The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1877-07-14

GovANsTowN AND IT'S SURROUNDINGs.-Ac cores
pOndent of the Baitimoredn writes from GOvans-
town, York Road, as follows: at has long been a
mooted question where Govanstown begins and
where it ends. 1 think it begins at the red brick
hotel and finishes up at the postofice, but some
people thing differently.
"Leaving this mOmentous question for posterity
to SETTLE let us take stroll through the country
and if there is anything to interest and amuse
Persons living in place, however beautiful, are
the last to notice those beauties, and strangers
generally discover and appreciate things which the
inhabitants entirely ignore.
= "'The country around is very roll
ing and pretty, and dotted over with beautiful
houses. Sauntering up Woodbourne avenue est.
Mary's," the charming retreat of Mr.. VIM. I. Wal
tiers meets the eye, with its turrets and wel-kept
surroundings its lovely lake and rare flowers,
forming just the home for man of taste and re-
finement. Further on, Mr. George W. Abel, Mr..
Enoch Pratt, Mr. John W. Garrett, and many
others, rusticate in luxury in fact, they are scat
tered everywhere-these lovely villas-and kept
in such perfect order, at such large expenditure
of money, that the idea of hard times seems a
fanciful myth.
''Then too, there are pretty little churches in
different directions, with their spires pointing up
wards, like warming fingers raised to Heaven and
school houses, and stores, backsmiths' FORCES and
all other necessary appendages to civilization.
lanes by moonlight, with an occasional wedding ;
and hay making going on in quiet fields, with an
occasional sunstroke; and last, but not least,
a haunted house, back in the woods, gives
food to the Imagination, and employment to
the village gossips.
''In the villages as in the world, there are peo-
pie ofa trades cOOrs, characters and dispositions,
and you much of life and its different
phases in miniature, as if you took long expen-
sive journey.
1 have seen as thoroughly into human nature
in York road car as / have in all my travels
There is always a fussy old woman getting in with
baskets and bundles; and poor overworked
mother, with cross baby and two or three young
masculines, with French roses and heliotrope in
their buttonholes one or two sensible kind heart
ed men who do dozen little acts of kindness Ter
the passengers and some selfish men, who do
nothing but read the newspapers, spit tobacco
Juice and remain stoidly indifferent to the wants
of suffering humanity.
"Then there is at least one enquiring mind in
the car who wants to know where you are 60
ing and what for? Asprinkling of giggling school
girls generally fill up the remaining seats; and
sometimes sitting opposite, you encounter the gm-
let eyes of an old maid fastened upon you, with
such frowning power that you are surprised on
looking down at your dress, not to see two round
holes where she has been looking.
''But have described more than a car full of
people, vet 1 have no doubt the conductors would
not refuse to take in one of them should they all
present themselves, for cars bear any amount of
stuifing and examining as | said before you
can see great deal in very small space, if you
keep your eyes OPEN"