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The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1876-02-19

TIE APPOINTMENT OF COUNTY SCHOOL CoMMIs-
sIoxERs-On Tuesday communication was pre-
sented to the Legislature from Hon. r. II. Alvey,
Chief Judge of the Fourth Judicial District, IN
which the attention of that boby is called to the
fact that by the existing law, act 1872, chapter
377, the Judges of the Circuit Courts Of the State
are required to appoint the County School Con-
missioners for the several counties. To this law
Judge Alvey makes the objection that this power
of appointment is not q judicial function, and
that its exercise by the Judiciary is clearly uncon-
stitutional under articles and 80 of the Bill oil
Rights of the Constitution He also urges that
"apart from this constitutional prohibition, thers
are many other considerations which render il
altogether improper that the Courts should hold
such power, or be in any manner involved with
its exercise From the very nature of the judi
cial Office, the exercise OF ether functions than
those properly pertaining to it, especially of po
litical nature, cannot be otherwise than prejudi'
cial. Moreover, serious questions may arise in
reference to the appointment of these Commits
sioners, which would not only be exceedingly
embarrassing to the Courts making the appoint
msnts, but might affect and embarrass the opsr'
alton of the school system ITSELF" In conclusion
he urged that the Legislature make other prsvi'
sion for the appointment Of School Commissioners
A petition from d number of citizens Of Wash
ington county praying for the repeal of the act
referred to, was also presented, which, with the
communication, was referred to the Committee
on Education.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1876-02-19

Eg-The warm weather in the North this
winter seems to have had damaging effect
upon Southern travel. The Pennsylvania
Railroad Company spent considerable money
advertising round tickets to Jacksonville and
return at greatly reduced rates, but the inaui-
ry from pleasure seekers was so light that they
have been withdrawn. 1t is doubtful whether
the Florida atmosphere has been warmer than
the average of This latitude for December and
January, and hence it is not surprising that
Southern pleasure-seekers should be so few and
far between.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1876-02-19

US. MARsHAL.-A petition was presented
to President Grant on Thursday of last week
signed by all the Republican and Reform
Members of the General Assembly, recommend
ing the Hon. S. Taylor Suit, Senator from
Prince Georges county, as a suitable person
for the United States Marshalship of this State.
Mr.. Suit, says the Annapolis Gazette, will be
the right man in the right place, and his ap-
pOintment by the President will give entire
satisfaction, not only to the Republicans and
Reformers of the Fifth Congressional District
but of the whole State.
In connection with the above we copy the
following Nom the Washington CSrOniele o.
@The contest for the United States Marshal
ship for the State of Maryland, has narrowed
down between S. Taylor Suit, Republican State
Senator from Prince George county, and c
Irving Dirty, Democrat, of Baltimore. Should
Col. Suit be selected for the position, ballot-boz
stufing and election frauds in Maryland will
be at an end. The President makes the ap
pointment."
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1876-02-19

The NATIONAL DEBT.-The Secretary OF the
Treasury reports the total public debt on Jan.
31st, exclusive of the bonds issued to the Pa
cifc railroads, at s2,344,426, 9S1.25, and the
cash in the treasury at Sl26, 49,, 9n.4O, making
the debt, less cash in the treasury, $2,l1s,233,-
039.SO, decrease of 81, $50 ,15547 during the
month. The 800 bonds of the district of Co
lumbia, which amount to nearly $4,000, 900,
are not included in the total of the debt. The
payments made from the Treasury by war
rants during the month of January were:-
Civil and miscellaneous, $500, 73S.3S; war,
S3,962, 1920; Navy, 81, 50 6S1.25; Interior In
dams and pensions), s7O4,35L61; total, s12,-
I24,S97.9I.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1876-02-19

GS-Van Pelt, the Ohio saloon keeper who
was reformed" by the crusaders, and who
press the whisky traffic in that State, seems to
have "slipped up" after all. At Cape Giarde-
au, Missouri, iast geek, he was found guilty Of
grand larceny and sentenced to five years aud
six months in the penitentary. He can ere
FORM at his leisure now.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1876-02-19

FITTING IT srRoNG.-The Miami county (0hO)
Union goes for the "Lost Cause" in the follow
ing vigorous strain:
"Jef. Davis, whose character is black with
treason, perjury and falsehoOd, as the inner
walls OF perdtion, has written a long letter in
reply to Representative Blaine's charges in re-
gard to the Andersonville Prison horrors, in
which he repeats the impudent falsehood that
Southern prisoners were worse treated in
Northern prisons than Northern prisoners we're
in Southern prisons. Hardened, reckless, per
jured william that he is we are somewhat sur
prised that be has the audacity to repeat this
stale falsehood in the face of facts which have
now become unquestioned history. And yet
there are men, even in the North who desire to
see this bloody handed murderer again in the
Senate of the United States !"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1876-02-19

@-If Democratic newspapers don't soon
succeed in getting up rupture" in President
Grants Cabinet, we fear soEething desperate
will happen. In the hope of their having some
influence in the coming Presidential election
40 less than two or three have been reported
evithin month past.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1876-02-19

Local 0eTIoN NOT FAILURE. --The St. Miehaels'
(Md Comet, an independent paper, which has
been viewing the accomplishments OF Local Option
on the Eastern Shore, defends it from reported
failure and says:
''But it is not true as to the counties in tho
State where it has been tried Stores can be
produced in every local apon di9ript on this
shore, WIN, though drinking men themselves,
will testify to The benefits growing Out of this law
man who is opposed 10 the law because he is
lover OF liquor and drinks it every day, frank
ly stated that ST. Mchsels and Talbot county
were more sober than ever before. AT a meeting
in Worcester county a short time ago Senator
Adyelotte attempted to show to large audience
that local option had proved failure in. that
section, whereupon a vote was aiken and il was
unanimously declared that local option was
a good thing for the county, aud by sequence
that the Senator was in error So it might be
reported OF every district on the Peninsula where
the law prevails. Let the wipsbibbers and the
liquor lovers stick a pin here No matter what
it has proved in Peupsylvania it s success on
this peninsula y
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1876-02-19

-SomecOnsciencs- stricken individual, for
merry Government employee, has returned to
the Treasury Department. 81, 400 ss"conscience"
money. The strangest thing about this matter
is that the man gives his full name but asks
that it be not made public.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1876-02-19

jM1-The Ohio infatonists announce that
there can be no harmny in the Democratic
party unless their views on the financial ques-
ton are made the vis7g CT the party. This at
ttude prompts the Richmond Wig TO make
this unfrieudly comment: "Wise men will
sometimes see the error of their ways and
change; fools never WILL"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1876-02-19

@s-Dr Estep Hall, practicing physician
ST West River, Anne Arundel county, whilst
driving to Annapolis few days ago, was thrown
from his carriage against bridge and received
injuries from which hs died shortly afterwards.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1876-02-19

.nfs~J. II, t, Magruder, Of Prince Georges
county, State Librarian, has been re-appointed
by Gov Carroll. The Governor has also ap-
pointed DIR. VIM. A. Hayward, of Dorchester
county, Commissioner of the Land Office.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1876-02-19

--zeb Crummet says wise men learn more
from fools than fools do from them.
The rumer seems we'll founded that num-
Der of prominent citizens of Baltimore have
resolved to erect monument to the memory
of the late DR.. j. W. Bull, discoverer of that
wonderful remedy, Dr. Bulls Cough Syrup.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1876-02-19

@a-The bill before Congress, aPPIsEFsting
81 500, 900 to the Centennial exhibition, passed
boSL the House and Senate, and is now a law,
the President having signed it CD Wednesday.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1876-02-19

SURPRISING THE TRAhP NUISANCE Senator
Steiner, Of Frederick county, has Introduced a
bill in the Legislature for the suppression OF the
tramp nuisance. which provides hat any person.
not having been resident of the election district
in which he may be for at least six months, who
shall lead an idle, vsgrant life, or solicit aims
shall be deemed guilty, of a misdemeanor, unless
such person shall have obtained written certih-
cate from Justice of the Peace OF said district,
setting forth that the person is a worthy object Of
charity, which certificate shall only be granted
upon satisfactory evidence. For violation of the
provisions Of the act, persons shall be liable to
arrest by constables, or by any ether person TO
whom application for aims shall be made, or
whose premises shall be intruded on by any one
of the class described The penalty to be impos
ed by the Justice of the Peace before whom the
person arrested may be carried is not less than
FIVE dollars fine, nor more than twenty five dol
lars and on failure to pay, such person shall be
confined ia the county Jail for thirty days pro-
vided that upon bond being given, to double the
amount of the penalty imposed, that the person
will engage in some useful employment or leave
the county, the person may BIO released. For re-
ceiving and keeping persons committed under
the provisions Of the act, fees shall he charged
by any officer at said Jail, and the Sheriff or
Warden shall not be allowed more than ten cents
a day for board o. each prisoner 80 committed.
For the arrest OF any person violating The act,
the o. fifty cents shall be allowed 10 the par
ty making the arrest. The County Commissioners
OF the several counties are authorized to work
prisoners committed nnder the provisions OF the
act in such manner and under such regulations
as they may prescribe.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1876-02-19

Rg-Fenton doesn't want any more editors
to visit the State House. His eye is still sup
piled with oyster poultices; and hespends the
"Icng, long day" in cursing NATURALIZATION
berIa1d Cfpillian-
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1876-02-19
on Wednesday, LIST day Of March, 1876,
at o'cloek M

on Wednesday, LIST day Of March, 1876,
at 9 o'clock A. NJ,
THE FOLLOWING STOCK, FARMING IM-
PIGMENTS, &C, viz:
q TWO SUPERIOR WORK q
G&1 FINE Y YOUNG HORSE. G8N
THREE GOOD BROOD MARES, Que IL IoaI;
Norman Colts, one rising 3 years old. the
other years old the coming spring. pair of
Mules, we'll broke to all work;
GOOD Mich COWS, 2 fresh, Fs1----s
and one other will be fresh about ~ u
time of sale; s Shoats, 2 Brood Sows ,-==M=zz9.
with pig, and lot of Poultry. Also, four
horse broad tread Wagons, Horse Cart, nearly
Spring tooth Hay Rake, l Mower, l Mower
and Reaper combined; 1 Jaeger Wagon,
Lime and Wood Bed, Stone Bed, Cutting Box.
Corn Shelter, Grain Fan, Cradles, Moving and
Briar Scyth Root Cutting Box, Hay Car
riage, Wheelbarrow, Flows, Harrows, CultiEa-
tors, Double and Single Shovel Flows, Forks
Rakes, Hoes, Mattocks, 5 Hives of Bees, lot
of Empty Bee Hives, DC.
ALSO, l eight-horse "Aultmsn Taylor
Threshing Machine and Horse Power, oulv
been in use two seasons, all in complete order
Also, Lead Harness and Breech bands, sets OF
Express Harness, Brides, Collars, Log Chains.
Single and Double Trees, Hay Fork, Rope and
Block, &C., &c.
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE AND DAIRY
FIXTURES,
embracing Beds, Ten plate Stove. Wash
Sink, Tables, Iron Pot, 3 doz. Stone Milk Pots
and Cream Jars, lot of glass Fruit Jars, about
200 lbs. Bacon and Lard, and 2 barrels of good
Cider Vinegar.
A Il S O,
about 50 or rs barrels of Corn; 100 bushels:
Oats of good quality for Seed about 500 bun.
dies of Corn Fodder, &C., &C.
TERMS OF SALE.-All sums of $40 and
under, Cash on all sums over that amount a.
credit of nine months, purchasers giving notes
with approved security bearing interest from
day Of sale.
re- NO GOODS TO BE REMOVED UNITE
SETTLED FOR.
NOAH 2. YODER.
SAM'L G. WILSON, Auct. (Feb. Its
By GEORGE W JORDAN Auctiopeer
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1876-02-19
IN WALL STREET.

Wall street is as old as the city, but it's habitues
are not so ancient. The average stay of a man
in that street is very brief. He may make great
deal of money one year. but he is morally certain
to lose it the next, and ninety per cent. of them
90 out peor The oldest man ia the street has
only been there twenty seven years, and he has
stayed that length of time by doing a strictly
commission business and never taking risk
The office that this man now occupies he paid
$3.50 per year for at the beginning of his career.
Now, he is paying S4 500 for the same premises.
He has one building that he rents for more money
each year than the premises cost him fifteen years
ago. The majority OF the meu on the street are
young, twentyone to thirty being the ages Of
three-fourths Of them. A can't live long in
that street, for the life is one of too much excite
ment. 1t is the widest form of gambling known,
for there is no cessation or relief When the
speGuaor has put his all on a certain stock it
may take week for the result to be known, and
that week he carries around with him a load of
anxiety. 1t is with him at his meals, it walks
beside him and sleeps with him, or rather won't
let him sleep. He has his all staked on events
which ne caRnet control, and he has to simply
wait in suspense till the matter is decided for or
against him. Of course to carry this load he in
variablyresorts to stimulants, and the upshot Of
the matter is, an early death bed, and seldom a
very pleasant one. But the places OF those who
drop out are filled by new stock, and the game
goes on forever. The business is pure gambling
Wall street doesn't dollar or produce
one 1t is simply wagering money that stocks
will 90 up or down, and in most cases the money
wagered belongs to some one else. lie that
will influence a stock is considered virtuous and
perjury is not discreditabe unless it fails to pro-
duce the desired effect. In brief if there is sin
that has not been adopted in Wall street, you
may be sure it is only because it could rot be
utilized
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1876-02-19

Eas-An Annapolis correspondent of the Bal
timore Sun writes of Local Option under date
of Feb. 16th as follows:
Notwithstanding the supposed test-vote in
the House of Delegates against Local Option,
to recommit the Local Option petitions to a
special committee, the friends OF the measure
are hopeful of adding Charles, Baltimore and
The conclusion is that this will be all the tenn
perance cause will accomplish, so far as Local
Option is concerned, but t expects 10 hold on
to the special Local 0pti'n laws for the sever
al counties in which it isnow in full force
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1876-02-19

Das~ Winslow, the Boston preacher-torger,
who sailed some weeks ago from New York for
Rotterdam, has been arrested in London and
will be most likely returned to bis county
He arrived safely at Rotterdam with his fami=
some unexplained reason, whore he was iden-
tilted and detained. The way of the tians-
gressor, even though he be minister of the
gospel, is hard.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1876-02-19
THE GREAT FIRE,

which destroyed 81, 10000 Of property ON the
corner Of Grand and Broadway, Tuesday night,
shows that New York is as shammily built as
Chicago was. The buildings destroyed were
among the finest in the city, externally, but
cheapest, flImsiest structures imaginable. Light,
thin walls, with pine joists and flooring. 1t only
took an hour for a whole block to go up. 1t is
a shame for insurance companies to put insurance
on such traps. Had the buildings been properly
built the fire never would have got out Of the
building in which it originated. There was no
wind, the FIRE department, the best in the world,
was promptly at work, and the Ere, when dis
covered had made but little Roadway, but yet,
before it could be subdued whole block was
consumed
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1876-02-19
MOODY AND sANKEY.

The crowds that go to hear Moody and Sankey
at the Hippodrome are wonderful. There seems
TO be a good many Christians lett in Inc city yet
for the vast audiences are sliIl maiuly cam pssed
of them The idea of the Evangesls is TO work
for a revival among the churches first, 90 that
their members will be prepared 10 help in the
work OF reaching sinners. Those who SCOT are
those who stay away for il is impossible to put
one self under the influence of the mestisgs and
not be affected The quiet in which the multi
tdues drift into their seats, the silence Of prayer,
the singing of thousands, husked and full OF feel
ing, 'et rather than beard, some tmes stir the
most unimpressible. Whether they will accom-
plish any permanent geod is questions Se-ihst
they succeed in producing an intense feeling for
the time there can be no doubt Their audiences
increase in number every meeting and it could
be kept up ferever PIETRo
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1876-02-19

%s-A number of business firms, notably one
in Baltimore, have adopted what they no doubt
consider smart scheme to get their advertising
done for nothing. 1t is this: They take Row
elps Newspaper Reporter, wherein that advertis-
ing agent offers to make contracts with any num-
Der of-for MISREPRESENTATION papers at about
one-quarter their established rates, and on this
basis they are sending out their advertisements
to the country press, and we regret to see that
number of our exchanges have accepted the ruin
ously low rates offered and are now running the
advertisements for whatever these vultures OF the
press see fit to offer them. A little more nerve
on the part of proprietOrs of country newspapers
would give these, in most cases, wealthy firms,
to understand that lodges Of this kind will not
work. A newspaper that will insert the adver-
tsement of every "quack" that may offer, every
divorce lawyer, and all the obscene trash that is
unit to be read by any decent family-and We
regret to say there are too many Of them-can
afford to do the advertising of the firms alluded
to above, because in these instances they get what
is Offered-small though it be-whist in the
other case they get nothing. If you have space
to gipc away in your advertising columns, why
not give it to respectable business men at home,
instead of to men you never saw and who are, to
all intents and purposes, swindlers Of the first
water.
We have long since adopted the rule that no
obscene and vulgar medical advertisements can
find place in the columns OF the Union at any
price, not even if the proffered cash payment &C
company the order. Dead beats of ali classes
have come to understand this, and we are not
now much troubled with their circulars and
brazen-faced propositions. And we also desire
to have such concerns as the Baltimore enc un-
derstand that we place them under the same
heading with the ''quacks, and give them the
Ego by every time. If we must starve we in
tend to do it in as respectable way as possible,
and without the assistance of these c0rmorants.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1876-02-19

TNHE undersigned, intending to relinquisb
i farming, will sell at public sale al his res
idence, on the Old Manor Road, Midway be-
tween Sweet Air and Unionville,
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1876-02-19
SENATE.

MONDAY, Feb. l4th .-Fhe report of the score
tary of the Baltimore and Hartford Turnpike Co
was received and referred TO Committee on Inter
nal Improvements. II.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1876-02-19
MARRIED..

DIED.
On Feb. 18th, GEORGE CHILcoAT, in the SD
yesr Of his age, one of the Old Defenders.
In Baltimore on Sunday, Feb. 9th, MARY
EMMA, aged 10 years, daughter of Lysias and
Jane Smith, formerly of this county.
At Phoenix, Baltimore county, on Feb 4th,
ALBERT DAVID, beloved son of Charles H. and
Maggie A. Kenney, aged / year and IA days
"Another flower piueked from earth's dreary
garden to be tganspianted in the Eternal Fields
OF Glory"
Shed not a tear of sorrow,
Around our Allies tomb;
Think what angel baby,
We have in heaven to bloom.
Weep not for little Allie,
His gentle spirits fed
He sweetly sleeps with Jesus
Among the silent dead.
BY HIS FATHER
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1876-02-19

The country is infested with tramps aud va
grants, and as the city enjoys the presence of four
times as many as usual the question is where do
they all come from ? Never in the history OF New
York were there so many as now. The streets
are full of beggars, who poster you at every turn
with their opportunities, and the back areas are
crowded with them. Some few make show Of
some kind of business, but as a rule that pretext
is not observed, but they come at you with a
bold, and, generally, impudent demand for char
lily. you give, what you give is converted in
10 rum "a the shortest possible time, and then the
station heuse furnishes dging for the vagrant.
The taxes the city pays for these vermin is some
thing enormous. There are over 80, 600 profess
sional beggals and thieves in the city, and when
the semi-thicves, those who live unlawfully, but
manage to keep out of The hands Of the law, is
added, the sum total is something awful to con-
template.