The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-07-18

Sunday by tho rector Rev. W. II. H. Powers. at
/ a. N. and q p. m. Bible class Wednesday at
7.45 p. m.
There will be preaching at Lutherville, by Rev.
w. H. H. Powers, in the Public Hall, every Sun
day afternoon, at 81 o'clock
Irish potatoes said to be cheaper now
than they have been for ten years.
The Towson Guards will hold their annual
tournament and picnic some time next month.
The receipts of the Maryland Central rail-
road at Belair station for the first week in July,
averaged about $50 per day.
Mr. Solomon D. Warfeld, son Of the late
Henry NJ. Warfeld, of Baltimore, has obtained a
patent for corn silking machine.
WIN. Parsons, of Mount Vernon, Falls road,
has been lodged in the county Jail on the charge
of assaulting with intent to kill William Sullivan.
On Sunday last the Rev. Geo. H. Beckley
was regularly installed as pastor of the Lutheran
church in Reisterstown, by Reys. II. w. Kubns
and c. Lepley.
Under the present law it is not necessary
to have a magistrates certificate attached to an
estray notice. All that is required is simply the
ordinary notice.
The disbursements made by the County
Treasurer during the month of June amounted
to SIC, 25l, and the balance of cash on hand July
LIST was Sll3,256
The two drinking saloons on the Baltimore
county side of Ellicott City were entered on Tues
dav night and robbed of quantity of whisky,
cigars and some cash.
The largest man and one of the best farm
ers in York county is Mr.. Amos Rohrbaugh, of
Penn township. He is six feet one inch in height
and weighs 42S pounds.
Rev. Watson Case, of the Towsontown M.
E. Church, and Rev. VIM. D. Morgan, of Luther
vile NJ. E. Church, will exchange pulpits to-
morrow Sunday evening.
Chas Carroll, of Baltimore, has been ap-
pointed watchman at the new Marine Hospital
building, on Remington avenue, 9th district, vice
Capt. VIM. Patterson, of Waverly.
Little rays of sunshine,
Little drops of sweat,
Makes the stiffened linen
Very limp, you bet.
The Baltimore papers had regular pic
mic this week on the Cooper lynching case. If it
hadn't been for this affair their news columns
would have been exceedingly fiat.
MIR. John Stirling, Of the 18th district, is a
candidate for Clerk of the Circuit Court and is
making lively fight, with good prospects of Sc
curing the delegation of the district.
"A son of Dr. J. j. Caldwell, of Dover, 4th
district, who was extremely i'll with an attack of
congestion of the stomach, caused by over-indul-
gence in swimming, is now improving.
"A great many German carp-some very
large ones-are being caught in Lake Roland,
small nets being used for the purpose. 1t is rare
ly that one is taken with hook and line.
The first tournament of the season is an
nounced to take place ut Norrisville, Hartford
county, Thursday next, July 23d. Handsome
prizes are to be awarded to the successful knights
BY the burning of contractor Burke's sta
BILE, at Highlandtown, on Friday night of last
week. 80 horses lost their lives. The charred car
cases we're afterwards sold to Horner & Co., for
$40.
Mr.. Thomas C. Weeks, chief of the State
Bureau of 5 tatisties and Information, has been
up in Hartford making inquiries as to the number
of hands employed in the canning factories, the
wages paid, DC.
At the close of business at the Hartford Ma
tional Bank, Belair, July LIST, 1885, the individ-
ual deposits in the bank amounted to S170,655.S7.
The affairs of the institution are in most pros
porous condition.
The Sisters of Notre Dame, near Govans-
town, will next month take charge of st. Joseph's
school, in Western Maryland, and will hereafter
conduct the same, opening the session on the first
Monday in September.
The annual all-day meeting at Jessop's NJ.
E. Church, above Cockeysville, will take place to-
morrow-Sunday, July 10Th. This will be reg
ular field day for the politicians and they will
doubtless be out in force.
There are complaints at the Maryland Line
postofice that the mails for that place are very
improperly assorted, causing many delays and
other annoyaDces. The trouble is said to origi-
nate in the distributing Office.
"A fine family horse belonging to the Messrs.
Stewart, of the Sth district while frisking about
the yard Monday afternoon, tripped and fell
breaking his neck. The animal was highly priz.
ed and his death is quite loss.
There was another rumor current q few
days ago that the Maryland Central railroad was
about passing into the hands of the B. Il 0. Com
pany. Diligent inquiry establishes the fact that
there is no foundation for the rumor.
"A picnic will be held at Granite, I'd dis
trict, to-day, commencing at 10 a.. m, and con-
tinuing until IL p. m. The proceeds will be de-
voted to relieve the necessities of worthy and
greatly afflicted family of the neighborhood.
The annual retreat of the Sisters Of Notre
Dame at the mother-house, near Govanstown,
commenced on Sunday last and will continue one
week. There are $50 Sisters in retreat there. To
day Saturday SO novices will be professed.
Hon. George Hawkins Williams on Tues
day filed a petition in the county Circuit Court,
in the matter of the trust estate of Ernault II.
Williams, his son, asking to be relieved and dis
charged from the position and duties as trustee.
The lynching of Cooper in Towsontown, at
an early hour on Monday morning last, was so
quietly conducted that very few people in the
town knew anything about it. The whole affair
was certainly well planned and carefully executed
The taxable basis of Hartford county fol
1885, including stocks, &C., is Sl2, 753,9l6 de-
crease, as compared with the previous year, of
$72 019. The tax rate is so cents on the 500,
and the amount required to be collected is SlO2,-
O29.
Mr. John s. Cuttings, of Baltimore county
who was appointed Treasurer of Maryland by
Gov. McLane, has given ample evidence of ex-
celent financial ability and doubtless the next
Legislature will elect him for full two years
term.
Last week we were swetering, with the
thermometer above ninety, and this week it has
been delightfully."- cool, the mercury having been
more than twenty points below the previou:
weeks register. Truly, we live in a wonderful
climate.
Sarah E. Clayton has filed bill in equity
for divorce from her husband, Jesse F. Clayton
on the grounds of failure Of support, drunkenness
cruelty and desertion. They have seven minol
children and the wife asks the care and custody
of them.
It was Miss Helen A. Kirk, daughter Of
the late Charles D. Kirk of this county, who made
the PEN and ink sketch of the farmer and the
wonderful pumpkin seed, to which we alluded two
or three weeks ago, and not Miss Hunt, as erro'
neously stated.
"A Reisterstown correspondent of the Sun
reports that the wheat crop in that section of the
county will be from to 10 bushels to the acre
the highest so far reported being IL. Some farm
ers have already threshed and sold their wheat al
go cts. per bushel.
The straw bidder who was awarded the
contracts for carrying the mails from Baltimore
to Greenwood and Randallstown having failed to
fulfill his contracts, the routes will have to be
re-let. On the latter route the mail is being car
ried by Fl. S. Jean, at S2.25 per day.
"A number of families are already camping
Mt Emory Grove and by the 23d of the month it
is thought that at least five hundred persons will
be on the grounds. The camp commences on
Thursday, August 9th, and it will likely be the
largest ever held on those beautiful grounds.
-Reynolds Jones and the two Gallaghers,
who were so badly hurt by premature explosion
while blasting at the Rocks of Deer Creek, one
day last week, are slowly improving. 1t was
thought at first that Jones and the elder Gallagher
would lose their sight, but they are now able to
see q little and may entirely recover. Young
Galaghers condition is still quite critical, but the
physicians at the hospital think he has good
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