The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-12-19


on Wednesday evening, at u o'clock, and class
meetings on Thursday, at p. ~, and Friday
evening, at u O'Clock.
81. Johns N. E. Church, Lutherrile.-Preach-
ing Sunday, at IL m. and 7.3O p: m, by the pas
tor, Rev. VIM. Dallam Morgan. Prayer meeting
Wednesday evening, at 7.3O o'clock.
Trinity p E. Church, Tou0sontorn.
Sunday by the rector, Rev. W. IL. IL. Powers, at
IL a. m. and u p. m. Bible class Wednesday at
400 p. m.
There will be preaching at Lutherville, by Rev.
W. H. II. Powers in the Public Han, every oun-
day afternoon, at 81 o'clock.
1t makes this grim old weather smile to see
the way the prophets miss it.
-Compiiments of the season. Merry
Christmas to all the readers of The UNION.
Mr.. Edward S. Peerce, of Dulany's Valley,
is suffering from an attack of infammatory rheu-
matism.
The public schools of the county will close
on Wednesday, December 23d, and e-open Mon
day, January 4th, 1856.
Henry Crusey, a we'll known carpenter of
Pikesville, dropped dead a few days ago of apo
plexy. His age was 70 years.
DR. H. J. Hebb, Treasurer of Baltimore
county. was in Washington Monday, accom-
panied by Hon. J. Fred. c. Talbot.
Last week Mr.. William Frock, of Chestnut
Ridge, killed three pigs, less than nine months
DID, that weighed together US pounds.
A new station called Ruxton, has been es-
tablished on the Northern Central Railroad about
midway of Lake and Sherwood Stations.
The extensive marble quarries of Messrs.
Hugh Sisson Co.. at Beaver Dam, near Jockeys
Vile, pay out 81 200 per week for labor.
Beautiful fresh pork was sold in Towson-
town on Thursday at 81 cents per pound At this
time last year it sold as high as 81 and cents.
The present Grand Jury has ordered the
release of a large number of prisoners from jail
They confined mostly upon trihing charges
The County Commissioners have appoint
ed Matthias Lehman, of Woodbury., a constable
for the 9th district, vice Dixon M. Upton, re-
signed.
Tho Orphans Court was in session two
extra days this week, hearing testimony in the
Samuel BIakeley will case. 1t has not been con-
cluded.
The man shot by William Nelson in sa-
loon in Baltimore, one day last week, is getting
we'll. Nelson was until recently Waterman at the
county Jail.
Mr.. Robert S. C. Herman, of Gardenville,
has been granted patent for a brake-lock. He
is a son of Mr.. John NJ. Herman, the well known
wagon manufacturer.
Rev. J. F. Goucher, pastor of the new NJ. +.
Church, in the Belt, on Monday sent fine dressed
hog to Justice Dorsey, of Hampden, to be divided
among the poor of that place.
"A few days ago Mr. Samuel J. Robinson,
of Towsontown, killed two shoats, about ten
months old, that weighed 500 lbs. They yielded
him $50 lbs of beautiful lard.
At the last term of the Hartford county Cir
cult Court there many indictments for vio-
lations of the local option law but the trials re-
suited in only one conviction.
Richard I. Duval has obtained judgment
for 81 900 damages against the North Baltimore
Passenger Railway Company for injuries sustain
ed by being thrown from a car.
john NJ. Carter, Jr., son of John NJ. Car
ter, ESQ.,, of Mt. Washington, is preparing under
private tutor to enter West Point Military Acad-
envy. He is said to possess fine intellect.
Last week the air was again thick with ru
mors relative to the Maryland Central road and
it can be safely asserted that there was not sim
gle grain of truth in a great majority of them.
Miss Ida Oswald Mason, sister of Mrs.
John 7. B. Dorsey, formerly of this place, died
at her home, uear Alexandria, Va, on Wednesday.
She was daughter of the late Senator Mason, of
Va.
Mr.. George Small, of Baltimore, who is the
principal owner of the Ashland furnaces, in this
county, has given SIC, 900 towards rebuilding the
York Collegiate Institute, which was burned last
week.
We return thanks to Mr.. Henry L. Bowen,
the well known insurance agent, for beautiful CAL
endars issued by the Royal, of Liverpool, and the
Continental, of New York, both of which he rep
resents.
We expect to see several hundred subscri-
bers to The UNION between now and January 1st.
1856. Our receiving" hours are now from a.
IN. to 6 p. M, and we are still doing business at
the old stand.
During the month of November the West
ern Maryland Railroad transported 252 car loads
of cotton from Hagerstown to Baltimore. The
cotton came from the South over the Shenandoah
Valley Railroad
The Belair Times says that Mr.. Robert
Garrett passed over the Maryland Central road, in
oial tai dav last weak This ia n mis-
take, as Mr.. Garrett was in New York at the time
the special went up.
Mr.. Daniel Jenifer, Jr, of the 18th dis
trict, has been appointed record clerk by John
W. Shanklin, Esq, Clerk of the Circuit Court.
Mr.. Jenifer occupied similar position under the
former County Clerk.
The Northern Central Railroad Company
has declared semi-annual dividend of four per
cent, payable January 18th, 1856. The Com
pany will add larger amount to its surplus this
year than it did in 1884,
The Sherwood Distillery, at Cockeysville,
is now turning out about twenty-five barrels of
pure rye whiskey per day. Nothing but rye is
used in this distillery, the capacity of which is
about fifty barrels per day.
Mr.. Harry Wilson, former Baltimore
countain who farms Mrs. Heald's property, near
Beair raised last season $50 bushels Of oats Una
chine measurement from % acres of land, the
yield being y bushels per acre.
Mr.. James D. Powell, of the 10th district,
lately lost a fine two year old Percheron colt
sired by of Walters stations. He thinks it
died of lung fever. The colt valued at 5000,
the owner having been offered $3.50 for it at one
year old.
81 wouldn't be without The UNION if had
to pay $500 year for it." This and kindred ex-
pressions very common with our friends who
are daily coming up to renew their subscriptions,
and we feel very grateful for their kindly ex-
pressions
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erection near Hampden station, NJ. C. R. R., have
no foundations but are being built upon timbers
planted in the ground like small outhouses
some times erected The building of such houses
should be prohibited by Law.
Mr.. John Moores, a well known farmer
near Belair, last week sold IA head of cattle that
averaged 1850 lbs each, the gain having been
525 lbs. per head since last fall. They cost "a
per 100 lbs. and were sold S4.65. The average
profit on each steer was S24.5O.
The addition to Rogers Hill Chapel, near
Maryland avenue, in the Belt. was dedicated on
Friday night of last week. The chapel is under
the pastoral charge of Revs. J. f. Goucher and
Edward L. Watson, and the congregation has in
creased to such an extent lately as to make the
enlargement of the building necessary.
This is good season to remember the poor,
especially those who may be sick and afflicted
and with nothing to relieve the gloom which sur
rounds them. Those who have the means should
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and do what you can to gladden. their hearts.
Eight cattle belonging to Mr.. Henry Ruhl,
of Goyanstown, that were affected with pleuro-
pneumonia, have been killed by order of the State
Veterinary Surgeon. Two or three more have
the disease. One of those killed was opened and
its lungs were found to be mass of corruption.
Mr.. Thomas Hill, who was for many years
a baiIiff in the Circuit Court for Baltimore coan-
ty and lived on the Philadelphia road, near Recha-
bite Hall, now makes his homein Washington. ID. O.,
and Prince Georges county. The old gentleman
is nearly eighty years of age, and is in the enjoy
ment Of quite good health.
Capt. F. G. F. Waltemeyer, who was a
well known resident of the 18th district of this
county, died on Friday of last week, after few
days illness of pneumonia, in the 6Sth year Of his
age During the late war he served in the Union
army and was brave soldier. He leaves fam
lily of four grown children.
Mr.. James Campbell, superintendent OF
the lower Monticello Farm and Mr.. George IL.
Smith, superintendent of the Fair Oaks Farm,
both belonging to the estate of the late John W.
n--~..k ~-ora among tha eallers Mt THE Union