The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1889-07-20

MONDAY. ~. H.
for Edwin Biddle, assignee. dwelling house
on Fourth street. Baltimore.
Tuesday July 80 by S. Parker Bosley, attorney,
Tuesday, July 80 by NJ. w. Ofrutt, trustee, the
valuable property of Col. Colgate o. Cockey'
wednesday. ' July 81. by Albert Myers, at Chester
Grove House, North Point Road, 18th dis
trict, stock, farm implements, &c.
Tuesday, August 6, by Richard Bernard, attOr-
ney on the premises, valuable leasehold
property at Mt. Washington.
Tuesday, August 10. by M. W: Ofutt. assignee,
in the 18th district, near the Camp Chapel
road.
1.-The colored camp-meeting on the Lime
Kiln Bottom road. east of TOwsontown, COM
menced ON Friday.
Mrs. Myers, wife of the venerable Rev.
Thomas Myers, died suddenly at Ocean City,
n. J., on Thursday.
>The great colored camp-meeting at As
bury Grove Western Maryland r. R., will
commence August 10th.
The Pikesville baseball club came here
on Thursday afternoon and beat the Towson,
Jr, club by a score of to B.
There are now two mails day-morn-
ing and evening-between Gwinn, Maryland
Central r. R., and Kingsville.
THE Prohibition party will hold State
convention at the Glyndon temperance camp
meeting, Thursday. August LIST.
> Capt James NJ. Shackleford, who lived
Al miles from Baltimore, on the Hartford road,
died on Thursday, aged 81 years.
THE fifth annual tournament at De-
Baugh's Nine Mile House, Cub Hill, Hartford
road. will take place on Wednesday, August 7th.
- family at Phoenix had their dinner all
cooked ready to be put on the table Saturday
when the flood came and carried stove, dinner
and all away.
> Mr. Sidney E. Mudd has secured the APP
point of Albert Torney of the LIST district Bal
timore county, as laborer in the Baltimore
Custom House.
THE house of Mrs. Beckett, at DELLA LIST
district, was entered by a burglar on Wednes-
day night and robbed of a gold watch and chain
and lot of jewelry.
>Towsontown is Just now afflicted with
its usual midsummer dizziness and outsiders
who are looking for nice quiet place are in
vited to come right here.
ION Wednesday night of this week the
thermometer dropped down to62 degrees, which
proved great relief from the intense heat OF
week or more previously.
> Mrs Linzey, wife of Mr.. Jas. H. Linzey,
the well-known restaurant keeper of Towson-
town, died of Bright's disease on Friday morn
ing, after protracted illness.
> Harry Adams, aged IL years, who lived
in Baltimore, was drown on Sunday afternoon
last while bathing in Herring run, under the
Balto & Ohio Railroad bridge.
land now let loose the dogs of war,
We're about to have some fun"
So said the ''coon" as he cleared the door,
Sweet Bosley get your gun
>Dr. James NJ. Magraw, Register of Wills
for Hartford county and popular gentleman.
died on Saturday last. He was elected in 1885
and had over two years yet to serve.
1.-The flood of last Saturday caused several
wash-outs ON the Maryland Central Railroad,
delaying and causing general mix up oftrains.
The damage was soon repaired, however.
Mr.. John F. Woodward, who had been
connected with the Northern Central r. R.
Company for nearly thirty-nine years, died at
in n w
ION Saturday night barn on the farm of
Mr. J. F. Murray, in Patapsco Neck, 18th dis
trict, was burned, with its contents, involving
a loss of about 81 800. Cause of fire unknown.
1.-The Towson Guards left at o'clock on
Wednesday morning for the State militia en-
campment at Frederick Junction. on the B. &
o. Railroad. They will return Saturday. 9th
inst.
Angry subscriber to country editor-"rm
mad all the way through an l want my paper
stopped "Yes, sir; do you want to pay
what you owe?' mo; amt mad enough for
that"
Five more murderes have had their cases
removed from Baltimore to Towsontown. Ev-
identity these red-handed villains think they
will have better show in the county than in
the city.
->Dr. A. R. Blair, prominent and highly
esteemed citizen of York. Pa, died on Tues
day, aged 63 years. He was an uncle of Mr..
Thaddeus c. Blair. of the 8th district of this
county.
1.-The County Commissioners have appoin-
ted VIM. S. Cowley, road supervisor for the 9th
district, to collect the assessments for opening
the new RuxtOn road from RuXtOn, n. C. K.
R., to the Falls road.
-%The Annapolis advertiser says this is a
certain cure for chills: Five cents worth of
cream tartar and teaspoonful fground cloves,
mixed well together in molasses. Dose-a tea
spoonful three times day.
ION Wednesday night Charles W. John
son, a colored lawyer of Baltimore, lectured in
St. Johns Church. Lake Roland. on '"The Race
Problem and Its Solution He advised his
audience to stop fooling with politics.
1.-The Commissioners of York county have
authorized a flood loan of S125, 900 to rebuild
and repair the bridges swept away by the June
freshet. The bonds are of the denomination
of $500 each and bear per cent. interest.
I'VE would suggest that when our police
man wants to shoot prisoner he take him out
in the woods and tie him to tree. It's dam
gerous cunning around the streets for them in
broad daylight. Somebody might get hit.
THE purses for the ten races to be trotted
at PimlicO in September are from 500 to 81 900.
There will also be special purses amounting to
5000. PimlicO track is one of the fastest in
the country and some splendid races may be
expected
The Maryland Central R. R. Company
has discovered that it is not healthy to monkey
with the court. Hence they must have an iron
bridge over the turnpike in this place by the
9th of September next or forfeit the small sum
of $4,000.
MIR. John G. Harryman. commission
merchant, met with considerable loss by the
fire ON Lombard street last Sunday. He was
insured for $1,000. Mr.. Harryman is brother
of Mr. George Harryman, of the 8th district of
this county.
MIR. Joseph Kilchenstein, mail carrier,
has established stage line on the Hartford road
between Baltimore and Parkville, leaving
Parkville daily Except Sunday at $50 A. M,
and the Sun Building, Baltimore, at 8 Pm. See
advertisement
1.-THE cornerstone for the new NJ e. Church
at Parkton, n. c.. r. R., was laid on Thursday
with appropriate ceremonies Several minis
tiers and large number of people were present.
The church will be very pretty structure and
will cost about $1,000.
THE Jerusalem turnpike company lost
five bridges by the food of last Saturday-one
at White Marsh run. one at Fullerton, one at
Goldsborough's old place, one at Raspeburg
and one at Herring run. The loss to the COM
pany will be very heavy.
THE terrific rain storm of Saturday last
caused the loss of good many thousands of
dollars to Baltimore county by washing away
bridges and damaging the public roads, which
have been rendered so bad in some places that
travel over them is suspended.
->After Mayor Latrobe's old gray mare
won the city extension fight he turned her out
for good long rest but she is now in harness
again and no doubt this means that her owner
intends to take another tilt at the mayoralty
and is getting her in trim for the fray.
THE Baltimore county fair commences
this year on Tuesday, September Sd, one week
before the State exhibition at Pimlico. The
Society will make number of improvements
that will put the grounds and track in better
shape than they have ever been before.
->At the meeting of the Anti-Sabbath Des-
ecration Society of the 18th district held on
Monday night last, several speeches were made
and it was urged that the severance of party
ties is the only means of gaining the proper
observance of the Sabbath in that district
->It will cost Baltimore county fully S15,-
600 to repair the damage by last Saturdays
flood. Some place the estimate at half that
amount, but from what we have seen of the
wreck of bridges and roads we think the county
will be lucky if it gets off at the sum named.
SECRETARY Rusk has given notice that the
quarantine established in May, 1887, against
Howard, Carroll and Prince Georges counties,
on account of the prevalence of pleuro-pneu-
monia, has been abolished. The quarantine
against Baltimore county is still maintained.
Mrs. Mary E. Hungerford, wife of
the late James Hungerford, who at one time
lived at Reisterstown, died at her residence in
Baltimore, last Sunday, aged "a years. She was
the mother of Miss Sophia Hungerford, an as
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