The Baltimore County union., 1881-12-10

The Legislature of MarytanA ~iii meet on the
fret Wednesday and 9TH day of January neat.
A number of fatal cases II diphihsaa have
recently occurred in the vicinity u pyicsviiis.
Hartford county.
--Jadgs Peaue !, confined 10 his residence in
Cumberland from serious iilaess. and is under
constant medical care.
The iIsrers;ovn Mad favors the election Il
Thomas Mscesksr, Rsq.. ~ Speaker Of the Mary
land House of Delegs,ss.
The Centrsville Rscor,f name. Senator Tar-
pin. % Queen Anns's county. a. suitable pre-
siding oshcer of the Maryland Senate.
Il queer hog disease h making pork scarce in
someFse, county. The side of the head swell,
and the nose bleeis aud the hog dies at sunrise
the nest day.
Navigation on the Chesapeake aud oAio
canal, whieh was appointed 20 ciese on OF ahout
the lS'h inst. wiil eoatinas until January l. iSss
unless Ice interferes.
II. u. PlosmAn has been elected president Of
the Board of County Commissioners uf Hartford
county, aud Geo. X. cairnes has been 70 elected
Clerk and Treasurer.
"A telegraph dispatch by the Western Union
line takes . day and a-haif 10 g from baltimore
10 Salisbury, a week from sslisbary 20 Delniar,
and t-o days from Salisbury To Snow IiIi.
1T 10 estimated that the shipments of wheat
from Frederick. Nd. during the current year wiil
aggregate 80. 600 bushels. and of aonr about So
MIR. Charles 4. Coekey, q member of tho Leg
islature from Queea Anne county In 1870. aud Al.
tsFwari cisfs In the sssss c. csasr..eil.s
keating died last week, after aprotraetei illness
MIR. Peter Beidle. perhaps the oldest m an In
Caroline county, died Sunday morning. Nov. ~.
at the residence ofhis daughter. Mrs. James Reed
near Henderson. At the advanced age of ninety
sin years.
Allen Thomas. Of sharp.bars. Washington
g.s -. A..
and ordered BY the Court 10 be sent 10 the Mary
land Hospital for the iasane at ca,onsville. fe'
safe keeping.
WIN. II. Pierce. of Cecil county. who died last
week, aged 20 years. was the pFogenitor of fAm.
lily of eleven children. eighty.two grand children
| aud fourteen great grandchildren all one hun.
dred and seven persons.
-Cambridge Ckresieis. A careful statistician
says that loco Peninsnlar ladies are working
slipper, as Christmas presents for the preachers.
OF the i.oeo. 6ti are old maids. i9married women
and the rest young ladies. 300 of the presents
are intended for unmarried men.
St Michaels Ce@sf TeFrapin catchers repof,
diamond backs unusually plentiful this season In
Talbot county waters. A great many have been
eaaTh, this week by "siehiing" them and then
picking them up with their oyster tongs. Price.
are very high, dealers paying s2i doren.
"A member Of the Board Of Trustees Of the
Kent county almsheuse thus sketches . recent
meeting Of that honorable body "Prayer, dinner
and toasts, prayer again, then food, adieas. The
President On eoneluding his address, said; ~ feel
Prcad that No are this day able 10 take OUT
monthly dinner"
The evening service al Ridgely church. Car.
eline county, Few Sundays ago, was greatly dis
turbed BY the industrious hunting Of q dog for q
eeon.. The canine seemed 10 circle near the
eharch, and the excitement was too much for q
number In the congregation, who beat hasty re.
treat 10 witness the chase.
-Caroline county Dsnocraf. A youth of nine
teen and . woman Of sixty.ave were married Al
smyrna. Dol, on Thanksgiving day. They had
some difiiculty In dnding . preacher TO tie the
knot, but finally meeting with success they went
home one. Theyoung man has already found out
probably. that he isnt the some"
baltimore Casefe Just now winter SENS 10
be Of "the lost arts Ear A. this part Of ths
world II concerned. Bat the chief Of the signal
service station In Baltimore informs Us that Jan
uary I, 1881, the thermometer stood here at Q de.
grees below rero-bsing the lowest figure since
| the opening Of the baltimore station in 1871.