The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-08-29
OVER THE STATE.

White cranes are said to be quite plentiful in
Caroline county.
Bush river is said to be alive with perch, rock
fish and crabs, affording fisherman excellent sport
Miss Mamie Thompson, of CentrevilIe, has
been awarded the scholarship in Western Mary
land College due Queen Anne's county.
Mr.. Joshua McComas, of Black Horse, Har-
ford county, left on Wednesday, on a visit to his
two sons and other relatives in Illinois.
The Prohibtionists ofSomerset county, have
called convention for September 9Th, and pro-
pose putting full county ticket in the field.
DR.. w. c. McCurdy has sold his store at Ma
donna, Hartford county, to Garrett McAtee, who
is said to be a very enterprising young man.
The homestead of the late John Lee Chap
man, of Baltimore, situated at Blue Ridge Sum.
init, sold last week to Judge Kimbull, for ST.
$50.
SO many applications have been made to
Governor Lloyd for copies of his proclamation as
to Gen. Grants death that he has had number
printed to supply the demand.
Hon. Stevenson Archer has sold the Hope
we'll store property belonging to d. B. Arthur,
to Amos Spencer, of Havredegrace, for $4,000.
Less than two years ago it was sold for $4,000.
DIR. Kieffer, the pastor of the First Reformed
Church of Hagerstewn, has announced that the
consistory of that church had decided to discon-
tinue the custom of announcing deaths by ring
ing the church bells.
Washington county high school, has been elected
Professor of Mathematics in Delaware College,
Newark, Delaware. The Professor is said to be
man of thorough scholarship.
Samuel H. Miller, living near Elkton, Cecil
county, threshed 726 bushels of oats, heaped
measurement from seven acres-an average of
nearly 104 bushels per acre. A bushel, stroked
measurement weighed 361 pounds.
County fairs will be held in Maryland as
follows: Montgomery, Rockville, Sept 2, 4.
Kent, Worton, Sept. %, "a. Baltimore, Timoni-
um, Sept. 80, Oct 2. Cecil, Elkton, Oct, 6, 9.
Hartford, Belair, Oct. 10, I6. Frederick, Freder-
lex, Oct. ID, IS. Washington, Hagerstown, Oct.
20, %.
The Westminster ADVOCATE says: "James
Francis, postmaster at Berret, in this county,
resigned his position last June, on the ground,
it is said, that he was an Offensive partisan"
and Mrs. Barnes was after time appointed in
his place. When Mrs. Barnes applied for pos
session some days ago, Mr.. Francis refused to
vacate."
The Hagerstown Ne,os says: "Mrs. Admiral
Dahgreen is occupying her handsome residence
on South mountain, for the summer. crypt has
recently been consecrated on the place, and in it
she has had placed the remains of her first hus-
band Mr.. Daniel Corners Goddard and of her son,
Lieut. Vinton Goddard, the ceremony of deposit
ing the bodies taking place at midnight"
From the HagerstOwn Herald "Judge May
nard, second comptroller of the treasury, has
disalowed the claim of James II. Elgn, of Wash
ington county, for the use of his farms from 1861
to 1865 by the troops of the United States These
farms situated near Sandy Hook, about a
mile from Harper's Ferry. The claimant also
filed claim under the act of July 4, 1864, for
quartermaster's stores and subsistence supplies
used by the army from the same premises,
amounting to over S1l 900, and including all the
products of the farm and the value of the rails
and fences taken. The comptroller decides that
the loss of the claimant was incident to the raw
ages of war; and the accounting officers have no
authority or jurisdiction to make it good. This
was taken up as q test case, and will be used as
precedent for disallowing all claims for rent Of
property used by the Union army"
-Beeson, fourteen year-old son of Jonas Glot-
felty, living near Deep Creek, Garrett county,
was bitten by a rattlesnake on Sunday, Sth inst,
and died from the effects on the following day,
after terrible suffering. The boy had turned in
to pick berries by the roadside, when he was sud-
denly struck on the inside of the wrist, and only
saw the snake as it flung itself away from him in
hasty retreat. 1t happened about dusk, and
the boy ran home, nearly mile distant, the arm
swelling rapidly. He could not be prevailed upon
to take a sufficient amount of whisky to keep up
heart action and enable the system to throw off
the effects of the poison. The arm became great
ly swollen and discolored, breaking out in numer-
Gus places, and it required the efforts of several
men to hold the boy, as he became derious in his
agony.