The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-06-28
Correspondence Baltimore County Union.
LETTER FROM MARYLAND LINE
Harveet-Anotner Agricultural Society
An Enterprising Business Mantle
StewartstoWn R. R., &c.
MARYLAND LINE, June 18th, Is

MARYLAND LINE, June 10Th, 1881.
Messrs. Editors The last spell of hot weather
has ripened the harvest and cured most of the hay
crop. North of US the grain has been badly blown
down and tangled up by the recent storms, which
will cause some difficulty in taking it off. The
grain is we'll filled and free from all vermin.
York county, it seems, is getting so big on agri-
cultural fairs as to be able to support two instiu
tons of that character. Hanover has decided to
raise S10,0 900 to purchase % acres Of ground for
that purpose. At first thought of this enterprise
it would seem like foolish undertaking of the
Hanover people, but when we come to consider
the matter more carefully and view the objects and
advantages of properly conducted agricultural So
cieties, we see things in different light. In the
first place the town and surrounding country is
inhabited by q rich and enterprising people. The
land is rich in minerals and in the highest state
of cultivation. The manufacturing interests are
booming. and if the Hanover people organize and
conduct the society upon modern, progressive
basis, the society will prove to be the most in
teresting and best paying enterprises for the peo
pie of Hanover that they have ever embarked in.
Our societies of this character in the East and
South do not begin to compare with those of the
West ours being of sterotyped character, whereas
those of the West are progressive aud follow up
the progress of the age. I notice in one of the
reports of the Iowa State Agricultural Society that
the premiums on butter and butter making and
its various branches amounted to 81 300, and in
many branches of the agricultural and domestic
interests are large premiums offered for COMPETE
ton, which to our people are never thought Of
So that there are many points in the interest of
agriculture that might be brought forth and pro-
NOTED by those societies if conducted the basis
indicated.
Mr. Joshua Richardson, highly respected cit
izen of Fawn township, York county, whilst
gagged in raising building recently, in using an
axe it few from the handle, striking him with the
blade above the hip, severing an artery. Physi-
clans were in attendance, but of no avail; he bled
to death.
Mr.. J. II. Markell, of Shrewsbury, Pa, dealer in
hardware, coal, lumber, stoves, implements, &C.,
has sold his business and stock to l.. G. Kraft, of
the same county. Mr.. Markell was one of the
most successful business men that that ancient
borough ever had in it. He sold as high as 700
Oliver chilled plows in one Last season
he sold IS reapers and binders, mostly of the
johnson pattern. The wisdom of the change on
his part is questioned.
The railroad enterprise, known as the Stewards
town and New Freedom Railroad, has been re-
vived lately and the prospects of building the
road greatly strengthened. At meeting held in
Stewartstown on Thursday last, Mr.. James Full
ton stated in his address that he and others in
terested in the building of the road had visited
Philadelphia recently and conferred with the
Pennsylvania Railroad officials, and that the
terms offered them were of the most liberal char
acter, and that never in the history of the enter
prise the outlook for building the road more
favorable than now. The road will be about seven
miles long. At the close of his address it was
unanimously decided to push the work. Engineer
Git will be put upon the line next week. This
line when built will be a valuable feeder to the
Northern Central Railroad. X.