The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-06-06
GENERAL ITEMS.

COL James Young, of Middletown, Dauphin
county, Pa, has put up dinner-bell big enough
and high enough above ground to be heard all
over his thirteen farms.
One of the largest steel manufacturers in
Pittsburgh, Pa, expressed the opinion the other
day that a year hence not solitary keg of iron
nails will be made this side of the Mississippi
river.
The Secretary of the Southern Historical
Society," in lecture in Atlanta recently, said that
if Stonewall Jackson had commanded the Con-
federates at Gettysburg, Longstreet would have
been shot.
Two seasons ago the lady managers of Mount
Vernon gave up providing luncheon because
the official deadheads ate up all the profits. Now
a stand is established just outside the grounds,
with no free list.
-"Old Hannah" the first Pennsylvania rail-
road engine, which was built at the Baldwin
Works in 1851 and is marked No. l, is still run
ming on a little coal branch extending from Edge
wood station to the Hampton Coal COmpany's
mines.
The question whether women can sit as dele
gates in a religious convention was decided ad-
Tersely by the Southern Baptists, who met recent
ly in Augusta, Ga. Two women representatives
were accredited from Arkansas, but their admis-
sion was opposed strongly that they voluntarily
withdrew.
in Boston court Judge Allen administered
a severe rebuke to clergymen who marry minors
without the consent of their parents, the case in
hand being wife deserted by her husband, and
she was but Is when the clergyman married them.
He said that the laws of marriage should be
stringent and well enforced if we would check the
fearful tide of divorces.
MONTGOMERY county farmers are shipping to
Washington daily about twenty hundred gal
Ions of milk. The farmers of that county are a
progressive people and no county in the State is
al
The country around Sandy Springs is as produc-
tive as it is possible to make it, and socially the
neighborhood is most delightful.
The institution of agricultural learning estab-
lishei by Messrs. Moody and Sankey at Mt. Her.
mon, Franklin county, Mass, occupies several
hundred acres of excellent land, and is now in
successful operation. 1t has cost already $780,
600, and much more is needed to complete it on
the plan contemplated by its founders. new
building was dedicated last week, the cost of
which, $50 900, was betrayed entirely by the roy
atty on Mr.. Sankey's Gospel hymns.
On the 18th of April, 1862, just one year after
the fall of Fort Sumpter, Mrs. Evans, with the
wife and two daughters of Chaplain May, of the
Second regiment, Michigan volunteers, decorated
the graves of considerable number Of soldiers
buried on Arlington Heights, near Washington.
In May of the year following they rendered the
same sadly pleasant attention to the graves OF
soldiers buried at Fredericksburg. In 1873 Con-
gress made the Both of May legal holiday
Two years ago the name was changed to Memorial
Day.
"A novel wager was made in Middletown, N.
Y, the other day between young lawyer and a
gentleman engaged in business in New York.
Each is the father of boy baby, of which he is
very proud, and the conversation happening to
turn upon the youngsters, each father was empha-
tic in his assertions that his child was larger and
more promising than that of his friend. The out
come of the talk was an agreement that each
should deposit 500 in the savings bank, there to
remain, with principal and interest untouched,
until both the babies have attained the age Of Fl
years. On attaining their majority each of the
babies is to be weighed, and the one tipping the
scales at the greatest weight is to be entitled to
the 5000 and interest.