The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1882-07-22
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

"A confederate monument is to be unveiled at
Front Royal, Va, August "a.
People in Nashville who refuse to be vacci-
mated are committed to the work-hOuse.
"A woman in Philadelphia badly burned
by the explosion of doughnut in frying-pan.
MAIDEN, Leadville gambler, had brain
weighing 624 ounces, or 81 ounces heavier than
Daniel Websters.
At Cleveland Ohio, Mr.. Means, three feet
and half high, was recently married to Miss
Harrison, three feet high.
An Ohio physician dug seven graves for
like number of his patients, but sent to an
insane asylum before he could kill the intended
victims
The wild geese are worse than the weevil for
wheat in California DIR. Glenn, of Colusa, who
has $4,000 acres under cultivation, keeps forty
men constantly at work shooting geese.
"A Massachusetts woman says that from $40
eggs placed in one of Bain's Common sense in
eubators' she got two chickens, at cost $6127,
to say nothing of her lost time and the hired mans
three weeks board
"A female lawyer of Milwaukee would not
cease repeating questions which the Judge had
ruled out, and was threatened with imprisonment
for contempt. Then she went out of the room in
tears, and refused to reappear in the trial.
I The London Telegraph had an editorial arti-
Gle on "The extraordinary spectacle presented in
the United States of meeting in Indiana of s.
600 drunkards.' The thousands were Dunkards,
not drunkadrs, and the cable had added anr.
The German Government is allowed by law
to employ the interest on more than $4,000, 900
belonging to the ex King of Hanover "to avert
and combat all undertakings against Prussia"
This yields $780, 900 year for secret service money
Farm laborers ale said to be so scarce in
Montana that $40 and $50 month is in vain Of
fered for them. Farmers are forced to let their
cows browse about on the meadows with full I'D
ders, because they cannot get help enough to
milk them.
"A Mormon elder of Salt Lake has had his
thirteen wives photographed, both in a group and
separately. The pictures have been placed in
elegant album, and under each woman is engross-
ed quotation of sentimental poetry suggestive
of her best quality.
w. Smallwood, assistant postmaster, Mt
Lula, Ca, is the father of eighty living children.
There is no doubt about this fact. Mr.. S. was
born in 1896, was in the war of 1912, and is to-
day as active as many young men. Some of his
children are mere babies.
The Rev. j. E. Starr became matrimonially
engaged to Miss Graham of Brampton, Ont. She
told him that fellow Methodist clergyman, the
Rev. R. N. Wiloughby, had been sutton two
years before, and had forcby kissed her. Mr..
Starr made this kiss the basis of formal charge
against Mr.. Wioughby, and Conference trial is
to be held.
In Cleveland hack driver was fined $40 for
soliciting passengers by saying, "Come this way
to ride with a white man." He had a colOred
competitor, and the Justice who imposed the fine
said Language that tends to degrade or insult
man who has the misfortune of being colored is
outrage and cannot be tolerated" The sound
ness of this view is to be considered in a higher
court