The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-11-28
SOME INTERESTING ITEMS

-Shad have of late years nearly abandoned
the Potomac river.
The skeleton of a man was recently found in
Dead River region of the Maine backwoods, fast
in a bear trap, where he had starved to death.
"A single ticket from Boston to Denver and
return was recently sold in Boston for $2,4S1. 1t
carries party of nine in special car with stop
over privileges.
DIR. Albert Thompson, young Irish physl-
clan, has been presented with the Albert medal
for removing poison in of diphtheria by
sucking it away.
George W. Baker, of Nevada, a lawyer and
ex-State Senator and member of the Democratic
State committee, has resigned from the latter
body and gone over to the Republican party.
"A schoolhouse containing 4S0 children was
emptied in a minute and a half, without the least
disorder, in Springfield last week after an alarm
of fire; but the pupils had often been drilled for it.
The only survivor of the famous Glastonbury
Comm Smith sisters, who refused to pay taxes
because denied the privilege of voting, is at the
point of death at her home in Hartford. She is
81 years DID, and lately broke her leg.
The tomahawk with which Hannah Dunstan,
the heroine of the Deerfeld massacre, killed her
Indian captors while they slept, and so made her
escape is in the possession of gentleman at
Derby Line, VT, who received it as an heirloom.
"A few nights ago at a church festival in West
Union, O., a wooden chair was exhibited belong
long been an heirloom in the Bradford family,
and which was brought over from England in the
Mayfower.
In certain towns in eastern Massachusetts,
stone is now so scarce that builders resorting
to the farmers stone walls for building meterial.
In the Berkshire region, the other hand, the
farmers consider stone fences a nuisance, and
would pay to have them taken away.
Shrewsbury Pond, near Rutland, VT, mile
long and half mile wide, and fed by springs,
has received 100000 trout and q, 900 landlocked
salmon during the last six years. Now salmon
of six pounds and trout weighing five pounds can
be caught there in abundance. 1t is private prop
erty.
1t is said that surplus of 300, 900 tons of
grain await shipment to Portland, Oregon, from
the interior. This has all to be carried at least
200 miles by rail, over monopoly road, which
charges Sc ton. At this rate car load of wheat
from Chicago to New York would earn its owners
$3.50.
Jeremiah Cleveland, an uncle of the Presi
dent, used to make Cleveland clocks" in Batavia,
O. James B. Wallace of Milford, Mass, has a
clock, repaired by old Jerry Cleveland, which was
brought from Epping. N. II. 1t had been in the
Norris family 1876 years, and in the French and
Indian war two babies were hid in its case dur
ing the Indian attack on the cabin.
"A Chinaman in Hamilton, CAL, has devoted
the summer and fall to gathering the horned
toads of the red hills, which as much dreaded
by the inhabitants as rattlesnakes. Recently he
shipped 1000 of these animals to China, where
they are converted into various kinds of high
priced medicines. A horned toad placed in flask
of whiskey constitutes the most valued of the
Chinese tonics
There is an old signboard hanging under the
trees on the chief street in Bethlehem, Pa, wealth
err beaten and blistered, whereon is seen square
shouldered house, presenting to the spectator its
gable end, before which mine host, attirod in
brown knickerbockers, is conversng with an old
Indian in a red blanket and another in yellow
blanket, while traveller in a bag wig, galloping
upon an excited steed, halls him with uplfted
arm. Furthermore, we are informed in good
English print that this is the Moravian Sun Inn,
Bethlehem, Pa, established in 1853.