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

ings and class meetings on w Wednesday afternoons,
at o'clock, and Friday evenings, at o'clock.
81. Johns M. e. Church, Lutke,viHe.-Preach-
ing Sunday, at ii q. m. and 730 p. m, by the pas
tor. Rev. VIM. Dallam Morgan. Prayer meeting
Wednesday evening, at 80 O'Clock.
To-day Saturday is the longest day Of
the year.
The man who makes all his money by spec
ulation gets rich by chance.
The Circuit Court has divorce James l..
Lancaster from Mary E. Lancaster.
Hon J. Fred. C. Talbot is taking few
DAYS rest at the famous Bedford Springs, Pa.
Mr.. A. J. Routson and family, of Lapidum,
Hartford county, moved to Woodbury. recently.
Gov Mclean has re-appointed DIR. L.
Briscoe Hall, officer of registration for the 18th
district.
Wheat harvest will commence next week
and the prospects for very large yield were
never better.
Letters were granted in the Orphans Court
this week to Philip Hare on the estate of Susan
Brown, deceased.
Judge William A. Fisher, accompanied by
his wife, left on Tuesday for an extended trip
through Europe.
The York Age says the sweet girl graduate
is just the same she always was-wise, deep and
singularly profound.
There were slight frosts in some sections
of this county on Monday morning last, but vege-
tation was not injured.
The fair and supper held Thursday even
ing for benefit of Trinity P. E. church, Towson-
town, netted about $50.
The number of deaths last week in Balti-
more was 131, the same number as in the CORES
ponding week of last year.
"A new telephone company has been organ
lied in Baltimore with Gen. Bradley I. johnson,
of this county, as president.
Mr. John 7. johns, Jr., will deliver lee
ture at Dover church, this Saturday evening, June
2lst, for benefit of the church.
Mr.. Robert Lawson, Jr., son of Mr.. Robert
Lawson, died at the residence Of his father, near
Gainesville, on Monday morning last.
"A few days ago Mr.. Thos c. Bruff, of the
School Board, shot a fine woodcock on a vacant
lot almost in the centre of Towsontown.
The annual all-day meeting at Jessop's NJ.
E. church, on the York turnpike, above Jockeys
vile, will be held on Sunday, July 18th.
Col. Theodore F. Lang addressed a large
Blaine and Logan ratification meeting at Hamp-
den, Falls road, on Tuesday evening last.
An effort is being made to organize a mill
tary company at Eicott City. Many of the
young men of the vicinity will join the organiza-
ton.
Mr.. VIM. Sellers, of Canton, died on Thursday of
an attack Of cholera morbus, whilst returning
from school.
-Gates B. Weiser, of York, Pa, proprietor
of an extensive sash factory, failed last week,
for nearly 100000.
The Meadow mill of the Messrs. Hooper, at
Woodberry, has closed down temporarily. The
firm says the mill may start up again in July, but
this is not certain.
The sixteenth annual commencement at
the Academy of Mount Saint Agnes, Mt. Wash
ington, this county, will take place on Thursday,
June 26th, at p. m.
The stable of Mr.. Henry Shirk, living on
an1 ~ he halls 1xv
thieves on Monday morning last and robbed of
articles valued at $40.
"A movement is on foot having for its OBJ
ject the enlargement of the Episcopal church at
Mt. Washington, its present dimensions having
been found to be too small.
Mr.. W. H. Sewell, of Fallston, Hartford
county, has bought 200 acres of land, with i'm
provements, from N. W. Hammond, of Sykesvile,
Carroll county, for $4,000.
The Northern Central r. R. Company has
erected a new station house at Lake, on the banks
of Lake Roland, to take the place of the one de-
stroyed by fire some time ago.
Mr.. George Jessop, ST., of "Kenilworth,"
near Ashland, was very successful in growing
strawberries the past season. He raised some of
unusual size and fine flavor.
"A petition from citizens Of the Belt has
been presented to the School Board, asking for
the erection of a school house in the vicinity of
Boundary and Maryland avenues.
Several farmers have told us that whilst
their clover patches have well formed heads, much
of it has not bloomed, and this, they think, has
been due to the late cold weather.
The Rev. Geo. Morrison presided at Grove
church, Hartford county, on Sunday last. This is
the church whose referred to at the last
meeting of the Baltimore Presbytery.
The hotel of Mrs. Caroline Merkle, adver-
tised for sale in THE UNION a few weeks ago,
known as the Blue Pump tavern, Frederick road,
has been sold to Mr.. VIM. Batch for $1,750.
In the Carroll county Court last week, in
the case Of Ann Griswold vs.. Sylvester W. Base
man, removed from Baltimore county, action for
trespass, the plaintiff got verdict for S5S.
Our neighbor, Mr.. John E. Owens, has
gone to Greenbrier White Sulpher Springs He
has much improved in health, and we hope his
trip to Virginia may be very beneficial to him.
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union
of Elicott City, hold meetings every Monday
evening at o'clock. They extend an invitation
to ladies of all denominations to meet with them.
"A mixture of sulphur and lard is safe
and harmless remedy for the determination of
lice on cattle. Rub it along the back and brisket
and annoint parts here and there wherever neces-
sary.
Anthony G. Williams, who was so badly
beaten on the York road, the 0riole base-b
grounds, is recovering. He claims that he was
robbed of $40 at the same time the assault &C.
CURED.
On Sunday last letter from Archbishop
Gibbons was read in all the Catholic churches,
prohibiting the sale or use of intoxicating drinks
at pic-nics or excursions given under Catholic
auspices.
Mr.. Frank B. Macatee, living near the
Rocks of Deer Creek, Hartford county, will plant
IL acres in Havana tobacco this season. His sales
of tobacco in the last FIVE years have amounted
to S., 800.
baltimore and Ellicott City are now con-
nected by telephone communication. This line
connects Ellicott City, Frederick, Hagerstown and
Waynesboro Pa, the last named being 80 miles
from Baltimore.
Among those who read essays at the late
annual commencement of the Baltimore Female
College, was Miss Emma H. Baldwin, daughter
of DR.. A. S. Baldwin, Long Green Valley. Her
theme was "The Beautiful"
No colored camp-meeting will be held in
Towsontown this summer. 1t is understood that
Mrs. Chew, in whose woods the camps have been
held heretofore, objected to her ground being
again used for the purpose.
Engine No. 2, of the Maryland Central
railroad, jumped the track while running on the
turn-table at the Baltimore terminus, few days
ago, and was thrown on her side in the pit, but
was not seriously damaged.
The Republicans in different sections of the
county are preparing to organize Blaine and
Logan clubs. We already hear of movements in
this direction in the I'd and 18th districts, and
hope soon to hear of others.
The Towson Guards will "excurt" to the
Rocks of Deer Creek, by Maryland Central road,
next Tuesday. Should the weather prove favora-
BILE the trip will doubt be very delightful one.
Fare for the round trip only S1.O0.
-Harford county has game law, passed at
the last session of the Legislature, that forbids
the killing of cartridges or rabbits between the
I'd of January and the 18th of October; wookcock
between February LIST and September 1st
WIN. Wherl, teamster for VIM. Brooks, of
Woodbury., was thrown from bis wagon on Mon
day and had his right arm broken, besides recev
ing other injuries. The accident occurred while
crossing the tracks of the N. c. r. r. at that
place.
The Canton Republicans have organized a
Blaine and Logan club with the following officers:
President, Evan Jones; vice-president, 7. e.
Davis; secretary, John Johns; treasurer, VIM.
Griffith. At the first meeting lbs members were
enrolled.