The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-08-23


situated near Monkton, and containing 131 acres
unimproved, to Mr.. NJ. W. Ofutt for $4,000.
-Don't fail to go on the excursion over the
Maryland Central Railroad to Annapolis to-day
The ride on the bay will be delightful. See
| advertisement.
The County Commissioners are having the
cutters on Washington avenue, near the residence
of DIR. Jarrett, paved and curbed, and when CON-
| pleted, it will be very nice improvement.
The Cleveland and Hendricks Club OF
| Pikesville, Sd district, on Wednesday, raised a
pole III feet in length. G. Ridgely Goodwin,
Esq, president of the club, and Chas B. Rogers,
| secretary.
| Mr.. Joseph Schreier, who owned an extern
sive brewery the Belair road, this county, died
on Tuesday evening last, after a lingering illness,
aged IS years. He was a native of Germany
Mr.. Schreier was a member of the Grand Army
of the Republic.
-Mr. William H. Waters, president of the
Maryland Central Railroad Company, is now
serving without salary. Mr.. Waters has labored
very hard for the of this enterprise and is
deserving of much credit for what has already
been accomplished.
p. W. Baker, ESQ.,, editor and proprietor of
the Belair Rgis, has recently placed in his Office
a new Campbell press. The 1Egis is now more
bright and interesting than ever. The press is
run by horsepower at aspeed of from 500 to 300
impressions an hour.
The Republicans of Woodbury. and
| rounding villages have now three campaign clubs
organized, the last one to start being young
mems club. We wish them all success, and ex-
pect to hear a good report from that section on
| the 4th of November.
One of the new directors of the Maryland
Central road lately had the road carefully exam
ined by an expert engineer, at his 1.-THE drectors)
expense, in order to thoroughly satisfy himself
as to its condition. &C. The report is said to have
been highly satisfactory.
The four little daughters of the late James
II. Wilson, of Govanstowp, who have been at
school at Emmitsburg, Md, since the death of
their parents, were this week transferred to Mt.
de Sales, Baltimore county. They are nieces of
Mr.. Lewis III. Urban, of Towsontown.
The County Commissioners, on Saturday
last, held meeting in thecity and decided to pay
the claim Of the Water Board for water service for
the county fire department. On Tuesday an order
was drawn by the Board for $ll655, which squares
up the county's Indebtedness for 1854.
tim going to support Cleveland" said a
fellow that was well filed with corn juice. "You
are, are you, you lazy rascal exclaimed his
enraged wife, as she drove him out of the house
with a broom-stick. "You are going to support
Cleveland, are you !? You had better support me
first"
Owners Of steam threshers, in moving them
over the highways from farm to farm, should be
careful to use every precaution to prevent run
Always and accidents. Whenever one is to be
moved messenger should always be sent ahead
to warn teams that may be on the road at the
same time.
Baltimore business men who live at Sher-
wood, Northern Central Railroad, which is eight
miles from the city, buy three months commuta-
tion tickets and their fare costs them six cents
trip, or twelve cents per day. The fare to Luth-
ervie, one mile above, under the same ticket is
| seven cents.
-Messrs. Harden & Young, contractors on
q Noko lie Ro;l laws
ago had some trouble with the Italian laborers
employed by the firm, who claimed that they had
not been paid in full. Subsequently satisfactory
settlement was made and the dissatisfied men were
discharged.
-SaveraI gentIemon from this place, who
have lately been down fishing, have met with ex-
traordnary success. Capt. John Ridgely and Mr..
William Grason caught upwards of twenty -four
dozen of very fine perch and rock, and on another
day party of Capt. Ridgely's friends were equal
ly successful.
The vicinity of White Hall, N. c.. R. R., is
said to have been greatly pestered lately by
chicken hawks. A Baltimore paper says that a
gentleman named Shipley, of that city, who spent
his vacation in that neighborhood, killed twenty
three hawks. Wonder if Mr.. Shipley wouldn't be
willing to take off a few hawks.
Mr.. William T. Godsborough of the firm
of Ulman, Goldsborough & Co., wholesale liquor
dealers, Baltimore, died on Tuesday, from cancer
of the stomach, aged A years. He was well
known in this county, and was related to many
of the prominent families on the Eastern Shore.
A wife and two children survive him.
Mr.. Joshua Frock, who has owned the York
road newspaper route for about eighteen months,
has sold the same to Mr.. George Werger, son of
the man from whom he purchased it. 1t is one
of the best routes out of the city, the carrier hav-
ing in the neighborhood of two thousand patrons.
Mr.. Werger will take charge Sept. LIST.
Mr. John H. Small has on his vaIna HE
farm in York county, 100 head of high grade
Attorney cattle. In the herd are Sc cows, rang
ing in value from $500 to several thousand dollars.
For one Is months old Jersey bull, he has refused
an offer of 900, and for a COW, $2,750. This
has nsodo 10 pounds of buttor week.
The Belair Democrat says: "While in Nova
Scotia, ten days ago, Mr.. S. A. Williams visited
the quarries of plaster, at Winsor, on the Avon
river. 1t is bought there for about 80 cents per
ton, shipped to Baltimore in blocks, where it is
admitted free of duty, (being raw materially and
there ground into a fine dust. 1t is then we'll.
known fertilizer, and sells for about 81 per ton.
The Westminster Sentinel says that on a
recent Sunday evening an excursion train
turning on the Baltimore d Hanover Railroad
from the Asbury colored camp meeting, east of
Emory Grove, young lady on the train, whose
hat was blown from her head while the train was
running at the rate of 20 miles an hour, reckessly
jumped from the cars after it and escaped serious
injury.
Several hundred people were attracted to
the Spiritualist camp-meeting, at Loeb Raven,
last Sunday, about nine tenths of them going out
of curiosity. Lectures were delivered during
the day by Mrs. Keyser and Mrs. Wagner, both
intelligent women, who appeared to talk with as
much water runs down hill. The meeting
will be continued over Sunday next, when the at
tendance will no doubt be larger than it was last
Sabbath.
Dutch John, the umbrella member, who
holds forth in Sandy Bottom, above Towsontown,
got on a rampage last Wednesday and for time
made things quite lively. He attempted to cut
annther man with an aya- pnd stEnck p tEn21er
jury. The green-eyed monster mixed with GER
tain fluids, is supposed to have been the cause of
the "onpleasantness." John was arrested and
sent to jail.
Two Have-de-Grace men were released
from the Belar Jail few days ago, after q con-
finement Of sixty days, for non-payment of fines
for violating the local option laws. The RepuJ-
tican says we do not know the terms of their re-
lease, but understand it was under the provision
OF the state insolvent laws, such fines, under a
decision Of Judge Grason, being regarded as CON-
mon debts, for which there cannot be imprison-
ment, but which cannot be availed of until sixty
days after they are imposed.
Three bulls have already been offered as
presents to the proposed dairy in Druid Hill Park.
But it is absolutely essential that there should be
COW or two. Hasn't some fellow got q COW he
don't want? Even if she is q worse "kicker" than
Gawgo William Curtis, we are willing to give a
written guarantee that Capt. Cassell will very
soon make her understand that her particular
business is to give plenty of the tactical instead of
trying to bang the mik-maid in the fifth rib every
time favorable opportunity presents ITSELF Get
a COW for the dairy, by all means.
The followingi is taken from the BALTIC. Sun,
that bright luminary that claims to "shine for ALL"
zone Who Knows" writes to The Sun as follows
"TO the Lady with Mustache," whose inquiry
about the means of its removal appears in The
Sun. L send remedy as effective as simple
Let her nightly rub her upper lip-but not too hard
with wet prepared chalk, such as is used as
daily dentrifce by many, that in small Jumps be-
ing preferable, and allow it to remain on till
morning. This persisted in will destroy any su-
peraous hair, "root and branch" whether on the
arms or face.
The Rocks of Deer Creek (says the Beair
Egis), as a place of public resort, might be made
as popular as Pen Mar, but to make it SO better
accommodations must be provided With four or
five thousand people on the grounds, as were there
last week. and shelter for three-fourths of them
if a storm should occur, the consequences might
be serious to many. The railroad company