The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-03-13

Towsontown M. e. Church in the Con-
ference.-On the second day of the meeting of
the late M. E. Conference in Washington, Rev.
Watson Case, pastor of the church in this place,
said that the church had been put to expense of
from $500 to $500 in defending suit against it
in the Court Of Appeals, and that he had only
been able to collect $40 Of the amount, leaving a
balance of $40 that Towsontown was feeble
CHARGE having only sixty members, and that he
applied to DR.. Kynett, corresponding secretary of
the Church Extension Society, for aid, who re-
piled that, as the church at Towsontown had cost
over $40, 1000, the Church Extension Society could
not render any aid. Mr.. Case said he desired
| that collection be taken up during the session
of conference to aid in paying the SO deficiency.
Rev. John Fl. Dashiel wanted to know if the
| conference going then into the whole ques-
ton of the Towsontown church. He understood
there had been sale of the church, and that GER
tain gentlemen who personally responsible
| for the debt had purchased it for their own bene-
ft and would sell it if they could get six or eight
thousand dollars for it..
Rev. Mr.. Case said that bill of exceptions to
the sale had been filed by the owners of the land,
which would serve as a stay the proceedings.
| Rev. G. H. Richardson, who was formerly
member of the bar said the decision of the Court
of Appeals in the Towsontown Church case was
very much against the holding of church property
by the church, and that prompt action should be
| taken.
Rev. Job Price said no matter what becomes of
| the church property, this was burden on Rev.
| Mr.. Case, and the collection ought to be taken
| The collection was ordered, and it amounted to
$53.S1.
In regard to the application made by Rev. Mr..
Case for aid for this church, DIR. Kynett said the
society did not give money to protect or defend
| church property, and did not render AID to
church that had cost over $4,000. He hoped
the gentlemen who had bought the Towsontown
Church would sell it to the church at the same tor
| which they purchased it, and then the society
could grant aid, as that was below $4,000, and
was for the purchase of a church. They did not
want Methodist church anywhere that did not
| pay its honest debts, and they did not want any
| property taken wrongfully.
Rev. Thomas Myers interrupted the speaker,
and DR.. Kynett said he did not mean to say that
the Towsontown Church had done anything
Mr. Myers.-"Thas's right" He only wanis3
DR.. Kynett not to give prominence to it, as among
them there was not shade of suspicion.
An Active Pastors Work. The Pres5y-
terrain Observer says: "Through the untiring eft
forts of the pastor, the Rev. J. Wynne Jones and
his co-workers, Abbott Chapel is doing a noble
work for the people Of Canton, by opening up new
avenues of usefulness in the advancement of the
spiritual and intellectual welfare of the commu
nifty. Their efforts are being expended upon all
classes, irrespective of creeds or doctrines. The
and inirm of the church, and orphan orneglected
children, has been accomplished. A new building
| adjoining the parsonage has been rented temper
arily and three motherless, impoverished chill
dren have already been assigned to its protecting
| care, through the express wish of their father.
Although the fund for the advancement of this in
stitution is now very meagre, there will no doubt
be an accession to it after its character and USE
fulness are demonstrated in the amount of good
resulting to the afflicted and INDECENT this neigh
borhood. We are informed that the finances of
the church have improved to such an extent that
from this year it will be self-supporting. During
the temporary suspension of the 'Workingmen's
Institute Library the books have been transferre
to the church building and are accessible from
to 10 o'clock p. m. Night classes for adults and
youths, unable to attend the day schools, will
shortly be opened, the aim of the pastor being to
promote the mental as we'll as the spiritual and
physical development of his Pensioners. finely
executed portrait of Mr.. Horace Abbott, the foun-
der of the church, is exhibited in the ecture-room
and is gazed upon admiringly by many of the old
employees, who at once recognize the original as
heappeared in his prime of life, twenty years ago.
ADunkard Baptism.-On Sunday afternoon
last crowd of several hundred people assembled
upon the banks of Joness falls, short distance
below Woodbury., to witness immersion in ac-
cordance with the rites of the Dunkard church.
Services, conducted by Elder Babylon, of Carroll
county, were first held in Benson's Hall, when
those assembled, headed by the Elder, marched
to the falls, where all knelt in prayer, at the con-
clusion of which the Elder arose and with long
stick entered the cold stream barefooted Some
minutes were spent in feeling the bottom of the
falls with his stick Finally he selected point
in the middle of the falls and returned to the
bank. He again entered, followed by Miss Anna
Groves, of Waverly. When they had reached the
middle of the stream, the water at their waist.
A forp yuor nffarnd nj a lad w
mersed. A few moments later, after more pray
ers, she was q second time immersed. This time
the Elder, with some difficulty, raised her head
from the water, she had become almost stran-
gled The third dip almost Frustrated her, and
she was Immediately taken to the house of a
neghbor She remained in the water during the
ceremonies, which lasted ten minutes. The Ell
der remained in the water, and Miss Carrie Cha
also Of Wayer Madsd out ds b5@ 6 she went
to the last ana emerged from Uue waiter IN ten
minutes with a smile on her face The Elder had
been in the water about half an hour, but did not
seem to mind its chilling temperature.
Real Estate Sales.-Mrs. James D. Powell,
of Sweet Air, has purchased at private sale from
Mr. Dickson Stansbury, % acres of land adjoin-
ing the residence of DR.. Richard Emory, on the
Jarrettsville turnpike at the Little Falls, for 49,,
300 cash. The property is unimproved, but is
considered valuable.
Northern Central Railroad, near Corbett Station,
containing 1O2 acres with fine improvements, was
sold at private sale this week for S55 per acre. to
Eli Matthews Another portion of this farm con-
tanning 12S acres, improved by three small houses,
barn, &C., was sold to Josiah Sparks, at $50 per
acre. The above properties were offered at pnblic
sale on Tuesday, but were withdrawn, and after
wards sold privately.
At the court house on Tuesday, Maj. John I.
Yellott, mortgage, sold the property of Daniel J.
Yost, situated in Hereford, consisting of dwelling,
cabinetmaker's shop and several lots of ground,
eigibly located, to Milton w. Offutt for 1895.
The real estate Of the late John Turnbaugh,
situated in the 9Th district containing so acres,
improved by large brick dwelling and necessary
outbuildings, was sold at the court house door on
Tuesday last, for 81 800, William Galloway, of
Towsontown, being the purchaser.
He Caught the Thief.-Lately Mr. v. j.
Clousher, superintendent of the McDOnough Farm,
in the Sd district, has been greatly annoyed by
chicken thieves, who had made frequent raids
upon him. AS other plans of detecting the thief
had proved unavaling, he determined to resort to
a trap to capture the Nocturnal visitor. few
nights ago he arranged gun inside of the chicken
house, to the trigger of which string was attach
ed and fastened to the door, so that any one at
tempting to enter, without knowledge of the
presence of the gun, would be almost certain to
receive charge of shot. On the night in ques-
tion Mr.. Clousher heard loud report from the
gun and Immediately went to the hen-house, but
could find no one. The next morning he again
went out and found trail of blood. This he fol-
lowed to a fodder stack where he found hid
colored man named Jim Jackson, with an ugly
wound in his side He was brought to Towson-
town and lodged in Jail, from whence he had only
lately been discharged, having been previously
sentenced for chicken stealing.
An Old Baltimore Countian in the West.
The Annapolis (Md.) Capital of recent date
says: "Mr. Joshua Owings, an esteemed citizen of
St. Louis, Mo-, last month celebrated his ninety
sixth birthday. Mr.. Owings was born in Balti-
more county, now called Carroll, February Goth,
$780, and is relative of the Owingses of this
ty. In 1871 he married Miss Worthington, also
connection of the Worthingtons of Anne Arun-
del, and started to farming and milling, but the
muskrats ruined the mill race and completely
blasted his prospects. He next started hotel at
New Market, Frederick county, and for time did
considerable business. In 1S41 Mr.. Owings re-
moved to st. Louis, where he resides with