The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1878-08-24
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The Northern Central Railway, together
with the Baltimore and Ohio, Philadelphia, Will
mington and Baltimore, and Baltimore and Poto-
mac branches of the Young Mems Christian AS
ISOLATION, held union camp meeting Sunday
last at Callow's Grove Linden avenue extended,
Baltimore county. The services consisted OF
preaching and devotional exercises usually con-
Quoted at other camp meetings.
Jacob M. Pearce, Esq, and party, of My
Ladys Manor, left on Saturday last for the one
thousand-mile trip to Nantucket, Martha's Vim
yard and Boston. Messrs. William S. Keech and
d. Hopper Emory, of this place, started on the
same day and will return on Monday next. Mr..
Keech participated in the first excursion to Nan
tucket and was so well pleased with the trip as to
induce him to make it over again.
IF some enterprising individual would buy
drove of sheep and pasture them for n few hours
each day our commons ne could make a hand
some return for his money and at the same time
do good thing for the town by keeping down
the luxurient growth of grass and weeds with
which the commons are covered, and which not
only mar the beauty of our vacant lots but are
also thought to be-when neutrality-suspicious.
to health.
john Novel;, d very worthy young man
living at Phenix was taken suddenly sick on
Thursday, 10TH with cholera morbus, and died in a
few hours. His funeral took place on Friday and
was conducted by Prospect Lodge, l. o. o. F., CT
that place, of which he was a member. Mr.. Now
ell was a wheelwright by trade and a sOn-in-law
of Mr. Henry D. Morris. He was a consistent
member of the NJ. P. church and bore excel
lent character.
Mr.. James C. Clark, formerly president of
the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, and now vice
president of the Chicago, st. Louis and New Or
leans railroad, has donated to the yellow-fever
stricken town of Grenada, Miss, a car load of
flour, and to the city of New Orleans $500 in
money and ten car loads of lime, the latter to be
used as disinfectant. Mr.. Clark is well known
in this county, having once resided at Ashland.
He represented Baltimore county in the Mary
land Senate and active Democratic politi-
clan.
john T. Ensor, Esq, returned on Satur-
day last after extended tour through Ohio, IL
linOis, Indiana, Missouri, Kansas, and the In
dian Territory. Parsons, Kansas, was his point
of destination and from there he visited Baxter
Springs and Seneca, Missouri, where the hostile
Indians, lately captured by Gen. Howard, are
encamped. He speaks in the highest terms of
Southern Kansas and thinks it possesses more adj
vantages and offers greater inducements to the
emigrant than any other section of the great
West. He was so well pleased, in fact, that he
would like to take up his residence there.
The dedication of the Odd Fellows
hall in Towsontown takes place on Thursday of
next week, 29th inst, and if the day proves ia
vOrable there will be an immense crowd here to
participate in the ceremonies, which will be of a
most interesting character. number of sister
lodges will be present, besides the Eneampment
Drill Association of Baltimore, and several bands
of music will be in the procession. The dedica-
tory services will take place in the hall, after
which several addresses will be delivered from a
stand in Chew's woods, where the collation. will
be served and where, also, very large dancing
floor will be laid. The various committees are
actively at work, while the finishing touches are
being put ON the new hall as rapidly possible
and all will be in readiness by the 29th.