The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1875-05-08

A Pittsburg firm recently turned out 300, 900
pape flour sacks in day.
The Secretary of the Treasury has directed
the sale of S. 100000 gold during the month Of
May.
The Viceroy of Egypt has 500 wives, which
cost about 1000 apiece; and still he is not
happy PPy:. :. n,on,;.. Of .no,,. -. -.
hopper crop in Kansas and Nebraska again
this year.
Extensive lead 'A'-nr'ts, yielding 90 per cent
of metal, are repo-
in Missouri.
Ten thousand hogs haveataS
Of :. Council ,1HO md Bluffs e.v.A .-s
Philadelphia papers say thatall hopes Of the
are about abandoned.
The Northern Indiana Methodist Episcopal
Conference recently decided against giving
women license to preach.
There is only one black man in Washington
county. Ind, and SO the civil rights law doesn't
worry them much in those parts
Seven children of one family were buried
together in Rensselaer, county, N. w. having
died almost simultaneously of dipthera.
The emigration to Kansas, this Spring, is re-
ported larger than at any time previous during
the past five years. Cheap land is doing it.
They say that Senator Jones will spend $780,
600 in building himself palace in Washing
ton. 1t will rival the Honest Miners camp.
The total value of school houses and furni
ture in Queen Anne's county amounts to $780,
27O. This is exclusive of the land attached.
The Louisville Courier-Journal announces
that Senator John A. Logan will be the next
republican candidate for Governor of Illinois {.
AT spelling match in Gambia, N. H., q few
evenings ago, Deacon Ezekiel Lane, SO years
| old, spelled down all the young folks and took
the first prize.
The farmers of Bedford county, Pennsylva-
MIA, are alarmed at the discovery of live grass
hoppers mixed with the wheat prepared for
their spring sowing.
Nineteen thousand passengers and one thou
sand nine hundred and seventy -nine cars were
carried over the Union Railroad of Rslti,nese,
during the month of April.
Mayor Vansantof Baltimore, has sent mes
sage to the City Council vetoing the ordinance
providing for the widening of Fayette street,
from Calvert to Liberty streets.
The Frederick Examiner of 9Th inst. saws the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company took formal
possession of the Frederick and PENNSYLVANIA
Line Railroad on Saturday last
Senator Andrew johnson will bring a suit
against the New Orleans Times for libel in as
sertng that he made use of money to secure
his election to the United States Senate
Treasurer Spinner on Monday received let
ter from Boston, Mass, with one hundred dol
lars enclosed, which the writerforwarded as con-
science money, on account of the income tax.
correspondent at Annapolis writes that
under the recent decision of the Supreme Court
Of the United States the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad is indebted to the State about $780,
000.
The Somervlle (Tenn) Falcon estimates the
loss of horses and mules in that coun-
ty (Fayette) from Buffalo gnats from Friday
night April goth, until Monday, at from 800
to 500 head.
Chicago is badly swamped financially. The
G. o. Al
city is borrowing money to meet the deficits in
its treasury by reason of the shortcomings Of
taxpayers.
The badges for the officers and soldiers of the
Virginia division Of the armyof Northern Yir-
ginia, made in Paris, have been received in
Richmond. The design represents the Confed-
crate battle flag.
An Atchison, Kan, girl ate four pounds of
wedding cake in order that she might dream
of her future husband. And now she says that
money wouldn't hire her to marry the man she
saw in that dream.
At a meeting of the Directors of the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company, on Saturday, a
dividend of four per cent. for the past six
months, clear of all taxes, and payable on the
2Sth inst, was declared.
| Maryland's favorito militia organization
| the Baltimore Fifth"-propose TO visit Boston
and participate in the ceremonies attending
the celebration of the centennial anniversary
| OF the battle OF BUNKER Hill.
| A tramp weighing 2O6 pounds, who lodged
at a Massachusetts poor-house the other N ght,
says that he weighed but ninety-fve pounds
when he started out last winter, aud recon-
mends his business to all invalids.
Two brothers named Walker, had falling
out the other day a few miles from Lexington,
Kentucky. One of them drew knife upon
| the other, who, in return, drew a revolver and
shot him with the knife, killing him instant
ly.
On Thursday of last week, Mr.. VIM. Miller,
| of Hopewell township, York county, Pa, com
| mitted suicide by hanging himself to tree
along the public road, near Coyle's tavern
The deceased was about sixty-fve years of
| age.
A Doniphan county, Kansas, sheriff, whose
unpleasant duty it was to put a widow and her
| children out of house on which she had fail
| ed to complete payment, hunted up another
| house for her and paid months rent in adj
| vance.
| In Copake, Hudson county, N. Y, on Tues
day last, Wesley Vandusen, wealthy and &c
| centric farmer, in a fit of insanity, shot his
aged mother through the head and breast, kill
ing her instantly, and then shot himselfthrough
| the heart.
There was another active movement in corn
| at the Baltimore Corn and Flour Exchange on
| Saturday last, the sales of Western aggrega-
| ting 10000 bushels There were $4,000 bush
on Saturday.
A man in Monroe county, Pa, reused to
| frenzy by the news from Concord and Licking
| ton, has just declared his independence by
flooring his mother-in-law with hot grddle.
The neighbors, however, regard the affair SIM
ply as family broil.
| In the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel coun-
| ty, on Saturday last, Baltimore lottery deal
er was sentenced to four months imprison
ment, and ST 900 fine was imposed in the case
| of party charged with renting house to be
used as "lottery shop"
A pneumatic tube is to be introduced into the
Palace Hotel, at San Francisco, to convey let
ters and newspapers from the Office to every
floor above. On each floor = box will be placed
for the reception of letters. These will be shot
| down through the pneumatic tube.
| A number of young ladies of the chest fami-
| lies" of the West End, at Boston, have organ
lied cookery club, meeting twice week at
the residence of each member in turn, who
| treats her sister members to a breakfast, din
ner, or tea, prepared exclusively by herself.
Alice Foster, pretty maiden of Dexter, New
| York, daughter Of sailor who many time
has sailed the seas over, went to spelling
match the other night, and boldly spelled ocean
"ocun." This is the most painful case yet re-
ported. Alice ought to have another chance.
In the municipal election at Westminster,
Md, on Monday last, politics were ignored :,
| and candidates, irrespective of party, were
elected, Mr.. Daniel Fowble being chosen May
or. Democrats and Republicans very sensibly
united for the selection of good and proper Of
fcers.
A correspondent writing from Winfield, Put
nam county, West Virginia, under date of
April 9th, says: "Smon Milan, held in our
county jail since August last on the charge of
outrage committed on his own daughter was
found guilty and sentenced to day to len years
in the penitentiary.
James Baton, of Princess Anne county, Va,
was murdered Saturday morning by two negro
men, who attacked him on the road eight miles
frem Norfolk. Baton was asleep in his wagon,
and his little son was driving. The boy es-
capped and returned wheL the negroes had left,
and found his father dead
A Chicago court room was lately enlivened
by the presence of blushing young lady. who
appeared before the court to sustain petition
for the restoration of seven letters, glove,
curl, and ribbon, which she had given to the
defendant during an engagement of several
months. She didn't get them, though.
AZ the municipal election in Indianapolis on
Tuesday last the Republicans elected their
whole ticket by large majority. This is
decided gain, as last year the city went DEM
ocratic. In Terre Haute the Republicans also
gained heavily. MONTGOMERY, Alabama, had