The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1883-10-13

Upper Falls, 18th District.-There is pc
culiar, subtle influence pervades my being these
! fall days. All nature seems to be whispering in
mournful cadences The air is full of echoes of
! the summer past and gone and | feel like saying
| with the poet esprit of the past Look not so
mournfuliy at me with thy great fearful eyes
| Touch me not with thy cold hands Breathe not
upon me with the icy breath of the grave! Chant
no more thy dirge of sorrow through the long and
silent watches of the night" And the answer
comes back, "Look not mournfuly into the past.
| 1t comes not back again. Wisely improve the
| present. 1t is thine. Go forth to meet the shad-
| owing future without fear and with manly
heart" Yet, after all, such is life that these
dreamy thoughts of what is gone, these vague
| longngs after something we know not what, be-
come rudeiy dispelled by the active demands of
the practical "dead- earnest world all around
| US and we are also constrained
"To act act in the living present,
Heart within and God overhead"
You want news? Blackistone's place, on the
Philadelphia road, near here, has been sold to
party named Schaffer, who intends to open
saloon as also Frank Tyson at the old Gunpowder
posto6ice stand, near the Hartford county line.
The new B. & R. R. line and its gangs of
laborers are making things move Spiritually" in
| the corn juice sense.
An old fellow named Donahue reports that he
has sold his place "a little scrub patch of ten
acres with no account-improvements) for 81, 400.
/ This don't believe, though you may print it, as
1 don't think there is anybody around here fool
enough to pay such price for such place. The
fact is, some people up here are like some people
in Towsontown, they seem to have an idea that
right here there is gold mine under every square
acre of land and that the new railroad is going
to develop these gold mines and then the United
States Government will move the mint away from
Philadelphia and the Treasury Department from
Washington and locate them both right here at
these cross roads corner. In that case L ask my
self
"What will become of the Hebrew children ?"
Last Sunday was a strong contrast to the pre-
vious one. and the Sunday schools and churches
had but slim attendance. There does not seem to
be as hearty an interest in the Sunday school of
Salem church as there should be, and from long
being the banner school of the circuit it will most
probably sink down to third place. Why this is
so cannot say, except the great falling OIL In in
terest and want of harmony among all hands.
But if we had quiet Sunday we certainly had IL
tempestuous Saturday night, in fact regular dy-
Mantle time. You know water won't put out coal
oil. Well, some fellows got full of benzine and
then went into the rain. Consequence was, no
mixture; results, black eyes, bloody noses, ring
ing of BELLS blowing horns, arrests and Hail
Columbia generally. Specifically l might say
that there was an ARRAY at Standifords packing
house, and one or two in the road. Then along
towards morning the place was stirred up by the
horn blowing and darkey was found trying to
force his way into Mrs. Forsythe's house. lie
was arrested and carried before Justice Schultz,
that worthy official committed him to Jail, but he
managed to escape from his custodians which
probably was the best solution of the matter, as
the fellow was drunk beyond redemption. 1t
seems to me that between railroad building and
factory building that the neighborhood ought to
have a special officer like other sections of our
county. Are we not entitled to some benefit from
the Commissioners, or shall we sit down as we
have for forty years past and get nothing!
hope a meeting of our citizens will be held and
some organized effort be made to get some of the
county public money spent around here where it
would do some good. Our Justice Schultz does
his level best but there is officer to serve his
writs and often days elapse before anything can
be done. 1 have had practical experience in
this line and to ease my friend Lindsay's mind, L
candidly say that nothing would induce me to be-
come a magistrate in this county again short OF
S., 900 salary. "Do ye mind that now 2"
The canning houses expect to shut down this
week. / wonder how they make any money,
buying their cans, solder and material on credit,
they put themselves completely into the hands of
the can factories, because these fellows sell on
credit for so long time. Then when the bills
mature you must pay in cash or goods. In the
meantime they manipulate the market, get prices
down to the level notch and forcing the Gamer to
pay in goods literally rob him. After fleeing
him. away goes up the market and we find a new
| illustration of the chestnuts and the fire. So,
that in fact, the more goods the Gamer puts up
the less he makes Paradoxica but true. There
is one Gamer out here, the L mentioned
few weeks since, as having such an untidy place.
| He tells me that he bugs for cash. So he does,
| and here comes the cash. He slaps mortgages on
his property else borrows from everybody, and
has the life devilled out Of him by host of hun
cry creditors. Bah if man has not got the
capital for the business, he should stay out. In
this world you must haze either money or brains.
God have mercy on the man who has neither.