The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-07-31
GENERAL ITEMS.

Rabbits are becoming so abundant in portions
of Colorado that it is suggested that the Legisa-
ture offer bounty for rabbit scalps, to prevent
them from overrunning and laying waste the
country.
There is band of Free Methodist revivalists
stirring up Pekin, Ill. One young convert gave
UP good position to join the band, and most of
the women converts are discarding jewelry, laces,
aud embroidery.
-"This is the season of the year when you can
get what you do not want real cheap" says the
New Orleans Pieoyune. The list includes heavy
overcoats, artic shoes and beaver caps. Would it
not be wise to buy them now and like the Irish
man pay for them in winter?
The Prohibitionists of Michigan are making
much ado over the fact that in the new private
car of Gov. Alger wine lockers have been built
They aver that this is slap in the face of the
temperance people of the State, without regard to
p ,rty, and that it will lose the Republican party
thousands of votes.
An experiment to test the speed of the swal-
lows flight has been made at Pavia, in Italy. Two
hen birds were taken from their broods, carried
to Milan, and there released at given hour
Both got back to their nests in thirteen minutes,
which gave tt cir rate of speed at eighty seven
and half miles an hour
White persons have BACKED up to initiate
negroes from time immemorial. For negro to-
"whiten up" to personate white person is some
thing new. This occurred recently in Montana,
where white child was required in a drama. A
local little darby was the only child obtainable,
and muca grease paint was used in getting him to
just the proper complexion
Captain John Grant, of New Orleans, aged 80
years, was apparently the most gratifed person
at the reception of the President on " ednesday
afternoon of last week, for he had thereby shaken
hands with every President of the United States,
commencing with Washington. He told the Presi-
dent that he had seventy five grandchildren living
out of sew enty eight born.
The latest high life innovation in fashionable
marriages in Paris is the display of the brides
wedding outfit on dummy figures ranged on
platform, as was done at the late reception for the
signing OF the marriage contract of the daughter
of the Countess de -. Assistants from the
dressmakers who had produced the tolettes at
tended to point out the beauties of the creation.
The proposition made in the columns of the
Lutheran Observer that grand reunion of the
Lutherans of Maryland and Pennsylvan shall be
held at Pen Mar is alike timely and appropriate.
The German colony which has given its peculiar
characteristics to Southern Pennsylvania and
Western Maryland had its nucleus very near to
Pen Mar-on the borders of Franklin county,
Pennsylvania, and Washington county, Md.
The officers of Lancaster county, Pa, elected
in 1883, took office with the knowledge that new
law ofthe State provided that xed salaries should
be paid them, and that all fees should be turned
over to the county. They complied with the law
until it was declared unconstitutional by the Su-
preme Court, and then sued for the money they
would have received in excess of their salaries
had they retained the fees. 1t has just been de.
cided that they entitled to these fees.
The executors of the estate of Asa Packer, of
Penna have filed their account showing they
have handled personal estate of 81, 167, O51.S4
and have disbursed S4,172,233. The commissions
are So, 900 to each of the five executors In three
years the income of the estate amounted to 81
153,OO5.27. The Lancaster Ecaminer says: off
this estate had been settled in Lancaster county
the commissions, at percent, would have been
1855, 1929 is and the lawyers would have taken
the income for their services. The lawyers and
executors of Mauch Chunk should come to this
county and get few pointers"