The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-10-17

The chorus class will resume practice il
the Towsontown public school building, Thurs
day evening, Oct 22d, at o'clock. Those wishing
to join are invited to be present.
Mr.. J. Scott Price, of Parkton, with al
attractive fourth hand team, attended the Belai
fair this week. He was accompanied by DIR
Burke, Mr.. VIM. Ensor and Others
In the Orphans Court this week letters o
administration were granted to Ann Eliza Talbot
on the estate of Joshua f. G. Talbot, and to Car
oline Selling on the estate of Mary d. Selling, de-
ceased.
Mr.. George G. Everhart's readings at thu
Towson Guards Armory, Thursday evening next
will be rich treat for our people, and they should
not miss this opportunity for an hours solid en-
joyment. See notice elsewhere in THE UNION.
On Thursday last, in the trial of a case il
court here, a man named Joseph E. Green was
committed to Jail by Judge Fowler for interrupt
ing the examination of a witness. Green's sor
was being examined and he took offense at the
way the examination was conducted.
| Mr.. D. H. Rice, of Cowpens, Maryland
Central railroad who proposes starting herd Of
Friesan cattle, has secured his first lot of fine
imported animals from an extensive firm Of
breeders in Chester county, Pa. The lot consists
of five cows, one bull and three calves.
Mr.. John Crowther, Jr., chief clerk and
auditor to the County Commissioners, has been
confined to his bed this week, suffering from
|
that Mr.. Crowther is absent from his post single
day, but this attack was too much for him and he
had to go to bed. 1t is hoped he may speedily
| recover.
On Saturday night last middle-aged wo-
man, with young baby, registered at Guys
| Hotel, Baltimore, as "Mrs. Charles Wesley, Refs
| terstown, Md" She took q room, placed the baby
upon the bed and telling the bell-boy to look out
| for it while she went out few minutes, started
off and did not return, leaving the little one to
| the tender mercies of strangers. The woman came
| to Baltimore by the Northern Central railroad,
and it is not believed that she from Reisters-
| town.
| a dog on the farm of the late ex- Gov.
| Bradford, near Woodbrook station, greets every
| train on the Maryland Central road which passes
| and he has been doing this ever since the road
| has been opened, to the great amusement ofthose
| who have noticed him. He will come out from
the farm house, few hundred yards from the
track-get into cut at that point and remain per-
fectly quiet until the train passes, when he dash
es after it, barking with all his might. All the
engineers on the road know him and look for him
as they approach the meeting place. The dog has
a schedule of his own and is always on time.
Woodensburg, 4th District.-The lovers
of autumnal beauties feast their eyes to their
hearts content at this period of the failing year,
the fields being brown and deadened, the meadows
varied by the bright colors of the golden rod and
other wild autumnal flowers, and the woods pre-
senting almost every hue of green, brown, russell
and yellow. The dying leaves hang quivering on
the parent stem, ready to be blown to the ground
by each breeze, and many have already fallen to
the bosom of mother earth to lie undisturbed and
decompose, unless swept up by the winter blasts
into piles or driven away into fence corners or
hidden recesses and ravines of the woods. But
what can be more beautiful than the country at
this time of the year, even to the unartistic eye
but to the lover of nature it may be said to be
ravishing, as I see it now stretched out before me-
The artists pencil could not portray on canvas so
beautiful picture or blend such variety of colors
so pleasing to the eye.
But though the scenery is so enhancing, the
"sere and yellow leaf Of the fall of the year re
minds one of the passage Of human life, and the
feeling of melancholy that is engendered by the
thought is not easily shaken off. 1t presages the
coming of winter and the end of the dying year.
So we, by its influence and the "frst gray hair"
that appears upon the head or the wrinkles that
furrow the face are reminded that the Seasons"
of human life rapidly passing by. But, aside
from this thought, an Understandable something or
influence seems to pervade the atmosphere at this
season of the year, that generates feeling of at
least pensiveness. What is it? Is it that the
suns rays fall slantingly upon the earth and
give a more subdued radiance to the face of ma
ture? Is it that being surrounded on every
side by the evidences ofthe failing year and dying
nature, we are irresistibly impressed with q feel
ing of sadness or melancholy which we cannot ac
count for and impute to that undefnable some
thing in nature or elsewhere we cannot tell what?
Whatever may be the answer to these questions,
the fact remains that we do have these feelings
at this of the year, and the poet sang truly
when he said:
"The melancholy days have come,
The saddest of the year."
This is the season of chestnuts and those that
are upon the trees fast ripening, but there do
not seem to be very many in this neighborhood.
For the past week or so the "small boy" has been
securing the woods for them, and wherever found,
whether in out of the burr, voraciously gather
ing them.
The farmers, after suffering delay in putting
in part of their grain in their corn ground, have
been further delayed the past week by the rains,
and many have not yet succeeded in getting all
their seeding done. 1t is now getting late in the
season and such farmers are becoming quite anx
Gus to get through
The Eclipse base ball club of Reisterstown was
completely wiped up on their own grounds, at
that place, on last Saturday afternoon, by the
Woodberry nine, that came there to play it, the
score being to flour innings) in favor of the
latter, all of whom described as Exceedingly
large fellows" They are certainly large enough
for the Eclipse boys, for whom it was a bad wind
ing up, it being their last game of the season.
Mrs. Ann Jessop, very aged lady and widow
of the late Dominck Jessop, died at her late resi-
dence, in Resterstown, on last Sunday night, in
the 92d year of her age. She was buried at the
Lutheran cemetery her funeral being preached at
her late residence by Rev. J. E. Wilson, of the M.
e. Church South. She leaves eight children-six
daughters and two sons-fve of whom married,
three daughters being single.
The muddle over the postofice at Reisterstown
continues, but it is believed that either the Uptown
or down-to faction would rather it should re-
main where it is than that the other should win.
ANON.
Trinity Church Consecrated.-Trinity P.