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

We have had another week of extremely
disagreeable weather, and the signal service PEG.
pie and the weather prophets have gone very
far wrong. This winter appears to have tripped
them all up, and they can't "get on to it" even
at this late day.
Mrs. Richard Cromwell, residing on the
York road near the city limits, was slightly in
jured in Baltimore on Friday of last week, by
jumping from her carriage while the horses were
running away. Mrs. c. is a daughter of Philip
I. George, Esq.
Young men, stand firm brace up and in
sist upon your rights-regardless of the fact that
this is leap year. Don't allow yourself to be hug
ged in public on the streets. Don't go out either,
after nightfall without an escort. dangers are
lurking everywhere"
William Tagart Pearce, son of Mr.. John C.
Pearce, of Long Green Valley, will leave next
week for Butte county, California, where he will
make his home in the future. He is an indus
trious young man and we hope he may meet with
success in the Golden State.
Several cases of diphtheria among the lit
tie ones of Towsontown should admonish parents
to be very guarded as to the care of their chill
dren. This disease has been quite prevalent in
the city and the proper precautions should be
taken to prevent its spread here.
The new schedule on the Maryland Gen.
trail road is working well. Some persons COM
plain that the second train down in the morning
does not stop at all stations south of Towson-
town, but then it would be impossible to get up
a schedule that would please everybody.
DIR. Shepardson, a street fakir was in
Towsontown Tuesday night, selling his "Great
Rheumatic Remedy" which one colored man
declared cured him as soon as he applied it. At
o'clock the "Dr." took his long hair and about
So of TOwsontOwn money back to the city with
him.
Mr.. G. Taylor Jenkins, aged II years, died
at his residence, on Third street, in the "Belt,"
last Saturday, of yphoid-pneumonia, and on
Sunday his son, aged % years, died of typhoid
fever. They were buried together from DIR.
Kirkus' church, north Of the Boundary, Tuesday
afternoon.
The question is asked: "HOw shall women
carry their purses to Illustrate the thievesg" Why
carry them empty. Nothing illustrates a thief
more than 10 snatch a woman's purse. after fol-
lowing her half mile, and then find that il con-
tains nothing but receipt for spieedp peaches and
a faded photograph of her grandmother.
Some fellow who pretends to be resident
Of Towsontown, is writing series Of letters from
London for the Bahimorean. He don't belong
here He's too green. A man who is unable to
and n circus procession can't palm himself OF as
a resident of Towsontown-not If we know It.
Mr.. Charles r. Broumel, who died at his
residence, in Baltimore, Sunday night last, aged
26 years, was a nephew and namesake of DIR.
Richard Willis, of this place. He was a son of
James Broumel. ESQ.,, ex-member of the City
Council, with whom he was engaged in the real
estate business. Deceased leaves a wife and one
child.
"A petition is being circulated in Towson-
town favorng Gov. McLane's s-hour law. Many
persons have signed it who, if they had first prop
erly considered the matter, would probably not
have done so. 1t is grave question whether such
law will not seriously initiate against the work
ing man. Should the bill pass we fear that in
furious results will almost surely follow.
A letter from Mrs. c. II. NJ, Richland,
Iowa, formerly of this county, says eve have ex-
perienced some intensely cold weather here this
winter, the thermometer reaching SO degrees be-
low zero on the morning of the 5th of January,
and standing at 20 below during the whole of
that day. 1t was said to have been the coolest
weather ever experienced by the people of this
State"
Our neighbor of the Journal violently de-
nounces the statements with reference to the
present condition of the alms-house. We hope,
for the credit of the county, that what he says is
so but if it is, then certain members of the Grand
Jury and the representative of the Baltimore
Day, who visited the place, have proven them
selves the most colossal liars of the 10th century.
We are satifed to leave it with the Grand Jurors
and our "big- hearted" neighbor.
- The lady in Shenandoah Valley, Va, who
lately married a who had always been
thought to be woman, is related by marriage to
a well-known and prominent Baltimore county
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conducted a large business and was highly re-
spected "woman" until short time before her
marriage, when the discovery made that she
was of the opposite sex. This is one of the most
extraordinary cases that the newspapers have
brought to light in a long time.
A correspondent of the Sun, writing from
BALTIC. county, is very much incensed because the
Legislature refused to reduce the marriage license
fee from $3.50 to so cts. This indignant cores
pondent says in conclusion that "if the State can
not survive the loss to its treasury which would
result from the abolition of the tax, then replace
it with tax on bachelors, worthless and good
for-nothing class of the community anyway"
That's pretty rough on the bachelors. The cor
respondent must be lady, certain.
Our friend of the Resterstown Voice rather
turns the joke about that "lively" mule we
referred to several weeks ago. He gives the par
ticulars of trip of sleighing party from Tow
sontown to Reisterstown and intimates that they
were driving our "fast mule" He is wrong
about this. Just before that trip our mule was
sent on to New York to have little tilt with
some of the flyers of that city, and he trotted so
fast and got so far away that we havn't been able
to hear from him since. But that mule has sort
of perennial FRESHNESS" and he'll be back by
spring. Those soere very "tardy" mules the Tow
sontown fellows drove to Reisterstown. They say
they watered the animals at one of the hotel
pumps in that place and after that they became
utterly unsnowworthy. The fellows drank at
the branch, hence they got home at a. m.-but
the walking the latter part of the journey was
not good.