The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-07-24
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his family, at Orkney Springs, Va.
Col. d. G.. Mcintosh, of this place, spent q
| portion of this week at Cape May, NJ
Major John l. Yellott has gone to Bedford
Springs, Pa, where he will spend some time.
Col. Herman Stump, of Belair, was in Tow
sontown on Thursday, on professional business.
| Mrs. Ii. G. Turnbull, Jr., of "Auburn, near
Towsontown, left this week for Narragansett Pier,
! Rhode Island :
Thomas Phipot, Esq, Register of Wills, has
| returned after pleasant visit to relatives and
friends in Pennsylvania.
| Hon. Richard Grason, of Towsontown, is Wis
itng his daughter, the wife of DIR. Joseph L. Fin
/ ley, of Queen Anne's county.
| Hon. John V. L. Findlay, member of Con-
| gress from Baltimore city, was in Towsontown
few days ago on professional business.
| MIR. VIM. S. Keech, of Towsontown, accom-
panied by his wife, will leave Thursday next
| for Nantucket and other Eastern resorts.
Rev. E. Richardson, pastor of the M. E.
| Church at Reisterstown, expects to go with the
| Grand Army excursion to San Francisco.
/ Mrs. A. Moore having rented her resi-
| dence, "Glenmore," near Brooklandvie, for the
summer, will spend some time in the city.
R. r. Boarman, Esq, of this town, accompa-
MED by his family, left for Bedford Springs Pa
Thursday. They will be absent about two weeks
s. Parker Bosley, Esq, of Towsontown, has
gone to Clifton Springs, New York. His trip will
include Delaware Water Gap, Saratoga and Syr-
| acuse.
Rev Duncan McCuoh, of Pleasant Valley,
| N Y, who was chosen rector of Emanuel P. E.
| Church, Glencoe, after the death of Rev. r. R.
Mason, has taken charge of the same.
Rev. Mr.. Jackson, who has had charge of the
| Episcopal Church at Glencoe, N. c. R. R., since
! the death of Rev. R. r. Mason, has under con-
sideration call to All Saints Church, Baltimore
Mr.. Fred Groom, of Dairy Grove farm, ad-
joining Towsontown, will sail for Europe next
| IUan Ho IN ME if coI1 hon md
| in England. His many friends here wish him
| safe and pleasant voyage
Judge VIM. P. Maulsby, of Westminster, has
| placed in All Saints P. E. Church, Frederick,
1 beautiful memorial in the shape of handsomely
\ finished brass lectern, five feet high, to his de-
ceased wife, Emily Nelson.
! COL Collegiate 0. Cockey, of this county,Ia
member of Gov. Lloyd's staff, accompanied the
Governor to Atlantic City, and present at the
review of the 9Th Maryland Regiment, which oc
Cured there few days ago.
Mr.. Silas W. Conn, of New Bloomfield, Pa,
| formerly of Baltimore, has been visiting friends
| in Maryland during the past week. He resided
at one time in Baltimore county and has many
| friends and acquaintance here.
Gov Lloyd has appointed Col. Wilmot john
son, of Baltimore county, and Hon. J. Carroll
Walsh, of Hartford county, to represent the Second
| Congressional district in the Farmers National
] Congress, which meets in Minneapolis, Aug. 25th.
DIR. George A. Thompson, of Texas, son of
| DR.. VIM. S. Thompson of the Sth district, Balti-
more county, is now at home on q visit. DR..
| Thompson was formerly an assistant surgeon in
the U. S. Army but resigned to engage in private
! practice.
-Ex-Gov. VIM Smith, of Virginia, who is
| quite well known here having several times visited
the family of VIM. S. Keech, Esq, fell down the
! stairway of hotel at Virginia Beach, on Sunday
last, and was rendered insensibe. Fortunately
no bones were broken. The ex-Gov. is a very
aged gentleman, but quite active.
Mr.. John B. Roe who has been in business
at Forest Hill, Hartford county, for about thirty
years, accompanied by his wife, has been visiting
relatives and friends in Michigan and New York
!, States. He is the father of Messrs. John D. and
Chas. A. Roe, of Towsontown. Mr.. Roe is native
of New York and when he to Maryland
thirty years ago located at Forest Hill, where he
has since resided. He has led an active business.
life and has done much to improve the section o.
country where he located
John Crowther, Jr.. Esq, chief clerk to the
Board of County Commissioners of this county,
was suddenly called to Leesburg, Va. this week,
to attend the funeral of his brother-in law, Mr..
Jesse j. Stansbury, prominent merchant of that
place. Mr.. Stansbury was formerly a resident of
Baltimore but has been living in Leesburg about
80 years. Mrs. Stansbury, Mr.. Crowther's sister,
| is great sufferer from asthma. Her condition
is very critical, and it is not believed she will
survive her husband very long.
mp-Meeting Season.-The Baltimore
Herald says: Baltimore has peculiar interest
| in the opening of the camp meeting season. As
far back as 1888, when Methodism began to &C
qure firm foothold in this state, series of open
air meetings were held on the space covered by
| Hanover market, then open field common.
| Although it not till twenty years later that
+ the first regular camp meeting was held in the
State of Maryland, indeed in any of the older
colonies, these gatherings produced an impression
! on the minds of the promoters of Methodism that
the accommodation afforded by private houses
was unequal to the demands of worshipers, espe-
cially in the heated season. Therefore while the
hammers of the carpenters were resounding in the
construction ofthe Hanover and Marsh markets, the
latter covering the site of a swamp then tenanted
| by wild birds, pious energies were being devoted
to the organization of the Methodist Church of the
! United States and the erection of regular places
of worship.
at was at Baltimore that the Methodist Church
| of the United States was first constituted, with
Asbury and Coke as bishops. Simultaneously
attention was directed to the advantages of the
| camp meeting system which had already gained
favor in the unsettled districts of the West This
| was about the year 1901, and in 1903 the first
regular camp meeting was opened September
! "a at q spot the eastern side of the Reisters
town turnpike, sixteen miles from this city. 1t
lasted but three days, including the Monday on
which twas closed, but its success pronoun-
| ced that the day became memorable as "Happy
| Monday" and thereafter camp meetings were
I regularly held throughout the Eastern States. In
Cecil county they long continued to be the only
means available for largely attended meetings of
! preachers and congregations.
SIT is very probable that the real origin of the
camp meeting can be traced even further back in
| history. The conventicles secret meetings of
the prosecuted Covenanters during the Stuart era,
over 200 years ago. were gatherings for public
worship on the wild heaths and moors of Scotland.
There the faith of the worshipers was not unfre-
quently sealed with their blood, for these meet
| ings were denounced as illegal and reasonable,
and we're at any time liable to be broken up by
| an attack from the kings troops. AT the time
| that the first Methodist camp meeting was held
in Maryland the era of persecution had passed by
with the War of Independence, and thenceforward
| the progress of the new church was startling in
| its rapidty.
| "Many ardent Methodists, however, unite in de-
claiming az inst the abuses which have crept into
modern camp meetings. The primitive simplicity
of earnest worship in the groves with bare shell
| ter from the weather has given way to spirit of
| worldliness and fashionable folly. The wooden
| structures which have replaced the oldtime tent
| are furnished in the most elaborate manner, and
the fair occupants compete as keenly in the work
| of decoration as in the adornment of their own
/ forms with gay apparel It is to be feared that
| the large concourse of outsiders who flock to
| camp meeting ground on Sunday are not inspired
| by any more laudable motive than curiosity, po-
litica interest the hope of promising Irritation.
| "Yet the camp meeting continues to be an in
strument OF good, and it would not seem to be an
impossible task to eliminate all the Objectionable
features that now impair its usefulness"
| A Pretty Tough Yarn.-Our staid old con-
temporary, the Baltimore San, occasionally gets
off some pretty tough yarns, the latest of which is
worth repeating In an interesting article
| the fine herds of cattle in Baltimore county, it
tells the following very remarkable story "The
Shoemaker herd, which was valued at something
over 100000, has been broken up. At its head
+ stood "The Black Prince of Linden" magnif-
cent, animal, who, in addition to his value for
stock purposes, gave milk like COW from four
well-formed teats. representative of The San,
who is also man of science, went to Burnside,
Mrs. Shoemaker place. in Green Spring Valley,
and in the presence of witnesses MIXED the ami
mall so there could be no dispute about the mat
ter in the future. The bull had never been at
tended to with any view of developing his milk
ing popularity but there is little doubt that with
! proper attention he would have given sufficient