The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1879-10-11
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| We0ther-He Crops-AatumnaL Foliage-Board
| Of Hedhh-DredJing the Lake--An Interesting
Erent at M. Washington, d-c.-The temperature
during most of the past week has been unusually
warm and summer like the thermometer ranging
among the eighties, and the atmosphere at times
containing an amount of humidity that made the
heat rather oppressive. The peculiar laziness of
the air usually seen the Indian summer has been
visible on several days. Rain is greatly needed
in this region. There is not moisture enough in
the soil to sprout the newly sown wheat and vege-
tatiOn of all kinds drOOps during the heat of the
day. Corn -fodder has been nearly all saved, most
farmers having cut up their crops at the ground,
the scarcity of hay having compelled many to save
every possible mouthful of feed for the approach
ing winter. Considerable second crop clover has
been cut during the past month and owing to the
favorable growing weather the crop has been heavy
in many localities.
Some few city people still linger at the summer
boarding houses and such can now enjoy the
spectacle which, it is said other land presents,
Ofthe magnificent colOring of our autumnal foliage
The landscape viewed from the tops of our hills
is grand beyond description, the leaves the present
season presenting richer variety and greater
brightness of cOOrs than usual.
The Board of Health has been nosing around
the suburbs of the city hunting up "nuisances
prejudical to health" and the attention of the
Grand Jury has been called to them. Now the
average county juror knows little about health or
its conditions but he has probably learned-That
the medical gentleman seem not to have done
that because thing smells bad it is not necessarily
'preudicial to health" The doctors regard
slaughter houses bOne-miIls and other like malo-
dOrOus establishments detrimental to health
and want them located where no body lives, but
experience proves that men employed in such
places enjoy excellent health, and it has been as
serted that the erection of gluefactory bone
mill in malarial region acts preventative or
prophylactic against such diseases to those work
ing in or about it.
Our lake is now about three feet below high
water mark, whether from dry weather or being
designedly let off deponent saith not The low
water has brought to view the bottom of that nice
little pond east of the n c. r. r. and also showed
how rapidly the sand taken out the past summer
and placed within easy reach of the bank is find
ing its way back again into the Lake observed
yesterday that some knight of the pick and shovel
had been engaged in digging out one of these de-
posts and tossing it upon the bank again, job
of work which of course will have to be repeated
after we have had shower or two of rain. The
wisdom of those engineers who opposed the max
ing of the Lake on the ground that it would fill
up very rapidly, has been abundantIy shown and
it is very certain that Gas long water runs" the
cleaning of it will make considerable leak in the
city treasury.
On Sunday last the congregation of St. Johns
P. E. church, Mt. Washington, found themselves
without pastor, owing to event which, while
it frequently disturbs the usual routine business of
the private family rarely interferes with the pub
lic,wOrship of the house of God. On that bright
morn the wife of the pastor of st. Johns the Rev.
J. Bryan Purcell, presented her husband with his
first born son, and of course under the circum-
stances the Rev. gentleman could not fill his pull
pit. suitable substitute was, however, found in
Prof. P. r. Lovejoy, who, for his well-known elo
cutionary abilities was enabled to render the
beautiful service of the church quite acceptably
as any gentleman wearing the prefix Rev. to his
name. The choir under Prot. Leary, were IS
usual not behindhand with their portion of the
service and the congregation dismissed doubt
less realizing great "renewal of the spiritual
strength" if the sermon had been listened to in
due form, although it is intimated that the little
stranger was a rather prominent topic of CONVEX
satiOn, especially among the ladies.