The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-06-20
OVER THE STATE.

Gov. Henry Lloyd has bought farm in Dor
chester county, near Cambridge, for $3.50.
The Elkton NeDs says the Spring fair of the
Cecil comfy agricultural society was not sue
cess.
Mr.. H. Hood, of J., living near Mt Airy, has
mare % years old that dropped her ninth colt
a few days ago.
The Tom Payne meeting that was to have
been held in Frederick City the 9Th inst. turn
ed out to be izzle.
L. ellis Owings, ESQ.,, has bought the farm
in Howard county, formerly owned by the late
Mrs. Maria Dorsey, for So, $50.
Mr.. Nathan Gorsuch q we'll known citizen of
Carroll county, aged IA years, died at his resid-
ence, on the Washington road, on the 18th inst.
F. L. Donnelly, Of the United States Fish
Commission, recently deposited 25O,00U young
shad in the Patapsco river at the Relay House.
Mrs. Reed, o cousin of Mrs. James A. Gar
field, has bought residence in Laurel, Prince
Georges county, and will make it her permanent
home.
Judge Anthony NJ. johnson, OF the Howard
county Orphans Court, living uear Ellicott City,
one night last week lost 81 turkeys out of a flock
Of 20, by foxes.
The Royal Arcanum Lodge of Hagerstown
has paid the widow of the late John M. Mentzer,
of that place. So, 900, being the amount of insur-
ance held on the life of her late husband.
Mr.. Milford r. Stouffer, of Funkstown dis
trict, Washington county, realized 20S pounds of
wool from sixteen sheep, an average OF IL pounds
per head. The breed of the sheep is not given.
Gov. Lloyd and staff have been invited to at
tend the National Soldiers Reunion and Encamp
ment to be held at Paramount Park, Philadelphia,
commencing June 26th and ending 9th of July.
The farmers of Anne Arundel county are de-
termined to organize an agricultural society.
Committees have been appointed in the different
districts and subscription books for the capital
stock will soon be opened.
On the Sth inst. Josiah F. Thomas, an ex-
tensive Frederick county farmer, aged about SIS
years, attempted to take his life by cutting his
throat with a razor inflicting a serious but not,
it is thought, fatal wound. He is man of
family.
Hon George Cotton, of Baltimore, has sold
his newspaper, the Annapolis Republican, to
Messrs Ridgely & Melvin, of Caroline county.
Mr.. Ridgely is lawyer and farmer, and Mr..
Melvin is proprietor of the Denton Journal, and
is also a lawyer, and brother-in-law of State
Comptroller Turner. Mr. Cotton has owned the
paper about twenty years.
The Westminster ADVOCATE says: "Two cases
of felonious assault upon ladies are pending in
the Court of Appeals. These facts have quicken
ed the sense of Justice in the public mind, and
murmurs of discomfort are heard in various parts
of the State. Counsel ought thereby to be adj
monished not to take appeals, in such cases at
least, on slight or insufficient grounds, or to act
in any way calculated to lessen respect for our
courts"
AT Mt Airy, Carroll county, the other day,
family of bees were lowering in the air, looking
for place to swarm, when telegraph operator
happened to pass and they decided to settle upon
his head. Several hundred of them descended
upon him and the rest were following, when he
ran scraping the unwelcome intruders from his
hair and face with his hands, but getting so badly
stung before he could clear himself that he tainted
His face was terribly swollen and he suffered
severe pain.
The Frederick Times says "if you desire to
see unadulterated, beautiful girls, rosy and fresh
with the ruddy glow of health, and step as light
and elastic as that of the graceful antelope, just
let them drop into Frederick of the those fine
days, and they will see such Astounding on every
street-yea they will find more beauty, done up
in female from than in any other town in Maryland,
and don't you forget it." To this the Annapolis
Advertiser adds: "Stop your Dragging and come
down this way and take peep at our girls, and
we'll show you what beauty isl
The Easton talbot county, Star questions
the "benefts derived from local option in that
county and says: "That what are called focal
option cases now constitute the bulk of the GRIM
inal business that now comes before our court. 1t
is notable fact that there not witness be-
fore the grand jury from Chapel district, in this
term of court, and, of course not a single present.
ment. This may seem singular to some, as the
Chapel is the only district in the county where
spirituous liquors legally sold. Much of the
time of the grand jury was taken up with alleged
violations of the local option law in the other
districts of the county"