The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1888-11-24
LOCAL ITEMS.
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TUESDAY,. November Dy OcOIRS
trustee, handsome residence in Mt Washing
ton, N. C. r. X.
Wednesday, November S, by > u. wilson, auc-
tioneer at the residence of Mr.. S. p. Bosley,
TowsontOwn horses, cows colts wagons, &c
Wednesday, November %, by william Seltz
splendid truck farm on the Hartford road,
miles from the city.
Wednesday. November 2S, by VIM. t. Knight,
executor, farm of 70 acres, near Morrison
Station, 18th district.
Thursday. Nov. %, by E. G. Christopher, 5 miles
on the Hartford road, large stock of seasoned
Saturday. December l, by John l. Yellott and
Isaac Morfoot, trustees, fine farm of lis acres
also. a tract of IA acres adjoining the above.
Tuesday. December 4, by Francis Denmead, Jr.,
aEeoTney; urnnike opposite barley Park
Monday December II, by Philip ]. NJ. Young, as
signee. valuable leasehold property on Z.
Second street. in the Belt.
Thursday, December 20, by r. R. Boarman and
Chew Snebly, trustees, the valuable real es-
tate and personal properly tI s;y OF Benjamin l.
>Thursday next, 18th instant, will be
Thanksgiving day.
There are now eighteen prisoners comm
ed in the county jail.
Spring Grove Insane Asylum is to besup-
piled with water from the Gainesville artesian
well.
MIR. Stabler, of Baltimore county, has
been appointed keeper of Summit Grove camp
grounds at New Freedom.
> Eastern avenue from point near Bay
view Asylum TO the city limits, is being shelled
at the expense of the county
Corn was selling in TOwsOntown the past
week at $225 per barrel. In liquid form the
price remains about the same.
Capt. John H. Suter, of Woodbury., who
was elected Clerk of the new court in Baltimore
on the 9th inst, filed his bond on MONDAY last.
1.-The stoves were put IN the ork road cars
this week and now you can get a seyen-mlle
ride and all the comfort you want for % cents.
"a successful revival meeting has been in
progress the past week at EPSON M. T. Church,
ToWsontown Rev. J. L. Elderdice is the pastor.
Mr.. Thomas Bodley Anderson, who was
born in Baltimore county, died at Morris Run,
Pa few DAYS ago, in the 18th year OF his age.
while shooting at Biddison's on Middle
river, last Saturday, Mr.. Howard Ridgely killed
five wild geese out OF a bunch OF seven IN TWO
shots.
Fresh pork sold from wagons ON the
York road the past week from to II cts. per
pound; butter % to % cts. and eggs % cts. per
dozen.
I've experienceda real cold snapthis week,
the atmosphere being decidedly winterlsh ON
Wednesday morning, when considerable ice
formed.
Mr.. John F. Barrenger, 18th district
trucker, has grown an ordinary carrot that
measured over foot in length and weighed OF
pounds.
REV. Page Milburn, pastor of Towson-
town NJ Z. Church, on Sunday night last
preached Gospel temperance sermon to large
congregation.
The case of James w. Kane VS.. the Bal
timore & Ohio r. R. Company occupied the at
tention of the Circuit Court nearly the whole
of the past week.
1.-The next session of the Baltimore Annual
Conference of the M. E. Church will be held In
Baltimorecity, commencing March 9th. Bishop
Foss will preside.
Several running races have been arranged
to take place at Pimlico on Thanksgiving day,
commencing promptly at noon. They will be
g. k1o,,,o rs0 OYalxy
The price paid by Mr.. Henry Hoen for
the Gen. Trimble farm, at the head of Dulany's
Valley, was $11, 275. 1t is known as Raven
hurst and contains 207 acres.
Splendid potatoes can now be bought
from wagons Oh the York road at 45 and 55
cents per bushel, while Towsontown stores
charge % cts. per peck for them;
@The country seat of the late Alexander
Murdoch situated on the Reisterstown road
was offered at public sale on Monday last and
was withdrawn on a bid of S27, 900.
Already nearly one hundred persons have
been converted at the protracted meetings held
this fall on Hereford Circuit The pastors are
Reys s. NJ Afford and Geo. G. Bacon.
IAN "anti-Rasin Democratic club has
been organized in Waverly. The new wards
lately annexed to the city will make it warm
for the bosses when the time comes.
THE turkey now begins to climb
The very highest treeses;
He wants to keep his whiskers safe
From cold Thanksgiving breezes.
pit is said that the biggest turkeys always
roost highest. Our friends will please remem-
Der this when they go to catch the birds they
intend to send us in time for Thanksgiving.
Mrs. Forwood, wife of DIR. w. Stump
Forwood prominent Hartford county physi-
clan, died of typhoid fever on Sunday last
She was formerly Miss Bond, of Kentucky.
-George Berry, ST., of Woodbury., super
intendent of the chemical fire department in
the Belt, has resigned and will go South to SUI
perintend the building of several cotton mills
Ion the first page of THE UNION to-day
we publish very pretty Thanksgiving story
from st. Nicholas, entitled Ann Mary-Her
Two Thanksgivings 1t is well worth reading.
Mrs. ]. C. Cooper, of Towsontown, who
goes to Baltimore to market every Saturday,
had large basket of marketing stolen from
one of the York road cars on Saturday evening
last.
IA few nights ago while Mr.. Samuel E.
Parks was on his way home from Towsontown,
his horse SHE'D at a cat on top of fence and
threw him off. The only injury he sustained
was sprained wrist.
MIR. Russell Wetmore, who married Miss
Mary Darcy Wilson, daughter of Mr.. Thomas
J. Wilson, of Waverly, died at the residence of
his father-in-law on Saturday last, aged 38years.
He was native of New York.
WIN. B. Thomas and John c. Harrison,
of the LIST district, who were drawn to serve as
jurors at the December term Of court, were this
week excused and S. B. Epsey and John J.
Pilert were drawn in their stead.
Wilhelmina Kruse, who was convicted
in the Circuit Court here last month for selling
liquor to minors, and who was sent TO Jail in
default of payment of fine of $50, was on We'd
nesday released by order of the Court.
Major A. c. Rhodes, who has been the
chief lquidating clerk in the Custom House for
many wears, was suspended on Wednesday.
He is resident of the 18th district of this coun-
ty, where he is engaged in truck farming.
Zone month from tomorrow and then
Christmas. Itseems to us that this great annual
holiday comes around much earlier than it used
to- but then the fact remains that the years are
still three hundred and sixty-ive days long.
THE County School Board will meet at
Towsontown ON Tuesday next, 9th inst. The
white teachers will be paid their salaries on Fri
day. November 3Oth, and the colored teachers
on Saturday, December LIST, unless otherwise
notified.
The Waverly Harrison and Morton club
has decided to allow its large campaign banner
to remain suspended across the pike until after
the 4th of March next. A committee has been
appointed by the club to arrange for attending
the inauguration
Mr.. Oscar Johnson, of the County Treas
urer's office, who lives near Phoenix, n. G. r.
R.. says that at o clock on Thursday morning
the thermometer at his place registered only Y
degrees above zero 1t was unusually cold
weather for the season.
- Pleuro-pneumonia has again made Its ap-
pearance among the cattle in the neighborhood
of Sykesville Carroll county, caused by the
bringing in of stock cattle, so it is said. The
section in which it has made its appearance is
largely devoted to dairying
MIR. Jas. A. Gary, one of the most liberal
and publc-spirited citizens in the State, is build
ing a fine school house at Alberton, where his
extensive cotton mills are located. 1t will have
all modern conveniences and will be heated by
a furnace and lighted by electricity.
MIR. John Bowen, Sr., one of the Oldest
citizens of the 4th district, had the misfortune
to be thrown from his buggy a short time ago
and sustained a fracture of one of his arms.
Mr.. Bowen is an old-time fox-hunter and never
loses an opportunity to indulge in his favorite
sport.
THE Stewartstown Railroad, short line
extending from the Northern Central r. r., at
New Freedom, to Stewartstown, is doing large
business. From January 1st to November LIST
it carried IS, 900 tons Of freight and II, 200 pas
sengers. The net earnings for the eight months
were "a $780,
mir. w. Gill Smith, upon the petition of
many members of the bar, has been appointed
by Judge Fowler one of the examiners of the
court to take testimony in chancery cases, to
succeed Mr.. W. Ftzhugh Wharton, whose Ill