The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1877-12-29


49, last the Circuit Court adj
journei m. y : .aday, January eth.
-Oneof our ministers fortunate this
week. II. received four fine turkeys as Christ
mas gifts.
Dangerous counterfeit fve-dollar bills, on
the First National bank Of Hanover, Pa, are in
circulation. Look QUO for them.
The County Commissioners on Wednesday
appointed Thomas II. Granville constable for the
LIST dist let for two years from date.
Mr.. r. c. McCinn, principal OF tIe Wood
berry high school, was the 2lst presented with
very handsome 5ooL, the gift of his class. Mr..
t. c. Bruff made the presentation.
bishop Nottingham, on Christmas day.
visited St. Marks Protestant Episcopal church at
Pikesville, and confirmed a class of four persons
The Bishops brother is pastor of the church.
There were lively times about StemmePs
Run on Christmas eve and Christmas morning.
A number of fights occurred and there were sew
eral bloody noses, out nothing serious resulted.
"A close obsery the weather, says: "Since
the year 1878, at intervals of 10 years, the win
tiers have been remarkably mild hence we may
expect the coming winter to De more damp than
cold"
The old saying that Gas the days begin TO
lengthen the cold begins to strengthen" has not
held good this season. The days commenced to
lengthen after the 2s instant, and still the wealth
er is as mild as in early fall
-Messrs Joshua and Thomas GOrsuch, Of
this county, while driving through Westminster
one day last week, their horse took fright and ran
away, upsetting the buggy and rowing both out.
Neither of them were injured.
The Episcopal church at Churchvllle, Har-
ford county, was burned Sunday last. The
loss will be about $4,000, on which there is in
surance in the Hartford Company for s., 125. The
fire was caused by defective iue.
Hon. John Merryman, President of the
9 i. IL
gave dinner at Hayfelds, his residence in this
county, to the officers of that Society and of the
Carroll County Agricultural Society.
There were high old times about the lower
end of the water works for few days before
Christmas. There is no day officer on duty there
Z since ne n. cement and the roughs have
everything pretty much their own way.
Bold thieves who travel around at night
with two, three and four-horse teams, giving
the farmers much trouble. They carry off wheat,
corn and other grain by the wagon load, and up to
this time none of them have been caught.
The borough council of New Freedom, n.
C. R. r., has passed an ordinance permitting
tramps to lodge IN the lookup, but requiring them
to leave the town the next morning, within an
hour after they are let out, and not TO return.
DR.. Carpenter, physician at the water
works. thinks that the cOlored man, Thomas Por-
ter, who was so seriously injured in the dynamite
explosion at one of McCa3e & Bros shafts last
week, will recover. He will probably lose the
sight of both eyes.
Wesley NJ. Perine las been appointed by
the County Commissioners special officer and
lamp-lighter FOR TowsOntown at a salary Of so
per month. Heretofore the two offices have been
held by E. Dorsey White and James Sheridan at
a salary of $50 per mont3 each.
Rev j. F. Goucher, of the NJ E. church,
was married on Monday last at The brides resi-
dence, "Aito Dale" oear Pikesvie, 10 Miss Mary
C. Fisher daughter Of the iate DIR. John Fisher.
The ceremony was performed by Rev L. +. Nor
gan, assisted by Rev. r. NJ. Lipscomb.
We have now reached nearly the first of
January and there has been no ice. Should there
be no freeze we may expect to pay heavy ice bills
next season. as that almost indispensable article
is sure to be very high in price. But then there
may be plenty of it yet before April LIST.
A very successful revival meeting has been
in progress for some time at Pleasant Hill NJ. E.
church. on the turnpike. short distance above
Owings Mills A very large number have already
professed conversion. The meeting is in charge
of Revs. J. H. C. Dosh and w. E. Curley.
Pleasant Hunter Esq, member of the
late Board of County Commissioners, was thrown
from bis buggy on Sunday last, caused by his
horse taking fright and running of, and received
several ve-y severe bruises about his body and an
ugly cash over MS right eye. The buggy was de-
molished.
Mr.. Robert J. Halliday, the well-known
florist, living on the Liberty road, while his way
to the city On Monday last, the front axle of his
carriage broke, causing his horse to run away.
Mr.. II. was dra5Sed for some distance and reeeiv-
ed a number OF painful injuries. The carriage
was badly damaged.
Tile Sun gays tnSt on Christmas day much
drunkenness preFaied at Woodbury.. That
sosnds had for a town in yl;ob tbo solo Of 1;ouor
is prohibited by l9' Tcs sontown is not local
opti0n town b,st thert was 10 d,,,nkonnoss and
~ IL N-AN
u-oruei - ~; . our temperance
The rep,rt of the Baltii .o,..-- co,oo,
Board for the DaSt year is out. IN 49, -
of school hoses in the county e0t". e
teachers 205and the average en- ~, -
1877. The receipts durin , u 'ono
$l666SO Sc. and the expenses 81 Ine year "oie
balance on hand Of 81, leaF ing
The founty COMMISSIONS.
michael, Seifel and Millender, > Messrs. Oar-
Messrs. SshOne and Jean She q. IreiI cie AS'
Nr. S. w. Storm his clerk al I'm "orthington,
2isteau Mr.. JOS. B. Mitchell, III deputy SnerIn
nd VIM. Fitzhugh WHARF :. heg'ster 0i ". nllS'
BoarmaR, Esq, on Wef Esq uiheo WIN H.
One day last week soay;
- 80 ,rarar loads. sent to Bati-
hin dressed hogs, the total
-. he obtained Ct cents per
Dad, or a total of S475. 1t was
q largest wagon load of pork ever
frederick Vogts the boy who was acct
A. IL shot at Franklinville, on Sth inst, an
aecorfht of which was published in these columns
last 1veek died on the 18th, from the effects of
the injury. Nearly the whole side of his face was
shot away by the accidental discharge of his gun,
which slipped through his hand, striking the ham
mer on box.
Christ mas in Towsontown passed off quiet
lv-w;thout any accidents or incidents to mar the
nleasures of the day. The weather was damp
and disae reeaole but this did not prevent the
usnal visiting many of our citizens keeping open
b0~-c. There was no drunkenness, very little
shooting. and altogether TIE dag was one OF many
quiet eni0yments.
Maid a surprise visit to their pastor, Rev. W. G..
Grieitb. on the evening Of the 2lst inst, and lit
orally fIIed his house with oceans of good and
nsefnI things. among them turkeys, chickens,
hams beef -four. groceries, clothing, horse feed,
incl &C. It is hardly necessary to say the visit
was highly appreciated
Tn replv to a letter from the Postoffice De-
partmeut making inquiry as to the legal status of
The old copper one cent piece OF ante-b eum days,
) 4be limited States Treasurer says that the coin
named is not and never legal tender for any
amount whatsoever, and that consequently post
masters are not required by law to receive it in
payment of postal dues.
a thief attempted to enter the dwelling of
Mr.. J. Maurice Watkins, in this town, about Z
o'clock on Christmas evening. The family were
in the lower part Of the house at the time and the
thief no doubt aware of this, went into the yard
and from a she'd to the roof of the back building.
His movements were detected by some OF the
-,ombars of the family when he beat hasty re-
4reat Mr.. w. thinks he knows who the fellow is
and It is hoped he may be able to get enough evil
dence to cause his arrest.