The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1883-10-20
Upper Falls. 18th DESTRUCTION Sunday last

L heafd quite gOOd sermon at Caiem cnuIch U.
Rev. Mr.. Afford text, eye are the light OF thu
world" The church bosses afterwards gave
practical adaptation of the text by taking TIVE
different collections and begging for money IL
such way as to pretty well tighten the congre
CATION When will church people learn to d.
business in business way abominate this con
tinual begging; it is nuisance; people ought u
be made to understand they can't belong to s
church without paying for it, and church authori
ties ought to have financial committee who
should make it systematic matter on week day;
, to see everybody belonging to that church and
get money and contributions better still, thu
finance committee ought to assess the church ex
penses on the members pro rata and per head anc
each man asked to pay the amount charged
against him. then the basket collections would be
that much extra.
Last week spent day at the Hartford county
fair. The great attractions were the darkey with
his head through screen at whom you could
throw three balls for cents "and everytime you
hit him you get cigar" Then next to that was
the dime museum with fat woman and "sum
snails," and various other amusements of the
same sort These were the main things. AS incl
dentas saw part of Robert Moores Baltimore
county Jerseys and some of Hon. Henry Archers
Only two small herds; four head of fat steers and
q few Short Horns one horse that took second
premium (nothing there that could take frst.)
The display of poultry was good, but the accom-
modations were of such miserable character that
if there had been two days of chilly weather
| it would have killed the whole of them. Hon
George Colton's exhibit had nothing to protect
them except two boards over the coops. The dis
play of agricultural machinery was good and was
the redeemng feature of the fair, particularly
Lees Champion Reapers and the Minneapolis
Binder. The trials of speed were fraud upon
the public, and 1 am satisfied from the overheard
conversation of the jockeys, well arranged be-
forehand. Whilst dearly love to see good
square brush 1 have never been fool enough to
waste money in bets wagers, and it would be
| happy times if all cOuntrymen were like me, as
long as these sort of arrangements go on.
The B. & 0. r. R. contractors are pushing on.
went down a few days since to look at the work and
| found two section contractors hard at 1t and
driving things The at the crossing of the
Magnolia road, just south of the pike. and Mr..
Hennebery's, on the Red Line road. The ques.
ton as to where the new depot and stations shall
be located seems to have Quoted down. There is
no doubt but that one will be put to suit the best
convenience of this section, because this thickly
settled neighborhood, the large number of pas
sengers and quantities of freight, to say nothing
of the factories at Franklinville and Jericho re-
auirements. All these make up demand that
can not be disregarded. If we had some enter
prising capitalist who would build some houses
| for tenants it would bring more population and
| pay as an investment, but then where could he
| get the land Because just what L said last week
on this subject is the case. There are several
things needed about here to boom us along. First,
and most important, is the bridge over the Gun
powder at Franknville l had expected to see
the advertisement before now. Then we want
| the bridge over Broad run (petiion went in for
| this months ago and it was prOmised) then we
want more road money, and we want special
| officer. Talking about these wants reminds me
that the steps of school house No. 2 are in such
dilapidated state rs to need new ones, less some
Of the children break their legs.
For the benefit Of some of your readers who
| like to hear yarns / give you the following as a
sequel to last winter:
The freaks of lightning are certainly wonder
full when they are told by Western newspapers.
For example, it is now asserted that in 1858 a
Congregational meeting house in LOckport was
struck by lightning during divine service, and
doubtless at the very time that the choir was ex-
ecuting an anthem in seven simultaneous keys.
One of the young ladies of the choir was stunned,
| and on regaining consciousness was found to have
lost her watch and chain. She remained i'll for
several months, during which she suffered from a
pain in her side, but in time the pain ceased. A
short time ago the young lady-who appears to
have grown older in thirty years-noticed 2
I swelling on her arm. The swelling increased and
working downward, and has just been discovered
that the missing watch and three feet of chain
were safely mbedded in the arm. The lightning
| obviously drove the watch and chain into the
| 49,
articles have mcandered through her system un-
til they have finally reached the surface.
| Strange as this story may seem, it can be
matched by the experience of Mr.. josiah ID.
| Stringly, who, 40 years ago, was leaning on his
ox-cart in front of the Baptist meeting house of
Oshkosh, when the steeple was struck by lightning.
| Mr. Stringly was stunned, bis oxen were killed,
| and the cart was apparently annihated. After
| recovering from the effects of the lightning Mr..
| Strngly became a book agent, and practiced that
! calling until about week ago, when an indurate
swelling on his right cheek attracted his atten-
| ton. He found that it was caused by link of
an OK chain and on trying to pull the link out o.
| the cheek twelve feet of heavy ox-chan and the
missing cart were recovered-the latter in per-
feet condition, with the exception of one OF the
tires, which was slightly corroded. This story
teaches US that we should never play with light
ming and should always tell the truth.
BILLY BARLOW.
Republican Mass Meeting.-A very sue
cessful Republican mass meeting was held in the
| Court House, Towsontown, on Tuesday afternoon,
which drew together large number of represen-
tative men from almost every section of the coun-
| ty. The MiddIetown cornet band, Mr.. Howard
Gore, leader arrived early in the day and enliv-
| ened the town by discoursing excellent music. At
| 3 o'clock the meeting organized by electing
the following officers President, Thomas Hale,
! 9Th district; vce-presdents, S. K. Crosby, list
district: N. N. Haight, I'd; VIM. Buck, Sd Col.
E. P. Philpot, 4th; Daniel Beckley, 9Th; VIM.
Mccullough 9th ; j. Emory Stiltz 7th Thad-
deus C. Blair, Sth j. Christian Craft 9th H.
| D. Morris, 10th j. Glenn McCOmas, 1lth; j..
| Albert Wagner, 18th, and Chas Williams, 18th.
The chairman delivered a short address after
| which he introduced Hon. VIM. NJ. Marine, who
entertained the large assembage for about thirty
minutes. His remarks were very conservative,
and he said nothing at which any one could take
offense. He handled the issues involved in the
| canvass in a mastery manner and made many
telling points which were loudly applauded.
Mr.. Marine was followed by Thomas 7. Benton,
ESQ, Republican candidate for State Senator,
who introduced himself as "plan Tom Benton, of
the 9th district" willing to fulfill the trust
posed in him by his party to the best of his
ability. He was earnest and showed that he is
a man of the people, sound on all the leading
issues and able to represent his county in man.
ner to reflect credit upon those who propose to
| send him to Annapolis.
The speech of the day was delivered by Hon.
R. Stockett Mathews, who held the close atten-
| ton of his large and intelligent audience for
about one hour and thirty minutes. His speech
was beautiful in rhetoric, sharp and incisve, and
his leading points were such as only he knows
how to put. A finer political speech was never
| delivered in the court room, and the large num-
| Der of intelligent Democrats who were present
were as much entertained and instructed as were
his Republican auditors. At the close of Mr..
Mathews speech the meeting adjourned
Public Roads.-At the September meeting Of
the Deer Creek Farmers Club of Hartford county,
the subject for discussion was "Public Roads -
Among other things said by the different speak
ers, Judge James D. Waters said that "public
roads are public property and their improvement
is of advantage to everybody. No matter how
attractive and desirable region may be- unless
the roads are good property will not command
as high price as it is worth. The roads of Har-
ford are being greatly improved, but it is posi-
BILE to make them better STILL" He was not in
favor of changing the present system 1t is an
admirable thing that the roads seem to be taken
out of politics. He advocated the use of the
patent road scraper, propelled by horses, bet
ter and cheaper than the shovel and mattock
Roads cannot be properly mended with the ordi-
nary dump-scraper.
An Opinion on Our County Fair.-The
editor of the Maryland Farmer, in concluding an
article on our late Baltimore County Fair" says
ave do not wish to be fault finders, but cannot
refrain for the future benefit of this association
from saving that there was shown by the officers