The Baltimore County union., 1884-11-22
STATE ITEMS.

The New Lutheran church at Westminster
cost S17,0OO
Mr.. A. P. Shockley, of Elkton, recently sold
red Irish setter dog for 5000.
Nathan e. Scarboro' has been appointed
postmaster at High Point, Hartford county.
The majority for McComas for Congress, in
the Sixth Congressional District, over Nelson,
| was 1,6l6.
The Frederick Times says: "There are more
blood. thirsty Democrats in Frederick, if one may
judge by recent speeches, than there is in a city
four times its size"
The total vote polled at the last election in
Hartford county, was 5,S95, about 200 less than
the registered vote.
The Hagerstown Bank has declared divi-
dend of per cent for the past six months, clear
of State and county taxes.
| The Baltimore papers are not received in
Frederick City until 10.15 a.. m, about the time
the Philadelphia papers arrive.
Cleveland carried Talbot county by only
seven majority. The Easton Star says it can
now be called Democratic county.
-McMurry's canning establishment,in Freder-
ick county, will be represented at the New Orleans
Exposition by a car load of its products.
The barn on the estate of Ex-Governor
John Lee Carroll, situated near Ellicott City,
was burned down on Sunday night last.
Mr.. VIM. Waring. of Cecil county, whose ill
ness was noticed in these columns last week, died
on Saturday, in the 77th year of his age.
The Governor has commissioned John Hillery
Parsons County Commissioner for St. Mary's
county, vice Augustus j. Blain, resigned.
Mrs. Nancy Shields, of North East, Cecil
county, died recently at the age of 104 years.
Her husband died an old man 80 years ago.
-Partridges are said to be nearly as scarce as
ever in Carroll county, Notwithstanding they were
protected from destruction for two years by law.
Dublin district, Hartford county, the home
of the President of the Temperance Alliance of
that county, did not give st John single vote.
Mr.. Benjamin F. Norris has purchased the
farm OF Mr.. Asa j.. Vansant, containing IS acres,
situated in the upper or northern portion of Har-
ford county, for the sum of $4 800.
Mr.. Joseph T. Moore, of Sandy Springs,
Montgomery county, was married October 14th,
1884, by Friends ceremony, to Miss Estele Tyson,
daughter of the late Henry Tyson, of Baltimore.
The Westminster Democratic Advocate, pub
Iisbed by the Messrs. Vanderford, commenced it's
10th year on the 18th inst. 1t is very inter-
esting newspaper and deserves the success it has
met with.
The peach orchard of Mr.. J. A. Nicodemus,
living near Edgemont, Washington county, netted
him 81 900 last season. Some varieties brought
as much as SIS a crate wholesale, in the Philadel-
phia market.
"A covey of partridges, about dusk few even
ings ago, flew against the house of Mr.. Alonzo
Warfield, of Dorchester county, and more than q
dozen were killed by the force of the concussion.
fine partridge breakfast was the result of this
singular accident.
The wellknown newspaper correspondent,
George Alfred Townsend, has purchased IA acres
of land situated on the summit of South Noun
tain, at Champions Gap, Washington county, on
which he will build summer residence. The To-
cation is said to command view of the entire
Middletown Valley.
The Cecil Wing says: "The majorities all
over Maryland at the lato election only serve to
show Republican possibility, had such a canvass
been made as the merit of the Republican cause
deserved. Better directed effort in Maryland
might have saved i! for the Blaine column. The
diminished Democratic majority attests the asser-
tion."
Mrs. Hartnett, wife of Michael Hartnett, liv-
ing near Elkton, Cecil county, was gored to death
by an infuriated bull on Sunday morning last
The animal approached her whilst she was en-
gagged milking, and not being prepared to defend
herself of his horns struck her in the stomach
and literally ripped it open. She lived about an
hour and a-half.
An enthusiastic Democrat of Easton, who
has been walking ON crutehes for the past six
months on account of rheumatism, threw his
crutches away when he heard Cleveland was
elected and has been walking around without them
ever since, and declaring himself we'll man.
His wife steps in and says the cure was due to
red pepper and vinegar. Who must we believe
The Calvert Journal says "The local option
law which has been in force in Prince Georges
county for some years past, by virtue of special
election, was again submitted to the people at
the recent general election and was defeated by a
majority of ,265. 1t is the general impression
that had the party not nominated candidates for
the presidency and vice presidency the result
would have been otherwise. Many voted against
the measure after the question was carried into
politics."