The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1878-11-02

"A crowd of petty depredators on orchards and
cornfeds in Cecil county style themselves "Molly
Maguires."
-Four hundred and fifty bushels of cranberries
have been gathered the present season within the
cooperation limits of Salisbury, Nd.
The True Maryldnder says that local option
in Somerset county is failure and that the law
should be Internationally repealed at the earliest
date possible.
james Benson has sold 1875 acres of "Maiden
Point" near st. MichaePs Talbot county, includ-
ing the improvements to Samuel J. Slater, of Bal
timore for 900.
The Chestertown Neios does not think there
will be any opposition on the Eastern Shore the
nomination of Hon. Philip Francis Thomas for
governor next year.
The last wooden span, except the draw, of
the railroad bridge over the Susquehanna, at
Have de Grace, has been taken down and is now
being replaced with iron.
The American Band, of Middletown, carried
off the prize offered by the Montgomery County
Agricultural Fair for the best band attending it,
and last week received the premium-$1OO
The grand jury for Allegany county after an
examination of the witnesses in the case of I.
Cook Hughey, held in bail to answer the charge
of killing A. II. Blaekiston, dismissed the case.
The public schools of Caroline county, accord
ing to the Union, are at q low ebb. They have but
two terms per year and their teachers receive
salaries than those ofneighborng counties.
Bass fishing is said to be very fine in the
Susquehanna river. southerly wind or a calm
are said to be the best conditions for the sport.
great many rock fish are also caught in the fish
pots.
Mr.. Levi House, of Frederick county, recently
caught black bass in the Potomac, which weighed
5 lbs. ozs. The head measured inches across
at the gills, and the end of the tail was inches
broad
The editor ofthe Cambridge Ne,os, Mr.. Joseph
H. johnson, who is bachelor with high cheek
bones and long nosc after having been declined
by the pretty Cambridge girls, has finally adver-
tised for wife,
In Frederick, Isaac Albaugh, convicted of
larceny of $55, sentenced to three years in the
penitentiary, and was severely lectured by the
judge for unmanly attempt to shield himself
by falsely accusing his sister of the crime.
II MIR. William Webster of Churchville, has
IN apple tree that bears every year two crops of
pples. The second crop does not always ripen,
ut this year it has done so, as we know, from
,pecimens handed to us by Mr.. Webster.-Belair
Eyis.
The School Board ofAllegany county granted
le teachers of the public schools of that county
aoliday of one day to attend the county fair, eav
lg the teacher to choose the day. The Frederick
county Board declined to allow the teachers of
bot county like privilege.
- d. ". Kirh;Sy, of Georgetown, d. c., is
I mpling a history of the Maryland REGIMENTS in
union army during Ine llIe war. IL Is 10 DC
simple narrative of facts, based upon official
lta, without any establishment or laudation of
dviduals. Such work must prove very
tteresting.
Judge Magruder of the Circuit Court for
rince Georges county, refused the application of
rs Belva A. Lockwood, WashingtOn's female
.wyer, for admission to the bar of that county.
RS. Lockwood afterwards addressed a meeting
/ the open air and denounced the Judge in the
MIST severe terms.
Recently little girl, the daughter of Mr..
Samuel Wise, while playing in the woods near
Birtonsvle, Frederick county, attacked by a
huge black snake, enveloping her in its folds and
causing her to fall down. A brother, aged eight
years. succeeded in killing the snake and rescuing
sister unhurt, though terribly frightened.
Mr.. Geo. Stephenson, who had been sick for
! me months, died at his residence at Lapidum ON
'ednesday evening. Mr.. Stephenson was a
.other of Major VIM. B. Stephenson, and was
ected, as Wing and served one term in the
faryland House of Delegates, more than twenty
We years ago.-HaUre de Grace Republican.
In the Circuit Court for Allegany county, on
1onday last, the jury in the of Melvina Bell
s. Henry C. McElfsh for breach of promise and
sduction returned verdict for plaintiff for $4,000
amages. The parties respectfully connected
I'd reside in the village of Gilpintown. The
plaintiff is handsome girl about II years of age.
Mrs Mary S. Pinkney has sold Londonderry,
near EaSJOn point, 10 Admiral reDlRer, OF NaSn-
iIgton, for $4,000. The farm is small, but the
dwelling house, built by the late DR.. N. Pinkney
is one of the largest and finest in the county.
Mrs Pinkney and family will remove to Annapolis,
and make their home in that city.-&. MichaePs
Comet.
"A farmer living in North Severn, about two
miles from Annapolis, named Capt. Edward
Tours, died recently. He was supposed to have
money secreted, us he was miserly that he de-
MED his family the necessaries of life. few
days after his death, in an old ash barrel in his
corn crib, $4,000 in gold silver and government
bonds were found.
Rev. j. L. Smith informs us that last week
while nutting with a party of friends in the
neighborhood of Andersontown, he found two
trees-one an ash, the other sweet gum--from
tlhe bows of which water was descending in sufh-
Client quantity to be seen hundred yards.
This is strange freak of nature, phenomena
not easily accounted for.-Denton Union.
EARLY last Friday morning, as Lewis Toms
syouth living with Mr.. Geo. E. Rudy, a short
distance north of town, was passing thro' strip
of timber on the farm, large chicken hawk flew
down from tree and attacked him. Lewis
grabbed stick from the ground, and after few
blows killed the bird, which measured four feet
from tip to tip of wings.-Middteto,cnR Register.
%~SzL1he Westminster Adracate says "The St.
Michaels Comet deems it of sufficient Importance
for special mention, that farmer of that county
mas 10 dDduUoH gram graz
ing thinking it more profitable. If he were to
pass through this region he would find a number
of grazing farms, but we believe they all produce
sufficient grain and hay for their own use. tap
pears to be the opinion among grazers, that graz
ing farms require less labor, make more money
and return to the soil in the form of manure what
is taken from it. 1t is easier, therefore, to keep
a grazing farm in good condition"
1t is stated that the legal heirs in this country
to the MacKay estate in Scotland have been
found. The estate amounts to f250,000, and
William MaeKay, the original owner, settled in
Montgomery county, Md, in 1857, the will dis
posing of his American property having been re-
corded in Rockville, in 1894 His executors were
his widow, Anne MacKay, and his sons-in-aw,
Andrew Boyd and Henry Green. Anne MacKay,
of Maysville, KY, his great granddaughter, has
been in communication with the Glasgow attor-
neys, and through her the clerk of Montgomery
county has been enabled to obtain the Scottish
records, which settle the question. The persons
to be benefited by this "windfall" are the Boyd,
AdmOnsOn, Prayther, Craycraft and McElfresh
families.
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