The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1889-11-23

Tusday. November 20. by ]. s. Royston, near
Cockeysville, postponed sale OF personal
SATURDAY,. November 80, by S. A. Williams, trus-
fee at the Court House in Belair. all the val
and of the firm of Henry Reckord Sons.
Tuesday, December3 3, by w. S. Treadwell, chair
man, &C.. the building known as st. Johns
Mission, on the York road, near Timonium.
Thursday. december s, by j. A. Sheridan. at
Chase, P. w. & b. r. r., valuable stock, farm
implements, sc.
attorney, at the Court House door, house and
lot near Towsontown.
THE stoves were placed in the York Road
horse-cars this week.
MIR. George r. Stone, one of the oldest
citizens of Reisterstown, died on Wednesday
night last.
William David Burns, of Glyndon, 4th
district, soldier of the late war, has been
granted pension.
John III. Grammer, an inmate of the Bal
tiInore county alms-houSe, has been granted a
pension by the Government.
1.-The Loyal Legion of Towsontown will
meet in the NJ f. Church, Sunday, November
THURSDAY next, November 2Sth, is
Thanksgiving Day 1t is general holiday and
all the public offices will be closed.
1.-The Sam says Mr.. Samuel DER, few
nights ago, caught 'possum on Woodbourne
avenue. near Govanstown, that weighed Is lbs.
held in Trinity P. E. Church, TowsoDtown, at
IL A. NJ, and in the NJ. L. Church at 30 P. NJ.
"A marriage license was granted in wash
ington, d. c. ON Monday last, to John c.
Lynch and Charlotte Smith, both of Baltimore
county.
The past week has been another tough
one on the farmers, who have been able to do
next thing to nothing towards securing their
corn crop.
MIR. Lawrence Mayberry, formerly lessee
n. al {ol-a oho
of the old General Wayne Inn, on West Baltl-
more street, Baltimore.
sLaborers employed in the quarries in and
about Texas were only able to make nineteen
hours last week on account Ofthe weather, and
the present week was even worse.
@Mr. ID. c. Lyle, who succeeded the late
Col William Allan as principal of the Nc
Donogh School, has been appointed postmaster
at McDonogh, Baltimore county.
There was some lively kicking among
the Democrats about the Court House this
week. There are not enough offices to go
round and this is the cause of the trouble.
@R. r. Boarman, Esq, attorney for Mr..
William H. Emmart and others, has filed
bill in equity for the sale of the real estate be-
longing to the late Caleb Emmart, in the I'd
district of this county.
->Messrs. George Yellott and W. Frank
Mitchell, counsel for Mr.. Benjamin l. Worth
ington, have filed a bill in equity asking the
court to set aside deed made by Worthington
to Chew Snebley, in June last.
The case of the Phila., Wilmington &
BALTIC. r. R. Company against Shipley, exam
liner, &C., was argued in the Court of Appeals
on Wednesday by Messrs. Fielder c. Slingluf
and D. g. Mcintosh for the appellee.
Mr. Thomas Cooking, of TOwsontOwn,
has been appointed agent for the Baltimore
County Hedge and Wire Fence Company. He
is a good man for the place, having had expert
ence in the planting and growing OF hedges.
Sarah DpvripS mother of MeSSrS.
Christian and Henry o. Devries, died at her
residence in Carroll county, on Tuesday last,
aged 81 years Mrs. Quicker, of the 4th district
of this county, is daughter of the deceased,
"a shooting tournament for two breech-
loading bird guns will take place at Towson-
town on Thursday xt-rhanksgiving Day
commencing at u o'clock NJ. The shooting
will be at standard targets over five traps.
MIR. Frank NJ. Abel, well known
butcher living at Mount Wilson, Western
Maryland Railroad, died on Sunday last. A
wife and six children survive him. Mr.. Abel
was a member of Madison Avenue M. +.
Church.
The ladies' mite society of the German
Lutheran Church, Perry Hall, 18th district,
will hold an oyster supper and festival, on
Wednesday and Thursday evenings, November
9th and 18th, in Germantown hall. Public
invited.
1.-The "goose bone says that the coolest
weather of the coming winter will be expert
enced during the latter half of January and
that the coolest day of all will be the 9th of
that month. The bone says the winter Will be
a mild one.
Mr. John w. Phillips, who was lately ap-
pointed postmaster at Powhatan, has removed
the office to the same place it was under former
Republican administrations, it being a more
central location than the one from which it
was removed.
> Mr. Jacob Klein has been elected presi-
dent of the Germania Riding Club, the head
quarters of which are at Mr.. Bauernschmidt's
farm, on the Hartford road. Col. H. c. Tieck
is one of the directors of the club and was for
merly its president.
William Hartman, son of Mr.. George
Hartman, who owns farm on Chestnut Ridge,
Sth district, died very suddenly from heart dis
ease about two weeks ago. He was about
twenty-six years of age and very industrious
and worthy young man:
1.-THE unprecedented protracted meeting at
Glyndon NJ e. Church has closed. Ninety
persons were converted, nearly all of whom
have united with the church. The congrega-
ton has presented Rev. Mr.. Wilhide, junior
pastor. with purse of $50.
- DIR. +. NJ. Duncan, of GOvanstown, and
Rev. w. w. Barnes, of Arlington, returned
few days ago from cunning expedition to
Dunkirk, Calvert county, Md. They had eX-
ceIlent sport having killed about 75partridgeS,
81 rabbits and IA squirrels.
THE County Commissioners this week
ratified the proceedings in the matter OF open
ing BellOna avenue, from Charles street avenue
to the Northern Central Railroad, near Lake
Station. r. b. Hyland was appointed to col
lect the assessments on the same.
1.-The first issue of THE UNION in December
falling ON the 18th ofthat month, we have deter
mined to send out our subscription bills with
the next issue of the paper-November Goth.
The bills are printed on yellow paper this year
and there will be no trouble to see them.
1.-The jurors for the December term of the
Circuit Court were drawn on Saturday last.
The names of those placed in the box, together
with those drawn, are published in these col
umns to-day. The term commences the first
Monday in December, which is the second day
of the month.
1.-The Maryland Central r. r. Company is
pushing IFS belt line project in Baltimore and
has lately secured several pieces of property
with view to securing an entrance into the
city. Large sums of money, put up principally
by Pittsburg capitalists, are being invested in
this enterprise.
The exceptions of Mr. Joseph W. Jen-
kins, ST., to the opening of the Townsend road,
in the 9th district, have been set for hearing
before the County Commissioners on Tuesday
next, Goth instant All the proceedings in this
matter are published in the advertising columns
of THE UNION to-day.
THE sixteenth anniversary of the Nc
DOnogh School was celebrated last Thursday,
when Hon. John Randolph Tucker of Virginia,
of the late Col. William Allan, principal of the
school, 1t was a holiday at the school and the
boys had a good time.
- Rev. Page Milburn, pastor of Towson-
town NJ. Z. Church, preached special sermon
to Young men on Sunday afternoon last to a
good audience. He pointed out the many
traps that are set to catch young men of the
present day and warned them particularly
against the vices of gambling and drinking.
->An upper end farmer, who is known far
and wide for his extreme modesty, sent us this
week a quantity of homemade" buckwheat
meal, with the understanding that we should
not use his name. He says he does not think
it has more than one pound of grit to every SIX
pounds of meal, but of this we Will let him
know later
John A. Bosley, special officer and con-
stable for Towsontown, resigned his office ON
Tuesday at the instance of his bondsmen,
Messrs. VIM. S. Keech and ]. Maurice Watkins,
who lodged complaint with the Commissioners
against him. AS the special officer must be
constable it is likely that another appointment
will have to be made.
1.-The will of the late William chatham,
prosperous colored farmer of the 10th district,
was admitted to probate in the Orphans Court
this week. All his property, both real and
personal, is bequeathed to his wife during her
lifetime. At her death the property goes to his
three sons, who are to pay his five daughters
$500 each when they arrive at given age,
IAN Epworth League Chapter, young
peoples association connected with the M. K.
Church of this country, with its Central League
located in New York, was formed at Towson-
town NJ. +. Church last Sunday afternoon,
starting with a membership of over forty. At
its next meeting, due notice of which will be
given, permanent officers will be elected, a con-
stitution adopted, &c.