The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-04-05

Q Farmers Club Meeting.-At recent NEE
ing of the Deer Creek Farmers Club, Mr.. Johl
III. Janney said he was convinced a man can g
rich at farming. He considered any man ownin
200 acres of land, well stocked worth as much
r a man in the city who has $l5O,OOO Of cour:
that is not rich as compared with Vanderbilt, b.
} riches are only comparative, and mans wealt
is measured by the solid comfort he gets out of i
Let farmer keep an account of his family eX
penses, as if he were in the city, credting hi
farm $50 per month for each horse he keeps, an
market prices, for every chicken, pound of butte
etc., and he would be astonished at the amount til
farm produced. Then look at the security of hi
business. Of every 100 merchants, 80 fail, 8 max
O living only and one makes fortune. Not
per cent. of the farmers fail. You cannot expec
rapid wealth from any business so secure. A
for the work, the head man on farm does no
work one-fourth as hard as the head man in mer
camille business A man with 200 or $50 acre
can make more money by seeing everything prop
erly attended to than by working with his hands
There is no more independent life than that of th
farmer. He can enjoy life if he can't make
great deal of money. He thought it was the de
cided opinion of the members present that farm
| ing does pay.
Judge Waters thought the profits of farming
ought to be $40 acre over the entire FARM
One secret of good farming is to make every acr'
pay; not to depend upon any one crop as wheat
| to run the whole farm.
Court of Appeals Decision.-In the Cour
of Appeals this, week, Judge Robinson delivered
the opinion in the case of George I'll. Carman
| Edward Rider and Sam' Brady, examiners Of
| Edmondson avenue, against the Franklin Bank
of Baltimore Judges Alvey, Miller, Irving, Bryan
| and Stone concurring. The Court says there was
no difficulty presented by the question in this ap-
peal 1t involved the right to draw out of bank
| deposit made by appellants in their names "as
examiners of EdmondsOn avenue, which the bank
paid to their successors as examiners. The Court
says deposit of money in bank by one in his own
name and right creates the relation of debtor and
creditor, the contract the part of the bank be-
ing to pay checks of the depositor so long as he
has funds in its hand sufficient to do so. But this
was deposit made by the appellants in their
official relation, as required by the act under
| which the money had been collected, and to the
beneficial interest. When they superseded
in Office by the new board the money did not be-
long to them but to their in office. The
decision in favor of the bank affirmed.
In Memorabilia Rev. A. B. Grosk, whose
death announced in our last weeks issue, was
a man of rare intellectual culture and profoun
learning. While occupied in active ministerial
duties, he constant contributor to reviews
and magazines, and afterwards spent all his time
in writing. He was the author of "The Manual
of Odd Fellowship" as we'll the "Mentor in
the Oranges, and homes of the Patrons of Hus-
bandry." Well versed in scientific lore, he was
prepared to explain and make clear abstruse
questions without ostentatiOn attempt at dis
play. Possessing unusual physical as we'll as
mental vigor, he hardly seemed to have gone so
far past the three years and ten allotted to
man on earth, and enabled to resist for nearly
ten days the attack of cold to which finally he
succumbed, and for eight weeks he lay patiently
awaiting the summons to the "rest remaining for
the children of God" for which he was so well
prepared.
Grand Jury Report.-The Grand Jury for
the March term of Court, which adjourned finally
on Friday of last week, submitted the following
their report, through their foreman: at states
that the jury has been in session 20 days, examin-
ed 1S2 witnesses, Investigated go cases, found 26
presentments, dismissed 81 cases, released per-
sons from Jail, and found 20 true bills. The com
mittee appointed to visit the Jail recommend that
the County Commissioners have the building re-
paired. The committee to examine the treasurer's
books-Messrs. Jackson Wilson, P. A. Ruhl and
Wesley Green-report that tho books are well
kept and the Office is conducted on strictly bust
ness principles. The report shows balance on
hand March LIST, 1884, of $21 ,162.01.'
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Barn Burned.-On Friday afternoon of last
week frame barn on the farm of Mr. W. Harri-
son Curtis, on the county road leading from Sun
nybrook to Warren, in the 10th district, was des-
troyed by fire, causing loss of about 5000. In
sured in the Baltimore county Mutual Company
for $500. Mr.. VIM. Ecker:, who rents the place,
loses about $780, which is covered by policy in
foreign company. A corn house near the barn
was also burned, together with about thirty barrels
of corn belonging to Mr.. Curtis, neither being
insured. 1t is not known how the fire originated.
Delicate Surgical Operation.-The Ha-
gcrstown Ne,cs of last week, says A delicate sur
gical operation, consisting of the removal of a
tumor from the peritoneum, has been performed
by DR.. NJ. W. Allison. The patient, Mrs. VIM.
Byrne, of Baltimore county, came here for the
purpose of consulting DR.. Allison-the operation
was decided on, performed and we learn the
patient is progressing very favorably. We are
informal that this one of the most critical oper
Death Turks in "Skunk Cabbage
John Mcclure living at Union factory, LIST dis
trict, died suddenly on Saturday night last, from
the effects of eating the roots of 'skunk cabbage,
which he mistook for spkenard root. He had
gathered the roots from the woods during the day,
and having partaken freely of them, he was
thrown into commissions, with symptoms ofviruent
poison. DIR. T. B. Owings, who was called to see
him, did all in his power to relieve him, but to no
effect.
Fire in the 7th Distribution Wednesday
morning last, a frame tenant house on the farm