The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-01-26

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o'clock, and Wednesday afternoons at o'clock.
81. Johns N. E. Church, Luthervilie.-Preach-
ing Sunday, at II a m. and 7.3O p. m, by the pas
tor, Rev. VIM Dallam Morgan. Prayer meeting
Wednesday evening, at 7.3O O'Clock.
Trinity p. E. Church, Long Greea.-Services to-
morrow l27th), at 81 p. m, conducted by Rev.
George K. Warner.
st. Valentines Day-February l4th.
Old friends are better than new ones.
There we're thirteen new moons during the
year 1888.
Man proposes and woman has the same
privilege this year.
The average weight of an adult man is 40
pounds and ounces.
cigarettes still popular with the dudes;
but the dudes decreasing.
High medical authority says that salt
thrown on ice produces diphtheria.
Mr. w. S. G.. Baker, of this county, has
obtained patent for car axle box.
The Grand Jury for the December term Of
court finally adjourned on Thursday.
To be very correct, it is proper to have only
your initials on your note paper now.
The days are frightening very rapidly, the
change being very perceptible already.
-August Dumer has been appointed post
master at Fullerton, on the Beair road.
Mr. James H. Cole, of Gardenville, celebra-
ted his crystal wedding one evening last week.
1t is feared the deep SHOWS and cold wealth
er will destroy all the cartridges in the country
Trains on the Maryland Central road COM
menced running regularly to Delta on Wednes-
day.
Mr. John l.. Hanna, of Baltimore, former
ly of Elkton, is publishing the Maryland Lac
Journal.
"A temperance meeting will be held in
WaverIey NJ. E. church, Wednesday, Jan. 30, at
74p.m.
Mr.. John G. Rogers has been re-appointed
Treasurer and Examiner of the public schools of
Howard county.
john 7. Carr, of Woodberry, has been APP
pointed a substitute letter-carrier in the Bati-
more postOfhee.
Boys and girls should remember that eating
snow is injurious, and eminent physicians say it
produces catarrh.
The first regular passenger train from
Delta to Baltimore, left there on Monday morn
ing last at o'clock.
The case of Mrs. Hundertmark, for the
murder of Charles Ensor, is set for trial on We'd
nesday, January 30.
The directors of the Beair Bank have
changed the day of their weekly meeting from
Monday to Wednesday.
1t is predicted by the chronic croakers that
next seasons peach crop has been completely
killed by the cold weather.
Mr.. John E. Owens is playing Scion Shin
gle and Everybody's Friend, at the Mount Nor
ris Theatre, New York, this week.
CHARLES W. sIagle. ESQ, Of Baltimore, has
Harrisburg Railroad Company.
The man who has nothing to boast of but
his illustrious ancestors is very much like po-
tato-the best part being under ground.
Mr. Jacob NJ. Pearce, of My Lady's Manor,
who has been so extremely i'll, is now slowly re-
covering, being still confined to his bed.
The case of Debilius and Albert, for man
slaughter in connection with the Tivoli disaster,
has been assigned for trial on Monday, Feb. 4.
AS Candlemass or Ground Hog Day will
soon be here The weather predictions for the bal
ance of the winter can be postponed until that
time.
"A woman always carries her purse in her
hand so that other woman will see it; a man car
ries his in his inside pocket so that his wife won't
see it.
Mr. Haviland, of Charles county, has pur-
chased a farm situated in the 9Th district, near
Alesia, from ex- County Commissioner John H.
Millender.
The suit of Ensor against the trustees of
the Towsontown Station NJ. E. church, assigned
for trial in the Circuit Court on Monday last, was
dismissed.
The humane people of our town have held
a meeting for the purpose of taking steps to re-
lieve the sick and destitute. "He that giveth to
the poor lendeth to the Lord"
of the 537 inmates of the Maryland peni-
Tertiary during the year 1888, 40 were sent from
Baltimore county Circuit Court, and of this num-
Der were born in the county.
Col. William A. McKellip, of Westminster
has formed a co partnership in the practice of law
with Harry NJ Clabaugh, Esq. The title of the
firm is McKellip Clabaugh.
"A few Towsontown men have much BUSH
ness in Annapolis just now. They doubtless
fixing things up to suit themselves-but the "best
laid plans of mice and men," &c.
The new School Board had a meeting in
the city on Saturday last, the proceedings being
of private nature. regular meeting of the
Board will be held on the 9th of February.
Benjamin MelIor, son of Mark Mellor, ESQ.,,
one of the Judges of the Orphans Court, has
bought the machine shop building and lot of
Robert G.. Kirkwood, of EIlicott City, for ST 100.
Washington Chinworth, aged about IA
years, son of George Chinworth, living near
Painters mill, ON the Reisterstown pike, had his
thigh bone broken whilst coasting on Tuesday
night last.
-Messrs George J. Roche & Son, of Waiver
", this county, have been awarded the contract
for painting the interior of the Baltimore Custom
House. The work was awarded to them by Col
lector Webster.
IN the Orphans Court THIS week letters
of administration granted to Thos C. Bos-
ley and Joshua G.. Bosley on the estate of Mar
tina L. Bosley, and to Julia Schwarz on the es-
tate of Bernhard Schwarz.
died at the residence of bis SON. in law Mr. Luther
NJ Birmingham, in the 18th district of this county,
on the Sth instant, in the S5th year of his age
In Is49 he represented Hartford county in the
Legislature.
The meeting of the Maryland Central
stockholders on Monday was no doubt the liveli-
est gathering of the kind ever held in Baltimore.
Nearly every stakeholder Several hundred in alll
was present, which shows that a large majority
take an interest in the enterprise.
1t is much easier for some people to drop
tears at the sight of distress than dimes. Some
peopIe pray with a starving widow instead Of
sending bread. Tears and prayers in some
instances genuine acts of sympathy, but gifts OF
dimes and bread are acts never questioned.
A man from Chestnut Ridge came near
getting himself in trouble in Towsontown last
Monday night. Every now and then this fellow
comes over to have little "circus," and one OF
these days ne III get more IMAM ne Dargdlneu lol'
On his last visit he came near being dragged"
-Towsontown was largely represented at
Delta on Thursday of last week, on the occasion
of the opening of the Maryland Central road to
that point. Some suffered slight discomfort on
account of the intense cold, but the whole they
had good time and returned pleased with the
trip.
The first house in the village of Delta, the
terminus of the Maryland Central Railroad, was
erected upwards of one hundred years ago. 1t
was a small log building. Fifty years later FIVE
other houses were built. DR.. J. M. Parke, now
of Washington, D. c., was the first to call
the place "Delta."
The last semi-ann examination of the
books of the Workingmen's Mutual Beneficial
Association of the Northern Central Railroad,
showed the total receipts during that time to have
been 50, 2S3.69. Theexpenditures For sick
benefits, sl,O64; for funeral benefits, sl,lO2.67.