The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1883-10-13
LOCAL ITEMS.

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four horses the combined age of which is 81 years.
Upwards of 1000 persons attended the
openinp of the Maryland Central to Forest Hill
on Friday of last week.
Mr.. Milton Dance, of Dulany's Valley, was
one of the vice presidents at the railroad meeting
at Forest Hill, last week
Samuel W. Jones, Of Upper y Roads, Har-
ford county, has been appointed a conductor on
the Western Maryland Railroad.
We have recently heard of bride who OBJ
ieeted to being married with ring. She said she
had heard too much about 'ring rule"
Mrs c. Y. Thomas, of Hartford county, is
one of the vice presidents of the Woman's Chris
tan Temperance Union of Maryland:
Among the exhibitors Of light draught
horses at the Hartford county fair this week was
Mr.. William Fell Johnson, of this county.
Mr. Fred Won Kapf, of "StOneleigh," this
county, will exhibit portion of his valuable
herd of Jerseys at the Hagerstown fair next week
Mr. VIM. Woolsey, the extensive farmer Of
Hartford county, has recently sold to Philadelphia
parties, 100 head of beef cattle at OK cents per
pound.
tbreshed their clover seed that did not get more
than half bushel to the acre. That yield will
not pay.
hibited some of his fancy poultry at the Belalr
fair this week and carried OF number OF pre-
miums.
August Hartman was arrested in Baltimore
On Saturday last on a bench warrant issued by
the Cireuit Court of this county, on the charge
of larceny.
John II. Cole, living at Oxford, York road,
had his right hand badly acerated by circular
saw last week. The accident occurred at mill
in the city.
beoueatbed 800 acre farm, situated in Hartford
county, to his daughter, Mrs. Clayton, wife of
Theodore Clayton.
Robert Moore, Esq, of "Glenmore," this
county. received number of premiums, first and
second, for his herd of registered Jerseys at the
Hartford county fair.
The new Glen Rock manufacturing COM
many was organized last week with E. h. Boil
iinger as president, VIM. Herbst, treasurer ana a
strong board of directors.
"A novelty used in house decoration is vel
vet made to represent alligator skin. This is
effective as covering for pedestals for statuettes
and stands for vases and clocks.
ANY soldier having lost his discharge pa
pers can have the same renewed by the payment
of IS cents to charges OF the atldavlts upon
application to the War Department.
Mr.. Frederick Heb, of Shrewsbury Station,
MGR. R., is now paying 10 cents bushel for
distilIing apples at his distillery. This is not
very profitable price for the growers of fruit.
The Second Branch City Council, of Balti-
more. has passed an ordinance appropriatlng
$50 900 to pay the expenses incurred by the
smallpox visitation. Rather an expensive 'lsl-
tor.
There is thought to be more piety in five
hundred dollar soup house, where hungry man
may be satisfied without paying for it, than there
could possibly be in a hundred thousand dollar
church.
We have heard of one individual who
would not use the two-cent stamp IN mailing
letter, but insisted on putting on the old three
cent stamp. He said he didn't feel like risking
too much.
william Weeks, 18th district farmer, re-
siding about miles from the city on the North
Point road fell from his wagon in Baltimore on
Friday of last week and was severely cut about
the head.
On Tuesday last the York Road Railway
changed the running time to Towsontown to every
hour instead of every two hours as heretofore.
This change will be very acceptable to the trav-
cling public.
There will be a tournament held at Poplar
Springs Howard county, on Wednesday, October
18th, under the direction Of the Poplar Springs
Association. Mr.. Nimrod Gosnell, OF this county,
will be chief marshal.
Mr.. Thomas B. Dorsey, formerly of this
town. is candidate on the Republican ticket for
States Attorney of Howard county. If Mr. Dor
sew should be elected he will make competent
and conscientious officer.
The receipts at the Fallston Station, Mary
land Central railroad, for the past month was
nearly g, 1000, and at Belair station, in the
neighborhood of $1,000. This is very hand
some showing for these points.
&C. Bitner, young man from the city, has
been arrested for shooting a lot of chickens and
a calf for Mr.. John Cole, who owns farm on the
Hartford road. The chickens and calf were valued
at S45. Rather expensive sport for somebody.
Michael Bournarski, aged Is years, resi-
g Dols vUhil LIST chestnut hunting
the vicinity of Bush river on Sunday last, fell
from tree and broke his neck. An inquest was
held and a verdict of accidental death rendered.
Forest Hill, Hartford county, on the line of
the Maryland Central Railroad, is 81 miles from
Baltimore and II miles from Delta. Six miles Of
track have been laid, beginning at the Delta ter
minus, leaving only eight miles Of track yet to be
laid.
Our popular townsman, Mr.. Chas b. Fen
dali. is said to have made capital speech at the
opening of the railroad to Forest Hill last week.
He has been a jealous worker for the best inter-
ests of the road since the work was first COM
meneed.
Mr. J. P. P. Jones, the well-known real es-
tate agent of BALTIC, has been for sometime stopping
at the Smedley House. and with his wife will spend
the winter in Towsontown. He is very agree
able gentleman and has already made many
friends among our citizens.
Mr.. Thomas Cox, of Denver, Colorado,
after an absence of fifty years, is now visiting the
scenes of his boyhood days in Hartford county.
His father, Thomas Cox, built the iron forge at
the Rocks of Deer Greek, known for many years
as "Rogers' Forge
At the York, Pa, agricultural fair on
Thursday of last week, 23,7O5 admissions were
made through the turnstiles, and including all
who entered in vehicles and on passes, 1t is
thought about 80 900 admissions we're made. The
York county dutch certainly enjoy their county
fairs.
The editor of the Rising Sun, Nd, Journal
saws: "a bushel of seed wheat to the acre is
ample, if the land is in good heart and well pre-
pared. Otherwise sow a bushel and half. Il
with this quantity of seed you cannot raise ful
crop, wheat will not pay you at all, and you had
better SOW something else"
The poles for the telegraph and telephone
line along the Maryland Central road are being
RAPIDLY placed in position and the wires will soo1
be strung The line is being erected by Mr.. Davis
formerly of the firm of Davis Watts, and the
railroad company, having granted the right-of
way is to have full of the wires free OF charge
for ten years.
We invite attention to the dental card Of
DIR. A. C. McCurdy, of Towsontown. He is {
graduate of Baltimore College Dental Surgery
and has been in successful practice for number
of years. He has fitted up a very snug office IL
his new residence, where he will be pleased to re
ceive all who may need anything in the line O.
his profession.
-Havre-de-G Grace Republican: "There have
been several Stevenson Archers in Hartford county
and two of them have represented our district
in Congress, including our honored friend of thai
name now resident of Beair; but it seems there Ii
still another one, Rev. Stevenson Archer, o.
Greenvile, Miss who is now visiting his rela
tives in this county.
The Hon. Arthur Herbert, of Muckross
Ireland, will be married on Monday next to Mis-
Rebecca Williams, daughter of Hon. Geo. Haw
kins Williams, of Long Green Valley, this coun
ty The groom is the owner of very large estates
in Ireland, including the Lakes of Killarny, and
the bride is an heiress, having inherited very
large fortune from her grandfather, the late Johr
S. Cuttings.
The welI-known trotting horse "Stonewall,
owned by Mr.. Israel Rosenfeld, of the EXTENSIVE
clothing house of Rosenfeld Bros, Baltimore, wol
the 224 race at the Cecil county fair on Saturda.
last, beating Lizzie NJ, Little Splan and others
The best time was 2:3O, the track being yer.
heavy. "Stonewal" is one of the best horses Il
Maryland, and his success on the turf is matte
of considerable profit to his owner.
Mr.. H. G. Crockett of Woodbury., ha
bought the right of Baltimore county and city t