The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1880-04-03

Lewis II. Urban. assessor .: new property
for the th and 18th disricts. this week returned
to the County Commissioners upwards Of twelve
thousand dollars worth Of assessments. Mr..
Urban 10 active and careful official. displaying
commendable energy in the performance Of HE
duties.
The ToWsohtown temperance society was
reorganiEcd on Monday night last and the follow
Ing officers elected for the ensuing year PTesi-
dent. j. T.. Dnnphy vice president J. II. Roe;
secretary, Edward Murray treasurer. I. \. Chill
at. Mr.. Sherwood. Of Baltimore. was prcsent
and delivered an address.
a heavily loaded car on the Powhatan
horse railway became nnmanagsablc in descend
ing y hill at the Calvcrton drove yards on sun
day afternoon last. and the driver was obliged 20
put his horses into full run in order o. keep
them out Of its way. Fortunately the car did not
jump the track and no one was hurt.
The following from the Hartford Denorr"f
Of last week is very ambiguous II not entirely in
comprehensive The subject now uppermost in
the minds Of the railroad mAgnates of the land IL
the providing Of suitable motive power for our
gilt edged railroad. Opinion Is about equally iii
Vdcd between steam. gas, and the keely motor. "
Miss Mary witisr, OF Frederick. Md. died
a; the residense Of VIM. II. Ruby. Esq. in this
town. on Thursday morning last. after about a
weeks illness Of typhoid pneumonia. Miss Wit
ter. who was n cousin &c Mrs. Ruby. came TO Tow
sontown on a visit about two weeks ago. She
contracted = heavy cold with the result as stated.
Mr.. u. Harry Warren, we'll known sports
man of Chester county. Pa. says that the impor-
tation Of the Messina or migratory quail Is fail
ure as the birds will not remain and do not re-
turn TO the places where they were liberated. A
number Of those birds were turned loose in Balti-
moro county. hut whether any of them have since
been seen we have not learned.
The llAinpdsn Passenger Railway have
commenced to run their to boundary avenue
down Decker street instead Of stopping at Hunt.
ingdon Avenue. as heretofore. The right Of way
from Huntington avenue 10 boundary avenue,
along Maryland avenue or Decker street. has been
In litigation for several years. but the matter has
been decided in favor Of the railway company.
We received by mail on Thursday morning
= neat little box which We found 60 contain n live
potato bug. live wasp anil dead hy. all nicely
done up in cotton. Acc0np4 nisi by note which
read as ioil"ws: "fifst of the season. With LiLi
regards. &c. GRASGrE." Where the collection
came from don't know. II il said the early
birl catches the worm. anil We take it ~ Granted
that "Granger" must be an early bird" for Ac
appears to be frat on the potato beetle at least.
The advantages Of advertising ,alts Of rsa!
aud personal property in the newspapers. IN aiii-
ton 20 the customary hsnibills. is bssinnia: 10
be appreciated By the vide awake business ucn
of this county. our column. frotn week Ia week
clearly dsmonstrate. A. another evidence " tho
benefits which are sure 90 follow W. copy the fol
loving from the ilaserstown Hernd: "our
tonssrs with one accord emphasize the fact that
the best safes they had this season were those all
verisci in the newspapers. neitin: the holders
from two % I've hundred dollar. more than where
tho publicity wa given by simply putting mp
bills"
In iookiu. over the York Ga.,'i, which j..
by the way. very excellent newspaper, W. arc
often struck by tho odd names which appear in
it, columns from time o. time ami which sound
very strange 20 Marylandcrs. From the ls,t IT,
sue We select few sample. Sis Fink. Fife.
Ebcrhart. Warmer klineici;e-. Mango. ~pou.l sr.
Raiers. kunkle. Wickcy. Speck. Nci,c-. over
miller. Lefcan. Hcrkhcime-. Scnii. Trimmer. sci
erist. kreiu. Paa. Leberkncrhi. knaub. ~ei;hcft.
warohsitn. llugen;uscT. that sumner Bcii
Ter. Duion. Sehenbeseer Burgarl. Hrenucman.
Slaymakcr. Rssingcr. Me..ersmiih. CopsnhaGcr.
bstwiler. Quickel. Helm. Ort. pe,snbcr.cr. Bird
beck. Grumbinc Eaacnspsrger. WorLinscr Mcis
snhclier. Grsenawalt, katridcr. RohTbach and
80 on indefinitely.
-Thou'anis Of young brook trout have lately
been placed in the streams of Hartford county.
We think IL q useless waste Of time and money 10
place these fish ia stream. which pass through
agricultural sections. because the lime washing
from the fields into the streams will mos; surely
sxterminate them. IL 10 also useless g. put them
In streams upon which .inll. arc located. ~
the saw-dust aoaiin. in the water will either kill
drive them out. Abou, two wears ago several
gentlemen Of this town placed about @o.nnU young
trout in four streams rear at hand. but we fear
with very indiasren; success. Very few if any %
the fish have since been seen. AID We ioubi IL city
Of those put in are now living. II farmers expect
90 have fsh they must protect the banks Of their
streams by not cutivAtinS up 90 their very edge.
and thus prevent lime and other fertilizers from
washing into them.