The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-03-29


nj II a. m. and at y p. M, by the pastor, Rev.
W. T. d. GLENN.
PRAYER and praise meeting on Wednesday even
ings and class meetings on Monday evenings, at
o'clock, and Wednesday afternoons at o'clock.
ST. Johns II. E. Church, acknowledgements
ing Sunday, at IL a. m. and 73O p. IL, by the pas
too Rev VIM. Daam Morgan. Prayer meeting
Wednesday evening, at 80 o'clock.
Apples are selling in Baltimore at $3.50
per barrel.
1--WE shall meat in the suet buy and buy"
sings the butcher.
Give your son good education and a set
tied purpose in life
Virtue being its own reward, good many
people will have to 60 unrewarded.
X en- DOR 1tepnlates. nolearlv retirement
Cold rain water and soap will remove
machine grease from washing fabrics.
The Grand Jury for the March term of
court, adjourned finally on Friday last.
The oldest resident of Delta-Mrs. Rhoda
Coulsou-died last week, in the 9lst year of her
age.
-Messrs. w. & J. Fl. Leonhardt, of this
county, have obtained patent for dumping
wagon.
Mr.. L. E. Ballard has leased the Highland
Park Hotel in this county, and will open it early
in May.
THE rabbits and field mice have been very
destructive to fruit trees in many sections during
the winter.
Its said that more rain has fallen in the past
two months than at any time in the same period
for 80 years.
The Governor has appointed A. W. Perrie.
ESQ, of the Baltimore county bar. notary public
at Towsontown.
Tuesday next is the first day of April.
CAN Fools Day. it is called, look oIt that you
are not cassed among them
Large numbers of wild geese took their
northern flight on Tuesday. This is said to be a
sure indication of good weather.
The ice men have found excuse for the
high price at which they will sell that article next
summer. The late floods did it.
Mr. Samuel Chapman, of Baltimore, has
leased the race track at the Belair fair grounds
He is said to be experienced horseman.
-Congressman Talbot attended Gov. Me-
Lanes reception at Annapolis, on Friday night
of last week. Senator Singuf was also present.
"A teacher having asked her class "What is
syntax ?" The son of a prohibitionist answered
by saying, "That saloon license was sin tax"
Mrs. Kelly, go years of age, living at
Hampden Falls road, fell down flight of steps
on Tuesday and was injured seriously if fatally
-Phiiip l.. Moore of Towsontown, and j. c.
Legrand Cole, of Waverly, have been appointed
additional Justices of the Peace for the 9th
district.
Wild turkeys airs lowering around in the
Railroad, six miles south of York. Some have
been captured.
ben Wann, Belair butcher, has made an
assignment for the benefit of his creditors. His
trustees are Harlan & Webster. Mr.. Wann has
left for Kansas.
-serpentine stone, of very fine quality, from
a quarry in the vicinity of Mount Washington,
n C. R. R., is being used in the erection of dwell
lings in Baltimore.
Numerous applications are being made here
for houses to rent. If Towsontown had the houses,
her population would easily increase from 500 to
1000 during this year.
Many young men Of Carroll county have
left recently to seek homes in the West, the
objective points being Ohio, Illinois, Kansas,
- Indiana ana. Missouri.
are building 100 freight cars for the western
MARYLAND Railroad. Thirty-nine of the number
are already in services.
The ladies of the Catholic congregation OF
Towsontown will hold a fair some time next
month"; They have for some time been making
active preparations for it.
Bee keeping with modern improvements
pays steady dividends at from 800 TO 400 per cent
1t is matter of great surprise that more persons
do not engage in the business.
The Towson Guards have received an in
vitation to visit Westminster on Easter Monday,
to participate in the carnival festivities. They
have accepted the invitation.
On Tuesday last John Horton, an employee
OF the MOUNT NeTuOu I1ill, IOdu, ndu OHO VI
his legs painfully hurt by having it caught in
some Of the machinery of the MILL
Joshua H. Cockey, ESQ.,, member of the
Legislature from the 10th district of Baltimore
county, has been appointed member of Gov.
McLanes staff, with the rank of colonel.
Mr.. G. o. Wilson, who owns very valuable
property at Notre Dame Station, Nj. c. X. r., re-
Gently bought beautiful lot on the west side of
this town and contemplates improving it.
This is a good time to remove from your
cellars and from about your premises all decaying
vegetable matter and whatever else may be found
that would have the least tendency to breed dis
ease.
An old citizen said to the Reisterstown
Voice man that March 18th, 1S51-thirty-t
years ago-peaeh trees were blooming, and that
pastures afforded sufficient grazing for stock with
out other food
The Maryland Central Company is talk
ing of having the passenger coaches reno
waited and repainted before the summer travel
commences The cars need it and it should be
done by all means.
Another heavy landslide occurred on the
Maryland Central road, near Cowpens, the latter
part of last week. 1t promptly removed
without causing much delay to trains or incon-
venience to passengers.
The postoaice department is asking for
proposals for carrying the mails from Fallston,
Hartford county, by Benson, &C., to Perry Hall,
Baltimore county, 10 miles and back, six times
weekly, from July next.
According to the Towsontown correspond
ent of the Sun call" the cellars in Towsontown
have about two feet of water in them. This state
ment is about as near correct as other statements
of the Towsontown correspondent of that "lumin-
ary."
in the Orphans Court this week letters of
administration were granted to Rebcca G. Pearce
on the estate of Thomas Pearce to Philip S.
Cross on the estate of Rosannah Hayes, and to
Rebecca Higgins on the estate of William ID.
Higgins.
a Cecil county farmer hauled load of
straw to Port Deposit q recent Sunday morn
ing, having forgot what day in the week it was.
If that farmer had paid Sl.5O q year for one of
his county papers he would not have made
laughing stock of himself.
in the Baltimore City Court on Tuesday
Samuel Burns got verdict of $500 damages
against the BALTIC. & Potomac Railroad Company
for causing the death of his two-year-old child,
at Sulphur Spring station, Baltimore county, in
August, 1881. He sued the Company for $4,000.
"A towel folded several times and dipped in
hot water and quickly wruug, and then applied
the seat of the pain in toothache neuralgia,
will generally afford prompt relief Headaches
almost always yield to the simultaneous applica-
ton Of hot water to the feet and the back of the
neck.
"A lady living in the upper end of the coun-
ty, now 81 years of age, has ridden q
railroad, and it has been thirty years since
this, however, and is still quite sprightly old
lady. She is the mother of gentleman well
known in the "Upper Eend."
"A small colored urchin called at the resi-
dence of popular bachelor lawyer, of this place,
a few days ago, and when the servant went to the
door and asked the object of his visit he said, 81
want somethin.''' The servant said they had
nothing to give when the boy, as he moved off,
said sullenly, 81 thoughtyo people was wealthy"
Not any city extension this time, thank
you. We are too wealthy to think of accepting
$l93, 500 for little Belt. We prefer to wait
two years and present said Belt to the city with
out money and without price. We've got the
gibbosity on the city this time, but two years
from now the city will have the gib-but never
mind. Sufficient for the day, &c.
Mr.. Charles E. Fendall, of this town, and
his brother, Mr.. SAMUEL Fendall, who own fine
farm near Watervale Station, Maryland Central
Railroad, propose to engage largely in pear cul-
ture. They have already set out large number
Of trees and will plant several thousand more. 1t
L. hot xvsfh oft bo of