The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1876-03-04

H. y. IL. Emory, 1TuStces
March 27th, Farm in BALTIC. CO., near Elysville,
BY Benz. F. Horwitz and Charles
W. Ridgely, Trustees.
LOCAL BREvIrIEs.-
Rents are being reduced everywhere but
in Towsentown.
The March term of the Circuit Court COM
mences on Monday next.
-"Huld the fork" is the way little girl
sang it in Sunday School
The order of Patrons of Husbandry is rap
idly growing in this county.
Mr.. John E. Owens has been playing an
engagement at Buffalo, N. Y, this week.
1t is stated that the population Of the land
increases faster than the number of farm ami.
mails.
Mr.. Ross Campbell. wealthy citizen OF
this county, residing near Gainesville, is dan
gerously i'll of erysipelas.
Richard G. Dunphy, the newly appointed
keeper of the Court House, assumed the duties
of that office on Wednesday last.
The bill to regulate the liquor traffic and
prevent intemperance IN Baltimore county,
passed the House On Wednesday.
About two hundred people-men. women
and children-visited the small Gypsey camp,
near Lutherville, on Sunday last
The second organ recital at st. Johns
Church, Waverly, took place en- Monday night
last, large audience being present
In the County Clerks Office mortgages
have been recorded up to Dec. 9Th, deeds to
Jan. 18th, and bills of sale to Feb. 2Sth
"A constitutional meeting of the Farmers
Union will be held at Duncan's Hall, near
Coekeysv;le, at p. m. tO-day-saturday
The I'LL to prohibit the sale OfliquOr with
in one mile of Hereford, Baltimore county, has
been reported favorably in the Legislature.
The Buell. family will give a concert at
Monkton NJ. E. Church, Friday evening,
March 10th, at y o'clock. Admission 20 cts.
One day last week a 35-pound wild turkey
was shot near Orange Grove Mill, Howard co.
1t measured five feet from tip to tip of wings.
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew ]. Rogers, residing
near North Point, 18th district, celebrated
their tenth anniversary by tin wedding on
the 2lst.
Well, we suppose spring commenced on
Wednesday last This has been such vas
.eillating season that we hardly know exactly
where We are.
MIR. Chas H. Sheridan, Of this town, has
n goose egg the larger circumference OF which
is IL inches and the smaller 81 inches. and
which weighs l41 ounces.
The Baltimore and Liberty Turnpike Co.
mas gotten into legal difficulty and meet
ing has been held to devise some means to
prevent the sale of the read.
On Tuesday officer Brown arrested James
Lewfs, a colored boy, charged with stealing
clothing from o. P. Macgill, Esq. He was
committed by Justice Herbert.
The market house at Canton was damaged
To considerable extent BY fire on Tuesday
last. There is no fire apparatus of any kind
in that thickly populated section
The wife of Rev. John S. Deale, D. D., of
Baltimore, we'll known in this county, has
been presented by the ladies OF North Baltl-
UIaCA sflA IA 900
John Heaps, an Old Defender died at his
residence, in Hartford county, on the 2lst Feb,
in the s9th year of his age. Mr.. Heaps
commanded company at the battle OF North
Point.
Mr.. Vim. C. Barber has sold his farm, near
Jarrettsville, to Mr.. James Amos, for $1,000.
The farm contains about 96 acres OF highly
improved land and has good improvements
upon it.
For the information Of those who have
been newly appointed Justices of the Peace
we would state that the duties of their office
commence on the first of May, as provided by
the constitution.
Among the graduates at the recent COM
mencement of the University of Maryland we
notice the name of Thes. C. Worthington, son
of Thos. c. Worthington, Esq, of the I'd dis
trict of this county.
The case of James Boyce vs.. o. P. Merry
man, one of the Trustees of Towsontown NJ. Z.
Church, which was on trial for several days
IN
Saturday, 4th instant.
The bill to provide for the condemnation
of land for the Parkton Manchester Rail-
road passed the House on Tuesday. Also the
bill amending the charter Of the Woodbury.
Manufacturing Company.
Alfred R. Fiske for several years general
superintendent of the Northern Central Rail-
road, has been appointed to the general super
intendeney of the Long Island Railroad, em-
Tracing 400 miles of track.
w. Frank Mitchell, attorney at law, of this
place, has, through his counsel, instituted suit
AGAINST the n C. Railroad Company for hav-
inc. az be alleges, wrongfully elected him from
one of its trains. Damages are laid at $1,000
Persons sending us postofice money or
ders will please remember that the Towson-
town office is a money order office. We fire.
suently receive orders on Baltimore which
cannot be collected without some little trouble.
"A slight fire in the dwelling of Mr.. VIM.
Brooks, of Woodberry, on Tuesday afternoon
last damaged the roof to the extent OF S2OO
The steam fire company of Mt. Vernon Mills
was promptly on hand but their services were
not required.
Its said a cock ight took place in Balti-
more county few days ago between BIRDS be-
longing to this and Howard counties, IN which
the former were victorious. Where is Monta-
que and his society for the prevention of cru
city to animals!
"A few nights ago thieves raided the prem
is Of Rev. DR.. Hoff, near Riders Switch, and
stole from a wash-line lot of clothing that
had been hung out to dry. They also entered
the cellar of Mr.. Hofps residence but left
without disturbing anything.
Mr. JamAs ". Brady. of catonsvillA, Balti-
more county, has been promoted to third
class clerkship in the Sixth Auditors office of
the Postoffce Department. Mr.. Brady was
on the Republican ticket for the House of Del
egates in 1873, in this county
Breathes there man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
I will family paper take,
Both for my own and children's sake!
If such there be, let him repent
And have the Union 10 him sent.
improvements at Woodberry are still pro-
crossing An avenue fifty feet wide, has been
opened from the Reisterstewn road to the Falls.
Hooper avenue is also being opened and graded.
This avenue runs north and is intended to
connect Woodbury. with Mount Washington.
City Commissioner Tegmeyer, and other
city officials, visited the works of the perma-
aent water supply en- Saturday last. Sixty
: Gaborers were then employed at Lake Monte
beilo, and about three hundred and fifty on
the tunnel work, most of them being colorei.
Some time since the Weodberry Land
Company presented the NJ. E. Church Of that
pIace with handsome building lot. Through
the energies of the ladies connected with the
church a eommodious double brick dwelling,
which cost about $1,000, has been erected upon
this lot.
The root of an old Clinton grape vine, ON