The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-07-25

ST. Johns Mission, York ROdd-Preaching
Sunday, July 10Th, at 81 p. M, by Rev. Watson
Case.
An effort is being made to establish
weather signal station at EllicOtt City.
Judge Waters, of Hartford, anticipates a
We'd of thirty five bushels of wheat to the acre.
Four FIRE alarm boxes have been placed in
Woodbury. for the use of the county fire depart
ment
Summit Grove camp meeting, on the North
ern Central railroad, commences on Thursday of
next week, 3Oth instant.
Emory Grove camp meeting commences
August 9th. Several hundred persons now
tenting upon the grounds
"A little daughter of Joseph Ryan, of Hamp-
den, Falls road, fell from the porch on Tuesday
afternoon and broke her arm.
The Democrats at Oxford, 9th district, have
formed "a Belt club" and propose to demand recog
milton at the hands of their party. James L.
Hewell is president of the club.
Two city men were arrested this week on
the charge of dumping rotten potatoes on a vacant
lot on Fourth street, in the Belt.
The colored camp-meeting in st. James
Grove on the Maryland Central road, one mile
east of Towsontown, commenced yesterday.
Mrs. Welsh, of Avalon, Baltimore county,
widow of the late William Welsh, died very sud-
denly last Sunday, in the 63d year of her age.
We had fine rain here Saturday evening
last, which settled the dust and cooled the atn1os
phere slightly, but the improvement did not last
long.
THE Woodstock Granite Company has been
awarded the contract for furnishing large num-
Der of Belgian paving blocks and curbing for
Baltimore.
Under new arrangement the afternoon
mail for Carroll and Gainesville now closes at the
Baltimore postofice at 43O, instead of 5 o'clock
as heretofore.
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sold the house and lot belonging to the estate of
the late Francis Kendig, in Pikesvile, to Helen
W. Nottingham.
Mrs. Nussear, mother of Prof. james S.
Nussear, of Lutherville, died at her sons resi-
dence, in that place, on Monday last. She had
been i'll for long time.
At o'clock on Saturday morning last
thirty Height young ladies took the black veil Of
the Order of School Sisters of Notre Dame, at the
Mother House. near Govanstown.
The young men Of Upper Cross Roads,
Hartford county are about organizing brass band
What the people in the neighborhood have done
to them we have been unable to learn.
Work on the new Union Station, on Charles
street avenue, is now progressing rapidly and the
building will be completed next fall. 1t will be q
fine Improvement to that section of the city.
butter is now selling in Hartford at from
10 to Is cents per pound. One day last week a
storekeeper took in trade 2s5 pounds of prime but
ter for which he allowed Is cents per pound.
Master Edward Willis, son of DR.. r. Will
lis of this place. passed the civil service exami-
nation held in Baltimore short time ago for
clerkships in the postofce. His percentage was SS.
Two colored men, who are charged with at
tempting to incte riot at colored picnic at
Loeb Raven, on Thursday of last week, have been
arrested and committed to Jail. They belong to
Baltimore.
Nearly every Saturday afternoon the peo-
r11o of fraa fad IN in he
way of scrub horse They generally
coo yards and repeat and the purses range from
$50 to 800.
The subordinate Odd Fellows lodges of
Maryland are arranging to take part in the
yelling of the monument to the late James L.
Ridgey, which will take place in Baltimore,
September 22d next.
Mrs. Bruce wife of Mr.. Edward B. Bruce,
of Mt Washington, who had both legs broken by
being thrown from carriage last week, is slowly
improving. The fractures were not so serious as
they were at first believed to be.
The body of young man named "fif~-.
Dunn whose parents bye IN dRaljiasEs Y2th dis
trict on Tuesday. While out fishing with party
on Sunday he fell from the boat and was drowned.
The attendance at Jessop's meeting, above
Cockeysville, on Sunday last, was not near so
large as usual, owing, no doubt, to the very
warm weather. A few Democratic politicians
were upon the grounds, but they kept very quiet.
The building of the large livery stable at
Boundary avenue bridge, has necessitated the
changing of the stairway leading to the Mary
land Central station. The alterations have made
the stairway even more difficult than it was before
and therefore cannot be regarded as an improve
ment.
On Sunday last the county police arrested
a number of colored men who were engaged in
throwing dice in the Belt. They were taken be-
fore Justice Gallagher at Waverly, who fined
them each SIS and costs. Being unable to pay
they were sent to Jail.
There is quite sharp contest going on over
the postofice at Fullerton, on the Belair road
The present postmaster, Mr.. August Dumer, has
given entire satisfaction and is an applicant for
re-appointment. He is opposed by Mr.. Lenhoff,
who wants the place.
Mr.. D. H. Rice, of Baltimore, who bought
the Ewing property at Cowpens, Maryland Cen
trail railroad, after having his house thoroughly
renovated, papered and painted, moved his family
out last week. In the fall Mr.. Rice will start
herd of Holstein cattle.
Sheriff Knights condemnation jury in the
case of the B. & 0. Railroad Company against
the Canton Company, rendered verdict for $780,
900 damages About two acres of land in the
18th district, east of Patterson Park, required
for the use of the extension.
Capt A. Lingan Jarrett who has been
Clerk of the Hartford county Circuit Court for so
long that the memory Of man runneth not to the
contrary, will again be candidate for renomina-
tion, but he will have strong opposition in the
primaries on Saturday next.
"A large tree on the property occupied BY
Gen. Agnus, near Mount Hope Station, Western
Maryland railroad, was struck by lightning dur
ing the thunder storm of Saturday evening last,
and shattered to the ground, the bark and splin-
tiers being strewn over the field.
Work on the new B. q O. extension, which
passes through the eastern section of this county,
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ed that by the end of the present year the whole
line will be completed The great bridge over
the Sus4uehanna is making satisfactory progress.
Mrs. Isabella Brown, mother of Col. Alex.
d. Brown, of Brooklandwood, Baltimore county,
died ut her residence in the city, on Monday
morning last, in the 87th year of her age. She
was most estimable woman and gave literally
of her large to all worthy charitable objects.
She leaves an estate of perhaps 100000.
William Rutledge, of Cross Keys, Falls
road, who is charged by Mrs. Clara v. Miles, of
Baltimore, with having cheated her out of $50
under pretense of securing pension for her, has
been arrested and committed to the county jail
The warrant was issued for Rutedge some time
ago but he was only found on the 18th instant.
There is big contest going on over the
postofice in Reisterstown, there being at least
half dozen applicants for it. Mrs. W. D. Ying-
ling has been the postmaster for several years
and has given entire satisfaction, but the princi
pal part Of the contest hinges on the location of
the Office, there being Cup town" and "down town"
parties.
Monday was the warmest day experienced
in Baltimore this summer, the Thermometer regis
tering SO and fraction. In Towsontown it was
So in the shade, but there cooling breezes in
the evening which rendered the atmosphere more
endurable. So protracted a spell of intensely
hot weather has not been experienced here in
long time.