The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1883-02-24

offices regularly every day at certain hours with
out having to be notified, and yet when Sunday
comes bells must be pounded for an hour to warn
people that it is the First day."
1t is confidently expected that the Balti-
more City Council will pass the ordinance allow
ing the voters of the city opportunity to vote
on the city's endorsement of $4,000 of the bonds
of the Maryland Central railroad. This endorse
ment secured and the success of the enterprise, in
which all feel so much interest, will be assured.
Mr.. Thomas C. Brown, of Finksburg, Carroll
county, who shot himself several weeks ago, died
on Friday evening of last week. A postmortem
examination was made when it found that
number of shot had entered the brain. He was a
brother. in law of Mr.. Chas. t. Cockey, of Pixies
vile, and has many other relatives and friends
living in this county.
"A correspondent wants the county police
abolished, and thinks the regular constable force
would be much more effective while the expense
would be trfiing. The Belt people say the pres
ent police force is as useless as it is expensive,
and some go so far as to declare that the citizens
in that section have no protection whatever. The
taxpayers have to pay for the full, all the same.
"A very large audience greeted Prof. VIM.
Mason Evans in the M. E. church here on Sunday
night last He delivered a telling address which
appeared to reach the hearts of the audience
Rev. W. H. H. Power, rector of Trinity church,
also made short address. At the same church,
Sunday afternoon, MrsWm. Delphy, of Baltimore,
Prof. Evans and Rev. w. T. D. GLENN spoke on
the temperance question.
Mr.. Joseph Jackins, well-known road
supervisor of the 9th district of this county, lately
bought horse in Baltimore from Frank Mcknight
and Mike Roche paying $50 for him. When he
attempted to take the animal home it could not
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ing himself to have been swindled, caused the
arrest of the two sharpers for conspiracy to de-
fraud. They we're bound over for hearing.
We are receiving large number of COM
munications on various subjects, but principally
concerning the politics of the county. 1t is not
possible for us to publish all of them, and some of
them rejected because they are filled with per-
sonalities. If our correspondents will address
themselves to county matters, without striving to
"crush" some political enemy under the guise of
an alias, we shall be glad to publish their letters.
Rev. S. H. Thompson, formerly pastor of
the Presbyterian church at Govanstown, and who
was obliged to give up his charge on account of
failing health, announced to preach in the
chapel here on Sunday afternoon last, but on ac-
count of sickness unable to fill the appoint
ment, and Rev. w. J. Gill, of Baltimore, preached
in his stead. For some time Rev. Mr.. Thompson
has been living in the West for the benefit of his
health.
You want to go from home to hear the news.
The Manchester Enterprise furnishes this bit of
"0liver Williams, of the Sd district
of Baltimore county, has been appointed by the
Governor to fill a vacancy in the County Commits
sioners' Board" We don't know Oliver Williams
and we were not aware before that there was a
vacancy in the Board. If our neighbor wants to
know what is going in Baltimore county he
ought to scan the columns of THE UNION more
closely.
Laws Interesting to Landholders.-
The following, full of instruction to the land
holder, is taken from the Annapolis AdUertiser
But few persons understand the nature of their
rights and privileges in regard to fencing and
the adjacent public roads, and frequently imposi-
tons and losses are practiced upon them by
owners of cattle and hogs trcspassing upon their
enclosures, sometimes destroying growing crops
and inficting other injuries and annoyances to O
considerable extent, and frequently causing I'M
pleasant feelings between neighbors In addi-
ton to these troubles which are of long standing
a new evil has been produced of late in the null
tiplieity of telegraph lines which are being
erected throughout the country, the companies or
their contractors for the erection of the poles for
the laying of the wires, not only occupying the
public roads for the purposes of their corpora
highways and the adjacent property without
authority so to do from the owners thereof. This
has been done recently in Baltimore county, and
suits have been instituted for damages by owners
Of the land, and we find that similar suits have
been instituted in Hartford county under similar
We have before given some extracts from the
laws on such subjects from Judge Benefits work,
and the following additional item upon the
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Mt the present time, and every landholder should
preserve these extracts for their guidance in the
maintenance of their rights. Judge Bennett
says:
"If farm deed is bounded by, on or upon
road, it usually extends to the middle of the
The farmer owns the soil of half the
road, and may the grass, trees, stone, gravel,
sand or anything of value to him, either on the
land or beneath the surface, subject only to the
superior rights of the public to travel over the
road, and that of the highway surveyor to use
such material for the repair of the road, and
these materials he may cart away and use else
where on the road. No other man has right to
feed his cattle there, or cut the grass trees,
much less deposit his wood old carts, wagons or
other things thereon. The owner of drove of
cattle which stops to feed in front of your land
or Of a drove of pigs which root up the soil, is
responsible to you at law as much as if they did
dren have right to pick up the apples under
your trees, although the same stand wholly out
side of your fence. No private person has q
right to cut or lop off the limbs of your trees in
order to move his old barn or other buildings
along the highway, and no traveller can hitch his
horse to your sidewalk without being liable, if he
gnaws the bark or otherwise Injuries them. If
your well stands partly on your land and partly
outside the fence, no neghbor can use it except
right to stand in front of your land and insult
you with abusive language without being liable
to you for tresspassing on your land. He has a
right to pass and repass in an orderly and be-
coming manner; right to use the road, but not
to abuse it. But notwithstanding the farmer
owns the soil of the road, even he cannot use it
for any purpose which interferes with the use of
it by the public for travel He cannot put his
pigpen, wagons wood or other things there if the
highway surveyor orders them away as obstruct-
ing public travel If he leaves such things out
side his fence, and within the limits of the high
way as actually laid out, though some distance
from the travelled path, and a traveller runs into
them in the night and is injured, the owner is not
only liable to him for private damages but may
also be indicted and fined for obstrueting public
way. And if be has fence or wall along the
highway he must place it all on his own land,
and not half on the road. as in the case Of divis
ion fences between neighbors. But as he owns
the soil, IL the road is discontinued or located
elsewhere, the land reverts to him, and he may
inelose II 10 the centre and use il part Of his
farm"
Free Hard Roads.-The Belair Times in
discussing the question Of roads says in some Of
the States Of the West-and We shall select
0hi0-hard roads, better known as turnpikes, are
constructed we learn, under the operations Of
a general Law, whether those residing in a town
ship district. or along the line Of road, de-
sire il or not From all We can gather, many Of
those WhO oppose these improvements at first
come 10 like them, finding that they pay really
nc more IN taxes than they would pay in tolls
over an ordinary turnpike, and in many eases
net as much, Cor turnpike here in the East Is
expected % draw enough from the pockets Of the
farmers not only to make the road and keep il in
repair, bat 20 keep the tollgate keepers and send
q good profit into the pockets Of the stockholders
in the say Of dividends besides. Even those who
thought the oii fashioned spring mud-roads good
enough 20 pull through with three or four horses,
tad that the tax il less than the two extra horses
required, as one or two on a good road will do
the work Of three or four on, or rather in, bad
one. In short, the saving Of tolls, labor and
wear and tear is a great thing all around.
How satisfactory il would be to have all our
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