The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-07-25
OVER THE STATE.


Mr.. L. H. Wooden, of Hampstead, Carol
county, has recently received patent for car
rage fender.
"A trotting race, best three in five, mile heats
will take place at Salisbury, Md, on the 18th Of
August, between "Byel" and "Lady Bennett" fol
a purse of 81 900.
Many persons are already tenting at Wesley
Grove, Dorsey's Station, on the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad, preparatory to the opening of the
camp, which will be July 31st.
John Ii. White, of Howard county, has been
appointed gauger in the Internal Revenue SER
vice. to suec eed the late E. S. Prime, and has been
assigned to Collector Selmans district.
AT recent meeting of the vestry of Holy
Trinity Parish held at St. Barnabass p E. church,
Sykesville, Carroll county, Rev. Ernest McGill,
who was nominated by Bishop Paret, was unani-
mously elected assistant rector.
The Westminster Advocate says: 1.-TWO farm
ers of Woolerys district this county, have abolish
ed fences entirely. Their corn fields extend to the
edge of the county road, with no fence interven-
ing. Stock are not permitted to run at large"
Nine young men, formerly residents of Ellicott
City, are now living in Chicago, and with few ex-
captions they board at the same house and have
always been friends and associates. The Ellicott
City Times says they are all enterprising and
promising young men.
"A Washington correspondent is authority for
the statement that Marshall S. Mutchler, Esq, of
Denton, Caroline county, will be appointed by
President Cleveland, Territorial Judge for Dakota.
Mr.. Mutchler is prominent lawyer and is said
to be we'll qualified for the bench.
The Annapolis Advertiser says the canning
business has become one of the leading industries
of Anne Arundel the past few years, and the out
look for the present season is that there will be
more fruit and vegetables canned this summer
than ever before. Among the many large packers
in this county are Mr.. Rocklitz, Mr.. 7. G. Boone
and several others in the third district, and Mr..
Henry M. Murray in the eighth district, besides
several other large packing houses in different Sec
lions of the county.
MIR. George Johnston, of Elkton, is good
authority for the statement that for about twenty
five or thirty years, ending about 1910, fifteen
shops and 100 men in the north part of Cecil
~ supplied all the markets of the United 6tatos
with augurs. 1t is said that Thomas Garrett
learned the mystery of making them from Miles
Standish, "a lineal descendant of the Miles STAN
dish of "May flower" fame) and commenced their
manufacture in Cecil about 1898.
Referring to the short hay crop in Frederick,
the Eraminer says: "The scarcity of hay in this
locality has grown to be a matter of considerable
Importance to local consumers, the home supply
of last season having been exhausted for some
time. The selling price at present is from $40 to
$25 per ton. This time last year sales were slow
at $40 per ton. The prospects at present are
demand in this locality, and that owners of stock
will have to pay dearly for feed during the com
ing fall and succeeding spring"
"A recent letter to the San Francisco Chronicle,
written from this State says: "The charms of
Maryland deserve more than a flying glimpse by
daylight or moonlight. No State in the Uuion is
more interesting to historian, antiquarian, sociol-
ogist and lover of good cheer. Its local institu-
lions are so ancient SO patrcian and so thorough
Epr ali hot thau oil nv
volumes. Its old manors and rights interest the
legal fraternity. Sportsmen know its hillsides,
glens and 'creeks.' Literature, art and science
are alike indebted for great achievements to sons
bonnie Maryland"
1t is reported that gold and silver have been
discovered on the farm Of Mr.. jeremiah Myers,
at Big Pipe creek, in Myers district, Carroll
county, Md, near Union Mills. Two specimens
of quartz rock taken from the ground show fair
proportion of the precious metals gold and silver
These specimens were taken from n large vein of
quartz rock extending through part of the farm
The farm, hitherto, has not been Of much value
by reason Of its billy location but is now rapidly
advancing in value in consequence Of this "fnd,
and some very handsome offers have been made
Mr.. Myers for its purchase or an interest in the
land.
The Hagerstown Ne,cs Of recent date, says
zone of the duties of the next Legislature will be
the election of Governor to fill the gubernatoria
term, from that time till the next general election
the vacancy being caused by the resignation Of
Gov. McLane during legislative recess, and Gov
Lloyd, by the terms of the constitution, remain
ing Governor only until the meeting of the Legis-
lature. This being the era of civil service reform
there could be no better application of its princi-
Piles, from present experience, than the election Of
the present incumbent. Gov. Lloyd is young
man of ability, honesty, industry and popularity
He has thus every element necessary to form a
competent and valuable public officer"
The Westminster Advocate says: "Reuben
H. Leaning and Ephraim Leaning are brothers,
and natives of Carroll county, having been born
near Uniontown, the former So years ago and the
latter "a years ago. In 1887, the family having
been broken up by the death of the father,
Ephraim went West. For forty-eight years last
January the brothers never heard from each other
Reuben is now janitor of the Fifth Regiment
Armory, Baltimore. Ephraim married in the
West and raised family of children. One of his
sons is a proof reader Baltimore city paper,
and at his fathers request hunted through the city
directory for his uncle, and discovered that the
Fifth Regiment Armory janitor bore the name
sought. Last week Ephraim came East, and he
and his brother, after a separation of nearly hall
a century, met again, and celebrated the event by
a feast at the residence of Frank Leaning, son
of Ephraim and nephew of Reuben"