The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-12-08

Senator stewart, OF NEVADA, hau hls hhhio
placed on the Republican caucus list. He mas
been a Silver party man for the last eight years.
The trotting stallion, The Abbott belonging
to the Hamlins, of East Aurora. N. Y. was sold
at auction in New York city, few days ago, Tor
$26,500.
Oats have had their ups and downs. They
were worth their weight in gold dust 70 carry
settlers in Brazil. In the Klondike region they
bring S. to $40 bushel
The Mexican army in December, 1899. con-
tanned 10 generals of divisions SIS brigader gen.
erals. osl coionels and captains and 2505 leuten-
ants, in addition to 26l3l private soldiers.
The "abandored- farms of Massachusetts, are
fast being taken up. Three years ago there
were $50 thus classed in the state. recent
enumeration shows there are now but l2o.
Senator Hanna. in response to the resolution
of a Cleveland Republican club. has written
letter in which he says that his candidature ior
the Presidency in 1904 is out of the question:
The most novel provision made in will is that
of st. Louis woman that her remains oe HELL III,
Grated and the ashes mingled with those OF her
husband in the urn where his already repose'
BENJAMIN d. Stillman is not only the Oldest
practicing lawyer in New York and the Oldest
living graduate of Yale, but is also, so far as is
known, the oldest living graduate in the worid.
During the unprecedented rainfall at Cal
cutta in the third week of September IL people
were killed and lS2 brick houses, besides 4US nuts
fell to pieces. The rainfall in one week was 40
inches.
When outside preparations for trouble are go
ing on Uncle Sam always does thriving trade
chasing cavalry horses by the carload in this
country.
Prairie chickens are said to be more abundant
in Western Kansas than for years, and the far
mers show disposition to give the birds a
chance to multiply by keeping check on the
hunters.
Chicago's public school teachers payroll has
more than doubled in nine years, and is now u
little more than $5OO0O0 a month. There are
600 teachers, principals and superintendent on
the city's payroll
Geese are driven long distances to market at
Warsaw, Poland, and their feet are protected
for the trip by being "shod." the creatures be-
ing made to walk alternately through tar and
sand several times.
Only in II states can married woman dispose
of her separate and independent estate by will.
In the remaining % states she must have the
consent of her husband before she can will her
own property as she may WISH
f. @. Dingley, son of the late Congressman is
looked upon as a coming man in Maine politics.
He has justsbeen elected to the Legislature,
and is now spoken of as a possible candidate
for Governor at the next election.
1t is announced that the executors of Marcus
IL
as soon as possible. These horses cost Mr.. DAILY
over 100000 and they came from all parts of the
world. Over 100 brood mares will be sold.
The North Pole is the mathematical point at
the northern termination of the earth's axis.
Whether land or water be there, the phenomena
of the sun during the polar day or of the stars
during the night would indicate its position.
The Republicans of Grayson county. Texas,
have shipped to Vice President-eect Theodore
Roosevelt unique gavel for use in the United
States Senate. 1t is made of rawhide and accom-
panying it was sent letter of congratulation.
All birth records for the western section Of
Pennsylvania were broken few days ago when
their 22d child, a bouncing boy, was born to Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Krug, of Bloomsbury. A re-
markabe fact is that every member of this large
household is living.
Miss Clara Barton, head of the Red Cross So
ciety, has placed with a firm at kittrell, n. c.,
an order for 100000 strawberry plants. These
ers of Texas, who suffered so severely from the
great September storm.
Helen Keller. the deaf and dumb and blind
girl. who has just entered Radcliffe College at
Cambridge, Mass. is descendant of John Adams
ana connection OF some OF the pest New Eng
chess, at which she plays a capital game.
The largest stock of gold coin and bullion ever
held in the United States is now accumulated in
the Treasury and its branches. The total has
been rising steadily during the whole of the
present year, and is now $414. 1885, or about
S76,000000 greater than at the close of 1899.
The Jury of Final Appeals of the Paris Ex-
position has finished its work, and it appears
that in all the United States has received 204
awards; Germany, 1926; Great Britain. 1,724 !;
grand prizes than the United States-236, as COM
Justice of the Peace Groves has rendered his
decision in the suit of Miss Edna Black, of
Charlestown, Cecil county, VS.. Herman Jackson.
dog. The plaintiff got a Judgment for $65 The
dog was killed by Jackson, who claimed that it
had bitten his son.
Mrs. Ira E. lott, of ong Beach, CAL, is said to
be the only woman who has founded and man
aged an entire electric plant successfully; Sne
superintendent the building of her plant and
bought the machinery, and now she is making
large profits from the enterprise, which is near
a fashionable watering place.
At Allentown, Pa, there is Mrs Martin
Ward wife of the late Bernard Ward, who is the
the Fourth of July, the first in 1860, the last
in 1897. In spite of this unique and patriotic
record, tho noble mother of these eight Fourth
of-Julyers is not asking for pension.
The great Pennsylvania strike which was
brought to close just before election, will
probably have cost the railroad and coal compa-
MES not less than $10,000,000 in gross earnings,
and will actually have cost them in profits in the
neighborhood of $5000,0OO. The losses of the
roads in October alone aggregate $6Sl2,338.
Bishop Thompson, of Mississippi, says that
there are more men in that State between the
ages of so and 80 than in any commonwealth of
the United States. He accounts for this by rea-
son of the circumstance that there is no chance
to become rich in Mississippi, and, therefore,
people do not worry themselves into early
graves.
State Mine Inspector Paul, of West Virginia,
disaster RorrVVillo.
which IA lives we're lost, was the result of con-
spiracy to kill the foreman of the mine. The
conspirators, after lighting the fuse, stood at
the entrance of the mine, but the force of the
explosion was greater than they expected, and
they were also killed.
Attempts will soon be made by California
merchants to put fresh asparagus on the market
in London and other places in Great Britain.
The California navel oranges are growing in
favor in England, and are being much apprecia-
ted. 1t is expected that California asparagus
will compete with French asparagus, which is
sent to England in large quantities.
1t is not often that one pair of shoes will do
two men, but in Middlesboro, KY, there are two
men who wear the same pair at the same time.
One has his right foot off, while the other is
minus his left. They wear the same size shoe
and make it point to buy together, and only
have to get one pair. By this method they are
able to get their footwear at half price, as they
divide the cost.
In one day recently 70 prairie schooners, MAX
ing a string about mile long. passed Guthrie,
Ok, on their way to the Kiowa and Comanche
country. They were mostly from the State of
Missouri. People down in that section are at a
loss to know why these pioneers should go there
this season, because they will have to camp out
all winter on the prairie. The reservation will
not be open until April.
Clerks who went to the Pension Office in Wash
ington sober having become incapacitated by
reason of drunkenness during office hours Com
missioner Evans set a watch. One man confess
ed that speak easy" had been in operation in
the file-room under the roof, where the light is
dim and uncertain for a long time back. AS a
result of the Commissioners investigation a
number of clerks may be discharged.
President Mckinley has record of purchas-
ing $1,000 cigars of one brand in the IA years he
was in Congress. During his service in Congress
he always bought them by the box. leaving the
box at the stand from which all his purchases
to call by to get bundle of cigars, either in the
toward making changes in the brand he smoked.
There small things in the general result of
a national campaign which are scarcely less in
teresting than the larger ones. Take. for in
stance, the returns from certain voting pre-
cinct in the country only few miles from
Bryan's home in Lincoln, Neb. Exactly the
same number of votes was cast this year as four
years ago. In 1896 the vote stood Bryan, Al
Mckinley, l. In 1900 the vote stood Mckinley,
AZ; Bryan, 0.