The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1881-01-15
The Mountain City flour MILL at Cumb,

The Mountain City flour mill, at Cumber-
land, Nd, was destroyed by fire last Saturday.
Loss between $40, 900 and S50,000
An order for 5000 light and heavy oak wagon
spokes, received from Liverpool, England is being
filled by the spoke factory at Hagerstown.
Jesse X. Hines, Jr., son of Insurance Com
missioner Hines of this State has gone upon the
stage, and has now an engagement with Lotta's
company in Philadelphia.
can be raised on the Eastern Shore as in any part
of the world, and refers to a crop of Baldwins
raised by gentleman of Cecil county.
The extensive ice houses at Havre de Grace,
with capacity of 155, 900 tons, being rapidly
filed the past week with ice from II to IA inches
in thickness. These houses -b~l"-S - 1'-'''
dealers. -,
Tho dwallims of NJ. Tiurvthy Caven, we'll
known railroad contractor, situated near Rock
ville Montgomery county, was destroyed by lire
on Tuesday night and two of his sons and a hired
man persisted in the flames.
-Asaph w. Scarborough, well-known citizen
of Hartford county, fell dead on the afternoon OF
the LIST instant at his residence near Dublin. He
had been a Justice of the Peace for many years,
and was highly esteemed and beloved by all who
came in contact with him.
-Messrs. John B. McCulloh, J. B. Hum
bird and J. B. Robinette, three of the Washing
ton county tax collectors, have been indicted by
the grand jury and held to bail in Cumberland for
default in paying over taxes to the county treas
urer and state comptroller
John T. Bewley, the mail carrier between
Ellicutt City and other points in Howard county
has been arrested ON the charge of rifing letters
of money. Special ngent Henderson mailed two
decoy letters with money in them and both were
| found in the possession of Bewley.
The Rev. D. Benton Winstead, in charge O
the Methodist Episcopal Church at Hampstead
was passenger on a blockaded train from Balti
more on the Goth ult., and attempting to wall
| home brought on a serious hemorrhage. He ha
| been quite ill., but there is now fair prospect
| his recovery.
| Mr.. Amos West of Jamestown, Montgomer!
| county. lost fne mare by perishing in a SNOW
| drift. Mr. West had turned her out of the stab
| to feed from a straw-rick in field in which Their
| was deep washout drifted full of snow, and Il
| wandering about she walked into it, and, power
less to extrcate herself therefrOm, froze to death
| The remains of Francis S. Key, the author 0
the Star Spangled Banner, rest in Mount Olve
| Cemetery, at Frederick, whichis considered one Q
| the most beautiful cemeteries in the State. In
grave is constantly visited by citizens and strang
ers. but is marked by no monument such as shout
| he erected in honor of the author of our grea
| national song.
The Rev. Robert Trout, rector of DurhaI
parish, Charles county, died on the 3lst ult.,
Port Tobacco, at the ripe old age of So He wa
| a native of Washington, but went to Port Tobacco
in 1925, and since that time, with the exception
two wears spent in Calvert county, he had been
the discharge of the pastoral duties of Durhal
parish. He was an able divine and UNIVERSAL
respected Throughout the State for his learning an
piety.