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

The insurance company of which Mr.. ii
L. Bowen, of Towsontown, has lately been ap
pointed agent, in connection with his other com
panies, is the Royal, of London, of which Mr.. r
Emory Warfeld is the Baltimore manager. 1t il
a very popular company and one of the stronges
and safest doing business here.
The mischievous small boy is having hi
little fun with the Hampden electric railway. Or
Wednesday they placed stones between the tim
Der guards of the centre rail and one of the mo
tors was thrown off, damaging it to some extent
The manager of the road has found it necessary
to place watchmen along the line.
The store of DIR. A. s. Baldwin, at Baldwin
Station, Maryland Central railroad, which, with
its contents, was destroyed by lightning a few
weeks ago, is being rebuilt and will soon be ready
for the resumption of business. The DIR. was in
sured in a New Hampshire company and tn,
risk was promptly adjusted and paid.
Two colored hod-carriers' associations from
Baltimore made an excursion to Loeb Raven, by
the Maryland Central road, on Monday. There
were about l 500 men, women and children, and
they had high old time. They managed to gel
away with great deal of beer and other fluids
but there were no serious disturbances.
On Wednesday afternoon of last week @
number of colored men engaged in a fight at q
store kept by Pat O'Malley, on the Baltimore
county side of the Patapsco, at Elkridge Land
ing, during the progress of which a colored man
named Gather was badly cut by another named
Hastings, who made his escape. 1t was a free
fight and it is likely all hands were drunk.
The public roads in the neighborhood of
Phoenix, 10th district, were terribly washed in
places by the flood of Sd inst, rendering them al
most impossible. 1t seems strange to us why the
supervisor should allow them to remain in their
wretched condition so long, making it dangerous
liz hn
county would undoubtedly be held responsible.
Mr.. ]. Herman Suter, son of Capt. John IL
Suter, of the Baltimore Custom House, was mar
ried on Wednesday afternoon last, to Miss jose
phine Dixon, of Mt. Vernon, Baltimore county
The ceremony was performed by Rev. F. B. La
Barrier. The young couple left on bridal tour
and will be sat home" to their friends, at the
residence of the groom, Thursday August 9th,
from to IL p. m.
Mr.. J. C. Wrenshall, receiver of the Mary
land Central road, has appointed Mr.. Chas. A.
Roe, acting general passenger agent, IN connec-
ton with his duties Of cashier and paymaster.-
Mr. Free Bond has been appointed general freight
agent in connection with his duties of dispatcher.
Mr.. John Wilson Brown, the auditor of the COM
pany will devote his attention exclusively to the
duties of that position.
The receipts of the Northern Central rail-
road station at Mount Washington for the month
of July were something over 5000. This, of
course, is independent of the large number of
monthly and other communication tickets which
are purchased at Calvert station. The local travel
on this road is very heavy this summer and is
increasing every year. 1t is one of the finest and
safest railroads in the country.
Last Sunday the water in Loeb Raven was
still very muddy from the late heavy rains and
was being drawn off through the lower gates of
the gate-house so that the body of the lake was
greatly diminished, exposing many bare places
that are usually covered by several feet of water.
The road upon the west side of the Loeb is being
put in very fine condition and will soon be ma
cadamized all the way from the dam to Meredith's
ford.
The trustees and members of Jessops NJ.
E. Church, above Cockeysville, met at the resi-
dcnce of the Messrs. Stewart, on Thursday after
noon, to take some action with reference to the
proposed improvements to the church, which is to
be enlarged and handsomely embellished. 1t is
expected that the improvements will cost in the
neighborhood of $4,000, and many liberal sub
scriptions have already been made, leading to the
belief that the necessary funds can be raised
without difficulty.
Mrs. Samuel Snowden, who has been spend
ing greater part of the summer at Highland
Park Hotel, near the city, gave the walters and
servants of the hotel a complimentary festival a
few nights ago, when all of them sat down to
table beautifully laden with all the good things
of life. The guests of the hotel took part in the
affair and altogether it was q most enjoyable
event. The head waiter made q very felicitous
speech, in which he referred to Mrs. Snowden's
kindness in the most fattering terms.
Mr.. John D. Durkees, who for thirteen or
fourteen years had been the agent for the North
ern Central railroad at Phoenix, died on Friday
morning of last week, of consumption, in the Add
year of his age. His remains were taken to Har-
risburg on Monday, where they were inferred.
He leaves q wife but no children. Mr.. Durkees
was highly respected citizen and was much
thought of in the community in which he lived,
as we'll as by the company which employed him.
Mrs. Durkees was very i'll at the time of her hus-
bands death, suffering from severe attack of
malarial fever.
What Killed the Cows.-It was given out
that the death of Mrs. S. M. Shoemaker's valua-
BILE COW, Princess Second, was caused by disease
of the lungs, and caused several we'll known cat
tie breeders to consult DIR. Ward, the State Veter-
marian, to the nature of the disease as it was
reported to bepleuro pneumonia, and that several
other cows in the herd were coughing. Therefore,
last Saturday afternoon DIR. Ward paid an official
visit to Burnside Park, Green Spring Valley, to
ascertain the true state of affairs. He found the
entire herd, with the exception of the two bulls
and one COW, out at pasture, and in apparent good
health. The bulls looked splendid. The COW in
one of the stables was suffering from garget and
enlarged knee joints-a chronic case. The dairy
man, an intelligent man, gave the doctor full par
ticulars of the cows DEATH which from effects
of overtaxation of the system during the late but
ter tests Or in other words as the doctor puts it,
from making the COW into an extraordinary milk
ing machine, and then trying to return her to the
ordinary dairy cow.
Value Second, the other noted COW as butter
maker, died three weeks ago from the same cause
or causes. At one time she was owned jointly by
Messrs. Watts and Seth, but recently came to
be owned by Mr.. G. W. Watts, who purchased
Mr.. Seth's interest in her. DR.. Ward says such
severe tests must at all times undermine the con-
stitution of the most robust animals, and the two
splendid COWS were of that class. He anticipated
the end; therefore, is by no means surprised, ex-
cept that they stood it out so long.
Towson Guards Tournament.-The sew
enth annual tournament of the Towson Guards
will be held at Groom's Dairy Grove adjoining
Towsontown, on Tuesday next, August 25th, COM
mencing at o'clock p. m. The tournament track
has been laid out in circle of Isl yards in length
and 80 feet wide, with four arches SO yards and
inches apart, and in this respect the coming
event will differ from any of its predecessors. The
inner circle of 125 yards and inches will be &C.
cupied by the stand for the judges, orators, mill
tary, knights, DC. The track being arranged in
that is going on.
After the ring contests the Guards will give an
exhibition drill, to be followed by dancing in the
pavilion. There will be full bands of brass and
string instruments, and nothing will be left un-
done that may contribute to the pleasure of those
who favor the company with their presence. 1t
is expected that fifteen or twenty knights will
contest for the honors and prizes, and the novelty
of "circle tournament" will be we'll worth wit
Messing. Capt. Chas. B. MCLEAN is giving the
whole affair his personal supervision, assisted by
the other officers of the company. Charles B.
Rogers, Esq, will act as chief marshal on this
occasion.
In Death They Were Not Divided.-For
the past ten years John Shrek and Anna M.
Shrek, his wife, an aged German couple, have
lived and carried on a small truck farm on the
Belair road, near Perry Hall. Mr.. Shrek came
to this country from Germany over fifty years ago,
and for many years worked in Baltimore. Last
week Mr.. Shrek took to his bed, and his wife
soon realized that he was going to die. From the
moment she became assured of this fact her own
vitality seemed to forsake her, and whilst her
husband was lying dead in the house on Friday
she gave evidences of approaching dissolution,
and followed him in just twenty-four hours. He
was in the 18th and she in the 74th year of her
age. They were buried side by side in st. Joseph's
Catholic Church cemetery, Putty Hill, on Sunday.
The Flood In Deer Creek.-The BeIair
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