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

Leave I0wSOntoWn Tor Delta and intermediate
stations at 9.49 a. M, and $3.50 p. m. For Loeb
Raven at 6.57 p. m.
Leave Towsontown for Baltimore and interme-
date stations at 9.2S a. m, and 5.24, 904 p. m.
Religious Notices.
To,oson,o,on NJ. E. Church.-Preaching to-mor-
row Sunday, at IL a. m and at s p. NJ, by the
pastor, Rev. Watson Case.
Prayer meeting on Wednesday evening, at
O'Clock, and class meetings Thursday, at 3 p.
m, and Friday evening, at O'Clock.
Trinity p E. Church, MISUNDERSTANDING
Sunday by the rector, Rev. W. II. II. Powers, at
IL a. m. and u p. m. Bible class Wednesday at
400 p. m.
There will be preaching at Lutherville, by Rev.
W. H. II. Powers, in the Public Hall, every Sum
day afternoon, at 81 o'clock.
Eutav NJ. P. Church, Hartford Road.-Preach-
ing every Sunday, by the pastor, Rev. j. M. Gill,
at IL a. m. All invited.
The York county agricultural society will
hold its next exhibition commencing October 9th.
Summit Grove camp-meeting commenced
last Thursday and will continue to the 10th of
August.
a postoice has been established at Har-
leigh, Baltimore county, with William H. Marriott
as postmaster.
The Northern Central railroad company
contempates the erection Of handsome new
depot at York.
Mr. James Bujac, of Gainesville, Baltimore
county, has obtained patent for CRATE for
burning coal dust.
Ground was broken on Tuesday last for the
new NJ. E. Church at Gainesville, when appropri-
ate services were held.
The annual pic mic of the Towsontown M.
E. Sunday school will take place on Tuesday
next, at Druid Hill Park.
Mr.. c. r. McCosh, of Emory Grove, Balti-
more county, recently purchased house and lot
in Hanover, Pa, for which he paid 81, 100.
john Hubner, Esq, of Gainesville has
placed hot air engine in his residence, by which
hot and cold water is forced to every room.
"A little son of Mr.. II. Tracey, living on
Jefferson Place, in the Belt, fell from wall few
days ago and broke his right arm at the elbow.
Mrs. NJ. A. Burns, of Catonsville finds it
necessary TO give notice that she will not be re-
sponsible for any debts unless contracted by her
self.
The County Commissioners have appointed
Rev. P. B. Lenahan assistant chaplain at the Bal
timore county aims house, at a salary of 500 per
annum.
john CIayman, proprietor of Clayman's
Hotel, Belair, died on Monday night, aged about
60 years. Hereafter the house will be conducted
by his son-in-aw.
Trinity P. E. Sunday school, of this place,
of which Dr. G. NJ. Bosley is superintendent, will
hold its annual picnic at Druid Hill Park, Wed
nesday, August llth.
"A little daughter of Mr. William F. We'll
Ter, of Granite, I'd district few days ago while
playing in a new barn, fell distance of Is feet,
hurting herself quite seriously.
Hon. Jas. B. Groome, Collector of the Port
of Baltimore, has appointed Edward Lyston, of
Baltimore county, fireman in Public Store No. l,
at a salary of 81, O95 per year.
THE Belair fair will begin this year on the
18th of October The purses offered for the races
very liberal and will no doubt attract some of
the best horses in the country.
The Northern Central Railroad Company
recently gave a mortgage to the Fidelity 1nsur-
ance, Trust and Safe Deposit Company of Phila-
delphia for the sum of Sl5, 100000.
In the Orphans Court this week letters of
administration were granted to j. Edward Ward
and Virginia V. Ward on the estate of their de-
ceased sister, Miss Sarah E. Ward.
The Sunday school of St. Johns Methodist
Church, Lutherville, held its annual pic mic at
Loeb Raven on Wednesday last. Coles stages
carried the party to and from the lake.
Owing to the continued wet weather wood
cock shooting has been very poor this season.
The birds were driven out of their usual haunts
and the sportsman was unable to find them.
Fever and ague, a disease thought to pre-
vail only along rivers and in low sections of coun
try, is now prevalent On Chestnut Ridge, one of
the most elevated sections of Baltimore county.
Mr.. Thomas Dixon, the well known archi-
tect, who died in Baltimore last Sunday, had
country seat at Mt. Washington and was one of
the elders Of the Presbyterian church in that
place.
There will De an excursion from all points
on the Maryland Central railroad to Pen-Mar to-
day Saturday, the train passes TOwsontown at
a. m The fair for the round trip from this point
will be S1.15.
Base ball is being played every Sunday near
Hops Station, N. C. r. R., to the great annoy
ance of those who live and who like quiet
Sabbath. 1t is the duty of the county officers to
put stop to this.
An unknown man, about As years of age,
was killed by freight train at the 13-Mile
Switch, P. W. B. R. R., on Tuesday morning
The body was brought to Canton and buried at
the county's expense.
In a trot at Herring Run on the 22d inst,
between Coos Myers edwin A." and George
Meister's caesar" for 5000 side, the latter
proved the victor, edwin" getting one heat
The best time was 2:354.
Travel on the Western Maryland railroad
is heavier this summer than ever before. The
service could not well be better and nearly every
train is crowded. 1t is one of the best managed
railroads in the country.
William NJ. Busey, Esq, well known Bal
timore lawyer, has consented to deliver lecture
at the Casino, Mt. Washington, On Thomas JEFF
ferson, reviewing the domestic and philanthropic
life of the great statesman.
Mr. Frank Emory, Of this place, while fish,
ing in Loeb Raven, at Meredth's ford, a few days
ago, caught German carp weighing about three
quarters of pound. This is the first carp we
have ever seen taken from the lake.
Mr. Geo. P. Everhart is closing out his
business at Railroad on the Northern Central
road, and will remove to Manchester. He is an
enterprising merchant and brother oe Mr.. E. S.
Everhart, of Woodbury., Baltimore county.
"A little son of Mr.. James E. Amos, chief
clerk to the Sheriff of Baltimore city, accidentally
shot himself with revolver one day last week and
died in a few hours. The pistol had been care
laff phora fbo flo fall al nf
"A man named John Within has been COM
mitted to Jail here the charge of stealing set
of harness, valued at Sl5 from Mrs. Julia German,
five miles on the Reisterstown road. He sold the
harness on Harrison street, Baltimore, for S1.75.
Mr.. Grafton M. B. Shirley, very popular
young gentleman, and nephew of DR.. g. NJ.
Bosley, of Towsontown, died of typhoid fever, at
the residence of his mother, in Jefferson county,
Va the 10th instant, in the 26th year of his age.
The gross earnings of the Northern Central
Railroad Company for the month of June were
$432, $685.; expenses, 1887 ,06S.37 net earnings
S95,46S.22, being decrease of about $4,000 as
compared with the corresponding month of last
year.
Mr.. Edward Richardson, Jr., died sudden
" of heart disease, in Baltimore last Sunday. He
was native of Hartford and a brother of Mr..
Larry Richardson, the gentlemanly ticket agent
of the York Road Railway Company at the Ho-
day street office
Mr.. John Burns, carpenter and builder,
has been awarded the contract for building par
sonage for St. Frances Roman Catholic Church,
Towsontown. 1t will be erected on the church
lot ON the northwest side of the town and is to be
frame building
The annual harvest home festival will be
held at the Rocks of Deer Creek, Maryland Gen.
trail railroad, Thursday and Friday, August 9TH
and 9th. Several prominent gentlemen Will de-
liver addresses, and there will be dancing and
other amusements.
The artesian well, from which it is propos-
ed to get permanent water supply for Cations
vile, has reached depth of about 100 feet, most
of which is through solid granite. The water OBJ
tanned is very pure and cold and rises to within
ID feet of the surface.
For some time past white crow has been
seen in the east end of Green Spring Valley, near
Brook landville. 1t is the same size and shape
of the other crows, with which it uses, but per-
fectly white. All efforts to capture it have thus
far proved unsuccessful.
A man named Osborne, thought to be