The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1875-05-01

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Local BRGvIrIEs.-
Where is that other snow storm?
More cold weather the past week.
The Spelling Bug" is another name for it
The average length of farmers life is 81
years.
-Caoutchouc, pronounced koochook). is 8
good word.
Andrew Jackson used to insist that Eek.
tream" was good enough spelling.
-House-cleaning is the popular employ
ment of clearly housewives just now.
AS well try to live without food as for a
town to prosper without steam railroad.
"A close observer says that the words which
ladies are fondest of are the first and last words
John Randolph said any a fool
who couldn't spell word more than one way.
Potatoes should be planted at different
seasons, so that if the bugs come some may
escape.
The Northern Central Railway Company
has adopted the plan of paying its employees
in checks.
The census OF Baltimore embraces nine
thousand working girls Would you like to be
a census?
1t is predicted that the air and earth are
so full of moisture that there cannot be much
hot weather this season.
The postoiiice at PhiIopolis has not yet
been re established, although efforts have been
made looking to that end.
-Towsontown was well represented at Fords
Opera House this week to witness Miss Cush-
mans farewell performances.
: The auction sale of the Highland Park
Hotel and adjoining lots, which took place on
Monday, aggregated 0s336.OS.
This Saturday is the first day of May.
"Maying parties" will find little pleasure and
few flowers in the woods just now.
''Cum down to mite and talk me to the
spin be: I've jined en-" is the way Hartford
county girl wrote to her Augustus.
On Tuesday of last week a little daughter
of Mr.. Ritter, living at Elysville, cut off three
of her fingers while playing with Ratchet.
Miss Sue Dougherty of this town, took part
in the great 81 telling match at the Academy of
Music, Baltimore, on Tuesday evening last
Mr.. VIM. Carmichael, resident of the
"Belt,' is announced in last weeks Woodbury.
News as a candidate for County Commissioner.
DIR. Bussey, son of DR.. H. G.. Bussey, ST., of
Shrewsbury, has moved to Seven Valley to
take the practice DR.. Weiser, lately deceased.
Gudgeon fishing has commenced at the. Re-
lay House, B. & 0. Railroad. party of gen.
tlemen caught thirty five dozen there on Sat
urdayl last.
-The Peach Bottom Railway is doing a
brisk trade. Some days the rush of travel and
trade excels the capacity of their limited sup
ply Of cars.
Mr. VIM. Jones, of Dulaney's Valley,
whose leg was broken in two places last win
ter by the kick of horse, is able to be about
on crutches
Levin Gale, ESQ.,, a member of the Balti.
more bar, died at his residence in that city, on
Wednesday morning last. He was a native of
Cecil county.
VIM. H. Ruby, editor of the Journal, and
a member of Towson Lodge, has been elected
Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of
Maryland, l. 0. o. F.
The lightning rod man and the tree nur-
sery agent are once more abroad in the land,
and the price OF dogs has gone up in the rural
regions accordingly.
The aged mother of Mr.. August Loose of
this town, died on Friday night, April 23d, of
paralysis. Her remains were inferred at Lou
don Park on Mon day.
Mr.. Edward Austen, of New York, has re-
Gently purchased the johnson property, at
Glencoe, N. c. R. r., and is making some fine
Improvements upon it.
-"Old Prob said we were to have eight
rain" on Wednesday. The rain did come
and not before it was needed either-but it
was anything else than eight"
-"Rev" Pencil Coombe, the old curmudgeo
who disguised Towsontown audience about
two years ago, has been talking temperance to
the good people of Kent county.
The question is asked, why the railroad
fare between York and Baltimore exceeds more
than cents per mile when the constitution
prescrlbes less York True Democrat.
The iron bridge spanning the GuEpowder,
recently washed away from the public road at
Glencoe, will soon be replaced by another TO
be constructed by Mr.. Wendall Bollman.
Mr.. E. E. Marriott, formerly principal of
the public school at this place, left Baltimore
on Thursday of last week for the State of Tex
as, where he goes to take charge of school.
-Miller's brewery, at Canton, was sold at
public sale last week, and was purchased by
H. Strause, Brother Bell for 100000. The
purchase includes a two-story frame dwelling.
Officer stocksdale, of the fourth district,
brought to jail on Thursday evening, colored
man named Watkins, charged with robbing the
meat house of Mr. Frank Low, living near Refs
terstown.
A large delegation of heavy tax payers of
the third district was present at the County
Commissioners office on Wednesday to protest
against the increase of the levy for school
purposes.
The Baltimore and Hall Springs railway
line has put on bobtaled cars, which are very
pretty and about as inconvenient things for
people to ride in as could be devised.-SGtur
dag Night.
This is the season of the year for the pat
ent right man to begin his perambulations
through the country, and getfarmers' names to
contracts, which are afterwards converted into
negotiable notes.
Mr.. Edward Jenkins, a member of the
well-known firm of Edward Jenkins Sons,
importers of saddlery and coach hardware,
died at his residence In Baltimore, on Friday
of last week. in the Goth year of his age.
David s. Jones, of Richmond, Va, EN-
,ployed bv the Northern Central railroad, had
his hand badly crushed while coupling cars at
North and Monument streets Tuesday night.
DIR. Thompson amputated three OF his fingers.
The construction of the State Normal
III Al IS liaop
street and Lafayette avenue, Baltimore, is pro-
or essing rapidly, large force of workmen be-
inr employed, and the second story joists are
Col. Edward F. jenkins, of Long Green,
while fishing in stream on his property one
dav last week discovered in the water the body
of an unknown man, evidently a German.
The BODY bore evidences of having been in the
water for some time.
Mr.. VIM. Brogden, brother of the late DR..
Arthur Brocden, Of Govanstown, who for some
time past has been city editor of the Baltimore
American. has rendered his resignation, hav-
ing accepted like position on the New York
Commercial Advertiser.
in the recent convocation in Baltimore
Mr.. Wyatt Blanchard, in speech in behalf OF
diocesan missions stated that the average sal
arv of the Protestant Episcopal clergy of this
diocese, out of the cities, would not exceed one
dollar and Gfty cents per day.
On Tuesday evening Deputy Sheriff Ris-
teau and officer Brown arrested in this place,
Mary Hall, colored, charged with stealing a
lot of ladies' wearing apparel from the house
of a man named Roller, on Bath street, Balti-
more. The stolen property was recovered.
-"Barnums" circus, that exhibited in Bal
timore last week, was not Barnum's circus af-
ter ALL The show was only travelling under
his name-for the use of (which he was no doubt
handsomely paid-and as circus was about
as good as any ordinary show of the kind.
"A gentleman of probity, who reads the al
manacs, has come to the conclusion that when
ever in the course of human events their COM
pliers foretell nice weather it means the direc
opposite, so that he can tell within mile OF
two lust about the nature of the weather mex
week.
"A country gentleman who went to the cir
Gus was relieved of 1913. He was from Hartford
county and if there is one thing that the as
tute citizen doth love more than another, it il
a Hartford county gentleman with an air a6ou
him of the gentle verdure of retarded spring
-BGLto Bulletin.
The sale of the personal property of AL
fred J. Gent, advertised to take place on Thurs
dav of last week, was stopped, an injunction
having been granted by the Circuit Court re
straininp the Trustees from making sale. Tit
soIo of the life estate of Mr.. Gent was stopped