The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1881-05-14
STATE NEWS.
from our Exchanges.

The average cost of maintaining the Dorehes-
ter county almshouse for the past ten years has
been 50, 900 per annum.
-Nearley $50 RATS have already come down the
Susquehanna this season, and four or five hundred
are yet to arrive if the water remains high enough.
WIN. KinsettE large peach orchard on the top
of the mountain at Fairvew, Washington county,
has not been harmed by the frost, and now prom
Uses to yield full crop.
Two IIagerstown anglers caught in the POtO-
mac, at dam No. 4, one day last week. with hook
and line, seventy-five.p Of bass. One of the
fish weighed g. pounds.
The fredericksburg Courier says the yearly ex-
tending use of improved farm machinery in that
county is doing much toward the increasing pro-
ductiveness of our farms.
An Elkton hotel keeper complains that since
local option went into operation his customers
carry their whiskey TASKS and consume his ice
water in cooling their liquor.
The celebrated short-horn COW Darlington
Belle eighth owned by E. B. Emory of Queen
AIMS county, died last week. She had taken
many first prizes and was valued at $500.
On the 2Sth ult., J. e. Miles, of Burkettsville,
Frederick county, hung himself in the kitchen of
his residence. 1t is supposed he committed the
act because his family had decided to 60 West
against his wishes.
A writ was served on Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher whilepassing through Baltimore in the
to speak at the Allegany county fair at Cumber
land, two years ago.
a curious spectacle lately witnessed in a
half acre lot near Westminster. man and wo-
man were engaged in blowing the ground. They
had small pillow, he doing the pulling and she
pushing at the handles
The Easton Star says: 4 farmer in Trappe
district, whose name we have forgotten, has five
ewes which have brought him sixteen lambs this
spring, and all are doing well. -Four of them had
three lambs each, and the other four.
Capt. William Cooling of Chesapeake City,
whilst leading in prayer at church meeting last
week, was noticed to falter in his speech, and al
most before the congregation were aware of his
illness he was dead. He was nearly so years of
age, but had been in good health.
Edward B. Emory, Esq, of "Poplar Grove
Stock Farm" Queen Anne's county weighed last
week his two short-horn bulls, Emory's Roam
Duke, years old, and Second Imperial Red Rose,
years old, both handsome animals. The former
weighed 2, So lbs. and the latter 2,22O lbs.
-Algernon Tillard, an Englishman has bought
for SIS 800 the Glover Hill farm Finksburg
Carroll county, formerly owned by Lewis ii. Cole.
Mr.. Tillard has returned home and will bring his
family here in the fall. He is delighted with the
country and talks of establishing colony of Eng
lshmen in Carroll county.
The Emmitsburg ChrOnicdi says: Edward
T. Manning about week ago captured two black
long and three inches thick the other about
three feet long. lie put them together in a grain
bin, and when he returned, the larger one had con-
sumed all but about foot of the smaller, and it
yet remains a lively captive-iustratiye of the
survival of the stronger.
In widening q carriage road leading to St.
Lukes Church at Church Hill, Queen Anne's
county, it became necessary to move the remains
of David Latmer who died March LIST, 1895, in
81 IL 90 IS pho hnir clrul
and the brass buttons of his coat were found well
preserved after being buried Sc years. But little
traces of the coffin were found, and some of his
bones had crumbled into dust
A novel fish pot was recently discovered by
Columbus Dronenburg under the dam at Green
field mill, Frederick county. The water in pour
ing over the dam has washed large rock into
a basin of such shape that when the fish attempt
to get over the dam they fall back into this basin
Mr.. Dronenburg has taken out of this basin in one
day as many as thirth-one bass and sixty
mullets, several Of the bass weighing four pounds.
A new and strange disease of the eyes is pre-
velant in this neighborhood just now. number
of our citizens are suffering with it. 1t first at
tacks both eye lids turning them beautiful brown
as though the owner had been in a scrimmage and
swelling them slightly. The sight is not injured,
but the patient suffers terrible singing sensation
in the eye ball as though volumes Of cigar smoke
it name.-CeeH Wing.
The local optonists Of Montgomery county
are exercised about cider. There has arisen the
vexedly scientific question whether cider is suili-
GENTLY intoxicating to bring it within the inhibS
ton of the local option law Some bibulOus persons
draw line to cider, and asseverate that it is
not Intoxicating when it is sweet, but assumes that
attitude only when fermentation begins to be
biigerent This nice distinction is likely to bring
cider down to the level of larger beer, as to the
matter of intoxicating ability.
The Rev. E. B. Newman, who refused to fill
the station at the Snow Hill, Worcester county,
Church, says that the health of his family would
not allow him to 90 there. He states that che has
been in the ministry several years, and that while
two or three appointments had asked for him, as
was the during last conference he had been
put aside, and men transferred from other con
ferences had secured the appointments they desir-
ed. He says he has no objection whatever to the
good people of Snow Hill, but he don't propose to
be ignored in his wishes, while so many pet breth
rem are gratfed." He has consented to preach
this year for an Independent church in Washing
ton, but will reside in Baltimore.