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


now in the West, will accept our thanks for cop
of the Topeka Daily Capital, which contains
lengthy and interesting account of the celebration
of the 25th birthday of Kansas, which occurred OF
the goth of January.
The Rev. DIR. George G. Stokes, rector O
the Church of the Reedeemer, on Charles stree
avenue, is a lineal descendant of Robert Youp,
Stokes, who laid out the town of Havre de Grac
in 1882. DIR. Stokes has has been elected a,
honorary member eff the Hartford County Histor
ical Society.
The value of THE UNIONS advertiser,
columns is being appreciated by those who ar
about making public sale. If you want to reacl
the people there is no better way to accomplish
it than through this medium. THE UNION goe
everywhere and reaches the very class of peopl,
who are the best buyers.
Miss Emeline Price, daughter of the lat,
John 0. Price, of this county, assisted Mrs. Brown
at the reception and dinner given by Mr.. Frank
Brown, at his city residence, to the Maryland
Senators and others, on Friday evening of last
week. Senator Slinglutf, of Baltimore county
was among the guests.
During the winter season track hands on
the Northern Central railroad are paid 80 cents
per day. 1t is said that there is much opposi.
ton among these men to the beneficial society
which the Pennsylvania Railroad Company pro.
poses to organize, and to which allusion was made
in these columns last week.
"A number of improvements are to be made
along the line of the Maryland Central road
among them the extension of the platform forty
feet at the Towsontown station. The present re-
ceivers (Messrs. Spencer and Gilmor,) expect to
have the road in first. class condition before the
opening of next summers business.
Mr.. Luther M. Birmingham, of the 7th dis
trict, the present Grain Inspector for Maryland,
has leased Streets Hotel and wagon yard, corner
Hilen and Forrest streets, Baltimore, and will
take charge of the same on the LIST Of next May.
Mr.. B. is popular gentleman and has hosts of
friends in Baltimore and Hartford counties.
The splendid new NJ. E. Church of Balti-
more City Station, now in course of erection on
the corner of st. Paul and Third streets, in the
Belt is making good progress and when compile
ted it will be the finest church edifce in or about
the city. The congregation, which now worships
in the beautiful chapel, numbers nearly five hun
dred persons.
"A canvass is being made in Reisterstown
and vicinity to secure subscriptions to build the
proposed horse railway from that place to Glyn-
don, on the W. NJ. R. R. 1t will require SIS, 900
to build and equip the road and Baltimore cap
talist offered to put up the whole amount but the
citizens prefer to raise the money among them
selves if they can.
Mr.. F. S. Pearce, of Mound City, Missouri,
who left Baltimore county about thirty years ago,
has been here lately visiting relatives and friends
and on Monday called at THE UNION office. Mr..
Pearce is engaged in grazing and stock raising.
He is cousin of the venerable Silas PIERCE of
Oregon, Holt county, Missouri, who was also
an original Baltimore countain.
-Towsontown is without an oficer-outside
of the Sheriff and his deputies-who has author
ity to make an arrest. We think it is due to the
citizens of this place that should have at least
one conservator of the peace whose duty it would
be to look after the interests of the town and see
that order is maintained. Certainly the county
seat is entitled to this small consideration.
The unusually heavy snow of Wednesday
again greatly interfered with travel on the Mary
land Central road and trains were only able to
run at irregular intervals. The York road horse
car line blocked for second time this winter,
the cars only running far out as Queenstown,
communication being had between that point and
Towsontown by means of four-horse stage
County Treasurer Hebb, accompanied by
Mr.. E. S. W. Choate and other citizens of the I'd
district, were in Washington on Monday to see
Congressman Shaw. They want postofice es-
at or near the White Grounds, where
better mail facilities are very badly needed. The
office asked for is an established route and the
wishes of the people in that section should be
complied with without further delay.
Mr.. Elijah M. Stansbury, an old farmer
who lived on the Hartford road, near the Emile
stone, and whose death was noticed in these col
lmns last week, was member of Mount Ararat
Masonic Lodge of Belair, committee from which
attended his funeral. Mr.. Stansbury had been
married twice, his first wife being daughter of
John Gent, of Baltimore county, and his present
wife was Miss Beaver, whose family lives near
The Rocks of Deer Creek.
Tuesday last, February I'd, was Candlemas
Or grounding day. The weather was bright and
The sun shown beautifully, so that, according to
The old belief, if the grounding came out of his
hole he saw his shadow and returned to remain
six weeks, during which time we shall experience
rough weather. But we are not among those
who have any faith in the grounding theory. At
his season we usually experience disagreeabe
weather and it continues until the middle of
March, which covers the period of the ground
nog's prediction.
Mr.. Fl. L. Bowen, who represents number
Of fire insurance companies and who does great
leal of driving in pursuit of his business, informs
is that only day or two before the snow of
Wednesday of this week he encountered drifts
rom the snow of January Sth that it was impos-
ible to drive buggy through and that in some
places the roads were entirely blockaded. The
now of this week, on top of the one alluded to,
aused an entire suspension of travel in some
places, except where is possible to pull down
ences and drive through fields.
-"Talk about big SHOWS! Why this amt
lothin'. member, way back in 40, when it
moved right along for FIVE days and six nights
topped was by crawling up the chimblys and
ookin' out the top. Why, people had to shovel
he snow often the fields to plant corn in the
pring and I member seein' drifts in July that
vas higher ner the fences. o, we had SHOWS them
lays !" The coolest inhabitant" then adjusted his
pectacles and prepared to floor the next man
Who knew all about the weather for forty years
pack.
We this week experienced the heaviest snow
storm that has visited this section of Maryland in
many years. Snow commenced falling between
and 3 o'clock on Wednesday morning and con-
nued with few intermissions until o'clock on
Thursday morning, when it covered the ground
20 the depth of near Is inches. 1t was in fact a
real "old-fashioned" snow storm, and while the
weather was not very cold, yet the thermometer
was below the freezing point and registered de-
grees on Thursday morning. The heavy body of
snow again blockaded the roads, rendering them
almost unfit for travel.
A we'll known citizen of the upper end of
The county, who is member of the present jury,
while on his way to Parkton last Monday morn
ing, encountered skunk, and subsequent events
may be more easily imagined than described. On
The way down to Luthervile the ordor of the
smoking car, in which he sat, was way up-that
is it was SO dense that some of the passengers in
sisted on getting out and walking, but when it
came to riding over in Coles stage! The unfor-
tunate juryman said he liked. little perfume,
but that morning he had got it trife too
strong. He would have buried his overcoat but
the ground was frozen so dod gasted hard that he
could net dig hole in it.
Mr.. John c. P. Murphy, an active young
business man, died at his residence, on the York
road, opposite st. AIMS Church, on Sunday
morning last, aged 80 years. He had only been
sick few days and the cause of his death was
pneumonia. For twenty years Mr.. Murphy had
been connected with the extensive salt house of
Messrs. Alex. Kerr, Bro. Co., of Baltimore, and
at the time of his death he was the chief book
keeper for the firm. He was connected with
number of Catholic beneficial societies and had
his life insured for about $4,000. He leaves
wife and four young children. Mr.. Murphy was
also active in church work and was the leader of
the choir in st. AIMS Catholic Church.
One of the most prominent members of
EPSON Chapel, Towsontown, drove to church last
Sunday afternoon and when he was about to start
home he discovered that there was chicken in
his wagon. Other members gathered about the
n agon, o1a Unere 6ecame
subject of general discussion. The owner of the
wagon said it was not his, but as there were no
chickens near the church, and as the hen had de-
posted an egg in the wagon, the good brother
finally yielded to the arguments of the others and
ID ~ thoh hon ho nd