The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1873-06-28
Letter from Wnshifanto

ARLINGTON, -. VI, June "a, rs.
Although the weather through the day IS sell
dom above 80 degrees, and at night abb We so,
the scare from the sensational report of lolera
in our midst is making everyone feel U ,mfor-
table and DESTROYS of leaving the city go to
some remote corner where the liability Neing
stricken down with diseases is not so AS
yet there are no cases of the Cholera ed
by the board of health, notwithstandi mere
are Cholera SYMPTOMS, and several I've died
with complaints similar to the Cholei With
in the past few days several new case small
poX have broken out and there is much
alarm from that disease as from the sra.
The Texas border Commissioners pre-
scented to Secretary Fish verbal sts mt of
their dolng5 in advance OF forma' -t.-
They deny the statements Of raids 20
by Texans, and say that the p, .sJs .Icken
greasers present no temptation to outrages of
that sort. They have ascertained that the
Kickapoos lately chartered, were furnished
with arms, ammunition and provisions by Mex
lean traders for this very purpose. The COM
plcity of Mexican official parties in these out
RACES is strongly indicated, though the general
spirit of the Mexican government is averse to
them. Texas is now raising a regiment of
mounted rangers for the purpose of REFRESHING
those disorders which have risen to such height
that travel between the Rio Grande and the
Muces is very perilous. The damages from
these raids already foot up so millions of dol
lars. This matter will lead to the annexation
of another slice of territory to the model republic
The annual report of the Department of Ag-
riculture for 1872, which, on account of the
hitch between the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives, remains unpublished, shows the
most profitable wheat culture to have been in
Nevada when the product per acre averaged
$43.76. Next stands Massachusetts, 1898 /;
Maine, $30.72; Texas $30.52 New Hampshire,
$30.36; Connecticut, $2S.05; Vermont, $27.S4.
This high rate of profit is the result of limited
supply and large local demand. The area of
wheat land in Maine is but Is 1872 acres, or three
quarters of township, and the product but
293, 900 bushels. Nevada has but half town
ship 1850 acres, but her product is 314, 900.
California, which produced the largest crop
25,600,OO0 bushels-realized but $13.54 per acre.
The other large wheat producing States show
similar results.
The prospect of the fruit crop are decidedly
blue. In large portion of the northern States
the fruit is entirely winter killed, and in many
instances the trees have been destroyed. APP
Piles and pears have suffered also from extreme
temperature as well as from insect ravages-
We may look for short fruit supplies during the
coming season.
The Commissioner of Agriculture has made
great efforts 10 push his June report through
the press in time to take advantage of the ex-
pring ranking privilege But he has met an
unexpected obstacle in the Government Print
ing Office. The appropriations of the current
| fiscal year have run SO low that only Is print
ers are now employed, and no others can be set
to work until after the LIST of July, when the
new appropriation becomes available.
Mr.. Abbot Special U. s. Agent in Texas re-
ports to the President that cattle stealing and
other depredations are on the increase in that
region. 1t appears that Mexicans domiciled
on our side of the Rio Grande, are the prime
movers of these villianies. They are at work
planning and investigating these outrages un-
der cover of their domiciled charter. Their
depredations have already been severe, and
will ultimately lead to reprisals which will Sc
riously complicate matters on the border. 1t
would appear that the only real effective meth
cd of arresting the evil is the purchase of a
new slice of Mexican territory. One tenth the
cost of war would peaceably extend the area of
our republic, and arrest all such difficulties at
once.
The Friends of Baltimore formed an associa-
ton at the close of the war for the assistance
counsel and instruction of their afflicted fellow
churchmen in the South. In this noble scheme
of benevolence they were led by Providence to
take broader ground than they had anticipated
| Selecting Western North Carolina as their field
| of operations, they found an ignorant and i'm
| poverished population, recklessly skinning the
evil of its feeble remnants of fertility, and
| drifting into HOPELESS pauperism. With intelli-
| gent benevolence they Immediately saw their
first duty to be to elevate the ideas of civiliza-
| ton, and especially of agricultural production
| They established a model farm, showing how
| to arrest the further deterioration of the soil
| how to secure better kinds of farm animals
how to raise remunerative crops finally, how
| to become Independent of want and to secure q
| basis of true prosperity. The results of this
| enterprise have been beyond all expectation.
| LIFE.