The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-08-22
OVER THE STATE.

"A fence company has been formed in Fred
erick county, with capital of 100000.
The floods of the early part of this month
damaged the roads and bridges in Frederick
county to the extent of 900.
Mrs. Julia A. Frederick, aged 76 years, died
at Eldersburg, Carroll county, two weeks ago.
Her father was the founder of the village of Ell
dersburg.
Rev. Thomas Todd has declined to accept the
second call to become pastor of Bethel Presby-
terrain Church, Hartford county, because it was
not unanimous, and has returned to Ohio.
The Sellman lunacy case in Carroll county
terminated on Saturday last in a verdict against
the petitioners. The jury refused to sign the in
QUESTION declaring Mr.. Sellman insane.
The premiums offered by the Cecil county
agricultural society for its next exhibition, ag
gregate six thousand dollars. Of this amount
So, 400 is given for trials of speed The fair COM
mences on the 9th of October.
The Catoctn Furnaces in Frederick county
have opened business again under the new man
agement 1t is said that between 200 and 800
hands will be given employment, and that the
pay roll will be about $4,000 month.
Miss Hattie E. Walmsley, daughter of Mr..
Eugene Walmsley, of Annapolis, was the success
full applicant in the examination before the
School Commissioners of Anne Arundel county,
for the free scholarship in the Western Maryland
College.
Two young men of Webster, Hartford county,
have entered into contract to furnish old horses
to the Philadelphia Geological Gardens. They
paw all the way from one to four dollars. They
have taken one drove and will shortly take an
other one.
The Cecil Democrat says: 'The third publ
cation of the bans of marriage between a young
gentleman of Pennsylvania and a young lady Of
this county, was made in St. Mary Anne's P. E.
Church, North East, on Sunday last. The publ
cation of the bans is rarely made nowadays,
though it was formerly obligatory upon oil who
entered wedlock in this State"
The Cambridge Ne,os says: "a young man,
80 years of age and living at Cannon's Ferry,
which is few miles below Seaford, has no blood
in his system and never has had. Instead of
blood watery fluid of the color of lemon juice
sMggishly moves through his veins. The young
man annually peddles huckleberries about there,
and is familiar figure to the people of that town.
The unfortunate fellow has the appearance of q
olive corpse" moving slowly along the street."
The farm on Kent Island, owned by the late
Jacob G. Legg, has been in the family since 1918.
This farm and the one owned by Col. VIM. Henry
Legg also, were taken up in 1747, when Governor
Hart was provincial governor of Maryland, and
from that time to the present never been bought
or sold, but has descended from one generation to
another until the present. They have therefore
been in the family one hundred and fifty eight
years.
Mr.. Charles F. Pagenhast, of Westernport
Allegany county, is the owner of a steam buggy
The engine and boiler in the front of the car
riage, next to the dash board, and the engineer
sits on the front seat, while upon the sides of the
boiler boxes for coal. The water tank is under
the front seat The entire machine was made by
Mr.. Pagenhast, and is a handsome looking two
seated carriage. Mr.. Pagenhast says that his
steam carriage will make twelve miles per hour on
ordinary country roads, and weighs not over SOC
pounds.