The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-12-25
Correspondence baltimore County Union.
LETTER FROM BALTIMORE.
Christmas Greeting-PlesaD..- Weather
and Good Business-The Shortest
Day-A Good Appointment, &c.

BALTIMORE, December 21st, 1886.
Messrs. Editors Saturday next, according to
our calendar, will be Christmas and also the day
on which your paper is issued to its readers. May
I therefore wish you and your many readers the
compliments of the season. May you and they
live to enjoy many returns of the joyous holiday.
Of all holidays it is the most sacred and jubilant
of all the year, especially among Christians. 1t
brings up many "reminiscences never to be forgot
ten. They grow brighter as time advances and
are greener as years go onward. So the world
moves onward since the days of Christ's sojourn
on earth, and are apt to continue until time is no
more. 1t is day on which all filed with
gladness, and it should be, for it gave us
Saviour. We have cause to rejoice with joy un-
speakable and make merry at so precious gift as
is ushered in with next Saturday. Again say
thrice welcome to such Jubilee
In Baltimore, thus far in the week, we have had
pleasant weather and thousands have been out
shopping for the occasion. All the prominent
streets have been lined with persons Of all ages
and sizes, looking bright and happy in anticipa-
tion of the event, supplying themselves with rem
iniscences to be thought of by friends. do not
remember ever having seen so many persons out
purchasing. They seem not to regard the cost II
they can only get what they want. Many of the
things are very beautiful and appropriate. Peo-
pie are purchasing their presents in time so as not
to be put off to the last moment. Shopkeepers say
they have never before had many calls and so
prosperous holiday business The weather thus
far has been remarkably pleasant to be out and 1t
is largely taken advantage of. All of the schools
public and private-will adjourn for the holi-
days on Friday. Already the children are full OF
the holiday delights and pleasing anticipations.
II is gratifying to look at them and see how their
ewes sparkle and rosy cheeks bloom in expecta-
ton. Nothing can be more beautiful. Our mar
kets are well supplied with turkeys, ducks and
poultry Of every kind. Oysters, too, are quite
abundant II will be a whole holiday. The Gus
tom house, the postofice and all other public
Offices will be closed, and, as a matter OF course,
our various city Offices. There will be some few
places open to supply the needs of those wanting
small matters. A goodly number OF persons go
10 the country such occasions to see their
friends and relatives. five have pleasant weather
il will be the most enjoyable Christmas, perhaps.
we have ever had in Baltimore.
The snow is nearly all gone and there is very
little ice either in the Chesapeake Bay or any of
the tributary streams or rivers. Last Saturday
was perhaps the most disagreeable day we have
had 1t rained without intermissiOn all day
Fortunately it did not cause much of food as the
water passed off uninterrupted by ice. Very few
people we're out except some who felt they must
get Christmas gifts in time.
Our newspapers getting up monster sheets
for the holidays. Some of them, 1 fear, will have
so much matter in them that they will never be
read. 1t does, however, very well for SHOW
They certainly are enterprising. / do not hear of
any change in journalists nor of new papers being
started. There will be some new mercantile firms
and changes of partners, but not many.
This u.s. according to our almanacs, the shortest
day of the season, though we are likely to have
severe weather in the next six weeks two months
| to come 1t may, however, be different, as have
seen it unusually mild in this period and no snow
or ice the whole winter. The seasons change
| about every cycle or thirty years. According to
| that representation should now be approach
| ing milder weather.
| Mr. Dana, of the New York SIN, and some four
| or FIVE other gentlemen, came on from New York
| a few days ago expressly to have supper OF our
Chesapeake oy sters and canvas back ducks. They
| got what they wanted and returned the next day,
| fully satisfed-charmed ndeed-and were thor
| oughly convinced that Baltimore could not be
| beaten for such delicacies.
There are some who think the high rates Of
| money and recent fall in stocks was caused by Jay
| Gould's manipulatons of the market. If this be
so it shows how dangerous it is to have one man
possess so much money as to control the market
| as he pleases.'
President Cleveland has made o good appoint
ment in filling the place of Mr. Iglehart, recently
| deceased, with Mr.. Richard Welsh, as postmaster
| of Annapolis. He is an excellent gentleman and
will fill the office with ability. better selection
| could not have been made 1t is unfortunate in
| Mr. Iglehart's death, but fortunate in having so
| good representative.
| observe that recently man, who attempted
an assault upon a young girl, was caught by some
Iynchers, stripped, tied to a tree and made to
| suffer forty lashes-the blood brought with every
lash. He was released an awful sufferer, with
| scarcely any breath in him. 1t was worse than
being hung. He is destined to suffer long time.
| It served him right. few more lashes would
| have done no harm. NEST0R.