The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1881-03-26

Rev. Robt. CLANCY, a young colored minister
well known here, died at Elkton this week. of
consumption. At the colored camp meeting here
last summer he contracted a cold from which he
never recovered and which finally eliminated in
the disease which caused his death. He was at
one time servant in the family of Mr.. Isaac
Hartman, near Towsontown, and was very ex-
emplary young man and good preacher.
The report having gained circulation that
the box in which the body of the suicide, VIM.
Thiener, was supposed to have been buried in the
Jail yard in this place contained only bricks and
sand, the grave opened on Tuesday, by order
of the County Commissioners, when it was discov
cred that there no foundation for the report,
the body being found therein.
Some enterprising individual took one Of
the county street lamps, with view, it isthought,
of trying to improve upon it, but before he could
get it safely to wherever he intended taking it,
enc Of those meddlesome city police came along
and gobbling up the lamp took it to the police
station. 1t wouldn't be bad idea to send good
many more of the lamps to the same place.
IF our people would go to work and
trim the maple trees in front of their dwellings,
and thus do away with much of the dense shade,
we would likely have fewer mosquitoes next sum-
mer. There is too much shade in Towsontown
and this may in some measure account for the
great number of these pests with which we were
afflicted last year. 1t is worth trial, any way.
The meeting of the TOwsontown Literary
and Musical Social on Monday night was decid-
ed success, the attendance being very large. Joe
Thompson's lecture, Bubbles" was feature of
the evening and caused much merriment. The
vocal solos and duets by Misses Mann and Davis
and Mr.. Chas. S. Grason were highly enjoyed
was also the instrumental solo by Mr.. Harry Fox,
of Waverly.
"A bay mare stolen from Mr.. J. Z. Thomas,
near Hagerstown, on the 18th of March, was
found few days ago by detectives Smith, West
& Lyons in possession of John Grem, at Cations
vile, in this county. Grem had traded for the
mare with a German named Weber, who lives in
the mountains near Wolfsville Frederick county,
giving $40 to boot. Weber was arrested and
lodged in Jail.
-Messrs. Roussey and Laing, civil engineers
in charge of wilkins avenue, presented their final
report to the County Commissioners on Tuesday
and were paid S152.5O for their services. They
say that it will yet cost $500 to complete the
work on the avenue but the Commissioners having
already expended about $4,000 thereon refuse to
advance any more money until the assessments
for benefits are all paid in.
"A little girlin this town, having heard much
of surprise parties conceived the idea of giving
at her parents house to her little brothers. Ac-
eordingly, without saying anything to any mem
Der of the family, she wrote very neat notes to a
number of her little friends and delivered them in
person. After she had gotten through with this
she told her parents what she had done. Of
course they were much surprised but threw no
obstacles in the way and the party came off We'd
nesday evening, according to appointment. After
this sharp piece of strategy the little lady certain
ly deserved the corporation of her parents and
she had it most heartily.
Lake Roland-The Dredging Work.
The work of dredging Lake Roland, which had
been going on for some three years, ceased in the
summer of last year by the expiration Of the con-
tract. Over 10000 cubic yards of soil, brought
down by the frcshets of previous years, have been
taken from the lake, at cost of about 500, 600.
According to the Interpretation put upon the con
tract with the city by those who undertook the
work the dredging was to have gone on contnu-
ally year after year, and the contractors have
tered suit against the city to enforce their view
of the contract. 1t would seem, nevertheless, as
if this Interpretation of the city's obligations in
the matter were not tenable, inasmuch as the con-
tractors have since endeavOred to get the city to
buy out their plant-scows, derricks, boxes, ears
and machinery-and failing in this, are now gath
ering it together for the purpose of Withdrawing
it. Whether the plant, after three years service,
was worth what asked for it, is question for
experts to answer. But the necessity of continu-
ing the dredging, if the capacity of the lake is to
be maintained, and any substances deleteriOus to
its purity removed, if there be such, is too clear
for doubt. The wash of soil into the lake during
the past three years has been great, every
freshet bringing down a new supply, that the
principal arm of the lake that dredged down
to gravel thus giving it six feet of depth,
excavated, is now laid bare at low water
for a considerable portion of it. The secondary
arm of the lake, which carries the supply from
Roland run, is filing up in like manner, and a
new bar is forming across the widest part of the
lake, which, when the water is only partially
drawn down, discloses bare islands of sand. 1t
would it is said, take another 100000 cubic yards
of dredging to bring the water of the lake at all
points to a depth sufficient to prevent the growth
of aquatic plants and the need of frequent dredg-
ing will continue until the soil that is carried into
it by freshets is intercepted by catch dams,
commended by the best engineers.-.Sun.