The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1875-04-17
General Ne1Us.

Roman Catholic priest In Troy makes FIRE.
suent rounds of the saloons in his parish, to
see If any of his congregation are drunkards.
municipal election was held at Hagerstown,
Nd, ON Monday last which resulted in vic
tory for the Democrats by majority of 1877
votes.
Ex-Governor Thomas, of Maryland, Minister
to Peru, having resigned the President has APP
pointed Richard Gibbs of N. Y, to fill the va
cancy.
George Reynolds, convicted of polygany at
Salt Lake City, Utah, has been sentenced to
one year in the pententiary and to pay fine
Of $500.
Mr.. James Lick, of San Francisco, has sub
scribed $4,000 to the Philadelphia Centennial,
and has given ntimaton that he will double
the amount.
General James M. Anderson was on Monday
re-apponted Collector of City Taxes by Mayor
Vansant, of Baltimore, and confirmed by the
City Council.
The BALTIC. & Ohio Railroad Company is
about to purchase, for $J,OOOOOO, Baltimore
| citys interest in the Pittsburg and Connells-
| vile railroad.
A large number of sheep have beer destroy
ed by dogs in Charles county lately, one gen.
tleman having lost over eighty within the past
four or five months
| In five States of the Union the Governor re-
ceives salary of but 81, 900. These States are
Michigan, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Rhode
Island and Vermont.
| President Grant mas appointed Senator Ran
| som, of North Carolina, a former Confederate
| major general, one of the visitors to the West
| Point military academy.
| New York rough, who committed mayhem
on man by biting his nose off in fight, has
been sentenced to seven years imprisonment
at hard labor for the offense.
| The money paid out for leaf tob iccS by the
| banks of Danville, Va, on account of sales at
| the warehouses during the first three months OF
| this year amounted to $4,000
| The Khedive of Egypt wants to borrow $751;
| 100000, at twelve per cent. interest. payable |
monthly, just to get rid of little floating debt
| he has of about the same amount.
Gen. Garfield says the postage increase was |
all mistake, due mainly to the bad practice |
OF allowing important legislation to be crowd |
ed into the last hours of the session.
Massachusetts has abandoned liquor prohi-
bitlon and adopted stringent license laws
From present indications prohibitory liquor
laws will soon be things of the past.
Benjamin, of Mr.. Redmill, of Middle
Neck, Cecil county, aged twelve years, was
killed few days ago by being run over by
field roller with which he working.
At the annual conference of the Church of
the Latter Day Saints, in Salt Lake City, Sat-
urday last, Brigham Young elected
prophet, seer, revelator. and president.
The pistols won by Maj. Pitcairn, at Licking
ton, and from Of which the first shot of the
revolution wa fired, are in the possession of
INC Willow VI GRANDSON OF Oen. IuLUdUl
The Salisbury (Md) Advertiser dominates
Allen G. Thurman, of Ohio, for Democratic
candidate for President in 1875, and Thomas
F. Bayard, of Delaware for Vice President.
Indianapolis is the home of a young couple
whose future is likely to be stormy. They
have only been married a month, and during
that period have separated over dozen times |
Henry Marley, the English Evangelist, held
his farewell service in New York last Sunday
evening. and preached for the last time in that
city before an audience mum berng atleast 49,
900 people.
The Elkton Cecil co., Methodist Episcopal
church is without pastor, the congregation
having refused to receive Rev. Geo. A. Phebus,
who was assigned to that charge by the late
conference.
Jas. Darraugh, a laborer, living at the corner
OF Hammond alley and Spring street, Balti-
more, murdered his wife on Sunday last. The
murdered woman was about 80 years of age
Whiskey the cause.
The southern station house, in Baltimore,
furnished $500 lodgings from the first of Jan
uary to April 18th, showing the effects of a
hard winter on the poor and homeless wander
ers that seek temporary refuge OF this kind.
One day last week, in Highland county, Va,
difficulty occurred between two boys, John
r. Dodson, aged IL years, and Frank H. Cook,
aged about II years, in which Cook hit Dodson
on the head with club, killing him instantly.
In the spelling match at Music Hall. Boston,
on Saturday, between fifty Harvard students
and as many girls from the High School, the
cellegians were inglorously beaten, three girls
still remaining after all the students were down.
There was recent sale of live stock at Leb-
anon, Ohio, at which three lions were sold for
$4,000, sixty monkeys for $40, an elephant for
$500, two camels for $780, zebra for 81 900,
two kangaroos for $3.50, and grizzly bear for
$40.
At spelling match" on Monday evening,
at Temperance Temple, Balto., the contest be
tween the young ladies of the Western and
Eastern Female High Schools resulted in the
triumph of the former-Miss Bell Wheeler re-
ceiving the prize.
The Pottsville (Pa.) Miners Journal says the
supply of coal sent from all the Pennsylvania
regions so far this year is 3019092 tons, de-
crease of 910,258 as compared with the same
period last year. The decrease in the supply
of anthracite is 972,375.
farmer, named McKinzie, living near
Greenville, ILL.,, was murdered in his bed on
the night of the 9th inst, apd then dragged to
the stable and placed under the feet of pair
of mules. His wife and son have been arrest
ed on suspicion of having committed the deed.
The town of Edinburg, H., was visited late
ly by fearful tornado The Christian church
and five dwellings were destroyed, and an ele
vator was badly damaged In the church,
thirty or forty young men and women who
were having rehearsal, were buried by the
falling timbers. One lady was killed and sew
eral others fatally injured
The Secretary of the Interior has rendered
decision giving the Missionary Society of the
Methodist Episcopal church possession of over
two hundred acres of land in Wasco county,
Oregon. The tract of land which by this deci-
sion belongs to the Methodist Missionary So
cety, includes the town of Dallas, and is esti-
mated to be worth about 81 900 ,O0n.
The grand jury of the United States District
Court has indicted VIM. H. Whitley, of Caro-
lin fv oh road with frau d,,1o " |
ommitted from the registry list the names Of
legal voters, Thereby depriving them of the
right and privilege of voting atthe election for
members Of Congress" On Tuesday he gave
bail in 81, 900 to answer at the June term.
Charles Harris, residing near Rising Sun,
Cecil county, committed suicide on Sunday
morning, 4th inst, by hanging himself in his
barn. His dead body was discovered short
time after suspended to one of the rafters. He
was an industrious, we'll to-do person, about 35
years of age, and had by economy saved enough
to purchase the little farm on which he lived. =
The st. Louis Republican of the 18th instant
says that Benjamin L. Jessie, of Wyandotte,
Kansas, was, on the 8th convicted of man
slaughter in the first degree, for causing the
death of an infant boy by leaving it out in the
cold to perish. Jessie belongs to one of the
oldest families of Clay county, Kansas. The
child, which was frozen to death, was his own,
born to him by his sixteen-year-o daughter.
AN OLE RELIC.-Mr. George Frederick. of this
place, informs US that some time since while vs-
iting the ore bank on the farm of Mr.. John Tracy,
on the line of the Bachman Valley Railroad, in
Manchester District, Carroll county. Md, he
picked up in the bottom of an old shaft which
has not been worked for MANY years, small can
non ball, which had evidently been living there
great many years, being completely rorruded
with rust and age During the Revolution iron
ore in large quantities was dug from this hack and
hauled to the old Forge or Furnace on the Black
Rock road in Mannheim township, this CO where
it was worked up into cannon and balls TOR the
American army, and this ball was doubtless con
veyed by the teamsters or others employed in
hauling the to the Forge. Mr.. F. intends
sending it, properly labeled, to the Centennial
Exhibition at Philadelphia next year, as an in
erestng relic belonging to the Revolutionary pc
Rod .-Hanover Spectator
EDW. G.. CLAUS,