The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1882-07-22
OVER THE STATE.

John Gibson, of Kent county, had forty sheep
killed by lightning lately
The coming Maryland peach crop is estimated
at over 100000 baskets.
Robert Lewis, gentleman "a years of age,
registered in district No. of Washington county
on Wednesday of last week.
The rate of taxation for county purposes in
Hartford has been fixed at 81 cents on the 500,
being cents higher than last year.
Peter Murphy, living near Elkton, threshed
$50 bushels of wheat from ten acre lot a few
DAYS ago. He sold it for 1925 per bushe.
There is place somewhere in Talbot county
thew call Pot Pie. Though not very literary
title it presents some interesting reflections to a
hungry man.
Todd, who shot and killed young Tyler, near
Lakesville, Dorchester county, and then attempted
to commit suicide, is said to be rapidly verng
from his wound.
WIN. Brown, farmer, living near Bridge
town, Caroline county, last week threshed one
hundred and eighty bushels of rye, being the
Weld from nine bushels sown.
Last fall over one hundred thousand bush
els of corn was shipped from Preston, Caroline
county, to Baltimore. The yield of fruit in that
section of the county nets fruit growers from hity
to one hundred thousand dollars.
The Court of Appeals last week affirmed the
order of the Circuit Court Of Anne Arundel
county, refusing a mandamus to compel the Comp
troller to pay the annual endowment OF S6,OOO to
the Maryland Agricultural College.
"A few days ago as DIR. G. o. Lewis was dig
eing post holes on his farm near Bladensburg,
| Prince Georges county, when about two feet
down unearthed several nests of seven year
locusts. He found more or less of them in every
post hole.
Mr. Frank Brown, of Freedom district, Car
roll county, has harvested, thrashed and shipped
almost his entire crop of about six Thousand
| bushels of wheat. The crop in that district Is
graat the sma1lest farms Welding ab01t
! five hundred bushels.
Mrs. Henry Carver, of Havre de Grace, w
recently using hand sickle in cutting some gras,
when garter snake, which she had unknowinsly
cut in two, stung her on the hand. The efeets
were very painful, until a physical ACad
scrlbed the proper remeuIes.
The bulk of the cattle fattened in IL ford
county already sold, to be delivered in August
and September The prices obtained have Jeen
good and many farmers engaged in raising cttle
will make net profit of from $40 to $50 per lead,
unless there is a scarcity OF rain.
The wheat threshed out in Kent county has
yielded beyond the expectations of the farmer, is
of excellent quality and weighs above the SAN
dard. One farmer who had estimated his Gro, at
100 bushels finds 1900 bushels ready for maket.
| large sales have been made at $1.20 to S125 per
| bushel.
A three year-ol daughter of Mr.. w D.
Bower, of townsville, Washington county, CEASED
tents of liniment bottle over her. The sglt of
one eye was destroyed, and all efforts to coulter
act the effects of that which she had swallowed
proved unavailng.
Mr. William McKenney, of Queen Ames
county, has thrashed his crop of wheat on the
Thos. Wright farm, (all corn ground,) and the
yield is 25 bushels to the acre. This large yield
on one of the poorest farms among the twenty
owned in Queen Anne's county by Mr.. McKelny,
indicates that his crop this year will reach 45OpO
bushels.
The Hagerstown people are complaining that,
while the Philadelphia newspapers reach there
before II o'clock every morning, the Baltimore
papers do not arrive till one hour and a-quarter
after that time, in spite of the fact that the dis
lance is so much less. Faster trains on the West
ern Mary land railroad are needed to overcome
! this trouble.
Hartford Democrat: One of the leading farm
ers of the 9Th district, and man upwards of 20
years of age, stated to us few days since that
never in his recollection had he seen such a wheat
crop in his neighborhood the present one.
Having stood WELL the straw is clean and free
! from rust, while the heads are well filled with
large, plump grains.
-Hagerstown Mail: Last Sunday, DR.. Harne,
of Cavetown, removed from the ear of Mrs. Eliza
beth Oswald, living near Chewsville, a spider
which penetrated that organ from a web cast in
the cellar doorway which attached itself to the
head of Mrs. Oswald as she was descending the
steps. A more unpleasant visitor could hardly be
imagined and the relief offered by its removal was
necessarily great.
-Hagerstown Torch One day last week John
Murphy walked into the office in this town, of
Mr.. w. II. Herbert, the register of the Sd election
district of this county, and asked to be registered
He said he was born in Ireland, but had no nat
uralization papers, saying that he had been voting
for 40 years, and that fact ought to serve as his
credentials but it didn't. He had been voting on
the name of dead John Murphy, who had first
seen the light in Baltimore. The living Murphy
made application for naturalization papers, and
two years hence he can get them, call around,
register, and have vote
R. F. Foster, of Baltimore, arrived at West
minister on his bicycle on Monday. Judge Mauls-
by and wife happened to be out driving nh eatha
bcyclist rode down Main street to the City Hotel.
The judges horse showed signs of fright, and he
demanded that Foster should stop and dismount.
This he declined to do, and retOrted with some
spirit that if the judge could not manage his horse
where he was, he had better get out and hold him.
Whereupon both men became warm, and the re-
suit was that Judge Maulsby made complaint be-
fore Justice Crapster against Foster for obstruct-
ing the street. Foster gave bail for his appear
ance before the magistrate for trial. E