The Baltimore County union., 1883-11-10
GENERAL ITEMS.

The Martin Luther statue to be erected at
Washington will cost $4,000.
Grand Rapids, Mich, requires funerals to
move through the back streets.
sold Tippecanoe" Harrisons tomb, at North
Bend, Ohio, is unkept and crumbling.
"A marriage took place recently at Portsea,
England, in which the principals and whole bridal
party were deaf mutes.
"A Washington correspondent says: at is
regarded as tolerably certain that Congress will
reduce rates on drop letters to one cent letter,
and may increase the weight allowance for two
| cent stamp to an ounce"
The sale of Bedford Springs, Pa, has been con-
summated at last Mr.. Reon Barnes paid $ll0,-
600, and executed two mortgages, one of So, 900,
being the widows dover, and another for S4S 900,
which will be paid shortly.
The pretty story of the dove that flew through
Western church window and perched on the
head OF the bride at the time of the ceremony loses
something now that it leaks out that she had had
it in training for six months.
Since somebody told a story of a sealed tin
can containing $4,000 ploughed up on the farm
of the notorious Bender family, in Kansas, there
has been great activity in ploughng in that State,
and that farm in particular has been turned over
from centre to circumference.
Moses Wasserman, who is sort of commissary
general for the Panama Canal Company, is in
San Francisco for few days. He says that the
canal will be finished il 1889. There are now
5000 men at work and 5000 japanese laborers
are to be added on December l.
Miss Bertha Crowley of ofDeposit, N. Y, dream
ed three nights in succession of her uncles death
in Texas. Impressed with herr Dreams she ad.
dressed letter to him. The letter fell into the
hands of his lawyers, who notified her last week
that she had fallen heir to $4,000 by her uncle's
death.
Mr.. Tabor, who was in the United States
Senate during thirty days. carries revolver when
shown in Denver the other night when the revol-
yer slipped from his pocket, exploded, caused Mrs.
Tabor to shrek and made the small boys to
see what was the matter.
The Rev. j. W. Balm of Philadelphia, preach
ing in Pittsburg, enumerated the things not to be
found in heaven. "There is n darkness there no
clouds, no sickness, graves, funerals, no
preachers - At this point, seeing a smile
ripping over the congregation, he explained; 81
mean there's no preaching there"
Duncan c. Ross, the Scotch athlete, has issued
three challenges, follows First, to wrestle at
side hold any man in America for $500 or 81 900
side; second, to wreste any man in, the world,
mixed styles, for any amounts third, for heavy
weight performances for any amount open to the
world. Ross has deposited $500 as a forfeit at
the De6locrGt and Chronicle office, Rochester, New
York.
Thousands of young American swells are said
by fashionable tailor to wear nothing of Ameri-
can make. Their measures are sent to London
tailors, hatters, and furnishers, who provide the
articles ordered very promptly. 1t is true that
garments thus obtained are liable to prove poor
fits, but there English tailors here also, whose
sole employment is to complete imported suits in
manner to make them fit.