The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-07-17
RalioioIlS Notices,

Religious Notices.
To,csonto,un NJ. E. Church.-Preaching to-mor-
row Sunday, at IL q. m. and at P. M, by the
pastor, Rev. Watson Case.
PRAYER meeting on Wednesday evening, at
o'clock, and class meetings on Thursday, at 3 p.
m, and Friday evening, at o'clock.
Trinity p. E. Church, To,osontoion.-Preaching
Sunday by the rector, Rev. W. H. H. Powers. at
IL a, m. and u D. m. Bible class Wednesday at
400 p. m.
There will be preaching at Lutherville, by Rev.
VIII H. Powers. in the Public Hall, every Sun
day afternoon, at 81 o'clock.
Eutao M. p. Church, Hartford Road-Preach-
ing every Sunday, by the pastor, Rev. j. M. Gill;
at IL q. m. and p. m. All invited.
-Jessop's meeting will take place Sunday,
July 25th.
--Thomas J. Gorsuch, formerly of this coun-
ty, has been appointed postmaster at Shiloh, Car
roll county.
Mr. J. L. Gemmil is erecting commo-
dious store and dwelling at Freeand, Northern
Central railroad.
Large quantities of new wheat were sold
at the Patapsco Flour Mills last week at 80 and
SO cents per bushe
Hail in considerable quantities fell in the
Sth district on Wednesday afternoon, and was
particularly heavy about Texas.
a fine COW belonging to Mr.. Thomas Dough-
erty, of Texas, was killed by train On the North.
ern Central railroad, on Tuesday.
The Sabbath school of Waugh Chapel, near
Greenwood, 18th district, will hold festival on
the evenings of July 23d and oath.
The colored camp-meeting in Wisners
woods Maryland Central railroad, near this place,
will commence on Friday, 23d instant.
Gus. Slater, Baltimore sporting man, was
arrested on Tuesday upon the charge of breaking
the jaw of John Long, of Baltimore county.
The great colored camp meeting at Asbury
Grove, on the Western Meryland Railroad, will
commence July Both and close August 18th.
Prof. J. c. Kinnear has been appointed
postmaster at st. Georges, W. NJ. R. R., Balti-
more county, vice Miss Kate D. Gore, resigned.
st. Thomas Catholic Church, Hampden, is
being improved by the erection of tower l25 feet
in height in which large new bell is to be placed.
The epizootic-or disease similar to it
is prevailing among the horses in the neighbor-
hood of New Freedom, Northern Central railroad g.
County Treasurer Hebb this week gave Mr..
Thomas G. Bruff check for $4,000 to pay bal
ance of teachers salaries, &C., for the summer
term.
The Highlandtown and Point Breeze Rail-
road Company has been sued for So, 900 damages
for alleged injuries to little child of Isaac MOze-
lOusky.
"A load of new wheat from the farm of Mr..
James Boyce, on the Joppa road, west of Towson-
town, was sold in the city Thursday at so cents
per bushe.
The County Commissioners on Tuesday
appointed Frank Bosom, road supervisor for the
5th district to succeed his father, the late Abra-
ham Bosom.
DIR. P. H. Reich, we'll known physician
of Waverley, lately purchased fine young mare
from Mr.. Willie Richardson, of Belair, for which
he paid 1875.
Since the tax was first placed on whisky,
Mr.. William Foust, distiller, of Glen Rock, N. c.
R. R., has paid the Government over 81, 100000
in revenue taxes.
This week the mercury dropped down to
near so and heavy clothing was again comforta-
BILE. This has in many respects been remark
able summer so far.
Mr.. E. A. Thicker, who was for many years
engaged in the live stock business at Calverton,
Baltimore county, died at Kansas City, Missouri,
on the 18th of May.
-Congre.sman Frank 7. Shaw on Monday
presented petition in the House of Representa-
tives from the Knights of Labor of Mt. Washing
ton, Baltimore county.
The name of the Baltimore base-bal
grounds on the York road, north of the Bounda-
~, has been changed from Oriole Park to "Hun-
tingdon Avenue Grounds"
Since the new license law went into effect
there have been issued to hawkers and peddlers
from the County Clerks office, licenses amount
ing to upwards of $4,000.
DIR. F. W. Patterson, of the Sd district ex-
hibited some stalks of clover on q Western Mary
land Railroad train, one day this week, that meas
ured sixty nine inches in length.
Travel on the Maryland Central road has
increased very much in the last three four weeks
and is now heavier than it has been any summer
since the road has been in operation.
The property known as Ellicotts Upper
Mills, on the Patapsco, in Baltimore and How
ard counties, has been sold to Jos. C. D. Kenne-
dy for $1,000. 1t contains 200 acres.
The storm of Wednesday afternoon was
very violent at Cockeysville. frame house. in
course of erection by Mr.. Albert 7. Love- was
blown down and some other damage was done
ON Monday, July 9Th, the Western Mary
land railroad carried ,5S9 persons to Pen Mar
Fully 400 passengers were left at the stations in
Baltimore, the train being unable to carry them.
Mr.. A. FL. Warner, of the 9th district of
this county, has invented machine for threshing
rye, which does not break tangle the straw, but
leaves it the same as when threshed with fail.
Miss Miranda Litzsinger, of Towsontown,
who owned the beautiful cactus mentioned in the
THE UNION last week, has since sold the plant to
Mr.. A. Breckenridge, nurseryman and florist, Co.
vanstown.
-Dr.Baldwin's new hotel, at Baldwin Station,
Long Green Valley, has been completed and is
now about ready for the reception of guests. 1t
is hoped the DR.. may meet with the encouragement
his enterprise deserves.
"A gentleman who has observed the break
age about the reaping machines in at present
says they are made too frail for durability. Many
delays occasioned during the present harvest
on account of this serious defect.
Mr.. George w. Yellott, of Long Green VAL
ley, who makes a business of winterng horses for
city gentlemen, kept sixty head last winter and
had large quantity of old hay left when the new
crop was ready to cut this harvest.
Andrew Martin, of Hampden, was thrown
from wagon on Boundary avenue last Monday
caused by his horse running away, and sustained
very serious injuries about the back and hips
At first he was thought to be fatally hurt.
Some people and some newspapers will per.
sist in calling this place "Towson," and once
again we vouchsafe the information that that is
not its name. 1t has been Towsontown for more
than century and it's Towsontown to-day.
"A little dog belonging to Mr.. JAS Phipps,
of this place, died Wednesday morning in a fl
and it is thought by some that he had an attack
of hydrophobia. Several children had been play
ing with the dog but short time before it died
1t appears thereis always some new trouble
FOR the farmer. We know of one whose grass
crop was so heavy that he hadn't room to spread
it over the ground upon which it stood and was
obliged to haul half of it another field to cure
We saw several punches of oats this week
from the farm of Mr.. G.. O. Wilson, near Loeb
Raven, that measured nearly seven feet in height.
The heads were unusually large and well filled and
altogether it was about the finest oats we have
seen.
Guy, the eldest son of Major VIM. L. Ken
ley assistant engineer of the Baltimore city Water
Board, died at his fathers residence, Lake Monte
bello, on the 18th inst, aged "a years. The young
man had been helpless cripple since his child
hood.
In the present suit of Mr.. James Boyce
against the late purchasers of the Towsontown NJ.
E. Church property, Mr.. D. Hopper Emory is not
one of the defendants, and has no connection with
the suit. Mr.. Emory was of the former trus-
tees of the church.
Capt. A. Lingen Jarrett, Clerk of the Har-
ford county Circuit Court, fell down the stairway
at Union Station, on Sunday last, and narrowly
escaped serious injury. He was taken to the
Maryland Central Station and afterwards pro-
ceeded to his home.
"A vacant lot near Highlandtown is being
used as a dumping ground for the refuse from
slaughter houses and canning factories and very
naturally the people of that vicinity highly
indignant. The perpetrators of this outrage
should be prosecuted.
Mrs. Mary ]. Bowersox died very suddenly
at the residence of DR.. J. F. Ii. Gorsuch, 18th