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

DIR. Craig of Govanstown, died suddenly OF
blood-poisoning, on Sunday last. He became
overheated on Saturday while wrestling with
some companions, and this caused his death.
He was bright young man and great favorlte
with all who knew him.
The County Agricultural Society adver-
tises elsewhere in THE UNION for chestnut posts
for use in the contemplated improvements on
the Timonium fair grounds. We learn that
the contour and grade of the track is to be SO
changed as to materially improve it and make
it one of the best in the State.
ION the night of the 4th of July stone
fence on the property of DIR. Gorsuch, of Fork,
18th district, was torn down and thrown into
the public road. Suspicion rested upon a col
ored man named George Pinkney and on Tues
day he was arrested by Constable Knight and
lodged in Jail at Towsontown.
little Pathway of Life" by Rev. I. De
Witt Talmage, is the title of a new book that
is meeting with much favor and large mum,
Der have already been sold. Mr.. Edward
Reese of Summerfield, NJ. @. r. r., is the
agent for the 9th and 18th districts and has
already secured many subscriptions.
1.-The rain storm of Sunday evening last
was very heavy in the western section of the
county, it having escaped the one of the day
previous A gentleman said this week that
fifty men working steadily from now to the
first of January would not put the roads OF the
Sd district in as good condition as they were be-
fore Sundays storm.
->The Baltimore San says that the York
road is we'll supplied with ambitious musicians,
Waverly having one band, Govanstown two
and Towsontown one. But our esteemed con-
temporary is little off as to this place. We
have also two bands and we believe that our
musicians are able to blow thunder out of all
the rest of them put together:
- Patrick Flanagan, an industrious shoe
maker of TowsOntown, frequently walks to
Baltimore and back. On Wednesday he made
the round trip-14 miles-leaving here about
IL and returning at o'clock. He was soldier
in the Confederate army during the late war
and claims that he can outwalk any OF the
'play soldiers" of the present day.
While driving in Baltimore on Friday of
last week the buggy of Mr.. R. H. Burns, of
Mt. Washington, was run into by beer wagon
and somewhat damaged. The beer man &C
cused Mr.. Burns of being the cause of the col
lision and this incensed him to such extent
that he hit the fellow clipper or two and hurt
his hand so badly that he had to go to hos
pital to have it attended to.
sol. Samuel H. Tagart, president of the
York Road Railway Company, says there is
no truth in the report that the Baltimore Trac-
ton Company is trying to secure control of
his line for the purpose OF making 1t cable
expect to have rapid transit on the York road
until it gets into other control. Col. Iagart
says 1--WE have only the right to introduce
certain kind of electric system, which is not
now practical"
Zine 'OlOcSC ln0uD1tdQG uGNcT SAW SuCH
a rain in Towsontown as fell here between II
and 124 o'clock on Saturday last. The cutters
were swollen into raging torrents, the streets
were flooded and the water poured down the
turnpike like river, tearing great holes in the
road bed and washing the dirt from beneath
the horse railway tracks. Mr.. Daniel Harding
says that a inches of rain fell between the
hours named He measured it in box feet
long by , feet wide.
The rank weeds in the yard attached to
&Ie oil in r1la wi
UNION complained of last week, have been cut
down and removed, but we have not seen any
movement on the part of our sanitary inspector
looking to the improvement of the alleys of
the town by lining, &C.. Certainly these are
matters which require immediate attention
and the neglect of them is causing many COM
plants. In fact it is imperative that some
thing be done at once.
@In his address before the State sanitary
convention at Pittsburg, DR.. Piper, of Towson-
means for destroying microbes, bacilli and
micrococci, but no antidote has yet been found
for that dangerous micro-organism politics.
They are pestiferous spirilla with never dying
spores.' Much obliged, Doctor. Now we
know what's the matter with so many Balti-
more county Democrats. Can't you give 1.-THE
boys" something for this ailment?
IA young gentleman riding bicycle got
a bad ducking on the Dulany's Valley pike,
near Meredith's ford, about dusk on Saturday
evening last. lie was on MS way 10 MT henry
Hoen's and not knowing that the bridge, near
the toll-gate, had been washed away by the
food earlier in the day, his fiery untamed
stead plunged into the muddy water and wheel
and rider did some lively scrambling around
before they got out. Fortunately he was not
hurt but he looked very sad afterwards.
THE Ellicott City Democrat of last week
says: "Our honest contemporary, the Towson-
town UNION, always makes acknowledgment
for matter which it appropriates from other
papers, but now and then 1t renders credit
where credit is not due. THE UNION is welcome
to the best these columns afford to enrich its
own, and we only ask that what it takes from
US shall not be wrongly attributed to another
journal" We were not aware that we had
made the mistake our esteemed contemporary
alludes to, but of course we must have done so.
We beg to assure it, however, that it was not
intentional and we make the necessary apollo
gies therefor.
>Herring run, upon the line of which so
much damage was done by the flood of Satur-
day last, heads on the property formerly owned
by the late Judge Payne, in this town. For
two miles or more from its source it is little
more than small spring stream, butin twenty
minutes it was swollen into torrent that spread
over the meadows carrying fences, crops and
everything before it. On the farm of Mr..
Wash. Stevenson, through which it passes,
was pretty pool which for years had been a
favorite bathing place for boys Beside this
pool was a rock that weighed five or six tons,
The force of the water tore it from its bed and
rolled it down the stream fifty or sixty yards.
@It was reported here this week that Henry
w. Shealey who until recently kept low
groggery in this place, frequented almost en-
tireIy by colored men and women, had rented
a house opposite the public school building
and proposed to again engage in the same bus
mess here. We do not know what the powers
of the Clerk of the Court are in a case of this
kind-whether, considering the location, he
would be justified in declining to issue license
or not If he is obliged to do it then some
other steps should be taken to prevent this out
rage on our people. 1t is bad enough to have
such a ranch anywhere in the town, but to al
scSoo to nnd ha sryn sbame e 'e
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