The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1877-12-15
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Thieves in Towsontown. Tie your big dog
loose.
Only one more issue of the Union before
Christmas.
Friday of next week-2Ist instant-is the
shortest day of the year.
Mr.. P. P. Pendleton, known Balti-
more merchant, died on Sunday last
-"WhOs got the biggest hOg?' asks the
Resterstown Voice. We know but we don't like
to say
Our neutrality-suspicious. says "somethin's
goin' to fall purity The moons got a ring
around it,
There were one hundred and twenty three
baltimore last week, fifteen of which
.-sria.
-.s md the moon had a tilt Saturday
night. DING as well as could be expected,
under the g.. ~tances."
Gov. CarroEs has appointed Joseph P. Dor
Sey Justice of the Peace for the 18th district,
ee Geo. W. Dorsey, resigned.
1t is currently rumored that of the
mbers elect to the Legislature from this county
'or the extension of the v limits.
At the request of a nber of the patrons
the road the Northern ltral Company has
- ted several lamps at Ri rs Station.
-Messrs. Poole I'm t of Woodbury., are
sting $4,000 pound div hg wheel for Wood
:rry mill to replace the one recently broken.
The cars to WaverIey on the York road
ne, which nave been running every 10 minutes
rom Holiday street, have been discontinued.
-Robert A. Nelson, of Hartford county, has
rented Jacksons Hotel the Jarrettsville turn
pike, 10th district and will hereafter conduct it.
Can't we have law passed to prevent
horses running at large in TowsOntown? It's
high time something was done in this direction.
The tramp convention meets on Thursday
and Friday of next week. Those who have been
chosen delegates should not neglect to attend.
The fellow who makes a practice Of travel
ing around TOwsOntown at the dead hour of night,
yelling like COmanche Indian, ought to be sup
pressed.
Gen. Benjamin Huger who for several
years was cOmmandant at Pikesville Arsenal, in
this county, died at Charleston, S. c., on Friday,
18th inst.
-Messrs A. F. Cav & Son have open
ed store at Wright's mill, near Alberton, and
will hereafter it in connection with their mill
business.
"A thrce-da pigeon shooting match COM
A need at the Hammet House, Hookstown road,
e. Wednesday. The attendance large and
W shooting was good.
-Pine tar is said to be the best and cheapest
nedy for the cure of hog cholera. About
Mt of tar, dissolved in hot water, to a barrel of
will are the proportions.
1t is understood that Mr.. William S. Shoe
maker, of Baltimore, formerly a resident of this
own, will be appointed to supervise the work of
improving Jones Falls at its mouth
Carroll S. Macgll, of O.. P. Macgil,
Esq, admitted to practice in the Circuit Court
for Baltimore county Friday of last week.
: 1r. S. passed most creditable examination.
OF all sad words of tongue or pen,
She saddest are these, 1tmight have been.
IA of all sad words to beats or tramps,
.Ssaddest these, I'm out of stamps
1t a.oears were in error last week in
stating tht DIR. D. s. Cuttings, of the 1lth dis
tr;ct hai been stricken with paralysis He was
&c., ffoal Of rba.,f ,ofic
-Cntraets for the grading and construction
Of sevhl sections of the Baltimore and Hanover
railrod have been awarded. The road will con-
meet 18th the Western Maryland at near REFS
tersgn.
fri while paying his taxes last week, among
otr money paid one ten-dollar gold piece. The
c. little short of full weight but readily
,sed for $40.
"A few days ago an adroit thief stole from
safe of Messrs. Russell Bros, in Reisterstown,
bag containing in the neighborhood of $3.50.
he theft was committed in broad daylight and
ne thief got off with the 'lucre" unObserved.
The Jenifer Arabian, until recently the
property of Col Walter Jenifer, of this county, is
owned by MIR. Colin Cameron, of Brickerville,
"a. Mr.. c. recently sold a two-year-old colt,
sired by this horse, to gentleman in Oregon, for
$1,000.
-Gotfried Moritz. employed in a brewery at
way to the ground, distance of fifty feet killing
himself instantly The unfortunate was
about 81 years of age. He leaves a wife and three
children.
On Monday last as Mr.. J. W. Lee of this
town, was on his way to the city with his store
wagon, bag of green coffee weighing upwards
of one hundred pounds, lost from the
of the wagon, since which time nothing has been
heard of it.
On Monday morning last officers Whttle
and Brown arrested VIM. Starr and John Getty,
charged by Mrs. Agnes Hines with attempting to
break into her house on Sunday night. Commit
ted to Jail by Justice Miller for the action of the
Grand Jury.
The County COmm'rs at their regular meet
ing this week again greeted by large force of
.uesfce hunters. 1t was given out on Tuesday
whether by authority not we unable to say
that the Board would make no appointments
until Friday, Dee. 18th.
Mr.. John Ridgely of Hampton, has very
fine Hambletonian colt. He is a magnificent
specimen of hOrse-fesh and is showing extra
ordinary gait for yOungster. Mr.. RS tranOr-
John Mack, Of New York-is expert horseman
and the stock is doing well in his hands.
On Friday night of last week Mr.. Jacob J.
Feathers for many years resident of Gray's, died
from heart disease. He was weknOwn through
out that part of Baltimore county, having filled
the position of constable in the first district for
number of years.-EYieoa City Times 18th.
-"Recenty Nllllam hnule, nKlng near New
Freedom, struck his wife, who is partially deaf,
with a stone. In the dusk, he supposed her to be
a thief, and as he received no answer to his chal-
lenge, (she not hearing HIM the above result
sued, without serious consequences, however.
Frederick AltevOght, of the 18th district,
while on his way to TowsOntown on Tuesday
morning, met with painful accident. In de-
seending REFS hill, on the York turnpike one of
the spindles of his jaeger broke off, throwing him
out upon the pike, and bruising him badly about
the head.
Mr.. Alex. McComas, of Baltimore, in
days shooting at Rocky Point about fortnight
ago, killed upwards of sixty red-head and can
ras-back ducks, only forty-one of which, owing
to the heavy weather which prevailed, he was able
to retrieve.
81 ~ Andrew Leggin, of Hartford county,
sol 40 to allow his team to stand unattended in a
street in Baltimore. The horses got frightened
and running away smashed another mans wagon,
which cost exactly that amount to repair the dam
age. Next time he viii pay ten cents to have his
team looked after.
a petition is now in circulation in the Sth
district. which will be presented to the Legsla-
ture. praying for the passage of an act to divide
that district into two precincts The petition
names Timonum as of the voting places and
.CockeysvilIe as the other The paper has already
a large number of signers.
"A beautiful Christmas park and fountain,
the bandiwork of Messrs L. VOgle and s. Bowen,
will be ratified at "Yoge's Dem" on the hill, We'd
nesday evening next Dec. 18th, at 81 o'clock
Every one who expects to have Christmas tree
for the pleasure of the little ones should take
chance Tickets so cents.
One of our saloon keepers who was house
cleaning one day this week, was asked by pass
er-bv if he intended to move. Eyes, was the re
sponse sthe addresses delivered by those temper
ancc orators on last Tuesday night made such {
"deep impression" on my customers that guess
I'll have to close out. But he hasn't
Mr. Henry Gunther was not hurt on th'
aTortb Point road as erroneOusly stated last week