The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1877-08-11
STATE NEWS.
Compiled from Our Exchanges.

Mrs. mary L DAVIDSON, OF Queens
town, fell down stairs and injured herself so badly
as to cause her death.
The annual "pony penning" on
Chincoteague Island took place on Wednesday and
Thursday of this week.
Andrew p. Meyers has been APP
pointed postmaster at Leicester Howard county
vice A. A., Fahey, resigned.
Mrs. Elizabeth Archer, wife of K.
Harris Archer, Esq, of Hartford county, died sud
denly on Saturday, July 2Sth.
When the editor of the Denton
Union wants to take his summer recreation he
skips the publication of his paper for week.
Patrick Hayiland, a well known and
respectable citizen of Hartford, died at his resi-
dence, near Churchville, July 9th, aged So years
-Fhe barn of John Dougherty, near
Slate Ridge, Hartford county, struck by light
ming about two weeks ago and burned, with all its
contents.
= John Herst, a well-to-do farmer in
Washington county, has worn the same straw hat
for twenty-seven years, and it is still in a good
condition.
The Odd Fellows Hall, at Elkton
was sold under mortgage on Tuesday of last
week to ex-GOv. Groome for Sc, OO0-less than one
fourth its cost.
The editor of the Havre-de- Grace
Republican has been presented with a tomato
WHICH measured 20 inches in circumference and
weighed 24 lbs.
-Crisfeld is local option town, but
on Wednesday morning last five barrels of whisky
were landed at the wharf consigned to citizens OF
that place.-Denton Union.
+ MIR. Robert Hough, of Baltimore,
has bought the Winder estate in Miles River Neck,
Talbot county, 225 acres, for So 1926, and proposes
to Make his residence there.
carrie Dick, colored, aged about
ten years, was burned to death on Friday of last
week, near UniontOwn, Carroll county. She at
tempted to hasten a fire by the use of coal oil.
Mr.. John H. Anthony, of Cam
bridge has invented what he calls peach seeder
1t takes the core out of apple the seed out Of
peach as fast as they can be placed on it-ont
by one.
R. ]. West and Edward l. West,
who went to Texas two months ago, returned to
Oakland last Sunday. They are disguised with
Texas, and say times are equally as hard there as
in Garrett county.
"A grand ball was given at Wheel
er's new hotel, Westminster, on Wednesday even
ing of last week, which was attended by the elite
of Carroll county, besides large number of per-
sons from a distance.
Mr.. John Barkdoll, residing near
Smithsburg Frederick county, cut from eli ght acres
244 tons of hay, timothy and sapling clover, a
yield of nearly 81 tons to the acre. 1t was the first
crop after setting in grass.
The enforcement of the Internal
Revenue laws is having the effect of breaking up
the distillation of apple and peach brandes on
the Maryland Peninsula. A number of those en-
gagged in the business have ceased its manufacture.
VIM. Myers has bought of Capt. E..
X Cooper, of Baltimore, the homestead of the late
Gen. Tench Tilghman known as "Plinhimmon,"
il Oxford neck, Talbot county, for $4,000. For
ty years ago Mr.. Myers father worked on the
place a labOrer
;-Thomas Marion recently shot con-
stable L. o. Robey, in Prince Georges county, in
an alteration about some property against which
the constable had distraint warrant. The shot
struck the forehead and fractured the skull, MAX
ing a probably fatal wound.
The birds that attract the attention
of Ogr sportsmen will be here-the rail, reed,
and black birds. There is an excellent crop of
reeds which furnish food for these birds while they
are on our marshes, and ere long the bang of
many guns may be heard.--CecH Wing.
"A rural horse was hitChed at Par
sonsburg, Somerset county, few days ago, when
an excursion train from Wilmington to Ocean City
passed by. The unwonted sight was too much for
the horse lie reared up, fell down, and inconti-
inently died, being actually scared to death.
The Curlett farm, containing 200
acres, the borders of Queen Annes county,
pear Templeyille, sold at public sale last week.
John Daley purchaser, at 1915 per acre. John
Hams farm, in the same neighborhood contain
x2g liz acres, was also purchased by Mr.. Daley
On Wednesday last, E. w. Mealey,
administrator Of A. J. R. Magruder, deceased,
sold the Monterey Springs property on the sum
init of the South Mountain, by public sale, to
Vanum E. Holmes, of Wilmington, Delaware,
for 5000. Seven acres of land had previously
been sold to Mrs. Wadrell, for $460.-Hogerstocn
Mail, 3rd.
The barn and granary of Elridge
W. Gallup, near Perrymansville Hartford county,
were struck by lightning July 2Sth, and entirely
consumed, together with his entire summer CROP
inhicting loss of over four thousand dollars
Insured in the Hartford Mutual for $4,000. Mr.
G. has quantity of stock, all of which is left
without feed by the disaster.
From all the information we can
gather upon the subject we feel confident that the
wheat crop of 1877 in Frederick county, was the
largest and finest that we have had for the past
twenty years. We have already heard of thirty
and forty bushels to the acre being realized by
number of our farmers who have threshed out
their WHEAT atoctim Clarion.
1t is estimated by those engaged in
wheat threshing that 40 900 bushels of wheat has
already been threshed in TuckahOe Neck en-
bracing an area of not exceeding six square miles,
and it is thought when the crop is completed it
will exceed $4,000 and may probably reach &C, 900
bushels We believe there was more wheat grown
upon Caroline soil this season than ever before in
IA single year.-Dent0n Union
The Westminster 1lZ~,o~1to covc
Let some of our enterprising farmers make the
experiment. this fall, of planting an acre of wheat
in drills so that it can be cultivated like corn
The plan of planting and cultivating wheat was
given in this paper two three weeks ago, by
which a crop of seventy bushels to the acre was
produced. To produce such yield is worth the
effort.
"A large and exceedingly promising
field of corn belonging to Mr.. VIM. II. Waters,
near FallstOn has been almost totally ruined it is
feared, by the attack of insects hitherto unknown
in this region of country. A fly deposits an egg
upon the blade above the shoot from this eggs a
worm is Matched, which crawls into the shoot, and
feeding upon it destroys it entirely. No other
corn fields in the neighborhoOd have yet been af-
fected liz this manner.-Belair 1Egis.
The Rolandville correspondent of
The Cecil Wing says; "Mrs. Betsy Caldwell, an
aged lady, for many years past one of the local
celebrities of this vicinity on account of her
'hrewd remarks and primitive notions and habits
IF living, died ON the morning of the 2Sth july |
Deceased had never seen locomotive train until |
lfter the building of the B. & P. C. road. por-
ion of which was located within a stones throw |
If her door. She often viewed the passing trains |
With interest and curiosity, but nothing could in
luce her to ride upon the cars.
The Havre-de-G Grace Rebubhcan |
yarns the public against one Charles W. Harris,
builder and reparer of sewing machines who
" his good clothes and insinuating manners gain
d the confidence of some of the citizens of Hav-
e-de-Grace, and disappeared one night, without
aging his hotel bill and several other little obi
ations. He also carried off with him silver
Tatch and chain which VIM. d. Simpson, the Jew
Ter, let him have on trial. He protested to hail
rom Worcester, Mass, is tall straight, dark com
lexioned, talks fuently and loud has smooth
ice and wears an abundance of jewelry
The Cumberland Cla1Han of 9th
lst. says "0n last Thursday week, Mr.. Larry
Iensroat, foreman of gang of B. & O. track
ands, killed, near Doe Gully tunnel very large
Dppersnake, it being over four feet in length.
IT. HensrOat cut the snake in two, and took from
lis young ones, by count, measuring from four