The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1877-10-27
LOCAL ITEMS.

LOCAL ITEMS.
Election one week from next Tuesday.
The Pimlico races this week attracted thous-
ands OfpeOple.
We experienced heavy white frost
tuesday morning.
The prOtracted meeting at TOwsontown NJ.
E. church is still in progress.
The races took some of the "spare cash"
out of TOwsontown this week.
There were one hundred and eighteen
deaths in Baltimore last week.
The mail route from Baltimore to Towson-
town has again changed hands.
The petit jury for the September term was
finally discha' ged on Monday last
We we're visited by sharp thunder gust
ON Sunday night last, accompanied by hail.
Sadie Bell and Carrollton will trot at Her.
ring run course on Monday next for purse of ST.
600.
A large number of meetings have been called
by the Workingmen's and Peoples Independent
party.
A number of U. S. Senators and members
of Congress attended the Pimlco races on We'd
nesday.
On Monday next telegraphic communica-
ton is to be restored between TOwsOntOwn and the
outside world.
Two celebrated SouthdOwn rams, from Eng
land, have been added to the flock of sheep in
Druid Hill Park.
-Musgrave's old tannery, on Front street be-
palf dpStr I'D
by fire on Tuesday last.
Last week a wagon driven by steam trav
eled from Baltimore by turnpike to Westminster
and was exhibited at the State fair.
Seventeen prisoners convicted in the Cir
cult Court for Baltimore county were taken to the
Maryland penitentiary on Tuesday.
james knight, a brakeman on the N. c.
railroad, was crushed to death between two cars
on Thursday of last week at Harrisburg.
There were upwards of $4,000 people at
Pimlico on Wednesday. The weather was fine
and the sport of the most exciting character.
-Diptheria is raging to such an extent in
some sections of Hartford county that the public
schools have fallen off at least sixty per cent in at
tendance.
"A resident of the 18th district informs
that it costs a public school in his neighbOrhOod
about $50 per ton for COAL Rather expensive fuel,
We should say.
Petitions have been in circulation about
Towsontown this week. and which have been nu-
merously signed, praying the York road railway
company to place steam motors on its line.
The Maryland Sunday School Union re-
commends Sunday and Monday, October 2Sth and
29th to be set apart as days of united supplica-
tons on behalf Of the Sunday School cause.
Mr.. Henry Debaugh, well-known carpen-
ter and builder of this place, has removed with
his family to Aberdeen, Hartford county, where he
will hereafter engage in mercantile pursuits
-Highland avenue NJ E. church, 18th dis
rict, has lately been handsomely frescoed and 9TH
rwise beautifed. After being closed for several
-seeks it reopened for service on Sunday last.
Mr.. j. H. Roller, clerk in the Office of
Fohn Bacon Esq, County Clerk, who has been
wing in Towsontown for several years, moved
oack to his old home in the 18th district this week.
-Benjamin Payne aged % years, brother of
T. Scott Payne, hardware dealer, north Gay street,
Baltimore, was shot and almost instantly Killed
rhile cunning near Cambridge on Tuesday of last
Feek.
Miss Powers, the fat woman, who exhibited
here few months ago, dropped dead at the fair
grounds at Sterling, Illinois, about a 1ortnlght
igo. This seraphic creature weighed only 90
pounds.
On Thursday evening last the Gainesville
Library and Literary Association gave an enter
.anment in Newberg Hall the proceeds to be devo-
ted to a new hall which the Society eOntemplates
building.
Mr.. Edward P. Suter has sold at private
sale his country residence on Bellona avenue,
near Govanstown, to Mr.. Leander Foreman, for
$4,000. There are six acres of land with fine i'm
provements.
Mr.. Thomas BOylan has opened an oyster
saloon on Allegahy avenue, TOwsontown, and Is
Mt all times prepared to serve oysters in every
styIe. He will also supply families with fresh
oysters each day. Give him call.
Hon. John Merryman, president of the
MARYLAND Agricultural Society, gave dinner at
Wheeers Hotel Westminster, on Tuesday OF last
week number of prominent Baltimore ana
Carroll county farmers were present.
"A pigeon shooting match took place at
White Hall, N. C. R. R., on Wednesday, each
man shooting at eight birds. The score stood as
follows: John Nelson, Z Henry Burns, g; Jas.
Nelson, 6 /; Nelson Gilbert, 8; ThOs. Nelson o;
Jos. Nelson, 6.
Mr.. John D. Linton, of Baltimore, who is
we'll known in this county, while returning by the
western MARYLAND railroad from the State fair at
westminster had his pocket picked OF 5000.
great many other persons we're relieved OF their
rocket books and other vauables-
Mr.. John S. Cuttings, Jr, wen known to
tbose having business with the Chesapeake Bank,
vas married on Saturday last to Miss A9saile
Nav. The ceremony was performed by Bishop
lI;bbous, at the residence of the brides mother,
a. Mount Vernon Place, Baltimore
The exhibition of Hartford county Agricul-
+ulal Society, which closed Friday, October lZtn,
WAS the most successful yet neio. Inc "holS
amount received for gate money, at the grand
stand kc.. reached $4,000, which will more than
nav of the Society's debt, premiums, &c:
A. the regular monthly meeting of the
'poa-d of Directors of the Western Md. Railroad,
pa on Tuesday, the following officers were re-
n,no.aJ for The ensuing year ]. ~ Hood, presl-
sSst end ger sfal manager; ]. Alex. Reiman,
49, 80. Tent; John S. Harden, secretary and
treas-
yhn Turner, of this county, while driving
around the race track at the Hartford county fair
grounds, on Friday of last week, in company with
q ladv. met with quite a painful accident. His
buegy was upset and both were thrown out, Mr..
Turner having two of his ribs broken. The lady
escaped injury.
The Towsontown Temperance Association
has purchased new and very fine organ which
has been PLACED in EPSON NJ P. church, where
the association holds its meetings. The instru-
ment vas bought through Mr.. S. Msrryman
Anderson, who, being a Granger, procured il
much below the selling price,
1t is said that over 100000 changed hands
on the Pimlico races Wednesday. Paroles great
victory over Ten Brock and Tom 0chiltree lined
the pockets of innumerable "sports." John Nor
rissey, New Yorks "bOss" gambler, is reported tC
have won upwards of SAC, 900, while another New
Worker pocketed SIS, 900 on the same race.
a public-spirited citizen of Towsontown
and an honorary member of our military company
4 having three medals struck in Baltimore, ont
Io he PRESENTED to the best drilled manin thecoin
pany, one to the man who keeps his gun and &C
coutrements in the best order, and one to the maj
who makes the best score in target practice.
The execution of James R. Hawkins, nov
in iail here under sentence Of death for the crime
of rape on a young white girl, will take place OF
Friday, November 23d. It is said the mother anC