The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-12-27
Correspondence Baltimore County Union.
LETTER FROM BALTIMORE.
BALrrMoRp. December 23d. 1ss

BALTIMORE, December 23d, 1884.
Editors Union :-Christmas Is nearly here. We
shall have passed it and entered fully into the
holiday times when your paper goes to press. We
have rather characteristic, rough weather for it
just now. Snow, rain, hail and seet have been
falling since last Sunday. The streets at present
are in a terrible condition. whilst shoppers-many
being out, bad as the sidewalks are-can scarcely
get along. Notwithstanding, stores devoted to
holiday purposes are well filled with ladies and
gentlemen making purchases for the holidays
They indeed seem to stop for nothing, but pur-
chases are limited to what they would have been.
regret to learn that several persons, both young
and old, who ventured out in the past few days to
accomplish almost what they deemed necessity,
fell on the ice or pavements and considerably in
jured themselves. Notwithstanding all these mis-
haps and misfortunes, almost every one is pre-
pared to have a comfortable Christmas dinner
also give and receive abundance of pleasing and
suitable presents, on the understanding that the
Christmas anniversary comes but once year.
Business, to great extent, will be suspended
until next Monday, and with many to the ending
of New Years day of 1885. 1t may be said, how
ever, that not much has been doing for the past
six or weeks. Trade of all kinds is actually
dull and heavy. People scarcely know what to
say or do on this point. They, however, live in
hopes that when President Cleveland takes his
seat and our Democratic friends get regularly
working in the traces that things will work better
and prices more inviting. Let us give all fair
chance and be liberal. We certainly can afford to
do so.
Let US earnestly hope that every one will be
prepared to begin the coming New Year of 1885
pleasantly and to their full satisfaction, socially,
politically, in business sense and every other
way. There are indications that the coming will
be pleasant period of time. There are reasons
why it should be. Let us desire that all may have
good fortune and enjoy themselves. So wags the
world and so moves time. A hundred years hence
and none of us will be here to tell why or where
we were. An entire new people and new genera
ton will be in our places. Such is far distant
New Years anniversary. One thing is certain
let people do and say as they will-that the world
is daily growing more and more enlightened and
we are gradually excelsior in all things, far ahead
of what we were centuries ago.
Oysters are rather plentiful and comparatively
cheap, though rough, cold weather has been
against obtaining them to some extent. This is
the case with almost everything at present coming
to market.
The city passenger cars, am glad to say, have
thus far been very little interrupted with the snow
and bad weather. Thousands use them for Christ
mas occasions.
The days are now getting somewhat longer, but
an old saying has it Gas days begin to lengthen
cold begins to strengthen" which seems true
We have certainly rather rough time and cold
appears to gain in strength and disagreeableness
Our next Mayoraty of Baltimore is likely to be
quite contention. Gen. Latrobe though he has
served we'll and faithfully more terms than prob
ably any other Mayor of Baltimore, yet appears
to be in the ring and is again candidate for that
office, standing good chance of election, as the
Republicans like him as an officer very much and
would-large numbers of them gladly give him
their votes when they elect another Mayor. If
they thus take him up once more they will doubt
less in this way get their own choice of first
rate Mayor. The General appears t, ask no
higher ambition than to be Chief Executive of
this city. He takes q thorough pride in it and
makes one of the very best officers,
desiring only to do what is right and for the good
of the people. Mr.. James Brewer, thorough
Democrat, will perhaps oppose him, but he has
by no means the same number of friends. learn,
also, that Mr. Heiskel, who ran last time against
Gen. Latrobe, and is Democrat, may likewise
be in the field, hoping for the Office but Gen. La
trobe can-if he runs-beat them all.
NEsToR.