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The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1865-12-09
God at the Helm.

How wonderful the thought that for each
one of us, however humble our position.
God has life plan which we are daily and
surely working out His purposes may be
far above our head. far beyond our inten-
tion to perform, but all our surroundings
converge to this one divine plan Of our
lives.
How little did Joseph know to what pur-
pose be was sold away from home. and
friends. and country. till God had worked it
out in his great life.plan in Egypt Paul
knew not TO what grand apOstlesh;P he
was about to be called until after the great
light on the Damascus road flashed it with
dazzling blindness on his soul. Bunyan
little dreamed, when he brought substi-
great purpose God was saving him. That
substitute was actually shot in battle, but
the immortal dreamer" was shut up in
Bedford Jail there to accomplish a work
which should go down the centuries, hand
in hand with Gods own word.
We, Doue of US know our lfe-plan, no,
not for single day, before US yet God
will work it out by means of our uncon-
scious agency. Our whole biography is
written in the mind Of God.
OF some of us he has written like Cyrus:
Il have girded thee, though thou hast not
known my name" lie is making us do his
work, though, like the carpenters Of Noah's
ark, we be drowned in the food after all.
Of Others, and perhaps of US, he has said,
as Of Pharoah, Even for this same pur-
pose ] have raised thee up that / ght
show my power in thee, and that my name
might be declared throughouta all the earth
Perhaps Of some Of us be has said, /" have
chosen Thee in the furnace Of af1iction."
He is sending US TO orr tasks with his
Word for our guide, his love for the light
of our lives, and whether we follow it or
not, whether we take bis yoke upon US, or
break away from his wholesome restraints,
he is still weaving our work into the great
web of his manifested glory, to show forth
his mercy and love in us, or to teach his
infinite justice by the use or example he
makes of our lives in the end.
How much needless anxiety we might
save ourselves, if we would only believe
that God is really at the helm. He choos-
es all our changes for us. Even the very
houses in which we dwell are built and kept
for us by his providence, though we have
never caused a timber of them to be laid.
Vie appoints the very people among whom
We are 10 dwell, & on whom our influence is
Io bear and who in turn influence u. How
ever unlikely change may seem, if he sees
II is Tor our good. he will cause il to take
place. When God works. .noihiug can stand
an instant in opposition. Why will We not
learn. then, To lake less though for he
,nurr0w. aud be content 10 commit the keep
ing of our souls 10 him in reH doing That
our chiti concern. is 10 do with onr ,Mignt
what our hands ind To do, IN Ille situation
where he has pl1ked Us.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1865-12-09
A WHITE FROST.
BY JOSEPH BARBER.

The fields arc all in light arrayed,
The fences all are silver messed,
The sedges CLEAN IN snow white braid,
Spun by the fingers of the Frost;
The webs, like fairy hammocks swung
Between the tufts of broken grass,
Outshine-with threads transparent strung
Arts rarest toys OF en-glass.
The willows by the meadow brook
Have lost the drapery Summer weaves,
But CLEANS on every osier-look!
The silver Of its summer leaves;
And far and wide, on plain and hill,
A pale and beauteous lustre lies,
As if the moonlight, fair and still, JAP
Had tarried for the sun to risel
Thanks to the wondrous fairy-Nght,
That, while our eyes were slumber- sealed,
Covered all vestiges of blight,
With gems from her own breath CONCEALED
Rich is the green of laughing June,
Gay the flowers of summers prime,
But fairtr-grown beneath the moon
This crop of soft December rme.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1865-12-09
A Saorat Of Youth

There are women who cannot grow old
women who, without any special effort, re-
main always young and attractive. The
number is smaller than it should be, but
there is still sufficient number to mark
the wide difference between this class and
the other The secret of this perpetual
youth lies notcin beauty. for some women
possess it who are not at all handsome !;
nor in dress, for they are frequently care
less in that respect so far as the mere arbi-
trary dictates Of fashion are concerned !;
nor in having nothing to do, for these ever
young women are always as busy as bees.
and it is very we'll known that idleness will
fret people into old age and ugliness faster
than overwork. The charm. we imagine.
lies in sunny temper neither more nor
less, the blessed gift of always looking on
the bright side Of life, and of stretching the
mantle of charity over everybody's fanlts
and failings. 1t is net much of a secret.
but it is all that we have been able TO dis
cover. and wa have watched such with great
interest. and a determination to report
trutbfnIly for the benefit of the rest of the
SEX. 1t is very provoking that it is some,
thing which cannot be corked up and sold
for fifty cents bottle but "a this is i'm
possible, why, most of MS will have to keep
on growing as ugly and disagreeable as pos
sible. t
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1865-12-09
Baltimore and Ohio II. IL.

Trains run as follows: a e
Mail Train will leave Baltimore daily lex
cept Surtiay) at S.l5sA M. Cincinnati Express
Train will lea> e daily (including Sunday at 2
p. NJ, and the st. Louis Express daily Except
Saturday, at $40 P. M.
All these trains connect at Belair and Per
kersburg for all points West Southwest and
Northwest. l ~
Frederick Accommodation Train leaves Bal
timore at 4.30 P. M. r-t
East-Leaves Frederick at us A. NJ. daily
Sundays excepted.l
The Ellicott's Mills Train leaves Baltimore
at $40 and 10 "A. M, and $50 2. M, and Ell
licott's Mills at 7.4O A. NJ, and Il.30 A. N, and
5.26P.I.
FOR WASHINGTON.
g Leaves Baltimore at 430, 7.O5, s45 and 90
A. NJ, and 2.30 and 6 p. ". On Sundays at 4.30
and 845 A. NJ, and 4.20 r. NJ. Leave Washing
ton at $40, $40 and 1lI5 A. NJ, and LIS, 3 30
and 4.40 P. NJ. On Sundays at $40 A. NJ, and
LIS and 3.S0sP. M The $40 A. NJ, and the 2.30
p. M trains only from Baltimore, and the $40 A.
w. and 4.40 r. N. trains from Washington stop
at way points. Tbes70o and 8.45 A. NJ. ard
APO p. NJ. trains from Baltimore, and the $40
and $40 A. NJ. and 4.40 p. N. trains from Wash
ington connect with trains on the Annapolis
Road. ,1f2~yrs "a It
,<e>s< <-iAE.A W. P. SMITH, r
T&rp Master of Transportation.
L. NJ. COLE, General Ticket Agent
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1865-12-09

Essay ON DoGs.--Josho BilIiags favors
the world with brief essay on dogs, Dogs
in the lump says Josh, "are useful, but
they are not always profitable. The New
Foundland dog is useful to save children
from drowning; but you have got to have
a. pond of water and children running about
kareless or else the dog amt profitable
There amt nothing made boardinga a New
foundin dog. Rat terriers are useful to
catch rats ; but the rats amt profitable af-
ter YOU have ketched them The shepherd
dog is useful tew drive sheep, and pay more
thansthey are worth. to keep the dog busy;
the dog aint profitahle--nOt much. Lap
dogs are very useful ; but if you don't hold
them in your lap awl the time, they amt
profitable at all. The Coach dog is one OF
the most usefnl ov dogs know ov; but
you have got to have coach land that amt
always pleasant or you can't realize from
the dog. Thus we see that while dogs are
generally useful, there are times when they
amt generally profitable"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1865-12-09

THE OysTER.-- Open an oyster, retain the
liquor in The lower or, deep shell, and II
viewed through mcroscope i wall be
found to contain multitudrs Of small oys-
ters. covered with shells. and swimming
riimbly abont--one hundred and twenty Of
which e xtended' but one inch. Besides
these young oysters. the liqupr contains q
variety OF aninlalcul2, and myriads OF three
distinct species of worms. Sometlmes
their light resembles blush star about
the center Of the shell, which will be beau
tifully luminous 10 dark yoom.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1865-12-09
Put Him Through

A few weeks since brace of lovers IN
Tered Photographic saloon aud. wanted
heir pictures taken. The lady gave rrece-
,I-nce TO her swain whu. she SAID, had
got to be tuck fast and rale ma nral."
He brushed up his tow head of hair.
gave twist or two To his handkerchief,
asked his gal if his shirt collar was about
X, and placed hiusrlf in the operators
chair, where he soon assumed the physiog-
nomical characteristics Of poor mortal
in dentists hands and about to part with
one of his eye teeth.
Now do look purity T. begged ihe lady.
casting at him one of her most langulshlng
glances.
The picture was taken, and when produc.
ced it reminded the girl as she expressed
it.
"Jist how Josh looked when he got over
the measles r and as this was not al era in
her suitorS history particularly worthy OF
their commemoration, she insisted that ne
should stand it again"
He obeyed, and she attended him to the
chair.
JOSH" said she, fist look like smiling,
then kinder don't"
The poor fellow tried to follow the indeh'
mite injunction.
LA !" she said, "why you look all lpucker'
ed up" ey
One direction followed another, but with
as little success. AT last growing impa.
tient, and becoming desperate, she resolved
to try all experiment which she considered
infallible. and exclaimed
IL don't keer if there is folks around"
She eujoned the operator to stand ready
at his camera, she then sat in her fellows
lap, and placing her arms around his neck,
managed to cast shower OF. Aaxen ,ringlets,
as a screen between the operator and pro-
ceedngs. which, however, were betrayed
by succession OF amorous sounds which
revealed her experiment. When this "bil-
ling and cooiug had lasted few minutes.
the cunning girl jumped from Josh's lap,
and clapped her hands, cried to the aston
ished artist
"Now you have got him put himthrough!"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1865-12-09
KIssrSo.-Dow, Jr., closed sermon on

KIss1Xo-Dow, Jr., closed a sermon on
kissing with the following quaint advice
Il want you my young sinners TO kiss
and get married, and then devote your life
to morality and money making. rhen let
your homes be well-provided with such
comforts and necessares as piety, pickles,
pots and kettles, brushes, brooms, benevo-
ience, bread, charity, cheese, faith, -four,
affection, cider, sincerity, vinegar, virtue,
wine and wisdom. Have these always on
hand, and happiness viii be with. YOU
Do not drink anything intoxicating-ea
moderately-go about business after break
fast-lounge little after dinner-chat at.
ter your tea, and kiss after qlarreling -
then all the JOY, the peace, aud the bliss
the earth can afford, shall he yours, until
the graves close over you. aud your spirits
are borne to brighter and happier world.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1865-12-09

III 81 SD - Fl
Trains.leaye President Street Depot as fol-
lows, viz
Way Mail Trains for Philadelphia and Way
Stations at S25 A M.
Express Train for New York only at go
A. NJ.
Express Train for Philadelphia and n. York
at l.l0 p. M.
Way Train for Philadelphia and Way Sta
tons at 4.l0 P. NJ,
Express Train for Philadelphia and N. York
at $50 r. M.asssa4zs.zstaa a1ss-ssssssa
Express Train for Philadelphia and N. York
at 9.25 p. M, -
The above Trains leave daily except Sunday.
ON SUNDAYS,
For New York at 1850 j. NJ; for Philadel-
phia at Q.25 p. M.
+ For Salisbury and intermediate points on
Delaware Railroad AXE 9.25 P. NJ. train, and
for Dover, Delawsre, take the LILO P. NJ. train.
VIM. CRAWFORD, Agent.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1865-12-09
earrhe MOST agreeable ofaII companions

RgSThe most agreeable ola companions
is thr simple and franS person without any
high pretensions to an oppressive gentle
ness one who loves life and understands
the use of it obliging alike at all hours,
and above all ola golden temper, and stead
fast as an anchor. For such one we most
gladly exchange the greatest genius, the
mos, brilliant wit. aud the pFcgouudest
thinker Of the age.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1865-12-09
REMOVAL.
GEORGE STEIBER,
BOOT & SHOE MAKER,
TowsONTOWN, ND,
Izs II 70

THEREBY informs the citizens of Towson-
ii town and vicinity, that he has removed
his Boot and Shoe establishment from his re-
cent place of business, to the building adjoin-
ing the post office and store of Mr.. Nelson Coop
er, where he will in the future be pleased to see
all his friends and customers. ~
keep constantly on hand . varied assort-
ment of Boots, Shoes, Caters, &C., for other
Ladies, Gentlemen or Children,
ALLOF MY OWN MANUFACTURE,
which will be found as durable, and cheaper
than can be procured in the city of Baltimore.
return my thanks for the very liberal pa
tronage / have heretofore received, and l will
endeavor by attention to business, and modsr-
ate charges, to merit continuance of the same.
GEORGE STEIBER.
April l,-6m. ft<f
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1865-12-09

e. Hon. Tom Corwin, Of D Ohio. says that
he would have continued in the Mexican
embassy, but that he had to climb noun
tains and keep on foot all the time to keep
in reach Of the Mexican Republic, and he
was too old for that.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1865-12-09

RE Miss Bremen tells us that the life -cf
a rich old bachelor is splendid breakfast,
toerably Hat dinner, aud most mlseF'
able supper.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1865-12-09

TWO TRAINS EACH WAYDAIL 2.
Trains will run as follows: ste
Leave Union Bridge at 90 and 900 A. H, ar
irving in Baltimore at 500 A. NJ, and 1890 P.
N. Leave Baltimore at $50 A. N. and $50 p. NJ.
arriving at Union Bridge at 1920 and 6.55. 5
Stage connection daily with Manchester
and Hampstead, at Glen Morris Station, on ar
rival of 900 A. NJ Train from Baltimore, and
for Uniontown, Taneytown and Emmittsburg
on the arrival of the same Train at Linwood
Station. ~ ~ P. N IRWIN, Supt.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1865-12-09

# our readers:
81 Wheat. sixty pounds.
q Corn. shelled, tifty-six pounds.
Rye, fifty six pounds.
+ Oats. thirty two pounds.
Barley, forty six pounds. Ish.
Buckwhpat, tifty-two pounds.
Irish Potatoes, fifty pounds.
Sweet Potatoes, fifty pounds.
Onions, ffty-seven pounds.
Beans. sixty pounds.
Bran. twenty pounds
Glover Seed. sixty pounds.
Timoihy Seed, furty five pounds.
Hemp Seed. forty-6vs pounds.
Blue Grass Seed. fourteen pounds. -
Dried Peaches. thirty three. pounds.
Flax Seed tifty-sIx pounds.
Castor Beans, forty six pounds.
Dried Apples, twenty four pounds.
+. Coal, seventy six pounds, % I
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RATES OF ADVERTISING:
One square, (of lines, or less, one insertion,
10 cents, and for every subsequent insertion,

&a- No advertisement Inserted for less tha :.
One Dollar.
@a- Marriages and Deaths inserted free Of
charge, except when accompanied by quotations
or remarks for which the usual price of adver-
tisng will be charged.
BY consolidating the two Baltimore county
papers, the UNION has the largest circulation OF
any county paper in the State, and thus offers
superior advantages to advertisers.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1865-12-09

A BusHEI. following table of the
number of pounds of various articles to
make bushe, may be of interest 20 some
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1865-12-09
JOB WORK:

Our Office, besides one of Hoes beet Power
Presses, is furnished with good job Press and
all the necessary materials for executing plain
and fancy Job Printing with neatness and dis
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1865-12-09

Of all sizes and styles printed at short notice
and on good terms. i{fc
Magistrates and Collectors Blanks, Deeds,
and all kinds of Public Papers always on hand
at the Office.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1865-12-09

which reverberated through the corridor,
Of the prison. and echoed through tbs
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1865-12-09
Rail Road directory.
S 80 81 81 nj S5:E tf ~ W.
Northern central Railroad.
WINTER SCHEDULE.

On and after MONDAY, Nov. 2Cth, 1865,
Trains Northward Leave baltimore as
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Western Maryland R. R.

I&E Master of Transportation.
L. NJ. COLE, General Ticket Agent.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1865-05-11
Disposition of Shcrman'S ARMY.

New YoRK. May Our Raleigh letters
of the 28th and both, state that Gen. Sher-
man and staff left that day for Charleston aud
Savannah, thence going to Richmond to meet
his army which was to leave Raleigh the
next monday. Sherman had issued all order
announcing the 6nal agreement of surrender
by Johnston. He prohibits all foraging and
provides certain ways to relieve the pressing
wants of the inhabitants. The 10th and 23rd
corps remain in the department of NorthCar-
olina together with KiIpatrick's cavalry
Stonemans cavalry is ordered to East Ten
nessee river, near Decatur Alabama Gen
Howard, and the army of Tennessee will
march to Richmond. Gen. Slocum, and
the army Of Georgia, also marches to Rich
III ond. and the rebel army
are all leaving for their homes, many taking
their arms with them, and some trouble
is apprehended from those who took their
arms and went away on their own hook. -
Gen Johnston has endeavored to carry out
the terms agreed npou, but the time infer
veniDg between the first and second agree
lnents occasioned some GENERALIZATION
A movement was on SCOT to reorgauiZe the
State government
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1865-05-11

Editors Of Kenosha Telegroph:-Thinkng it
might not be uninl eresting TO some of the read
ers of your excellent paper, to hear something OF
what is being done. in Kenosha county Tor the
soldiers, l herewith send you an account of the
result of our labors as a society, during the past
four months. Our membership ia small and scat.
teIing. but trust that our interest in the well
iare OF the solder, is neither small nor decreas-
ing. To-day we send, for the reiet the sick and
wounded braves, two small boxes of Hospital
besides several barrels of vegetables. Most Of
the articles, in the boxes which we are about to
send are Of new material purchased and made
within the time above mentioned and are vail
ued at $50, or upwards.
The following is list of the articles sent:
, Comfortabes, rolls of Bandages.
Flannel Shirts, Pairs of Socks,
a Cotton Shirts / sack Of dried Corn,
Rolls of. old Linen, ! Pac ge of dried Plums,
5 do d. Cotton do dried Cur ant-
3 Pocket Handkereh fs Bible. | cumfnrt Bag
100 copies OF the Guide 10 Holiness. and
other leadIng matter.
We have great reason to thank God for the
glorious prospect of the return of Peace, to our
| nnce happy but now tried nation, and we hope
and pray that the time may soon come. when our
disabled land able) soldiers will be permitted to
eturn to their homes. where they may receive
the kind min STATIONS of loving friends instead
f strangers. RUBY NJ PIKE
Cypress, May 8, 1865. !Secretarg.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1865-05-11

In what Way could the people of this city
expend cay. $5Oia year, more satisfactorily or
moreintelligentIy, than in paying it to the print.
er for publishing the Pre- ceedings and Goings of
the City Council? Say it would amount to the
enormous sum of tire cents each for every tax
payer. Would not the graf 6caton of reading
and knowing how the government of the city is
carried on-what is d, ne with the money we pay
for city taxes how it IS expended. aud what il
costs to expend it-be worth that sum? AS il is
the only evidence the ppeole have that there is
a city government. is the annual payment of the
taxes that are levied and no questions asked -
week or two ago the citizens were c, lied up
ON to vote a harbor lax through 20 or 25 email
handbils posted around in 0bscule places The
ordinance authorizing the election was not pub
lished which if we mistake not, is required py
the charter Citizens could not vote understands
iugly on question they;knew nothing OF; and it
not to be expec ed that more than one Tut OF ;eu
of the taxpayers in The city ever that noiice,
or knew that such all ection was to be held
We understand that there was ma ority for tbs
law, and II will be levied ana collected and no.
body but those who have he handling
of the money will ever how 1t is expend
ed. or Tor what purpose, or whether il is expend.
ed at all or not.
pi course we don question he honesty or tht
upngh'ness OF the Con mon Council or city offi
Gers in all this matter, but it does seem To us tina
this is sort OF semi-civiIized way OF ger
ting along unworthy OF the age, the country. o.
the city we live ina penny wise, pound foolish
system, that GALE aloud for change and reform.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1865-05-11

The summer CnmpaiEn-Not aga'n-i
the rebels thank fortune Tor they have all sur
rendered, but BROwN's summer canpaig;,
against High Prices--i~ fairly iuauguraied His
':Coinma," Is already martialled in the TrLs,
GRAPH to which ca,i special attention
whie at ileaaqu4rrers.' lof low prj, es1 The
commissary aud supply department under the
charge If his popular che. OF Distribution. Pc
TAR, is amply stocked To meet ala requirement.,
of she Spring n, d summer campaign But I.
drop all metaphor and c"mc uo~n to plain facts
Brown has a la-ge aid well selected stock q
Staple and Fancy Dry Good. that buyers wi
do we'll T., examine In The line of d, ess Good
the Ladies will ii d a great var ely of the lat,
styles His Crockery department. which b
rather makes specially. is complete and tut
while his Groceries are of tie very best and liz
all of his Goods, marked Gown to the lowest pc,
sible figures.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1865-05-11

why don't some enterpiising man who ''caG
keep hot ell, put up one. large, airy uommod
Gus, comfortable and convenient, somewhere op
the Park. out OF the noise and dust, for the &C.
commodatIon principally, Of families and guests
from Chicago aud elsewhere. during the summer!
Several gentlemen of SOo7 judgn emit, and well
qualified To speak such matters. tell us /
would pay well, beyond a doubt
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1865-05-11
speer. samburg ue.-We have e'

speers Snmburg WIne.-We have ex
amined a specimen of the Samburg VINE OF Mr.
Alfred SJeer referred 20 by corre+p 'ndent o
the Ame -ieaH Bapsfst and have no d"nbt 1t l.
the uu ,da. .,,ed ,,c- If the Portugal grape
We should iud &c iroui rs taste aud appearance
that 1t is certainly valuable as communion
wine and as a tonic tor weakly persons. Ii has
the recc mmendatioE of some of the first physi-
clans 10 ths country as well Europe, r
Washington Star
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1865-05-11

Denial Notice. DIR. MEAD will be at the
City Hotel until Monday. the 18th inst. Hav-
ing taken the flee OF the late DIR. K. w. Hol-
ley, 81 Adams ST, IbicagO, he will hereafter
visit Kenosha, one week in every month. His
next apl oinimt III f,r Kenoeha will be June Eth
for one v eek only
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1865-05-11

u. q. Christian COmmissiOn On the
occasion of the visit of Mr.. CARTER. Chairman
Of tie Wisconsin branch of Christian Commits
sion, on behalrof that noble charity, week ago
last Sunday evening, the contributions amount
ed TO $500; Hon. z. G: SIMMONS with his accus>
toned liberality starting the list with $50.