The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1877-10-27

FROM WAvERLEY.-A Wedding-A Funerat-
A Political Meeting-A Religious Meeting-Ihe
Bird Phenie.-lessrs. Editors In Waverley
yesterday we had an illustration of "What is
Life?' In the Baptist church there was an as
sembage to witness the marriage of Miss Hippo,
the daughter of the clergyman of that church, to
Mr.. Wagner "The Printer of Waverley. While
this was in progress there passed near the church
a funeral coItege, composed entirely OF men-wlth
one Notwithstanding the remains of Mr.. White
the florist The sight was sad, and the procession
rather unusual, as all were walking. His daugh-
ter was the only known relative following the bier.
The interment took place in the Protestant Epis-
copal cemetery. The contrast was striking be-
tween this and one that occurred there last week,
when Rev. Mr.. Richey was buried with SO much
pompous and vain ceremony, much to the disap
probation of members of that denomination.
At night there was gathering before Waverley
Hall of a political character. The Democrats
made a final rally, preparatory to the election
They had band which discoursed windy music,
with more noise than artistic skill They are
young and may improve by practice. They had
speeches. of course, but with what wondrous elo-
auence we cannot say, we witnessed all without
sufficient proximity to hear. In the Methodist
Episcopal church, opposite, there was the continu-
ance of four weeks protracted meeting. The
music of course interrupted the religious exercises.
The pastor, Rev. Thomas Myers, spoke to two of
the leading ones, who very politely promised to
regulate the political meeting so as not 10 dlsturD
the religious one. This was but fair. The meet
ing in the church had precedence, and religious
meetings never disturb political ones. Our town
has an orderly, sensible, industrious and polite
population, batting few eases, produced by the
use of liquor.
Waverley is still steadily increasing, naturally
and mechanically. New houses are being built in
almost all parts of our town. We are certainly
becoming more enlightened, for authorities
have recently erected quite number of new street
lamps. Our population is too nOmadic to increase
rapidly. We read "the papers," and yours es-
pecialiy We admire its beautiful typographical
appearance as well as its intelligent contents, and
praise its Phenix-ike energy, which raised it from
its own ashes Nay it be a type of its own i'm
mortality.
How much the ancents admired that bird 1.-THE
Phenix.) They believed it to be of the size of
the eagle with its head finely crested, her body
covered with beautiful plumage, and her eyes
sparkling like stars. She was said to live 500 or
500 years in the wilderness, when she built for her
self a funeral pile of wood and aromatic gums,
which she lighted with the tanning of her WINGS
and thus, apparently, consumed herself, but not
really; this being merely the process by which
she endowed herself with new vitality. She then
"Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of fame,
And scars and shines, another and the same"
Phoenix is also one of the modern consultations
in the Southern hemisphere. May yours ever be
in the national. OCCASIONAL.