The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-06-26
LoNGNECKER BROS, Editors and PrOpr's.
DEPARTURE OF TRAINS.

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SUNDAY TRAINS.
Leave Towsontown for Delta and intermediate
stations at 9.49 a. M, and $50 p. m. For Loeb
Raven at 6.57 Pm
Leave Towsontown for Baltimore and interme-
diate stations at 9.2S a. m, and 5.24, 904 p. m.
Religious Notices.
Torsonto,on II. E. Chmch.-Preaching to- NOR
row Sunday, at IL a. m, aud at o. M. by
the pastor, Rev. Watson Case.
Prayer meeting Wednesday evening, at s
o'clock, and class meetings on Thursday, at 3 p.
m, and Friday evening, at o'clock.
Trinity p. E. Church, Totcsonto,on.-Preaching
Sunday by the rector, Rev. W. H. H. Powers, at
IL q. IN. and u p. m. Bible class Wednesday at
400 p. m.
There will be preaching at Luthervile, by Rev.
W. H. H. Powers, in the Public Hall, every Sum-
day afternoon, at 81 o'clock
Totcsontopn temperance Sunday School-The
regular monthly session will be held tomorrow
Sunday afternoon, at p o'clock, lat EPSON Church.
Eutaw ". p. Church, Hartford Road.-Preach-
ing every Sunday, by the pastor, Rev. }. M. Gill,
at 1 a. m. and p. m. All invited.
The 4th of July falling this year ON Sun
day, the 5th (Monday) will be observed as holt
day.
The Summer vacation of the public schools
of the county will commence on Wednesday, June
Both.
The house of George Wolf of Canton, was
robbed at early hour on Monday morning of
$235.
Monday last, Dist inst, was the longest
day of the year and we had fifteen full hours Of
sunshine.
The Druid Hill Park Board will not per-
NIT sacred concerts to be given within the Park
on Sundays.
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companed by one of his daughters, will sail for
Europe in July.
Col D. G.. Mcintosh, of Towsontown,
last week admitted to practice in the Hartford
county Circuit Court.
-Postmaster Brown has appointed Joseph
b. Sparks, of the 8th district, substitute clerk
in the Baltimore postofice.
in the Orphans Court this week letters of
administration on the estate of Beale Mason
granted to Henry F. Ware.
Mr.. George L. Stocksdale, of this place,
viii shortly be appointed deputy under United
States Marshall George H. Cairnes
Mr.. Samuel F. Butler has completed the
work of numbering the houses in the Belt. He
placed numbers upon 5000 houses
The grand jury for the May term of the
Circuit Court adjourned finally on Thursday. The
report will be found in The UNION to-day.
Mr.. W. A. Wiley, of Norrisville, Hartford
county, has secured position as book-keeper in
the new store of Mr.. Matthews at Monkton.
On account of slight decrease in the busi-
ness of the Towsontown postofce the salary of the
postmaster has been reduced from ST. 100 to 81 OOO
Mr. E. Cuttings Merryman, of Hayfelds,
sent load of hay to the York road car stables on
Wednesday, that weighed within fraction of 81
tons.
james Russell, who has been connected
with the Maryland Central railroad for several
years, has resigned and engaged in business in
the city.
"A colored union camp meeting will be held
at ST.. Johns Church, Lake Roland, N. G. R. R.,
commencing Sunday, July 4th, and continuing
over the 18th.
Mr.. Harry T. Pearce, son of Jacob M.
Pearce, Esq, of My Lady's Manor, was one of the
graduates at the late commencement OF Dickinson
College, Carlisle, Pa.
Upwards of three inches of rain fell in the
vicinity of Baltimore on Tuesday last and it was
the heaviest storm of the kind we have expe-
rienced in long time.
The finest grade of butter has been selling
in Towsontown this week at twenty cents per
pound. This is lower than it has ever been in
the past twenty-five years.
Among the young ladies who received d.
plomas at the annual commencement of the Con-
vent of Notre Dame were Misses Marie Scott and
Bertha Balls, of Govanstown.
The Hartford Commissioners last week pur-
chased four iron road machines at cost OF $l50
each. 1t is believed that these machines will re-
suit in great saving to the county.
"A large number of colored people from
Baltimore went to Loeb Raven last Sunday and
held bush meeting. They came by special
train on the Maryland Central road.
Mr.. John o. Shamberger, of Butte, Mon
tana, formerly of the 9th district of this county,
will accept our thanks for copies of daily and
weekly papers published in that city.
Mrs. Emma Scott has been appointed post
master at 0wings' Mills, Baltimore county, vice
Henry S. Fitch, deceased. Mrs. Scott is DEM
ocrat but her husband is Republican.
Rev. George Morrison, of this county, will
deliver the annual address at the commencement
of Baltimore City College, on Monday next. He
was at one time principal of the college.
Col. Edward Stuck, State Librarian ofPenn-
sylvania, and editor of the York Daily Age, this
week paid a flying visit to his brother-in-law,
Capt. E. Herman, of the Sheppard Asylum farm.
Mr.. Vernier, of Philadelphia, one of whose
carrier pigeons has been in Towsontown for sew
eral weeks, as reported in The UNION last week,
has written here to have tie bird returned to him.
The season for woodcock shooting opened
on the 18th of June and continues until February
1st The continued wet weather has been bad for
the birds and sportsmen have been meeting with
Indifferent success
The residence of Rev. Richard Whiting
ham, rector of the Episcopal church at Pikesvie,
was entered by burglars on Sunday morning last
and robbed of lot of sverware 1t is thought
the job was done by tramps.
VIM G.. Willinghan, who lives on Mr..
Aquila Fowler's farm, near Hiss Church, left at
our office this week head of timothy that meas
ured III inches in length and he says the field is
full of them equally as large.
Mr.. Samuel I. Bayne, who lives near Tow
sontown, is the proud owner of young chicken
with four perfectly developed legs, all to-
gether. The chick is as lively as a cricket and
Mr.. B. hopes to be able to raise it.
Mr.. Franklin Davis, of Baltimore county,
the we'll known nurseryman, was elected of
thau viz coff ha Ann Aesooiafon
of Nurserymen, Florists and Seedsmen which held
its annual meeting in Washington last week.
The special train on the Maryland Central
road which took the Knights Templar from Bal
tmore to Belair during the late Masonic bazaar,
made the run between the two points-incuding
three stops-in fifty minutes. The distance is
% miles.
last week while Rev. ]. NJ. Gill and wife
were on a visit to Westminster, some one called
at the Eutaw parsonage, on the Hartford road,
near Halls Springs, and filled the minister's hay
loft with new hay and then departed without
leaving his card
George Spicer, the young man who shot
and killed his father, Caleb Spcer, at their home,
near Joppa, Hartford county, on Wednesday night
of last week, has been released on bail by Judge
Waters. 1t is believed that the shooting was
done in self defense
Work on the new Masonic temple in Bel
air has already been commenced and it is expect
ed that it will be finished early in the fall. 1t
will cost about SIS, 900 and will be credit to
that enterprising town. The building fund now
amounts to upwards of S. 900.
The musical entertainment in the Towson-
town public school building, on Friday evening
of last week, was a very pleasant affair but the
audience was small. The object of the affair was
to raise money to help defray the cost of the new
piano now in use in the school,
--ChiIdren's Day was observed last Sunday
by the Sabbath school of Wayery M. e. Church,
all the services being largely attended. The dis
play of flowers was large and beautiful. Mr..
Joseph Bolgiano is superintendent of the school,
which has an average attendance of about 200.
Mr.. L. H. Urban has much improved the
appearance of his pretty lawn by putting up
very neat picket fence. The fence is low and he
has thus avoided the great mistake most people
make in enclosing their lots, as high fences de-
tract greatly from the beauty of yard or garden.
Capt. Chas. B. MCLEAN, County Surveyor,
who laid out in avenues and lots the handsome
estate of Mr.. John E. Owens, adjoining this town,
has made very comprehensive and attractive
Mat of the property copies of which are now be-