The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-08-07
OVER THE STATE.

The Baltimore postoffice has 271 employees.
The total number of postofices in Maryland
is 907.
The average yield in the best wheat growing
section of Talbot county, it is said, will not exceed
l6 bushels to the acre.
-Alday Clements, of Caroline county, threshed
5000 bushels of wheat from 200 acres, an average
80 bushels per
Miss Lizzie Mitchell, of Anne Arurdel coun-
.y, has been given the free scholarship of that
county in the Baltimore Female College.
Prof d. c. Ingle, formerly of Western Mary
land College, has been elected principal of Millers-
Vile town Academy, Anne Arundel county, Md.
MIR. George w. Baker, of Aberdeen, the pio-
reer Gamer of Hartford county, is critically i'll,
suffering from stroke of paralysis received q few
weeks ago.
The Fifth Maryland Regiment and several
county companies will take part in the unwilling
of the DeKalb statue at Annapolis, on Monday,
August 10Th.
Mrs. Julia A. Smith, mother of Hon. Lewis
G. Smith, ex-president of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal, died after protfacted illness, at
Hagerstown, on I'd inst.
Mrs. Jesse L. Reifsnider, the venerable mother
of Mr.. Charles 7. Rei:snider, well known lawyer
of Westminster, died in that city at early hour
on Monday morning last.
"A portrait of Robert Wright, thirteenth gov
ernor Of Maryland, has been presented to the
state by Pembroke L. Thorn and Robert N. Thorn,
grandchildren of Governor Wright
1t is said that Boston capitalists contemplate
erecting fine hotel at Sharpsburg, adjoining
Antietam National Cemetery. The new motel is
to be five stories high, and will cost $l60, 900.
County Commissioner Forsythe, of Howard
county, had an average of 81 bushels of wheat on
one field of So acres, and another field of %
acres he had an average of 81 bushels per acre.
Some three months ago Mr.. w. j. Hammond,
nf Iaas unf W.
in the wrist by cat. Since then his hand and
arm much swollen, rendering amputation
necessary to avoid tetanus.
The colored people of Frederick city and
county expect to have gala time on the 18th OF
August in celebrating their emancipation from
slavery. To this end preparations are being made
by them on an extensive scale. Mr.. Julius Caesar
will be the chief marshal.
Mr.. VIM. Daniels, president of the Maryland
State prohibition organization, has rendered the
nomination for Congress on the prohibition ticket
in the First Congressional District, to Rev. I. O.
Ayers, of Denton, Caroline county. Rev. Mr.
Ayers declined the proffered honor.
Mrs. Caroline Polk, aged ninety years, a rel
alive of President Polk was buried on Sunday
from the Aged Womens Home Baltimore, Of
which she had been inmate for many years
Rev. Mr.. Wharton conducted the funeral services
and the interment took place at Mount Olivet.
Edward Stake, Esq, prominent lawyer Of
Ilagerstown, will contribute article to Harpers
Magazine on the history of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal, subject with which he is thorough
/ ly conversant. Several years ago he prepared
for the same publication very interesting article
on "The Old National Turnpike"
| Mrs. John w. Williams, Mrs. I. Harrison
| Garrett, Mrs. S. b. Elkins and Mrs. Mira Steele
are about to open in Deer Park, home for the
orphans of Garrett county, and in connection with
the orphanage, a Kindergarten school. Mrs. Steele
donates the building and the other ladies will
make the necessary improvements.
On August 25th, at Woodstock College, How.
ard county, Cardinal Gibbons will perform hii
first ceremony of ordination, since his elevation &c
the cardinalate. The order of the deaconate viii
be conferred on the 25th. On the 26th the sub
deaconate will be given, and number of candi
dates will be made priests on the 9th.
The Hagerstown Ne,os says that Mr.. David
Gossard, of Clearspring district, Washington coun
ty, is the father of "a children boys and girls
The last is girl and was born the goth of July
last. These children were the result of two mar
riages, the first wife being the mother of IA and
the last OF 10. We do not know of larger fam
lily in Western Maryland. The last son was borr
shortly after the Presidential election and he wa;
named Grover Cleveland Gossard, and the last
child was named Frances Folsom Gossard.