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

| We are beginning to hope that the pros
poets for the Towsentown steam railroad are
Frightening. The only thing that will save
the town is steam communication with Balti-
more. Don't let the American Centennial
dawn upon us and find us without steam
railroad to connect with the outer world-and
with the Northern Central.
The editor of the Belair Ggis has a rad
dish weighing st pounds. We had beaten our
Westminster friends with vegetable furnish
ed by Mr.. Lynch, but now Hartford comes in
and "goes us several BETTER" We give it up
on the raddish business, but we had a pump
kin which could not be beaten. You must
give US credit for that, gentlemen.
"A reduction of fifteen per cent. in the sal
aries of the Baltimore Custom House officials
is about to be made. If the officers decline to
acceed to the reduction we expect there are
plenty ofothers who will gladly fill their places.
There are some men 30 anxious to get into po-
ltical positions that they would accept offices
even if it brought them in debt to hold them.
An exchange says: AS the season for wear
ing overshoes is at hand, the following simple
recipe for mending rubbers will prove timely
and worth inserting in your memorandum
book: To mend rubber boots, cut up some pure
rubber in very small pieces and dissolve IN
benSne. Put patch of rubber over the place
to be mended, and stick it fast with the selu-
ton.
On Wednesday morning last, Elisha Parks,
aged about ten years, son of Mr.. Samuel
Parks residing in Lime Kiln Bottom, about
one mile east of Towsontown, accidentally fell
into barrel of boiling water-whlch was be-
ing used to scald hogs-and was scalded in
most shocking manner. DR.. Piper was prompt
ly on hand and rendered the necessary med-
cal services and at last accounts the patient
had improved slightly.
"A good recipe is to rub hams with fine
salt and sugar and lay them in a dry place.
After five or six days rub again, putting on
some new salt, as the old becomes dry and does
not penetrate. At the end of eight nine
DAYS apply the salt again. Use sugar only at
the first rubbing. Keep the salt on them I'M
til the shanks look white and the skin draws
down tight; when this is the appearance the
hams are ready to smoke.
A pigeon shooting match between B. L.
De Forrest, OF New York, and Gen. E. b.
Grub, of Phla., took place at Pimlco Fair
Grounds, on Tuesday last, each gentleman put
ting up $1,000, making q handsome purse OF
$4,000 as the prize. Ninety birds were sprung
from the traps tor each man Gen. Grub kill
ing seventy two and Mr.. De Forrest sixty.
very large crowd was present, many Of them
sporting men from New York, Phila., and Bal
timore.
The economy practiced by the present
School Board is well illustrated by the follow
ing incident, told by reliable gentleman and
Democrats A school house in the Sth district
was last Spring supplied with a car load of
coal, not half of which was used before the
warm weather set III, leaving sufficient guam
tity to supply said school during the present
Winter. A short time ago another car load was
sent to the same school. The fact that one of
the members of the School Board is coal DEAL
er--or an agent for coal-may account for this
little extra.