The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1878-03-30
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Our Baltimore correspondent this week fur
/ nishes us with an account of his visit out the
/ Frederick road to Carroton and describes at
/ some length the extensive brewery of Edward W.
| Stiefe Esq, one of our County Commissioners, as
well as other objects Of interest which came un-
der his notice. His letter is interesting and well
worth a careful perusal
The cold snap of Sunday and Monday last
| it is feared, has done some damage to the fruit
although it is asserted by some who claim to be
| Versed in such things, that no harm has result
| ed. The change Of temperature on Sunday was
so sudden and unexpected as to cause no little
alarm. During Sunday night ice formed to the
| thickness of a quarter of an inch.
VIM. III. Ruby, ESQ.,, of the Journal, was
on Thursday visited by very sad affection in
the death of his eldest child bright little girl of
! eight years of age She had been sick for up
wards of ten days with inflammation Of the brain,
which finally terminated as stated. In their great
bereavement Mr.. and Mrs. Ruby have the warm
est sympathies of the entire community.
The Gunpowder Copper Company, whose
works are located on the Hartford road, at the
| Guupowder Falls, held meeting in Baltimore on
| Wednesday, when the following directors were
elected for the ensuing year Messrs George A.
| Pope Geo. B. Cole, II. Irwin Keyser, Oliver A.
! Parker and Jesse Tyson. The annual report,
showing the condition of the company, was read
/ and adopted.
We last week stated that petition was in
circulation in Towsontown, asking the County
! Commissioners to place several avenues contigu-
! Dug to the Court House, and which are not now
| county roads, under the control of the 9Th dis
| trct supervisors. This week the Board acted on
| said petition and appointed as Board OF EN-
! amners Messrs. John p. Clark, Joseph Jackins
/ l. n TEL knfk uhOca Inf n
quire into the matter and report whether thep pub
lie convenience requires the granting of the peti-
! ton.
The Hiss property, situated on the Hartford
| road miles from Baltimore, which was offered
at public sale on Monday, by Messrs George A.
| Smith and VIM S. Keech, Trustees, was not sold,
there being no bidders. This property was be-
fore advertised three tmes-once in Dec, 1866,
once in Nav, 1867 and once in March, 1868, At
the sale in 1866 the property was sold but there
we're objections filed to the ratification OF the sale
and the Court set it aside. The property con-
tains 2O5 acres and has excellent improvements
upon it.
Potato bugs are budding out,
We see the hoppers ftful CLEAN,
And now the coy and toothsome trout
Cavorts within his native stream
And now the bIuebird chants lay
The robbins twitter in the trees
The bufrog's murmurs all the day,
The ground hog issues from his hole
And browses on the corn, poor thing,
These omens to the poets soul
Are harbingers of early spring.
From RAYvuLE. 9TH DIsrRIcr.-Morch on its
Muscle-Nee MII-FrighyaL FaU-.Serious Ac-
eident-"Philo," &c.-The old saying ''that if
March comes in like lamb, it will 60 out like
lion" is likely to prove true. Ice formed during
Sunday night over an inch in thickness, and fears
are entertained that the fruit buds are injured.
Messrs J. c.. Wolff & Brother, who purchased
Ross old mill property near Rayvllle, and winch
| was formerly owned by Mr.. Henry kone have
built new saw mill and repaired the grist mill,
which supplies want long felt by this neighbor-
hood.
On the 18th inst. Mr. Jacob Wolff, father of the
above named gentlemen, and who is over 20 years
of age, while looking for hens nest on the top
| of large rock the mill, caught hold OF a
bush to steady himself while he looked over the
rock, when the bush broke off and he was preeip-
itated to the ground, a distance of % feet. He
was bruised pretty badly and remained uncOnsci-
Gus for couple of days. 1t is miraculous that
| no bones were broken. He is attended by Dr. j.
S. Baldwin, and will soon be able to be about
again.
A few days ago VIM. Wright, young man in
the employ of the Messrs. Wolff while letting
down a log that was swung up under a log wagon
by chains attached to rollers, was badly hurt. The
person helping him missed his hold which caused
the roller which had crow bar in it, to turn.
The bar struck Wright on the side of the head and
knocked him off the wagon and in falling his foot
caught on hook in the side of the log-carriage
cutting through his boot and causing painful
wound.
| "Philo" says-"0bserver was not able to COM
| prehend a certain foreign word which he says was
used by your Middletown correspondent in refer
| ence to their association. The above sentence is
more incomprehensible than the foreign word. 1t
shows very plainly that man may be p,gist in
foreign tongues and yet be corrupter of the
vernacular The word their in this case is a pos
sessive pronOun and denotes that the association
referred to belongs to more than one person; but
in the sentence quoted am led to infer that it be-
| longs to one person, but whether that person is
! your Middletown correspondents or -observer, L
am unable to determine.
Il am glad that the "seales" have fallen from
! "Philo's" eyes, and that he is now able to why
| observer did not receive the nomination for
| House of Delegates. "0bserver" is also happy to
have the reason explained. "Philo" has at last
solved the great mystery. 1t was because COB
server" didn't understand foreign languages, and
it would seem that unless laws written in
| Latin, Green, Hebrew or some other foreign Ian
guage, they would be unintelligible to "PhilO,
| and consequently he would be unable to practice
law at the "Hardscrabble' bar.
Again he says ''there was no other representa-
tive from the upper end" which would lead you
to infer that "0bserver" was representative at
the same time he was a candidate, which he knows
was not the case.
We have often met with persons who may be
termed Over-educated. Upon light soil of fac
ulty they obtain by cleverness and certain ready
| aptitude forced crop of scholarship, and this
they grind in the mill of vanity during life They
think it the viest ignorance to be unacquainted
with undergraduate technicalities, and seem to
count for naught the wisdom of thoughtful minds,
compared with their gusses at the meaning Of
foreign languages. They boast of the amount of
knowledge they have forgotten, and never seem
to be aware of how little they possessed that was
worthy of remembrance. OBSERVER.
TowsOSTowN NoTEs.-Things in the "burnt dis