The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-02-21
LOCAL ITEMS.


holiday.
Frederick Talbot, the infant son of Mr..
John Grason, of this place, died Tuesday morning
last.
Mrs. Andrew Horseman, ofWoodberry, fell
on the ice a few days ago and fractured one oil
her legs.
morning. and no arrests. Really, this thing is
COL. B. F. Taylor, of the 18th district, has
purchased so acres of unimproved land, near
Kingsville, for 81 600.
Rev. Father Maynadier, the priest who
now has charge of the Catholic church in this
Mace. is a cousin of Judge Maynader, of Belair.
Mr. John Tolly Johns, of Baltimore county,
has been elected secretary Of an association OF
Maryland Democrats, lately organized in Wash
ingtOn, D. G.
Mr.. G. O. Wilson has been elected one of
the Board of Managers of the County Agricultural
Society in the place of Mr.. VIM. B. Sands, who
has resigned.
Frederick Myers, former resident of Bal
timore county, died in the Carroll county aims
house, of consumption, on the 4th inst, aged
about 40 years.
"A baby camel has been added to the Curl
osities in Druid Hill Park and attracts much at
tention, particularly from the children, VINO are
delighted with its antics.
The time of holding the County Fair for
1885 will be the corresponding week to that of
last year, the date being September 18th and 3Oth
and October 1st and ID.
"A small frame unoccupied house, situated
in Sandy Bottom, above TOwsontown, and owned
BY one of the 0'Conners, was burned on Satur-
day night last. Loss trifing.
The House of Representatives has passed
the bill for the continuation of the fast mail SER
vice ON the Western Maryland Railroad and this
practically settles that question.
MIR William Fl. Wight, the new County
Commissioner, paid The UNION office visit on
Monday. He is gentleman OF pleasant address
and wide awake business man.
On the 18th inst. Judge Fowler drew the
Jurors for the March term of the Circuit Court,
which convenes on the first Monday of the month.
The names will be found elsewhere
An editor asked the question, "Is woman
better than man ?" and another quill driver an
swereth and says ave inclined to think that
she is, or man wouldn't marry her"
John T. Centrum, ESQ.,, OF the TowsOn-
town bar, and Edward I. Clark, Esq, of the Bal
timore bar, we're last week admitted to practice
in the Hartford county Circuit Court.
The sale at Coles Bazaar, Towsontown, on
Thursday, was very well attended and q number
of horses and cows were sold, proving conclusvely
that the enterprise will be successful.
Capt. Thomas II. Moore, who has been
quite sick at his residence, Rockland, Sd dis
trict is now rapidly improving. He had very
severe cold and narrowly escaped pneumonia
=JO0u d OlIIluSs, Esq, VI SAio
new State Treasurer, was in Annapolis this week,
acouainting himself with the duties of the office,
which he will take charge of on the Sd OF March.
-Reduced rates bave been obtained on all
railroads leading to Baltimore, for those who may
desire to attend the State Farmers Convention,
to be held on Tuesday and Wednesday OF next
week.
"A few days ago an experiment was made
on Western Maryland Railroad engine with an
automatic whistle and the tests proved so salts
factory that it is probable the system will be
adopted on that road.
Mr. NJ j. Kelly, who was for some years
employed on the York road railway, but who has
been driving on the Prick line in the city, has
been appointed superintendent of the latter line,
to succeed Mr.. Abbott.
dennis Gordon, Chicago police otfleer for
the past fourteen years, and an uncle OF Mr.. John
7. Hickman, of Waveriy, Baltimore county, was
killed on a railroad in that city, on the 9Th inst
He was 6S years of age.
Mr. Arthur Bosley, proprietor of the High
land Poultry Yards, Towsontown, on Thursday
morning shipped several coops of turkeys and
chickens to Winston, N. c., and other points IN
Maryland and the South.
This is what bee authority says: "Hives
of bees placed in an orchard will increase the crop
of apples, as the pollen rubbed off the bodies Of
the bees ferlizes thousands of blossoms which
might otherwise be barren"
Nathan Isaac, of the 18th district, confined
in Jail here on the charge of committing an out
rageous assault upon his sisterin-law was releas-
ed under writ of habeas corpus on Monday, the
Court fixing his bail at $500.
-Sleghs were in demand in Towsontown
last Sunday. The call for them-by borrowers
was unprecedented and we have no doubt many
fair one was disappointed because her young
man did not succeed in efecting loan.
Mr.. Jackson L. Duncan has taken tempo
rary charge of the public school at Cockeysville,
as substitute for Mr.. Robert H. Bussey, who en-
tered upon his duties a clerk in the U. S. Sur
veyor's office, Baltimore, on Monday last.
The Towson Guards received their new
blouses and fatigue caps this week. The com
pany is now in good trim for its prospective trip
to Washington the 4th CT March. Capt. Nc
Clean expects to take about forty men with him.
We regret to learn that DR.. David S. Git
tings, an aged and highly esteemed citizen and
physician of the 18th district, is very i'll with but
slight hopes for his recovery DIR. Cuttings is the
father of the late Richard j. Cuttings, the eminent
lawyer.
-Arrangements are being made to have the
mails between Baltimore and Gainesville carried
by the new steam railroad instead of by the horse
cars. 1t is said service by the former will not
cost more than half as much as under the present
arrangement
MIR Caleb S. Taylor, member of the frm of
Freeland, Hall 4 Co., Baltimore, has boon quite
i'll for several weeks at his residence the Hillen
road, near Towsontown. He is suffering from a
complication of disorders, including infammatory
rheumatism.
ALL the floats, trappings, &C., of the Order
of the Orioe, which were advertised in these COL
umns last week, were sold at public sale on Tues
day and realized less than $1,000. The original
cost of this outfit was between ten and fifteen
thousand dollars.
Mr.. Joseph P. Bayne, of Baynesville, near
Towsontown, left on Tuesday morning for Cleve-
land, Ohio, where be will engage in business with
his brother, William NJ Bayne, Esq, who owns
and conducts one of the largest printing and pub
fishing houses in that city.
There is no longer any question that news
paper advertising pays. The most wide awake
business men admit it, and the fact cannot be
disputed. If you have anything you wish to SELL
cali attention to it in the columns of good news
paper and observe the result.
The Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co.
proposes to establish line between Baltimore
and Belair, provided the citizens of the latter
place offer the necessary encouragement. The
line will also connect Towsontown with BelalI
and other towns in the State.
There are a number of cases of humps In
Towsontown, and the disease is not likely to ex-
haust itself very soon for want of material tt
work on. There more children in this place
than in any other town of its size in the Union.
and the cry is still they come.
We were visited by the heaviest snow
storm of the season last Saturday afternoon and
night 1t covered the ground to the depth Of
about six inches, but the warm sun of Sunday anC
the heavy rain of Monday morning caused it to
disappear more rapidly than it came.
Mr.. Caleb Hopes, who until about tive
wears ago resided his farm in the Sd district o
this county, died on Tuesday last, at the residence
of his son, DIR. VIM. H. Hopes, in Baltimore
aged rs years. He was member of the Society
of Friends and highly respected citizen.
Miss Florence NJ. Parr, daughter of Mr.. D
Preston Parr, proprietor of the Smedley House
in this place, was married in st. PauPs T. Z
Church, Washington, on Tunesday evening last
to Mr. Charles Ridgey McBlair, U. S. Deputy
Marshal for the District Of Columbia.
A few days ago the B. d 0. Telegraph
Company commenced setting poles along tn
York turnpike for a new telegraph line between
Baltimore and York, Pa. The line will be abou
40 miles long and it is proposed to have it com
pleted by the end of the present month.
Each week brings new accessions to III
USroN's mail lists. Never in the history OF tn
paper have they grown more rapidly than sine
January LIST, 1885. If there are any "doubtinl
Thomases" let them come right in and convinc'
themselves. We are prepared to prove all W