The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1875-07-03


Store at Riders Station, N. G. r. R.
House for rent in Towsontown.
Colored amp-meeting at Towsontown.
For sheriff, John NJ. Curtis, 10th District
ne For particulars see new advertisements
LOCAL BREyITIEs.-
-Molyhoses but 1t Is warm
Now, how about the narrow-gauge?
Camp meetings will commence this month
-Whew The same with little ice, please
Strawberries are among the things thai
were.
Will the Maryland editors "excursh" this
summer?
If you have tears to shed, prepare-a little
horse-radish
The public schools of the county closed fol
the summer on Wednesday last.
In Baltimore city last week seventy-four
children died OF cholera infantum.
Last week box containing bushel and
a-half of tomatoes sold in Baltimore for 1925
We won't celebrate" this year. There is
net much patriotism in our people, we regret
to say.
Tomorrow is the 4th of July-Indepen-
dence Day. 1t will be celebrated this year on
the 5th.
-"Shrouds are never made with pockets"
There is whole sermon in these few words.
Do you understand it?
This must be heavy 'board." The three
aet,rs,ss A. s : ar-----I---r
The first of July is pay day in this coun.
try. Very few of those indebted to US remem-
bered the fact, however.
We hav'nt heard yet how ''Sater's Ridge"
got its name Can't some of our. old citizens
give US the information?
-Messrs. Pool Hunt, of Woodberry, have
been awarded the contract for furnishing three
day beacons for the Potomac river.
Prospect Lodge, |. 0. o. F., of Phoenix, will
shortly erect new hall. The building is to
be of brick, 25x5O it., and two stories high.
The first new red wheat of the season was
sold in Baltimore on Monday last at $500 per
bushel Itwas raised in Richmond county, Va.
"A small striped bug has made its appear
ance in Caroline county, in great numbers,
and strange to say is feeding on the potato bug.
In the County Clerks Office mortgages
have been recorded up to May 1st, 1875; deeds
up to June LIST, 1875, and bills of sale up to date.
The excursions to Fair Haven and Annap-
oils by the Maryland Steamboat Company's
beautiful boats, are now very extensively pa
tronized.
"A colored cam p-meeting will be held in
Capt. Chas. R. Chew's woods, Tewsontown,
commencing the 23d of July and will contin-
ue ten days.
-Ex-Vice President Colfax and family have
been spending several days at the country res.
idence Of Saml M. Shoemaker, Esq, in Green
Spring Valley.
The stage line on the Hartford turnpike,
between Baltimore and Long Green, leaves
Watkins Tavern at a.. M, and "Sun" Build
Sng, Baltimore, at p. m.
"A few days ago Messrs. Frank Fisher and
Charles Poe, of Baltimore, walked from that
city to Westminster, distance of thirty miles,
between sun rise and sun set
-Grasshoppers made their appearance on
the farm of Mr.. John Gerbrich, near Shrews
bury, YORK county, and in very short order
destroyed one entire field of grain.
Before another issue of the Union our
farmers will be in the midst of wheat harvest.
The crop hereabouts, though better than for
several years past, will not be full one.
The Powhatan Manufacturing Company's
mill, situated at Powhatan, I'd district, ceased
operations about two weeks ago, on account of
the high price of Gotten and low price ofgoods.
Mr.. W. J. Torrington has been appointed
cashier of the Northern Central Railway Co.,
an office recently created by the board of di-
rectors. Mr.. Torrington is stationed at Balti-
more.
The 5th-Monday next-will be celebra-
ted at the Guilford House, Govanstown, by a
grand prize bowling match for purse of 500
in gold. In the evening display of fireworks
viii take place.
Among those who received gold medals at
The last annual commencement of Glenwood
Institute, Ellicott City, for proficiency in the
B. Cockey, of Baltimore county.
If you want to save your thermometer put
N .tA refri~Arator ice-honse at once.
T ohg 9 MHssstRSf unless the instrupent
the top and "bust" the darned thing.
The Treasurer Of the Hartford Fire Insar-
ance Company paid, lately, to Geo: Gleser, OF
baltimore county, five hundred dollars for the
loss of his barn by fire, and twenty-seven hun
dred dollars for the loss OF the contents.
"A grand centennial old folks tea party will
he held in the grove at Jessop's Church, above
,Cockeysville, Monday ard Tuesday next, at 3
D. m. good supper, with ice cream, fruits,
&C., will be served at reasonable prices.
John Randolph Quinn, Esq, member OF
the Baltimore bar died at his residence IN that
CITY, on Thursday night of last week, aged
about FORTY years. Mr.. Quinn was Sec
retarv of State under Gov. Enoch Louis Lowe.
"A horse ran race with a train on the
Western Maryland railroad one day last week,
and coming to bridge the animal tried to pass
over beside his opponent. He was crushed TO
a jelly between the timbers OF the bridge and
the cars.
The weather. since our last issue, has been
intensely hot, the thermometer ranging from
IS to "a in the shade. Anumber OF sun strokes
were reported in the city. 1t would be well
for all who are compelled to be out in the hot
sun to be cautious.
The other day stranger in Towsontown,
on his way to the city, wanted to know where
the depot of the steam railroad was located.
We told him we had several, but thatthey were
all very far off He walked to Baltimore rath-
.er than hunt for them.
At the commencement of Loyola College,
Baltimore, on Wednesday evening last, Mel
choi, G. Cockey, son of Mr.. Peter F. Cockey, OF
Cockeysvile, was among those who received
honorg. The theme of his essay was "The
PHILOSOPHY of Communism"
If we had hold of the man that told us
ahout that gteam whistle, two years ago, we'd
scaiD him. There don't seem to be much
truth in the world after all. We don't believe
we're going to get a railroad, and you know
we wouldn't lie about little matter like that.
The commencement exercises OF Mt. St.
Agnes Academy, at Mt. Washington, took place
on Wednesday last, and was largely attended
both nv Baltimore and residents of the
eouuty Academic honors, consisting OF med
ais and costly books, were conferred on the de-
serving ones.
Its stated that the affairs of the Western
MARYLAND Railroad are in very prosperous
and satisfactory condition. Verbal statement,
Il is understood. has been made that the COM
many finds itself able in the future to take care
Of the interest upon $2.00O.O00 of its $S.6OO,OOO
of principal debt.
"A very violent storm of wind, rain and
hail passed over this place about half-past five
o'clock on Tuesday evening last. The storm
came up from the south ana lasted OUT 10"
minutes, the strong wind carrying it to the
northeast. A little hail, after the intense heal
of the day, cooled the air off slightly.
The new avenue leading from the York to
the Hillen road, between the properties OF Mes
sec. George Brown and Frederick Harrison, ha:
been fenced, and opened at the western termi
nus. The road, besides being great public
convenience, will, when opened all the way
through and graded, be beautiful drive
-Grasshoppers have made their appearance
in immense numbers ON several farms along
the line of the Western Maryland Railroad
In enc place, a gentleman says, "they were s.
thick that he could scarcely walk through tn
field. on account of the thousands that woult
dv up before him, and almost blind him."
We have a pair of old fiint-iock horse-pls
tolls which no doubt did service century ago
INIT where used and by whom handled we ar
unable to say. We intend to bury them II
the ground and after they get well rusted the.
will be exhumed and forwarded to the Centen
NAL with history, provided we can get relic
hunter to write one up for US.
There was an animated contest en- tn
York road, near Baltimore, on Friday OF las
week.. between two blacksmiths, as to who ceul