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The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-05-19
Creeling the Bridegroom

A curions CUSTOM in connection with
marriage, prevailed at one time in Scotland
and, from the manner in which it was car
ried out, was called Greeting the Bride
groom. The mode of procedure in the vii
liage of Galashielas was as follows
Early in the day, after the marriage, those
interested in the proceeding assembled at
thehouse of the newly-wedded couple bring
ing with them ereeP or basket, which
they filled with stones. The young hus-
band, on being brought to the door, had
the creel firmly fixed upon his back, and
with it in this position, had to run the
round of the town, or at least the chief por'
tion of it, followed by number of men to
see that he did not drop his burden the
only condition on which he was allowed to
do so being that his wife should come after
him and kiss him. AS relief depended al.
together upon the wife, it would sometimes
happen that the husband did not need to
run more than few yards but when she
was more than ordinarily bashful, or wished
to have little sport at the expense Of her
Lord and master-which it may be suppos-
ed, would not unfrequently be the case
he had to carry his load considerable dis
tance This custom was very strictly en-.
forced, for the person who was last creel-
ed had charge of the ceremony and he was
naturally anxious that no one should es-
cape. The practice, as far as Galashielos
was concerned, came to an end about six
ty years ago, on the person of Robert
Young, who, on the plea Of illness, lay in
bed all the day after his marriage, and OBJ
stinately refused to get up and be creeled.
He had been twice married before, and no
doubt felt that he had enough of creeling,
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-05-19
LOCAL LAWS.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.

n accordance with an Act passed by the Leg
i islature on the oath of January, 1865, re-
quiring that every Public Local Local made to
take effect before the first of June next, after
Immediately after itspassage be published once
IN each of three successive weeks in all the
newspapers of the retrospective counties in which
it may operate.
The undersigned, Commissioners Of Balti-
more county, hereby publish the following Lo-
cal Laws for Baltimore county: IA
JOSHUA F. COCKEY, "a
aDh1@~ - ~ sDAN'L j. McCAULEY, IA
JAMES BUTTON, ggi-fl
a Commissioners of Baltimore county.
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gOettg,
LITTLE JERRY, THE MILLER.


Beneath the hill you may see the mill,
OF wasting wood and crumbling stone;
The wheel is dripping and Gathering still,
But Jerry, the Miller, is dead and gone
Year after year, early and late,
Alike in summer and winter weather,
He pecked the stones and calked the gate,
And mill and miller grew old together.
Little Jerry ''-'twas all the same
They loved him well who called him so
And whether he'd ever another name,
Nobody ever seemed to know.
Twas Little jerry, come grind my rye -
And Little Jerry, come grind my wheat -
And :" Little JeTyp was still the cry,
From matron bold and maiden sweet.
) Twas 8 Little jerry 2 on every tongue,
And thus the simple truth was told
For jerry was little when he was young.
And Jerry was little when he was old
But what in size he CHANGED to lack,
That Jerry made up in being strong
I've seen a sack upon his back
As thick as the miller, and quite as long.
Always busy and always merry,
Always doing his very BEST
notable wag was little Jerry,
Who uttered with his standing Jest
When will you grind my corn, say ?"
~heJ3 HuONi oSiiyj yOu HCCull cOOlu
Just leave your grist for half day,
And never fear but you'll be toLled.''
How Jerry lived is known to fame,
But how he died there's none may know
One autumn day the rumor came
" The brook and Jerry are very low
And then twas whispered mournfully
The leech had come and he was dead
And all the neighbors focked to see -
" Poor Little Jerryln was all they said.
They laid him in his earthly bed
His miller's coat his only shroud-
Dust to dust y the parson said,
And all the people wept aloud.
For he had Stunned the deadly sin,
And not grain of over-toll
Had ever dropped into his bin,
To weigh upon his paDting soul.
Beneath the hill there stands the mill,
Ofwasting wood and crumbling stone
The wheel is dripping and Gathering still,
But jerry, the miileris dead and gone.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-05-19

"a g Madam said cross tempered
physician to patient, " if women were ad-
mtted to Paradise, their tongues would
make it purgatory."
And some physicians, if allowed to
practice there" replied the good lady,
G would soon make it desert"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-05-19

a. Mother-Here, Tommy, is some nice
castoroil, Ste with orange JUICE in it.
Doctor-Now, remember, don't give it
all TO Tommy. save some for me.
Tommy, (who has " been there, Doc
tors nice man, ma, give it all to the doc
tor
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-05-19

Court House, Towsontown, (up stairs.)
VI ME undersigned respectfully informs the
i citizens of the County, that he has establish
ed an Office in Towsontown, Baltimore county,
for the transaction of all business relating to
landed property, and that it wilr be greatly to
business attended to. By SO doing they will
save much time and expense, and have it done
promptly, accurately and neatly, and at a less
expense than it can be done by others.
Deeds, Leases, Mortgages, Wills and all 9TH
er instruments of writing carefully prepared
HENRY SHEW, County Surveyor.
In my absence from Towsontown, all busi-
ness left with JOHN NJ. WHEELER, ESQ.,, at
the Clerks Office, will be promptly attended to.
April Z, 1S66.-ly.
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gG / am glad this coffee don't owe me
any thing" said book-keeper to his wife
the other morning. at breakfast Why?'
was the response. !" Because | don't be-
lieve it would ever settle.'
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yANyAssERs WANTED. at 500

0ANVASSERS WANTED, at 5000 per
~ MONTH We want reliable agents (none
other,) male and female to take the exclusive
agency in every county and township in the U.
is. to sell the Photograph Family Record, d work
which every family will buy. 1t is bound like
an album, but has /. printed blank page oppo,.
site each photograph, for u complete record Of
the husband, wife and each child of a family ;
also containing marriage certificate, and pages
4 for military history of any member of,the fam
lily. Nothing like it ever published, and no
work that agents sell so readily. Old can
vassers and others should send for circulars and
terms II is necessary to have copies of the
\ work to canvass with price by express $3.50,
So. 80 and $500, e styles;) money may be sent
by mail Name the township wanted. Address
BARTLESON 4 CO.,
/ March 31.-3m Gil Chestnut ST., Phila.
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a. " Have you seen my black-faced an
teIope ?" inquired Mr. Lewcode, who has
collection of animals, to his friend. s
g No, / haven't Whomdid your black-
faced aunt elope with"
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CHAPTER 8.


AN ACT to incorporate the Joint Stock compa-
ny Of Mount Washington Female College of
The Methodist Episcopal Church.
SECTION l. Be ii enacted by the General ASSEM-
6ly Of Maryland, That Levi Perry, George APP
pod, John NJ Frazier, j. w. Hedges, Joseph
France, Henry w. Drakely, J. j. Moran, w. T.
r. Shaffel and William +. Speake, be and they
are hereby incorporated and made body poll
tic by the name Of the Joint Stock Company OF
Mount Washington Female College of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church with view to Literary
and Educational purposes, and by that name
shall have perpetual succession with power to
provide for the naming and election. Of any, and
all such officers as may be desired by said corpo-
ration to make and amend a constitution and
bylaws for their government, not inconsistent
with the laws Of this State or of the United
States, to have and to use common seal with
the privilege of altering the same at pleasure, TO
make provision for the comforting of degrees
and awarding of diplomas, as fully and to the
same extent as such powers are now exercised or
enjoyed by any of the colleges in the said State
of Maryland, to purchase, take and hold by deed
or otherwise, any property, real, personal or
mixed, and the same or any part thereof, to dis
pose of at pleasure, and to execute such deed or
deeds OF other conveyanceS as may be necessary
therefor to sue and be sued, plead and be inn
pleaded, and generally to have, use and exer-
else all and singular the powers of a corpora
ton to such extent as may be necessary for the
purpose of effectualy carrying into effect the
purposes aforesaid but nothing herein contain
ed shall be so construed as TO confer any bank
ing privileges upon the said corporation, or any
authority to issue any note, certificate, device or
token, to be used as currency pro0ided, that at
all times two thirds of the directors of said corr
poraton shall be members of the Methodist Epis-
copal church and provided further, that no per-
son at any time shall be President or Principal
of said college unless he be a member Of the
Methodist Episcopal church. 3ae
Sec 2. indie ii enacted, That the capital stock
ofsaid company shall be fifty thousand dollars,
in twenty-five hundred shares Of twenty dollars
each, the certificates for said stock to be issued
in nsuch manner and upon such terms and condi-
tons as shall be provided for in the constitution
and bylaws of said company
p SEC 3. And be.n enacted, that this act shall
take effect from and after the date of its passage.
Nav 5-3t.
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UAh IIlo DOI I4ONJ
Commissioners of Baltimore county

CHAPTER 6.
AN ACT to incorporate the Mount Washington
.fs. Mining Company. M86r
SECTION l. BE ii enacted by the General ASSEM-
blyof Maryland That William H. Keener, Henry
r. Zollikoffer Edward Powers P. P. Pendleton,
l.. j. Tormey, and all and every person per-
sons who with them or in their stead shall here
after become associated with them, their success
sors and assigns, shall be and are hereafter Great
ed and declared TO be body corporate and polit-
lie, by the name and style of Mount Washington
Mining Company and by that name may have
perpetual succession, and shall be able and capa-
BILE in law to sue and be sued, plead and be I'M
speaded, answer and be answered in any court of
law or equity and to make and use common
seal, and to ordain and establish such by laws
and regulations as shall be necessary or conven-
lent for conducting the affairs of the corporation
not repugnant to law.
f. Sec. Q And be 1t enacted, That the objects of
4 said corporation are said to be the mining Of
copper and other ores, and for which purposes
they are hereby authorized to purchase, hold
and sell land in fee simple or otherwise necessa-
ry for the conducting of the business, and to
erect thereon all needtul and convenient buildings
that the capital stock of said corporation shall
be one hundred thousand dollars, divided into
i shares of one hundred dollars each, and when
| five hundred shares are subscribed for and one
tenth on each share paid in, then the company
i hereby incorporated may avail themselves OF the
provisions Of this Act, and for every additional
| hundred thousand dollars increase to the capital
stock, ten thousand dollars shall be paid in pro-
rided, that said capital stock shall not be increas
ed to an amount exceeding five hundred thous-
and dollars.
| Sec. 8 43ndtea enacted That for the management
/. of the affairs OF the company the stockholders
shall elect President and not less than five Di-
rectors, who shall remain in office for one year,
or until successors be elected, majority of whom
shall constitute quorum or board, that ma jori
| ty OF fstockholders shall call meeting, upon adj
vising all the stockholders by advertisement in
one of the newspapers published in said county
or the city of Baltimore, at least twenty days
| previous to the time and place of holding such
meeting. @
Seo A. And be 1t enacted That the stock of
said company shall be esteemed personal estate
and that all the property estate and joint stock of
the corporation shall be bound and answerable
| for all its debts and liabilities. I'D
Sec. s. And be ii enacted, That nothing con-
tanned herein shall be construed as granting
banking privileges to said corporation or exempt
ing their property or effects from general taxa
ton.
Sec. 6. Ind be ii eaacted, That the General AS
sembly reserves the right to alter amend or re-
peal this act Of incorporation at pleasure
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PLOUGH CASTINGS
PLOUGH CASTINGS !
wr&1Z

TTNHE attention of Farmers and Merchants is
invited to my full and complete stock, en-
bracing all the various sizes Of the Wiley,
Woodcock, Smith, Atwood, Minor q Horton,
Wisconsin, and other kinds, all of which will
be sold low by the single picce or ton.
Also, good assortment of Ploughs, at less
than regular prices, at No. 142 N. Gay street,
Baltimore. HENRY WILCOX.
Feb. 6.--tf
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Beneath the hill you may see the mill,
OF wasting wood and crumbling stone;
The wheel is dripping and cattering still,
But Jerry, the Miller, is dead and gone
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-05-19
HENRY SHEW,
CONVEYANCER,

COUNTY SURVEYOR
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Sti dAbSi JSot Gully oAAu A"eS1
Alike in summer and winter weather,
He pecked the stones and calked the gate,
The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-01-07

The New York HerAid's Washington
correspondent says one Of the greatest
endorsements resulting 10 property
owners in the South by the late war il
the loss Of q vast amour. Of pspers re-
lating to the titles of land, and which
in the occupation of their county seals
81 the Federal forces very generally
suffered destruction by FIRE or other
cause. To obViate the difficulty now
prevailing in many localities in the
transfer CT lands with q reasonable
show of title, the General Land Office
has ordered its agents throughout the
Southern States 10 carefully collect all
vestiges and remnsnt Of the records
Of their office and forward them 10 the
commissioner at washiugton, that new
plots and archives pertaining to the
lands may be supplied IS far as possi>
bic. New maps are also being got up
with al possible dispatch. II is well
known that at the time Of our invasion
Of the South many adventurer attached
TO the army secured many valuable pa
pers and records relative TO certain
'arge estates, in the hope Of owners
offering heavy rewards fo. their resto-
ration after the close Of the war. It s
the hope of the Commissioner Of Put
lie Lands to be able to furnish SO much
Of the missing data as to prevent par
ties to the theft gaining by the docu-
ments they now withhold in expecta-
ton Of q bride.
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scruple Of asking pardon from the
President, and demanding the restora-
ton Of political power to their hands
so that they might bring the Union
citizens Of Texas under proper disci-
pine The rebels at Vslasco say that
they viii wait quietly unt1 the depsr-
turs Of Federal troops from the State,
and that then they viii manage things
to suit themselves The loyal citizens
andjpstly alarmed at she prospect, and
dread being given up to the power OF
rebels who ruled the country with s
rod Of iron during the rebellion.
We can easily understand how loyal
men a. the South sometimes grow
heartsick and despairing when they
contemplate the sudden reclamation Of
their State affairs by the rebels. Let
them take courage at the thought that
the loyal millions of the North are de-
ternined 70 see that justice and pro-
lection are guaranteed 70 them perpet-
uslly. There T many Of the late par
tisans of the rebellion who intend to
be good citizens, but there are many
Others who seem given yer to Judicial
blindness, and are rushing rapidly to
their own ruin. The power is with the
nstion to build up or crush out, and it
will protect its friends.-Pfs.S and
Times.
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How Marimiliaa Talk.

The correspondent Of the New York
Herald gives the following account of
= conversation that Macmillan recent
ly had with a Yankee, who, engaged in
business in Mexico, came in collision
With the government and applied 10
the Emperor in person. The Emperor
said he wished for nothing mor than
10 make the acquaintance of President
johnson aud Secretary Seward 81
am convinced said he, that after &
frank and honest conversation, We
should part friends No one desires
more than l TO have in your Govern
ment 3 good neighbor. No n would
e q better harvest from the seed
which / have sown than your nation.
| regret nothing more than that in my
former position as Admiral Of the AUS
TRAN feet I could not carry out q of
my favorite proiects--to visit the United
States; for / love the Americans and
admire their prscticd talent In all
my works at PolA, Trieste and Venice
| employed Americans And l regret
that I should not nov, in my difficult
task, have the support OF your nation.
Your c~ountrymen, 70 be sure, are hos
tile 10 my government because l was
obliged 10 bring with me sn army Of
invasion But Wal 1t possible other
wise9 Ny predecessor, JusreE, left me
nothing but ruins and q divided nA
ton. ] was obliged 70 lay = firm foun-
Dalton, that the edi6ee might not be
overturned by the first storm. have
enough material in my people to give
my young State that security which it
80 much needs but then your people
must not intervene 10 disturb s peace
fnl neighbor Your nation is too strong
10 have the least fear Of 10 young s
neighbor"
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The Southern People Against Seces.

The Southern People Against Seces-
sion.
The result Of the election lately held
in North Carolina seems to Us much
more valuable than it has been gener-
ally thought This election was upon
the two questions submitted BY the re-
construction State Convention, whether
the ordinances of secession should bede-
clared null and void, to which the peo-
pie have responded ayes l9, 40, noes
l,840; and whether the ordinance for
ever prohibiting slavery in the State
should stand As the law, to which they
have responded ayes 1887, noes 1896.
Neither Of these great declarations can
now be repealed by any act of Legisla-
ture hereafter without directly .disre-
garding these popular expressions,
which the legislators of North Carolina
are notvery likely TO do, and they pos
sess q force and vitality of their OVID,
derived from this endorsement which
relieves them of the character of a
mere concession TO Executive demands
after q long and terrible war.
We are disposed to think that it would
have been better had all the Southern
reconstruction conventions in the same
manner, submitted their action to a
popular vote. At present it is undeni-
able that much Of the respect the world
have felt for that action has been lost
through their being mere apparent con-
cessions to inevitable necessity and i'm
perative Executive demands. 1t has
been supposed that although the con-
ventions have made these unavoidable
concessions, they did not fairly repre-
sent the Southern people, and that the
latter would not endorse their action
we're the matters in question submitted
to popular vote. To these suspicious
the result of the North Carolina cleo
ton affords a perfect reply. The con-
Vention in North Carolina seemed 20
act reluctantly; but the people at tie
polls have acted almost unanimously.
The public voting has been far better
than the voting in convention.
1t may be asked, if til Sc people are
so nearly unanimous, and so sincere in
their voting against secession and
slavery, why the State ever seeded on
account of slavery. But here is one of
the outrages of secession. No eppor-
tunity Of voting at all on the subject
was ever afforded them, because it was
we'll known from the beginning that
they were for clinging to the Union.
The case was the . Ime in Virginia, and
the browbesting process had TO be re-
sorted TO by the emissaries of the Sc
eret rebel order Of Knights OF the
Golden Circle to overawe and force Sc
cession upon the two States.
We entertain no sort of doubt that
the voting in North Carolina ref ects
truly the sentiment of the Southern
States generally, and it would be deci-
dedly preferable TO be able at the close
Of the wal to put upon record these
popular testimonials that the Union
and freedom are still strong in the
public heart, and that secession was not
3 movement of the people, butof a con-
spiracy of designing political knsves
throughout the South. Whether it be
done or not, we shall continue TO think
more of this North Carolina election
and its results than of anything yet
done st the South-Philadelphia North
American.