The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1875-05-15

The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle says that the re
cent ship ments of Georgia iron to Liverpool
demonstrate that it can be exported at profit.
Four or five persons were killed and many
wounded by the cyclone in Stewart county,
Ga, on last Monday night Many farms were
devastated.
A woman weighing more than 600 pounds
died in Philadelphia last week. She has been
unable, by reason of her immense weight, to
walk for thirteen years past.
The ex-Union soldiers of Memphis have ac-
cepted the invitation of the ex Confederate
soldiers to participate in the commemoration
services for the Confederate dead.
Brick made in China are sold in San Fran
cisco for less than they can be made for this
side of the Pacific, notwithstanding the ad va
loren duty of twenty per cent on them.
The Changers of New Jersey going into
business their own account. AT Medford
they have purchased building which they
are fitting up for a store, blacksmith shop,
bank, etc.
In the late Oshkosh, Wisconsin, fire nearly
six hundred houses were burned and these in
the very heart of the city. The greater por-
ton of the business part eff it was swept over
by the flames.
Among the presents at wooden wedding in
Allentown, Pa, recently, was an immense cake
This was reserved for the last; and when they
came to cut it, they found it was only cheese
box covered with icing.
1t is said that large numbers of people who
lately emigrated to California, are returning to
the older States. A dispatch from Omaha says
that seven hundred arrived there in two days
recently, on their return east
The hundredth anniversary of the capture
Of Fort Ticonderoga by Colonel Ethan Allen
was celebrated on Monday by the patriotic cit
liens of New York and Vermont, who dwell
near the scene of this historic adventure.
A Grand Juror has been indicted in the Dau-
phin Court for coming to Court drunk and
shouting "Iello !" when his name called
true bill was found against him by the body
of which he was to have been a member.
DR.. George Brown, the ConIeaut, Ohio, vete-
rinary surgeon who attempted to invent new
disease for horses by injecting poison under
their skins and then advertising to cure them,
has been sentenced to two years in the peni-
Tertiary.
In 1874, 100000 pounds of buffalo meat
were shipped over the Kansas Pacific Railway
and its connections. In the same year, over
the Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad bones, g.
914.O50 pounds hides, 1914 31n pounds meat,
GO 800 pounds.
Col. Lee Jordan, a Georgia farmer, owns and
cultivates 100000 acres, the original cost Of
which was S45 900. He has 500 laborers, but
is gradually adopting the tenant system. Six
overseers superintend the plantations, and
raise from 400 to 1000 bales of cotton.
The condition of winter wheat in the West
ern States is at present rated, according to in
dications, at from 81 to IS per cent, or from
less than fve-eighths to three-quarters of
crop. The condition is better in Pennsylvania,
Maryland and Virginia, though below an av-
erage.
The celebrated Watch Factory at Elgin, Hi
nos, has ceased operations. The country has
become over-stocked with watches, which, we
presume, has brought the business down below
paying point. At one time it was very prof
table. The stoppage of this establishment
throws some six hundred workmen out of en-
ployment.
At Chiffon, Wis, lately, George Miller, one
armed soldier shot John Namis, proprietor of
hotel, and Henry Kuehls, hOstler, and then
proceeded to the cemetery and shot himself
Of the three men only Kuehls can possibly re-
cover. The cause of the tragedy was a quar-
rel over board bill
A tornado swept over the villages of Green
Springs, Clyde and Bellevue, Ohio, Sunday af-
ternoon, demolshing chimneys, roofs and
fences and uprooting trees. Two children
were killed at Green Springs. The tornado
moved from south to north. and its track was
two miles wide. Along the line of the Lake
Shore railroad scarcely a building escaped
Attempts to wreck trains and burn bridges
in the Schuylkill (Pa) mining regions are be-
coming alarmingly frequent. An attempt was
made to destroy the Philadelphia and Reading
railroad bridge at Locust Gap, Friday night
7th INST, but the hre was discovered In time to
save it and an express train, which would 9TH
erwise have dashed npon it and gone down.
One day last week a smiling FAINT toddled
away from its home near Viola, Iowa, on the
Dubuque Southwestern Railroad, and lay down
between the rails to sleep. A few moments Ia
ter a train came along and the engineer, seeing
he could not stop in time, pulled her wide open
and banged the whole train over the sleeping
cherub before it woke, and never touched a
hair of it, Had the little one attempted to
rise it would have been killed instantly.
In Cleveland, Ohio, L. A. Benton, jeweler,
went to his store as usual Sunday morning last
to wind watches and look over the establish
ment, when he was confronted by masked
burglar, armed with knife, who demanded
his surrender. Benton seized Ratchet, but
was felled senseless by second burglar from
behind. The thieves then riaed the safe of
and watches, the value of which
cannot now be ascertained. They took 5000
breast pin from Benton's bosom.