The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-07-19

| special to Delta and back In very quick time.
Custer Post, G. A. R., of Baltimore, will
hold grand garden party, at "Rosedale," tn,
residence of Gen. E. b. Tyler, near Calverton, OF
the afternoon of September 18th. The proceed
will be applied to the charity fund of the Post.
-TOwsontown needs special officer, will
power to make arrests, and the County Commits
siOners should supply the want without delay
Our town is certainly as important as some Others
in the county that are provided for in this par
ticular.
Samuel I. Bayne the postmaster at Baynes
vile, on the Joppa road, two miles east of Tow,
sontown, has resigned and the Office is now going
begging. The salary is about 1854 year and
there is not likely to be much of o scramble fol
the place.
The Democrats of Towsontown met at the
Court House Tuesday night and organized tenn.
pnrarily for the formation of q Cleveland Club
They will hold ratification meeting next week
Mt which it is proposed to have a number of prom.
inent speakers.
Miss Annie Day Hale, teacher in the
public schools of this county, died of typhoid
fever, at her mothers residence in the city, the
18th inst She was a daughter of Walter T. Hale
former resident of this county, and a very esti.
mable young lady.
Tuesday last was St. Swithn's day and, as
we had rain on that day, according to old time
belief may expect to have rain in every twenty
four hours for the next forty days. But ST.
Swithn will be cleft" this time as he has been
many times before.
-"What are you slowing up for?" yelled a
freight conductor to an engineer one of our rail-
roads the other day. "Why, we've run over a
book agent" "Drat it all, then, why don't you
keep on? We can't kill him unless the whole
train runs over him."
The heaviest rain experienced in Baltimore
in many years, fell on Friday afternoon of last
week, measuring nearly four inches and lasting
but about an hour and twenty minutes. In Tow
sontown we had only slight sprinkle-barely
enough to lay the DUST
The young man named Frederick Myers, a
deserter from u. S. Army, whose father is said
to live in the 18th district of this county, and who
refused to be burdened with his son because he
hopelessly i'll, has finally been sent from Fort
McHenry to Bayview Asylum.
The death rate among the young children
of Baltimore city continues alarmingly large
Last week 1872 died, whose ages were under FIVE
years, ITO OF the number being under one year Of
age. The deaths from cholera infantum were not
so many as during the previous week.
The colorod boy Walter Harris, who was
accidentally shot at Loeb Raven, on the Sth inst,
is again able to be out and Edward Coates, who
did the shooting, has been released on bail. The
wound was very dangerous one and the recovery
of the boy is considered somewhat remarkable.
Mr.. Joseph Nelson, of the 18th district who
has been acting constable for number of years,
has handed in his resignation to the County
Commissioners, who at once appointed Franklin
P. Kelly to fill the vacancy. Kelly gave bond in
the sum of $4,000. Mr.. Nelson was reliable Of
fcer.
The miniature balloon, which was sent up
from the picnic grounds at Luthervile, on We'd
nesday, and in which was seated doll, was pick
ed up by two boys at Lauravlle, on the Hartford
road. The distance from Luthe.ville to Laura
vile, by an air line, is between seven and eight
miles.
The Glen Rock Item says that the absence
of Mr.. B. F. Roller from Summit Grove this
year will be a great drawback, from the fact that
he has been one of the most successful caterers
the camp has ever had and contributed as much
anything else to the patronage the meeting had
last year.
Pay clerk Chas A. Roe, of the Maryland
Central, passed up the road on Tuesday, in a
special car, and paid off the hands to the LIST day
of May. He will make another trip next week
and pay all the employees to the 1st fully. The
funds required for these payments, and to take up
all back orders, will aggregate about $4,000.
The old Lion in Druid Hill Park escaped
from her pond last Sunday and roamed at will
over the place. 1t was with great difficulty that she
was captured and re confined. Hundreds of peo-
pie visit the park daily to see this curiosity and
her interesting baby. The mother has a very
fine appetite, which requires 3s lbs. of fresh fish
daily to satisfy.
Spring Grove aad Mount Hope Insane
Asylums, both located in this county, are over
crowded with patients. DR.. Stewart, Health
Commissioner, says that insanity is increasing
rapidly and that Spring Grove, which is State
Institution, will have to be enlarged in order to
accommodate poor patients sent there from Bal
timore city ana elsewhere.
The all day meeting at Jcssop's M. E.
church, Sth district, last Sunday, was largely at
tended. The weather was very fine and the &C.
cason of much social and spiritual en-
joyment. The Presiding Elder preached in the
morning and the afternoon there was a ch;ldren's
meeting, followed by sermon. Towsontown was
well represented at the meeting.
from Towsontown and vicinity spent Wednesday
last at Loeb Raven, engaging in fishing and
other sports. Mr.. VIM. Cole took the company
over in his four horse coach and they had royal
time. Misses Hartman, Amos, Weby and others
got the affair up and provided most bountiful
supply of good things, and q very enjoyable day
spent.
The letter from the Belt on the county po-
lice and sanitary inspector, published in last
weeks UNION, acted like charm. We are in
formed that in less than twenty -four hours from
the time the paper was printed an officer was
securing that section of the county with the in
tenton of righting some of the wrongs complained
of by "Denmead," who has something more to
say this week.
the Maryland Central R. r. Company for about
eighteen months, resigned that position on the
LIST inst. During his incumbency of this impor-
tant Office he discharged his duties in very ac-
ceptable manner, and did not receive single cent
for his services. He also proved good friend to
the company by several times advancing large
sums to meet current demands.
"A letter from Mr.. A. Wittekind, of Borstel
Germany, informs us that he has purchased
large farm near Langenhalm, to which he has
removed. He formerly resided few miles east
of Towsontown, but returned to his native country
some years ago. Mr.. Wittekind is breeder of
fancy cattle and has made several purchases from
some of our Baltimore county breeders. He has
been a subscriber to The UNION for several years.
Tho Blaine and Logan streamer at Wood
berry, floating from @ pole upwards of 100 feet
high, was badly damaged by the storm which
passed over that section Friday evening of last
week. This was the first streamer bearing the
names of the next President and ce-President
of the United States, that was raised in Maryland
after the Convention had finished its work. No
doubt those sturdy fellows down there will soon
replace it with more enduring material.
-Parkton, Northern Central Railroad, is now
admirably supplied with postal facilities. The
Office has an exchange of mails with the postal
car going south in the morning, from the west
and north. The Baltimore mails are received two
hours earlier than under the old arrangement. The
udll III O.t0 DdilluOTo drTlVeS IN tl6 CITY IN
time for the morning delivery. This change of
service went into effect on the 9th inst, and is
giving great satisfaction to the people of that
section.
Some of the taxpayers in the Belt are COM
planning because they say there number of res
idents in that section, who own valuable personal
property, who do pay cent to the county in the
shape of taxes. One gentleman says that he has
no doubt there is at least 81 0O0 900 worth of that
kind of property in the Belt which is not assessed
If this is true it is gross piece of injustice to the
other taxpayers in the county. The Commission
ers should lose time in looking into this matter
to the end that those people pay their share of
county tnxos.
- The Westminster Advocate says "Mr. John
w. Murray, of Hampstead, brought to this office
most singular production, found upon the farm
of Mr.. Lewis Martin, in Baltimore county, near
Hampstead. Two chestnut saplings were found
coupled together by branch growing into each
in the form of an arch, and this had smaller one
growing out of it and conjoined at each end
Siamese twins united by ligature. Nature
seemed to have set to work to construct an OK
yoke. No idea can be formed of the manner in
which these saplings we're thus coupled together"
On Tuesday night last, at regular meet