Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-04-01
Our Maryland Neighbors.

IMPORTANT LEGAL DECIsIoN-ARBoR DAY-REAL
ESTATE MATTERS, ETC.
BLADENsBURG, March 81.
Correspondence of THE EVENING STAR.
A general tax is collected throughout Prince
Georges county for public road purposes, which
is distributed, at the discretion of the county
commissioners, to the several districts. Laurel
appealed to the legislature at its last session
for an act directing the county commissioners
to pay to its town commissioners whatever
amount might be paid into the road fund from
that town, the same, aggregating about 5000,
to be applied to the improvement of the streets
and roads within the corporate limits, and it
was so enacted. The county commissioners de-
clined to pay over the funds as directed. and
the Laurel town commissioners brought suit
against the county in the circuit court. The
court decided that Laurel was entitled to the
money, whereupon the case was carried to the
court of appeals. That court now reverses
the decision of the lower court, and declares
the act of the legislature unconstitutional, and
Laurel consequently fails to establish its claim.
Acts of about the same tenor are in force in
Bladensburg and Marlboro, and it is not i'm
probable now that the county authorities,
strengthened in their position by the above de-
cision. will close their purse strings against
these towns
The governor of Maryland, pursuant to
recent act of the legislature, has appointed the
10th of April to be observed as Arbor day
throughout the state, and the state board Of
education has directed Superintendent Stone,
of Prince Georges to omit the usual school ex-
ercises and to see that the county public
schools spend the day in tree-planting, &c.
Mr.. A. Gottschalk, of Baltimore, has pur-
chased several valuable lots on Montgomery
street, Laurel, on which he will build, at once,
four dwellings, at a cost of $4,000 each.
The county commissioners have fixed the
rate of the county tax for the ensuing year at
IS cents on the 800, an increase Of cents
over the rate of last year.
The contract for the Prince Georges county
printing has been awarded to +. Sasscer, of
year.
'.Fairview," the Laurel residence Of Senator
German, is to be improved by the addition of
another story, spacious pavilion. DC.
Mr.. Geo. Holmes, of Washington, is building
a handsome store and hall at Landover station,
Baltimore and Potomac railroad. Several resi-
dences are also in process of erection at the
same point.
Among the criminal cases to be tried by the
Prince Georges circuit court, which convenes
tomorrow are the following: Levi Simms, for
homicide of Lewis Beckett; John Lewis, assault
with intent to kill; Randolph Carey, arson;
Chas. Galloway, Henry Field and Albert
Streeter, larceny; L. Morrison and Ed. Vaughn,
assault and battery; Geo. Young, burglary and
larceny. Altogether, there are thirteen crimi-
nails in the county Jail, with perhaps a half q
dozen on bail.
The circuit court of Baltimore city yesterday,
after hearing the evidence in the habeas corpus
case against the sheriff of Prince Georges
county, in the matter of the arrest and deten-
ton Of John Blunden, for completely in the
burglary of Mr.. Calvert's house at College
Station, ordered the discharge of the prisoner.
Charles s. Brown has been appointed con-
stable for Bowie district +.