The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-11-13

Baptist CharcA, at n q. N, and al Pikesvie BaP-
tist Church 81 p. N.
Eafa~ N. r. CAHreh. Hs.fora Road.-Prsaeh.
ing every sunaay. By The pastor, Rev. J. NJ GIN
a. N a. NJ Al inTitsd-
"A little ssu of Joseph sim@ons, Of Gray's
Ist iisirict fsii iTon Poseh - pie u roeks,
Zee dafs axa, aaa iTactsred has skulL
- marriaxs hcense issued IN Washing
tan On Ma IS q James p. Clara, u BaltilnoEs
sossty. Eaa LoiGis D. Reese, q that city.
M goseyh p. WsthsriIi, ~ho has been sn-
rarsl Ia kasinsss a. ths kscks II Deer CEeek for
nsny year.. esntsmpi atss removing 10 the city
-Oa Wednesday morniag MFs. Susan A
smith. sesd y YEAR., as foand dad IN bed Al
ths rssiaxass II her son, Elijah saith, IN Wood
@Msssss. Andrsw Banks, Upshsr Lloyd and
OHssr Coz. Il BstiDors eoanty, have been drasn
@ serve a. jaroFs IN the I. :. Circuit Court Tor
Marylana
M. r. r. Boarna1, Of this town. lost fns
sou fsw days ago. Tue animal Vas staked out
and bssoming satAngled in the rope fell and broke
Der neck.
Tbs country Is nov fall Of gunners and
everything In the shape Of game is being siaugh-
tered right and left. Rabbits are said to be
very plentiful
Mr.. Eli Bond, who has been living in
Green Spring Valley, has rented Mr.. Martin ID.
Geist's farm, near Shawan, and will take charge
Of il next spring.
"A new hook and ladder truck has been
placed in county engine house No. ], on the Fred
erick road. 1t cost $500 and the horses to draw
il cost about $780,
The Board of County Commissioners ad-
journed at D. m. on Wednesday, for the pur-
pose of inspecting culvert which is in course of
erection in the Belt.
We experienced the first snow squall of
the season on Sunday afternoon last The wealth
er grew quite cold afterwards and there was con-
siderable ice Monday morning.
-"Neckar," the new postofice recently es-
tablished in the 18th district, with Mr.. Joseph AZ
Neckar as postmaster, is situated q miles from
Fullerton and miles from Perry Hall.
The contract for building the station house
and engine house at Gainesville, which was first
awarded to Henry A. Maggie, was this week given
to William Gerwig, whose bid was 2,475.
At the Baptist preachers meeting in Bal
timore, on Monday, Rev. W. j. Nicoll, of Pixies
vile, stated that he baptised on Sunday, five per-
sons in Gwinn's falls during q snow storm.
An attempt was made on Monday night to
rob Bishops tavern, at Herring Run, Philadel-
phia road, but Mr.. Bishop heard the burglars at
work and frightened them off with pistol.
An exchange says Baltimore county foxes
will hereafter keep closer to earth than ever. 1t
was an Elkridge hunter that won the first prize
for jumping at the New York horse show"
Mr.. Thaddeus C. Blair, of the Sth district,
has rented portion of the Thomas Ward prop
erty, at Texas N. G. r. R., and will engage in
the business of lime burning on his own account.
Mr.. Thomas H. Ridgely, of the Baltimore
county bar, was on Thursday admitted as an at
torney of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore He
is son of Charles W. Ridgely, ESQ.,, of Luther
vile.
Mr.. Patrick McColgan, brother of Mon
signor McColgan, died at his residence, Waverly,
Baltimore county, last Sunday, in the 18th year
of his age. He had lived in this country fifty
years.
Rev. L. B. Turnbull, who resides in Loudon
county, Va. had tenant house on his property
destroyed by ire on Monday last. He is a con of
Mr.. Henry C. Turnbull, ST., of "Auburn," near
Towsontown.
Mr.. j. Edward Bacon, cigar dealer, 81
west Baltimore street, Baltimore, who last week
made an assignment, has made a satisfactory
settlement with his creditors and has again re-
sumed business
-TOwsontown's National Bank is now in full
operation and already the town has taken on q
more important air. Our people may not be so
progressive as some, but vulgarly speaking, we
get there all the same.
The ladies connected with the congregation
Of the Towsontown NJ. Z. Church will hold socia-
bic and oyster supper in the lecture room of the
church, commencing on Tuesday evening next
anu continuing tnfee evenings.
ANON Bosley Merryman, second son of
Mr.. Nicholas II. Merryman, formerly Of Balti-
more county, died of consumption, at his fathers
residence, Division street, Baltimore, on Satur-
day last, in the 37th year OF his age.
Mr.. Gabriel Duval, of Baltimore, who
bought the Warner estate at Homeland Station,
Maryland Central railroad, has torn down the old
house which stood upon the property and will
erect handsome stone residence on the same site
MIR. John Crowther, Jr chief clerk and
auditor of the county, who was lately elected
cashier of the Towsontown bank, did not tender
his resignation to the County Commissioners this
week and it is not definitely known what he pro-
poses to do.
Mr.. and Mrs. OrvilIe Horwitz celebrated
their silver wedding at their country residence
"Cloud Capped" near Gainesville, on Tuesday
night last There was large and fashionable
company and many rich presents in solid silver
were received.
The Ekridge Club had a meet at Randalls
town ON Wednesday morning. They jumped q
fox near the Patspsco and the dogs ran him SC
fast that they got out of sight and hearing of the
huntsmen and lost them entirely, obliging them
to give up the chase.
"A colored woman named Sarah Hall, said
to be ITO years old, died in Waverly on Wednes-
day. Before the war she was slave of the late
VIM. Holmes, and thirteen of her fourteen chill
dren were sold in the South, from which time she
never heard of them.
The members of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union are sending letters to every
stakeholder of the Baltimore County Agricultu raj
Society asking them to vote against the sale OF
liquor on the fair grounds, at the meeting OF
the Society on Monday next, 18th inst.
Mr.. Thos. 0. Young, of Carroll, LIST district,
drove to the city on Wednesday and having oc-
eason to stop, got coored man to hold his horse.
When he returned TO the street the team and the
h. ftar ard
the thief driving along Baltimore street.
The officers Of our new bank have not yet
decided upon site for the bank building, but it
will be located on the rike, within a stones throw
of The UNION Office. They have three or four
lots in view and it is their intention to commence
building as soon as they secure the ground.
The Waverly Guards, Capt Joseph War
din, have been supplied with new regulation uni
forms. The company has been organized nearly
three years and this is the first thing they have
received from the State, except their arms. The
men furnish their own helmets, the State appro-
priation being insufficient for the purpose.
The poles for new telegraph line are being
set up along Charles street avenue. Some of the
gentlemen who own fine country seats on the ave
nue., object to the unsighty poles being placed
along their fronts, and Is said that of them
have watchmen both day and night with shot
guns to keep the men from putting the poles up.
"A IellOW nameu lOung, "no, IL WOulu ap-
pear, has been making a business of moving
around the Belt on Sunday, getting drinks and
then turning informer, was on the witness stand
in Sunday liquor selling case in the Circuit
Court here on Tuesday. He was drunk, and dis
posed to be impudent, and Judge Fowler very
properly sent him to Jail.
The prize fight, with light gloves, an
nounced to take place at Herring Run on Monday
afternoon, between two bruisers named Kilrain
and Heard, complete fzzIe only one round
being fought, when Deputy Sheriff Rsteau, who
had thirty special deputies and squad of city
police under him, ordered the mill to stop, Klrain
having the best of it far it went. Several
thousand people were present, among them hun
dreds of toughs from all the cities within three
four hundred miles Of Baltimore. The gate re-
ceipts amounted to nearly 81 500, of which Klrain
took so per cent. and HEARD 40.