The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1890-12-06
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.


wWe this week send out our bills for sub
scription to THE UNION and respectfully ask
those who receive them to make prompt remit
tances
sEThose who do not receive bills in their
papers will know that they have either paid in
advance, or that their accounts are held for
other means of collection.
NMost of the bills of our Baltimore city
subscribers will, for their convenience, be de-
livered by our regular collector.
tWSubscribers whose papers go out of the
State are notified that unless their bills are paid
promptly their papers will be discontinued.
wRemittances may be made by check, P.
o. money order, registered letter, or by postal
notes. Sending money in unregistered letters
is not a safe way of transmitting it.
WThomas Kaufman, Esq, of Monkton,
is our authorized collector for the upper end of
the county, and for the convenience of some of
our subscribers their bills are placed in his
hands.
"a son of Mr.. George Brown, of Fern
wood" fell few days ago and broke his right
arm near the elbow.
Between forty and fifty men employed in
the Canton Copper Works have been discharged
because of dull trade.
- Last Saturday morning the thermometer
was as low at Phoenix, n. c. r. R., as it was
any time last winter.
->R. r. Boarman, ESQ.,, had the misfortune
to slip on the ice Tuesday afternoon, painfully
spraining one of his ankles.
People are getting their ice-houses in
order and it looks as though they were not
going to be disappointed this winter.
- When the December term of court COM
menced there were only twelve prisoners in
Jail, eight of whom are serving sentences.
- Franklin P. Goodwin and John c. Dor
singer have received their final discharge by
the court under the insolvent laws ofthis State
-Christmas is less than three weeks off
and already we can almost feel it in the air.
Before it is over we will have felt it in our
pockets.
- Letters addressed to Miss Sallie Blake
Jacob NJ HILL Miss Catharine Jacob and Thos
]. Marsh remain uncalled for in the Towson
postoffice.
1.-The trial of the cases against the bonds
men of ex-State Treasurer Archer has been set
for Thursday, December 18th, in the Circuit
Court here.
MIR. William Thompson, who for seven
teen years had been keeper of boats at Gun
powder bridge, P. W. & B. r. R., died on
Tuesday last
"A handsome Catholic church, to cost be-
tween three and five thousand dollars, is about
to be erected at Lansdowne a new town in the
18th district.
Mr.. Samuel Morthland, a relative of the
late Thomas Hall, died of pneumonia, at his
home ia the Sth district, on Sunday last, at an
advanced age .r
Exceptions to sale in the matter of the
Fork Permanent Building Association against
Emily C. Peterson have been overruled and
the sale ratified.
The public schools of the county will
close for the Christmas holiday, Wednesday,
December oath, and remain closed until Mon
day, January 9Th, 1891.
IA great many THE UNION subscribers.
who knew they would receive bills in their
papers this week, came up and settled before
the reminders went out.
MIR. John T. Dilworth has sold his hotel
property, on the Hartford road, just south OF
Parkville to Mr.. George Riley, for 5000. It
contains "a acres and is well improved.
- Last week three sons of Mr.. Conrad Weis,
of Upper Falls, 18th district, went over into
Hartford county on a cunning expedition
They got up 20 rabbits and bagged 16 of them.
MIR. Charles NJ. Mann, a clerk in the Bal
timore postoffice, while cunning on the Phila
delphia road a few days ago, accidentally shot
is not serious.
THE stockholders ofthe Baltimore County
Agricultural Society will hold their annual
meeting at the Carrollton Hotel, Baltimore
to-day, Saturday between the hours of IL A.
NJ and P. NJ. .l
Mr.. Fred. Groom, dairyman and ice
cream manufacturer of Towsontown, gathered
enough ice from his pond on Thanksgiving day
to fill his orders for the cream he had ordered
for that occasion.
The mother of Mr.. George Chalfant. who
lives near New Market 18th district, was seri-
ously injured few days ago by falling while
getting into bed. She is Sc years Of age and
lives in York county.
IA man who has lately been doing some
work in the 18th district ofthis county says the
three leading articles out there appear to be
negroes, goats and geese. He declares that he
never before saw so many.
THE UNIONS subscription bills go out
with the present issue. We hope those who
receive these little pink reminders will make
prompt responses. They should all be re-
turned before January 1st 1891.
- Wilson M. Il. Church, at Unlonvllle,
18th district has been incorporated. with Rev.
o. G. Marriott, pastor, and Messrs. ]. Dixon
Slade VIM. Gorsuch. Seth Smith, A. W. Neal
and Alexander Francis, trustees.
IAN alleged road supervisor who will ruin
an otherwise good road by running brakes two
feet high across it. ought to be fired. We
should say he knows as much about road
making as a COW does about Christmas.
- Mrs. A. o. Sewell of Abingdon, Hartford
county, mother-in-law ofMr. William d. Bond,
agent for the Maryland Central r. r. at Tow
sontown, lost S.. 900 through the shortcomings
of ex-State Treasurer Stevenson Archer.
- Morris G. Mengis has secured judgment
for S12 500 damages in the Superior Court of
Baltimore against the Sparrow's Point Steel
Company for noncompliance with a contract
to furnish steel rails for the Drum Point R. r.
"A number of improvements are now in
progress at Lauraville, Hartford road. and a
general spirit of thrift pervades the community.
A fine house is in course of erection for Mr..
Ernest MOhr, and others are in contemplation.
MIR. Charles r. Taylor, of Waverly, has
obtained permit from the city tax department
for the erection of five mansard-roof houses
three on the west side of the York road. near
Carroll avenue, and two south of Chestnut
avenue.