The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-06-12


Seipp, and sister of Mr.. George W. Sepp, Of
Towsontown.
The great trotting race between Glide and
Edwin A., advertised to take place last Wednes
day, at Herring Run, was postponed, on account
of the rain, until next Monday. The betting is
about even. Both horses have a record below
1925.
"A poor Italian was arrested in Woodbury.
on Monday upon the charge of selling bananas
without license. For this terrible (?) crime q
justice of the peace imposed fine and costs
amounting to $25, which was paid by his friends
and the poor fellow was released.
Two unknown men-one white and the
other colored-were killed on the Baltimore &
Potomac railroad on Tuesday morning. The
coored man was knocked off the high trestle cross
ing Gwynn's Falls, and the white man was killed
Just south of the Frederick road crossing.
A little son of Charles Smith, of Hampden,
was seriously bitten by his fathers dog few days
ago. The little fellow had often played with the
brute, which attacked him suddenly in a most
ferocious manner, without any apparent cause
Dogs are not very safe pets for little children.
Mr. T. Reese Arnold, teacher of the public
school at Calverton, and who resides at Glyndon,
4th district, has been appointed to clerkship in
the cashiers department of the Baltimore Custom
House, at salary of 81, 200 peryea Mr.. Arnold
passed the civil service examination some time
ago.
james Fl. Henderson stole watch from
his landlady in Woodbury. and was arrested. He
was tried here and acquitted. He then went back
to Woodberry and stole revolver. Now he is
in Jail again. Henderson is said to be deserter
from the U. S. Navy and the opinion prevails that
he is a "crook."
Mr.. R. H. Bussey, of Baltimore county, who
is clerk in the Surveyors department of the Bal
timore Custom House, has been appointed men,
Der of the local Civil Service Commission. Mr..
VIM. ]. Blair, also of Baltimore county and a re-
cent appointee in the Custom House, has been
elected president of the Board.
Mt. Moriah Masonic Lodge, of this place,
went to Belair by the Maryland Central road, on
Tuesday afternoon, to attend the Masonic bazaar
in that place. The trip was in all respects most
pleasant one and the members returned about 8
p m, highly pleased with their cordial reception
and hospitable entertainment.
Mr.. John Stevenson, one of the oldest and
most highly respected citizens of this neighbor-
hood, died at his residence, on the York turnpike,
last Tuesday, in the 18th year of his age. He
was bachelor and lived with three maiden SIS
tiers upon an estate which has been in the family
for perhaps more than a century.
Mr.. VIM. II. Carpenter appeared before
the County Commissioners this week and lodged
complaint against.the gas companies who are dig
cling up the streets in the Belt, for the purpose of
laying pipes, and then not restoring the streets to
their former condition. Steps will be at once
taken to put stop to this business.
A young woman, a rather dilapidated
looking vagrant, was arrested in Waverly on
Monday and committed to the House of Correc.
ton. She claimed to be sister of Thomas J..
Cluverius, now under sentence of death in Rich
mond, Va, for the murder of his cousin, but it
is known that Cluverius has no sister.
"A dapper old member Of the present jury
always refers to his wife as "my madam" A few
days ago, speaking of his great admiration for
the ladies, he said: "The night 1 married my
madam 1 was engaged to three other girls
Wonder if the other girls haven't often thought
since that it was lucky escape for them.
Frank Dennis, of Hampden, 9th district,
must be the champion mean man. He had prom
Used to marry girl and got the money from her
to pay for the marriage license. But he put the
cash to another use and was arrested at the in
stance of the girl and committed to Jail. No pun
ishment would be too severe for that fellow, if he
is guilty.
Our Gainesville neighbors are still boring
at their artesian well. They are already about
deep enough to get sufficient supply of water,
but being an enterprisiug people they have de-
termined to bore on in order to find out exactly
how far above hades that place is located. When
they get their bearings down fine they will per-
haps be better people than they are to-day.
Charles Baldwin, proprietor of hotel at
Lower Canton, who, as stated last week, was ar
rested upon the charge of smuggling whisky from
the steamship "Albano," had hearing before the
U. S. Commissioners on Tuesday and was held
for court in the of $1,000, his father law,
Mr.. Thomas M. Green, becoming his security
Hon. j. Fred. c. Talbot appeared for the accused.
Flags liver-pad company has been hold
ing forth here for about a week and judging from
the number of pads sold we should think that
about every male citizen of the town is sporting
one of them. If you've got liver and the old
thing don't work right, you might try pad. If
it don't do you any good it will be powerful
sight of benefit to Mr.. Flagg, who actually lives
on the pads.
When the avenues now being laid off by
Capt. MCLEAN through "Aigburth Vale" the
beautiful estate of Mr.. John E. Owens, adjoining
Towsontown on the south, are opened up, some
beautiful building sites will be thrown upon the
market and we hope they will be secured by gen.
tlemen who will erect attractive residences upon
them. No more desirable location could be found
in the county.
The bad taste and smell of the water in
supplied from the Gunpowder, has
about disappeared. Chief Engineer Martin saws
nobody knows what caused the faint, but it has
been determined by scientists that the water was
not unwholsome though unpleasant to taste and
smell. As Mr.. Martin has been known to drink
a little water occasionally it may be set down as
a fact that he is the very best authority on the
quality of aqua puree.
"A young man propounds this question:
"What's the best thing to be done when a person
sits down on custard pie at a picnic ?" That's
a hard one to answer. We think we should yell
"snakes !" or "mad-dog /" or something like that
and when all the rest had run away we'd steal off
to some sequestered spot, down in the woody
glen, where the limpid stream murmurs in soft
cadences as it glides along toward old ocean, and
then-shoot ourself. That's what we'd do.
Geo. j. B. Thompson, who was convicted
in the Hartford county court last week for steal
ing harness from number of farmers of that
county, had also extended his operations to Bal
timore county, and since his conviction some of
the stolen articles have been recovered from per-
sons to whom he had sold them. Thompson will
spend some time in the penitentiary where, it is
hoped, he may learn good trade that will serve
him in good stead for the business in which he
has been engaged.
Last week The UNION adverted to the fact
that the piece of the Presidents wedding cake,
which had been sent to this Office, had not
arrived, and we charged the delinquency to Uncle
Sam'smail. Itappears that We were just trife too
previous. The cake did come later with a pretty
little note of apology that it had not been sent
sooner. We beg to assure the President that "it's
all right" We have put the cake where it will do
the most good-and could have put a good deal
more OF the same KIM In the same place.
when the trustees of the public school at
Texas, Sth district were appointed some time ago
by Commissioner Thorpe, Rev. Father Lenahan,
who had been one of the trustees for many years,
was dropped and Mr.. Chas. Kenny was appointed
in his place. The Catholics in that community
became very indignant at this action of the Com
missioner and held meeting to denounce it.
The reason assigned by Mr.. Thorpe for the change
was that Father Lenahan was minister and he
thought best to have some one in his place who
did not occupy that position. Hepromised, how
ever, to satisfy the Catholic patrons of the school,
The people seem to be getting stirred up
on the subject of bad roads in some sections of
the county. We are in receipt of more complaints,
some of which are too vague to amount to much.
We advise all who have just cause to complain to
make their grievances known to the Commission
ers. If you have incompetent or dishonest SUI
pervisors, prefer charges against them and the
Board will act. The time has come when some
thing must be done for the relief of the people
1t is gross outrage that their money should be
and this sort of thing must be stop
ped. Justice and common honesty demands
change for the better.
Jury of Condemnation.-The jury of con-
domination in the case of the Maryland Central
Railway Company against Mrs. Jennie O'Neill,
John Donnelly and Thomas Ford, for the use of
ground on the Falls road. have agreed to allow