The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-04-11
Correspondence Baltimore County Union.
LETTER FROM BALTIMORE.
The President Moving Cautiously-An
Excellent Appointment-Still More
improvements, &c &c.
BALTIMORE, April 9TH. Is

BALTIMORE, April 18th, 1885
Messrs. Editors The Senate has adjourned
and President Cleveland, for the time being, ceased
making any more very important appointments.
1t looks very much as if he purposed taking his
time to it and that he will hereafter pay strictat-
tention to the Civil Service principle. 1t iso
looks as if those heads of departments, s,ch
collectors of ports, postmaste,s internal revelue
officers and others who have faithfully DISCHARGED
their duties whose terms do not expire for cn-
siderable period honeo, will not be disturbed uuil
said appointments expire, if then, nor those unss
them as clerks or subordinates who faithfully and
inteigibly fulfilled their duties, upon the princi-
pie that good efficient journeyman is always
more satisfactory in his INDEPENDENTLY to the
public-than an apprentice. There is no doubt
whatever that the President gave prominent con
sideration to this matter in the appointment OF
Mr.. Pearson, as postmaster of New York city, who
had been in the postal service of that ciy-rising
up to chief-for almost quarter of a century, al
ways discharging his duties well and faithfully.
If that appointment was thus made on Mr.. Cleve-
land ideas of Civil Service Reform untrammelled
and Independent for the good of the whole com
munity, may not others be done in the same way.
The Easter holidays were very generally and
appropriately observed here in various ways
Good iday was legal holiday, all public and
most private offices being closed and churches
open for service. Monday was also kept as
holiday to great extent. Many enjoyed them.
selves-Germans especially going to the coun-
try, having pleasant time fishing for gudgeons
at the Relay House, in the Patapsco, and Herring
Run, whore these delicious little minnows were
very abundant, having begun to run profusely.-
Many persons go now to these streams daily for
that sport
The appointment of or highly esteemed citizen,
Hon. A. Leo Knott, as Second Assistant Post
sterGeneral, has given people of both parties
L - II
ocrat he has been conservative one, liked and
esteemed by every one. I have known him init
mately many years and can cheerfully say Their
is no purer or more honest man.
In the way OF improvements am Informed that
some seventy or more tenements-mostly hand
some dweliings-are now under process of erection
on Greenmount avenue, both sides, south of the
cemetery, and on other streets in that Immediate
vicinity. The vacant lots all streets in that
section, it is expected will be covered this season
with fine residences and other buildings, running
out as far as Boundary avenue. Being desira-
BILE neighborhood, they are soon rented or sold at
commanding prices. The foundations of several
dwellings are now being dug Lanvale street.
running up to Boundary avenue. This large tract
of ground recently vacant, will soon be covered
with fine houses and other buildings, which, few
years ago, had scarcely tenement on it. As in
this neighborhaod so elsewhere in the northern
Belt and indeed all over Baltimore with regard to
bGilding and Improvement. 1t is expected the
coming spring and summer will be very active in
this way.
We seem to have spring at last with some April
showers, small birds, sGakcs, toads, &C., appear
ing, so that
Cold winters gone and past,
And sweet summers come at last
To show that smoking does not generally pro
duce cancer, may state that Mr. Barton, now in
his S7th year, has been chewing tobacco and
and smoking a pipe three times day--mosty
after meals-ever since he was ten years of age
and he is now well and hearty as could be ex-
pected for one of his accumulated birthdays He
is still attending the upper or northern gate of
Greenmount Cemetery, and may be seen out
sometimes smoking-every good, fair day. ta
observe that the prominent Republicans are
about fully organizing their party again on thor
oughly progressive principles. They feel them
selves too strong and solid to give up. 1t is ex-
pected they will make the greatest contest in the
coming four years that they ever made.
The miserable and aborninable negro of your
county, who richly descrves-if possihle-doubIe
lynching for his offence towards a young lady a
few days ago, am glad to say, has been arrested
and is now in our city jail Hanging is not half
sufficient punishment for him. He should be
drawn and quartered.
The foreign news from China, France, England,
Russia, India and Egypt, is more pacific and there
are yet hopes of escaping that terrible calamity,
which, though it may enable some people to make
money, is always evil and works harm.
Business yet continues quite dull, though slight
ly improving. If we are to have no foreign wars
prices of breadstuffs and war materials will, no
doubt, decline. Only moderate amount of trans
actions on our Corn and Flour Exchange.
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