The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-07-04


Stowe, deceased.
There was very brisk shower of hail
stones in Towsontown on Thursday afternoon,
lasting about five minutes and pretty well cover
ing the ground.
-Messrs. Corkran Bros. will open general
supply store at Luthervile about August LIST.
The firm has erected a commodious store building
for the transaction of business.
Referring to the Richardson-Piper case
the Belair Democrat says sit looks as if Balti-
more county jury justifes an assault under strong
provocation." 1t also says the counsel for Piper,
gin language at least, vigorously assaulted the
prosecuting Witness.
The Old Town Fire Insurance Company of
Baltimore commenced business on the LIST inst,
with all the capital stock paid in. Mr.. Charles
W. Halter, who has an extensive acquaintance in
Baltimore county, is the secretary of this new and
fourishing company.
The managers of Greenmount Cemetery
have purchased from the Kennedy heirs a strip
of ground on the north side of the cemetery and
will set the wall out and straighten the line on
that side. This purchase will enlarge the ceme-
terry several hundred lots.
The Baltimore papers estimate the damage
to roads and bridges in Baltimore county, by the
food of Sunday morning last, at from $4,000 to
$30, 1000. The damage, so far as we have been
able to learn, was very slight and will not near
approximate the figures given.
Mr.. Fred. Price, of the Sth district, having
declined the clerkship under Mr.. jackson G. Colt,
architect of the new Marine Hospital, Mr.. G. W.
Coe has been appointed to the place. The salary
is 81 per day. The appointee is son OF Mr..
William Coe, of the Sth district.
The intensely hot weather of last week
was very hard on young children in Baltimore,
and the death rate was largely increased. Forty
one children died of cholera infantum alone, and
out of a total number of 1876 deaths, 102 were of
children under five years of age.
Mr. Asa JONES' of Fawn township, York
county who is a successful agent for the Cham
pion Company, has sold upwards of one hundred
machines this season, ffty-two of them being
binders. These machines are now selling at about
one-half what they formerly sold for.
Among the Baltimore countians who have
subscribed to the Baltimore americans fund for
the Bartholdi Statue of Liberty, to be erected in
New York harbor, are E. P. Porter, Fork, IS R.
F. Maynard, Pikesvie, 81; 7. Alex. Seth, ST.;
J. Maurice Watkins, Towsontown, 81.
The same company that recently gave the
opera of "Pinafore" so successfully in Waverly,
repeated the performance in Mt. Washington on
Saturday night last A large and critical audi
ence was in attendance and was delighted with
the rendition of this ever popular musical extrav-
aganza.
The heaviest rain experienced in this Sec
ton since the great flood of 1868, commenced
falling about o'clock on Sunday morning last
and continued without intermission until about
9. No damage was done in Towsontown, al
though the small streams in the vicinity were
greatly swollen.
The Rectory Home School near Upper
Marlboro, Prince Georges county, closed its ses-
sion on Wednesday of last week, and among the
many we'll written compositions by the young
ladies of the school, we find the name of Miss
Nina Edwards, of Baltimore county, as one of
the contributors.
The heavy rain of Sunday morning last did
some slight damage to the Maryland Central road
by washing earth upon the track, &C., and there
was some interruption of the trains, but men were
at once put to work and by Monday morning
everything had been put in order and trains were
running on schedule time.
-Messrs. j. T. c. Hopkins and S. A. Will
liams are members of joint stock company late
ly organized in Belair, to mine quarry, crush and
manufacture flint, feldspar and other minerals for
market. The organization is known as "The
Susquehanna Flint Company of Hartford County,"
and the capital stock is S37, 900.
The Poole & Hunt shops, at Woodbury.,
have lately turned out some powerful machinery
for the Chicago cable street railway. One i'm
mense wheel, for the operating apparatus, weigh
ed 80, 900 pounds. Another one, cast with double
arms, in one piece, weighed $4,000 pounds and
was the largest ever cast in this country.
Self binding reaping machines are now
coming into very general use in this county. They
prove a great labor-saver and in most instances
do the work most satisfactorily. In these days,
when farmers experience great difficulty in Sc
curing good hands, they certainly are a blessing
that it would be difficult to get along without.
The Belair Egis reports that Mr.. VIM. S.
Treadwell has an Attorney heifer that has re-
markable record. She will be three years old
August 18th, has been fresh since May 30th, 1884,
will probably be fresh again next month, and is
still making six pounds of butter week. Mr..
Treadwell was formerly resident of Baltimore
county.
"A newly made embankment along side of
Joness falls, just north of Boundary avenue
bridge, and upon which the Northern Central
Company had laid side track, was carried away
by the food of last Sunday morning. Several
cars loaded with coal we're standing on the track
and two of them were upset and the coal dumped
into the torrent.
A boy named Fred Compass, aged ten years,
fell from cherry tree on the Monticello estate,
on the Hillen road, last Saturday, and was in
stantly killed. In his fall he struck jagged
limb which pierced his side, making terrible
wound. Justice Gallagher held an inquest, but
why this was necessary, under the circumstances,
we fail to comprehend.
The commencement exercises of Towson-
town high school took place on Tuesday and were
very interesting. The pupils acquitted them
selves most satisfactorily, and Prof. Hanna, the
principal, distributed a number of premiums.
Essays were read by Misses May Butler and
Alice Emory, and Miss May Watkins render
ed some choice piano music.
Lately The UNION has been urging upon
those who had not paid their tax bills for 1884 to
do so at once in order to save the heavy expense
of collecting the same by levy, &c. We are
pleased to say that our efforts in this direction
have been of service to many taxpayers who have
come up and settled and thus saved themselves
much trouble and extra expense.
The Maryland Central road will run a
special train, leaving Loeb Raven at 9 o'clock
this Saturday evening, to accommodate the
Towson Guards, who will hold their 4th of July
be run from Delta to Belair to accommodate those
who may wish to witness the display of fireworks
in the latter place. Saturday Wight
"A gentleman sent word this week to County
Treasurer Schone that he would be able to pay
his tax bills for 1884 by the 18th of the present
month, and requested that no levy be made be-
fore that date. Mr.. Schone referred to his books
and found that this gentleman had paid his taxes
for that year several months ago. This is kind
of forgetfulness that one rarely meets with.
"A malignant form of scarlet fever is pre-
vailing in Hampden, Falls road. The family of
Mr.. George Hamilton, formerly of this place, have
the disease and the mother and oldest daughter
being sick, and as they are unable to procure
help because people afraid of the fever they
in rather a bad way. Mr.. Hamilton is brother
in-law of Mr.. J. Maurice Watkins, of Towson-
town.
"A country bride and groom, with all their
wedding fnery on, created much amusement on
Baltimore street Tuesday afternoon, by driving
up and down in an open buggy, looking for a
photograph gallery. They finally found one and
were "taken," as Artemus Ward says, "onto a
groop." They were from Baltimore county and
they doubtless thought they were cutting very
wide swath.
Mrs. s. F. Chaplin, of South Carolina, who
has been working in Maryland the past several
months in the interest of the W. C. T. u, ad-
dressed Gospel temperance meeting at Mt. Wash
ington, Monday afternoon, and also one in the
M. e. Church of this place on the same night
Her audiences were large and were much inter-
ested in her description of the work in the South
by the women.
The house of man named Dauernfreund,
in Highlandtown, 18th district, was blown down
by the storm which visited that place q few weeks
ago. and he was killed by the falling timbers.
The good people Of that place have since gone to
work and raised by subscription enough money
to rebuild the house for the widow. This is the
kind of practical charity that deserves the high
est commentator.
Master David Mcintosh, the bright little
son of COL d. G. Mcintosh of this place, celebra-
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