The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1881-03-26
STATE NEWS.
Compiled from our Exchanges.

Mr.. Cothman Cox has resided in one house at
Salisbury for "A years.
The Mccullough Iron Company propose to
build a sheet iron mill at North East, Cecil county.
Hon. George r. Dennis, of Somerset county,
is now spoken of prominently a candidate for
the Democratic nomination for Comptroller of the
treasury.
The peach trees.i Sassafras Neck and along
the bay and tributaries in Cecil county have not
been injured by the frost, and there is every pros
pect of good crop.
1t is reported that the wheat crop in St.
Mary's county has been materially damaged by
the cold winter many of the roots having boen
killed in the ground.
The measles are prevalent on Taylor Island,
Dorchester county. The disease is not confined
to the Juvenile population alone, but the adult
population is also afflicted with it.
In the fire proof room Of the Office Of the reg
lister of wills in Cambridge there is account
filed against decedent's estate made out with
chalk on the head of flour barrel.
Mrs. Alice Mitchell, the wife Of Hon. John
l. MITCHELL the newly elected United States Sena-
tor from Pennsylvania, is granddaughter OF the
late DR.. Robt. ii. Archer, of Hartford county.
Mr.. Herman Stump, Sr., of Hartford county,
and the uncle of Hon. Henry w. Archer, and also
of Hon. Herman Stump, Jr, president of the State
Senate died last Saturday, in the SD year of his
age.
Some weeks ago Mr.. John e. Birmingham, of
Worcester county had eve that gave birth to a
white lamb. They were both doing very we'll when
about two weeks afterward the same eve gave
birth to a large black lamb.
An Iceberg, said to tower fifty feet high, pass
ed out of the river at Havre de Grace ON the l4th
inst As it grounded in twenty feet of water, it
must have been at least seventy feet high. The
Republican is responsible for this story.
T Of Dr;n
county, lately state librarian, was recently married
to Miss Eliza Hoxton. The groom is youth Of
IS, and the bride coy maiden of So years, and
only consented after courtship of thirty -hve
years.
Mr.. Robert Kirkwood, cousin of Secretary
Kirkwood, of the Interior Department, died sud
denly at his home, near Shawsvlle, Hartford coun-
ty, on the 18th inst. lie was in the eighty first
year of his age and had long been the senior elder
of Bethel Presbyterian Church.
Tho Cecil and Hartford county agricultural
societies have fixed upon the same days next Oct.
for holding their fairs. As the Hartford county or
ganzation selected those days in January last, the
Cecil county society is expected to make change,
so that the two fairs shall not interfere one with
the other.
The body Of an unknown man, about rs years
of age, was found few days ago on small island
| in the Susquehanna about two miles from Port
| Deposit. A jury of inquest rendered verdict OF
death by drowning. The man was 5 feet or 0
inches high, and the body was destitute of clothing
with the exception of one sleeve of muslin shirt.
The following is the verbatim copy of will
recently filed in the Office of the Worcester county
register: Strait Maryland, County Of Warcestire
| bee it none az my Will and Testimony at the Best
| of my noledge Give to my sunny Saril boss
cart and my Lettel Brendel Cav and fore hade of
| Shepe and fore Gese and six hade of hoges and ale
my Pows and harrows and my Big Chist and
| Corner Cubbrd and my Bades and Babe quiltes
| and all my hous irnatur Givin him undr my hand
and Seal this the 18th day of Fiburary, 1881.