The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-04-10

18th instant, among them Lewis F. Bowen, Jr.,
and Theodore F. Slack, both of Baltimore county.
They have been in the service long time and are
very efficient men.
The Hartford county School Board has been
investigating an "onpleasantness" between Mrs.
Chase, teacher Of the school at Fallston, and Mr..
L. Pennington, one of the trustees of her school,
the trustee having accused the teacher of iltreat
ing his little daughter.
The statement of the County Treasurer for
the month of March makes the following exhibit
Cash on hand February 2Sth, 1886, Sl2,7lS 20;
receipts during the month from all sources, ST.
4O3.25; disbursements, S11, 550.s1; balance on
hand March 3lst SS,570.73.
DIR. Jackson Piper, of Towsontown, was on
Wednesday elected president of the State Board
of Health, vice the late DIR. McSherry. The DIR.
is we'll qualified to discharge the duties of this
responsible position and his election is very graf
flying to his hosts of friends.
The question now is, "Who will be the
night officer for Towsontown, provided for by Sena
tor Slinguf's bill ?" We have no idea who the
man will be, but hope he will be one in whom the
citizens have confidence and who will discharge
his duties faithfully and fearlessy.
The same sharps who tricked I'll. b. Taylor,
of Maryland Line, out of 81 at Union Station,
Baltimore, a few weeks ago, successfully played
the same game, at the same place, on John Null
ligan, of Cecil county, only few days before.
Inc latter'S experience cost Nun @oV.
"A religious paper hits good many people
in an article entitled "Joning Pastor" 1t says
they do not join the church. They "unite them
selves" to the popular pastor. While he stays,
they stay. When he goes, they scatter and hunt
for the next popular pastor to join.
Col. D. G. Mcintosh was engaged in the
Court of Appeals on Wednesday in the argument
of the case of Shriver and Dryer VS.. State of
Maryland, of Reister. Winfield j. Taylor,
ESQ.,, argued the same day case of the Peabody
Heights Company in the same Court.
The BALTIC. City Council on Tuesday night
passed a resolution making it unlawful for any
head of department to employ mechanics or Ia
borers who are not residents of the city. The
fact that some county men are employed in Druid
take this action. '''""''' ~
"A colored servant girl in the family of Mr..
Johns H. Janney, of Hartford county, last week
accidentally shot and killed five-y year old son of
the late T. B. Macatee. The child's mother lives
on Mr.. Janney's farm and the shooting was done
with pistol that had been carelessly left where
the girl got hold of it.
-Messrs. Henry Reckord & Sons propose
building -four mill at Faston, provided with
patent process machinery, and all the latest i'm
provements. They expect to grind from $50 to
500 bushels of wheat per day. 1t is stated that
they also contemplate the erection of sash fac
tory and planning mill at the same place.
In the Orphans Court this week letters of
administration we're granted to Samuel II. Hare,
on the estate of Patrick Hayes; to Charles H.
Baker, on the estate of Mary Ann Baker; to
Perry Knight, on the estate of Ellen Washington !;
to Jane E. Fuller the estate of Samuel Fuller,
and to Barbara e. Bosom On the estate of Elisha
J. Bosom.
The heavy weather of last Sunday caused
a flock of swan, which were passing over Mr..
Lewis NJ. Bacon's farm, in the Sth district to fly
so low that one of the number became entangled
in tree and fell to the ground. 1t was captur-
ed, with the assistance of dog, and is now in
Mr.. Bacon's possession. 1t is pure white and a
beautiful specimen.
Rev. Mr.. McMurran, who recently resign
ed the pastorate of the Presbyterian church, at
Mt. Washington, Baltimore county, goes to Ports
mouth, Va. He has been succeeded by Rev. Mr..
Smith. The parsonage has been beautifully fur
nished throughout for the pastor. Miss
Turnbull of "Auburn," near Towsontown, con-
tributing the parlor furniture.
Mrs. Susan Henderson, who lives near
Black Horse, and who is the mother of Mr.. J. N.
Henderson, of this place, is lying very i'll and her
life is despaired Of She is suffering from a can
Ger in the side. Mrs Henderson, who is about
y years of age, is thu wife of the late Archibald
Henderson, who died about thirty years ago, and
a sister of Rev. Thomas Gorsuch, of the 18th
district.
On the 31st of March, at p. M, James J.
Lindsay, ESQ.,, member of the Legislature from
Baltimore county, posted a letter for us in An
napolis, plainly addressed "Towson, Nd" This
letter missent to Boston, Mass, and was re-
mailed there on the LIST of April, arriving in Bal
timore at IL a. m. on the morning of the I'd, reach
ing US the same evening at p. m. This shows
how rapidly letters travel and is also evidence
of the carelessness of postal clerks.
john Mcnamara, a life convict in the
Maryland penitentiary, died in that institution
few DAYS ago, at an advanced age. McNamara's
crime was wife murder of the most brutal charac-
ter. He lived on the Falls road, near Hampden,
and committed the act on Christmas morning,
1868, after he and his wife had returned from
mass. He had been shut out from the world for
nearly eighteen years. Mcnamara was tried in
the city. tho case having been removed from
People in Delta are complaining because
the York and Peach Bottom and the Maryland
Central railroads do not arrange their schedules
so as to accommodate the travelling public better,
and it is stated that none of the trains make close
and regular connection. The morning train on
the Maryland Central leaves minutes before the
arrival of the York and Peach Bottom, and the
latter leaves in the evening before the arrival of
the former occasioning great inconvenience to the
should be made at once.
The gentlemen who contributed $4,000
each towards the purchase of the beautiful prop
erty now known as Druid Hill Park, were Thos.
Swami, Columbus O'Donnell, Benjamin Deford,
VIM. Z. Hooper, John NJ. 0rem, Chauncey Brooks,
Thomas Winans and John H. 3. Latrobe. Of
this number Mr.. Latrobe is the only one now liv-
ing. The property belonged to Lloyd N. Rogers,
who refused to sell it to the city unless cash
payment of $4,000 was made to him, and the
gentlemen named contributed $4,000 each in
order to make up the amount.
Death of an Aged Citizen.-Mr. William