The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1889-06-22

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ArrHE Washington county fair last fall a
pole, which was used at the initiation of a bal
loon, fell and killed boy named Carly. The
father brought suit against the Agricultural
Society for the loss of the services of his son
and the jury, under the ruling of the Court,
gave him verdict for 81, 1888 damages. The
society carried the case to the Court of Appeals,
which reversed the decision of the lower Court.
OK THE subject of prohibition the Christian
Ministerial Alliance of Kansas says ''prohibi-
ton is a success in Kansas 1t is emptying our
jails and penitentiaries, doing away with crime,
impoverishing sheriffs. lawyers and under
takers, and it conduces to the moral and finan-
cial prosperity of Kansas" Yet there is other
excellent authority which says that prohibi-
ton in that State is a failure.
In JUNE, 1887, the Senatoba cotton sheds at
Memphis, Tennessee, were burned causing a
loss of sos, 800. The fire was caused by sparks
from a locomotive engine. Reinsurance COM
panies paid the loss promptly, but they have
now brought suit against the railroad COM
pany to recover the amount, which, with ac-
crued interest, reaches about $4,000.
THE MONTGOMERY county Press puts it this
way, and it fits the case of Baltimore county
exactly: "Wanted-A successful farmer to
represent honesty and progress in the Maryland
Legislature. No one who cannot make more
money at progressive farming than at honest
legislating. and no one who has worked for So
called political Bosses need apply"
WILLIAM BLAKE, author of How to Get
Strong, and How to Stay So.' and Sound
Bodies for our Boys and Girls" will write, in
Hdypers Magazine for July, upon the question
SIS American Stamina Declining" and will
make number of practical suggestions for re-
forming our system of education in the direc-
ton of physical training.
SOME OF the admirers of the late eX-Presdent
Arthur have erected over his grave in the Rural
Cemetery, at Albany, New York, a very hand
some granite and broze memorial, which was
unveiled without ceremony on the 18th inst.
There are few public men who had more de-
voted personal friends than the lamented eX-
President.
A GERMAN named Stauck was convicted in
Baltimore on Wednesday of selling liquor on
Sunday. 1t was the second offense and Judge
Phelps sentenced him to thirty days in Jail,
$3.50 fine and costs and suppressed his license.
A little more of this kind of justice and Sunday
liquor-selling would soon be at an end.
THE PRESENT Grand Jury of Baltimore city is
making it very lively for the violators of the
Sunday liquor law. Last Sunday it is said that
a large number of saloons that usually kept a
side door open, were closed up tight. their pro-
prietors having learned that watch had been
set on their places.
THE OHIO State convention will meet next
Tuesday and all the indications point to the
denomination of Governor Foraker. 1t is
thought that if the Republicans secure ma
iority of the next Legislature Gov. Foraker viii
be chosen u S. Senator to succeed Senator
Payne, Democrat.
In THE city of Leavenworth, Kansas a man
must sign a certificate that he is sick before ht
can obtain drink at a drug store. In ont
month $1,000 men registered themselves sick
are told that prohibition actually prohibits
there
Mr.. DONALD MCLEAN has been appointed by
the President appraiser of merchandise at thu
port of New York. He is a son-in-law of thu
late Judge John Richie, of Frederick, Md. Mr.
Mclean is a lawyer by profession and an ACTIVE
Republican politician.
THE LEGISLATURE of New Hampshire ha
reelected Hon. William Il. Chandler to thu
U. S. Senate. Charges were made that money
had been used to secure his nomination, bu
there appears to have been no foundation TO
them.
THE UNFORTUNATE city of Johnstown, Pa.
at the prohibition amendment election OF
Tuesday, cast 446 votes for and 443 against thu
amendment carrying it by majority OF thre
votes,