The Baltimore County union., 1875-11-27

The new building of the Northern Contra
Railway, at the corner of Calvert and Centre
streets, to be used for the headquarters ano
general offices of the Company, is now nearly
completed. The structure, as it now stands
| is massive, yet ornamental, and the interior
accommodations, when completed, will furnish
every convenience that modern science coulc
suggest.
"A Baltimore county man, whilst in ga
loon in the city on Saturday last, picked uI
two umbrellas and walked off with them. He
was followed and upon being overhaul
ed and asked to disgorge, said "Well I'll de-
clare, if didn't take two umbrellas and
would have sworn l only had one" That man
is one of three things. He is either very abb
sent minded, a thief, or an awful story teller,
and we conclude he must be the second as well
as the last.
An exchange says For the benefit of those
who are in the habit of placing stamps on any
part of the envelope, we would state that the
Post Office Department at Washington, has or
dered all letters which have not stamps at the
proper place, the upper right hand corner, to
be sent TO the Dead Letter Office. 1t is just as
easy to place the stamp where it ought to be
for the convenience of the mailing clerk, as it
is to stick it on the back or some other corner
of the envelope.
"A man living near the Upper Cross Reads,
Hartford county, has novel plan of finding
out whether 1t is raining or net without taking
the trouble of rising from his comfortable po-
sition the lounge. He has q dog which
obeys him in most things very readily. Wish
ing, recently, to ascertain if it was raining, he
sent his dog out OF the house and soon after
wards, calling him back, he placed his hand
on the dogs back to find cut whether it was
wet or not. Our informant suggests that it
would be difficult to conceive OF a more as
founding piece of laziness.- Glen Rock Item.
The President has issued orders for the
consolidation of the Third and Fifth Internal
Revenue Districts of Maryland. The Third
District as now constituted takes in from the
6th to the 20th Ward of Baltimore, and with
the Fifth added it will comprise in addition
the first, second, third, fourth, eighth and thir-
teenth districts of Baltimore county, with How
ard, Montgomery, Prince Georges Anne Arun-
del, Calvert, Charles and st. Mary's counties.
Robert NJ. Proud, now collector of the Third,
will be the collector of the consolidated dis
tricts. Dr. VIM. r. Wilmer, of Charles coun-
ty, is now collector of the Fifth District.
1t is astonishing hew many men in this
county who supported the straight out Demo
cratic ticket now carrying around petitions
asking the Reform officers elect to appoint
them road supervisors, taX-collectors, &c. Sup
pose the regular Democratic ticket had been
successful, does any one think for a moment
that even "a Democratic Reformer would have
had the unparalleled impudence to ask for a
place, and If he had what would have been
the result He would have been asked to stand
back and make room for those who voted "the
ticket" and he would have been served right.
It's poor rule that won't work both ways.
Therefore we say make these fellows take a
back seat, at least for two years.
The Towsontown correspondent of the
Gazette, speaking of the county public schools,
says: "The only public school in the county
which has no free scholars is situated at Hamp-
den, under the direction of Father Duggan.
The school numbers ninety scholars. Anoth-
er school in the same neighborhood, with one
hundred and twelve pupils, has ninety six on
free list" This school, under the direction of
Father Duggan, IS taught by Catholic teachers
and attended by none but Catholic pupils. The
parents of these children would not send them
to the public school and the school Board es-
tablished seperate school for them. This
subject was treated at length in our columns,
by an intelligent correspondent, month or
two ago.
There probably never was, in the history
Of Baltimore county, two public servants who
served their constituents and the whole people
more acceptably and with more honor to them
selves than the Hon. Thomas G.. Rutledge and
the Hon. c. Howard 0wings, the retiring Judg-
es of the Orphans Court. They have served
the county long, and we, as well as all the
people can say in the language of that good
book, "well done thou good and faithful ser
wants" We regret that we will net weekly
meet the smiling faces of these two genial gen
tlemen as we have done for years past, but
whether here elsewhere we shall never cease
to regard them in any other way but as high
toned, honorable gentlemen-men whose ex-
ample should be followed by all public officers.
In its issue of Saturday, Nov. 18th, the Sun
copied one of our locals, and what is not an un
usual thing for it to 90, gave the Journal cred
it for it. At this Mr.. Ruby is very indignant
and says, in his issue of last week, tits scarce
ly fair to charge us with the ebullitions of 9TH
er peoples quips and quirks, or clothes-line
literature" "Clothes-line literature" is good,
very good, but 'ebullitions," my, that's stun
ner Well, we in grief confess that our litera-
ture is of the "clothes-line" variety, and the
editor of the Journal is responsible for it.
When he rubbed his head against the col
lege wall" he pushed so hard that the build
ing toppled over, and so, when our turn came,
being younger, we had no wall to rub against.
And this is the cause of the "lterature" which
so shocks the sensbilities of our highly edu-
Gated and refined neighbor. We have no apol-
ogy to make. Let the Sun arise and defend it
self against the quill of this mighty editor.
As for US, we always bow to superior wisdom.