The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-05-31


barked in that business.
Judge Oliver Miller, of the Court of APP
peals, brother-in-la law of DR.. Piper of this place
will sail for Europe on the 18th of June. Mrs
Miller will not accompany her husband.
The affable Gen. Bradley T. Johnson, whc
is a resident of this county, was in Towsontowr
Thursday evening, looking after his fences. lie
will take hand in the Democratic primaries to.
day, hence his presence here.
There was frost and ice in some sections
of Baltimore county on Thursday morning, and
the thermometer in Towsontown, at a. m, reg
istered As Degrees considerable "tumble" from
| Saturday last when it marked 81.
| 1t is currently rumored that Mr.. o. r.
Ford, master of transportation on the Maryland
Central railroad, will retire the first of the
month. 1t is stated, also, that Mr.. E. B. Pleas
ants, chief engineer of the road, will assume the
duties Of Mr.. Fords Office in connection with
those of his present office.
Our old friend and subscriber, Mr.. John
MeRae, formerly of the 9TH district of this coun-
ty, writes us from his present home, Corpus Chris
ii, Texas, as follows: ado not stop The UNION,
but keep on sending it. l always like to hear
| from my old home. am very much pleased with
this country, but will never forget Baltimore
| county"
DIR. George A. Thompson, son of DR.. VIM.
S. Thompson, of the Sth district of this county,
| who has been acting assistant surgeon in the
Army for some time, has resigned and has estab-
lished himself in private practice at Mobeetie,
| Texas. DIR. Thompson was q great favorite in
the Army and there can be no doubt but that he
will succeed in his new field.
Memorial services for the late DR.. J. Robert
Ward were duly solemnized in the chapel of the
House of Refuge on Sunday afternoon last
The exercises consisted of reading of the 9lst
Psalm and prayer by Rev. J. G.. Morris; sing
ing by the boys, and addresses by prominent
gentlemen. The managers, the family of DIR.
! Ward and a number of visitors were present.
| On Friday and Saturday of last week we
| experienced real taste of summer, with the mer-
| curry cayOorting up among the eighties, but the
storm clouds which driftcd up from the south Sat
urday night dispelled the heat and brought US
cooling breezes. 1t is singular fact that all the
| thunder storms we have thus far experienced have
been at night and all of them appeared to have
| approached from the south.
| "A few nights ago it is said a cry of "mur-
der" was heard in house in the village Of OK
| ford, on the York road, and message was sent
| to the station house at Waverly for an officer,
when the answer was returned that the officer did
not have time to visit the scene 1t real shame
| that our county police are worked so hard. Bus
| mess must be exceedingly brisk with them when
they can't find time to arresta man for inhumanly
beating a woman.
The very beautiful and eigibly located
property of the late Gov. Bradford, situated on
Charles street avenue and the Maryland Central
railroad, which was referred to in these columns
two weeks ago as having been plated, &C., will
be offered at public sale on the 23d of June. This
is of the finest estates in the vicinity Of Bal
timore, and in its sale rare opportunity is pre-
| sented to those seeking country homes as well as
TO the capitalist See advertisement in The
| UNION.
Mr.. Joseph Grafflin, who had been a dep
uty sheriff in Baltimore for twenty five years. was
| this week removed by Sheriff Airey to make room
| for another man. Mr. Graf1n's duties were in
connection with removed cases to county courts,
and he is almost widely known in Baltimore
county though he had been life long resident.
| He was a very reliable Official and although Mr..
Airey was elected as ''reform" Sheriff, we don't
see anything very strikingy reform-like in the
! displacement of Mr.. Graflin.
Col. o. p Msgill is now using light half
| spring road wagon which has an interesting his
| tory. 1t was built about twenty-fi five years ago
by Dusenbury & Vanduscn, of N Y, for the late
| William Mcdonald, of Guiford, Baltimore county,
and was put up expressly for the noted trotting
mare "Flora Temple" The wagon subsequently
changed hands and was finally bought by the late
John Greacen, Of this county, who used it up to
| the time of his death, few weeks ago, and Col.
Macgll bought it at the sale of his personal eff
fects. The wagon is to-day in good order, and
has the original wheels on it, the rims and tires
only having been replaced by new ones.
We last week alluded to the condition of
|
for this we have been mildly called to account,
for the reason, stated by our friend, that such
| publications injure the town. We duty
| to the public and this duty we try to perform,
| without fear or favor We think the health of
| Towsontown is paramount to every other interest
here, and for this reason we have never failed to
point out such things as we thought deserved at
tention. We publish paper for the good of the
community-not to subserve the interests of any
rn-+ienIe- e.-e-a 50 s~;-s -vh.t eenceivn TO
| be plain duty should inadvertently pinch
any one too hard, we can't help it. Let US see
some effort towards improvement and we shall be
among the first to commend it.
Children's Day in the Methodist Church.
Sunday, June Sth, will be celebrated by the
Sabbath Schools ofthe Methodist Episcopal Church
throughout the world as Childrens Day. The
object for which Children's Day has been ap-
pointed may not be generally understood. 1t is
well known that this large and influential body
of Christians has made the fostering and encour-
agement of education one of its cardinal prnci-
pies. Its Sunday Schools are perhaps the most
largely attended and efficiently conducted of any
connected with the churches of any Christian de-
nomination. While this is the case yet the i'm
portance of rendering special aid and encourage
mentt to aspiring youths who unable, unassisted, to
crafty their intellectual longings produced pro
| found impression on the minds of the leading
ministers and laymen of the church, and they set
| about devising plan for its accomplishment.
| This produced the conviction from which sprang
| Children's Day. 1t was established in 1866 when
the church celebrated the centennial of American
| Methodsm. During the celebration discussion
| occurred about the church doing something to
assist in giving an advanced Christian education
to those Sunday School scholars who ardently
| thirsted for higher attachments in Christian
knowledge and culture, but who were destitute of
the pecuniary means for satisfying it. Arrange
ments were made to have collections taken up in
all the Methodist churches once every year for
supplying this want, and the second Sunday in
June has been selected for this purpose. Special
exercises by the children of the Sunday Schools,
consisting of singing, reading, speaking, etc.,
constitute the principle feature of the day. The
| first collection made in 1866 amounted to more
than S56. 900, and a few years afterwards it ex-
ceeded 100000, and has been increasing each
| year since. Up to the present time assistance
has been furnished to more than one thousand
students, distributed among eighty different inst-
buttons. While many of them have not yet finish
| ed their courses of study, it is known that at
| least two hundred have already entered some
| sixty annual conferences of the Methodist church
as travelling preachers, and about thirty have be-
come foreign missionaries in Bulgaria, India,
Japan, Mexico and South America, while others
have become teachers and professional men.
| Never before was the demand for help great
| and urgent. From east to west, from north to
south, and from the mission fields all around the
world the cry comes to the Board of Education of
the Methodist church for help to educate the
Christian youth, and it is hoped that the offerings
of the coming Children's Day may greatly increase
its power for responding to the call.
Interesting and appropriate programmes are
being prepared for the celebration at the Towson-
town, Waverly, Woodberry and other Methodist
Sabbath Schools throughout our county. One of
the features of this years celebration will be the
presentation to the children of the historic medal
concentrating the organization of the Methodist
| Episcopal church in 1884 and the celebration of
its first centenary in 1884. Each child who may
collect dollar towards the fund for the erection
of the Baltimore Conference Female College,
which will be built in the Belt of our county, will
| be entitled to a medal. The medals are very
handsome and bear proiles of Bishop Asbury, the
founder of Sabbath Schools in the United States,
and Bishop Simpson, the present senior bishop of
! the church and the founder of Children's Day.
Gainesville Short-Line Railway.-The
Catonsyille Short line railway is rap;dly approach