The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1880-03-27
STATE NEWS.
Compiled from our Exchanges.

Compiled from our Exchanges.
Hartford county has contributed s2OS for
Irish relief.
Wheat in Somerset county is high enough to
hide q fox.
-Stagmer's Hotel, in Belair, Md, has been
sold to Mrs VIM. Stagmer for $1,000
"A lodge of Knights of Pythins has been or
ganized at Jarrettsville, Hartford county.
Mosquitoes have appeared in force in lower
Delaware and the southern counties OF the Eastern
Shore.
The Baltimore Sun, the Philsdelphia Record,
and the Philadelphia Times, all own and operate
paper mills in Cecil county.
The waters of the Eastern Shore have re-
Gently been as full of "sea- nettIes" as they are
during the months of July and August.
Northern capitalists are prospecting for
iron ore in the Second district of Caroline county
Some rich deposits have been discovered.
james Hignutt has been crier Of the Caro-
line county court for 40 years. He is now so
years old and is confined to his house with drcpsy
The Washington County Agricultural Society
have decided to purchase new fair grounds near
Hagsrstown, which are said to be admirably To-
Gated.
Wild ducks standing on the rocks and fly
ing along the Susquehanna were observed from
the car windows Of the Columbia and Port Dspos-
it railroad last week.
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Mr.. Thomas Chenworth his farm, containing Sc
acres, situated near the Upper Cross roads, Har-
ford county, for $4,000.
Miss Emma Spear, of College Green, Cecil
county, while working in aspiring house the other
day was seized by epileptic fit, and falling into
the spring was drowned.
Three sets of twins have been born this year
on the farm of Mr.. J. B. Bright Kent Island,
in each instance the twins consisting Of boy and
q girl. All are living and doing WE'LL
One thousand and FIVE bushels of wheat was
the product of 81 acres on the farm of Walter
Armstrong, known as "Sunnyside," in Cecil coun-
ty, in 1878, and 1,001 bushels on the same num-
Der Of acres in 1879.
Polly Hopkins, colored damsel of st. Mi
days ago. Her reply was, "Deed l dunno 'zactly,
but my age is on de tombstone down in Mr.. Gus
SINNERS graveyard"
Mrs Anna Maria Davidge died on Saturday
last, in Washington city, in the SD year of her
age. She was daughter of Hon. alter Dorsey,
formerly chief judge of the sixth judicial district,
and one of the judges of the Court of Appeals of
this State.
Coy. Hamilton has affixed his signature to
the "cursing BILL" He has also approved the bill
to fine for drunkenness, and the bill to protect
garnishees, making plaintiffs in attachment cases
prove that the garnishee holds funds belonging
to the defendant before judgment nisi
AT Cavetown, Washington county, recently
young girl, named Bowman, was found in o house
alone By two tramps. She ordered them to go
AWAY They refused whereupon she dealt of
them blow which stunned him and then took to
her heels and found refuge with neighbor.
One day last week, says the Cumberland
Times Mrs. Andrew DOlan, residing few miles
east of Flntstone, gave birth to three children,
all of whom are living and in good health. Two
years ago she gave birth to twins, thus making
five children in that period, while another pair of
twins were born to her several years since.
"A correspondent writes to the Frederick
Union as follows: "Mr. Editor Now that the
people of Frederick county will soon be called on
to decide whether Local Option shall prevail, L
would suggest to my fellow democrats the pro-
priety of opposing it to man if it be true as so
often charged, that Grain makes corn-corn makes
whiskey, and whiskey makes democrats"
"a DEMOCRAT"
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
has adopted a new scheme in numbering bridges.
All culverts twelve feet in width are to be elassed
as bridges and included in this numbering. A
plat of the whole road has been made and bridges
numbered with their height, width, etc, and the
material of which they are constructed, so that IN
cases of washing it will be Immediately known
what to do.
We regret exceedingly to learn that DR.. c. c.
Cox has been brought back to Washington from
other form of brain disease that has seriously i'm
paired his intellect. He probably overtaxsd his
brain in working at the duties incident to his po-
stion as the representative of the United States at
the international exposition at Melbourne.-St
MichGePs Comet.
The indications now are that most of the
really important measures before the Legislature
will not be disposed of at this session. The change
in the judiciary system, the registration bills, the
m kha laW
day law notifications, Baltimore city extension,
the temperance bills,-nono of these will prob
ABLY be reached. What will become of the oyster
law?-St. Michdeps Comet.
The Cumberland Nesos of Saturday last says
There is said to be great CONSERVATION among the
farmers at Green Ridge, below Old Town, on &C
count of the depredations Of a panther, which has
already destroyed several cows and two horses
The farmers of the neighborhood have been hunt
ing in gangs for it for some timepast. The other
morning its tracks we're discovered within few
rods of farmers house, and parents will not al
low their children to go into the woods
The Montgomery Sentinel states that last
week party of two gentlemen and ladies arrived
at Cabin Johns Bridge and ordered dinner. While
dinner being prepared apistol-shot was heard
and soon after a heavy fall. On investigation one
of the gentlemen was found on the dining-room
floor with pistol wound in his head and a re-
volver by his side. Or. was summoned but
before he arrived the party put the wounded man
in the hack and took him to Washington.
The Grand Lodge of Maryland of the INDIE
pendent Order of Mechanics, held its annual ses-
sion in Baltimore last week. Delegates were
present from thirty-eight lodges throughout the
State. The report of the Grand Architect fer the
year, shows the order to be in a fOurishing con-
dition The limitations during the year were
1853, and twenty -four deaths. The total receipts
for the year were 500, 742.4l the benefits are as
follows: Brothers relieved, $50; widows, Il (;
brothers buried, "a orphans educated, 81 the
weekly benefits amounted to S7,23256; widows
benefits, S1,447.75; donations, s762.75; the total
relief expenditures were $1l.924.75.