The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-02-06

Farm Dulany's Valley turnpike.
Wednesday, February 18th. personal property o
Jacob K. Geist, on the Falls road, IL mile
Monday, February I'D, by otho S; Lee, trustee
farm of IS acres at 9gpg Roads, Har
Tuesday, February 23d, by s. Parker Bosley
trustee, valuable real estate in the 18th dis
trict near the new B. & o. Railroad.
Tuesday, February 23d, personal property O
John Tracey, on the "Sudbrook Farm,
Pikesville, Sd district.
Jacob NJ. Pearce, My Lady's Manor nea
Monkton, 10th district.
We'll, what's your opinion of the ground
hog now?
1t is said that half dime of the coinage o
1902 is at present worth 1913.
Thomas L. Richardson has been commits
stoned postmaster at Hampden, Baltimore county
a postofice has been established at Fow
besburg, Baltimore county, with ii. S. Algire q
postmaster.
William Hartman, Reiserstown shoema
ker, died on Sunday from stroke of paralysis
aged "a years.
The County Commissioners this week ap
pointed John Williams, constable for the l0tl
district for two years.
The Towson Guards armory, in this place
is being greatly improved by papering, painting
the erection of gun-racks, &c.
Mr.. Charles II. Street, has purchased the
home farm of his late father John Rush Streett)
near Taylor, Hartford county.
"A young farmer named Thomas Davis
living one mile from Ellicott City, was killed in
runaway accident on Tuesday.
Conductor Warner, who has been running
one of the passenger trains on the Maryland Gen.
trail road for some time, has been discharged.
Thursday night last tho coolest of the
winter so far, the thermometer on Friday, in a
protected place, registered six degrees below zero
Mr.. George f. Wheeler, Jr., son of Geo. F.
Wheeler, proprietor of Ady's Hotel, Towsontown
has secured a cerkship in the office of the Clerk
of the Circuit Court
Mr.. Joseph Trainor, of the 4th district
Baltimore county, who was for many years clerk
in the Sixth Auditors office, has engaged in bust
ness in Washington.
The boiler in the Franklinville cotton mill
in the 18th district of this county, exploded few
days ago and slightly scalded Mr.. Keys, the en-
gineer. No other damage was DONE
Among those mentioned in the Washing
ton dispatches as applicants for United States
District Attorney for Maryland are COL d. G.
Mcintosh and Hon. Richard Grason, of Towson J.
town.
Mr.. J. S. Sweeny, of Butte City, Montana,
former Baltimore countian, will accept our
thanks for late papers from that snow bound
country Mr. Sweeny's old home is at Freeland,
N. c. R. R.
Col. Wilmot johnson, of Grace's Quarter,
18th district was of the pail bearers at the
funeral of Mrs. Bayard wife of Hon. Thomas F.
Bayard, which took place at Wilmington, Del,
on Tuesday last.
Mr. Frederick Heb, an extensive bust
ness man of Railroad, York county, Pa, is build
ing number of tenant houses at Parkton, Bal
timore county, and they are being occupied as
fast completed.
Wild ducks are very plentiful in some of
the rivers just now. On the Susquehanna, on
account of the ice below, the ducks have gone up
the river in large 1ocks as far az Peach Bottom
in order to reach open water.
The sociable and oyster supper, under the
auspices of the ladies of the Towsontown M. e.
Church, will take place on Tuesday Wednesday
and Thursday evenings next, Feb. 9th, 10th and
11th. Supper tickets so cents
The number of days during January on
which rain or snow fell in the vicinity of Balti-
more was Is, the total amount of precipitation
having been 4.4s inches, or 1.31 inches above the
average of the past fifteen years.
james II. Hough, who until lately lived on
Charles Street avenue, in the Belt, committed
suicide in his boarding house in Washington, on
Wednesday, by shooting himself through the head
He clerk in the Treasury Department.
Mr.. W. II Ramsay, who has been agent for
the Maryland Central Railroad at Delta since
the opening of the road to that point, was this
week superseded by Mr.. L. j. Dodson, who will
hereafter have charge of the companys business
there.
The County Commissioners give notice thai
they will be at their office from the 18th to 20tt
of February, inclusive, for the purpose of altering
and correcting valuations of property. The
transfer books will be kept open until the LIST o.
March.
The yorktown turnpike company has es
tablished toll gate at the "White House. cal
stables, a short distance below Govanstown
There are now eight gates on this road between
Baltimore and Parkton, distance Of twenty mint
miles.
-Messrs. Morris and Charles Baldwin, DIR
and Mrs. J. w. Green and Miss Ida Baldwin, Of
Baltimore county, attended the golden wedding
CT Mr.. and Mrs. David Hanway, at their resi-
dence, near Pleasantville, Hartford county, or
Thursday evening of last week.
Col. Walter S. Franklin, of the Sth district
of this county, is an applicant for United States
Marshal for Maryland. Gen. Hancock and Gen
VIM. B. Franklin, the latter brother of the
Colonel's, were in Washington few days ago t.
urge his appointment by the President
The County Treasurer's report for thu
month of January, 1886, makes the following
showing: Cash on hand Dec. 31st, 1885, $43, 497.
81 receipts for January from all sources, 81 !,
574.67 disbursements for the month, $16,976.47
cash on hand February LIST, $3S,O96.O2.
Mr.. David Wiley, well known citizen o
Hartford county, died at his residence, near Nor
risville, on Wednesday OF last week. lie once
represented his county in the Legislature and wa
farmer and cattle dealer. Mr.. Wiley had many
friends and acquaintance in Baltimore county.
The M. 4. Church in this place-a larg
brick structure situated on the turnpike in thu
northern part of the towns advertised at pub
sale to satisfy the claims of some of its forme
trustees If it should be sold it is not know
what the congregation will do for place of wor
ship.
For the sum of SO, 63O.24 Ernault H. Viii
lians has conveyed to his father, Hon. Georg
Hawkins Williams, his interest in certain prop
erty devised to him under the will OF his brother
Geo. MAY Williams. The Safe Deposit an'
Trust Company is the trustee OF Ernault ii. VII
liams.
Mr.. Harry L. Hipsley, SON of E. G. Hips
lev. ESQ., president of the Old Town Bank and
well known merchant of north Gay street, wa
married on the goth of January to Miss e. Estell
Anderson daughter of Mr.. Benjamin 7. Andei
son. formerly Of Ny Lady's Manor, Baltimor
county.
Mt Moriah Masonic lodge, of Towsontowr
celebrated its twenty first anniversary ON Tuesda
night, when there was a reunion of the members
followed by supper in the banquet hall adJoin
ing the lodge room. The occasion was one {
much pleasure and was highly enjoyed by q
present.
The wife of Mr.. VIM. McRoberts, hea
gardener at Hampton, near Towsontown, died
Ohio few days ago. Last November she wer
to her home in that State in the hope that nc
health would be benefited, but she was not i'm
proved by the change. Her disease was cor
sumption.
Catonsvile is making rapid strides in tn
way of improvement. Since the advent of th
Short-Line railroad the citizens have had tn
town lighted by gas, they have a bill before tn
Legislature for a charter, a $4,000 hotel is pre-
jected and now company has been formed to Sc
cure an artificial water supply for town and v
cinity. Gainesville promises to be live place
the near future.