The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-02-07

Junior Gunpowder Agricultural Club
The regular meeting of this club was held at the
residence of Mr.. Chas. Price, instead of at Mr.. Eli
A. Matthew's, Saturday last All the members
were present except Messrs. e. A. Matthews,
John Tarbert and VIM. G. Brooks and there
number of visitors. Mr.. Mahon Price
foreman, and accompanied by the committee,
made thorough inspection ofbuildings, stock, i'm
| PIGMENTS and crops. The constitution and by
| laws, IN accordance with the annual custom, were
read. Mr. VIM. Curry was present for the first
time and was cordially received. He is young
man OF experience and well versed on agricultural
subjects. A committee, consisting of Messrs. Geo.
u. Shelly, Thos. L. Richardson and Frank Scott,
was appointed to attend the Farmers Convention
to be held in Baltimore, Feb. Esd.
The principal question of the evening was the
cost of raising per bushel, allowing ten bar
| rels to the acre. The average price per bushel-
| from the reports given-was about 25 cts. A few
thought that corn could be raised for SO
and said they would undertake to raise it for
| oti.rs at that sum. One member stated that
| growing field of corn the past season and re-
ceiving half as his share, he found that what
he received cost him $3.50 per barrel. Another
member said that several years ago his father
| grew 20 acres of corn and kept correct account
500 profit from the same. He then sowed the
| same ground in wheat and came out 500 behind
| on the latter. member remarked that he should
| have stopped farming when he made the 800.
Mrs. Chas. Price, the hostess, gave her guests
very cordial reception and entertained them
handsomely, assisted by Mrs. w. W. Matthews,
Mrs. SamI M. Price, Mrs. J. White and Misses
Olevia Miller, May Matthews and Flora Mathews.
Among the visitors present were Thos. o. Mat
thews, w. w. Matthews, Hythe S. Gill and Nelson
R. Miles, the latter representing the Senior Club.
The next meeting will be held at Mr.. Frank
Scott's.
Bold Robbery of Minister'S Residence.
The parsonage of Abbott Memorial Chapel in
Highlandtown, 18th district, occupied by Rev. j.
Wynne Jones and family, was entered by bur-
glars at an early hour on Tuesday morning last
and pretty thoroughly ransacked. Entrance was
effected by prizing open kitchen window, and
once inside the thieves proceeded in very bust
ness-like manner. The door to the room occu-
pied by Mr.. Jones, his wife and two children,
which had been locked before they RETIRED was
opened in some way and after getting into the
room the burglars chloroformed Mr.. Jones and
wife and then gathered up whatever articles they
could find, including suit of clothes, containing
about $40, an overcoat and a pair of pantaloons.
The latter were in closet, against the door of
which the children's bed was standing. They
took the children up and placed them with their
father and mother and removed the crib and
got into the closet. They overhauld the lower
part of the house and took silverware |
which, with the overcoat, afterwards found |
on the premises. They had regular feast in the
pantry and took quantity of edbes away with |
them. 1t is supposed the thieves were frightened
off before completing their work, which accounts
for their having left number of articles which |
they evidently intended carrying with them
Nothing known of the burglary until Mr..
Jones awoke late in the morning, when he found
the children in bed with him, the door open and |
the room in confusion. Mr.. Jones is satisfied |
that they were choroformed az they plainly |
felt the effects after awakening and it was even
ing of that day before they fully recovered. 1t is
believed that the act was committed by tramps, |
but the systematic manner in which they proceed
ed would appear to disprove this assumption
The robbery, when it became known, created |
much excitement in Highlandtown and vicinity.
Market Men Fighting for Their Rights. |
The Baltimore Herald of Saturday last says:
"Judge Stewart, of the City Court, heard testi-
mony and argument in the appeal from Mags
trate Myerss decision against the plaintiff in the
case of Joseph A. Bauer against A. ]. Norris,
clelh of Richmond market, action for alleged |
illegal distress in taking Bauer's goods in the |
market Bauer is q resident of Baltimore county |
and was represented by E. Beatty Graft. He and
others bring their produce to the market for sale
from their wagons. Clerk Norris has been charg-
fee for every market day they were present.
Bauer refused to pay on one occasion and Norris |
got warrant from Mayor Latrobe to replevin |
Bauer's produce to the amount of the fee. Bauer |
entered suit to recover the goods on the ground
that the fee and license charged him as country
producer and dealer, who did not come under the
roof of the market, was illegal Mr. Graft read
the act passed by the assembly of 1885, which
distinctly lays down this rule and imposes fine
of $40 on the clerk or other city officer who at
tempts to collect such fees. Judge Stewart held
the sub cura. Twenty other suits have also
been brought by county dealers ON their own pro-
duce, from whom they allege Norris collected fees
of and 10 cents. Judge Scott, of the City Court
in 1867 decided against the clerk of the Belair
market in similar case. This is the first time
the matter has been in the court since that time"
Bauer lives in the 9th district, on the Hartford
road, near Hiss church. This case will doubtless
prove interesting to many persons who take pro- |
duce to the Baltimore markets.
y On Tuesday Judge Stewart rendered his deci-
sion in the above case the verdict being for Bauer
for 81 and costs.
What a Towsontown Boy Did.-Mr. John
rogle, carpenter who some years ago lived in
Towsontown, and who is brother law of Mr.
John C. Pearce, of Long Green Valley, had lit
tie tow headed son named Oscar who will likely
be remembered by some of our people. Mr.. Fogle
removed to Ohio with his family, Oscar grew up
IN the way ne S0Oulu BOj anu ID OOlutHuuS paper
of recent date gives this cheerful information of
his "doins' - "Mr. Oscar Fogle, manager of the |
Mutual Union Telegraph office, has recently taken
unto himself wife, which was done in an unus- |
ually quiet manner. On Thursday, December 3D.
Oscar arose early and donned bran new outfit
gotten for the occasion. AT an appointed time
and place he met his affianced, Miss Carrie Grimm
who had also got ready in equally quiet man.
ner. The pair proceeded to the depot, where they
boarded the train for Newark, procured license
hunted up a minister, were married and returned
on the evening train. They had decided to keep
the matter secret until their house, now in pro-
cess of constructions was finished Accordingly
they returned to their respective homes as though
nothing unusual had happened But they were
suspected by their parents. who had opposed the
match, and on being pushed, gave the whole
thing away last week, when Mrs. Fogle was i'm
medately sent for and took up her residence with
her husband. Mr.. Fogle is very enterprlslng
young man, having managed the Mutual Union
Telegraph Office in this city for about two years.
Electricity on a County Railway.-The
| Union Passenger Railway Company has made
| arrangements to run its cars from the stables at
the corner of Oak and Sixth streets to Hampden
and Woodbury. by electricity. Mr.. Robbins, the
| president of the company, has been in negotia-
| tion with Baltimore firm for supply OF the
| apparatus and machinery for the equipment OF
the cars. 1t is proposed to lay rail midway
between Lne Two 0ccupleu Ny tnec dI. LIS oiu6io
| rail will be charged with electricity by dynamo,
which will be located at the stables In the car
will be placed the apparatus which will be con-
| nected with the electrified rail and by which the
car will be drawn along. An engineer can manage
the car at will by severing the connection with
the electrified rail. Work on this Improvement
was commenced on Thursday morning last.
| Fire in an Asylum.-A slight fire occurred
in Spring Grove Insane Asylum, located in the LIST
district, on Tuesday evening, and the buildings
we're only saved by the prompt action OF the OIL
Gals and others. The amusement hall, very
large room in the centre of the asylum, has still
the Christmas greens hanging in it and when one
of the attendants was lighting the gas he acci-
IDENTIFY set fire to some of these. The whole place
was soon in blaze and it required the most ener-
getic work to prevent the flames from spreading
There are upward of four hundred patients in
in the institution and these we're all brought down
to the first floor, to be ready for removal Sever
| al engines of the county department and two from
the city responded to the alarm, but their services
were not required. The loss was about $500, and,
strange to saw there is no insurance ON the build