The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-03-18


Mr.. w. A. ROUSE, of Belair, Md, was on
Wednesday elected president of the National
Association CT Gamers and Packers Of America,
at the annual meeting held in Pittsburg. 1t is
expected that this association will soon have
as members 800 packers of the country. Its
object is to make war on impure canned goods
and its constitution provides for a system of
inspection and the inspectors will examine
the products of all members to ascertain that
they are wholly pure. The association will,
by bureau of publicity, keep the public in
formed Of the advantage of using canned goods
and also Of the sanitary methods of prepare
ton. The association will have an official
stamp, which may be affixed to goods after
they have passed inspection. and the public
will be kept informed that the stamp of the
association guarantees the purity of the foods
which have been thus approved.
AN ENGLISH entomologist recently received
for examination few specimens of the gypsy
moth and accidentally allowed some halfdozen
to escape. These increased and multiplied in
such an alarming extent that the moths spread
over certain locality, in which they wrought
considerable damage. 1t has cost that Eng.
lish county $500, 900 in the attempt to suppress
them, and it is estimated that it will take an
other 100000 per annum to keep them from
travelling outside the area which they at pres
ent devastate. This costly accident or care
lessness was repeated in this country some
years ago by Massachusetts, scientist and it
cost New England hundreds of thousands of
dollars to get the best of the terrible moth. 1t
is all right to study bugs, but when dangerous
they should be kept in captivity.
THE SENATE has officially gone on record as
preferring the words "Civil War; to designate
the prolonged struggle at arms between the
states. Those vigorous patriots who still in
sist on talking about 'sthe rebellion may well
take notice. While the Senate was consider
ing the postofHce appropriation bill Mr.. Nc
Comas proposed an amendment that will allow
soldiers of the war ofthe rebellion" prefer
ence in the transfer of railway mail clerks to
clerical service in the departments. make it
soldiers of the Civil War. 1t is more courte-
ous," Senator Bacon, of Georgia, suggested.
THAT is entirely agreeable" replied Senator
McComas II should have drawn it that way
at first" And the amendment as amended
was forthwith adopted. Now another point is
settled
THE HIGHWAY DIVISION of the Maryland
Geological Survey is rushing work ofthe prep
aration of plans and estimates for the State
highways, and as soon as spring opens, and
the roads become firm enough for engineering
operations, will bend every effort to complete
field work so that construction on at least one
road in every county applying may be begun
as soon as the weather permits of construction.
AT the end of the seasons work Maryland
will have in every part of the State one or two
pieces of wellconstructed road which next
winter and spring will be samples of what is
to come when Maryland has completed this
scheme for the improvement of her highways.
One OF the most prominent figures in the
United States Senate-a man who had occu-
pied seat in that body for the past eighteen
years-died on the 9th inst, from pneumonia
believed to have been contracted or Inaugural
ton day, aged IS years. This was William B.
Bate, of Tennessee, twice Governor of his State
and veteran of both the Mexican and Civil
Wars, having risen from private to major
general in the Confederate army ia the latter.
Senator Bate was universally respected and
his death, although at an advanced age, is re-
garded as serious loss to his State.
SOME Observation-Disclosures individual, who
gave neither name nor address,, few days
ago sent $4,000 to the Secretary of Treasury
for the use of the U. s. Government In the
letter accompanying the remittance the sender
said: Years ago / defrauded the Govern
ment of money, but have returned it all, and
am now paying fourfold, in accordance with
the teachings of Scripture. The way of trans
gressors is hard, and no one but God knows
how have suffered the consequences, and
would seek to do bountiful restoration
Mr.. CREW SNEBLEY, the oldest lawyer in
Baltimore, died on Tuesday, aged 90 years.
He was born in Hagerstown, Nd, and was q
son of Henry Chew Snebley, leading mer-
chart. On the fatal Black Friday in New
York Mr.. Snebley, who bad previously been
wealthy man, lost 100000 in Wall Street
speculations. Soon after that he located in
Baltimore and took up the practice of his pro-
fession. He is survived by one daughter.
IN n ACttCA W OOu6lCoo WllttCu III ltft, w dou~
ingtou said: 'If I was called upon to declare
on oath whether the militia have been most
serviceable or hurtful, upon the whole should
subscribe 10 the latter" The trouble, of course,
was in lack of training. That difficulty is
overcome in a national guard properly fostered
BY each state, with encouragement and rea-
sonable degree of aid from the National
Government
AT THE annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Mecantie Trust and Deposit Company
of Baltimore held on Monday, the following
officers were elected for the ensuing year:
President, Gen. John Gill; first vice-president,
Wilton Snowden; second ice-president, A. Il.
s. Post; secretary, J. R. Walker assistant
secretary. Charles E. McLane; treasurer, John
McHenry.
In THE United States District Court in Balti-
more on Tuesday Sydney Adams, who for
twenty-three years had been clerk in the
Baltimore postoffice, plead guilty to robbing
the mails and Judge Morris sentenced him to
the penitentiary for three years. Adams is IS
years of age and has family.
In divorce suit instituted in the Circuit
Court at Hagerstown few days ago one of the
exhibits filed by the defendant husband was
an ordinary stove poker. The loving wife, it
is alleged, had been tanning the head of her
spouse with this grim instrument.
THE NUMBER of deaths from bubonic plague
in India last week is reported to have been
$4,000. In 1908 the deaths from this cause is
said to have numbered $4,000. while in the
last few years nearly 100000 people have
died from the plague.
Thus FAR sun spots have proved equally
valuable to theorists in predicting cold winters
and hot summers. No doubt this branch of
long-range weather prophecy is as valuable as
any other.
PENNSYLVANIA HAS hard work to keep down
its surplus revenue, but shows that it is up to
date by making large appropriations for road
improvements.
The cIRcUsEs are getting ready for the road,
but no one has proposed to chloroform the
clowns jokes. Their age seems to make them
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