The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-11-15
GENERAL ITEMS.

Lord de Grey, when hunting alone recently
on the Yorkshire estate of Lord Ripon, killed 303
partridges in a single day.
Samuel Fries, living near Steinsville, Pa,
has beard of over six feet in length. He has
been cutivating his whisker crop for "a years.
"A prominent member of the Tennessee bar,
noted for the extreme carelessness of his personal
appearance, was mistaken for tramp and placed
under arrest in that State last week.
An ardent Prohibitionist of Allegheny coun-
county Pa, took his six-year-old boy with him to
the polls and made him promise that he would
never cast any vote but for Prohibition.
st. Louis, which has more trouble with her
pavements than any city in the country, it said
is now trying one of prepared gumwood, which is
to be laid on a foundation of concrete and glazed
with coal tar.
Mr. William Rockefeller, of New York city,
owns a stud of horses valued at upwards of $780,
600. He has six or seven double teams. The
horses have been all summer ut Mr.. Rockefeller's
farm, near Greenwich, N. Y.
Rear Admiral G. H. Welles, U. S. NJ, is pro-
posing to bring suit against the New York Gen.
trail Sleeping Car Company to compel them to re-
imburse him 500 stolen from him in one of their
cars while passing between Albany and Boston
on the 10Th OF september.
David Shellenberger, of West Newton, West
moreland county, Pa, is supposed to have the
largest immediate progeny of any man in Western
Pennsylvania. He is eighty years of age and is
the father Of eighteen children, eighty grand
children and forty REORGANIZATION.
When General Beaurgard and General Grant
met in New York a few days ago they did not dis
cuss the civil war or its sanguinary struggles !;
their topic was Grants lameness, which he said
he did not expect to ever get rid Of and Beaure-
CARDS rheumatism, which he ascribed to the
changeable Northern climate.
Here is the latest yarn that wends its way
from the Solid South. A middle aged white man
and his wife walked into Acworth, Ca, the other
afternoon to do q little shopping. They said that
they had walked from their home that morning,
distance of eighty miles, and they added that it
wasn't good day for walking either.
The "Mrs. Polk and daughter" whom several
Washington correspondents recently mentioned
as visitors at the national capital, are not the
widow and daughter of the late President as those
correspondents asserted. In the words of the
Nashville American "The Philadelphia Times
says that the widow of President Polk and her
daughter are in Washington. Mrs. Polk is at her
home in this city. She has not been to Washing
ton since she left it as mistress of the White House.
She and her illustrous husband were never blessed
with an heir. In the bosom of community that
idolizes her she keeps her vigis over the tomb of
her husband"
Gen. Joe Johnston said to a newspaper man
who asked him about the origin of the Confederate
battle flag "At the battle of Manassas-you
Northerners call it Bull Run-The stars and bars
proved failure because they were so much like
the Union colors. Indeed, both armies mistook
their enemies for friends, and vice versa. After
the battle had resolved to discard this flag and
called for each regiment to procure its State coOrs
This they were not able to do, and asked the
army for new designs. Among those presented
one by Gen. Beauregard was chosen, and I alter
ed this only in making it square, instead of OBJ
long. This flag was afterward adopted by the
Confederate armies. 1t was Greek cross of blue
on red field, with white stars on the blue bars.
This flag was designed by q Col. Walton of
Louisiana, and presented to Gen. Beauregard."