The Baltimore County union., 1884-02-16

Perry Hall, 18th District. Travel with
loaded teams has been next to an impossibility
the past week in this section, and it is no doubt
the case throughout the county. The old, ever
recurring cry of year after year is heard all
sides, "the bottoms out of the roads," and this
in spite of the expenditure of eighty-odd $751;
20O) thousand dollars per annum. Eighty-one
thousand and odd dollars virtually thrown away,
for shoveing earth and road washngs amount to
that and nothing more as far as permanency is
concerned, or indeed, road-making, it makes them
little smoother in summer and fall, but it gives
more dust during those seasons and more mud
winter and spring. All this money thrown away
and good stone going "a begging" for somebody
to break and utilize it. The road sides and fields
the entire country, with few exceptions, are
lined with them. Even yards upon yards of the
usually good gravel roads of our friend and neigh
Dor, Snyder, quake and shiver upon the approach
of heavy teams, showing they are not to be de-
pended upon at times
The legislator or county official who devises
and successfully operates a plan by which our
principal roads will be covered with hard "netaP
instead of freshly loosened earth, will hand his
name down to posterity as great public bene-
factor and prove his possession of fcapacty beyond
the ordinary run of such incumbents, who are
usually satisfied to move along in old ruts in
more ways than one, and content with the mere
routine of office work and the monthly check of
the treasure.
Petitions are in circulation to divide the dis
trict into four precincts. The one presented here
to-day was numerously signed and the division
asked for would seem to be convenience demand
ed as numbers of our people have now to travel
seven and eight miles to vote, the extreme end OF
the district being full ten miles by road from the
polls in the first precinct. Where else in the
county is this the case? Politicians-and what
sad lot the district has-do not seem to favor the
proposed change and argue the increased ex-
of uin fort
ed facilities other districts have Politicians do
not want any change that will in any way have
q tendency to emancipate the voters from their
rule, and they think that this scattering OF the
vote will release some whom they have hitherto
held under their thumbs.
The 18th district has the largest landed area in
the county, as the petition says, and is suscepti-
BILE of easy division into four nearly equal parts,
larger than any of those precincts of adjoining
districts. The division will come sooner or later
and the one who accomplishes it will receive the
thanks of accommodated people. We here
have thickly settled country, ever increasing in
numbers, and with polling place any wheref from
the Camp Chapel road to Perry Hall, our entire
voting population would turn out, which has not
been the case heretofore. SILVER Spring.
Upper Falls, 11th District.-Oh mercy
Messrs. Editors what bad roads! VIII Jupiter
Pluvius never leave the skies If travelling and
freghting is as it is here the entire county,
what a universal wall must be going up! OF
course nobody is responsible but Providence) and
each returning breakup of winter will bring the
same roads until-yes, until we send delegates
to the Legislature who will rise above the exigen-
cies of party and distribution of office. Is any
body willing to admit the wealthiest county in
the State is not able to make and preserve better
roads than we have now; that our road sys-
tenn is perfect or that the money now levied and
expended is put on where and in manner to do
the most good.
The management of the Franklinvile factory
has been storing up cotton for some time past IN
anticipation of the start which occurred this week.
The cotton was hauled from Magnolia and the
team, during the latter part of last week, had to
make a circuit for mile to deliver its load
Wheelwrights have been doing good business
in repairing axles and single-trees broken In the
various struggles to reach something like terra
fraa from the almost bottomless pits that dot all
our roads at quickly recurring intervals. Mention
roads to WAGNER and the air grows blue. If
all the maledictions uttered this and preceding
weeks were collected and piled upon our irritable,
excitable supervisor, Ossa upon Pelion would be
nothing to it, and he'd be more than in his usual
conditio4-mad.
1t is rumored here that an effort is being
made to replace our Justice of the Peace with
some other Careful inquiry ilicts the fact that
such a change is not desired and has not been So
lcited from this quarter. Also that Squire
Schultz is considered as being eminently well
qualified for the position and that the location of
his office is convenient for all. The matter is be-
ing engineered by those who do not live in the
neighborhood, and it is not thought much honor
can accrue to the parties by removing an honest
and conscientious officer contrary to the wishes of
the local constituency. 1t may be added that no
one was removed to make room for Mr.. Schultz.
He was appointed to fill ong-standng vacancy.
JUSTICE.