25 EAST BALTIMORE STREET Conducts a General Banking Business Your Money Can Earn 3 Per Cent. or 3 Per Cent. According to the Nature of Your Account Manages Estates Acts as Administrator and Executor Thomas H. Bowles, President Douglas H. Gordon, First Vice President J. H. FURST COMPANY PRINTERS OF Philological and Scientific Works ARE FULLY EQUIPPED WITH Special Types, Accents, etc., necessary to fill orders promptly and accurately In Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Old English, and the CORRESPONDENCE INVITED J. H. FURST COMPANY 23 S. Hanover Street BALTIMORE, MD. L ISSUED QUARTERLY ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION, $3.00-SINGLE NUMBERS, 75CTS.. BALTIMORE FOR SALE AT THE ATHENAEUM BUILDING, ST. PAUL & SARATOGA STS. OF BALTIMORE 9, 11, 13, SOUTH STREET Capital and Surplus, $2,400,000 CTS as Trustee of Corporation Mortgages, Fiscal Agent for Corporations and Individuals, Transfer Agent and Registrar. Depository under plans of re-organization. Acts as Executor, Administrator, Guardian, Trustee, Receiver, Attorney and Agent, being especially organized for careful management and settlement of estates of every character. Fireproof Building with latest and best equipment for safety of contents. Safes for rent in its large FIRE AND BURGLAR PROOF VAULTS with spacious and well-lighted coupon rooms for use of patrons. Silver and other valuables taken on storage. BALTIMORE, SAVANNAH AND JACKSONVILLE, "FINEST COASTWISE TRIPS IN THE WORLD" W. P. TURNER, Pass. Traffic Manager. General Offices, S. E. Cor. German and Light Sts., Baltimore, Md. After an interval of fifty years, it is permitted the writer to avail of the pen to present to a new generation a modest record of a military organization of most brilliant promise but whose career was brought to a sudden close after a life of but fifteen months. The years 1858 and 1859 were years of very grave import in the history of our city. Local political conditions had become almost unendurable, the citizens were intensely incensed and outraged, and were one to ask for a reason for the formation of an additional military organization in those days, a simple reference to the prevailing conditions would be ample reply. For several years previous the City had been ruled by the American or Know Nothing Party who dominated it by violence through the medium of a partisan police and disorderly political clubs. No man of opposing politics, however respectable, ever undertook to cast his vote without danger to his life. 'The corporate name of this organization was "The Maryland Guard" of Baltimore City. Its motto, "Decus et Præsidium.” 117 |