The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-09-05


lie offices all closed and wanted to know what
kind of place this was where business did not
begin until o'clock.
Officer George Feelemyer, of Gainesville,
extends his beat to Ellicott City on Saturday
nights and keeps the citizens of Howard county,
who come over to the Baltimore county side to
| get their "wet goods" in proper order. A How
ard county paper says that portion of our county
needs special officer badly.
| 5. A. Williams, ESQ.,, attorney for Miss
Spicer, lately sold about three-quarters of
of ground near Fallston Station, M. G. R. R., to
Messrs. Moore Bros, for 1915. Before the rail-
| road reached Fallston this same ground could
probably have been bought for $50. This shows
| what the railroad has done for that section.
| There is a very luxuriant growth of weeds
| along some of the streets and alleys in Towson-
town and these should be cut down and carted
away before they are killed by the frost There
| is nothing more deleterious to health than de-
| caying vegetation and it should be guarded
| against particularly at this malarial season.
-George Duncan, son of Mr.. John D. G.
Duncan, who keeps store on the York turnpike,
| above Cockeysville, was badly burned about the
head and face a few days ago by quantity Of
burning alcohol, with which he was trying to kill
flies, falling over him. The presence of others
| probably saved the store from being destroyed.
| Annie E. Snavely, of Upperco, Baltimore
county, upon the occasion of her birthday recent
| ly, received through the mail in a single day,
| eighty-two letters, forty postal cards and six
presents. She publishes card in Pennsylva-
| MIA paper thanking her friends for their kind
| ness, &c. She must be very popular lady, in
| deed.
| john Gary is a resident Of Baltimore coun-
| ty and few days ago he was appointed keeper of
| Perkins Spring Square, in Baltimore city. When
he went to the City Hall to swear in he was asked
| if he was registered voter of the city. He an
swered in the negative and the Mayor refused to
| administer the oath to him, and Mr.. Gary can t
| get the city office.
The harvest home festival at the Rocks of
Deer Creek, on Thursday and Friday of last week,
was not so largely attended as usual, al
though very pleasant time was had. Hartford
county has hardly yet recovered from the effects
| of the great food of August Sd, and this doubt
less kept many hundreds away from this pleasant
annual gathering.
nouncement of the name of Majot1 Inn 1. Yellott
| as candidate for the Legislature, says: "If
Maj. Yellott should be nominated by the Demo-
Gratis of Baltimore county he will make an active,
| breezy campaign. He is an effective speaker as
| well as a man of ability. He would make a first
| rate representative"
On Friday night of last week special officer
| 0'Rourke, who patrols the Belt near Boundary
| avenue bridge, arrested white man named Con-
| way and colored man named John Williams,
who acting in suspicious manner and are
from Pennsylvania. Both men were committed
| to Towsontown Jail.
The Glen Rock Item says "it is reported
that the farmers in some parts of Mannheim town
ship, this county, bordering the Maryland line,
are considerably alarmed at the appearance of an
unknown and fatal malady among swine. Many
hogs attacked by the disease die after few days
Sickness and fears are felt for greater loss before
cold weather comes"
About 10000 people attended the colored
camp meeting at Asbury Park, Western Mary
land Railroad, last Sunday. The railroad
trains from Baltimore to the camp every half
hour and carried 1000 people. An admission Of
five cents was charged at the gate and the re-
ceipts amounted to about $500. After 6 p. m.
everybody was admitted free.
john N. Keleher, who had been in Jail here
for shooting Jos. S. Hoshall, proprietor of the
tavern at Piney Hill, on the York turnpike, was
on Tuesday released on bail in the sum of $500,
John McGraw, of Baltimore, becoming his sure
ty. Harry Corrigan, who was with Keleher
at the time of the shooting, was also released.
Hoshall is rapidly Receiving.
The Baltimore Sun says Charles M. Flay
hart of Towsontown, has sent to that Office ga
gigantic green worm, with numerous formidable
looking horns, which wicked city politician de-
clared was a Towsontown ring-worm." Wrong
this time, sure. Towsontown ring worms are not
"green," and while their "horns" may be numer-
GUS, they are in sense formidable.
The unknown young man who was killed
on the Northern Central road, near Woodbury.,
on Sunday night last, turns out to be James A.
Ford, whose family lives in Baltimore. He left
have led the life of tramp. His body was buried
at the county aims house and was exhumed on
Wednesday and identified by his mother.
Almost every day large number of men
and boys sit on the banks at Lake Roland and
fish for bass. Very few are ever rewarded with
fish, and some never even get "nibble, but
they stick to it persisenty and evidently extract
some pleasure out of it. There are said to be
"dead loads" of bass in the Lake, but why they
refuse to "bite' has always beon the mystery
Lately lot of roughs-presumably con-
tingent of the odious Falls road gang-have been
gathering about Boundary avenue bridge, at the
head of the stairway leading to the Maryland
Central depot, making it extremely disagreeabe
for people passing that way. The city police
have taken the matter in hand, with determine
ton break up the gang and one arrest has already
been made.
Recent changes in the mail facilities of
Reisterstown occasion many complaints from bus
mess men and others who think their burg is be-
ing unjustly Disseminated against. They have
but two mails arriving and departing daily and
the main cause of the trouble is the unsatisfactory
hours of their departure. If they will appeal to
the Postoffice Department these defects can soon
be remedied
Inc 1Ve mills OF the AeSSTs. I1OOper, dI
Woodbury. and Mt. Washington, resumed opera
tions on Tuesday and are now running on full
time. About fifteen hundred operatives are en-
ployed in these mills, most of whom have been
idle for some time, and the resumption of work
will be a great boon to them. The Messrs. Hoop
er think the business outlook in their line is en-
encouraging.
On Sunday afternoon last a gang of young
Baltimore rufians, while driving near Bayview,
18th district, met young girl named Weigand in
the road, and one of the party attempted feloni-
Gus assault upon her. female friend who was
with the girl fought the scamp successfully and
he finally fed. Afterwards young man named
Chas. Collins was arrested on suspicion of being
the guilty party.
Health Commissioner Stewart, of Baltimore
city, is turning his attention to the quality of milk
furnished in that city and he has found consider
able quantities that are altogether unfit for and
dangerous to the health of the people who buy it.
Much of this trouble arises from the filthy condi-
ton of the stables in which many cows are kept.
DR.. Stewart wants an inspector appointed to ex-
anime all milk sold in the city.
"A correspondent of the Belair A2gis, who
writes from Reckord, Baltimore county, says: "a
large number of Hartford people who attend st.
| Johns Catholic Church and those of Baltimore
| county who 90 to the Friends Meeting House,
Fallston, and to the M. E. Church at Friendship,
find themselves compelled to 60 from twelve to
| fifteen miles to get to church, by reason of no
| fording or bridge at Guyton's Mills
Baltimore county has the honor of having
the first electric railway ever started in the United
States. This road, which runs from Huntingdon
avenue and Oak street to Hampden and Wood
berry, is attracting great deal of attention and
hundreds of people are riding over it simply to
| crafty their curiosity. 1t is well worth visit
to see this wonderful invention nothing like it
was ever seen about Baltimore before.
Mr.. Wrenshal, receiver of the Maryland
Central road, informs that the freight business
| is so heavy just now that he could find use for
| fifty more cars if he had them. He has been
obliged to turn away freight because he had not
the cars to move it. The business of the road is
| just now in the most fourishing condition, and
there is every prospect of its continuing so. The
company is much cramped for room at Boundary
avenue and arrangements are being made to put
| in an additional side track.
| AN inquistive dog, that had taken great
antipathy to the motors employed on the Hamp-
| den electric railway, was run over the other day
| by of one them and killed. Anumber of boys took
up the body of the defunct canine and gave decent
burial, afterwards strewing the grave with flowers
This dog was like good many men-he was
| o-.o,od 20 yroorac and he stood in tho