The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-02-20

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timore county.
Mr.. John G. Hall, who died at his residence
near Beitsville, Prince Georges county, was edu
Gated at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa, wher
he was student with Messrs. Lewis M. Bacol
and Thomas J. Hunter. He was q very popula
| gentleman and was Treasurer of his county at tn
| time of his death.
| The annual report of the Northern Contra
Railroad Company shows that the revenues of tn
main line, with its leased and controlled roads
amounted last year to SIS, 490,922. The operatin,
expenses were $3.255, 613 leaving the net earning
,30S, showing decrease of $30,954 as com
| pared with the year 1884.
The Maryland Central railroad stood tn,
recent thaw and heavy rains much better thar
was expected, showing that the earth in the cut
is being settled and that no more danger from
that sourceis to be apprehended. There was only
one place on the road that caused any trouble ant
that was of trif1ing nature.
An effort is to be made to get the choil
from the Baltimore Cathedral to come to Towson
town and give concert for the benefit Of the
Catholic Church here. This choir is one of the
finest musical organizations in the country and
IT the arrangements can be made rich musica
treat is in store for our people.
Mr.. S. Merryman Anderson, who has beer
living on the Furnace farm, part of the Hampton
estate, for upwards of IA years, will remove next
week with his family to his farm in York county
near New Freedom. Mr.. Anderson has made
many warm friends during his residence in this
community who will greatly regret his going away
The Governor Wednesday appointed
DR.. jackson Piper, of Towsontown, member Of
the State Board of Health, to succeed the late Dr.
McSherry. The many friends of the DR.. will be
pleased to know that he has been thus honored
particularly as he possesses especial fitness for
the discharge of the duties of that important Of
fee.
Mr.. W. II. H. Whiteford, member of the
Hartford county School Board, whose mysterious
disappearance on the I'd inst, was noticed in
these columns last week, returned to his home
Saturday last He said he had gone West to
visit his brother and had sent telegram to his
wife informing her of the fact but she did not re-
ceive it.
Mr.. Boyd Bell, member of the firm of
Strauss Bros. & Bell, Baltimore, was married on
Thursday night, 18th inst, to Miss Matte Street,
of Hartford county. The bride is daughter of
the late John Rush Street and a sister-in-law of
Stevenson A. Williams, ESQ.,, of Belair. The
groom's family owns the old McHenry property
in Hartford.
Mr.. Elijah Bishop, contractor, has under
taken the job of removing the immense bank of
earth and rock on the east side of the Maryland
Central railroad yard, at Boundary avenue. The
company has found it necessary to do this in order
to secure more yard room. The contractor re-
ceives no compensation further than what he can
make out of the stone, &C., which he removes.
Mr.. Chas. L. Hammond, of the Sd district,
has rented Epson, the farm of Mrs. Charles R.
Chew, adjoining Towsontown, together with the
farm of the late Benjamin Chew, adjoining EPSON
and inherited by Mrs. Chew's children from their
late uncle. The two farms embrace something
over 400 acres. Mr.. Hammond, who is an ex-
perienced farmer and cattle feeder, will take
charge shortly.
"A young lady in Towsontown, while in the
act of enjoying little quiet cape to herself, had
the misfortune to dislocate her jaw. A physician
was at sent for but before he arrived the I'M
hinged jaw had been replaced and all danger was
averted. This should prove sautary lesson to
young ladies. Never cape. even to get rid of I'M
interesting company, which may not have been
the cause in the case here cited.
Application has been made to the County
Commissioners for the opening of q new county
road in the LIST district, extending from Wilkens
avenue to Kenwood station, on the Short Line
Railroad, and to connect with public road at
that point. The road commissioners of that dis
trict and Mr.. John P. Clark have been appointed
q board of examiners upon the same and they will
meet on the premises Tuesday, March I1th, at
10 O. N.
For the information of the public we will
state again that the subscription price of The
UNION is S1.50 per annum in Advance. We are
constantly receiving letters to have the paper sent
and we desire to haveit distinctly understood that
such requests cannot be complied with. If you
want the paper enclose the amount named and
your request will be promptly complied with.
Otherwise it will not.
Some people will persist in calling this
place "Towson," although the proper name is
Towsontown and it has never been changed. Tho
Postoffce Department once got in fit for short
ening the names of all postofices and, at the sug
geston of some person here, the name of the post
office was changed to Towson, but that did not
change the name of the town, which still remains
Towsontown. We make it a point to always use
the full name and mail matter addressed to Tow
sontown comes here as straight as though ad-
dressed to "Towson."
"A few days ago lady in Towsontown went
into her coa-house to investigate the size of the
coal pile. While in there the door blew shut
and latched and as there was no knob on the in
side she was made a prisoner. There was no one
about her house at the time and although she
called Justify for help her nearest neighbors did
not hear her. She was in the house about an
hour-and it seemed to her q week-when she
finally found an axe, and with it broke open
the door and gained her liberty. She was con-
siderably excited, not to say real mad, and you
can bet that it will be some time before that door
fools her again.
4aU0I05IlAB OOCio1O4 al UA0 uAdULOI VI q
Sale for Taxes.-On Saturday last Judge Fow-
Ter, before whom the matter was heard, rescinded
the order of final ratification and annuled tax
sale which had been made by the late treasurer,
J. Hartman Schone, of real estate in this county
belonging to Ernest de Merolla, formerly italian
consul at Baltimore. After Merola had disap-
peared, he was, on June 4th, 1885, upon applica-
ton by one of his creditors to the Court of Com
mon Pleas, adjudicated an insolvent debtor, and
nsnfoA fruc of
his estate. On June goth, 1885, after the Insol-
vent Court had acquired jurisdiction, the tax COL
lector levied upon Merolla's real estate for nom
payment of 1884 taxes, and sold the same on Sep
TENDER LIST. The trustee, having ascertaided that
the tax sale had taken place, gave written notice
to the collector that it void by reason of the
insolvent proceedings, and that the proper course
of the collector to apply to the Court of Com
mon Pleas for payment of the taxes, the Court
of Appeals having so decided, where trustees, to
make sale, had been appointed by decreein chan
Gerry, and held that collector cannot then SELL
The collector, however, reported the sale to the
court for ratification and it was ratified in due
course. The court has now, upon application of
the insovent trustee, acting upon the question of
the want of right of the collector to sell and the
insuficiency of the notice given by him of his
purpose to proceed, in that it not signed, set
aside the sale and held that Mr.. Schone is bound
for the costs of the tax sale and that the nsovent
estate and trustee are not liable for them.
Sold his Body.-Harry Brown, colored, Of
Waverly, the old man who was frozen to death
early this month, an account of which pub
lished in The UNION at the time, after being
brought to Towsontown, was carried back to Wa.
verify and placed in an upper room of the station
house until arrangements could be made to bury
him. But such good opportunity to turn ar
honest penny could not be resisted, and some time
during the night his body was taken out and car.
ried to some medical college, where it was sold fol
something like $500. A well known county Of
fetal of the village was rendered share of the
proceeds derived from the saIe but he respectfully
declined. An Investigation of the matter will mos
likely be made at an early day, when the guilty
parties will be asked to explain their connection
with this high-handed piece of business. Abraham
Cole, of L., is the keeper of the station house.
Arrested for Stealing Horses.-0n Mon
day last Peter Bollinger and Edward benson were
arrested in Northwest Baltimore on the charge Of
stealing two horses from John P. Johns, of Nc
| Sherrystown, Adams county, Pa. The accused
sold the horses last Sunday to August Fowner
proprietor of the 7-Mle House on the Hookstowr
road, for $160. Soon thereafter the Sheriff o
Carroll county appeared and seized the horses
upon the ground that they had been stolen.-
| Eovner then LODGED complaint with the city pOlic