The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-02-28

| Maryland Line, 7th District.-The winter
has increased in severity since the first Of the
month to produce great suffering among people
| and stock. Along large water courses, where
large bodies of ice are gorged, much damage, it is
feared, will occur to property, should the Ice be
| forced to move by sudden thaw.
| The Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph Company
is erecting line on the York and Baltimore turn
pike between those two points, through this place
| and Shrewsbury. The line is to be in working
order by the end of this month. Why is this rapid
completion of a new line between Baltimore and
York involved in mystery to the public! There
is some great point behind the matter Another
project is talked of in building line of railroad
from Wrightsvie, opposite the Reading depot at
Columbia, to this place, is miles, over the finest
ridge route in the country for a railroad. Thence
from here to Emory Grove station or north OF It,
some 10 to Is miles, connecting with the Western
Maryland or Baughman's Valley to Baltimore
With all these enterprises, building and contem-
plating, it does seem we are moving right along
without regard to who was elected President OF
the United States.
Messrs. B. +. Roller, of Shrewsbury, Pa, Amos
Kidd and John B. Pfaltzgraf, of York, Reuben
Minnich, of Spring Garden township, Sampson
Smith, of Hopewell township, Henry M. Bortner,
of Codorus township, and E. X. Bollinger, of
Seitzland Pa, were appointed by the Court of
Common Pleas of York county to assess the dam
ages to the properties of Jacob Lanius and Josiah
Grove, caused by the location of the Stewartstown
railroad. The jury met on the 10th inst. to view
the damage to Mr.. Groves property, and on the
10th inst to view the damage to Mr.. Lanius's
property. To Mr.. Grove the jury gave $3.50 and
to Mr.. Lanius S2,125 1t is believed that these
assessments are both fair and equitable between
the parties and will not be appealed from.
The route upon which this road is located is
proving very much more expensive to the compa-
ny than they at first anticipated. A route nearer
Shrewsbury had been suggested to the company
when laying out the road that would have been
more economical to build and more profitable to
work and remunerative to the company, but for
some reason not in the interest of railroad build
ing, the proposition was dsregarded. The N. Z.
R. r. Company, it is alleged, is to work the road
when finished. This, of course, will be a great
advantage to it in developing its usefulness to the
people along the line of the road, because the sys-
tenn itself is frst-cass and will enter into the work
ing of this road. This gives rise to hope that
proper and necessary accommodations VIII De
offered the public, which will attract trade and
travel to and over the road.
Our fat cattle are ready for market. A large
number have been bought up within week for
Eastern markets. Mr. JAS. Ii. Market, OF this
place, is the principal buyer.
The tobacco purchasers are on the ground In
specting and buying up 1884 crop, which is
Judged to be unusually fine. Our farmers IND
that barn-yard manure is better for tobacco than
phosphate The leaf becomes too Drlttie LOT
wrappers where too much fertilizer, other than
barn yard manure, is used. Prices are better
than they were last year.
There is going to be rise in the price of wheat
this spring that viii astonsh somebody. Those
who can hold their wheat will receive large profit
for so doing The demand will De very great
The crop will be short this year. 1t has now come
to be officially reported that the European crop OF
1884 will not meet home consumption as was al
legged it would, and foreign buyers have already
arrived in this county and are quietly buying up
wheat for May and June delivery. In the West
neither the plant the prospect is by one-fourth
as good as it was last year.
There are not many sales of personal property
this spring as in other years. owing, in measure,
to very little real estate changing hands. Some
estates are being settled up, which causes some
change, but beyond this very little is done in real
estate A great deal of building is contemplated
this spring. There is considerable demand for
tenement houses. Emigration has ceased from
this section of country and many persons who
went West have returned, saying they can't stand
the winters. All eyes point South now and
should not be surprised to see some general move
ment that way soon. ~