevably worse than
immediate physical extinction upon the gallows.
His offense was murder in the poraxysm of pas
sion, and for 1.-THE made this prodigious atone
ment Of suffering. 1t would have been phe-
nomenon worth seeing to have discharged him
from the prison several years ago, and seen his
establishment upon re-entering the werld, of
which he had so little knowledge He, probably,
would have initiated the prisoner in the old French
bastile, who, for an equal or greater length Of
time, had been immured within its terrible walls,
and who, upon being discharged returned to
the only world which he knew and which knew
him, and which long habit had made tolers be.-
/ Upper Sdndusky Union
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THE New STATE NORMAL SCHooL.-The new
State Normal School building in course of erec-
ton at the northwest corner OF Carrellton avenue
and Townsend street, Baltimore, is nearly ready
for the roof, and will probably be completed early
in the coming October. The building will be,
from all indications, very complete and elegant
structure, fronting 100 feet on Carroton avenue,
with 100 feet depth on Townsend street. It is
what is termed L shaped that is to say it has a
long line of front, shorter depth, and is cut off
in the rear to encompass large area TO be used
as recreation ground. The style OF architec
ture is Gothic-Rennasance, and includes some
new features not found in any other building in
Baltimore. The structure has sub-cellar, base
ment and three upper stories, the middle OF which
has double windows fourteen feet high. The
roof is to be of slate with very high pitch, and
will have two quaint dormer openings above the
ridge, one at each end. The entrance will be by
the tower which cuts off the angle Of the corner
and gives it one side Of polygon. This tower
rises four-sided, encompassed by three feet thick
walls TO the third story, where it gracefully re-
cedes into an octagon form, and tapsrs to the
apex one hundred and seventy-six feet high On
the sides where the tower breaks into an Octagon
the faces of an electric clock will be placed, aud
the bells will be connected by electricity with the
schoo-rooms.
the corner below, on the small line of the l.. The
main feature Of the building, however, will be a
graceful turret ninety feet high, rising above the
roof in the rear This is the ventilatng shaft
with cylinder rounded on square of six feet
through which warm air will be constantly forced
to secure an upward current that will drain each
room and passage Of every particle of bad air
In winter when the windows will be closed the
The assembly room on the second floor will seat
eight hundred persons, and the Building will
have ample facilities for the accommodation of
four hundred regular pupils. The entire first
floor will be connected and occupied with the
class rooms and apartments to be presided over
by the principal, Prof NJ. A. Newell. There will
be cloak rooms, teachers rooms, and fine gym
nasium in the basement The building is ex-
pected to cost $500, 900. 1t will be heated by
steam and well furnished. Prof. Newell, whose
experience with schools has been extensive, has
taken pains to have introduced in this building
many necessary improvements.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1875-07-17

WHAT FLIES ARE Coon FoR.-At last the use
Of flies has been discovered. A celebrated Eng
fish chemist, Mr.. Emerson, has studied the hab-
its of this animal until convinced that it is bless
ing in disguise, and moreover, that in the natur-
al sequence of cause and result the fly puts itself
where it can do the most good or in other
words, that where they most do cengregate is
that place where for our good, they are most
needed. His explanation is that in the air, es-
pecially where ii is not fresh and clear. are in
Vulnerable animalcules floating about Any body
moved quickly through this air gathers up more
or less of these, as he proved by waving a sheet
of paper in the room and then placing it under
the microscope; now the flies, in darling back
and forth, cover themselves with these minute
insects, so that under magnfyiug- glass they
look TO De covered with ice-then, stopping,
they eat off the accommodating animslcules, and
so make their meal and rid the air VT breathe Of
hundreds of its minute inhabitants
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1875-07-17

The New STAMP FOR CIGARs-The proposed
new tax stamp for cigars is nesting with good
deal of opposition. 1t will be remembered that
the proposition Was for stamp to be placed on
each cigar. tits alleged that this would add
largely to the burdens of the manufacturers for
the benefit of the owners of patent. We are
not acquainted with the facts in the case, says the
New York Times, bat have no doubt that the
Treasury Department will investigate the subject
carefully before coming to any decision with
reference to it. The cigar and tobacco interest
pays large part Of the revenue of the country,
and, we believe, pays its taxes for the most part
cheerfully and freely, so that they are pretty
closely collected. These are facts which will,
doubtless, receive proper attention from the Gov
eminent in considering the matter under discss-
sion.
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Gs- There is new design of postal card
being prepared by the Morgan Envelope Com
pany of Massachusetts, under the direction of
the Post Office Department. 1t will be ready
for distribution by the middle of August The
proof has been sent to the Department for APP
proval. On the upper left hand corner is a
scroll on which is print ted "Postal Card" and
gu. s." Below this is "write the address on
this side-the message on the other" The
"stamp" is impressed on the Goddess of Lib :
erty's arm which is inscribed "U S. Postage"
At the bottom of this the words cone cent"
The card is the same size as the old one but
far superior to in neatness and utility.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1875-07-17

RAILROAD LITERATURE becomes more and
more magnificent. We have just received a
copy of "Lfe at Cape May, the Ocean Resort"
a description of Cape May and the new relg-
ious watering place, Sea Grove. Printed on
fine paper, with beautiful illustrations, the
pamphlet is well worthy of preservation. Cape
may is reached by the West Jersey R. R. Co.,
which is under the control of the Pennsylva-
mia R. R. Co., fact that guarantees the best
management. Excursions are run to the Cape
from Philadelphia, 81 miles, at low rates, de-
pendent upon the numbers Of excursionsts.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1875-07-17

Gze- The Maryland Industrial Shoot for
girls, by its counsel, Edward Otis Hinckley
has filed an answer to the bill of injunction
filed in the City Circuit Court to restrain the
Mayor and City Council from paying to it the
appropriation made by the City Council. The
st. Mary's Industrial School for boys has also
filed an answer by Charles M. Bonaparte and
Hon. VIM. M. Merrick. They claim that the
appropriations are in accordance with law and
good policy. This, however, will be a matter
for the future discrimination Of the Court
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1875-07-17

gaS- A. 7. Stewart h Co., of New York, ad-
vertised to the extent of $S5O,OO0 last year,
nearly per cent. of the total amount of their
sales. Mr.. Stewart is regarded as one of the
shrewdest men in the United States, and his
method of doing business is universally conced-
ed to be the standard for merchants to follow.
And yet there are hundreds of merchants and
tradesmen who would hold up their hands in
horror if it were proposed to them to invest
fraction Of per cent. in advertising. They
can not be persuaded that what Mr.. Stewart
finds profitable they would also, if they would
but try it. II needs little pluck, but, unfor-
tunately for many business men, they lack this
essential ingredient to success.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1875-07-17

MS procession of 0rangemen was at
tackled in the streets of Lawrence, Massachus-
etts, on 18th inst, by mob of Irishmen. They
were assaled with stones, bricks, clubs and
other things. About twelve or fifteen Orange
men we're badly bruised and wounded. The
Orangemea drew their revolvers and fred but
no damage was done from the firing. The riot
lasted about two hours and a half and covered
q space fabout mile and half II is strange
that the Orangemen should be troubled this
year in 20 other place than law enforcing Mas
sachusetts,
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F. W. BENNETT & CO., Auctioneers.
MORTGAGEES SALE


VALUABLE PROPERTY, CONSIST
IN1 OF A DWELLING, SLAUGH-
TER HOUSE AND BUTCHER
ING ESTABLISHMENT,
ON JENKINS LANE, CLOSE TO CITY
LIMITS.
DY virtue of the power and authority vested
ID in the Merrimac Perpetual Building As
ISOLATION, No. l, of Baltimore City, in a mort
gage from John J. Link to it, dated June 10th,
=. 1875, and recorded among the mort ss5as
;# gage records OF Baltimore county, 9sa
4aasAin Liber E. H. A., No. 49, folio Ala, -
&C., and which mortgage has been passed to
the undersigned as receivers of said Associa-
ton, and in pursuance of Art. Ga of the Code Of
Public General Laws, we will sell at public
auction, on the premises, on
Wednesday,, the 21st day of July, 1875,
at4 o'clock P. NJ,
THE FOLLOWING VERY VALUABLE
PROPERTY:
All THAT LOT OF GROUND, situate and ly-
ing in Baltimore county, and described as fol-
lows:
Beginning for the same on the southeastern
most side of Taylor street, formerly jenkins
lane, at the distance of two hundred and eigh-
ty-fve feet northeasterly from post standing
on the southeasternmost side Of Taylor street,
which said post is on the line dividing the
lands of James Stephenson from the lands of
Mark W. Jenkins thence running and bound
ing on the southeast side of Taylor street north
easterly fifty feet; thence southerly, at right
angles with Taylor street, one hundred and
seventy two feet; thence southwesterly, paral-
lei with Taylor street, fifty feet; and thence
by straight line; northwesterly, to the place
Of beginning; subject to the annual ground
rent Of $50.
The improvements consist of
TWO STORY BRICK DWELLING HOUSE,
with a two-story Frame Back Building and
Frame Summer Kitchen. Also Slaughter
House, Ice House and Stables, and such other
outbuildings pertaining to a well-kept Butch
ering Establishment
TERMS OF SALE-0ne-half cash, balance
in six months, deferred payments to be secur-
ed by note of the purchaser, with interest from
day of sale.
ISIDQR RAYNER
SAMUEL SNOWDEN,
JN0. HENRY KEENE,
Receivers.
F. W. BENNETT CO., Auctioneers.
June 26.-ts.
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MARRIED..

On June Goth, at Bentley Springs NJ E. Parsonage, by
Rev. L. Richardson, LEWIS CAss RUTLEDGE to Miss
HARRIET G. DoyAN, both of Baltimore county.
On the 9Th inst, at the NJ. E. Parsonage, Bentley
Springs, by the same, WIN. f. SHANE to Miss ELIZA
BETH j. MCCAIN, both of Baltimore county.
On. IfilY lSt Mt Ma,xt hIs Raj Enthor
Meade, T. S. SHARRErTs of Goochand county, Va, to
Miss MARY E. POWER, of Mount Washington.
On July 9th, by Rev. W. II. Holiday, Dr. II. J. HEBB
to ANNIE E. JEAN, both of Baltimore county.
On July 9th, at Franklinvlle, Baltimore county by
Rev. D. L. Rathburn, JOHN II. VoGTs to Miss AGNES
MILLER.
On the Sth instant, by Rev J. A. Price, JONATHAN
ScHAFFER to Mrs. MAGGIE Z. GREEN both of Baltimore
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ALL THAT LOT OR PARCEL OF GROUND.
situate in the Village of Texas, Baltimore,
county, and described as fellows:
Beginning for the same at the end of the Sc
cond line of Lot No. l, Division No. 10, as laid
off in the Plat of the Quarry Property, filed
in the case of Ann Griscom and others VS. Da-
vid P. Griscom, on the equity side of the Cir
cult Court for Baltimore county, and running
by and with the Western limits of the Balti-
more and Susquehanna Railroad, NOW North
ern Central Railway South 81 degrees East
35 feet; thence South 500 degrees West, 100
feet inches, more or less, to the East line of
a street laid out 80 feet wide; thence with the
East side of said street North IA degrees West,
So feet; thence by straight line to the place
of beginning, subject to an annual ground rent
of twenty one dollars, (S2D payable in half
cents each,
The improvements consist of large
TWO-sTORY STONE DWELLING,
with cellar under the whole house, back build
ing, and all necessary out-buildings, stabling,
&C.. and fronting on the Northern Central
Railroad, makes it desirable stand for a Store
or Boarding House.
TERMS OF SALE
are-One-half cash on the day of sale or on the
ratification thereof, and the balance in six
months from the date of sale, the credit pay
ment to bear interest and to be secured to the
satisfaction of the Mortgages.
JAMES MILLER,
Attorney for Mortgages
S. G. WILSON, Auctioneer.
July 3.-ts.