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The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-08-01
Combination Of the Pennsylvania and N.
Y. Central Railroads.

The Lancaster (Pa.) Examiner says: "The
recent combination of the Pennsylvania Railroad
and the New York Central, at the head of which
is William Ii. Vanderbilt, has excited various COM
ments. The programme is simply that these two
great corporations do not mean to allow their
properties to be ruined and their own stockholders
to lose the source of their income While they were
rending each other, they were at the same time
bringing ruin to every other railroad interest,
and creating rivals which in the end would also
be bankrupted. 1t is all well enough for the peo-
pie who have no money invested in railroad prop
erty to rejoice that the rival roads were building,
but the hundreds of millions already invested was
all the time being impaired, and that too without
benefting the rival road.
The result means that the New York Central
will absorb the West Shore & Buffalo, its great
rival in New York, and the Pennsylvania will
control the South Pennsylvania and the Beech
Creek which threatened to bring ruin to the doors
of the Pennsylvania The Reading, which is hope
lessly bankrupt, will be left to the mercy of its
creditors. Self-preservation is q law of nature,
and though corporations are said to have no soul,
they have in this instance taken compassion on
their thousands of creditors, and instead of rend
ing each other, have come to terms, and will pay
dividends to their stockholders. Vanderbilt with
draws his great support from the Pennsylvania
Railroads rival in this State, and the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad withdraws its support from the
West Shore and Buffalo, and leaves it to the ten
der mercies of Vanderbilt.
This of course does not prevent other parties
from investing their money in rival railroads,
either in Pennsylvania or New York. But the
war of these two great corporations on each other
will stop. They will earn dividends for their own
stockholders, and in that they will only be doing
their duty. They have called halt on themselves,
and the bankrupt corporations which hoped, if
not to better their own condition, to drag these
big rivals down to their own level, will have to
look out for themselves. In this determination
we believe the Pennsylvania Railroad and the
New York Central have acted wisely for them
selves and in the end for the public good.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-08-01
Buttermilk as a Beverage.
Lancaster (Pa.) Ne,v Era.


We are likely to have new era in temperance
reform, brought about through the agency of an
article that has heretofore possessed little value
as an article of commerce. We refer to that pro-
duct of the dairy heretofore generally classed
among the refuse or slops and disposed of as food
for the pigs-buttermlk. Those who have been
wont to indulge in cocktails, sherry cobblers,
punches and other strong drink mixtures, as well
as beer and whisky straight, have discovered that
buttermilk is a pleasant and wholesome summer
drink. 1t is sold over the bars of saloons and
restaurants in large quantities, the establishment
of creameries having thrown an ample supply of
a superior article on the market. Ithas also been
discovered that buttermilk, in a remarkable de-
gree, satisfies the craving for strong drink and
enables man to endure fatigue in warm weather
better than any other drink he can use. The
proprietor of bar, who disposes of over dozen
pailfuls daily, says it is remarkable how
quickly the appetite for it increases after the
first glass. He thinks it is destined to destroy
more drinking than St. John and his prohibition
lists can ever do. 81 have" said he, "studied
chemistry since we took to selling buttermilk
and 1 know that Tactic acid is one of the chief
agents that give acidity to the gastric juice OF the
stomach in health. This is the acid of sour milk,
and, therefore, one of the best summer diet drinks
that one can use is buttermilk. 1t satisfies the
cravings for acids by giving to the stomach
natural supply and at the same time furnishing
in its cheesy matter good supply of wholesome
nutrition" If housekeepers would get their milk
man to serve them with daily supply of butter
milk, to be drank occasionally as substitute for
ice water, they would find it highly beneficial !;
for next to strong drink, there is danger in drink
ing too much ice water this hot weather.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-08-01
The Dead Letter Office.

The dead letter Office at Washington employs
100 clerks, rs of whom are ladies. During the
last year they received 4,S43,O99 letters, or an
average of 1868 for each working day in the
year. OF these 3,719,3SO were unclaimed at the
postoffces to which they were directed, ,64S
returned from hotels, 1885 were insuficientIy
prepared for mailing, 314,719 because they were
illegibly of enormously addressed, while IA, 134
bore no address whatever. The foreign letters
numbered All, 19S and were returned to their re-
spective offices unopened. There was found in
the domestic letters opened, in money, 33,77O.17;
in drafts, checks, money ORDERS &c., 81 ,94S,-
10; S4,0SS contained postage stamps; 34,399
contained notes, receipts, paid notes and cancelled
obligations of all kinds 3S,34S contained photo
graphs and 1854 contained articles of merchan
disc. Every letter and package, if possible, is
delivered to the owner, and misdirected letters
are sent unopened to the person addressed, if
practicable. Of these, 62,S34 domestic and 1000
foreign were so delivered. Every letter contain
ing nything of value is recorded, and those for
which no owner can be found are filed away and
can be reclaimed at any time. The articles re-
ceived in parcels, which can neither be delivered
to the person addressed returned to the SENDER
are kept one year, and then sold at auction to the
highest bidder and the money carried into the
United States Treasury.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-08-01
No More Fortunes in Pills.
PHILADELPHIA Times.


"W thin the past three or four years the price
of patent medicines has steadily declined and for
tunes are not made so rapidly as formerly out of
pills and bitters," said Chestnut street druggist
yesterday. "This cutting in rates began in Phil
adelphia and has gradually extended all over the
country. On some medicines the cut was as high
as fifty per cent. and the reduction on all patent
medicines will average over twenty-five per cent.
Formerly good patent medicine that was pro-
pery handled and literally advertised would
make fortune for its proprietor in few years.
Remedies warranted to cure all the ills that flesh is
heir to and greedily purchased by credulous
public sold readily at retail at 81 per bottle and
cost little to manufacture. They can now be
bought for fifty cents and the bottom price has
not yet been reached.
"There is no longer any money in patent medi-
cines, either for us or the manufacturers. Prices
have been cut so that the margin of profit hardly
pays us for handling them, and the proprietors
complain that the reduction has affected their
business also. They claim that their medicines
cost to manufacture and put on the market near
ly what they are obliged to sell for to the obbers
There has been a great revolution in the patent
medicine business, and no one can tell where il
will end"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-08-01
GENERAL ITEMS.

"A widow in Harrisburg has beaten the re-
cord by clipping with two coachmen.
AT the annual sale of yearling colts from
Winters's stable in Sacramento, fifteen colts sold
for nearly $4,000. The prices ranged from 81
525 to $500. Good for California
The odd fancy of a Michigan man is to build
his summer residence in the shape of huge Ian
tern. The site is on bluff overlooking Lake
Huron, and when at night the house is well light
ed up the effect is curious.
Atlantic City is said to have flag so wired
that it cannot hang limp, even if there is no
breath of air stirring. 1t is fixed above the gable
of hotel, and is intended to convince the heated
guest that his discomfort is imaginary.
The latest trick ascribed to the head waiter
in summer hotel is that of seating new guests
at table where the waiter is under instructions
to work very badly, so that they will be certain
to ask for transfer to another table, and pay the
incidental tribute.
"A singular accident recently happened at
Mines, Va, on the Shenandoah Valley road
when the locomotive of freight train, which was
standing on siding, was struck by lightning.
Both the engineer and fireman received severe
shocks, the engineer being so injured that he did
not recover for several days, and the engine was
somewhat damaged. Accidents of this kind rare
ly happen.
Boy Preacher Harrison, according to his own
estimate, has converted between forty and fifty
thousand souls during his career. Evangelist
Sam Jones says that he has made between eight
and ten thousand converts during the present
wear. This is much better showing than Harri-
sons considering that the latter has been engag-
ed in the work for some twenty years. Jones
AYERS, Furthermore, that ninety-fve per cent. of
his converts remain true to their professions after
his departure. This remarkable statement is dis
credited by the rival revivalist.
The geology of natural gas wells is exciting
much attention. The weight of evidence seems
to show that it is useless to prospect for natural
gas except along anticlinal ridges, the theory be-
ing that the gas owing to its volatility, seeks the
highest cavities in the rock, escaping from the
hollows of Bonded strata. An instance of this is
shown in the Great Kanahwa valley, above
Charleston, W. Va, where the whole region has
been honeycombed with borings for salt, and the
only gas wells struck lie in belt few rods
wide along the crest of the Brownstown anticlinal
axis. The gas belt of Western Ohio follows the
line of the Cincinnati arch" and so on.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-08-01
A Comet That is to Come.
Louisville Courier-Jo,rnal.


"You may look out for brilliant comet in the
southwestern heavens early in August or the lat
ter part of july" said Prof. John M. Klein, Ken
tucky's astronomer. "Upon what theory do you
base such prediction 2" "Well, tho fact of the
matter is that have noticed for several nights
the unmistakable path or orbit of the comet
Look ! Do you see that great streak in the heav-
ems resembling somewhat the milky way 1t is
the path or orbit of great comet and that great
streak of light is the gaseous matter that follows
in the wake of q comet. 1t is impossible to see
it at present, it travels in the orbit of the sun,
whose brilliant light during the day prevents the
human eye from gazing at it. The detection by
the latter part of July or August will, however,
bring it above the horizon during the early even
ing hours, when it will be plainly visible, and
when it will be of the first magnitude" As Prof.
Klein has heretofore predicted and discovered
comets with unfailing accuracy, the fulfllment of
this prediction will be looked foreward to with
interest by the scientific world generally.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-08-01
sa5. 900 TO MARY A CoLoRED GIRL.
What a Georgia Planter Did With His
Great Wealth.

correspondent writing from Sparta, Georgia,
says: "The will of David Dixon, in which he left
100000 to his daughter, a mulatto, is creating
wide interest here. The woman, Fannie Eubanks,
is living in good style in Augusta. Mr.. Dixon
years ago offered $4,000 to any respectable white
man who would marry her. A young man named
Eubanks, graduate of the University of Geor-
gia, accepted Mr. Dixon's proposition, and took
the girl North, and they were married in Boston.
He brought q certificate from that place showing
that they were legally married. Eubanks brought
Ter home, and was well provided for on one OF
Dixon's plantations. He lived with his dusky
bride several years, raising two children by her.
Eubanks died several years ago, and left Fannie
a dashing widow.
"Mr. Dixon took her and her two children back
to his home, where they lived until he had fine
house built for them near his own, and there Fan
ME Eubanks and her mother lived until Dixon's
death. He made his will and then sent for the
family to come down to his house together with
other witnesses and informed them that he had
made his will, that no one but his lawyer and
himself knew what was in it, and that he wanted
them all to witness his signature. After signing
the document and having it properly witnessed,
he said that after his death it would be asserted
that he was not of sound mind, and he wanted
them to test him and see if his mind was clear.
CATER his death his vault was opened. pack
age of $4,000 in stocks and bonds was found
with the name of the mother of Fannie Eubanks
written on it as its owner. This amount was not
mentioned in the will in any manner, and the $685.
900 was turned over to the woman by the execu-
tors. 1t is asserted by some that the will ought
to be broken on account of Mr.. Dixon having ad-
vanced to his brother $4,000 and taking mort
gage on his land to secure the money. His
brother paid the debt, but failed to have the
mortgage cancelled, and died without ever taking
up the paper. As soon as he died Dixon came in
with the mortgage and took the land for debt. 1t
is also asserted that Dixon had no right to give
this mulatto woman, although she was his child,
his landed estate, amounting to 1900 acres Of
the best land in middle Georgia, as it will inure
those owning lands adjoining
"The mother of Fannie Eubanks is very quiet,
inofensive woman, and when any of Mr.. Dixon's
friends visited him she would wait on his guests,
and never put herself forward. She always
seemed to recognize the fact that she was SER
want. She would often visit Sparta to trade, and
some of Mr.. Dixon's friends, to whom she would
bring things from the plantation, would invite her
to dinner. She would always prefer having her
dinner sent to the kitchen, where she would eat
with the servants"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-08-01
Carriage by Electric Wire.
PHILADELPHIA Ledger.


This is a wire line for carrying freight or pas
sengers by electricity through the air. The wires
or cables are in double line, one about eight feet
above the other, are borne upon stout posts about
the same as the electric light cables are, and the
cars or crates for carrying passengers or freight
are suspended from the upper cable and supported
or borne upon and guided by the under cable as
if it was rail. The lines are adapted to loads OF
a few hundred pounds each up to ton weight,
including the car, and, in the case first mem
toned the cars are designed to be sent with great
frequency and in any desired number The
driving power is electricity, supplied by steam en-
gines and dynamos at the termini of the line, the
carrying cables serving conductors, just as tel
egraph wires or cables do, the current being pass
ed by means of the car wheel axles and interve-
ming wires through an electrical motor, which
operates under or at the side of the car and
travels along with it. We have seen a model Of
this in operation, the model being large enough
to carry load of about one hundred weight over
a line of about one hundred feet in length. The
electrical motor used to work this model was an
Edgerton of the size employed to drive sewing
machine. So far as smooth movement and speed
are concerned, and to all other appearance, tht
device works in satisfactory way but in this al
in all other matters of the kind as the readers O
the Ledger have been frequently advised, no saf'
Judgment can be made until the machine has beer
in actual operation for fair length of time, do
ing its work day in and day out.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-08-01
GRIFFITH q TURNER,
Dealers in Agricultural Implements, Fertilizers
and Seeds,
Al d As N. Paca Street, Baltimore.
June 27,'85y.
CAPTAIN,
" isIRED BY COL. wATsoN,)


Will stand the present season, commencing 10th
April and ending July goth, 1885, as follows:
At Joppa, Philadelphia road, Goth and 21st of
April; at Magnolia, 22d and 23d of April at
Watkins, Long Green, Oath and 25th ofApril at
Piney Hill, BALTIC. county, April 9th at Gist 7.
Jockeys, Cockeysvile, April 18th; at Potee's
Stable, Towsontown, April Goth; at Monumental
Stables, North St., Baltimore, April Both and
May list; at John Green's, North Point Road,
May I'd, and every other week on the same days
of the week, at the above places.
PEDIGREE Captain was sired by Col. Wat
son, trotter; Col. Watson by Frank Pierce
Pierces dam, French mare; Col. WatsOn's dam,
Ellen 0'Brien, by Imported Foreigner; she out of
Youth, by Hanover. Youths dam, Sir Charles
Captains dam, Annie Pennington, mare
that can beat $50 Annie Pennington by Col.
Watson, inbred. Annie Pennington's dam thor
oughbred mare.
Captain is a rich bay with
out any white, 153 hands high, and will show for
himself.
TERMS:-S10.00 for single leap, to be paid
when the mare is served $500 for the season,
to be paid within the season $500 to insure, to
be paid when the mare is known to be in foal or
parted with. $1.00 to the groom, to be paid at
first service. S. LEWIS GRIFFITH,
Proprietor, Joppa P. o., Hartford CO., Nd.
FRANK HUTCHINS, Groom. (Apl. lift
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-08-01

Sales of Real Estates. Cover Wilson
auctioneer, sold on the premises, on Monday last
for C. BONN Slnglu, Esq, trustee, in the case Of
Margaret Schwartz vs. George Henry Schwartz,
the farm of the late Henry Schwartz, situated on
the Garrison Forest road, 4th district, about IL
miles from Baltimore and one mile from Timber
Grove Station, Western Maryland Railroad, con-
tanning about 26S acres, with fair improvements
to Mr.. E. G.. Frantz, for $3.50 per acre.
Messrs. John 1. Yellott and Oregon r. Benson
trustees, in the equity case of Dixon Connolly
against Milton W. Offutt, trustee, &c. sold at the
court house door, Towsontown, on Tuesday, tn,
farm of Thomas Richardson, situated in the 10tf
district, near Clynmalara Church, containing Ill
acres of land, improved by a large frame dwelling
and outbuildings, to Mr.. Thomas v. Richardson
for $500.
Geo. W. Hook, auctioneer, sold at the cour
house door, Towsontown, on Tuesday, for Johr
1. Yellott, Esq, trustee SO acres of land, situa
ted in the 18th district, within a-half mile of the
village of New Market, and lately occupied by
Adam H. Krout, Jr., to Milton W. Offutt, Esq.
for $3.50. The property is improved by good
log house, bank barn and other buildings.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-08-01
snnnvbrook. 10th District,

Sunnybrook, 10th District.-Mr. J. S. Nc
Cam and family, of Philadelphia, are visiting
friends in this neighborhood.
Mr.. Joshua M. Matthews lost two valuable hogs
from sunstroke last week. They were with a lot
of others in field, away from shade and water.
Mr.. NJ. thinks if he had not made the discovery
when he did, and getting them in the shade, he
would have lost the entire lot.
On Sunday evening last, during the heavy
storm, lightning struck in corn-feld, within
twenty yards of the residence of DR.. Bagley. The
members of his family were stunned for an in
slant, and suffered with headache for some time
afterwards.
Charles High was overcome by the heat last
week, and DR.. Bagley was called in to administer
restoratives. He is now in an improved condi-
ton.
Mr. Jacob Yeakle, our road-mender, has been
engaged since the recent rains in fixing up the
badly washed places. Mr.. Y. is practical man
and does his work we'll.
Mr.. Amos Kelley went to Warren mill the other
day with load of grain, and while there tied his
horse to locust tree, and on going into the mill
for few moments he discovered that his horse
was covered with yellow jackets, and in his hur-
ried efforts to extricate the horse from the wagon
was stung fully twenty times. FLINT.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-08-01

Wesley Chapel, 10th DESTRUCTION July
18th last there was very pretty wedding at the
residence of Mr.. William Leight, Shawsville, Har-
ford county, the contracting parties being Mr..
Silas P. Leight, of Monkton, and Miss Josephine
Carlin, of My Lady's Manor Promptly at eight
o'clock they entered the parlor attended by Misses
Sophia Wiley and Zana Lytle. Rev. George L.
Cuddy pronounced them man and wife. A large
number of the relatives and intimate friends of
the bride and groom were present.
Master Charles Cuddy, son of the late Rev.
James B. Cuddy, who resides with his mother at
Muncy, Pa, is visiting his grandfather, Mr.. John
P. Cuddy, as is also Master Charles Cuddy, son
of DR.. Cuddy, of Baltimore, and Masters James
Taylor and Charles Fisbach, of the same city.
Mr.. J. Carey Simpson, of Bethany, Ohio, a
granddaughter of Mr. John P. Cuddy, is here on a
visit among relatives. S.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-08-01
The House In Which Grant was Born.

Michael Hersh, Jr., the present owner of the
house at Point Pleasant, Ohio, in which General
Grant was born, says he would naturally prefer
to have the house remain where it is, but if suf-
fcient sum is offered he will let the house go else
where. He has had one offer of 81, 900 from a
gentleman of Cincinnati, which he would not con-
slider. He says he could sell the house piecemeal
for relics, and, in fact, had sold a window-catch
for SIS, and a good many splinters from the
weather-bo boarding, which had been renewed. He
says he was careful in making repairs to leave
the interior intact.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-08-01

Funeral of an Aged Lady.-The funeral Of
dence of her son, in Towsontown, on Wednesday
last in the list year of her age, took place Fri
day morning, the interment being made at St.
James's church, My Lady's Manor. The services
at the house were conducted by Rev. w. II. Fl.
Powers, rector of Trinity Church, Towsontown,
and Rev. Geo. Morrison, of the Presbyterian
church, and at the grave by Rev. R. R. Mason rec
tor of Emanuel P. E. Church, Glencoe. The de-
and George A. Bosley, and Mrs. S. Merryman An
derson. Her brothers are Messrs. Nicholas H.,
James A, Joshua H., and John Parker, we'll
known residents of the 10th district of Baltimore
county. The pall-bearers were Messrs. George
A. Smith, E. Tyson Ware, John E. Porter, VIM.
M. Isaac, Samuel F. Butler and VIM. Galloway.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-08-01

Sunday School Convention.-TheH Hartford
county Sunday school convention, which met this
year at Jarrettsville, closed its sessions Thurs
day night of last week, when Mr.. Baker, State
Sunday school superintendent, delivered an in
teresting address. Before adjourning the conven-
ton passed several resolutions, among which was
one expressing its interest in the work of the
Maryland Sunday School Union, and urging upon
the Sunday schools of the county liberal collections
for its support; also one recommending such sys-
tematic instruction in the Sunday school will
prepare children for duty members of the church
A resolution Of caution with reference to reliance
upon entertainments for means to prosecute the
work of the Sunday school was also adopted
Belair asked that next years convention be held
there, but the decision rests with the standing
committee