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


day afternoon, at 81 o'clock.
To,0sonto,on N. E. CAurch.-Preaching Sunday
at III g.. m. and at u p. m, by the pastor Rev
W. 7. d. GLENN.
Prayer and praise meeting on Wednesday even
ings, and class meetings on Monday evenings, a.
o'clock, and Wednesday afternoons at 3 o'clock
81. Johns II. E. Church, Lmtheruille.-Preach.
ing Sunday, at IL a. and 7.30 p. M, by the pas
tor, Rev. VIM. Dallam Morgan. Prayer meeting
Wednesday evening, at 7.3O o'clock.
The lenten season ends Friday, April 11th
Good Friday.
The season is here for boys to knuckle
down to marbles.
Farmers have been busily at work blowing
and sowing oats the past week.
The appearance of the black martin is said
to be an unfailing sign of spring.
ALI the railroads will issue halffare tickets
to Westminster for the Easter carnival.
In some sections of our county horses are
suffering from pinkeye some such disease.
-G- A. Underwood has been commissioned
postmaster at Philopolis, Baltimore county.
The County Commissioners have appointed
C. Taylor Gregg constable for the 18th district
for two years.
Mr.. W. Knight, ST., of the 10th district,
near Taylor Hartford county, has sold his farm
of 80 acres for $3.50.
The freight business of the Maryland Gen.
trail road is growing rapidly and the passenger
traffic is also increasing.
-Towsontown experienced butter famine
the past week. Even the much-abused OleOmar-
gerine was not to be had.
1t is said to be again fashionable for ladies
to comb theft 1air back from their foreheads and
show that they have brains.
The waters of Maryland contain more
crabs, terrapin clans, oysters and scale fish than
any other State in the Union.
ELIAS Baker has bought from jackson Belt,
the old Baker farm, lying on the Hanover pike,
two miles south of Hampstead, for $50 an acre.
Col VIM. A. McKellip is president of the
Westminster Water Board. The new water sup.
ply for that growing city is giving great salts
faction.
An artist has completed a full length por-
trait of Mr. Enoch Pratt that is intended to be
placed in the Enoch Pratt Free Library building,
Baltimore.
Gov. McLane has appointed Mr.. Charles
s. Grason, formerly of this place, Commissioner
of Deeds for Maryland at Kennedy, Kittson coun-
ty, Minnesota.
Mr. Richard Marsden, who has for some
time conducted store at Gainesville, has remov
ed to Howard county, where he will engage in
the same business.
In the Orphans Court this week letters of
administration were granted to G.. M: Gill on the
estate of Nancy Gill, and to Elizabeth Brown on
the estate of Henry Brown.
The Pen-Mar Hotel, on the Western Mary
land Railroad, is to have an addition built to it
containing rs rooms. The estimated cost of the
improvement is about $4,000.
ALI the Woodberry mills, which had been
running on three-quarter time since last fall, this
week commenced running on full time, to the
great delight of the employees.
-Postmasters will comply with the law by
notifying when papers are uncalled for, and the
reason therefor, giving new addresses where par
ties have changed their residence.
Among the bills left on the files of the
Senate were those to forfeit the charters Of the
Baltimore and Havre-de-Grace and the Baltimore
and Jerusalem Turnpike companies.
Mrs. Jane Ray, who lived on the farm of
Mr.. NJ. 7. Horner, near Herring Run, 18th dis
trict, died very suddenly on Tuesday evening,
while attending to her household duties.
Mr.. John o. Shamberger, of the 9Th dis
trict of this county, who spent couple of years
in Montana, but who has for some time been home
on a visit will shortly return to that Territory.
4 fellow down at Hyattsville, Prince Geor-
old, that lays Two eggs dafiy. ne aimOsG eYdais
some of our Baltimore county chicken fanciers.
Mr.. L. FL. Urban, proprietor OF the Smed
ley House, is whitewashing and cleaning up
about the hotel, and getting things in shape for
the summer business, which promises to be large.
i. P. D. Newman, Esq, a well-known
member of the bar, is lying quite i'll at his resi-
dence, Arlington, I'd district, suffering from hem
orrhage of the lungs, from which he has been
afflicted
Col. John Carroll Walsh, of Belair, has
been appointed Commissary General on Gov. Nc
Lanes staff No better selection could have been
made as the Col. knows what good 'commissa-
ry" means.
Mr.. VIM. H. Nelson, of HarfOnd county,
has been appointed a clerk at the Eastern Hay
Scales under Mr.. Thomas Nelson, of the same
county, who was lately appointed weigher by
Gov. McLane.
Mr.. John Geaeen, ST., died at his residence,
Mountain Home" in the Sd district, on Sunday
last, aged II years. He was for many years en-
gagged in the salt business in Baltimore, in which
he amassed fortune.
BY the putting down of water troughs be-
tween the tracks on the Philadelphia, Whining
ton and Baltimore Railroad, the express train
time between Philadelphia and Baltimore will be
reduced to two hours.
Our brother of the Reisterstown Voice is in
bad strait. He says: "Nobody does anything;
nobody gets married there are no new babies
nobody fights and consequently news hereabouts
is hard to manufacture"
-Vennor predicted a storm about the goth
of March and we got it Saturday night and Sun
day, the wind blowing fearfuly for about twenty
four hours. We fear this will stimulate Vennor
to renewed efforts in the weather business.
The man who will regularly read a Dor
rowed paper, in order to save the expense of sub
scription to it, may be very estimable citizen,
bat we should vote against him handling the col
lection plate in the church to which he belongs.
The Republican primary meetings will be
held in this county 10Th instant. 1t is the
duty of every Republican to attend these meet
ings as it is only by this means that a true ex-
preston of the sentiments of the people can be
had.
Some damage was caused at Cockeysvile
on Tuesday, by an engine belonging to the Beaver
Dam Marble quarries running in to the Jockeys
- - srAs
at that place. The Beaver Dam engine and one
car of the train were considerably damaged.
"A scientist asserts that bee can only
sting once in two minutes. If a fellow is fool
enough to allow the bee to remain on him longer
than two seconds he ought to be stung to death.
We have discovered land not scientists)
that it takes very brief time indeed to discover
the presence of the bee.
Mr.. John II. Merryman who died last SUM-
day, was for twenty years a member of the Balti-
more police force from which he resigned in 1880,
on RECOUNT Or rsrrfnS ncS4ish ~ -,
Baltimore county and brother of Mr.. Nicholas
r Merryman, and a brother-in-law of the late
Joshua NJ. Besley, of Texas, Sth district.
-Martha E. Mahony, colored, whose mother
was killed by the B. q 0. Railroad, at Mount
Winans, this county, last Summer. sued the COM
pauy for $4,000 damages. The case was tried last
week in the Baltimore Court of Common Pleas
and resulted in verdict of 81 600 for the plain
tiff. The company will appeal the case.
An advertisement appeared in last weeks
Journal which read "a ladys bracelet was ,ooHnd"
&c. A bracelet was lost and was found by Mr..
f. c. Carman. 1t has been restored to its owner,
through an advertisement which appeared in the
columns of The UNION, and there was no wound
ing" about it. so far as We have been able to
learn.
Clarence Craumer, aged about IA years,
son of Mr.. F. M. Craumer, of this town, built
himself bicycle, upon which ne may be seen on
our streets daily. The machine, although rough
in its get up, shows great ingenuity, and when
seated upon it he looks as contented and lnde.
pendent as though his odd looking steed had cost
good round sum.
The Maryland Central Railroad Jared pref
ty well in the Legislature. The bill autorizing
Baltimore city to endorse the second mortgage
bonds of the company to the amount OF S4OO,oOO'
and also the one giving the company permission
to enter the city, were passed. The Sun, win It's
usual spite at the road, now waits the Governor
to veto the former bill.
Some of the wags about the Court House
got up bogus dispatch from Annapolis on IA mon,
= 80 saft;n0 forth that the extension bill had