The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-09-18

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Trinity p. E. Church, Totosontown.-Preaching
Sunday by the rector, Rev. W. II. Fl. Powers, at
IL a. m. and p. m. Friday-Evening Prayer
at 800 p. m.
There will be preaching at Luthervile, by Rev.
W. H. H. Powers, in the Public Hall, every Sun
day afternoon, at 81 o'clock.
Baltimore Circuit M. P. Church.-Preaching at
10l a. M. at EPSON Church, Towsontown, to NOR
row Sunday at Pine Grove, at 81 p. M; at
Warren, at night. Protracted meeting at Pine
Grove postponed for two weeks so as to have
moonlight. j. r. NICHOLS, Pastor.
Eutaw II. P. Church, Hartford Road.-Preach-
ing every Sunday, by the pastor, Rev. j. M. Gill;,
at IL q. m. All invited.
Republican primaries have been called for
this county next Monday.
Mr.. Robert Magruder, of the Sd district, is
foreman of the present Grand Jury.
Hon. Edwin Warfield Surveyor of the Port
will be married early in November to Miss Emma
Nichodemus, of Baltimore.
The rain storm with which we were visited
last Sunday afternoon was accompanied by some
hail, which did no damage, however.
DR.. James H. Jarrett has been confined to
his residence several days this week and is still
unable 20 attend personally to his large practice
The Passionist Monastery on the Freder-
lex road, LIST district, having been rebuilt was
dedicated on Sunday afternoon last, Cardinal
Gibbons officiating.
-Towsontown was furnished with another
new coat of paint on Tuesday. Like the one late
ly applied by that city military company it was
red-very red indeed.
Mr.. William B. Sands, secretary of the
Baltimore County Agricultural Society, says the
officers of the society entirely satisfied with
the results of the late fair.
There was shooting scrape at drinking
place on the Mt. Carmel road, 18th district, last
Sunday, but nobody was hurt. The county police
failed to arrest the participants
Among those who took premiums for horses
at the State fair this week were Messrs. George o.
Wilson, E. Cuttings Merryman, George w. Yellott
and Charles 7. Cockey, of Baltimore county.
"A gentleman who visited Towsontown a
few days ago said he never before saw the place
so overrun with weeds and expressed surprise
that they were not cut down and disposed of.
1t is estimated that there were upwards of
ten thousand people at our county fair on Thurs
day of last week, hundreds of whom came out
from Baltimore by the Northern Central road.
The annual tournament of the Towson
Guards will be held on Wednesday next, 22d
inst, and should the weather be favorable there
will no doubt be a largo crowd here on that day.
For real self-sharpening- d doubled back &C.
tion-potics the lower eend of the county willing
ly yields the palm to the "feefth deestrict." Let
it not be said hereafter that the barrenites are
green.
The Baltimore American of Saturday last
said: cite Baltimore county fair, which closed
yesterday, was decided success. 1t is a pleas
ure to note how this exhibition is improving
year by year."
Tes hsa HnS A 81 Sq psop 81 sn visiting
the county fair. 1t is hard matter to secure
just the kind of weather that is needed for such
an exhibition.
The Baltimore City Guard Association
spent Monday last, September 18th, at Ritter's
Govanstown Hotel, where they engaged in target
shooting and partook of an elegant banquet
served in Mr.. Ritter's best style.
-Towsontown was treated to the unusual
spectacle this week of two Democratic county
conventions on the same day. We expect that
this is only another illustration the saying that
"misfortunes never come singly."
Mrs. Sophia Broughton, wife of the late DIR.
Henry B. Broughton, of Cecil county, died of heart
disease, on the Sd instant at the residence of her
granddaughter, Mrs. Isabella Pinkerton, in Balti-
more county. Her age was SO years.
On Saturday evening, 18th inst, Mr.. and
Mrs. Nimrod G. Logsdon, of the 4th district, cele
brated the twentieth anniversary of their marriage
or china wedding, when they entertained many of
their friends who brought with them gifts of
china, &c.
The Woodbury. club of Baltimore county
day with the crack club of that city and was de-
feated by score of Z to 2. The Frederick club
has won twenty-one consecutive games and has
not been beaten this season..
In the stallion race at Pimlico on Tuesday
there were four starters-Todds Harry Arlington;
tain Boy, and Hoppss Gray Morrill,. Arlington
won in three straight heats, the best time being
2:294. The purse was $500, divided
The much-needed rain of the past week
was most welcome to farmers, who had been
obliged to stop blowing, the ground having be-
come so hard. Seeding can now be proceeded
with and by the end of next week most farmers
will have gotten well through with the work.
The Rev. Yuzero Motora, native Metho-
dist Episcopal preacher of Japan and student of
Johns Hopkins University, will preach in the NJ.
f. Church of this place, to morrow Sunday, at
III O'Clock a. m, and will also address the Month
ly Sunday School Missionary Society, at 81 o'clock
p. m. All are invited.
"On Monday afternoon last the engine of
the freight train on the Maryland Central railroad
jumped the track while crossing the Little Gun.
powder trestle. Fortunately it did not get entire
ly off the treste and thus bad accident was aver
ted. The passenger trains were delayed for some
time on account of the mishap.
Well, our county fair is over and we think
the officers can be congratulated upon its success.
In some respects the exhibition was not so COM
plete as some former ones, but in point of at
tendance 1t surpassed any of its predecessors and
this shows that the people generally took an in
terest IN 1t, which is very gratifying.
There were some pretty warm times at the
Democratic primary meetings held in this county
last Saturday, but there were no very serious
breaches of the peace. Both sides charge fraud
and we expect they are both right 1t would be
difficult matter to hold a primary meeting these
days that was not largely tinctured with this ar
ticle.
john c. Sullivan, who died at Grafton, W.
Va, on the 18th inst, was for some years engaged
in business at Gainesville, Baltimore county. In
1879 he was elected to the Legislature from this
county on the Democratic ticket. He was 46 years
of age and brother in law of Mr.. John W. Nc
Cauey, formerly weknown citizen of the LIST
district
The Baltimore county police had their little
innings on Tuesday. They allowed the good peo
pie of the Belt to protect their property while
they came up. to Towsontown to take turn at
running a Democratic convention. The tax
payers of the county are no doubt highly pleased
at the result. They know now what the police
force is for.
"A disinterested gentleman who was a quiet
looker-on at Democratic primary in one of the
Belt districts last week said it looked odd to zee
the county policemen holding tickets and working
like beavers among the crowd. He saw one officer,
apparently more active than the others, who had
thrown off his coat and was attending to business
in his shirt sleeves.
-0n Thursday night last party of genial
gentlemen, composed of Messrs. Joshua M. Mat
thews, Thomas Peerce, Ii. E. Bartleson and
Washington Stevenson, were the guests of George
E. Mann, Esq, at his home near Pikesville.
On Friday they visited the State fair. To say
that they had pleasant time would be an ex-
ceedingly mild way of expressing it.
-"Shirley Hail." public hall owned by
joint stock company and situated near Fork post
office, 1lth district, has been levied for taxes
This is unfortunate and we hope the directors of
the company will see that the matter is attended
to. The hall has been the source of great deal
of pleasure to the neghborhood and should be
held for the purposes for which it was originally
intended.
a Baltimore county farmer drove up to the |
place of York road butcher a short time ago |
and told him he had calf in the back part of |
the wagon he desired to sell. The butcher went |
round to look at the calf, but it wasn't there, and
the farmer didn't know whether he had driven |
away from home without it, or whether he had |
lost it on the road. OF course the farmer is q |