The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1875-03-06

Presidents salary to 900 year.
Up to this time the Tilton- Beecher trial has
been in progress eight weeks, and the end is
not yet. 1t will probably last as much longer
A band of Mexican War Veterans, number
ing nearly two hundred, called upon President
Grant, at the White House, on Tuesday of last
week.
While on this side the Rocky Mountains this
has been one of the coolest Winters ever expe-
renced, on the other side it has been remarka-
bly, mild.
Department, the storekeepers and gaugers will
be changed around from point to point every
sixty days
Horse racing is now part of the amusement
ct Barnum's Hippodrome, N. Y. On Saturday
night last horse trotted a mile around the
eirelSia
Mrs. Lydia Bradley, of Peoria, Ill., has been
elected first director of the First National Bank
of that city. She is wealthy widow, and a
large stock holder of the bank
The extensive locomotive works located at
Scranton, Pa, and known as the Cliff Works,
were entirely destroyed by fire early on Sat-
urday morning last. Loss $5OO,oOO
Mrs. William Harvey, wife of one of the
Judges of the Orphans Court Of Garrett
county, Md, was killed at Deer Park on Tues
day while walking on the railroad track
The proprietors of the Driving Park, at Cats
kill, New York, have announced that they in
tend to turn it into cemetery. We have no
tbax, I, i'll, he Iot NIL
The gross earnings of the Pennsylvania
Central Railroad, east and west of Pittsburg,
during the year 1874, were $62, S,351.26, and
the expenses $50, 422, e45.29. Net earnings $685.
514,7O597.
The Bible says a "Bishop must be the hus-
band of one wife," and now what have the
Episcopalians been doing in making DR.. De-
Koven Bishop, who is bachelor and not the
husband of one wife.
State Senator Samuel F. Maddox, of Ches-
terfeld county, Va, has been sentenced to four
months Imprisonment in the county Jail for
obtaining money under false pretenses. Mad
dox is a carpet-bagger.
1t is stated that Mrs. Morgan, residing in
Giles county, Va, two years ago gave birth to
FIVE male children at one time. The boys are
all living and in good health. This throws
Baltimore in the shade.
1t is estimated that in the hills of Columb a
county, N. Y, there is supply of at least TO-
100000 tons of iron, which could be mined and
delivered in boats on the Hudson river at a
cost of not over two dollars ton.
A strong move is being made in Cecil coun-
ty by the friends of temperance to PREVENT the
issuing of licenses to hotel keepers, and it is
| thought but few hotels will be able to obtain
license by the consent of the people.
John Bender, the Kansas murderer, has
been captured in Arizona. He is charged
with having murdered number of people for
the purpose of robbery, the bodies of whom he
buried on the plains to conceal his crime.
Information continuing to be received of the
extreme restitution prevailing in various parts
Of Kansas, the Legislature of that State has
passed resolution appropriating two hundred
thousand dollars for the relief of the sufferers.
A further reduction of fares on the Pennsyl-
vania Central Railroad went into effect on We'd
| nesday last, viz: Baltimore to Pittsburg, S.
Wheeling, $3.50; Cincinnati, Sc; indianapolis,
81; Louisville, So; Chicago, So; st. Louis, $40.
The Legislature of North Carolina has pass
ed resolution expellng J. VIM. Thorne, one
of its members, on account of his non belief in
the existence of God. Thorne is a native of
Chester county. Pa, and is about sixty-fve
years old.
The pneumatic tube, contracted to be laid
down between the Capitol at Washington and
the Government printing Office, for the trans
mission of documents, &C., has proven an en-
tire failure, and the $4,000 expended thereon
is dead loss.
A man in Milford, Massachusetts,, starved to
death valuable horse, and on being tried for
it he proved that his memory was SO bad that
he had actually forgotten that he owned a
horse. The evidence was strong in his favor,
and he was acquitted.
hotel in Baltimore, situated opposite the
Baltimore & Ohio R. R. depot, on Camden st !,
closed up on Tuesday last on account of the
passage Of the Civil Rights Bill. Both of
the principal hotels in Alexandria, Va, have
closed up for the same reason.
During February, 1878, Conewago falls, in
the Susquehanna, was frozen over from shore
to shore, enabling persons to walk over its
eraggy surface while the rushing waters roar
ed bereath-an event that was never before
witnessed by the present generation.
Municipal elections were held in New York
State on the I'd. Elmira elected Howard NJ.
Smith, rep, mayor by two hundred majority.
Last year the democrats carried the city by eight
hundred and fifty majority. Auburn also went
republican 0swego, Newberg and Rome went
democratic.
The Philadelphia authorities have made ar
rangements to blow up the ice gorges along the
Schuylkill, between Fairmont and Manayunk,
which, in some places, are twenty-five feet
high, by means Of torpedoes. The ice on the
river between the dam and the bridges is TWEEN
ty inches thick.
The receivers of the Chicago, Danvile and
Vincennes railroad have made report expos
ing large frauds and populations on the part of
President Judson, Manager Young and Treas
urer Ellosy. The companys floating debt is
$2,5OO,00O with general liability of $9,OOO,-
600. The companys property is valued at
1885,, 900.
A terrible disaster occurred in New York on
Thursday evening of last week, caused by the
falling of five story wall upon the roof of St.
Andrews Catholic church, corner of Duane
street and City Hall Place, crushing in the roof
of that building, in which a large congrega-
ton was assembled at vespers, and causing the
death of five persons and the wounding of
twenty six others.
At FIVE minutes past twelve o'clock on Mon
day morning last Edward Payson West and j.
r. Judd, of New York, commenced their walk
ing race at Barnum's Hippodromc. They are
to walk six consecutive days, and Judd was al
lowed start of thirty miles. The man
who walks the greatest number of miles in the
time specified will be entitled to receive the
purse offered by Mr.. Barnum.
The mining disturbances in the coal regions
Of Pennsylvania are assuming serious char
acter and grave apprehensons are entertain
ed. The miners have been gathering in num-
bers from one hundred to three hundred, with
various kinds offirearms. They have destroy
ed and burned property, driven some men
from their work, and beaten or shot others, in
some cases so injurng them that they are not
expected to 1--we.