The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1875-02-20
LOCAL MATTERS.

LOCAL BREvITIEs.-
"A horse standing still will take cold quick
er than a man.
If "there's place for everything" where
is the place for boil
Eggs are very scarce in Baltimore and are
worth from 81 to 40 cents per dozen.
-Washington's birth day, which occurs on
Monday next, 22d, is legal holiday.
The people in parts of York county are still
complaining of the scarcity of water.
In lS07 William Gibson was the Clerk oil
the Circuit Court for Baltimore county.
For the week ending Monday, Feb. 18TH
there were l43 deaths in Baltimore city.
For. the week ending Monday, June 2Sth,
1918, there were twenty one deaths in Balti
more.
DR.. J. Piper, of this town, has been select
ed as physician to Lutherville Female Semi
nary.
Blessed are they that ale deaf, for they
never lend money, and never hear tedious
stories.
On Friday, Saturday and Sunday last the
sleighing hereabOuts was very fine and was
made good use OF.
Mr.. W. W. Glenn has sold the thorough
bred running horse, Master jain, to A. c.
Hunt, of Colorado
1t is now announced that the new City
Hall of Baltimore will be ready for occupancy
in about two months.
The Adams Express Company has estab-
lshed an Office at Belair, Hartford county. Mr..
Isaac Amos is the agent.
-"Flora Temple" the famous trotting mare,
once the property If the late VIM. Mcdonald,
OF this county, is still living.
On November 30th. 1874 there were $50
prisoners in the Maryland penitentiary. The
institution is self supporting.
The Baltimore Bulletin is troubled about
the morals of Baltimore county. How about
your smallpox Councilman?
Don't forget the exhibition and concert at
Hunts NJ. E. Church, near Riders, on Wed
nesday evening next at o'clock.
Peter A. Shipley and Abraham Wheeler
of Woodberry, have obtained patent for i'm
provement in washing machines.
The lecture by Rev. Thomas Guard, in
Towsontown NJ. L. Church, on Monday even
ing. was well attended and greatly enjoyed.
Flank Hetka, a Higdlandtown butcher,
was thrown from his wagon in Baltimore, on
Saturday last, and received severe injuries.
Several -four mills along the Patapsco have
been obliged to suspend operations IN conse
'quence of the recent cold snap and freeze up.
The real estate belonging to the estate of
the late Geo. W. Sands, of EllicOtt City, has
been sold at public sale and brought $6,8O9.2l
VIM. X. Mitchell, citizen of Oxford, Bal
timore county, died suddenly, of apoplexy, on
Sunday evening last, in the 74th year of his
age.
Joseph A. Newmeyer has been appointed
a constable for the 18th district, for one year
from Feb. 9th. 1875, vice Nicholas G Richards,
resigned.
Here is another evidence of hard times.
Two hundred and thirty -One parcels of real
estate are advertised by the tax-collectors OF
Somerset county.
Garrett county, Nd, is without a Court
House. The next term of the Circuit Court is
to be held in store-room at Oakland, provi-
ded it is large enough.
Two children Of Mr.. Robt. S. Hedr:ck,
proprietor of the 1O-Mile House, York road,
were thrown from a sleigh on Wednesday last
and pretty badly bruised.
This is Ember Week, Wednesday, Friday
and Saturday being Ember days. In the Ro-
man Catholic Church abstinence from meat
on Ember days is observed.
Mr.. Geo. Ketterman, Sr., a resident OF
York county, Pa, and seventy years of age,
has been teaching school in that county for
fifty one years, and is still at it
Blue birds and robins have already made
their appearance in some sections. This does
not agree with the ground hogs prophecy, as
it is said to herald an early spring.
IT'S naught when woman humbugs man,
For that's the good old style;
But, oh, mans confidence in man,
Makes countless thousands smile.
The population of Baltimore is increasing
rapidly. Mrs. John Hoen, residing in that
city, Tuesday night, gave birth to four fe-
male children, all healthy and well dey eloped.
Miss Mary E. Church, daughter of E. F.
Church, formerly of this place, was married
the 9th inst, at the residence other parents,
in Newtown, Pa, to Mr.. D. Jarrett Walton, of
Philadelphia.
The war of races-for ofice-is being al
ready waged with great vigor. Nine or ten
county offices are to be filled next fall, and We
suppose there are at least thirty candidates for
each one that will be vacant.
There are at this time $50 inmates at Bay
view Asylum. This is 232 more than at any
time during the corresponding season last
year, and 2S7 more than the average number
eliminates at the institution.
Mr.. Michael Edwards, formerly of York
county, now of West Virginia, is one hundred
and eight years of age, and in the enjoyment
of good health He walks two miles to church
every Sunday Think OF that
1.-THE blood Of forty two men contains iron
enough to make plow-share weighing twenty
four pounds" The fellow that found this out
ought to tell US how he made the discovery,
and We'll doubt it until he does.
The next meeting of the Baltimore Annu-
al Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church will be held at Winchester, Va, COM
mencing Wednesday, March Sd. There are
1874 ministers in this Conference.
j. H. Vanderhorst the we'll known brew
the Belair road, has ust completed new
mailing establishment which cost $40 900. The
mailing season lasts from about the middle of
September to the middle of May.
On the morning of the 18th instant, G. A.
Outright, of Highlandtown, was robbed of a
watch and chain, sum of money and some
papers. John Brown, colored, the supposed
thief, was arrested and lodged in Jail.
On Tuesday, officer Roach, of the county
police, arrested Bob Boston, colored, charged
with the larceny Of a stove from John T. Pot
ter of the 9th district He is now in the coun
ty Jail and his stove is no use to him.
Several years ago it used to be said that
there was more gambling done in Towsontown
than in all the balance of Baltimore county
together. That may have been true then, but
now there is very little if any of it done here
The interior of the attractive stone Church
of st. Bartholomew, Protestant Episcopal, on
Boundary avenue, has been conn leted, the
seats placed in position and carpeted. Servi-
ces were held there on Sunday last for the first
time.
The tenant house of Col D. M. Matthews,
destroyed by fire about two weeks ago, was
nearly new and cost something over $l,1OO.
1t was insured for $3.50. The occupant of the
house succeeding in saving nearly all his fur
niture.
The severity of the weather is we'll illus
trated by the fact that the ice at Lake Roland
is twenty two inches thick 1t is a clear and
excellent article Of ice, and the citizens in the
neighborhood have been permitted to gather it
for their ieehouses.
The fine large residence and grounds, be
longing to the estate of the late Hon. James c.
Magraw, in Lutherville, have been sold to Mr..
Jasper Berry, of Baltimore, son-n law of Hon.
D. G. H. Emory. Mr.. Magraw's family will
shortly remove to Cecil county.
On Saturday morning last as the train
from Philadelphia which reaches Baltimore
at O'Clock was passing the North Point cross
ing, near Herring Run, some miscreant threw
a huge stone into one of the passenger cars,
causing serious injury to passenger.
The following is the only original poem on
"ground hog which we consider sufficiently
brief and to the point:
The grouLd hog is a gentle bird,
He knows a thing or two
He went into his hole last week
To stay the winter through.
The York True Democrat says Ofthe Peach
Bottom narrow gauge railroad Suppose the
value of land three miles on each side of the
P.B R. W., increased $40 an acre, then the to .
tai increase would be 81 800, 900, while its en-
tire cost, to build and equip, will not be $780,
900, being gain of three times its cost" Does
the narrow gauge system pay or not7
Henry Rollcutter and John Messersmith,