The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1875-12-04

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LOCAL BRBvIrIEs.--
Every body shuts the door but you.
Christmas is drawing rapidly near.
Winter commenced on Wednesday last.
Don't let this .cold snap" freeze your heart
against the appeals OF the poor.
-Diptheria is reported quite prevalent in
some sections of Baltimore county.
Now is the season to advertise your Christ
Nmas goods-if you want To sell them.
1t is expected that work on the permanent
water supply for the city will be commenced
next week.
The first snow last year fell on December
LIST. This is a fact and We don't care about
having 1t denied
Mr.. Loadman E. Bull, of Warren, Sth dis
trict. has been appointed balitf to the Orphans
Court OF this county.
The contract tor building two bridges over
Pecks Branch, Sd district, were not awarded
by the Commissioners this week.
jackson L. Duncan, member of the Bal
tmore county bar, has been admitted To prac
tlce in the Courts of Baltimore city.
The Baltimore county jurors to the NOVcm
Der Term of the U. S. Circuit Court have been
discharged until January 4th, 1876
Its now about time the York Road Rail
way Company put the stoves in the cars-that
is ii we are to nave them this winter.
1t is said there are more lies told in the
sentence, 81 am glad to see you," than in any
other six words in the English language.
There are no shooting scrapes and no &C
cidents from.the careless use OF firearms re
ported as occurring on Thanksgiving day.
On Friday, 26th Nov, on motion of George
Philpot, Esq, Alfred Wannamaker, OF this
county, was admitted to the bar OF the Supreme
Bench OF Baltimore.
The harness thieves have been at work
again. Tais time they have carried off lot
OF harness from the stable on the grounds of
the Seminary at Lutherville.
The editor of the Journal wants to sell the
Chesapeake & Ohio Canal. He makes this
proposition in time, probably to prevent the
Potato bugs from getting hold of It,
Some in genious individual has invented
device by which telegraph wires are to be fas-
tened to the concave side of rails on all lines
The case of VIM. Meeter, indicted for the
murder Of colored man named Thomas ID.
Smith, in Baltimore last June, has been re-
moved to the Circuit Court of this county.
On Monday last George Held, aged about
fifty years, living six miles from Baltimore, on
the Hartford road fell from his wagon in Bal
timore, and dslocated his back bone.
The Deeem Der Term of the County Circuit
Court commences on Monday next, 9th instant.
There are on the different dockets for this term
in the neighborhood of five hundred cases.
R. B. Glanville, for the last fourteen years
connected with the Northern Central Railroad,
has been appointed freight agent ct Baltimore
for that Company, vice G. II. Rooms, resigned.
MIR. Elijah F. Crout, the lawyer who fell
dead while pleading case before the Circuit
Court for Carroll county, on Friday OF last
week, was brother of Mr. John E. Crout, of
Reisterstown, this county.
The Episcopal Church at Mount Wash
:ington, was beautifully decorated with flowers
and fruits on Thanksgiving day, which, at the
conclusion of the services, were distributed
amsng the Sunday school children.
Mr.. Charles S. Abel, of the Baltimore Sun,
is suffering from very severe attack OF typnold
fever, at the country residence of his iather,
may be speedily restored to health.
The old Board of County Commissioners,
Messrs. McCauley, Rider and Jordan, and the
new Board, Messrs Corse, Crowther and Hun
ter, by special request Of Elk Sheriff Butler,
dined with that gentleman on Tuesday last.
Capt A. IL. Bogardus, the champion pig
con shootist of the world, gave an exhibition
of his skill at Pimico, under the auspices of
H. I1h rid Other
matches were also shot by amateur "sports."
Visitors to the Centennial will find good
accommodations in Towsontown. Take the
D. M train from Philadelphia over the Baltic,
Phila, and New York railroad aud reach here
at g. Trains going east will leave almost any
time.
In accordance with law, which requires
the Register of Wills to renew his bond every
two years, JOS B. Mitchell, Esq, on Wednes-
day last, bonded in the sum of $1,000, with
VIM Brooks and john G. Armstrong as secu-
rifles
A "polar wave" passed over this place on
Monday night last and it kept "waving" all
day Tuesday. The weather was intensely cold
for this season Of the year, the thermometer at
one o'clock Tuesday marking only II degrees
above zero.
"A NUMBER OF IePubdUl6 RcublOtnon
ed in the, to U.S. brutal sport of pigeon shoot
ing match at Pimlico on Tuesday. One hun
dred and thirty-two birds were killed, and So,
900 went into the pocket of wealthy Phila-
delphia gentleman.
-Jabez Armacost, Esq, the newly elected
county Treasurer, bonded on Wednesday last,
in the sum of $40 900, with Daniel Beckley,
VIVA. H. Wheeler and Luther A. Martin as Sc
curities Mr.. Armacost at once entered upon
the discharge of his duties.
There are a very large number of appli-
Giants for the different positions to be filled by
the new Board of County Commissioners. We
hone that none but trustworthy and compe-
tent men will be selected. The people seem to
be demanding "clean sweap."
Mr.. John E. Owens produced this week at
Ford's Opera House, Baltimore, for the first
time. a new comedy, written by Henry J. By
ron, and entitled "Our Boys" Mr.. Owens IT,
tie in this new play is "Middlewick, the But
terman." and it is said to be irresistably funny
A colored man named Henry Woods, was
arrested at Cumberland on Tuesday, charged
with stealing $3.50 in money, set Of Jewelry
valued at SIS, and a suit of clothes, from the
house of E. L. Rogers, near Pimlico The ac-
cused had been employed on the track at PIN
lico.
The editor of the Hanover Herald lately
met at the York county Institute, Mr.. R. G
McGinn, who represents the extensive book
publishing house of D. Appleton & Co., New
York The editor speaks in the most fattering
terms of "Mac." and also of the books he II
selling.
Probably the oldest person in Baltimore
county-a colored woman considerably up
wards of one hundred years of age-lives with
Daniel Jenifer Esq, in the 18th district of this
county. We beg leave to name her for the
Centennial Sweepstakes" and will take her
against the field at almost any odds.
Mrs. Sarah A. Miles, of this town. died a
the residence Of her daughter, in Baltimore, on
Saturday last, aged 81 years. Her remain'
were inferred at st James Church, Ny Lady ;:
Manor, on Tuesday. Mrs. Miles was the wifi
of the late Col Dixon S. Miles, U. S. Army, WHIT
was killed at Harper's Ferry, during the late
war.
On Thanksgiving day Mr.. John E. Flay
hart, an employee of the Union office, gave al
the Towsontown printers a sumptuous dinne
at his house. Eight of the members of th'