The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-08-30
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/. to the Eastern Shore on Saturday last
r Mr.. Thomas G. Bruff, Examiner of the coun
K ty schools, has returned from Cape May.
f Mrs. Thomas G. Bruff and children returned
; from Bedford Springs, Pa, on Thursday.
Q Mrs. Fielder G. Slinglu6, who has been Wis
iting in Virginia, arrived home this week.
Mrs. DIR. VIM. II. Mace of the 18th district
was registered at Cape May, on the Oath.
, Col. e. H. Webster and family, of Belair
are at Bedford Springs, Pa, for few weeks.
Mr.. Robert Fowler and wife, of Baltimore, are
the guests of Judge David Fowler, of this town.
Mr.. William M. Edelin, has been appointed
chief marshal of the Hartford county Agricultural
Society.
Capt. N M. Rittenhouse and family, of Wa
verify, have been spending some time at Ocean
City, Md.
Gen. Bradley T. johnson, of this county, ad-
dressed Democratic meeting at Elkton, on Thurs
day evening.
Vincent 7. Shipley, Esq, of the Sth district,
was registered at the Arlington, Cape May, on
the Oath inst.
Col. R. M. Johnston, of this county, author
of the "Dukesborough Tales" has been engaged
} to write play.
Judge Fowler, who has been spending few
weeks at one of the prominent Virginia springs,
returned home Tuesday.
Miss May Butler, daughter of Thomas Butler,
Esq, well-known citizen of Hartford, is visiting
relatives in Towsontown.
ty, announces, over his own signature, that he is
not candidate for Congress.
| Prof. John K. Balm, of the County Clerk 8
office, who left for Germany few months ago, to
visit friends, has returned home.
DIR. A. c. McCurdy and wife, of this place,
have been spending a week with relatives and
friends in York and Hartford counties.
The intensely hot weather of last week
brought an increased number of guests to the
Smedley, and the house is now well filled.
Mr.. Wm L. Gallagher, of this place, started
Thursday night on trip to Philadelphia and New
Jersey where he goes to visit relatives and friends
Benjamin Chew, ESQ.,, of Germantown, Pa,
spent Saturday and Sunday last at Epson, the
residence of Mrs. Charles R. Chew, near Towson-
town.
Mrs. Fred. Won Kapf, of "Stonelegh," near
Towsontown, accompanied by her sisters, the
Misses Brown, were registered at Cape May
the Goth.
Mr.. James S. Butler, who resigned his posi-
ton with the Maryland Central road, left on Tues
day for Houston, Texas, where he will permanent
| ly locate.
| The engagement is announced of Jacob Tome,
Esq, the Port Deposit millionaire, to Miss Nesbtt,
of the same place. Mr.. Tome is 70 years of age
| and his afianced 80.
| Col. Herman Stump, of the Beair bar, is at
Narragansett Pier seeking relief from the hay
fever which the Agis says attacks him every year
on the 2lst of August.
| WI. arthur Dosiey, prOprletOT VI tne hlSu-
land poultry yards of this place, last week visited
a number of poultry fanciers located in different
| parts of Pennsylvania.
| Mrs. DR.. G. M. Bosey, accompanied by her
son, left on Monday for the Greenbriar White
Sulphur Springs, Va. Before returning they
will also visit the Hot Springs, Va.
| Capt. d. P. Barnette Assistant School Ex-
aminer, has returned from his visit to Lake Ro-
land The Captains rotundity of form gives
| proof of his having had good time.
| Hon John Carroll Walsh. of Hartford county,
| publishes card in which he states that if the
honor of the Congressional nomination is
| ferred upon him it will be accepted.
Henry Taylor, Esq, of this county, senior
member of the Baltimore News Company, has
been honored ~ with the position of Presidential
Elector on the st. John Daniel Prohibition ticket.
Mr.. j. Wesley Lee, who left here about three
weeks ago for jamestown, Dakota, arrived home
Thursday night On his return he visited Mag
ara, Buffalo, New York City and other places of
| interest.
Miss Margie Grason, daughter of Hon.
Richard Grason, who has been spending month
or six weeks in st. Paul and Minneapolis, Min
nesota, returned to her home this week, having
had delightful visit.
Col. Samuel X. Herr, of Westminster, widely
known in this county, and member of the firm
of Messrs. F. K. Herr Bro, carriage manufac-
turers, has been designated as one of the mar
shals at the Washington county fair
Mr.. Richard T. Wheeler, of st. Louis, Mo-, son
of the late John M. Wheeler, who was Court
clerk under the late John H. Longnecker, was in
Towsontown a few days ago and called to see u.s.
He is a member of the firm of Wheeler, James &
Co., live stock commission merchants, and has
been quite successful in business. Mr.. Wheeler
has resided in the West about twelve years.
Trouble About a Tollgate.-The Sun of
Tuesday says: "Some years ago the Charles
Street Avenue Company, in addition to the toll
gate thereon at the north side of Merryman's lane
placed another at the side to intercept travel turn
ing into or coming out of the lane. As the
charter of the company provides that it might |
erect gate and makes no provision for gates,
payment of toll at this new gate resisted, and
in a case brought by the company against Henry |
E. White the Circuit Court for Baltimore county |
decided that the company had no right to collect
toll at this second gate, as the charter authorized
but one gate on the road. Thereafter the COM |
pany ceased using the lower gate until few |
weeks ago, when the same was restored, and toll |
was demanded of those passing through. Resi- |
dents along Merryman's lane determined to make |
q case and have the gate again removed, but on |
Friday last, when one of them drove to the gate |
and refused to pay the toll unless it was demand
ed under such circumstances that suit might be |
brought for it's recovery, he was told by the gate
keeper that his instructions were to let any one
who refused to pay 60 through without paying, |
keeping, however, an account of it, so that when |
the bill amounted to $50 case might be made |
that could be taken to the Court of Appeals if the
Circuit Court should adhere to its former decision.
The neighbors say they will ask the next Grand |
Jury to indict the company for erecting and |
maintaining the illegal gate"
Jurisdiction Of Justices OF the Peace
The General Assembly at its last session repealed
Chapter 324, Acts of 1880, entitled act to con-
fer additional jurisdiction upon Justices of the |
in and oil ar Il
the same with an amendment that it reads as
it now appears in Chapter $40, Acts of 1884.
comparison of the new act with the old one |
discloses no amendment except that in section I'd |
of the new act the words cor to hold such offenders
to ball." which words in the act of $780, are omit
ted, and the law reads, provided, however, |
that if any person, when brought before any such |
jnstice having jurisdiction of the case shall before
trial for the alleged ofense pray jury trial, or if |
the States attorney for said county shall before |
trial for such alleged offense pray jury trial on
the part of the State, it shall be the duty of any
such justice to commit such alleged offender for
trial in the Circuit Court for the county in which
the ofense was committed"
Under Chapter 17S of the Acts of the same ses- |
sion, judgements rendered by Justices of the Peace
are rendered of more importance than formerly |
Ii the judgment is recorded in the Office of the |
Clerk of the Circuit Court it will be good for twelve
years, and the clerk has power to issue attach
ment or execution at any time within that period
Formerly justices judgments only held for three |
years.
New Bridges.-The County Commissioners, |
Messrs. Crout Rittenhouse, on Tuesday award |
ed the contract for building arch brick cuvert
on the Hollins Ferry road, to Charles Flack OF
1926.
The Board also opened bids for a wrought-iron
Pratt-truss bridge to be built over the Gunpow-
der falls, at Hoffman's paper mills, 9th district,
with span of 100 feet. The plan and descrip- |
ton of the bridge accompanied each bid. The
bids were as follows: Penn Bridge Company
1.-TWO bids,) plan A. So 047.36; plan B, 81 ,965SS.
Vulcan Works, $4,000; King Iron Bridge Com
pany of Cleveland, 81, 4S0; Pittsburg Bridge Com
pany 1.-TWO bids) plan A, 5000; plan B, 1890;
H. Ramsay Sons, S2,195. The contract will be |
awarded next week. The contract for the stone |
and building the abutments for the foregoing |
bridge was awarded to George o. Price, at Sl.9S |
per perch.
Meeting on the Fair Grounds.-On Mon |
day next the regular meeting of the Board of |