The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-01-17

p-arar .rd nraise meeting on Wednesday even
incs. and class meetings on Wednesday afternoons,
at 3 o'clock, and Friday evenings, at u O'Clock.
n..o, Fall C;remit.-The fourth quarterly
meeting will be held at Orems M. E. church, Ian.
25tb and 26th Preaching on Sunday, at 10y a.
m. bv Rev. Watson Case, and at a p. m, by rev.
R.W Black P E. Quarterly conference on Mon
day, at lO1 a. m. All are earnestly invited.
9, Linn. u r. Church, LutherviUe.-Preach-
inc Sunday. at IL A. m. and 7.3O p m, by the pas
tor Rev. VIM. DalIam Morgan. Prayer meeting
Wednesday evening, at 1850 o'clock.
This year Lent begins February 18th.
-Towsontown is looking up. We have
Conservatory of Moosic" now.
Hon. j. Fred. C. Talbot was in Court here
ON Tuesday. engaged in the trial of a case.
The time table of the York road railway
will he found in our advertising columns to-day.
There is some talk Of organizing Section
of the Cadets of Temperance at Relsterstown' az
an early day.
The postofice at Westminster was broken
into and robbed on Saturday night last of about
States Attorney N. Chas Burke is admin
istrator of the estate of the late Francis l. wheel
er, who was uncle OF his wife.
The County Commissioners on TUESDAY APP
pointed William o. Ensor assessor OF ne" anu
missed property for the sth district
w-In the Orphans Court this week letters of
administration were granted to VIM. Oxford, on
the estate of Sarah Oxford, deceased.
We have had some unusually mild weather
for the season during the past week-more ike
the latter part of March than January.
Those who failed to get any ice during the
first freeze are now feeling rather uneasy for fear
they NAV not have another opportunity.
The receipts of the Maryland Central road
for the month of November last were about ,OOO
For December they were something less.
Mr.. John E. Owens has again gone to
chorIeston s G.. to look after his business in
terosts there. His health is much improved.
THE Baltimore Water Board has reelected
Mai VIM. L. KenIy, engineer and superintendent
of the county division of the city's water WORKS.
- fine new organ from the establishment OF
the Messrs. Knabe Baltimore was placed IN the
new Catholic church, in this place, on Wednesday.
ohio S. Lee, ESQ.,, of the Belair bar, was
in Towsoptown on Monday and called at IHE
UNION Office. He was here on professional busi-
An "agent" for some kind of Illuminating
fluid is travelling through the country swindhng
the unwary. Look out for him. 1t may Dc your
turn next. ~,
Mr.. L. j. Banded, who lives on the York
-ood near the city, while on his way home Tues
day evening, fell on the sidewalk and broke one
of his legs.
here on Tuesday in the case OF Daniei 'onoer-
smith of Reisterstown, indicted for keeping u.s.
orderly house.
"A U. S. Treasury Agent notifies business
man 70 link ont for a bad counterfeit SO Treasury
note series of 1865, letter A. The counterfeit is
on fimsy paper. rr.o.. oe
ferine Baltimore county farm for rent, brought
one Of Harford's progressive farmers TO Iowson-
town the past week to secure the same.
MANY of TIM UNIONS subscribers have not
vet responded to the bills sent December 9th. We
again beg to remind them of their obligation ana
hone they will not neglect to remit at once.
Samuel W. Bradford, Esq young mem
her of the bar and resident of this county, has
been elected onesof the Board of Governors of the
Youno Mems Republican Club of Baltimore CITY,
Conrad L. Eckhardt has entered suit in
the Baltimore Court of Common Pleas against
the Highlandtown and Point Breeze kaliway Co.
for $4,000 damages for injuries sustained by
him. 49,, ,.
-prof. Thomas Gorsuch, of the Sth district,
who is spending the winter in Germany, is, we
are glad to learn, much improved In health. For
some years he has been spending his winters
abroad. c:u.
People in the neighborhood of Gainesville
an hour, coming BY the new Short Line and
MARYLAND Central. 1t formerly took them about
three hours to get here.
Quite number of Baltimore county peo-
pIe attended the grand charity ball held at the
Academy of Music, Baltimore, on Monday night
last The ball was one CT the finest affairs OF the
kind ever held in the city.
Mr. Charles S. Grason, of st. Paul, Minn.,
who spent the holidays at his home, in this place,
left for the Northwest last Saturday. 1t is likely
he will reside permanently in st. Paul, where he
has secured good position.
-Towsontown was alive on Tuesday of this
week with people from almost every quarter of
the county but the 4th and 9th districts the
NIL m of
politics, mixed in with few other things.
The Woodbury. Knights of the Golden Ea-
gle gave a reception on Monday night last to the
officers of the Grand Castle of Maryland, who in
stalled the new officers of the Lodge for the en-
suing year. A very pleasant time was had.
AN italian laborer living at Rosedale, Phil
adelphia road, and employed on the new b. q u
extension was buried under bank of earth on
Tuesday and had his right leg very painfully in
iured The earth caved in upon him while ne was
at work.
This part of the country appears to be
overrun with tramps and they are getting 10 De
quite nuisance. If these fellows could be gath
cred mn and put to work some where it would
have the effect of putting an end to their rowing
over the country.
The account of Mr.. Arthur Chenoweth's
farming operations on the estate of z. H. Walker.
Esq., which appeared in the local columns Oh Inc
Uxioy a few weeks ago, has been widely copied
bv our exchanges, showing the interest generally
taken in such matters.
"A. Preston Gilbert, Esq, of Belair, an
nounces himself candidate for Clerk of the Cir
cult Court for Hartford county, and e. smith or
ris, ESQ.,, wants to be Register OF WIS oi Tue
same county. Both are clever gen'ie"en "HU
have many warm friends.
Mr.. Timothy Ganey, of Mt: Washington,
want N the CITY on Monday and drew $50 from
bank. When he got home in the evening the
money. together with lot of valuable papers,
was gone He don't know whether ne was ropDed
or whether he lost his pocket-book.
"a CORRESPONDENT writes to a Baltimore
paper to know what are the rights of widow In
the property of her husband who died childless
and intestate, She would be entitled to one-haif
of his personal property absolutely, and to one
third Of his real estate during her life.
An exchange says: "When dog kills
sheep he endeavors to bury portion. or leaves
the carcass where it is, for another visit Let the
carcass remain where the dog left it, and sprink lie
strychnine over it, and ten chances to one the
carcass of the dog will be by the side of the sheep
the next day"
at Huntington and Boundary avenues, TINS week
lodged complaint with the County Commissioners
AGAINST Fire Marshal Geo. H. Carman, whom ne
charged with using ungentlemanly language and
abusing him. Mr.. Carman's side of the case has
not yet been heard.
Ten. John Gill, treasurer of the Cations
vile Short Line Railroad, is paying the interest
on the bonded indebtedness of that road. The
business of the road has been far heavier than its
most sanguine friends expected. Eight trains
are now run each way daily, and this service Will
have to be increased in the spring.
Democratic politicians in the 9th district
are already arranging their lines OF battle Tor next
falps contest and we hear certain matters whis-
pered around upon which We shall have some
thing to say when the time comes. We can say
now with entire truthfulness that combination
are already being made to accomplish certain
ends, and Of these we shall warn the people IL