The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1888-11-24

tween VIM. III. Graham, the champion wing
shot of England, and Fred. Kell of Baltimore
which took place at the Arlington Driving Park
Wednesday afternoon, resulted in a tie. Ora
ham used only one hand. Five traps were usec
and Kell stood thirty yards off and Graham
twenty-eight
The Republican Notification at Weth
eredville on Friday night of last week, was one
of the biggest demonstrations of the kind evel
seen in Baltimore county. The procession
notwithstanding the mud, was over mile IN
length The Burgoyne Band of Towsontown
was present and attracted much attention by
its excellent music.
> Last week THE UNION made reference tC
Sunday poker game in Towsontown and on
Saturday night some one-no doubt one of the
Sunday gamblers-paid his respects to one OF
the editors by scattering a lot of ivory poker
chips over the lawn of his residence. A man
who is mean enough to gamble on the Sabbath
is mean enough to do anything.
The Republican Club of Hereford, 9TH
district had big jollification on Monday night
last, to celebrate the recent victory. There was
a torch-light procession, fireworks, music and
speech-making, and they had a rafting good
time generally. A large crowd of people came
in from the surrounding country, the campaign
club from Phoenix also taking part.
Thanksgiving day will be observed in
Towsontown follows: Services at Trinity
p. Z. Church at IL A. NJ. At P. NJ. woman's
service will be held in the NJ. E. Church, and
at 7.30 P. NJ. the pastor, Rev. Page Milburn, will
preach suitable sermon and a thanksgiving
offering will be asked for wornout preachers
and widows of ministers of the M. E. Church
> Founders Day was celebrated at the Nc
Donogh School in this county, on Wednesday
The Board of Trustees was present and delight
full day was spent. The silver cup, which is
given to the boy who during the past school
year, passed the highest grade of scholarship,
was awarded to Harry W. Lanier, son OF the
late Sidney Lanier, the well known Southern
poet.
Superintendent Baker, of the Maryland
Sunday School Union, says that organization
is about to commence an enlargement of its
work bv organizing unions and associations in
every county in the State, each one to be aux
iliary to the State association. Mr.. Baker is in
correspondence with Sunday school workers
throughout the State in behalf of this under
taking
State cattle scales, and Mr.. +. G. Christopher,
who for MANY wears conducted the large wagon
maker shops on the Hartford road 5 miles from
Baltimore have engaged in the grocery and
feed business on the Hartford road under the
firm name of Riley & Christopher. They are
enterprising and oblging young men and de-
serve to succeed.
MIR. Lewis H. Urban served-a roast pos
sum for lunch at his restaurant on Tuesday.
He tried to palm it off on his customers for a
'coon-the asame old coon" that was around
on the 9Th of November-buth he met with rather
Indifferent success, although the Democrats
who partOok of the beast said it was much
better than 'crow,' of which they have had a
beautiful sufficiency lately.
I'VE had something to say last week about
a It'll district member of the present petit jury
who is an inveterate pipe-smoker. When he
works in his fields at home he smokes contin-
ually and some of the neighbors, who do not
know of his habit, are often heard TO exclaim
when they see great clouds of smoke rolling
heayenWard: 81 wonder what that burned
fools burnin' bresh fer at this time year"
Mr. Richard H. Woollen left at our office
on Tuesday a curiosity in the shape of an cleo
ton ticket 1t is one OF the KIND that was USED
in the SD Assembly district of San francisco
and contains sixty-two names, running from
Presidential elector to school director. 1t is
printed on pink tinted paper and is inches
wide and Is inches long 1t would take a
mighty well informed man not to get fooled on
a ticket like this.
"a few DAYS ago Mr.. L. H. Urban, of this
town. found in an out-of-the-way place. some
leaves from an old journal of merchant who
did business in Baltimore over 102 years ago.
They contain many names that are familiar in
the present day, but who the book belonged to
from which these were taken, and how they
came into his possession, he is unable to say.
The writingi as distinct as the day it was done
and the penmanship is beautiful.
I'VE hear great deal of talk about having
laws passed to restrict the liquor traffic, but 1t
does not seem to have occurred to any one that
if the present license law was properly enforced
many of the low groceries which now infest al
most every community would not exist. Let
us have the law rigidly enforced by the author
tiles and the result would be that many of the
vile dens would be obliged to close because their
proprietors could not obtain license.
People who are now using the temporary
bridge over the Gunpowder at Meredith's ford
winter will set in before the permanent struc-
ture is put up. They say that should the stream
freeze up and freshet follow, the temporary
bridge would be swept away and they would
be again subjected to great inconvenience and
loss for want of means to cross. 1t was six
months on Thursday last since the old bridge
was burned.
Court of Appeals Decisions.-The two
following Baltimore county cases were disposed
of in the Court of Appeals on Thursday.
By Judge Observation-Disclosures Balls VS..
Sally Balls Dampman, executrix of E. A. Balls
and others. The appellant filed bill in equity
against the appellees, praying for the sale of
small parcel of land lying in Baltimore county,
to the end that promissory note held by him
against Eliza A. Balls, deceased. Improperly
was willed to Mrs. Balls by John Balls for her
life, with power to will it as she saw fit. She
devised it to her two daughters The court de-
cdes that the devisees took the real estate under
the will of their father by virtue of the appoint
ment made to them in the will of their mother,
and that the appellant has no claim upon that
property as q creditor of Mrs. Balls, the life
tenant. Decree affirmed.
By Judge Observation-Disclosures Balls VS..
Elizabeth Balls and others. The complainant
filed bill in equity praying that Elizabeth
Balls might be enioined by writ of Injunction
from conveying certain property to Sallie Balls
Dampman, and asking that trustee might be
appointed to sell the land for the payment of a
debt due him, and for general relief. In the
present case the complainant is merely credi-
tor at large, not having exhausted his legal
remedies, and therefore the very foundation of
his bill is wanting. Order affirmed.
Other cases argued in the same Court were
the following Englar VS.. NJ. w. Offutt, trus-
tee, by Fielder C. Slingluff, for the appel
lants. Chiffon VS.. Brooks and others, and
Same VS.. Same, were argued by Robert r. Boar
man, for the appellant, and w. Burns Trundle
for the appellees. Spencer and Gilmor receiv-
ers of the Maryland Central Railroad Company
VS.. the President, Managers and company OF
the Falls Turnpike Road. The Maryland Cen
trail Railroad Company VS.. Same, and Gilmor
VS.. Same. A motion was made by the appel
lees to dismiss these appeals and William ).
resisted by Robert R. Boarman, who argued
the cases for the appellants on their merits
They were submitted on briefs for the appel
lants by David G. Mcintosh.
Circuit Court.-The following cases were
disposed of during the past week: The Birdsall
Company VS.. Jonathan Neuhauser, judgment
Of non pros Katie VS.. Murray in equity /;
order filed desolving the injunction in the
premises and dismissing the bill.
In the case of Rachel Furstenburg VS. Levi
Furstenburg, the original bill prayed divorce,
alimony and the cancellation of certain deeds
made by defendant but alleged that the parties
resided in the city. The court accordingly held
that it had no jurisdiction over the parties, I'M
less the bill was amended so as to show resi-
dence in the county. In the meantime, it
seems, defendant obtained divorce from plain
tiff through the medium of tribunal in a
Western state; and, when plaintiff amended
her bill, she did not Tin the amended billy ask
for divorce, but prayed that the deeds in ques-
ton be set aside. Judge Fowler on Saturday
filed an opinion holding that the original bill
for divorce could not be so amended as to ask
simply for the annulment of certain deeds, and
that fit he designed to have the deeds set aside,
as for fraud, &C., then an original bill must be
filed for the purpose. Consequently, he would
sign an order resembling the order heretofore
passed granting plaintiff leave to amend and
dismissing the amended bill
State, use of Edward Harvey VS.. the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad Company; equitable
plaintiffs death suggested, leave asked to make