The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1883-11-10

tanks pretty we'll filled on Tuesday. OF course
we believe they took the precaution to lay in thei
supplies on Monday night.
Mr.. Francis B. Laurenson, of this county
q we'll known manufacturer and dealer in fertil
izers, left on Wednesday for Florida where hi
will spend most of the winter. Mr.. Laurenson il
building up large business with the South and
his present visit is mostly in that connection.
There were more "split" tickets voted al
the Towsontown precinct on election day than
ever known here before. Cutting" seemed to be
the order of the day and much of it was fruit
less as it was foolish. There were $50 votes cast
and it required between six and seven hours to
count them.
Miss Salie Tate, aged about 20 years, a
native of Hartford county, died at the residence OF
DIR. James III. Jarrett, in this town, on Sunday
evening last, from paralysis after a short illness.
She had been living in the family of DR.. Jarrett
for many years. Her remains were taken to Har-
ford for interment.
DR.. Benson, Health Commissioner of Bal
timore, opposes holding funerals in churches in
the case of persons dying of diphtheria, scarlet
fever, &c. He says that public funerals of per-
sons dying of contagious diseases endangers the
lives of too many people and that the practice
should be stopped.
Mr.. Samuel Brady is the only gentleman
elected to the Legislature from this county whose
name appeared on the local option IlcheC anu
some inquisitive people want to know whether
or not Mr.. Brady intends to "immortalize" him
self by presenting a local option bill for this coun-
ty. We shall seas the blind man said.
Three white men went to the polls of the
LIST precinct of the 9th district ON Tuesday morn
ing last and stood around all day waiting for
some one to buy their votes. purchaser did not
turn up and they went home in the evening with
out having voted. We didn't believe there were
II ! ~ s,,4 l,o
The we'll known trottng horse "Stonewal,"
owned by Mr.. Israel Rosenfeld, of Baltimore, has
been sold to gentleman in Philadelphia, for ST.
500. He weighs 900 pounds and has a record of
2:24k. Stonewall has started in % races, % of
which he won. He was regarded by many as the
best horse in Maryland the fastest.
1t is the usual practice to serve potatoes
in a porcelain dish with close fitting cover. In
ten minutes the best potatoes, however carefully
cooked, are thus utterly destroyed. culinary
authority recommends that they should be placed
in a wooden dish, or served in porcelain dish,
with towels above and below to absorb the mois
ture.
The Hanover Herald says the Ashland
Company is going to stop their leading mine,
the Bower, in York county, but will start the
MouPs mine to help the poor along this winter.
Wages are 90 cents day; contractors getting
from 81 to cents a car. The action of the CON-
pany in keeping its mine running for the bene-
fit of the poor laborers is certainly very COM
mendable.
THAT portion of the Philadelphia extension
of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, between the
Susouehanna river and Baltimore, will be COM
pleted and cars running this time next year. The
object of completing this end of the road first is
on account of the heavy traffic necessary in bring
ing material to build the bridge crossing the Sus-
ouehanna, the iron of which is to be brought
from Cumberland.
The cheapest and best gymnasium in the
world-one that will exercise every bone and
muscle in the body-is fiat piece of steel, notch
ed in one side fitted tightly into wooden frame,
and, after being creased on both sides with
bacon rind, rubbed into q stick of wood laid
lengthwise on a sawbuck. If you have doubts
about the truthfulness of the above just give it
trial and be convinced.
-"EmbIa" is the name of new postofice
lately established in Baltimore county. 1t is To-
Gated at Notre Dame Station, on the Maryland
Central Railroad, and Mr.. Geo. 0. Wilson, who
has expended a very large sum of money on the
buildings and grounds at that place, is the post
master If Mr.. w. would arise and explain from
what source he obtained that name he would sat
isfy the minds of lots of curious people.
The commission appointed by the Circuit
Court of this county to determine the value of
property in Druid Hill Park, owned conformity by
the heirs of the late Geo. FRESHMAN and Balti-
more city, held another meeting on Saturday last.
The commission is not yet ready to make a re-
port to the court. At thel meeting Mr.. w. Ftz-
hugh Wharton appeared for the city and Messrs.
Williams and Boarman for the FRESHMAN heirs.
The Bond Guards of Gainesville, D. P.
Barnette, captain, returned from their trip to
Richmond on Friday of last week. The company
numbered "a muskets with eight drums and flies.
The company express themselves as being much
pleased with the trip and the courtesies extended
them by their Virginia friends. Capt. Barnette
takes a deep interest in his company and is
always doing something that will add to their
pleasure.
Proposals to erect an iron bridge over the
Little Falls at Franklinville, the dividing line be-
tween Baltimore and Hartford counties, were open
ed in Towsontown on Wednesday, by the respec.
tive boards of the two counties. MIR. L. IL. Mays
was awarded the contract for the masonry of the
bridge for $3.50. The contract for the super
structure will be awarded at the next meeting of
the Commissioners. For this work the Penn
Bridge Company bid 81 400.
"A friend in Reisterstown informs us of the
good luck the editor of the Voice has had this
week His wife presented him with twins-boy
and girl The boy is said to be the largest and
finest specimen, but the girl has the best lungs.
When last heard from the mother and babes were
getting along very nicely, and that Mr.. Scott,
editor and publisher, was the proudest man in all
the village. His friends in this end of the coun-
ty congratulate him on his good fortune.
Two young men, sons of Messrs. John
Wright and Joseph Jackins, came near meeting
with serious accident at the railroad crossing on
the Falls road, above Mt. Washington, on Sunday
last, BY the horse they we're driving coming in
contact with car of freight train. The team
was stopped close to the track to allow the train
to pass but in starting, instead of driving straight
l. L.-- fhn froIV
and collided with one of the cars as stated. 1t
might have been serious matter, but as good
luck would have it no harm was done.
State Fair at Pinalico.-At the fair held at
Pimlico last week, Baltimore county breeders car
ried off the bulk of the premiums, if we may
Judge from the following:
Home Bred Jerseys.-Best bull, three years DID,
R. S. Woolston; second do, Andrew Banks. Best
bull, two years old. Frederick Won hapf; second
do John E. Phillips. Best bull, one year DID,
Samuel NJ. Shoemaker second do, John Gill.
Best bull calf, John W. Garrett second do,
Samuel NJ. Shoemaker. Best cow, three years
old, Watts & Seth second do, Andrew Banks.
Best heifer, two years old. John E. Phillips; Sec
ond do, Frederick Won Kapff. Best heifer, one
year old, Andrew Banks; second do, Watts &
Seth. Best heifer calf, Samuel NJ. Shoemaker
second do Andrew Banks. Best herd-one bull
and four cows, Samuel NJ. Shoemaker; second
do, John Gill.
Imported Jerseys.-Best bull, three years old,
Samuel NJ. Shoemaker. Best bull, two years old,
John E. Phillips. Best bull calf, VIM. H. West
second do, do, VIM. HI. West. Best COW, three
years old, S. M. Shoemaker; second to same.
Best heifer, two years old, VIM. II. West; second
do, Watts & Seth. Best heifer, one year old,
John E. Phillips; second do, Andrew Banks.
Best heifer calf, John E. Phillips; second do,
Andrew Banks.
Mr.. E. Cuttings Merryman showed Hereford's
DIR. F. w. Patterson, Dutch Freisians Mr.. G. S.
Watts, Guernseys; Mr.. c. Lyon Rogers, Hol-
| stems.
Horses were shown by Messrs. John W. Garrett,
| Jesse Tyson, w. Fell johnson and E. Cuttings
| Merryman.
| The president of the association, Mr.. Frank
| Brown, said he was well satisfied with the exhibi
ton, and that the display of cattle was the finest
ever exhibited in the State.
The gold medal of the Maryland Live Stock
| Breeders Association for the best beef herd Of
| four COWS and one bull, Aberdeen breed, to W. I'll
| Whitridge of this county. Mr.. Whitridge also
received a diploma for the best 2-year old bulls
the best 3-year-od cows, the best heifer calf and
| the best bull calf
| An Interesting Relic.-The Belair Time