The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1881-07-16
STATE NEWS.
Compiled from our Exchanges.

On the fret instant the Western Maryland
railroad paid Sj3,s9o. as interest ON its bonds.
A Cecil county farmer thTeshed wheat last
week that il was supposed would yield an average
crop, but which produced only Eve bushels per
acre.
The Gamers in the neghborhood Of Delta.
have organized themselves into n society called
the Northern Hartford Packing Association" for
their mutual protection and benefit.
John Thomas Moore. calling himself n poet,
aud claiming Relationship with Tom Moore, Is In
jail at Westminster for being drunk aud disorerly
aud inability 10 pay his hne and costs.
A Cecil county farmer asks the Baltimore aud
Ohio Railroad four thousand dollars for the privi
lege az crossing his farm with the track for their
new road from Baltimore 10 Philadelphia.
The Lancaster IstsNiysHcsr says The last
lump Of the ice gorge was taken from the meek"
about mile from McCall's Ferry by repairmen
on Thursday. lee in July, just think Of Il!
MIR. Samuel NJ. Bussard, who was appointed
by Governor Hamilton In November last Commits.
sioner Of Frederick county, TO oil vacancy. died
on Saturday last nj his home in iauvers district.
William waring. n colored man. while return
ing on wagon.ioad Of hay from \ field near
Mitcheil,ii G. Prince tcorge's county. fell To the
ground. and was instantly KILLED by breaking his
neck.
William Engirr has been awarded the
tract for grading one mile of the Baltimore and
Delta railway. from Delta, in York county, the
terminus of the Peach Bottom Railway, to the
Maryla line.
One of the Target crops of wheat ever raised
in Caroline county was harycrted June 18th by
Col. Il. J. W. Garcy. lie had in about 1 90 acres.
and Notwithstanding the ''shrinkagc" in the grain
the yield will probably be 2.joo bushels.
John Harrington. Caroline county, sold from
one aud seven. cigth acres, near 6,OO0 quarts Of
berries. from which he received. clear Of freight
aud commission. St3a.Oi and used in the family
and gave Z" the ncighbors at least 100 more.
Edwin NJ. Muncastcr, of Montgomery county,
tett shr 9Th in a nj IN -1l venr al his
In his youth he was a cadet at West Point. and n
classmatc Of Gen. Robert T.. Lee lie resigned
for the purpose of entering mercantile life in hhl-
timorc, and after few years settled in Mont
gomery county.
At the last meeting Of the Archaeological
Society. in Washington. Major A. NJ. Hancock, Of
Hartford county. late consul at Malaga, delivered
"a most interesting lecture on the Pre-. Historic
Caves "f Spain. The lecture was illustrated by
series Of drawings. which the Major presented to
the socieiy when lie hal clio Ell.
Mrs. iiedrick, Gctman woman living in
Cambridge. succeeded in kindling IRE with the
all IL coal "il without setting herself On fire.
After this imPrulence. she placed the can ON top
of the stoV-. and the heat caused an explosion.
This set her dress fire. and she was dan gerously
burned before she could extinguish the flames.
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recently KILLED by Mr.. james +. Beale, in the Big
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