The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-10-31
Correspondence Baltimore County Union
LETTER FROM BALTIMORE.
BALTIMORE. October 9th 1ss

BALTIMORE, October 9th, 1885.
Editors Union Our municipal election will be
fought and over before your paper goes to press.
1t is, therefore, not worth while to say much more
about it. After tomorrow we shall see what we
shall see. In case of either Judge Brown or Mr.
Hodges being elected we are sure to have a good
Mayor. The people to- day are intensely excited
The great contest, however, is with Senator Cor
man and his friends, which comes off November
Sd, for members of the Legislature, which, if it
results in Democratic majority, will without
doubt re-elect him again to the U. S. Senate for
six years more. There are also others who, as
candidates for various offices, will work hard for
triumph.
We have had in the past few nights some very
heavy white frosts, which have turned leaves and
the foliage in our parks, cemeteries, &c +, to a
beautiful variegaton of autumnal colors and hues.
The weather, too, is somewhat like Indian sum-
mer. There is something sweet and charming in
such robings, though somewhat on the melanchol-
ly order. The mornings are rather misty and not
exactly healthy, with some malaria. This, how
ever, is pretty much the case every fall. We have
really no special cause of complaint in point of
| general health.
| We have come to the season now when people
in Baltimore and elsewhere are putting down their
carpets and having fires in their stoves which are
| quite pleasant. With all, however, the fall has
been quite genial one. Winter will be on before
| long.
| The city postoffce department has in the past
| week introduced the night system OF delivering
letters both to and from the postofice and street
| boxes. They now take them out at twelve o'clock
and they go off by the regular mail. 1t certainly
is great accommodation and convenience. The
boxes for midnight painted red so they may
be known. When two boxes, one red and tae
other not, matter deposited in both is taken olt
late, but apart and alone is not. 1 am constrain-
ed, however, to say very few understand them and
are often misled because of not being properly
labeled. This is very annoying. intend to try
the experiment myself tonight and see how it
works for my letter to THE UNION.
| The planet Venus now can be seen in the
western evening sky. She is very brilliant and
looks exquistey. Let me here ask your readers
an original conundrum. Why is a small darkey
who takes of children like the planet Venus
Because, as the Dutchman says, she's nee nus.
The time is not far distant-about the 18th o.
November-when are likely to have another
shower of shooting stars. I have seen them long
| ago in thousands An old German, who then was
much frightened, watched the planet Jupiter, and
not seeing it shake, ventured to go out carly in
the morning, taking his provender, chickens &c.
to market. The world has grown more philosoph
| icsl Even comets have become common and no
| longer presage nor political revolutions.
There really is not much business being done
The election appears to absorb everything. Our
mechanics are quite busy and improvement goes
on favorably. 1t is hoped before long to have q
handsome business boom. We shall have to wal
until after the November election before doing
much. NEsroR.