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

oflightning warded off, crops increased,
enemies bewitched, plaques brought
into communities, and evils and bless
ings laid upon persons at will by these
wonder workers by the use of similar
charms; and they undertake all such
jobs as they may be requested. They
will guarantee to stunt the growth of a
a baby, destroy rivals beauty, sepa-
rate man and wife, settle lovers quar-
rels, lay at rest lovers doubts as to
the faithfulness of his sweetheart, pro-
cure desired marriages, or any other
thing equally absurd on receipt of a fee
for the purpose. If some designing
person wishes to separate man and
wife the witch will instruct him or her
to get hair from the head of woman
whose hair is opposite in color to that
OF the wife of the man in whose family
the separation is desired. The hair
must under the circumstances be red,
however. Then the fact must be as
certained as to which was born the
nearest to running water, the husband
or the wife. That person must be the
'one operated on. Something that the
husband and wife have worn some time
during their lives must be procured and
burned, and the hair held in the smoke
that rises, and then buried at the side of
the house where the doomed couple
live, so that the water from the caves
may drop on the spot. The name of
the person who is being operated upon
is then written on a piece of paper and
buried where the shadow of something
cast by the light of the moon will fall
upon it. If the man and wife do not
Immediately quarrel and separate there
is lack of faith in the operator, and he
or she must pray while standing in an
east wind three successive days for
faith in the power of the witch woman.
In the potency of the witch hazel the
wonder workers chiefly rely, and they
use no powders or decoctions. 1t is
burned to ashes and the leaves and the
blossoms used. Young women carry
its leaves in their bosoms as a love
charm, and sleep with them under their
pillows to make them dream of their
lovers, but of the persons who testified
in the recent lawsuit only one said that
he had never yet had a friend or rela-
tive bewitched. All the rest had suffer.
ed in some way from spells or been
benefited by charms. The witness who
testified in behalf of the person who
that his dog had been bewitch-
ed declared that since he had sided
with him his we'll had gone dry, his
cows gave bloody milk, and his three
weeks old baby had refused to.be sue
kled, and had grown so opuny thathe ex-
pected it to die at any time. The
justice of the peace endeavored to rid
icule the idea of witchcraft to the per-
sons present, but they insisted in their
belief, and he gave the owner of the
dog judgment for So for the loss of
his dog, the old woman admitting that
she had dosed it to death.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-05-09
Girls Ought to be Watched.
N. Y. Sun.

The Rev. ]. J. White, pastor of the
Fourth Street M. P. Church, Williams
couple COUPLES who whose 9nfpgEisd pzls the two young ag
annul the marriages, said recently in
his sermon:
wharfage is divine institution.
Once young man said when I married
him, Il thank you, Mr.. White He
was in raptures, and added: Il feel like
new man, and so he was for no man
feels complete until he is married.
You all know and feel desire for that
completion. Where there is no esteem
there can be no affection, and where
there is no affection there is no union
of hearts. Now, therefore, marriage
should never be thoughtlessly entered
into, for good marriages are the basis
of our national stability. Fancy a ma
ton of bachelors. There would be an
archy. When you see young men keep
ing away from marriage the nation is
beginning to decay. Now, what is
bringing this about Want .of parental
restraint. Young girls are allowed to
run about unattended, are not watched
at home, or looked after when outside
Of the home circle.
cit is wonder that more girls are
not led astray. Mothers should be the
confdantes of their daughters in love
affairs. 1t amazes me when / find
senseless fops and dudes encouraged in
the house by mothers who have mar
riageable daughters. Yet when these
girls go off and marry these fops and
dudes a great sensation is made of it.
The causes of marriages are often triv-
ial. A beautiful moustache will win
girls hand for fop. Young men who
have nothing to do should be summed
by girls. One of the most damnable
institutions of the age is Irritation. 1t
is the cause of most of the unhappy
marriages of the day. The airt cannot
be wife in whom man can put con-
fidence. God save good men from
them? Another cause is the love of
dress. Women's love of dress deters
many from marrying. Young men
have given this as a cause to me why
they have not married, and yet I know
men who are supported by their wives.
"Of the structures which have been
passed upon me let me say: Grave is
minister's responsibility, but in the case
of marriage, if the parties were compell-
ed to get license, the responsibility of
that ceremony would be removed, and
he would not run the chance of dis
pleasing some one. Ministers act now
according to the best light they have.
AS minister of forty years experience
/ will say that believe in marriages Of
young couples providing they are the
proper persons, and whenever have
married a couple 1 have done so con-
scientiously before Cod"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-05-09

A Cause for Rejoicing Am0n0 the WeaE and
DebiLitGted.
PUBLIC WANT FILLED AT LAST!
SCHROEDER'S
IRON TONIC AND BLOOD PURIFIER.
The only Iron in solution aoithout Orydation rust
ing) Entirely free from alcohol. Not injuri-
Gus. The best in the world. Price so cts.
at Druggists and Country Stores.
DEPoT-103 HANOVER ST., BALTIMORE.
HOME TESTIMONIALS
Mrs. Annie NJ. Shirley, of Harrisonville, Balti-
more county, Nd, writes: 81 was troubled with
indigestion and after using Schroeder's Iron Tonic
it gave me great relief. I think it excellent
medicine in family"
Susan Ann Gosnell, of Harrisonville, writes =
"I was very weak and feeble during the hot
weather, and 1 took a bottle of Schroeders Iron
Tonic and Blood Purifier, which strengthened me
greatly and gave me good appetite"
Mrs. L. st. Leon, of SO st. Paul street, Balti-
more, writes that Schroeder's Iron Tonic has en-
tirely relieved her of nervous debility and weak
A REMARKABLE CURE.-I was suffering with a
cough and pain in my side for the past two years
and grew extremely weak. During that time
had several physicians attending me, but deriving
no benefit from their treatment. They pronounced
my disease consumption. I concluded to try
Schroeder's Iron Tonic, not expecting it to cure
me, but merely using it appetizer and tonic.
After using three bottles 1 was entirely cured of
my disease and feel stronger than have for the
past eight years. F. PFAMMILLER,
BAG w. Pratt street, Baltimore.
Oct t1ItJuIvIq'S5
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-05-09

Low at Thy feet who died my soul to save,
And triumphed over death, and from the grave
Rose up again for me on that third morn;
Who for my sake enduredst the worlds scorn,-
bend in alteration humbly sweet
Low at Thy feet.
Nothing of worth I bring to offer Thee,
For Thou hast offered all on Calvary.
Take Thou my heart and make it worthier,
Cherish my faith and make it lowlier;
Jesus, these things do with tears entreat
Low at Thy feet. -Abbie r. Judd.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-05-09

Better Blood for Butter.

The advantage of having thorough
bred sire of high butter-producing
blood, whether of Jersey or some other
breed, to cross on common cows, must
be apparent when it is remembered
that the sire may reasonably be expect.
ed to exert as much influence upon bis
offspring as the dam. A heifer cali
from cow making 200 lbs. of butter a
year, out of sire from family habitu-
ally making 400 lbs. yearly, may fairly
be expected to become a cow that will
make 800 lbs. in year. This may not
be true in every instance, but it will
generally be closely approached. 1t is
claimed by breeders that in such cross
es the sire affects more especially the
quality, and the dam, the quantity of
the milk the progeny will produce. If
so, there might be special advantage
gained by selecting a sire from family
of very rich mixers to cross on a dam
giving large quantity, with reason
able hope of developing a cow superior
to her ancestry on both sides.
The owner of dairy herd that will
not produce yearly over 200 lbs. of
butter per cow ought not to rest salts
fed with its performance. He must
carry too many animals and support
too much live weight for the small re-
turn. He ought, at once, to see about
improving it in some way, either by
selling off his poorest animals and re-
placing them with better ones by pur-
chase, or raising its capacity by breed
ing butter-producing stock. The lat
ter is believed to be the surest and
cheapest method, especially when sires
of superior merit can be bought at fair
rates. Young Jersey bulls, of butter
families, have become plenty enough to
lower the price from thousands and
hundreds to 500, and even in some
cases to $50 or less. At such figures it
would pay any one having common
stock of only average capacity, to in
vest in bull of that kind, not waiting
for several other breeds which have
decided advantage over the Jerseys on
account of superior size, which are
steadily coming to the front, and may
at no very distant period, over-shadow
the little Jerseys.
A breed which would run more uni
form than the Jerseys is belieyed to be
1.i.cr varieties of cattle may be, there
is as yet no other plenty enough to
bring prices down to the views of prac-
tical men, or widespread enough for
general use. Jerseys are commended
therefore, because, just now, the most
available of any noted butter breed.
Meanwhile, it would certainly not be
advisable for one who has occasion to
improve his herd in the direction of
butter-making, to let slip chance of
getting for a reasonable consideration,
an American Holstein, a Guernsey, or
even Shorthorn bull with good ante
cedents. He would make good pro
gress with either. Still, the chances
for finding sire of good butter making
blood lie with the Jerseys, from the
present abundance of Jerseys mates of
accepted merit; but no opportunity
should be lost for replacing poor COWS
with good ones, from whatever source
it may come.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-05-09

How can man on dollar a day,
Charter a seat at popular play,
And purchase cigars and tobacco, pray,
He can't.
How can be sport an elegant tile,
Ask his friends to step out for "smile,"
And stable 2.40 animile?
He can't.
How can he frolic with better fed friends
When, in cold perspiration he's at his wits ends
If his washwoman after her half dollar sends!
He can't.
How can he claim his dear girls slender hand
And circle her finger with glittering band,
When his check books so weak it scarcely can
stand?
He can't.
How can he marry and furnish wife
With the many small comforts which sweeten this
life?
We must state the cold truth, though it cut like
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-05-09

H@A kiss is said to be sweet, not
because it contains saccharine matter,
but because man don know what else to
call it when he feels the effect travelling
through his system on lightning ex-
press with no stop-over check. 1t is
safe to assume that man who attempts
to describe kiss never had one; men
who have had kisses mot smacks) don't
want to talk; they just want to think
and dream and die with their boots on.
So we have been told.
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s@~He was young lawyer, and was
delivering his maiden speech. Like
most young lawyers, he was florid, rhet-
orical, scattering and weary. For four
weary hours he talked at the Court and
the jury until everybody felt like lynch
ing him. When he got throug h his
opponent, a grizzled old professional.
arose, looked sweetly at the Judge, and
said:
"Your Honor, I will follow the ex'
ample of my young friend who has just
finished, and submit the case without
argument.
Then he sat down and the silence
was large and oppressive.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-05-09

1@~w wish you would pay little
attention to what am sayinga" roar
ed lawyer to an exasperated witness.
81 am paying as little as I cam" was
the calm reply.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-05-09
About Witches and Witchcraft.

An Old Woman Who Is Much Sought
After for Advice and Counsel-Imag-
mary Rules Laid Down for the Re-
covery Of Stolen Horses, etc.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-05-09

nara Frenchman in conversation
with an Englishman says: 81 am going
to leave my hotel. paid my bill,
yesterday, and 1 said to the landlord i:
'Do 1 owe anything else?' He said !:
you are square. 'What am ~ He
said again: 'You are square, That's
strange said l. Il lived so long l
never knew was square before. Then,
as was going away, he shook me by
the hand, saying: 4 hope you'll be
round soon.' I said: Il thought you
said I was square. Now you hope I'll
be round soon.' He laughed and said !:
when l tell you you'll be round, l
mean you won't be long, I did not
know how many forms he wished me to
assume; however, I was glad he did
not call me fiat"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-05-09
The Best Gift of All.

0ne-and-twenty, one-and-twenty,
Youth and beauty, lovers plenty;
Health and riches, case and leisure,
Work to give zest to pleasure;
What can a maid so lucky lack?
What can I wish that fate holds back 2
Youth will fade and beauty wanes;
Lovers, fouted, break their chains.
Health may fail and wealth may fly you,
Pleasures cease to satisfy you;
Almost everything that brings
Happiness is born with wings.
This I wish you; this is best:
Love that can endure the test,
Love surviving youth and beauty,
Love that blends with homely duty;
Love that's gentle, love that's true,
Love that's constant wish I you.
Still unsatisfed she lives
Who for gold mere silver gives.
One more joy I wish you yet,
To give as much love as you get.
Grant you, heaven, this to do,
To love him best who best loves you.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-05-09

H6-A woman in a London police
court lately applied for an injunction
against her husband for hugging her so
hard. She said that it put her heart
out of place and she could not stand it.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-05-09

B@- excuse me, it's simply
weigh l have" apologized the coal
dealer, when the customer tackled him
on shortage.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-06-11

snake bite, but is very weak, his stomach
being not sufficiently strong to retain
solid food, milk being the only ncurish-
ment 1t viii retain. He is believed TO be
In fair way TO recovery.
Jacksonville Herald: Rev. w. Ii.
Simpson, who returned from Green Cove
Spring last evening informs a reporter
that up to his departure no tidings of the
whereabouts Of Sheriff Caleb Wright, who
so mysterOusly disappeared from his
home Friday, had been learned. He, ON
leaving his family Friday. babe them good.
bye, saying he intended to kill himself.
He locked his trunk, put the key IN his
pocket and tooE a siX-shOt revolver and
went in the direction of a large swamp.
followed by a son, II years of age, whom
he abused and so frightened that he,
the son, returned home. The bov
says he heard the report OF pistol short
ly after losing sight of his father, and it
is the supposition that Mr.. Wright COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself Dill
gent search has been made, but no clue
20 the missing man obtained. The whole
populace Of Green Cove Spring went ON
the hunt Sunday, and the excitement was
so great that divine service was unattend-
ed. MIR. Wright is supposed to have been
suffering from temporary arrangement,
as he had not been in very good health for
several months. He leaves a large and
helpless family, who are almost crazed by
the strange and mysterious affair.
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they met a man and woman. The woman
was crying, and this attracted Freeland's
attention. he looked at her, and think
ing that he recognized her rs a woman
ne knew presumed that he might help her
in some way. With this view he stopped
near the couple and asked: sis that you,
Maryy" Instantly the man who was with
the woman left her side, snd springing
towards Freeland said: "Don't you speak
to my wife" AS the man sprang towards
Freeland he raised his hand above his
head. The bright blade of a knife could
be plainly seen, and Freeland attempted
to evade the man. He was not quick
enough, however, and in less time than
1t takes to tell it Freeland's
assailant had driven the knife into Free
land twice. Immediately after knitting
Freeland the man and woman disap-
peared. Freeland started tor DR.. Green's
office, when it was found that he had re-
ceVed an ugly wound In the LETT shoulder
and a probably fatal one in the side or
back. Both wounds were long and deep
and were evidently made with long,
sharp knife blade. The wound in the left
side is the worst looking one and the one
from which danger is anticipated. 1t is
wide and deep, and in the opinion of DR..
Green the knife blade, in making it, pene-
trated the lung. Freeland's breathing
was difficult, and he was quite weak
from the excessive loss of blood. DIR.
Green would not venture an opinion as to
the result, but asserted that the wound
was quite dangerous. Freeland says that
he does not know who his assailant was.
The police are now investigating the
affair.
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CATsKILL MOUNTATNS-

TR &c M Err HOUSE
"Opens JUNE II. Terms, SO so per day.
~ Special arrangements by the month. Ad-
dress }. II. TkEMPER, JH., Phgnicia, Ulster
Co.. N. Y.
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xaeDIIal.
A Statement.

ATLANTA. Juno -, 1884.
Emerging from severe and long spell Of
typhoid fever, discovered that the fever had
settled In my right leg, which caused It 10
swell 20 an enormous size, remaining 50 quite
three years, resisting all treatment. A small
ulcer made It's appearance, which continued
10 enlarge, frequently dischargiag perhaps as
much az a cupful Of pus or matter per day.
The size Of the ulcer was about two inches In
diameter, extending 20 a depth near the bone.
At one time II appeared that thu flesh IA all
contiguous parts would surely become run
ming sore, and 10 was intimated that might
lose my Lex. Or. j. +. Dromgoole made q
thorough examination, and said that the flesh
on my log for six inches around che sore would
soon slough on n not remeded; that 1 must
commence at once the use of y. y. IS. oon-
tlnued the use Of B. y. b., and the ulcer con-
tinucd 10 heal rapidly until u Is now entirely
well, and I am attending to my business az
W. II. Brotheri0n'a store.
For sale By OsCEOLA.BUTLER, Druggist.
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SEASON, 1858,

-THE OCONEE WHITE SULPHUR
L SPRINGS viii he open for the reception of
guests JUNE Is, under competent manage
ment. Resident physician and Western
Union Telegraph office in the hotel. For
terms, address OCONEE WHITE SULPHUR
SPRINGS COMPANY, Bowdre p. o., Hall
County Ga.
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Facts from the Farms.
GEORGIA.

ChOhGlAs
The peach. pear and apple trees in Floyd
county are loaded with fruit.
Terrell county farmers are busy harvest
ing grain. The yield will he much larger
than was first anticipated.
Rev. N. b. Cinion, of Sparta, has a
COW that gives five gallons OF milk day,
and he only paid $50 for her.
T. N. Smith, of Tennille, planted bar
rel of Irish potatoes on one acre of land
this spring from which he gathered SO
barrels and sold them for 81 50per barrel.
Isham T. Smith has leased the Prather
farm, on ChattahOOchee river, from b. j.
King, of Atlanta, for term of five years,
paying $2,250 for it. This fine farm con-
tains 200 acres of creek and river bottom
land and 60 acres Of upland, cleared and
in cultivation.
d. Rumbo, of Button Springs, has a
one-mule farm on Spring creek that will
make 40 bales of cotton, 600 bushels of
corn and 1900 bushels of oats, provided
the seasons are favorable and no dsas-
ters betall the crop. He used a Chicago
screw pulverizer to break and prepare
his land.
Acworth NelgS and Farmer: more
intensive system of farming is what this
section needs. Concentrated effort will
pay better than the loose way of farming
a great many pursue. We also need imi-
grafton, but as we are rather slow in get
ting that we should increase our exer-
tiOns towards making our country more
attractive one for searchers after good
agricultural communities.
Milton Democrat: Tom Hopkins showed
us an egg one day last week which was
found in his poultry yard that resembles
a handle gourd in shape. He saws it is a
ND 10 n hnI
inches long and about as large around as
a partridge egg in the largest place. Mart
Chamblee says one of his hens laid few
weeks ago five eggs, which were Just the
size of partridge eggs. After this she be-
gan laying eggs as large as goose eggs.
Mr.. Chamblee is responsible for this state
ment.
FLORIDA.
Capt. j. F. johnson has on his place,
about two miles south of Gainesville, one
of the best developed grape vines Of the
Concord variety in Florida. 1t is three
years old and has on it 2j6 punches of
fully developed grapes. He also has
hundreds of cuttings from this vine which
he put out in December last, and which
had on them from three to i've well de-
veloped grapes, but the continued drought
caused them TO drop off.
Ocala Banner: The New York South
puts the total yield Of the Harris Orange
Lake grove at $4,000 boxes. The total
boxes of fruit shipped were $4,000, but of
this there were 1000 boxes of sour
oranges and 1000 boxes earrels) OF grape
fruit. The number Of drops, splits, culls.
and those eaten and given away, amounted
to not less than 1900 boxes. So it is
safe to estimate the yield of the grove at
$4,000 boxes, or 10,000,00 oranges, count
ing 200 to the box; or enough 10 supply
one-fifth Of the population of the United
States with a single ORANGE.
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THE GREENBRIER,

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W. VA,
IMMEDIATELY on the c. and o. Ry. The
l. most celebrated Of all the mountain re-
sorts viii open for the season June /. Eleva-
ton. 1000 feet above the sea; surrounding
mountains $500 feet. Rates: S2l per week;
SO per month of 80 days. Send for pamphlet
b. Z. EAkLN. Sunerlntendent
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Crescent Valley House,

PAWLEI, VERMONT,
open from June to October A Beautiful
~ Summer Resort New and frat-class
Hotel. Rooms large, en- suite OF singly. Gas,
klectFic Bells. Tables unsurpassed. Bath
rooms, hot and cold water. All modern i'm
proyements. Prices from " to $40 per week
For plan of rooms, prices and circulars, adj
dress 10. A. IEVENU Manager.