The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-01-24

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There will be preaching at Lutherville, by Rev.
W IT Fl. Powers in the Public Hall, every SUM-
day afternoon, at 81 O'Clock.
To,osonto,cn NJ. E. Ckurch.-Preaching Sunday,
at la M and at u p. m, by the pastor, Rev.
w. I. d. Clemm-
PRAYER and praise meeting on Wednesday even
ings. and class meetings on Wednesday afternoons,
at o'clock, and Friday evenings, at a O'Clock.
Great Falls Cireuit.-The fourth quarterly
meeting will be held at Orems NJ. L. church, Jan.
18th and 18th. Preaching on Sunday, at l0t a.
m, by Rev. Watson Case, and at y p. M, oy Rev.
Wv. Black, P. E. Quarterly conference on Mon
day, at 1O1 q. m. All are earnestly invited.
q. Johns ". E. Church, Acknowledgements
ing Sunday, at IL a. and 7.3O P. n, by the pas
tor. Rev. VIM. Dallam Morgan. Prayer meeting
Wednesday evening, at 7.3O o'clock.
The new public school house on Oak street,
in the Belt, will be ready for occupancy by March
LIST.
"A little son of John Lewis, of Woodberry,
was seriously hurt on Tuesday by being run over
by wagon.
The next regular meeting of the County
School BOARD will be held on Wednesday, Feb.
18th, at Towsontown.
Since the first Dunkard meeting was held
in Waverly, January 9th, 1881, twenty persons
in that vicinity have Joined the churcn.
The people on the city side OF Canton are
cIamoriug for market house and have been i'm
nortnnin9 Mayor Latrobe to help them out.
MI. G. R. Wilson, of Baltimore county,
was married on the 9TH inst, at Bush Chapel, to
Miss M. R. Dillingham;, of Hartford county.
"A few days ago the York Road Railway
Company paid the city of Baltimore S27637, the
amouut of Park tax due for the last quarter.
Wonders brewery, at Canton, together
With several parcels of ground, was sold at public
sale on Wednesday, to Solomon Strauss for s4l'-
500.
Those who failed to secure supply OF ice
the first freeze had another chance this week, and
very good ice, about four inches tnlcK' was Sc
cured. h
:; ,olk;ng about. saws an inch advertisement in
newspaper is worth two miles OF letters on ooard
fence. -, MT n
MuIIanv weieher of hay and straw at the East
o-n Scales. Canton, vice Charles L. Adams, re-
signed. ., :; NJ. ros
Rowcn's store. in this place, Tuesday night and
was won by Miss Helen Wheeler, OF Har.ord
county. phi
,.rv of the Hartford Fire Insurance Company, was
in Towsontown on Monday and called at THE
UNION Office.
On Saturday last a marriage license was
granted in Washington, d. c., to Daniel Russell,
of Frederick county, and Harriet Hall, oil BATH
more county.
Mr. Owen Haudley, who for 35 years had
lived in the vicinity of Glencoe, N G. R. R., died
very suddenly of heart disease, on Saturday last,
aged 76 years.
THURSDAY morning was one Of the coolest
of the winter here, the mercury at O'CLOCK reg
istering from to 10 degrees above zero, accord
ing to location.
About fifty of Baltimore city's insane pa
tients. now confined at Mount Hope and Spring
Grove asylums are shortly to be removed TO the
new asylum at Bayview
The Court of Appeals was engaged all day
Tuesday in hearing arguments IN the case OF
Catherine A. Webb VS.. the Mutual Fire insurance
Company in Baltimore county.
MIR. William Wann, who fought in the de-
Tense of Baltimore in the war of 1872, died at his
home. near the Hickory, Hartford county, last
Monday in the 93d year of his age
MIR. James Button, of this county, has
purchased at private sale the Elyan Magness
property, near EmmoTton, Hartford county, Tor
81 500. The farm contains 100 acres.
Col. Daniel Jenifer, of the 18th district,
who is an applicant for the place made vacant by
the death of Mr. Parlett, was in Annapolis on
Tuesday to confer with Gov. McLane on the sub
ject.
Mrs. Edelin,, near Fallston, NJ. c. r. r., died
very suddenly on Tuesday last, in the 41st year
of his age.
The Woodberry base ball club has been re-
, organized and DIR. Geo. III. Cairnes has been
elected president. New grounds have been Sc
leeted and the club will 60 actively 10 Work carry
in the coming summer.
Mr.. Jacob B. Owings, from whose family
Ovines's Mills, Baltimore county, took its name,
died in Baltimore on Wednesday, aged 73 years.
He was relative of Mr.. james W. Owings, an
aged citizen of Towsontown.
John Henry Snyder, butcher living on
the Hookstown road on Saturday last made ap-
nIication at Towsontown for the benefit of the in
solvent laws, and Samuel b. Schumacher, Esq, was
appointed preliminary trustee.
The canning firm of III. III. Heaps Bros,
who have been carrying on an extensive business
at Mill Green, Hartford county, have made an as
signment of all their real and personal property
for the benefit of their creditors.
The night police force in the neighborhood
of the York road and Jefferson place, has been
reduced, one of the officers having been taken oil
and put on day duty. What is the Citizens
Committee going TO do about it?
Mr.. John Schweitzer, market gardener
who lived near Putty Hill, 18th district, for
twenty-seyen years, died on Sunday last, in the
SOth year of his age. He came to America from
Germany upwards of fifty years ago.
Rev. Father Maney, pastor of the Catholic
congregation in this place since its organization,
to whom reference made in these columns last
week. has succeeded Rev Father Volz as pastor
of the Catholic church in Hagerstown.
The Hartford National Bank of Beiair ives
onened for business Nov. 1st 1882, with paid up
capital of 1000, and the net profits of the in
stitution up to the 18th inst. were Sl9,6SO4O.
Col. E. H. Webster is president OF the BANK.
Mr.. Francis O. Mactavish, who lately sold
his farm, in Dulany's Valley, to Mr.. Alfred g.
Lee will sell all his stock, &C., on Monday, Feb
ruary 3D. Mr.. Mactavish has taken house on
MARYLAND avenue, where be will reside after the
sale.
arrested by the city police and it is believed that
he is member of the gang which has been opera
ting so extensively in the Belt. Bodine is an
umbrella member and lives North Central
avenue.
In the Orphans Court this week letters of
administration on the estate of Harriet C. Miller
were granted to S. Francis Miller and John l.
YeIlott; to Vim. II. West on the estate Of Sophia
B. West, and to Lewis NJ. Bacon on the estate of
Clara C. Cole.
a few days ago young woman named
Lizzie Snowdsn, suddenly disappeared from her
home at Gray's factory, 1st district and consider
able alarm was felt for her safety, but she turned
mn in Baltimore all right, having gone to the city
to seek employment.
1t was stated in Baltimore paper few
DAYS ago that daughter of Rev. c. R. Hams, D..
D., had been married at Petersburg, Va, on the
18th inst, and that the Rev. Mr. Hams was formerly
a resident of Towsontown. No such person has
lived here within our recollection.
Mr.. Charles White, teacher Of the public
school at Hampden, has been elected librarian of
the Woodbury. Circulating Library for the ensu-
ing year. Lately Mr.. T. Harrison Garrett, Messrs.
Poole Hunt and Mr.. A. C. Hooper each con-
tributed $3.50 towards the support of the library.
The dates for the spring meeting of the
Maryland Jockey Club have been fixed for May
18th, 2Oth 2lst and 22d. At the meeting of the
Executive Committee of the Club last Saturday
the question of erecting private stand at Pimli-
co for members was discussed, but no decided ac-
ton was taken.
-Rev.J. Wynne Jones, pastor of Abbott
Memorial Chapel, Hghlandtown, on Monday
night preached in Canton Presbyterian church in
the Welsh language. This is new departure
for the Rev. gentleman. We believed him equal
to almost anything, but we didn't think he could
preach sermon in Welsh.