The Baltimore County union., 1883-04-28
OVER THE STATE.

Many wild ducks are being shot on the Po-
totnac. in the vicinity Of Hancock. many Of tho
specie. not being common in those waters.
MIR. d. W. Mevey, Of Cecil county. has dis
covered buIlard dying around with bell at
iaehed to It. The mystery has not been solved.
The resent Gre at Crisdcld, Somerset county,
destroy ed property 10 the amount Of sGO. .0O0 The
Office Of the Crisfeld Lsod,r was also destroyed.
A Frederick county paper Gays the backefs
Of the new Pen.Mar hotel enterprise are worth
s6O.ooo.oOO. and If they live long enough can
sponi IL right there.
--Mi,s Mollie Seystcr. daughter Of Judge
Scys;cr. Of liagersi0wn. was married on Thursday
lat to Mr. James ". Coke. auditor Of the Shen.
andoah Valley Railroad.
Mr.. 4. u. Prc,iyman. Clerk Of the Mont.
gonefy county Court. il mentioned in connection
with the Democratic Gubernatorial nomination.
lie i said 20 be very popular man.
--DiphthcFia is said 10 have become almost epi-
denic in the neighborhood of Bristol in the lower
section of Anne Arundel county. Nearly 25 deaths
have occurred there within the las, month or two.
The obituary column ofthe Frederick Cifissn
gives the names of ten persons whose aggregate
ages amount o. seven hundred and ninety seven
year, making an average of nearly eighty years.
a gas vein was struck recently near Hayre-
de-'irace while al aftesian well was being dug
a, the nitel States Fi,h Commission Battery
station. itis said that !; burn. well when lighted.
Miss Emily Richie. daughter Of Hon. John
Ri,chie. Of Frederick. was married on Tuesday
last to Mr.. Donald Mclean, Of New York. The
groom Is nephew Of the wife Of Col. +. II. Web
sier.
"A farm containing 50 acres, belonging to the
estate of the late cx.Mayor Chapman, Of Balii-
more, situated near Blue Ridge Summit, was sold
recently for 5000, and acres adjoining brought
S,jj.
The farmers Of Montgomery county are de-
voting some attention TO the propagation of carp.
and In Frederick county an association has been
formed fgF stocking the streams and ponds with
carp and trout.
Judge ". 7. Hammond. the Oldest citizen of
Hampstead, Carroll county, visited the EHisrrise
Office last week aud said 60 the editor that IL was
the hrsi printing Office he was ever in. TheJudge
is in his sgth year.
Miss Mary Brseoe died suddenly at Rising
sun, Cecil county, on Wednesday Of last week.
telegram was shortly after received from Flint,
Miehigan. stating that brother Of the deceased
had died the same morning.
1t is contemplated by some snterprisins gen
ilemen 20 start canning factory at La Plata,
Charles county. The formation Of a stock CON-
pany With the shares at $40 each Is the manner In
which the capital is to be raised.
1t /. said that DR.. George u. CLAWS Of Wash
ingion. u. C.. will have the management Of Bay
Ridge the coming season. The property is owned
By Hamilton Dission. Of Philadelphia and James
VI. Nansani. Of Annapolis. II is situated in Anne
Arundel county.
The military encampmeni TO be aeld at Fred
erick. the latter part of May. promises grand re-
suits. GOv. Hamilton ard stat will be present, a.
we'll as'en. Jas. X. Herbert and staff and number
Of military men from Washington. Adjuiant
Gen. Watkins will occupy . tent during the en-.
camPmeni.
-Levia;han, the pacing horse from Philadel-
phia now in tFainin. on the fair grounds at Elk
ton, Is not very docile. il We may judge from the
way he Is treated. lie has to be driven with gog-
giles over his eyes and cotton stuffed in his ears.
and with all this TO prevent his seeing and hear.
ing nearly got away with his driver the other day,
Mrs. Margaret c. Rumscy. died at Salem. y.
j.. reccstly. She a member Of the Rumsey
family who settled in Cecil county rs early as
1910. and also a relative Of benjamin Rumsey,
the Inventor Of a steamboat. No person bearing
the name Of Rumsey reside within the limits Of
Cecil to-day. though at one time the family was
numerous and inhueLtial.
1t will be remembered that u short time ago
the Frederick county Agricultural Society passed
resolutions forbidiing the sale Of liquor and the
right 90 have wheels Of fortune and gaining tables
upon the grounds. But said resolutions have been
reconsidered, and the matter placed in the hands
of the executive committee, with power 20 act as
they think best. IL is the impression that these
privileges will be restored by the society.