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The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1877-09-29

DEALING WITH FARM HANDS.-After
the bargain has been made, there are
other points which are important. The
man has contracted to do certain things
for certain amount of money if he
does less, we expect to lessen his pay
but if he does more do we increase it !?
If he quits work half an hour or even an
hour before Sundown, it is often the
case that a reduction is made from his
pay; but if he works after sundown,
ought we not by the same rule to pay
extra for it? 1t is often the case that for
special causeS-to finish up piece of
ploughing, so as not to need to bring up
and harness the horses next day-to
bring an extra load or two of hay in at
might've ask and receive an hour or
two of extra work. Is not this as much
upon our side of the bargain as the loss
of time was on his. If it is fairly un-
derstood that in return for such favorS
the man may have half or whole day
as a leisure time, it will be far from los ',
and will increase his willingness to
so again either for you or his next
ployer. A man who will wait
"barn end" of the furrow bee
cannot get clear around again
Sundown may be set down as wort
dollars per month less than
does not, this example is the k
whole character. If we are mo.
and careful on these points we S.
see marked improvement in our
hands.-C0r. Country Gentltma
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1877-09-29
ALL THAT PARCEL OF LAND LYING u
TWELFTH DISTRICT, BAL

- f1lMUlIsih U0O ISIhN
Which is thus described: Beginning for the same
in the centre of the New Neck Road, leading into
Back River from the Baltimore and Havre-de-
Grace Turnpike Road, near the seven mile stone4
at the end of the first line of the parcel of land
conveyed by Albert W. Brown, Trustee, to Mary
Hupley and John Hupley, in the year 1860; and
running thence bounding on the centre OF said
New Neck Road south S7@ degrees, east 20 perch
es: thence north 244 degrees, east 53 perches;
thence north S74 degrees, west 20 perches to the
said Hupley's land; and thence bounding on the
second line OF said land reversely south 242 de-
grees west SO pershes to the place of beginning,
being the same land which by deed dated the 18th
day of December, 1872, and recorded among the
Land Records of Baltimore county in Liber L. H.
A., rs, folio Alb, was conveyed by Jacob Kuster
to Matthew Link.
Assessed to Matthew Link, for 1875 and 1876
STEPHEN BARTON,
Sheriff of Baltimore county.
Sent 15,-ts.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1877-09-29
SELECTED MATTER.
A REMARKABLE MILITARY GUN.

A number of experiments with new
gun have been witnessed at the Torpedo
Station, by both army and navy officers,
with results that promise well for the
gun, which is the invention of Captain
William Gardner, who exhibited here
some years ago very successful breech
loading fowling piece, who has since
perfected several guns of more formid-
able character. These last were made
for the Chinese government, and were
in the form of double-barrel breeCh
leaders on the principle of the present
gun, but this it is asserted, is an i'm
provement on his previous efforts.
In looking at this gun it is difficult to
see how the efficiency of such an arm
can be increased. 1t weighs but forty
three pounds, while the ten barrel gat-
ling gun weighs three hundred and fifty
pounds, and the French mitrailleuse,
with its thirty-seven barrels is proper
tionatsly heavier, yet this gun with its
sir barrel, will discharge as many
is in given time as any of the others.
1t is fed with cartridges placed in ver-
tical slot, ten at time, which fall in sue
cession to a point where they are forced
by rapidly revolving crank into the
barrel and discharged. The supply can
be kept up without difficulty. Two
men manage the gun-one to feed and
the Other 10 turn the crank. It can be
discharged at the rate of 900 times a
minute, with range of mile and a
quarter. The reports follow each other
SO rapidly that the sound is more like
that of sharp b-r-r-r-r than anything
else l can liken it to. At range of
ty yards it has cut tough old white oak
til. er nearly twelve inches square in
two "a forty-five seconds.
1t is asserted that this gun has an i'm
mense advantage over the other guns
of this description, because it is higher,
and therefore more easily managed
one man being able to take the gun, an
other the tripod on which it stands, and
another box of cartridges, and move
it to any point where its services are
needed. While its superior qualities in
this respect have been allowed, doubt
has been expressed whether or not it
could be fired for any length of time
without overheating This has beenmet
by the inventor, who says that he has
fired it in the presence of an army off
Ger 2, 600 times without the loss of a
second, and that while the gun was then
found to be foul, it was in perfect work
ing order; nor was it heated to degree
that rendered it necessary to discontin-
lie firing. This result it is said, is secur-
ed by giving a greater weight of metal
to the one barrel than is given where
number of barrels are brought together.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1877-09-29
ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND
SITUATE AND LYING IN THIRTEENTH

DISTRICT, BALTIMORE COUNTY,
Designated as No. Is on plat No. of the partition
made by and between the deyisees under the will
of the late Michael Warner being part of the tract
called "Krebs' and Warmers Terra Firma, and
described as follows, that is to say Beginning for
the same at stone marked "19," planted on the
north edge of space left 80 feet wide for a road
at corner of Lot No. 16 and on the dividing line
of the lands of the late William Krebs and Michael
Warner, and running thence and bounding on Lots
No. l6 and II, south A degrees west 12l and one
tenth perches to a stone marked "2l, planted on
the II4th outline of the whole tract called ''Krebs'
and Warmers Terra Firma;" then bounding on the
outlines thereof the seven following courses and
distances, allowing Il degrees retrograde varia-
ton to correct the courses: North Az degrees
west 81 perches to stake and some stones north
so degrees west 80 perches to the end of the "a
perches ON the sixth line of "NorwOod's DscOve-
ry" south SO degrees west 4 perches to stone
heretofore planted at the end of the sixth line of
said land, south Al degrees west 294 perches to
stone set up in the ground as aforesaid at the end
of the seventh line of said land, still bounding on
said land west Is perches to a stake and some
stones said stake planted at the intersection of the
2 degrees line of Youngs lot; then bounding on
the said second line of said land heretofore sur
veyed with an allowance now answering to IL de-
grees north 431 degrees east 1851 perches to
stone called for at the end of the second line of the
whole tract called "krebs and warmers Terra
Firma," north 464 degrees 2! perches to stake
and stone No. 5 at corner of 132 acres of land
conveyed by Michael Warner to William Krebs in
severalty by dc Lib W. g., No.
1856. fol;e 80 land allow
inel louth S34 de-
prees ). 4, and south
IN Il tho plaza ss
begin S,3 R00DS
| AND 1oe4ul ND, reserv-
ing and exceptiL the .Peration and
effect of this deed all that part of said above de-
scribed tract of land comprising about . acres
which was conveyed by George X >49p Ver and
wife to George P. Whitaker, b3oN uohe land
which by deed dated the 18th Sotu uly, 1865,
and recorded among the Landoq, Ut RS of Balti-
more county, in Liber E. H. 4,o. SO, folio 49,,
&C., was conveyed by John H. Thomas, &C., Trus-
tee, to Walter w. Berry.
Assessed to Walter W. Berry, for 1876.
| STEPHEN BARTON,
Sheriff of Baltimore county.
| Can't
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1877-09-29
Miscellaneous.
of Baltimore County.
N d T / G E

NOTICE is hereby given that the tax bills for
IN the year 1877 are ready and the Treas
urer and Collector will be prepared to receive the
COUNTY TAXES AT HIS OFFICE, IN TOW
on
Wednesday, Nay 18th, 1877.
THE COLLECTOR OF STATE TAXES will
be prepared to receive the same at the same
Office on the above date.
Persons writing for tax bills should be particu
lar to give the district in which the property is To-
Gated also postofice address, otherwise their let
ters will receive no attention.
JABEZ ARMAC0ST,
Treasurer and Collector of County Taxes.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1877-09-29

D9@Any man who can swap horses, or
catch fish and not lie about it, is just
about as pious as men ever get in this
world.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1877-09-29

Bgr A young Baltimore belle, just
home from boarding-school, on being
told by the servant that they had no
gooseberries, exclaimed: "Why, what
has happened to the gooSe?"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1877-09-29
TNG Sales.
ALL THAT PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND
SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN
PATAPSCO NECK, 18TH DIS
TRICT, BALTIMORE
COUNTY.

Containing and laid out for 276 ACRES of LAND,
more or less, being the same land which by deed
dated the 9th day of September, 1861, and record
ed among the Land Records of Baltimore county,
in Liber G. H. Co. No. 80, folio 317, &C., was con-
veyed by Thomas J. Rurk to Henry Snyder.
Assessed to Caroline Snyder, for 1876.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1877-09-29

R9~A New York merchant, in want
of boy, lately displayed the following
notice: "Boy wanted, that has thorough
ly rested himself and is not too intel
lectual."
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1877-09-29
WHOLE No. 664.
WHEN THE BAND BEGINS TO PLAY.

Forty years ago Scott's String Band
was the popular band at the Virginia
summer resorts. 1t was composed of a
dozen negro fiddlers and banjomen from
Charlottesville, and, as an old ha6itue of
the Springs remarked, "there was music
in those days" The big hotel with its
spacious ball room was not built then.
The old building used for ball room
at that time stands on the lower part of
the lawn near the spring, and has been
desecrated to the use of an apothecary'S
shop and Japanese store. Mr.. Clay was
here, and after duplicating Uncle Jim
my's three juleps, repaired to the ball
room in the evening. As he took his
position in the dance he called fc
"Natchez under hill. The band c
not know the piece, whereupon the"'
Wing leader, unbending from
ty of craftsmanship, repaired
ner of the ball room, and,
the musicians around him, cC
whiStling his favorite air until t
had caught and learned it. Re,
to the floor the dance went
Harry Clay "swung corners" al
anced alp until morning. Fro
time forward the popular dancir
at the White Sulphur was ''Natcnt
der hill"
emusic IN CANP." p"
l remember musical event of tn
war, which gave delightful touch ,
nature. In the autumn of 1862 the tw
opposing armies rested upon the oppo
site banks of the Rappahannock. A
band belonging to Federal regiment
was in the habit of coming to the rivers
brink each evening and discoursing
sweet music, to the delight of the soldiers
of both armies. 1t was late October
evening, at the season of the year when
Indian summer adds peculiar beauty to
the autumn. As usual, the band ap-
peared at sunset and the shores of the
river were lined on one side with blue
and on the other with gray. The first
strain that came over the water was
''Yankee DOODLE accompanied by the
shouts and cheers of the Northern soldi
cry. Again, the music changed, and
''Dixie" rolled out on the evening air,
and the riplets dancing back over the
pebbles of the stream bore to the oppo-
site bank the defiant shouts of the Reb
els. Another change-how sad and
sweet! The evening sunset had ripened
into twilight when "Home, Sweet
Home" touched tender chord in every
soldiers breast. The Northman was
carried back to the cottage on + bl'
hills of Vermont, where wife a
dren were awaiting his return.
Southern boy was again in HI
meath the palmetto receiving
ings of.a sainted mother
reign of solemn stillneS
touching strain died upol
plane, noiselessly the sol
from the river banks to seek rnt
beds on the ground, where the.
dream of peace and home.-COr. .,Aee.
ing Register.
4 L
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1877-09-29
Miscellaneous.

MARYLAND
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY \
OF BALTIMORE, Md,
An Old, Reliable, S,sbsta2s-
tiaI, Conservative
Company,
Managed by Representative
Business Men.
GEO. B. THOMAS, City Collector and Merchant.
HIRAM WOODS, Merchant.
HAMILTON EASTER, The Dry Goods Merchant.
HUGH SISS0N, of Sisson's Marble Works.
THOMAS CASSARD, Provision Dealer.
WILLIAM DEVRIES, Merchant
GEO. H. MILLER, President Real Estate Bank.
ALLEN A. CHAPMAN, Merchant.
CHARLES WEBB, of Armstrong & Co.
The Character and Mercantile standing of its Di-
rectory is guarantee that its business
is 'oeH managed.
The Maryland is Eminently a
Home Company.
1t has deposited in the Treasury of the State of
Maryland
100000 in u. s. Bonds as Secu-
rify to Policy Holders.
IT HAS ABOUT
$500, 900 Invested in Baltimore
City Securities.
IT HAS OVER
$50. 900 Invested in BALTIC. County
AND WILL INVEST
$4,000 More i'm the County, at 6
Per Cent. Per Annum, on
Good Farm Property.
For this purpose it has appointed an Advisory
following Unknown citizens, all of whom
are insured az the Company:
VIM. S. KEECH, ESQ.,, Attorney, Towsontown.
JOS. B. MITCHELL, ESQ.,, Register of Wills.
DR.. JACKSON PIPER, Towsontown.
w. FRANK MITCHELL, Attorney, Towsontown.
THOMAS J. G0RSUCH, Esq, Mt Carmel.
GEORGE NJ. FULTZ, ESQ.,, Paper Mills.
DIR. R. G. RANKIN, Waverley.
JAS. H. McAFEE, Contractor, Waverley.
II. C. L0NGNECKER, Baltimore County Union.
No intelligent person lions the princi-
pies Of Life hsUrdl asters that
have overtaken rthern
Companies and,
investigation i'll.
ment has disclos,
awaken the eng.
Where Can We Place
ance to be Safe?
WE ANSWER:
The Maryland is Conducted bye
Citizens.
It Sells You Insurance at r.
est Rates
It Invests Its Money ir
ty and
Your Insurance Co Jesse
K. Hines, Tells 40 to
Pay Each yes,
A LARGE SURPLUS
Than Any Company Doing Business in
the State of Maryland.
ms~ PARTIES WISHING LOANS APPLY
TO EITHER OF THE COUNTY
BOARD OR TO
Geo. w. Burton.
GENERAL AGENT,
No. 10 South Street,
BALTIMORE, MD.
Aug. H.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-07-06

AS Nj. Wilkins would not resign the collec
torship of the port of Baltimore, as requested
by the President, be has been suspended, and
Mr.. Thomas has taken possession Of the Office
According to all accounts Mr. Wilkins was q
competent and an efficient officer, aud va:
agreeable to the people with whom he had to
transact business. Mr.. WortbiogtoD, who
possesses none of these qualifications, and, ir
addition, whose appointment to another posi-
ton failed to receive the confirmation Of the
Senate on other and more damaging grounds,
is to be retained as collector OF the port Of
Charleston. The removal of Mr.. Wilkins apd
the retention of Mr.. Worthington cannot, 10
the minds of ordinary people. be reconcied
With Mr.. Hayes avowed ideas of civil service
reform.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-07-06

Time and circumstances have always had o
great effect upon the importance of events, but
in this country their influence is not to be COM
paired with that of location. A fourth OF July
celebration in Connecticut, at which people of
all political parties were assembled to manifest
their patriotism, is seized upon BY two gentle
men of one party as the occasion for making
rot only violent and incendiary, but men
dacious attacks upon the President Of the
country aud the people Of the South, and are
applauded for what they do. If at similar
gathering iu aoy State in the South two proml-
neut democrats had been guilty of such bad
taste, to express it 10 tho mlldest terms, as TO
make partisan speeches, abusing the President.
aud denounciug their fellow oountr7men OF the
North, not ouly would their immediate listen
ers have manifested their dssapproval but The
whole North would have rung with the reitera
ton Of the cry of revived rebellion The
same speech is patriotic or rebelous according
as it is delivered on the north or south side OF
the Potomac.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-07-06

commander to communicable easily with the
ambassador at Consiaptinope, end the home
government As TO why the fleet was DOT sent
to the Suez canal, the Chancellor said II was
because it was not convenient central posltIos,
apd besides there was no reason Why more than,
one ship, should be stationed at the Suez canal.
The feet at Besika bay Numbers seven iron
clads and one frigate.
1t is officially announced that the Russian
losses 10 crossing the Danube at Sisto7a were
800 killed and 400 wounded.
Fifteen hundred persors who were fleeing
from Adler to the Turkish lines, from fear 81
the Russians, persisted from hunger.
SHUMLA, July Go a. ma battle was
fought yesterday in the vicinity Of B!ela, which
lasted twelve hours. The Russians were re-
pulsed with considerable loss, and fell back OF
Sistova. No details Of the fight have been re
ceived.
Sueiman Pasbs received to day orders Ia
march from Podgaritza toward the Danube with
forty i've bataons. About as u'auy are or
dered 10 Epirus. The latter is probably tht
force mentioned by the StaDdards Cou5taul
Dople dispatch as about to embark al AnuVall
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-07-06

The New Hampshire Legislature, last week,
refused to adopt resolution endorsing Presi
dent Hayes's administration but yesterday adop-
ted one to the effect that the National Gov.
ernmeut should not undertake any new obliga,
tions, nor lend its credit for the furtherance Of
any speculative schemes under the guise Of
internal improvements that may be for the
advantage of any particular locality or corpora.
tion," meaning, Of course, the improvement Of
the Mississippi levees and the Southern Pacific
Railroad. The New Hampshire Legislature
passed no resolutions opposing appropriations
for the Northern Pacific Railroad, or for any of
the other numerous schemes BY which the ma.
tional treasury was pluudered by the radicals
during the Grant administration.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-07-06

Mr.. Sohleicher, OF Texas, the gentleman al
luded to by Mr.. Blaine as prominent IN the
Mexican annexation scheme, saya the Senator
talked" wildly in the speech referred to as
neither he, schlc!cher, nor the President has
any idea Of the annexation Of foot Of Mexican
territory. Mr. Blaine acted wildly when he
stole the Mulligan letters and had brain Tag
90 the church steps in Washington, and now
that be has gone to talking" wildly there is no
telling what remarkable freak he may lie en-
pagcd 10 next
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-07-06

Mr.. Benjamin Wade is as much opposed to
the Presidents policy as either Geo. Chamber.
lain or Mr.. Blaine. In late interview he
said :-"Slavery is abolished 10 name; bat with
the Southern State governments the way they
have been going along it won't be long before
they will have the thing itself under another
name The trouble is. they take all you give
them. and then demand more, aud they II keep
demanding more. Hayes should have given
official recognition to Packard and Chamber
lain, and sustained them by the moral force of
his position" Mr. Hayes beat Mr.. Blaine for
President, would not recognize Mr.. Chamber
lain as Governor of South Carolina. aud laid
Mr.. Wade on the shelf in Oho-hence their
tears, but the plants Of sore heads are not of
much consequences.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-07-06
PUBLISHED DAILY AND TREWEEKLT By
EDGAR SNOWDEN-
FRIDAY EVENING....-." .JULY 6, 1871
The speecbes of Messrs. Chamberlain and

The speeches OF Messrs. Chamberlain and
Blaine, deuounciog the President aud rldicul'
Jog the policy which has substituted order Tor
anarchy 10 the South, aud which, 1t continued
and sustained, will substitute prosperity and
happiness for depression aud misery throughout
the whole country, do not seem to have struck
responsive CHORD in the breasts OF the lufu'
entail newspapers of the party to which they
belong; and the present indications are that
the gentlemen alluded to have not improved
their prospects for political preferment, and
certainly have not Injured the President. The
New York Times says:
"These speeches we're appropriate neither to
the special occasion Of opening public park,
nor to the proper attitude Of the patriotic mind
on iodepe ndeDce day. And neither Governor
Chamber nor MIR. Blaine made amends
for the uutimeness OF their orations by any
special show Of ability 10 their treatment OF
the subjects selected for discussion.
The New York Tribune says: MIR. Cham
berlain's argument is the familiar carpet bag
gers argument about paternal government,
and if his rhetoric is finer than the carpet bag
gers rhetoric, and be succeeds 10 startling the
public by comparing Buchanan and hayes 10
the advantage of Buchanan. and by calling the
claim of the Presidents consistency with bis
letter and bis inaugural the chief OF subtcrtu,
ges, if not Of falsehoods,' be has nevertheless
failed to prove his case.
The Washington Republican says: Mr..
Chamberlain's speech will awake no popular
response. 1t will not divide the Republican
party, or throw its ranks into the slightest con
fusion. Even MIR. Blaine. whose chief charac
teristio in the past has been boldness, although
he heard every senteDoe Of that speech, uttered
no word'of approval. His silence was slgnif.
cant and eloquent. 1t shows that he knew that
the haraugue would not touch the popular
heart. Cbamberlsln's Grafton needs 20 reply
from any Northern journalist or speaker, for
all The Southern States 10 which peace and
good order now prevail answer and rebuke
him. The balefuI irebraud which he flourish
ed at Woodstock ia to them the omen OF evil,
threatening to kiodie anew the flames Of civil
disseusiuu. The people Of the South are noW
quietly attending to their own affairs. They
have restored the general reign Of law and
order. Crime is now almost universally pun
ished by due course of law.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-07-06

The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher waned his
friend and witness retained as collector OF The
Brooklyn district, and Mr.. Hayes did as the
reverend gentleman desired. Mr.. Boccher is
power in the republican party, and power aud
civil service reform don get along we'll together,
as was shown 10 the case Of the collec!orshlp of
the port of Baltimore. where the place was
given to Mr.. Thomas with the understanding
that Mr.. Fulton was to secure the defeat OF the
democratic municipal ticket in that city.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-07-06

Postmaster General Key says "it IS impossI =
bic to have more perfect accord aDd harmony
than exists IN the Cabinet, not only 90 the
Southern policy, but on all public questions.
AS nobody ever questioned the republcansm
of Messrs. Sherman and McCrary, and, as they
arc ia accord aud harmony with the President
on his Southern policy, the radical sore heads
who oppose that policy must have DO following
or the New York Herald must have been right
when it said that the republican party was
dead.