The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1880-12-18
STATE NEWS.
Complied from our Exchansos.

John Fooks, Of wicoEico county, killed no,
last week which weighed, when dressed, 200 lbs.
The penitcntiary Of Maryland this year pavs
$1,000 into the State treasury, surplus earnings
| over expenses.
The late Reuben NJ. Dorsey, Of Howard eoun.
~, eft estate valued nj between three and four
hundred thousand dollars.
| There are over thirty persons in wieomieo
county over 50 years old, more than twenty Of
whom get their mail matter at the Salisbury post.
/ Office.
An Elkton firm l. purchasing 1000 turkeys
for the Christmas festivities Of the employees Of
Hamilton DsstOn, the Philadelphia saw manu-
facturcr.
WIN. NJ. Holiday, auditor Of the Circuit,
Court Of Talbot county, Is dead. lie represented
Allcgany county In the Constitutional conven-
ton Of 1850.
The Queen Annc's county authorities arc en-.
forcing ihc law against cruelty to animals, and
have sent a eolored man and boy TO Jail for
beating horse.
WIN. wegman. Of Downsviile Washington
county has been offered $50, 900 for his farm by
| specuator who imagines that rich gold mine Is
located beneath its surface.
Herman sehman, convicted In tho Circuit
Court Of Carroll county, for placing cross tic on
the Baltimore aud Ohio X. r., Marriottsville,
with malicious intent. has been sentenced TO three
| years imprisonment In the pcnitentiary.
The last Legislature authorized the County
| Commissioners OF Frederick county 10 levy SiO,-
600 TO build and furnish school houses. A eontro.
versy between the county and school commission
ers has arisen 10 who shall regulate the expen-
diture, and the matter has been carried into court
| 90 settle Il.
The Circuit Court Of Washington eoun,y has
decided that any one living within three niles Of
q turnpike gate can be charged tolls but once a
day day, no matter how often he may pass through
The case arose from nm appeal brought by the
mail carrier between Hagerstown and Boo,sboro,
against being charged fifteen cents twicaefay.
| In the Protestant Episcopal Chufs8 fa~this
diocese there were during the past year ,e7i con-
hrmations, a gain Of 1904. There were 1854
| bapiisms. The parochiai schools have 1850
teachers and scholars. The total contributions of
the DIOCESE for the past year reached S25i,96S.i7
being about 81 600 in excess Of last years total.
Three ladies, Mrs. DR.. NORMAN. Miss Sophie
Brooks aud Mrs. Miller, were baptised in Carroll
creek, Frederick county, n few days ago, in the
| presence Of several hundred persons. The lalies
were aiiired IN ordinary dress and were taken into
the middle of the stream 10 n depth of about four
feet. and wholly immerscd. each three times, In
water at nearly freezing temperature.
Saturday night last colorcl woman namcl
Ann Whi,tendon. living near Monks store. iiar-
ford county. was burned 10 death. Her two chill
| dTcn that were asleep In the house were rescued
unharmcd ami the building saved. II IL thought
the woman's clothes caught Gre from n stove or a
| lamp, and being alone at the time badly
burned before assistance reached her that she died
The Cambridge .vcrs says: dorchester coun-
~ finances now on cash basis. and she PAYS
all heT obligations a. promptly rs u bank. and il
also rapidly reiceming her outside standing bonds
| To place the finances in such n good condition u
heavy levy had TO be made this year. but In ia.
turc the levy will be considerably less rs at least
ten per cent. is saVed TO the county account Of
her prompt payments"
james Robinson, who recently cOped with u
another mans wife. children and household cf-
fleets. was convicted in the Circuit Court at liza.
gcrstown Of abduction Of the children. The cour,
ruled that the father the head ofthc family and
that the wife had more right u abduc. the CHI.
| ,Ten from the home that the father had provided
| Tor them than any other person and that any
party in aiding her party to the abduction.
"A sal scene was witnessed 10 the Frederick
county Court lately when Judge Lynch ordered
the Sheriff to take babe from it, mothers arms
and hand II over 60 IL father. The mother sob.
bling bitterly. chung to her child, aud il only
after struggle that the Sheriff succeeded in TAX
ing the child away. AZ the father with iri.
uinphani air bore the child out Of the court room,
the heart broken mother followed with shrieks
that were heard all OvcE the court house.
by the census Of the population Of Mary land.
now nearly complete, !; is apparent that the
| Legislature of the State will have. under n new
appor,ionment Of the constitutional basi. Of rep.
| reseptation. seven additional members of the
| House Of Delegates. At present the total mum
Der Of members Of the House IL 81. II will be
| hereafter 81. The counties which gain In repre-
sentation are Anne Arundel I, Charles I. Kent I.
Queen Anne's I. Talbot !, wioomieo I, Worcester
total Z.
-Gcorgc Ellicott, whose death has been an
nouheei ~ occurring on the 9Th inst, at Flor.
cncc, Howard county. 10 the SD year Of his age.
was the last surviving male descendant " the
| weli-known family 81 Ellcotts, the founders Of
| Ellicott City-bearing their name. His grand
father. George Eliicot,, together with two broth
ere. came here from Pennsylvania about l56l. and
after engaging in the manufacture Of flour for
some time. established the well.known Pa,apsco
| Touring mill, now owned by Messrs. c. A. Gam
| brill & Co.
The efficiency Of the baltimore city fr. de.
par;ment and Of the Philadelphia. Wilmington
| and Baltimore Railroad was strikingiy shown In
| connection with the lIavre de Grace FIRE. on sun
day. 9Th inst. When there seemed n probability
that the FIRE would become anagcablc. Mayor
Courtney telegraphed 10 Baltimore city for aid.
Seven minutes after sending the dispatch ~ an.
swer was received that two steam Ere engines.
hose carriage. &c. were at President street Depot
| that the railroad company preparing to load
them, had cleared tho track. and In thirty FIVE
minutes the fireman with their apparatus could
be in iiavre lie Grace. The pouring rain. how.
ever, proved 10 be OF such assistance 20 the eit-
Iens that they found they could control th, fire
themselves. and accordingly dispatch vas sent
20 the city iremen notifying them that they need
not come. The Ere destroyed between 5000 aud
$4,000 worth of properly.