The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-02-02
Correspondence Baltimore County Union.
LETTER FROM BALTIMORE.
Mayor Latrobe's Annual Message and
His Appointments--City Register ].
A. Robb-A Disagreeable Nuts
ance-The Legislature, sc.

BALTIMORE, January goth, 1884.
Messrs. Editors Mayor Latrobe sent in his
annual message to both branches of the City Coun-
Gil yesterday evening. The message is rather
long but full of interest, especially to proper
ty-holders of both city and country. Upon the
whole it is shown that property in the city is gen
orally advancing in value and volume. This, too,
goes on from year to year, and is of especial in
terest to all property holders. 1t is gratifying to-
know that Baltimore property is gradually going
up in price. In the course of few years, if bus
mess continues advancing it has, our city must
find herself in very enviable condition as COM
pared with other great commercial marts of the
Union. She will be in rivalry with any of them.
The Mayors new appointments will be sent into
the Council in few days. 1t is generally be-
lieved a number Of new names will be in the list,
and very good ones, men who will be in all re-
spects reliable and not so strictly partizan as
hitherto. He has been becoming greatly inclined
towards governing the city wholly for her bust
ness good, looking thereto rather than to mere
politics and partizan advancement. He views
corporations in this light.
The City Council, last evening, reelected Mr..
John A. Robb for City Register. This now makes
fourteen years that Mr.. Robb has filled the place
he now holds. His is the only Office that is not
chosen wholly at the hands of the people. He
gets his place from joint vote of the two branches
of the Council / have known him many years,
acted in good faith with the Republican party
He is an excellent gentleman and has made an
upright, true and just officer. No fault will ever
be found with the reelection of such man to
Office should it be ever so often.
Quite a full and expetve petition to the Mayor
and City Council is now in circulation regarding
the condition and status of jenkins run, the mud
water, offal, &C., therein, and inletting and out
letting and terrible stencil therefrom in the
neighborhood of Greenmount and North avenues
and the several streets, such as Townsend Bar
clay, ST. Paul, North, Calvert and various other
streets and avenues. The sewers are on Green
mount avenue, near North street, and run into the
street and under it, letting out finally into Jones'
Falls near the once old Belvidee dam. At times
generally indeed-the smell from these sewers
is terribly bad and almost intolerable. 1t comes
from filth, &c, up the run considerably into the
Belt and in parts the cemetery-aso. from oyster
shells being burnt in the vicinity two three times
a week. The object of the petitioners is to get
aid from the Council towards alIaying the nuisance,
which certainly is very great. The neighbors-
most of whom are petitioners-have suffered Sc
verely and would, doubt not, gladly contribute
their proportion if called upon, to aid the city in
doing away with this great objection to living in
the neighborhood, which certainly requires that
something be done thereto.
AIN glad to say that Judge Duffy, who has
been suffering from rheumatism some days past,
is partially well and again out at business on the
Bench, though still suffering considerably.
Although the Legislature is in session, 1t is not
doing very much. Generally speaking, that
august body of Legislators has been in the habit of
putting off moct of its important business to the
last days-even last hours-of the session, when
it becomes almost impossible to do anything in a
suitable manner. Here it is left undone until an
other time and session. In this way it is even
possible that both local option and temperance
will be left out entirely until too late, and the
cause finally suffer, One thing is certain and that
is the questions here involved are so weghty and
important that unless proper amount of time is
given thereto to canvass it sincerely it must hang
fire and find its place on the shelf. 1t has be-
come an important fact that in counties where
local option now exists it has shown itself unpop-
ular and not suited to the people. They want
something else that is evidently better and more
effective. Let temperance people find it out and
make the trial.
Quite a snow fell at intervals yesterday. To-
wards sunset il was still showing and the ground
covered probably two inches or more. What was
very singular, some minutes after sunset the
heavens-though overclouded-were quite red or
purple and the snow partook of the rudy tinge
so often hitherto seen at the SUMS setting. The
mystery has yet outpuzzled ali of our phiosophic
astronomers.
1 observe that the new comet still makes its ap-
pearance more and more distinctly in the south
western horizon, about an hour after sunset.
This has been dull month throughout and
really very dreary one. 1t has also been
month of bad weather in every respect and some
what sickly. Very little has been doing beyond
regular routine of business, and that stupid and
slack. Prices are dropping and sales moderate.
1t is expected that trade will brisk up two or more
weeks hence to some extent. The spring business
should begin about the middle of February if we
really have it at all. NEsTeR.