The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-02-16

Wednesday evening, at 4.3O O'Clock.
There was another slight fall of snow in
this county on Monday morning last.
Women talk less in February than in any
other month in the year. Obviously-it only has
% days.
1t is now said that Mr.. Philip A. Kroh, of
the 9TH district will be one of the State tobacco
inspectors.
One day last week Mr.. William Morrison,
of Woodensburg, 4th district, fell on the ice and
broke an arm.
Mrs Anna Carman, of this county, who
has been i'll at the residence of relative in Har-
ford, is much better.
Mrs. NJ. A. Sheaey's new store, opened
two weeks ago in Towsontown, appears to be
doing good business.
Mrs Hundertmark, convicted of man
slaughter for the killing of Charles II. Ensor, has
not yet been sentenced.
The Billmeyer Small Company, of York, is
filing an order for one hundred cars for the
Western Maryland railroad.
We know of lady who produces a mag
nifeent growth of all kinds of window flowers, by
the use of bone -four as a fertilizer.
The San gets off little valentine story and
puts it on a Towsontown man, but the whole
thing is just the least bit "too thin"
1t is believed that the "dark horse" in the
ifteen-ball pool tournament, which took place in
Baltimore this week, belongs to Towsontown.
In the Orphans Court this week letters of
administration on the estate of George L. Forces
ter, deceased, were granted to John F. Centrum.
Sympathy is good thing, but cash beats
it every time. Run out more of the latter, and
ring in little of the former as occasion requires.
The first thunder storm of the season Wis
tied this section between and o'clock Thurs
day morning, accompanied by very heavy rain
Miss Elizabeth Forney, sister of the late
Jacob S. Forney, of Reisterstown, was stricken
with paralysis few days ago and her condition
is critical.
Tenant farmers are looking out for new
homes in the spring. We know some who are so
well fixed that they wouldn't swap for something
handsome.
Mr.. W. Gill Smith, of this place, young
member of the bar, who has been confined to the
house for five or six weeks with typhoid fever, is
now rapidly recovering.
in shooting match at Hampstead, Car
roll county, a few days ago, Mr.. Harry Quicker,
of the 4th district, won the first prize-a fine
double-barrel breech-loading bird gun.
An attempt was made one night last week
to rob the store of C. Gore Sons, at New Free
dom, N. C. R. R., but the burglars were frigh-
tened off before they gained an entrance.
On Sunday last Mr.. s. Merryman Ander-
=. .nre-:l:.. Of the County Temperance ALI
ance Organized. - Hope at Phoenix, and
upwards ofsixty persons signed the pledge.
The authorities of the Maryland Central
and York and Peach Bottom railroads have ad-
justed matters with reference to the running of
the cars of the two companies over both lines.
Some fellow who thinks he knows, says
the two-cent postage stamps now in use only cost
the government nine cents thousand. Uncle
Sam is good fellow and deserves a "fair" profit.
We can tell you how you can make your
self and family happy for a whole year at the
trifiug outlay of $1.5O. Send that amount to
us and have The UNION sent to you for ffty-two
weeks.
The Bond Guards, of Gainesville, will give
ball in Library Hall, that place, on the 21st
inst. This company is commanded by Captain
D. P. Barnett, Assistant Examiner of the county
schools.
Col. Samuel N. Hyde, of Long Green VAL
ley, wants to sell his Boothby Hill farm, in Har-
ford. 1t is highly improved property, and has
upon it a canning house. store house, &C., all in
complete order.
Mr. Stevenson Archer of John, who was
formerly connected with the Maryland Central
Railroad Company, has accepted aposition in the
auditors Office of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road Company.
The juries for the March term of the Cir
cult Court (which begins on the first Monday of
the monthly were drawn on Friday, 18th inst, but
too late for the names to appear in this weeks is
of THE UNION.
People over in Cecil have COTTON awful
ly temperate that they now want law prohibit
ing the sale of cider. If the temperance bust
ness is to be run in the ground altogether this is
an excellent way to do it.
Our neighbor of the Delta Herald con-
tinues to 'dig" the Maryland Central Railroad
because it runs Sunday trains to that place.
Does our esteemed neighbor forget that we are
living in the 10th century.
Seven years ago Mr.. Thomas A. Hays
bought farm of 400 acres, near Churchville,
Hartford county, for $4,000, and the other day
he sold the same property for $4,000 Who says
there is no money in real estate?
We know there are many pious men in
this community, but how many are there who
have not-in quiet way, if in no Other-said
some "cuss words" about the weather we have
experienced for nearly two weeks.
Mrs. Hennighausen, wife of L. P. Hennig
hausen Esq, of this county, has been chosen pres
ident of the Ladies' Aid Society of the German
Home for the Aged. The " Home" is located at
Lombard and Penn streets, Baltimore.
-Thursday last was st. Valentines Day.
OF course you want us to tell what sort of val
entine we received, but we won't do it. But if
We are good natured if we are not "purty."
"A few days ago Mr.. Foulk Jones, of Slate
Hill, York county, who is one of the directors of
the Maryland Central road, shipped eleven tons
of wheat from Delta to Baltimore by that line.
This was the first shipment of the kind made
over the road from that point.
Mrs. Polite Granger, who made her home
with Mr.. Alfred Garrison, near Taylor, died a
few days ago, of pneumonia, aged ninety odd
years. Five years ago she fell on the ice and
fractured her hip, which, up to the time of her
death, confined her to her room.
1t now looks as though there would GER
tainly be a railroad from Stewartstown, York
county, to connect with the Northern Central
atNew Freedom. The latter place also expects
o telephone connection with Baltimore and then
she'll only commence to put on style.
A heavy rock, which fell in a cut on the
Maryland Central road on Friday of last week,
delayed the morning trains about two hours. No
damage was done. Several other small land
slides occurred this week, but without resulting
in injury to either trains or passengers.
The measles are prevalent all over the
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