The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-07-26

All are earnestly invited.
REV. WATSON CASE, Preacher in Charge
81. Johns N. E. Church, Lutherrille.-Preach-
ing Sunday, at ii a. m. and 7.3O P. m, oy the pas
tor. Rev. VIM. Dallam Morgan. Prayer meeting
Wednesday evening, at 7.3O o'clock.
81. Johns Mission, York Road.-Preaching to-
morrow afternoon, at o'clock, by Rev. W. L. ID.
GLENN.
Summit Grove camp-meeting commences
Thursday next, 3lst inst.
The next meeting Of the Lauravie liter
airy society will be held on the evening Of August
9TH.
The Orphans Court has granted letters to
Henry Sert on the estate Mary Linderman, de-
ceased.
An excursion to Watkins Glen and Niagara
Falls will be run via Pennsylvania railroad about
August 18th.
"A drop of coal oil rubbed on the head at
night will keep mosquitoes away. Very simple,
and worth trying.
An exchange, speaking of the curculio, says
plum trees should be frequently Jared. The
same is true of the plums
-EmpIoyees of the Phila., Wilmington &
BALTIC. R. r. have been forbidden carrying par
cells or letters for any one.
"A man named Michael Croghan, employed
at the Beaver Dam quarries, near Cockeysvlile,
Mr.. P. Mercer an old resident of Howard
county, died at his residence, near Ellicott City,
on Friday of last week, aged Sc years.
a tournament will be held on Mr.. Joshua
Prices farm, on the Jarrettsville pike, one mile
west of Sweet Air, on Wednesday, July 3Oth.
Orange peel is now said to be dried in
ovens and sold for kindng fires. 1t burns readily
and with great ierceness, and is safer than kero-
sene.
st. Andrews Protestant Episcopal Sunday
school will hold its annual picnic on Friday,
August goth, in Christopher,s woods, Hartford
turnpike.
One of the transparencies in the Democratic
procession Wednesday night, had "a Tariff for
Revenue" and another "For Congress, j. Fred.
C. Talbot"
Quite large number of our citizens will
attend the annual picnic of the Towsontown M.
E. Sunday school, at Druid Hill Park, on We'd
nesday next.
- Mr.. George o. Brown, of this county, has
been invited to act as judge of poultry at the
Quintuple fair to be held at Hagerstown this fall.
The selection is good one.
Mr.. John Anderson, well-known Balti-
more builder, was thrown from MS carriage, on
Roland avenue, few days ago, and sustained
fracture of the collar bone.
The card of Mr.. Howard Ridgely, stock
broker, appears in our advertising columns this
week. He has been in the business number OF
years and is therefore well posted
The Baltimore Canned Goods Exchange
has decided to issue circular cautioning dealers
and jobbers against packers who are putting up
goods in cans smaller than the standard.
Services will be held in the Presbyterian
Chapel, Towsontown, on Sunday afternoon next, at
o'clock, conducted by Elder William Grafton, OF
the Old School Baptists. All are invited.
Mr.. Harry Phipps, plasterer, of this place,
while at work on a building at Fallston, on
Thursday of last week, fell distance of about
twelve feet, injuring himself quite painfully.
-Towsontown is just now taking her usual
midsummer snooze and the place is duller than
we have ever known it before, there being fewer
strangers about than is customary at this season
The cornerstone of Mt. Pleasant Chapel
A. NJ E. church, near 0wings' Mills, 4th district
was laid on Sunday last. The new building will
be 20x50 feet. Rev. J. E. Waters will be the
pastor.
Peach Bottom Railroad at 1920 a. m, has been
Withdrawn, as has also the one leaving Peach
Bottom at $40 p. m. and arriving in York al
7.05 p. m.
At o'clock on Sunday night last July
goth, the thermometer in Towsontown marked "a
degrees. This is such an unusual temperature at
this season of the year that it is well to make q
note of it.
Mr.. E. r. Peasants chief engineer and
road-master of the Maryland Central, is using a
large pillow to open the bitches in the cuts along
the line of the road, in order to drain them
thoroughly.
The inventory of the personal estate of the
late Samuel NJ. Shoemaker, amounting to So2O O0C
in hand and $251, 900 debts due his estate, tota
Sl,O62, 900, has been fled in the Orphans Court
of this county.
james C. Worthington, a member of tho
Society of Friends, and one of Harford's mos
progressive and successful farmers, died at hi'
residence, near Darlington, on the 18th inst, aged
about IS years.
-D:. A. C. McCurdy, of this place, having
been elected assistant marshal of the Cleveland
and Hendricks club Republican friend of hi
has presented him with appropriate badge t.
wear on parade.
There was more bad conduct on our streets
last Saturday night and no officer to preserve
order. Our citizens positively without am
protection in this respect and we ask again
Whose fault is it /?
The cool weather of last week had a gooC
effect on the sick children of the city and tn
number of deaths was considerably less than TO
the week previous. The total number of death
for the week was 1873.
-Base-baII is now the leading pastime o
our young men and boys and game is in pro
press on the common nearly every afternoon
There is not much to be made at baseball, Blu
then it is good exercise.
Mrs. Hoffman, the estimable wife of Hon
William H. Hoffman, head of the extensive pape
of paralysis, at her residence, Hofmansvilie, 6tl
district, on Saturday night last.
"A new disease is prevalent among tn
noultrv in the north western section of the coun
ty, and hundreds of young chickens and turkey
have died from it. So far all efforts to stop 1t
ravages have proved unavailing.
Mr.. S. Merryman Anderson, president
the Baltimore county Temperance Alliance, wa
one of the delegates selected by Mr.. VIM. DAME
to attend the National temperance convention
which met in Pittsburg last Wednesday.
Mr.. Charles H. Sheridan, farmer on MI
Samuel Chewis place, near Tpwsontown, recent
lost three fine hogs from cholera. AS soon as h
discovered the cause of death he went vigor
eusly to work and saved the balance OF his stocH
The colored camp-meeting on the Jopp
road. short distance east of TOwsontown, wa
very shiny attended on Sunday last There ar
eleven tents on the grounds. The camp is i
charge of Rev. w. W. Wilson, of REGISTER ayenu
church.
of the proprietor of the Oriental Brewery, High
Iandtown, 18th district, fell through an elevate
shaft. on Tuesday last, distance of about 5O fee
breaking leg and otherwise seriously injurin
himself.
The ninth annual harvest home will
held at the Rocks of Deer Greek, Thursday, Au
gust 18th. 1t is expected that the gathering thi
year will be larger than ever before, the faciiie
Tor reacnlng tue grounus having peen D" AiuN
improved.
At the Monumental Fishing Grounds,
the 18th district, the other day, whilst a fisher
man was engaged in gathering wood to build
fire, he picked up black snake, measuring 8 fet
in length, by mistake. He said. he thought
was piece of wood.
Some of the members OF the Towsontow
Cleveland and Hendricks club propose to provid
themselves with uniforms. We would sugge
that they have their "close" made of some extr
heavy material, as the 4th of November will prov
q very cold day for them.