The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-11-24
NEWS ITEMS.

terrain church at Culpepper Court House, a.
have issued an appeal for help to rebuild their
Sanctuary and revive the life of their institu-
tions There is probably not a county in the
whole South more desolated. War pissed and I
rlpassed continually, during four years, like
pendulum, or like huge saw. The house OF
worship was hospital, or guard house, or
barrack, as occasion required, and was SO d.
lapidated that it was sold, and the price recelv-
ed in the money then current is now no money.
The membership are about as poor as the
church. They are endeavoring to restore the
economy of life under great discouragements,
without money or labor, and in the absence of
all improvements. They say:
Gone can ride on horseback entirely through
the county, in more than one direction, or
could until recently, without regarding the
public road, and without finding his progress
impeded by fence. There are prairies in diff
ferent parts of Culpepper, like the prairies of
the West; no fences no timber, and only at
wide distances, the walls or ruins of a house +"
mss- No wonder that the meteors did not
make their appearance the other night They
were afraid of being served up by the n. York
World after the style of the following: "The sky,
too, wore misty haze, which, transparent by
strict rules, still perceptibly dimmed the lucid
ity of the sunlight, so that, from zenith to hor-
lion, the heavens were covered with q mild,
and, at times departing vail OF Heating nebu-
lar cast, behind which the azure stood out in
beautiful distinctness, the whole not unlike the
diminished effect of scenic tableaux beheld, as
we perceive, through an intervening gauze ar
ranged so that, while we see its minimizing re-
suit, we do not catch sight of the medium that
lessons"
eve guess not we did'nt see it in that light"
Eds. Union.
mg~The Guthrie (Iowa) V5Eettc gives some
figures about a herd of stock rsD.sed near Dale
City which deserves notice. The herd consists
of seventy-two head of o-year-old steers,
bought in that county last winter, and herded
out on the prairie during the summer. They
were weighed as they came in from the prairie,
and when they had been twelve hours off food
and water One of them weighed 1920 pounds,
another 1880, another 1880, and four others
averaged ,227 pounds The average weight of
the whole herd was 1880 pounds, and full car
load Of them will average over 1900.
Mss~ The great twenty mile trotting- horse
Captain MCGOWAN, last week attempted the feat
Of trotting twenty -one miles inside the hour, on
the Riverside Park, Boston, q half-mile track,
but when he had accomplished thirteen miles,
which he performed in good STYLE he was with
drawn as the heavy condition of the track was
to much for him. The time of the thirteen
miles was thirty eight minutes and fifty-two
seconds the quickest mileSbeing made in 2:494,
this being the second.
Mg-A Committee appointed by the Soldiers
and Sailors Union of Washington, have issued
call for mass convention of the loyal vete-
rams of the Republic, to assemble in that city
on Saturday, December LIST, to give welcome
to the loyal members of the Thirty ninth Con
gress and encourage them in the discharge OF
the duties that will devolve upon them during
the coming winter. 1t is enough to say that
the arrangements are in the same hands that
made the Pittsburg Convention grand success.
Tl;ooo.o 80 49, 80 tac 4bof Loot tvoolr
a man whose name was not given, residing in
Manchester, Iowa, murdered his family and
then himself. Returning home from his bust
ness, he seized his gun, wentinto the yard, shot
| his wife and child and MANNED his wifes moth
er, after which he cut his own throat causing
| instant death. Jealousy is said to have been
| the cause.
| M9~General Grant was in Baltimore on Sat
urday last, in attendance upon the horse fair.
| After leaving the races he dined with VIM. j.
| Albert, ESQ.,, and Judge Bond, at the residence
| of the former gentleman, and returned to Wash
ngton in the evening. AT the fair grounds the
General met and shook hands with Gen. Joseph
E. johnson, late of the "Confederacy."
| 5nsy>"5hall the Democratic party live or die ?"
asks guardian Democratic newspaper. Such
| q question at a "post mortem," says the Chicago
! Republican, with the corpse of the deceased in
| CHASTITY reality, lying in full view, seems very
much out of place The only pertinent ques-
| tions on such an occasion would be, of what
| did it die, and who killed it!
lsGs~We have the authority of Holster ely
| mer for asserting that there is no Democratic
| party in existence. At least he said in his
speech made in Philadelphia few days be-
fore the election, that his election as Governor
was as certain as the existence of the Democrat
ic party.
Mas~Mr Slidell, the once famous Rebel Min
lister to France, and one of our most active en-
emies in Europe, recently applied to the Gov
eminent for pardon through Mr.. Bigelow, MINI
lister at Paris. The reply of the Government
was that no intercourse or correspondence of
any kind would be held with Mr.. slidell.
ms-A couple of lovers appeared in one of
| the churches at st. Louis to be married. last
week when young female arose in the audi
ence and forbade the banns, declaring that the
man was engaged to her. The clergyman re-
fused to go on with the ceremony, and justice
of the peace had to be called in TO tie the knot.
zns~A curious storyis current in Albany that
Ketchum, the forger, remained in Sing Sing
prison few weeks was then taken out and
sent to Europe, where he will remain till just
before his sentence expires, aud then come back
to the prison and stay till regularly discharged.
NS~A man in Lewsburg, Preble county,
Ohio, having died of delirium tremens, his wife
brought suit for damages against two men of
whom he had been accustomed to purchase
liquor. The County Court awarded her $500
from one of the men and 5000 from the other
ng~The total official returns of the October
election in Iowa WILL it is now thought, show
Republican majority of 10000. But Illinois
will go about 1000 better. Iowa may be "the
Vermont of the West" but ILLINOIS is now the
Massachusetts, of the West.
;ng~Prof Marsh of Yale College pronounces
the fossils recently found at Cohoes, N. Y, the
| bones of a female mastodon, of full growth,
though comparatively young, and says that the
animal must have existed over ten thousand
years ago.
ns-It is stated on good authority that tur-
keys were never before so abundant through
out the country. Small poultry is also in full
supply Present high prices, therefore, are
purely speculative, and must eventually break
! down.
| 1GgsThe bridge over the Susquehanna river,
! at Havre de Grace is now SO nearly completed
that it is stated by the employees of the compa-
ny that trains will be run over it Tuesday next,
| 9th instant.
My-It is stated that Hon. Mr. Foster, Presi-
dent of the U. S. Senate, is to resign after the
| meeting of Congress, and that either Hon. Ben
! amin Wade, of Ohio, or Mr.. Yates, of Illinois,
is to be elected in his place. This is doubtful
M@~ Professor Loomis, of Yale College, in
| letter on the meteoric shower, says the grand
display which it was supposed might possibly
occur this year has not been witnessed in the
United States and probably not in Europe.
| Mg~An immense locomotive recently drew
| train of 227 cars, carrying 1900 tons of coal
over the Lehgh River Railroad, in Pennsyl-
vania. The train formed one monster s while
| passing around the curves in Mauch Chunk,
| MEs> Postmaster General Randall is reported
as having informed some Democratic office
seekers that "the Democratic support of the
| Presidents policy had only been sufficient 10
| injure instead of aiding it,