The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-04-25

james Bull, brakeman on the Northern
| Central road, and who lives at Hampden Falls
road, had his hand and arm badly crushed while
coupling cars at Canton on Wednesday.
&c. BONN Slingluif, Esq, left on Monday
night to attend the Supreme COnclave ofthe Order
of Heptasophs, which met in Pittsburg the day fol-
lowing. He is a delegate from the lodge at Wa.
verify.
The Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows of Mary
| land has made arrangements to erect monument
to the memory of the late James L. Ridgely. The
corner stone will be laid in Harlem Park, Balti-
more, next Monday.
Mr.. " lillian R. Hodges, the well known
Baltimore merchant, who last summer rented the
property of Geo. B. Milligan, Esq, near Towson-
town, has taken a country place near Leicester,
B. d o. railroad, for the coming summer
The next meeting of the Baltimore County
Teachers Association will be held in the rooms
of the Young Mems Christian Association build
ing, Baltimore, Friday and Saturday, May LIST
and I'd, commencing at 10 a.. M. each day.
We learn that Thomas Mitchell, who bur-
glarized several houses in Towsontown, and who
was convicted In the Court here and sentenced by
Judge Fowler to the House of Correction for one
year, made his escape from that institution a few
days ago.
The condemnation jury summoned by
Sheriff Knight to condemn certain lands in the
18th district for the use of the B. o. extension,
has been engaged most of the past week. Messrs.
John 1. Yellott and D. G.. Mcintosh represent the
railroad company.
Edward F. Kelly, the Woodbury. carpenter
who mysteriousy disappeared about ten days ago,
has not been heard from and his whereabouts are
unknown. The young woman who went of at
the same time, and who is supposed to have gone
with Kelly, is also still missing.
Mr.. G. o. Wilson, who purchased part of
the Summerfeld estate from Mr.. VIM. Gilmor,
will sho me mr. ne cree
ton of handsome residence and barn thereon.
Mr.. Wilson, who owns the Station at Notre Dame
and other property adjacent, is breeder of fine
horses.
The trustees of Towsontown M. E. Church
held meeting on Saturday night last and re-
solved that the case, which was decided by Judge
Fowler against the church, should be carried to
the Court of Appeals, and the record will ac-
cordingly be sent up. This will stop the sale of
the church property.
Mrs C. A. Plaskitt, widow of the late John
Plaskitt, who formerly owned the farm in Lime
Kiln Bottom, near Loeb Raven, died suddenly at
her residence in Baltimore, Wednesday evening
last. Deceased was the mother of Joshua Plaskitt,
ESQ., member of the Baltimore city School Board
and well known citizen.
The late Mrs. Allender, wife of DR.. Walter
T. Allender, of the 18th district, descendant
of James Bias, who was in his time one of the
largest importing merchants of Baltimore, and
who one of the heaviest losers by the French
spoliation. He lost two large vessels, with their
valuable cargoes and also brig.
-"Glenmore," the handsome residence of
Capt. Thomas H. Moore, near Rockland, is
home where true Maryland hospitality is always
dispensed We are glad to say that the genial
proprietor of "Glenmore," who has been some
what indisposed during the past winter, is now
much better and is moving about with his usual
activity.
Loo al T1hv
ESQ.,, to defend Howard Cooper, colored, the as
sailant of Miss Gray. He says he is not disposed
to remove the case, unless disposition is shown
to harm Cooper, or to prevent his having a fair
trial. Mr.. Grason is not now able to say whether
he will be ready to go on with the case next Mon
day or not.
"A musk-rat of good size made his appear
ance in Mr.. L. III. Urban's lawn on Tuesday morn
ing and was killed by dogs This "sweet- scented"
beast was perhaps the first of his kind to honor
Towsontown with visit. That he should have
been summarily dispatched does not augur well
for the much boosted hospitality of Finished"
town like ours.
Three we'll young men made their
appearance in Reisterstown few days ago and
attempted to pass several counterfeit notes on one
of the business men of the place. Not succeeding
they moved on to Westminster, where they were
arrested. They had hearing, but as the evidence
against them was thought to be insufficient they
were discharged.
Persons who have removed from one house
to another, and who carry insurance on their per-
sona effects, should not fail to have the place of
their residence written on their policies. Ne
gect of this will result (as case which happen
ed in Towsontown only few years ago) in the
entire loss of the insurance, should fire occur at
the new place of residence.
The endorsements of ex-Judge Grason for
the Office of District Attorney for Maryland are
said to be very bulky and are entirely from the
bench and bar of Maryland. He says that while
he could have attained any amount of support
from laymen, he considers that the bench and
bar the best qualified to judge of the require
ments necessary for the position.
The base ball championship season was
opened at 0riole Park, on the York road, last
Monday afternoon, and the manager of the Bal
timore club is pling up the dollars while the rail-
way companies whose lines run to the Park are
raking in the nickes in manner that must make
their hearts glad. Baltimore is perhaps the great
est baseball city in the country.
The Maryland Central railroad authorities
have decided to make some sweeping reductions
in their passenger rates, to take effect the LIST
of May. Round trip tickets from Towsontown
will be sold at 30 cents, and corresponding re-
auctions will be made all along the line. This is
a move in the the right direction and will result,
we hope, in largely increased passenger bust
ness.
This is the way the Baltimore American
reports fire: 'The farm of Robt. Ramsay, at
Delta, Pa, was burned to the ground yesterday
afternoon. All the forming implements we're lost"
1t was very sad indeed that Mr.. R. should have
lost all his forming implements, but that his farm
should have been burned also-and burned "to the
ground" at that's simply agonizing. Mr.. Ram
say has our sympathies.
The many Baltimore county friends of Rev.
J. N. Davis, D. D., will be glad to learn that he
is very pleasantly located at Waterbury, Anne
Arundel county. He speaks in glowing terms of
his new home and the kindness of the people with
whom his lot has been cast There is consider
able tract of land attached to the parsonage and
he will devote his spare moments to gardening
and farming on a small scale.
"A verdant fellow in Reisterstown writes to
the Baltimore Sun to know chow may be sue.
cessful catching fish with hook and line" It's
wonder the Sun people didn't tell him to adver-
tise in the columns of that paper, informing the
fish of the date and hour he proposed going out to
"entice" them, thereby insuring q good "catch"
always. That would have been in keeping with
the Sun's accustomed style.
Mrs. Dougherty, widow of the late Robert
W. Dougherty, who was member of the Balti
more county bar and who died in Towsontown
some years ago, died at her residence, on St. Paul
street extended, in this county, last Sunday, aged
so years. She had been in failing health for
considerable time. Mrs. Dougherty leaves two
daughters, both of whom are teachers in the pub
lie schools of the county, and one son.
"A Baltimore county school teacher, who
signs himself the acting adviser of the public
school system of Baltimore county," has been
writing to some of the most prominent publishing
houses of the country, soliciting favors on the
strength of the position which he claims that he
holds. There is such Office under the school
system of the county, and although this teacher
may not know it he is practicing fraud which
may land him behind the prison bars.
Nathan Harris, colored, who was a slave Of
the late John Ridgely, of Hampton, and who was
for years Mrs. Ridgely's trusted coachmsn, died
at his home, Stevenson's lane, near Towsontown,
on the 18th inst, aged about 65 years. For some
years he had been engaged in breaking colts,
from one of which he received kick some time
ago, which is thought to have been the cause of
his death. His remains were inferred Sunday af-
ternoon in the colored burying- ground at Hamp-
ton.
From the testimony adduced in the trial of
Fire Marshall Carman, before the County Com
missioners on Wednesday, it would appear that
some members of the county police force are pref
ty good drinkers. When a conservator of the
peace has to take three four drinks before din
ner and perhaps twice as many more before sup
per- it occurs to us that some other man, not quite