The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1882-05-27
STATE NEWS.


Efforts are being made to reOrganius the Car
roll county Agricultural Society.
The Cecil county Agricultural Society is 4
have a new, handsome exhibition building q
| Elkton.
1t IL now the universal belief that the Carol
county jail was 90. on FIRE by some Of the prison
| eFs.
The public schools Of Somerset county hav,
closed until next September. and the boys ant
girls are revealing IN the strawberry patches.
! -Gov. Hamilton has leased his summer resi-
denee, rear Hagerstown, to Mr.. Malcolm crich-
| ton. Of baltimore.
| Col. Harry Gillnor. Of Baltimore. l. about q
establish fertilirng factory on the Potomac
| below Alexandria.
| Francis Barnes. % Green IliIl, Somerset
county, has nearly 200 piekers employed daily
gathering 10 his Is acres % straw berries.
Hartford county u 90 have four new public
sehool-houses. and the contract for building the
one at Belair has been awarded TO John Y. Lin
! gan for S4.356.
-Lemuel wilkins, of Caroline county recently
cut on the lap ola large white oak on his premises
from which he manufactured ~ railroad ties, Sc
cured 200 feet Of boards and "a cords Of wood.
The main body Of the tree was left standing.
Within \ month past three cows, belonging
70 John Dean, farmer, living near Belair, died
from some unknown disease They are 6rxt affect.
cd with q swelling Of the throat, and, although
the appetite IL unimpaired, they langush aud die.
=. VI.
Hopkins, Esq, Of Beiair, was poisoned by eating
indigo blue. which Il had gotten In some way IN.
known 10 Its mother. The child was made very
sick, but was promptly relieve by DIR. Richardson.
The Kent county (Md.) Agricultural Asso-
citation has determined tina, after farmer be-
way TO the field, II Is better for him to say eco
boys" than TO rent his farm under the present sys-
ten of renting.
The susquehanna fisheries this year have
been more profitable than usual. The catch has
been large. and, owing 20 the cool weather, fish
tantpoints, thereby obtaining good prices through
out the season.
They have got local option down 10 a 6ne
point in Talbot county, and don't allow the drug
gists TO sell Jamaica ginger, paregoric, o. any
other tinetures containing alcohol, without pre-
seription, and even regulate the frequency with
which prescriptions for such medicines may be
filed.
There are iO,5l7 farms In Maryland accord
ing TO the last census, embracing total land sur
face OF 6,s6O square miles. This IL an apparent
incTeasc since the the last census Of % per cent
In the arabic soil Of Maryland improved and un.
improved iands-obviously q very serious error
Of some kind.
Stanley Patterson. Of Hartford county, mount.
ed on horseback and rode quietly along for the
purpose Of getting near 10 a bald eagle that had
aiighted near bis fathers mill. As the eagle iew
again. he fired from the back of his horse and
brought II down II measured siz feet three inches
across IT. extended wings.
"A petition IL being extensively circulated in
Hartford county. Nd. asking the Pcnnsylvania
Railroad Company to extend the Philadelphia
aud baltimore Central railroad across tho SUE
guchanna river by way " Belair to Baltimore.
The petition claims tina, the right Of way can
readily be obtained through Hartford county.
-Belair Tiass Judge Price left at this Office
aicw days ago bunch Il the plant impo'ieHs Jaira,
commonly known ~ Touch. me. not" which was
thought TO have caused the death Of the cattle Of
Mr.. Amos u. Bailey. The plant has an acrid
taste. IL emctic. diurctic and ca,har,ic, and Of
course not Wholesome article offood. portion
Of u has been sent to New York to be analyred,
and the result 81 this will be received with no lit
tie interest. Judge Price also left with Us spcci.
mems Of elover.likc plant Of an unfamiliar
spcries. which Mr.. Bailey believes to have caused
the death of his cattle.