The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-12-20

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| a remarkably cold winter. Perhaps this is thu
same fellow who has been feeding his horse OF
shoe pegs, hoping the animal would believe the,
| were oats. He may be dissembler-if not q con
| tinental liar.
Conductor johnson, of the Maryland Cen
trail road, accompanied by two friends, spent tw,
days cunning in Hartford the past week. The
brought home few rabbits but an expert, whit
| examined them, says they were trapped, not shot
But this may be only another of those destestabl
| campaign lies.
Mr.. Eli Scott, a well known LIST distric
farmer, sold a load of prime Fultz wheat in Bal
timore on Wednesday, at 81 cts per bushel, an,
it was hard work for him to get even that figure
He states that this is the lowest price at which
has sold wheat since 1852, when it was down t.
rs cts. per bushel.
who said he was formerly slave of the late Rezil
H. Worthington, was overcome by fatigue in tn,
road near Pimlico, and laid out in the storm al
night. Officer 0'Neil went to the old mans rescu,
on Monday morning, and had him sent to the
county aims house.
Our old friend, Geo. W. Aler Esq.,, of tn,
I'd district, called on Tuesday to renew his sub
scription to The UNION. He has been sub
scriber for many years-as long, perhaps, as any
man in the western section of the county. Gun
Gle" George has been lifelong Democrat, but fol
all that he's good friend of The UNION.
Among those who own French spolatior
claims now on file in Washington, we notice the
name of Jeremiah YellOtt, Esq, one of the oldest
residents of Dulany's Valley. These claims have
been before Congress since 1874. They have
been favorably reported number of times, but
the bill for their payment has never yet passed.
Our people will remember the late Rev.
John A. Gere, who was at one time pastor OF
Towsontown NJ. E. church. His daughters are
cousins of President-elect Cleveland, and one OF
them, who is now the wife of Mr.. Samuel c.
Jayne, of Berwick Pa, is at present visiting the
sisters of Messrs Thomas and Samuel E. Hill, of
Baltimore.
Prof. W. M. D. R. Muller, a we'll known
Baltimore musician, who resided on Charles
street avenue, in this county, died on Friday,
18th inst, in the 32d year of his age. From over
work he was attacked with softening ofthe brain,
and it became necessary for the county court to
appoint committee to take charge of his person
and property.
--Vennor completed his 1885 almanac short
ly before his DEATH He predicted that the fall of
1884 would be very open, followed by mild, un-
settled winter, with heavy falls of rain and snow
He also predicted an unusually green Christmas
and mild New Year. 1t looks as though the
Canadian prophet knew what he was talking
about-in a horn.
"A few days ago two little sons of Mr.. John
7. Patterson, formerly of this county, but who
now resides near Taylor, Hartford county, while
playing with matches, fred large stack of straw,
and notwithstanding the utmost efforts it burned
to the ground The afternoon was very calm or
it is impossible to say how disastrous the fire
would have been.
Through. the indefatgabe efforts of Prof.
Hanna, backed by number of other teachers,
the School Board, on Tuesday, receded from its
position on the salary question and went back to
the old schedule of rates. This is q victory for
the teachers, and the Board showed its good sense
in backing down from position which was al
together untenabe.
Col. VIM. DeVere, who has the misfortune
to live in Burglars Range" commonly called the
Belt, has heard nothing yet of his splendid gold
watch, which was stolen from his residence about
a fortnight ago. The Col. brought this watch
from California with him many years ago and it
was highly priced, not much for its value, per-
haps, as on account of its associations.
Argument in the Anderson will case, in
one of the Baltimore city courts, has occupied
nearly the whole of the past week. On Monday
Judge Brown instructed the jury that there was
no evidence legally sufficient to show that the
will was procured by undue influence, and this
eliminates one of the main issues from the case
and virtually sustains the will throughout.
Bishop Bowman, who is the brother-in-law
of Rev. W. T. D. GLENN, of Towsontown, in his
address at one Of the Centennial services in Bal
tmore the past week, said "when I was a boy in
Pennsylvania I knew of church where the pas
tor and elders pitched quots for drinks before the
service began" The Bishop didn't say he took
a hand in these pleasing diversions, but we as
sumo that he did not.
-Messrs. BENZ. 7. Worthington, VIM. D.
Yingling, Chas. R. johnson and Rozele Berry
man, of Baltimore county, are directors in the
and Pennsylvania Mining Company, a
new corporation just organized in Baltimore
The operations of the company are to be carried
- Do1k
Nd, and in several adjacent counties of Pennsyl-
vania. The capital stock is 100000, in shares
of $40.
"A highly esteemed subscriber writes US
his own subscription and $3.50 extra
for which he wants THE UNION sent as "a Christ
mas present for my (his) mother" and closes by
saying, "many thanks for your kind invitation to
attend the reception" Our good friend the
point. His business engagements prevented his
coming here, but he didn't want to be cleft" and
his kind note answered for him. He has our
thanks and best wishes.
Mr.. Lewis Turner has taken up his resi-
dence permanently at Govanstown, having
purchased the property of the late DR.. Woods
He was in Towsontown on Wednesday and hon.
ored our sanctum with visit. He has been
to The UNION for years and is one of
the late Lewis Turner, Jr, who was an active
Democratic politician and who several times rep
resented Baltimore county in the Legislature.
The evening trains on the Maryland Gen.
trail road are now very much crowded. There are
but two coaches on each train-one ladies' car and
one Sunderland very frequently ladies are oblig-
ed to either stand or 60 into the smoking car.
This is often very disagreeable and causes many
complaints. 1t seems to us it would be an easy
matter to run an extra as far as Loeb Raven,
bringing it back on one of the morning trains,
thus giving the travelling public better accommo-
dations.
Mr.. John G.. Donaldson teaches Ruhl's
school, in the 9th district, and some times writes
for the papers. He is not
Mark Twain, nor yet Mrs. Darlington, but he
gets off some very funny things. We don't want
to make any trouble between Mr.. Donaldson and
our neighbor of the Journal, but if Mr.. Donaldson
can shoot, he ought to go cunning around here.
He evidently thinks the editor OF the Journal is
friend of his, but we don't. However, it is not an
thing for "smart" people to differ.
Capt. Thomas Love, venerable and pop
ular citizen of the Sth district, in renewing his
to The UNION, says: "Kindly recol-
lections of it's late proprietor and editor still
linger, and of its efficient establishment under his
in many years passed by" tits graf
flying to us to know that hundreds of Baltimore
county's best citizens have for years been SUBJ
scribers to THE UNION, and they look upon the
paper as an old friend, whose presence is neces-
eary TO cOmpiete tnelr happiness anu conIort.
"A great many of our subscribers have called
upon us the past week and squared their accounts,
but large majority of them have not yet been
heard from. We hope they will not forget us.
The amounts they owe are small and we only call
upon them once year. They will be doing good
thing for themselves and comforting favor upon
us by settling before the first of the year. Look
at the matter in a business way and if you do we
feel quite certain that between now and January
LIST, five or six hundred of you will call and see
-Lemuel Blackburn is the high sounding
name of low toned colored man. He has we'll
organized step-father named Obediah Farmer,
who lives at Mt. Winans, 18th district. Last
Sunday Lemuel undertook to make that part of
the county extremely warm for Obediah, when
the latter fired several shots at his by brevet.
Unfortunately Obediah was bad marksman and
Lemuel escaped without any bullet holes in his
corporal system. Justice Keifer issued war
rant for the refractory Lemuel, but he has not
been caught. The reason of this is the county
police are after him.
Hints About Country Roads.-A CORES
pendent writes: "The rural roads belong to the
farmers. Farmers require them for the outlet to
the farms, and as every product that is sold is
hauled to market bad road adds to the cost and
reduces the profit of it. A striking incongruity