The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1875-06-19
The prospects are fair for a v

The prospects are fair for very large
peach crop in maryland and Delaware this
season.
"A field of ice thirty miles in extent still
exists on Lake Huron.
Baron Rothschild has just given 100000
for French running horse.
"A man cannot "weather the storm" any
better by storming at the weather.
"A father in Iowa recently gave his daugh
ter lead mine as a bridal present.
Millions of Colorado bugs have made their
appearance on the farms near Philadelphia.
Two small boys were hauled before the
Preston, Conn, police court, and fined one cent
each, for the henious offence of calling one
VIM. Armstrong "sunfower."
"A Watertown lady has commenced the
study of natural history. She has a mammoth
| cat that plays the piano, and is now training a
toad to dance very gracefully.
Boston has now over one hundred first
| class wooden manufactures all of which have
sprung up within the last twenty-five years.
There is real estate case still pending in
the courts of Kentucky which was begun sixty
years ago, in 1915. The original parties to the
suit are all dead but their heirs still wage the
| fight
-Immense swarms of grasshoppers have
appeared at Omaha and Plattsburg, Nebraka,
| moving in northerly direction, and are re
ported to have destroyed everything before
| them.
While some school boys in Littleton, N. IT,,
were playing ball recently, ball batted by
one of them struck swallow in the air and
brought him down as suddenly as if hit with
a bullet
| "A woman ragpicker of Indianapolis who
has always lived in the utmost squalor, and
was supposed to be very poor, died the other
day, and is now found to have been worth
nearly 100000.
| "A leanish and child-like Connecticut Yam
| kee, wearing an unsupported jacket of lead, is
| gathering in S. bets at Newport, by offering
wagers that "you can't guess within 100 pounds
how much I weigh"
| Mrs. Wicklief, of New Orleans, was attack
| ed by a coon which entered her sleeping apart
ments one night last week. After terrible
fight the animal was killed, but the lady was
severely bitten, the wounds are not dangerous
| The Baltimore american states on 'the
| highest authority" that the Baltimore & Ohio
R. r. is not interested in the Baltimore, Phila-
delphia New York R. R., which has been
consolidated with the Wilmington Reading
The Indians troublesome and childish as
they are, have agreed to accept $4,000 from
the Government for portion of their lands in
| Nebraska. They still stand out, however
against giving up the Black Hills, and remov
ing to Indian Territory.
-Vice-President Wilson met his old friend
Mrs. Jefferson Davis, in the streets of Mem
| PMS lew Gays ago, ana Cne Two are salu "
have clasped hands with cordial and friendl J
ardor, repairing Immediately to neighborinG
ice cream saloon, where they discussed straw
berries and ice and the memories of the past.
Two kegs of powder connecting with (
lighted fuse were thrown through a window o
James Curry's house in Kingston, Pa, by
striking miners Saturday night, to put an enc
to that individuals Independent way of work
ing on his own hook. Some one was awakened
by the noise, however, and extinguished thu
fuse.
The colored Masons of the country will
hold grand reunion at Boston, June oath, un
der the auspices of the Grand Lodge of Massa
chusetts, to celebrate the Tooth annivery of tn
bestowing of the first charter by England OIL
the colored lodges of the United States, which
was issued March 9th, 1775, to the founders o
Prince Hall Lodge at Boston.
Alexander, the man who was shot fou
times by police officer in Philadelphia, re
fused before his death to tell the name OF hi
murderer, and in Brooklyn similar case ha
occurred. A rowdy was stabbed fatally thre
times in the lungs last Saturday night, an
, when asked to tell who was his assailant re
piled "I'd die with the name of the felloV
in my throat before I'd give him away"