The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-05-30
OVER THE STATE.

The Farmers and Mechanics National Bank
of Frederick city has declared semi-annual div
idend of Pix per cent.
Elder Daniel P. Saylor, of Double Pipe Creek,
Carroll county, is suffering from dropsy, from
which it is thought he cannot recover.
Hon. Barnes Compton will deliver an ad-
dress at the commencement of the Anne Arundel
Academy at Millersville, on June 18th.
The Cecil county agricultural society will
hold its spring fair at Flkton, commencing Tues
day, June I'd, and continuing three days.
John S. Writ, Esq, of the Cecil county bar,
has been reelected a vice-president of the Civil
Service Reform Association of Maryland.
james Pickett, of Hagerstown, tried last
week for shooting with intent to murder Edward
Gloyd, of Montgomery county, was acquitted.
President Cleveland, after numerous invita-
tons sent him, has signifed his intention of Wis
iting the Blue Mountain House, W. NJ. R. R., this
summer.
The firm of W. W. Pickett & Son, of Winfield
Carroll county, threshed over $4,000 bushels of
grain the past season, threshing $3.50 bushels
with one machine.
Mrs. Cordelia Anderson, of Missouri, former
ly of this State, has been visiting her brother,
Jas. T. Mccullough, Esq, of Elkton, after an alb
sence of nearly forty-fve years.
From an estimate recently made it is thought
the yield of peaches from the Eastern Shore Of
Maryland and the Delaware Peninsula will be
upwards of four million baskets. Nearly all of
this crop will be shipped to Philadelphia.
Richard Cromwell, Esq, of Baltimore, who
is large property owner in the vicinity of Brook
Ign, Anne Arundel county, has presented lot Of
choice evergreens to the Annapolis Improvement
Association, to be used to beautify the "Ancient
City,"
Rev. Frank W. Gunsaulus, of Massachusetts,
recently called to Brown Memorial Presbyterian
Church, Baltimore, will deliver the annual ad-
dress before the literary societies of New Wind
sor College, Carroll county, on the night of June
9th, next.
Mr.. C. G. Helfenstein, of Frederick county,
has purchased three registered COWS and calves
of the celebrated Dutch Friesian breed, from the
Chenango Valley Breeders Association of New
York State, for 81 200. 1t is the only stock of
the kind in Frederick county.
IS. A. Williams, Esq, as trustee, sold two
farms last week, comprising 379f acres of land,
situated near Chrome Hill, Hartford county, the
estate of the late William Wilson, deceased, to
Mr.. Patrick Howard, for 400. The property is
near station on the Maryland Central Railroad.
The Catoctin Iron Company Of Frederick
county has been incorporated with capital OF
$3.50 900. The company has purchased the prop
erty belonging to the estate of the late Colonel J.
Baker Kunkel, which embraces tie Catoctin fur
naces and about twelve thousand acres of land,
all located in Frederick county.
The Annapolis Record says: "Mr. E. c. Colt,
executor of John F. Wilson, received, after he
had closed up the estate, $500 from DIR. John F.
Novel; of Greencastle, Pa, due the estate of the
testator, as money advanced to DR.. NOVEL; by
Mr.. Wilson, to assist the former in his education.
No evidence of the debt existed, and the pay
ment was purely voluntary"
The Frederick county agricultural society
has extended an invitation to President Cleve-
land to attend its fair in October next. The Pres
ident promised if possible to be present. The
Union says: "Should President Cleveland visit
the next fair it will be the fourth time within the
past fifteen years that a President of the United
States has been here upon such an occasion. Gen.
Grant, when President, paid two visits to Fred
erick and Mr.. Hayes one."