The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1881-11-19
STATE NEWS.

There has been snow in the Alleghanies Of
Garrett county.
George Myers, of Queen Anne's county, has
for sale Shorthorn COW whose grandmother sold
in Vermont for $500.
Josiah Summers, of Garrett county, killed
265 rattlesnakes during the past summer, and it
wasn't good year for snakes either.
-Westminsters artesian well yields at present
$4,000 gallons Of water per day. Several others
will be bored in order to secure sufficient supply.
Mr. VIM. r. Galbreath, of Dublin, Hartford
county, within the last three weeks lost his grand
mother, mother and only sister. The latter
two died of malignant typhoid fever.
Only six marriage licenses were issued in
Montgomery county during October, and there is
said be more pretty women residing within its
limits than any county in the State.
chesapeake bay and its tributaries annu-
ally supply over $1,000 900, 600 oysters to the
kets of this country, which is eighty oysters
to each inhabitant of the United States.
Mr.. John Higgins, who resides ten miles east
of Ekton, last week sold lot of six young setter
dogs for $4,000. The dogs were of vsSAS.y,- Of
strains, Laverack, Field Trial, Red Irish, &C., and
were all well broken.
John Matthews, of Somerset county, was
very seriously gored last week by mad bull.
The horn of the infurated beast passed almost
completely through his body, just above the waist.
His recovery is very doubtful.
The Hagerstown agricultural works have
been moved to Newark, Ohio. As an induce
ment for the Company to make the change the
wide-awake citizens of Newark subscribed $780,
600 to the stock of the concern.
Miss Lillian Duer, of Pocomoke City, who
gained considerable notoriety about two years ago
by fatally shooting Miss Hearn, of the same town,
and who was afterwards tried and convicted of
the offense, was married last week.
The government is having barbed wire
fence placed in front of the trees outside of Antie
AnE.r Nl,n and
the cemetery fence proper will then be graded and
sown in grass seed, forming beautiful lawn.
A crate of fine strawberries arrived in Baltl-
more on Tuesday. They were forwarded by Mr.
John 7. Miles, of Mason, Somerset county. They
were large, ripe and of excellent flavor, though a
second crop from vines which are in the 5open
field.
The Easton Ledger accounts for the Demo-
cratic defeat in Talbot upon the ground that the
Republicans put more votes for the res,4,tiye
candidates into the ballot boxes than the mo
Gratis did, and naively adds "Had it been other
wise, we would have beaten them"
james and Mary Ann Galloway, colored of
Anne Arundel county, aged respectively 10
and y years. They raised to maturity seventeen
children and have now living sixty-six grand and
great grandchildren. They have also twenty
two grand and great grandchildren dead.
Throughout Kent county the growth of wheat
is very fine but the continuous rains and warm
weather have developed the fly, and it is said
that another enemy in the shape of the muck
worm is devastating some fields. Both are re-
ported making havoc in different sections of the
county.
WIN. Watts, of Still Pond, Kent county, has
raised three crops of peaches from one orchard
this season, of the variety known as Pulien' 5
Seeding. The first crop was fine, the second a
little smaller, and the third still smaller but of
good flavor. Sixty baskets of the third crop were
gathered from two hundred trees
A school master is needed in Queen Annes.
The Caroline Democrat says ave are informed
that at one of the polling places in Queen Anne's
county, the judges of election commenced to count
out the ballots at four o'clock in the afternoon
We also understand that Republicans propose to
test the legality of this unusual proceeding"
Although the Democratic Independents did
not elect of their candidates at the recent cleo
ton in Howard county, they do not appear to be
discouraged, and have already made the%State-
ment that they will come out in the next cant
paign stronger than in the last, and if they can
not succeed in breaking up the ring, they will in
crease the number of Republican voters.
A good story is told Of a leading EpiscOpa-
liam clergyman, (well known in Baltimore) of
Hartford county, who rode all the way to Abng-
don on horseback to VOTE and when he got there
voted his tax bill. The bill had been given him
on the way by the Collector, and, by some mis-
chance, he had put it in the same pocket in which
he had placed his ticket. Hence the mistake.
1t was the more appreciated by the Republicans,
in as much as the clergyman is good Democrat,
and, rs the vote in the county close, could not
well be spared