The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-08-01
OVER THE STATE.

-Elkton Grange p. of H., will make an ex-
cursion to Colchester on August 9th.
Thomas W. Trew, of Kent county, has sold
his trotting mare Hattie, to j. Frank Morrison,
of Baltimore, ior $475.
Hon. f. J. Nelson, of Frederick City, is said'
to be an applicant for legal position in the In
terror Department at Washington.
Rev. j. A. Callen, who was educated at st.
Charles College, Howard county, died in Phila-
delphia recently, aged 26 years. He had only
been ordained three months ago.
The Both annual exhibition of the Washing
ton county agricultural society will be held this
year in conjunction with the Maryland State As
ISOLATION and the county associations of Frank
lin Pa, Jefferson, w. Va, and Carroll, Md.
The Hampstead Enterprise says: "a steam
threshing machine locating to thresh in Man
chester the other day, was required by the town
authorities to give $4,000 bond to indemnify
any who might suffer loss by fire from the engine"
Benjamin Stewart, living near Aberdeen,
Hartford county, has horse 38 years old and is
still active and vigorous and in fine condition.
This animal is of the famous Prince Moscow
strain, formerly much thought of in Baltimore
county.
The Emmtsburg Chronicle states that the
Mutual Live Stock Insurance Company of EN-
mitsburg has re-insured its stock in the Mutual
Live Stock Insurance Company of Frederick city.
The Emmitsburg company will discontinue the
business.
The Elkton Democrat says: "Silas Harris, of
this town, is the of twenty three white rats,
which he wishes to sell at so cents per pair. They
have beautiful red eyes and are said to brighten
common rats away from the building which they
inhabit."
From the Newtown pa Enterprise: turkey
buzzards are in measure rare birds north of
Chesapeake Bay, but very plentiful in Virginia.
A few days ago nine of them were seen circling
through the air, and perched on the fence of a
al ohor cfopa Orth IF
The Delaware, Maryland and Virginia Rail-
road, which the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
expects to take possession of about the LIST
of August will transport during this summer 1OO,-
900 baskets of peaches. The line will be consoli-
dated with the Pennsylvania Railroads Peninsu-
lar system, which is to be brought up to the
standard of that companys main line.
The anti-bribery convention of Caroline
county met at Denton last week and appointed
committee of ten, composed of five Democrats and
five Republicans, with instructions that this COM
mittee wait upon the county nominating conven-
tions of both parties and urge the cause of clean
elections before them. About 200 persons were
present, and the feeling was strong and fairly
unanimous.
The Annapolis Republican says: "Represen-
tative Compton has recommended for appoint
ment as a cadet at West Point, Frank B. Keech,
of Charles county, and Henry D. Todd, Jr., of
this city, as alternate. Vandyke Johns, Of this
pettive examination at st. Johns College on the
| 18th instant, has been recommended by Mr.. Comp
| ton for q cadetship at the Naval Academy"
The Cambridge Chronicle is proud of her {:
"One of the most successful agrculturists in Dor
chester county is a woman-a lady of superior
| business capacity as well as refinement and Gull
ture Her fertile fields are always pointed out to
the traveller as models of farming. The woman
| farmer is Mrs. Goslin, residing near Linkwood.-
| She directs all the details of the farm manage
| ment Though droughts or rains may come, her
crops never fail. She delights in her occupation.
| A wheat field of 1,600 bushels has just been gar
nered by Mrs. Gosin, and her peach orchard will
net as many dollars. The corn field on the place
is admired by all the country round, so promising
| is the growth
Thursdays Baltimore Herald says: "Mr.
William H. Ramsburg, grocer of Frederick, and
| Miss Hattie P. Kunkel, daughter of the late Col
]. B. Kunkel, of Catoctin Furnace, Frederick
county, reached this city yesterday bent upon
marriage, notwithstanding the objections urged
against their union by the intended brides moth
er. After registering at the Eutaw House hack
was summoned and the couple were driven to the
| residence of Rev. J. S. B. Hodges, rector of ST..
| PauPs P. e. Church, where the nuptial knot was
tied. They returned to the Eutaw House, where
| they will remain for several days. Mr.. Ramsburg
said that eopement was resorted to only after the
mother had emphasized her objections to the
| match"
| From the Annapolis Advertiser: "The Statue
of Chief Justice fancy, which stands in front of
the State Capitol, attracts the attention of many
strangers who visit the grounds, yet it is singular
that many citizens of this State are ignorant of
| the great parsonage the statue represents. With
in the past month, while on theh hill, we have heard
many surmises, and questions asked, by persons
arriving here from Baltimore on excursion boats.
| One young man wanted to know if it "was Henry
| Clay ?" another asked US if it "was Charles Car
roll?" And gentleman from the far West, on
recent visit here, inquired if it wasn't the statue
| of Abraham Lincoln. These are but a few in
stances of the many questions and guesses which
we might relate, showing how little acquainted
some persons are with the history of the State
Perhaps it would be well to have the name of
fancy chiselled upon the granite foundation to
enligh ten strangers"