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The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1876-12-16

WHAT WAS LOST AT THE CENTENyIAL.-A Pha-
dclphia correspondent gives interesting ac-
count of the articles lost at the Centennial. He
says:
"Everything lost on the grounds, when picked
up by an honest man, has been handed to the Lost
Property Office. Every thing that men and
women can shed from their persons may be seen
there. Wallets with money, and many more
without, well worn pocket-books, which have fall
en- unnoticed from some hOrny-hande farmers
pocket. for which coat-tails have been clutched,
and the pockets examined and re-examined with
a frantic eagerness and a horrible sinking
ton mothor-of-pearl covered and gold mounted
portemonnaies, missed by misses from the city !:
railway tickets, memorandum, notebooks, dia-
ries catalogues, noves-still await owners. The
atmosphere of this office is full of uneasiness and
anxiety. troubled and unsatisfed influence at
taches itself to the thousand articles still stored
there, whose sudden absence, weeks and months
ago, have given the owners so much useless labor.
Two thousand umbrellas have been picked up.
The majority of these Nave passed theirprime, and
are verging into broken ribs and disocated wires.
The fans cannot be numbered Three thousand
dollars in greenbacks have been brought here and
restored to the owners. One hundred and seventy
dollars in small bills and fractional currency re-
main, and the former propretors, now far away
in distant homes, still mourn. Many carriers have
been found and await claimants. Also bustles
and entire sets of crinoline. Of jewelry there is
every description, from the twenty five cent brass
ring to the five hundred dollar diamond. Satch-
els and lunch baskets can not be counted Spec
tacles and opera glasses also represented.
There are canes by the cord. Four-ffths of all
these articles said to have been lost by women"
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The CATTLE KINGS OF AMERICA.-Few of our
readers have any idea of the extent to which cat
tie raising is conducted by number Of enterpris-
ing single breeders and firms in the great South
west. Appended will be found a list of some Of
the cattle kings of the country Messrs. Allen
Son, east of the Brazos, have 40 900 acres inciOs
ed, $1,000 head of CATTLE and ship annually 90
900 beevcs. Foster Dyer west of the Brazos, has
900 acres inclosed and 40, 900 head of cattle.
Last Spring he made purchase of 5000 three
year-old heifers and paid for them in gold. Ca
ruthers & Bro, north of Austin, Texas, have 60,
600 cattle on the plains. 0'Brien, on the Gauda-
loupe, has $4,000 CATTLE Mr.. Lowe, west of the
San Antonio River, has 10000 acres in pasture
and 120, 900 head of cattle. widow lady, fur
Their west has 140, 900 cattle on the plains, and
sells annually $4,000 beeves. Matthews 4 Cole
man, Rockport Texas, have 900 acres Of pas
ture land and 100, 900 cattle. They ship annually,
including purchases, 30,635 beeves Duvusc and
Ellison, San Antonio, drove last Spring, 10000
cattle to Kansas, and have 10000 on the plains
| Mr. King, west of the Nueces river, drove to a
Western market $4,000 beeves from his own ranch
and sold them at 1913 per head. He has 200 acres
of pasture, 100000 cattle, 10000 horses and mules
Mr.. NJ Kennedy, his next neighbor, has 1916, 200
acres of pasture, 100000 cattle and 5000 horses
and mules. There are many others, at present
young in the business, whose stocks number from
| 10000 to 10000, yet notwithstanding these enOr
nous figures there is large diminution of thu
cattle on the plains within the past five years.
| Turf, Field and Farm.
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The TRAPPIsTs-PRoPosED ERECTION OF A Mon
AsTERY NEAR BALTIMORE.-The Catholic Mirror
of a late date says "About nine months ago
Brother Francisco Xavier was sent to this country
by the General of the Order of Trappists, with in
structions to select and purchase suitable plot of
ground for the erection of monastery, as he had
resolved to establish branch of their brotherhood
in America. After long delay Brother Francisco
secured a desirable piece of property about three
miles from Baltimore where he decided that the
new monastery should be erected. His report was
favorably received by the General, but the eXecu-
ton of the latter's plans deferred until Sep
TENDER last when clergyman in Baltimore, act
ing as agent for the Trappists, caused the farm
house, barns, &C., on the property which Brother
Francisco had purchased to be prepared for the
temporary housing of the monks pending the cree
ton of the new friary, as about one hundred of
them would be sent to this country the end of No
Nember Brother Francisco, who will probably
become prior or abbot Of the colony of friars,
was in New York again last week on his way to
Baltimore. He said that among the hundred
monks selected for the new mission here were
blacksmiths, shoemakcrs, taiors, cabinet makers,
carpenters, masons, weaVers ana skilled agrlcul-
turists The order does not live on charity; it is
not only sef-supporting, but reaps large incomes
from the industries pursued by it brethren. The
rules of the brotherhood are the most ascetic of all
the monastc orders. They sleep the floor, rise
to pray at midnight, go through the form of dig
cling their own graves a reminder of death, pre-
serve unbrolen silence from year to year, use
neither fish, meat, milk, eggs, nor anything except
vegetables, bread and water.
"Pure milk butter, beer, and well-reared meats
are proverbially found for the lowest remunerative
prices at the monasteries of the Trappists. A few
of the monks privileged to transact outside
business, and for these, of course, the stringent in
functions of perpetual silence and other severe OBJ
legations are dispensed with. OF the one hundred
monks who are now likely their way to this
country, equal numbers have been selected from
the mOnasteries of Mariastern, in Turkey; Mount
Military, in Ireland; Sept Ponds, in France and
St. Bernard, in Belgium. They will be expected
to conserve the rules of their Order as far prac
ticable while travelling. On reaching here, in
about ten or Twelve days from now, they Will be
taken in charge by Brother Francisco"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1876-12-16

George w. Bruce met grizzly bear near
Santa Cruz, California, and fight began prompt
ly. The man stabbed and shot the bear, the bear
broke the mans ribs by squeezing him, and then
both retreated apparently satisfied to escape with
out a victory.
"A Springfield woman who had son in Brook
lyn dreamed on the ght of the disaster, that he
was burned in theatre. On reading the news
of the fire she was convinced that the dream was
prophetic, and she telegraphed for information,
learning in reply that the son had not been to the
theatre.
The Rev. Mr.. Beaudry, a Montreal Metho-
dist minister, said in public speech that he
knew of Roman Catholic priest who changed
the time of vesper services to let his congregation
attend circus, and was paid for so doing by the
manager. The Catholic Vicar-General has de-
manded proof.
In LUCKY Star" play enacted in Chicago,
a stag hunt is represented with real deer, horses,
and dogs. One of the deer jumped from the stage
among the musicians, sticking leg through Il
drum and smashing fiddle. That scared the
horses and two riders were thrown. The people
were well entertained
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DEATHS.

On Dec. eth, NELSON BURNEsToS, son of the late
VIM. r. and Matilda Burneston, of Rocky Point,
this county.
On Dec. 18th, on the Falls road, ELIZA JANE,
aged years and IL months, the only daughter of
Jacob and Martha Barton.
At Pkesville, on Dec. 10th, Mrs. MARY BYRSE,
aged IS years, widow of the late DIR. Laurence
Byrne.
In Baltimore, on Dec. 18th, THOMAS GRIM, aged
year and months, infant son of 7. B. and
Jamie Crooks.
On Dec 12th ELLEN HUGHES, in the 74th year
of her age.
At her residence, in the 10th district on Dec. I'd,
Mrs. BELINDA HUTcHINs, wife of the late Joshua
Hutchins, in the SD year OF her age.
On Dec 9th, CLARENCE EDWIN, infant of
John and Julia Ann Fuller, aged months, 3
weeks and 4 days.
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MARRIAGES.

At the residence of the brides father, in Balti-
more, on Dee. 5th by Rev. A. A. Reese, ADoLPHus
NJ. CORDRAY to JULIA E. SOPER, daughter of w.
Horace Soper.
On Nov. 9Th by Rev. J. J. Green, SANL TUMEY
to ELIZABETH Tyson, all of this county.
On Nov. 2Sth, by Rev. G. G. Baker, WV. BRYAN
to Miss RACHEL V. Cross, both of this county.
On Nov. 13th by Rev. j. j. Green, SAMUEL R.
BURGESS to SARAH C. HARRIS, of this county.
On Nov 2Sth, by Rev. J. Is. Purcell, JOHN L.
BUTTNER to Miss SADIE r., daughter of Joseph
Jackns, all of this county.
On Dee. 18th, by Rev. j. N. Spangler, FRANK
LIN P. LEWIS and GEORGE SHAFFER, both of this
county
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Two THOUSAND MINISTER'S AT THE FEET OF AN
mass Christian convention, in connection with Mr..
Moody's work in Chicago, has been held in that
city, Invitations to be present by pastor and deli
egates had been sent to all the Evangelical churches
in the Northwest, and the response was very gen.
era There present about two thousand
ministers, quite many delegates, and an equal
number of the CLONE Guard" Promptly at 3
o'clock in the afternoon Of Tuesday, Nov. 21st, Mr..
Moody stepped into his little box platform, and
the first session of the convention had begun
One hour spent in prayer and praise prepares the
convention to listen to lecture from Mr.. Moody
on GLOW to Study the Bible" 1t was a novel
sight-two thousand ministers sitting Mt the feet
of an uneducated man, and learning from him how
to study the Bible! They evidently enjoyed it.
At all the meetings Mr.. Moody presided, and
nowhere is his tact brought out better than here
He takes meeting right up into his CONTROL and
never let's go of 1t till he is completely through
Woe be to any man who either by long -windedness
or incoherency of remarks undertakes to interfere
with the meeting. He would soon be given to un-
lerstand, politely indeed, but decidedly, that he
MS talking in the wrong place. The sessions
&c all very interesting, the hour given to the
estion box" being particularly SO. Mr.. Moody's
rs to the questions were quick and pointed
,ery frequently eliciting hearty applause Con
troverted theological questions he would not con-
slider, but with amazing rapidity and pertinence
answered questions bearing upon the Christian
life.
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PROPOSALS EOR BUILDING AN
OPEN PILE BRIDGE OVER
BACK RIVER.

OFFICE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS BALTIC. Co.,
TowsOSTowX Dee. Is, 1876.
SEALED PROPOSALS will be received at
- this Office until
Wednesday, January Sd, 1877,
at u o'clock NJ,
FOR BUILDING AN OPEN PILE BRIDGE
OVER BACK RIVER, IN THE 18TH DIS
TRICT, BALTIMORE COUNTY, from Willis
Point to Crooks point on said River.
The Bridge to be fifteen hundred feet long and
sixteen feet wide and five feet high in the clear
above the water at high tide. The piles must be
of best yellow pine, original growth (Which have
not been bled) driven in rows fifteen feet apart
from centre to centre in longitudinal direction
each row to have five piles equally divfded-s0 as
to make the distance of sixteen feet from out side
to out side of piles. Said piles to be not less than
sixteen inches in diameter, clear of bark at the
but end and maintain a gradual taper to not less
than six inches at point and to be of sufficient
length to reach hard bottom and driven firm.
The said piles to be cut off q feet below the floor
line SO as to form perfectly level shoulder and
form tenOn in the centre of said pile that should
be 3XS inches and inches long. The cap logs to
be 16 feet long, 12x14 inches square, mOrtised to
conform with the tenon the piles and well Sc
cured with II inch locust tree nail entirely
through the cap log and tenOn, upon which will
rest the strngers floor Oice, which will be nine
in number, to be AHA inches and to be of sufi-
cient length to reach three caps to span two
bents to be placed edge equal distances apart,
and secured to the cap logs at each bearing with
a of (1) inch round iron bolt not less than two
feet long the floor to be three inches thick, 16
feet long, not less than 10 inches wide, of best
yellow pine, and to be well spiked to said string
ers with at least one six 6) inch cut spike at each
point of bearing; the hand rail to be composed
of posts AKA inches 81 feet long and y feet apart
we'll spiked to the outside stringers, to be capped
with a rail Ike inches, secured to posts by NOR
tise and tenon; there are to be two intermediate
rails, II by inches, let into and spiked to the
post at equal distances between the floor and top
rail. All timber to be of the best white pine or
best Virginia or North Carolina yellow pine, not
bled.
All of the above work to be executed in a sub
stantial and wOrkmanlike manner, to the entire
satisfaction of the County Commissioners.
The plan and specifications can be seen at this
office.
The County Commissioners reserve the right to
reject all or any portion of any bid offered.
PLEASANT HUNTER,
ROBERT S. C0RSE,
ISAAC CR0WTHER, SR.,
County Commissioners for Baltimore county.
Dec. l6.-td
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S. PARKER BOsLEY, Attorney, Towsontown.

S. PARKER BoSLEY, Attorney, Towsontown.
JACOB X. MAST VS. MARY KENNEL EFT
- AL, iHhe Orphans Court Of baltimore county.
ORDERED by the Orphans Court of Balt-
county, this 18th day of December, 1876, that
the sale made and reported by Jacob X. Mast,
Trustee, for the sale of the real estate mentioned
and described in the proceedings in the above en-
titled cause be ratified and confirmed unless cause
to the contrary thereof be shown on or before the
Oh day Of January, 1877, provided copy of this
order be inserted in some newspaper printed in
Baltimore county, once in each of three success
sive weeks before the 9th day of January, 1877.
The report states the amount of sales to be 800.
JOSHUA f. C0CKEY,
ALBERT NJ. BROWN,
LUTHER TIMANUS,
Judges.
True Copy-Test JOS. B. MITCHELL,
Dee l6.-3w. Register of Wills
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y, hardly within those of possibility that
while | was using my utmost e1ertion to establish
national character of our own independent as
far as our obligations and justice and truth would
permit of every nation of the earth, and wished
by steering steady course to preserve this coun-
try from the horrors of desoating war, l should
be accused of being the enemy of one nation and
subject to the influence of another and to prove it,
that every act of my administration would be tor
tured, and the grosseSt and most insidious repre-
sensations of them made, by giving one side only
of subject, and that too in such exaggerated and
indecent terms as could scarcely be applied to a
Nero, notorious defaulter, even to common
pick-pocket."
They charged Washington MS wanting in integ-
rity and with having fraudulently drawn money
from the Treasury, and so they have been villify-
ing their opponents, no matter whom, ever since.
If they had dared they would have tried to i'm
peach the Father of his Country. They are now
making their last grand rally on President Grant,
who is unimpeachable, and who will Judging by
his past record, stand firm for his country and for
his country's sake.
They will have to stand the pressure four years
more, and probably by that time the minds of the
coming generation will have been educated to that
degree to make the of the Democratic
party much difficult than it has been for the
last sixteen years. Pro BoNo PuBLICo.
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PERsoNAL.-Should this meet the eye of the in
dividual who created a disturbance in church last
Sunday by his continued coughing, he will confer
a favor on the congregation by procuring bottle
of Dr. Bulls Cough Syrup, which will cure him.
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"A Dublin matrimonial agent advertises in
American newspapers that for fifty cents he will
send "a bona fde list and addresses of over 600
eligible parties of title, property, and means de-
srous of settling in America"
"A couple of hoodlums attended a revival
meeting at Peoria, Oregon and upon a call of the
pastor rose and walked to the altar, where they
INDUCED in rough and tumble fight for posses
sion of a cushion to kneel upon.
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Tickets for reserved seats for the Rev.
Adirondack Murray's services in Boston are sold
for fifty cents EACH About hundred are diFpOs-
ed of to strangers every Sunday.
In indianapolis divorces have been too read
lily obtained to suit the District Attorney, and he
announces that hereafter he will defend every ac-
ton brought on what seems to him trivial cause
SO far this year not less than $4,000 head OF
beef cattle have been driven from eastern Oregon
and eastern Washington down toward the Pacific
Railroad, the greater part destined for San Fran
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The Hay Scale, Question.

GREENWOOD, BALTIC. COUNTY, Dec. 9Th, 1876.
Editors baltimore County Union Among the
proceedings of the Gunpowder Agricultural Club,
published in your last issue, | that the atten-
ton of the members has been directed to abuses
practiced at the State Hay Scales much to the
producers disadvantage. /, for one have long
felt the necessity for solid movement among pro-
ducers for the adjustment of the State Scales en-
tirely, as consider them nuisance in every sense
of the word, and it has long been wonder to me
that other farmers have not discovered the evil be-
fore this. The weighing of hay should be a mat
ter belonging entirely to the farmers, and the
place where the weighing is done should be under
their control. In this case theprOducers and con-
sumers would not be at the mercy of the sharks
who live and grow fat by shaving both classes and
doing nothing to advance the interests of either.
If the scales and hay market were owned by farm
ers this shark nuisance would not be tolerated for
a moment and the 'midde-men" would then be
obliged to their living in some Interrogation
1t is certainly known by every man who has
pde farming his life business that the profits,
tsde of expenses, are meagre enough without
EDITION, undergoing compulsory system of
ing" by the sharks who infest the State
The farmers should organize joint stock
and open hay yard and market, with
Ugh to drive fifty more loads ofhay or
:, after the style of the Philadelphia
nd have attached hotel for the
f farmers and rent it, scales and
competent to take charge of it.
T and producer could keep out
sharks, because they would not
re on this subject from my
leave it for their consider
Il awaken to their
'ence to this important
SUBSCRIBER;
1T the last General
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Monthly Report Of Treasurer and
Collector Of Taxes for BaIti.
more County for the
Month of October.

T N accordance with the requirements of an Act
i passed January Session, 1876, the Treasurer
and Collector of Taxes for Baltimore county, here
by makes report to the County Commissioners of
the amounts received for the month of September
and amounts disbursed for the month of October,
1876, as follows
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Monthly Report of Treasurer and
Collector of Taxes for Baltimore
County for the Month Of
November.

IN accordance with the requirements of an Act
l. passed January Session, 1876, the Treasurer
and Collector of Taxes for Baltimore county, here
by makes report to the County Commissioners of
the amounts receiv ed for the month of October and
amounts disbursed for the month of November,
1876, as follows:
CASH RECEIVED
from all sources for the month of October.
Cash in Bank November 1st............$ 1876
Received by Jabez Armacost, Treasurer
and Collector, from Tax Collectors, &C. II ,332.79
$27,77I.5j
DISBURSEMENTS.
Discussed for November "a 34946
Balance in Bank December lst..........S 3.422.09
JABEZ ARMAC0ST, Treasurer.
Dee. l6-1t.
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OFFICE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS BALTIC. Co.,
TowsOSTowN, Dee 13, 1876.
OEALED PROPOSALS will be received at
y this office, until
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from all sources for the month of Sept.
Cash in Bank October LIST, 1S76.........-$ 3,1S397
Received by Jabez hlInacOs treasurer
and Collector, from Tax Collectors, &c. 17,S45.67
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yOlVsU9
DISBURSEMENTS.
Discussed for October. .................. 20590SS
Balance in Bank November 1st.......$ 1876
JABEZ ARMAC0ST, Treasurer.
Dec. l6.-1t.
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Agents Required Ecesy,ehere. Send for Particulars
Dec. 16.-tf.