The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1877-03-24
LOCAL ITEMS.

"wednesday was the nrst day OF Spr1nS.
It didn't look very "springy" hereabouts.
Snow is the fertilizer that nature spreads
on the poor as well as the rich mans farm.
The Sun says there have been fourteen
,nen killed at the water works up to this time.
-Reisterstown wants to be incorporated. Lot
hope when ii is il will succeed better than Tow
sontown did.
constable for the 18th district for two years
from March sth.
Another railroad meeting will be held here
on the 10th instant. 1t is hoped this one will be
moro largely attended than the last.
Mr.. Ezra Price, q member Of the Society Of
Friends, died at his residence near Philopois, on
the 10Th inst, in the 73d year of his age.
The Northern Central Company is about
erecting new station and agents house at Wood
berry. This improvement has long been needed.
Building at Hampton village, Falls road,
continues brisk. Tho foundations for twenty
frame cottages were commenced there few days
ago.
Mr.. George W. seipp, one of the Circuit
Court bailiffs, has been quite i'll at his home in
this town, for some time. His disease is typhoid
fever.
As April FOOLS day comes on Sunday, the
cautious minister before sitting down will ex-
anime his cushion to sec that there are no bent
pins in it.
VIM. Early, of this county was thrown from
evening last, and sustained painful injury to
one of his legs.
W. Frank Mitchell, Esq, of this town, ad-
dressed the Superanuated Fund Society Of the
Methodist Protestant Church, at Westminster,
Monday evening last.
by Comptroller Woolford's March distri-
button of the public school fund of the State Bal
tmore county white schools receive S., 369.45 and
eolored schools s., 096.02.
We publish on the first page Of our issue
to-day short biographical sketches of the mem
bers of President Hayes Cabinet, which will be
found to be interesting reading.
a man named Ledger, living on point Lane,
was very severely burned on Tuesday by the
plosion Of some gun powder which he had mixed
with lard and was heating over stove.
--Subcribers to the Usion who intend chang
ing their places Of residence this spring should
not neglect to send their new address to this Office
so that their papers can be properly mailed.
The GrcenmOunt Cemetery Company has
Obtained'a title to small strip of ground, cut of
by North Boundary avenue and belonging to the
heirs Of Thos. largest, by the payment of 81 900.
The members of Mount Moriah Lodge Of
Mssons of this place. are looking around for suit
able lot on which to build hall. The meetings
Of the Lodge are now held in the Odd Fellows
hall.
The Evening Neaos wants to know if a SOL
dier'S stockings we're made Of clocks whether it
would enable them to keep good time. We think
so, provided the cIoeking Of same were asinute-ly
done.
On Saturday morning last one Of the Balti-
more dailies copied seventeen local items from
the county papers, all but one of which were
taken from the Union, and this, too, without
credit.
Rev. J. ". Gray, who has served aeceptaby
as pastor of Epson NJ. P. church, of this place,
for two years past has been returned for another
year, at which the members of his congregation
well pleased.
a pigeon match was shot at the Upper
Canton House, on ThugsdaY of last week. Tho
xrst prize purse Of $45, was divided between
John Todd and Henry Engle, they having tied on
the same number of birds.
a young man named Jacob Rexrode, hv
ing near Calverton, has been arrested on the
charge of attempting an indecent assault on the
person Of an aged woman named Mrs. Elizabeth
Matthews, living in Baltimore.
On Wednesday last John Sindal, acarpen-
ter, employed in the N. G. Company's shops at
Mount Vernon, had his right leg badly fractured
by the falling Of heavy piece of timber he and
others were engaged in moving.
A man named Besser was arrested by the
county police at Canton, on Saturday last, charg
ell with peddling without license. Justice Dor
sey find him S25 and costs, amounting in all to
1871, after which he was set at liberty.
The wife of P W. Webb, ESQ.,, of Clifton,
10th instant was a sister-in-aw Of Hon. Jacob
Tome Her remains were taken to Port Deposit
and inferred at Hopewell burying ground.
The cold.weather of Saturday and Sunday
last was followed by real genuine snow storm
on Monday, lasting nearly all day and covering
the ground to the depth of several inches. This,
according to our count was the twenty second
snow of the winter.
An ordinance has been introduced in the
r ID IL
sontown horse railway to charge for each passen-
ger six cents for each trip within the city limits,
and providing that the Company shall sell pack
age of twenty tickets for 81.
Nicholas J. Watkins, ESQ.,, a member Of
the Baltimore county bar, who at one time resided
in Towsontown, but who, for several years past
has been the Baltimore correspondent for the New
York Herald, has gone to California where he
will continue in his journalistic pursuits.
a slight accident occurred on the N. C.
Railroad, below Melvale, on Wednesday of last
week, caused by one section of freight train run
ming into the hind part of another which it was
following. One car was broken but no one was
injured and the accident caused but trfing delay.
Mr.. c. Paro, proprietor of the Golden Ring
tavern, Philadelphia road, killed two very fne
geese at Holly Neck ducking shore, one day last
week. The members Of the club who shoot at
Holly Neck have been quite successful this sea-
geese, besides several fine swan.
VIM. n. Gardner, sewing machine agent,
came near losing his life while crossing stream
at Black Rock, one day last week, just after q
heavy rain. There seems to be special provi-
dence which watches over these fellow. Had he
been anybody else but a sewing machine agent he
certainly would have been drowned.
The grounding prophecy was verified this
year, sure. The six weeks of passably good
weather, which ended on Friday last, held out
splendidly, but on that day, as might have been
expected on account Of St. Patrick the weather
was cold and bustry. The grounding, We are
constrained to say, is a reliable institution.
On Wednesday the County Commissioner
appointed Messrs Thos. Fl. Matthews, Charles B
Mclean and Samuel Miller committee to meet
at the Warren bridge, over the Gunpowder falls
and report to the Board whether the public neces
sity requires the erection of new bridge, and il
so, to submit plans and specifications and prob
able cost.
Two women were tried in the Baltimor'
city Criminal Court on Monday, on the charge o
being Common scolds." One witness testified
that one Of the women called her "a blatherskite
newsmonger and San paper" meaning, per
haps, by the latter epithet that she was yer.
me0sy person. Judge Brown, after o full hearing
Of the case, acquitted both women.
One day last week four Baltimore arabs
selling fish and apples, swindled Mrs. Ensor 0
Mt. Washington, out of so. The lady mad
some purchases and gave them $40 note. The,
did not have the change, but one Of them wen
of under the pretext Of getting it changed. TIL
others soon followed and all forgot to come back
The scamps have since been arrested.
Mr.. Albert G. Eichelberger of Hampder
Falls road, has sued Mr.. Albert H. Carroll an
the Baltimore and Hampden Horse Railway Com
many. for $4,000 damages for erecting their eta