The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-06-21

The partnership existing between Messrs.
Heffner. Knapman & Hook, contractors on Lake
Clifton water works, this county, has been dis
solved by the withdrawal of Mr.. Chas. A. Hook.
The business will be continued by Heffner
Knapman.
Sunday last being grand day for driv-
ing, our beautiful avenues were lined with hand
some eouipages during the greater part of the day
There are more good teams in the vicinity OF
Towsontown this summer than we have ever
known before.
john X. Cowen, ESQ.,, lawyer we'll known
here and counsel for the BALTIC. d Ohio Railroad,
has been elected delegate to the Association OF
the Reform and Codifcation of the Laws Of the
Nations, which meets at Hamburg, Germany, on
the 10th of August.
Mr. Robert N. Hanna, formerly connected
with the engineer corps of the Maryland Central
Railroad, is now engaged in the commission bus
mess in Baltimore, in connection with Mr.. S. G.
Boyd, Jr., of York, Pa. Mr.. Boyd has charge of
the branch house in York.
Gen. l. R. Trimble, whose beautiful coun-
try residence is situated at the head of Dulany's
Valley, and who is now about so years of age, is
the oldest living graduate of the West Point Mil
itary Academy. He lost leg during his service
in the Confederate army.
-Messrs. Boswell & Mewshaw, merchants,
doing business at Sulphur Springs station, this
county have sued the Baltimore and Potomac
Railroad Company for $1,000. They allege that
their store building was set on fire last April by
sparks from locomotive.
Mr.. Asa Jones, of Fawn Grove, York coun-
ty, on Wednesday delivered about thirty Cham
pion mowers and reapers from Pylesville station
on the Maryland Central railroad. He is largely
engaged in the sale of agricultural implements
and is a very successful agent.
The 18th district truck farmers have been
very busy hauling their cabbage to Baltimore,
thousands of heads reaching that market daily,
many of which were shipped to Western New
York, Pittsburg, and other points. The prices
ranged from So to S. per hundred.
Mr.. Samuel Ceilings, of Lutuerville, has
sold his trotting horse, Comet, to gentleman of
Baltimore. The figures at which the exchange
was made have not been given, but we feel conf
dent in saying they were quite lengthy. Comet
has trotted private trial in 2: 3D. ..o., ,;u
ago palmed himself off In the neighborhood OF
Cockeysville as preacher, collecting money from
number of oo-confding colored people, was ar
rested in Baltimore on Thursday morning, and
committed for the county authorities.
Miss Ella A. Ward, of Texas, who had
three Gyro colts killed by the of the Northern
Central R. R., got verdict against the company
for $3.50. She sued for 81 500 and the case was
tried in the Baltimore Court of Common Pleas
Major John I. Yellott was her counsel.
"A man named B. F. Stone committed sui
eide at an early hour on Friday of last week by
drowning himself in Mount Royal reservoir, just
north of Boundary avenue, in this county. He
was coach-trimmer by trade and was 81 years
of age. Domestic difficulties led to the act.
Judge Waters, of the Circuit Court of Har-
ford county, imposed pretty heavy penalties on
several citizens of Havre de- Grace, who had been
convicted of violations of the prohibition liquor
law of that county. The Judge says he is deter
mined to make an example of these people.
We publish the following for the benefit of
those of our readers who contemplate a trip to
Peach Bottom to fish for bass: "a Pennsylvania
law provides that bass cannot be caught by any
other means than with rod, hook and line, under
a penalty of $40 for each and every ofense."
Mr.. Theodore A. Bokel, well-kown bust
ness man living on the York road, near the Boun-
dairy, and father-in-law of Mr.. L. II. Urban, of
this place, sailed from Baltimore for Bremen, on
Thursday. He was accompanied by his wife and
they expect to spend the summer in Germany.
The Baitimorean says: CDR" Burton, (the
self-eected President of the First Branch,) for
several days has been Mayor er-ofcio In
brief time he will be c-Councilman-oh The
Reform voters of the Seventh ward are very anx-
ious to rebuke him at the polls for his base treach
cry"
While driving on the Joppa road, between
Towsontown and Sherwood station, DIR. Piper
narrowly escaped an accident caused by the
breaking of the shafts of his buggy. His chill
dren were with him at the time, but the horse
being quiet no injury resulted to the occupants
of the vehicle.
During the year ended June LIST, ], JOG i'm
ported cattle were quarantined at the Government
yards located in the 18th district of this county
Among the number were 293 Black Polled Angus;
1876 Galloways $50 Herefords +; 81 Short-horns
% Sussex, and 10 Jerseys. Most of them were
bound for the West.
The Pennsylvania courts have decided that
while you mustn't lie about it directly, it is per-
fectly lawful to keep your mouth shut during
horse trade, and while you must not warrant an
animal as perfectly sound in wind and limb when
he isn't, you not compelled to call attention
to minor defects at all.
Mr.. Jesse Tyson passed up the York road
through Towsontown, Tuesday evening, driving
q handsome four-in-hand team. Among the Ia
Hon. M 1sons1nem esa; nlthfsteP stvmYeGe
ington, and daughter. They visited Hampton,
the residence of Mrs. Charles Ridgely.
Mr.. Charles A. Burkns, of Jarrettsville,
has near his home a nest in which hen and a
partridge have been laying together. The nest
contained IL cartridges eggs and hen eggs, but
the partridge, when last heard from, had driven
the hen out and was setting on its own eggs, the
hen eggs having been removed by Mr.. Burkins.
Rev. Henry B. Martin, rector Of Trinity
Parish, Wilmington, Del, accompanied by his
wife and sister in law, Mrs. DR.. j. Lloyd Martin,
of Baltimore, spent several hours in Towsontown
on Monday. 1t was his first visit and he express
ed himself as being delighted with the place, re-
garding it as one of the prettiest country towns
he has seen.
The delightful PENN excursions, on the
Western Maryland Railroad, are being well pa
tronized. The scenery is grand from the noun
tain top, overlooking as it does the beautiful
Cumberland Valley, and add to that the grand
mountain scenery and the panorama is complete.
Those who have been over the road to that point
never seem to tire of going again.
We are not disposed to make complaints,
but we do think Towsontown is entitled to more
able bodied garbage man. A boy of nine or ten
years of age is not exactly the sort of person to
fill the bill for this important work. Let us
have a man or withdraw the garbage cart
If the work is to be done it should be done we'll
and if not the County Commissioners should refuse
to pay for it.
Mr. Louis Cahen is building grocery
store on the Philadelphia turnpike, in this county,
quite near the Hartford line. Its nearness to the
line of sister county suggests the possibility
that "wet groceries" will be the principal feature
and that those good local option people of Hartford
will frequently step over the line and imbibe a
"matutinaP' that will serve as an appetizer for
their morning meal.
"A prominent citizen of Towsontown made
d HdTIOW csCdpo al tuc TdlliOdu SldllOu, III ILLS
place, Tuesday evening. He was in the act of
crossing the track directly in front of the engine
just as the engineer opened the throttle. The
gentleman stopped to answer some one who call
ed to him and the pilot of the engine struck his
leg, but he sprang away in time to avert what
might have been serious accident.
The total receipts of the late Spring meet
ing of the Hartford county Agricultural Society
from all sources were $500, and the net profit
about $3.50. The Beair Democrat says: "Look-
ing at the spring meeting impartially after it is
over, we can see no good reason for regretting
that it was held. Many of our citizens enjoyed
the sports, some derived profit from it and many
more substantially benefited by the sale, in
spection and purchase of machinery, and the
Agricultural Society is in better condition fnan-
cially than before the meeting"
The bark-lice which many of our exchanges
are complaining of, have appeared in great num-
bers on the maple trees in this town. They are
shaped like turtle and white and brown in color.
Scientists say that these pests will greatly ener-
vate the trees and may ultimately kill them en-
tirey. The first we noticed of these bark-lice was
last Sunday when we discovered that many of the
maple trees in this town were full of them. Those
who take the trouble to examine critically the