The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1881-03-19
STATE NEWS.
Compiled nom our Exchanges.

Tho grain and potato crops Of the peninsula
are stlii mostly on the farmers hands.
The citizens Of Westminster are considering
the advisabiliiy Of sstablishing waier-vOrks In
that place.
"A factory for the manufacture Of organs Is
being erected at IIsgerstown by an enteTprising
ennsylvaniAn.
DIR. J. X. Swallow recently lost three vnlua
bic horses on his farm, near Iiagcrstown, from
eerebro. spinal meningitis.
MIR. Francis NJ. Darby, Of Washing ton county,
Y making IN earnest eight for the United States
district attornsyshiP for this State.
-Thos. Aver. rolord, % Berlin, Worcester
county, was baTn.d to death iaSt week by his
clothes taking hrc FROM pipe which he was smok-
ing.
Tho managers "f the Cecil County Agrieul-
turai Society have determined 10 hold their fair
this fall for four days. aud fixed the nth, 18th,
18th and 18th days II October a. the time.
-"Riverside.' the home farm of the late Col.
Edv. wilkins, beautifully situated on Chester
river, in Kent county, and containing about $50
acres, has been cold 10 NJ. Benj. wilkins, ono Of
the heirs. for the of $4,000.
"A story l. current In Middletown that n book
belonging to young lady was loaned to several
parties, and retained with hty dollar note used
as marker still safe and sound. Il IL generally
believed that the note was . counterfeit.
Caleb j. Moore recently purchased four acres
Of unimproved land near the Failston depot Of the
per acre. The prospective opening Of the railroad
has more than doubled the value Of the land.
Tho Washington county Mutual Insurance
Company has declared dividend Of ave per cent.
The original policy holders Of the company have
received In dividends nearly az much money as
they have paid In for annual renewals Of their
policies.
The Chestertown Trasscript relates an incl
dent OF visit made 10 that town By General Gar
field NOV the presidsnt, during the political ex.
meeting In the court house. while General Gar
heid was speaking an egg was thrown at him, mar
rcwly missing his head, and striking the wall be-
hind him.
Forty years ago, John Guy kept an Inn at
lIaver dc Grace. One evening traveller stopped
Of Guys inn. ate Of Guys canvas-back ducks and
sworc that they were the best he had ever eaten.
lie complimented Guy upon his cookery, and tsld
him that " he would 70 90 baltimore he would
make his fortune. lie went and 10 that incident
Baltimore owes one Of its most ancient and famou
hostieries.
The writ II error in the Munshower case has
been granted by the Circuit Court Of Frederick
county. and the case will now 60 20 the Court Of
Appeals. No decision can be had until May, and
consequently the Governors warrant for the exc
cution Of Munshower on the 25th inst will be With.
drawn and withheld until decision 10 reached by
the Court Of Appeals on the question Of errors In
his late trial.
A Marylandcr, who recently removed 10 Kan
sas from Hartford county, writes TO tho .Egis the
following warning for his old fellow .eountrymcn
"Good people. " you have any intention Of becom-
ing asinine and leave Maryland. especially liar
ford county. for any point In Western Kansas.
have some friend shoot You through the head
Your souls happiness In the great city prepared
for the wicked will be much greater than your
bodily enjoyment in bleeding. droughty Kansas."
A dispatch from Westminster states that ''a
few days ago, while the sexton Of Pipe Creek
Church was engaged with others In disintsrring
the dead IN family lot on the farm Of the heirs
OF Jessie Weaver, ehey took up n coffin which,
when opea, proved. to contain the remains Of Mrs.
Susan Weaver. The body had been turned over
In the coffin. tho back being turned upward. caus-
ing the belief that tho lady had been buried alive.
She died suddenly about fifteen years ago. The
black silk dress in which she was clad was In .
good state of preservation"
In the Circuit Court FOR Hartford county, last
week, In the of the State W. Edward Johns,
late collector Of taxes Of the first district convict
ell ut the May term Of court, 1850. rs defaulter.
the Judgment against him for So 655.35 for the use
Of the State, having been paid In full. entered
satisied. In the matter Of default In the collec-
tion and payment Of the county taxes the award
OF s., gO2.6i due the county was stricken out BY
agreement. aud judgment for $4,000 entered "sai-
ished." Mr.. Johns was accordingly discharged
from custody, by order OF the court.