The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-12-20
STATE ITEMS.

There are 1900 Federal Offices in Maryland
with salaries ranging from $500 to $1,000.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Chmpany is
erecting safety gates at some OF the crossings in
Hartford county.
The streets of EIkton, Cecil county, are being
paved with oyster shells. The shells are obtained
from Baltimore packing houses.
Mr.. Edward fancy, q descendent of the late
Chief Justice fancy, expects to be made post
master at Emmitsburg, Frederick county
Miss Annie e. Baker, of Upper X Roads,
Hartford county, has been appointed to the vacant
scholarship in Western Maryland College
Mr.. John G. Rose, of the Baltimore bar, has,
on motion of Hon. Stevenson Archer, beenadmit-
ted to practice in the Circuit Court for Hartford
county.
Mr.. William H. Janney, for
past teller in the Hartford National L -
air, has been elected cashier of the Matt, ,snk
of Smyrna, Delaware.
Mr.. David Foutz, formerly Of Unto town,
Carroll county, has been engaged as pitcf ,r on
St. Louis, Missouri, baseball club for next sea-
son, at salary of $4,000.
Several gentlemen have been summoned be-
fore magistrate in Kent county for cunning on
the premises of Israel Walbert. The Justice fined
each of them S. and cssts. Expensive sport.
Forty eight head of cattle have recently been
shipped from Easton, Talbot county, to the State
| of Texas. The lot consisted of young bulls and
hefers, of the breed known as Herefords, all uni
formly marked with white faces and other dis
| tinctive marks of that breed.
The Board of Charities and Corrections
| for Montevue, Frederick county, have appointed
| an overseer for the tramps committed to that in
stitution, whose duty it will be to make them
work for living. 1t would be we'll if we had
some such an arrangement in Baltimore county.
| Among the relics of early Methodism dis
played at the Centennial Conference of the Meth
| Eo;c OH hat wa hqd n RQl
tmore, was the old pulpit used by Rev. Robert
| Strawbridge in 1862, when he preached at the
house of John Evans, near Sans Creek, Carroll
county.
/ From Westminster Advocate: "Mr. Chrence
Seabrook, who cut his finger in the dis ting
room at Jefferson Medical College, Phila .bou'
! a and has heen suffering from blood
poisoning ever since, and was compelled to abar-
don his studies for the present. His right arm
has become involved in the disease and is cntneT
disabled. He is now in Baltimore with his fathe
and mother"
The Hagerstown Herald says: "Hon. Loui
e. McComas finds his mail as full of application
for recommendations to Office as if a Republican
President had been elected most of the appli
cants appearing to expect that he can help theI
with the new regime. They rather over esti
mating his influence with the new administration
1t is not likely that Republican Congressman wi
be consulted much by President Cleveland"
| -Ine Hagerstown GloOe Is responsible 1or TINS
"a two year old child of Eli Waltz, ate hearth.
of dried corn on Thanksgiving day at a Dime
with its parents Since then the child has bee
affected with high fever and physician bein
called in found the little sufferers abdomen dis
tended and hard. Relief being afforded, it wa
found that the corn had undertaken to grow i
the chids stomach, some of the grains havin
burstcd and produced sprouts two inches in length
The little one, who Internationally and unavoda
bly, placed herself on record, has entirely
| ed" We don't believe it.