The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-02-13

New Freedom, N. @. R. R.-Between Han
over Junction and New Freedom there is system
of hills trending to the southwest. They are o
prolongation of a watershed originating at has'
Prospect, in Lower Windsor township, near the
Susquehanna river, and diverging at an angle Of
about twenty degrees from the Conewago. Hills
form the southern boundary to the beautiful val
ley between York and Hanover, which extends on
to Littlestown. Geographically, they pass across
York county diagonally and enter Marya
through Baltimore and Carroll counties. At the
point of ordination their marked width does not
exceed mile but as they rise and fall in billowy
eminences and are sub. divided into minor ranges,
the major on the southern side, they have assumed
at distance of twenty miles width of over six.
These recurrent terraces, nowhere exceeding four
hundred feet in height, the first seaboard foot
hills of the Atlantic Slope, slopng westward and
having their eliminating elevation in the ranges
| of the Blue and Allegheny mountains of the APP
palachian system at distance of forty-five and
| ninety miles, These foot hills present striking
dssimiarities in their physical topography. The
Northern Central railroad marks dividing line
between the arabic and partly arabic sections
| Northeasterly the physical outline meows down
into soft, low rounded knobs, whose cultivated or
uncultivated tops are several feet in depth with
rich, loamy soil and bases fanked by beautiful
stretches of meadow land. frequently both are
covered with dense growth of heavy white oaks.
Southwestwardly, rising abruptly, chain after
| chain rise and break across Codorus township
their long serpent-lke ridges projecting from the
| parent body, we'll clothed with belts OF chestnut,
oak and hickory timber, and suddenly terminating
in rugged and precpitous faces from whose jagged,
distorted and faulted surfaces their primal history
isread. Following the system proper few stretches
of meadow land occur, and the superimposing
sides are covered with immense quantities of dis
integrated boulders which extend even to the
| L., ba;r riv ate
on. The highest point in Codorus is called by
Pennsylvanians "Hund's Boukle" dogs back),
but this is euphonious in comparison with the
"Devil's Backbone" as part of the range is
called in Baltimore county.
do not presume to follow the divide out of this
township, for it is here the most interesting part
of my paper begins. Assuming "The Summit, y
at New Freedom, the most easterly foot hill and
| moving westward three miles, counting the minor
| ranges the third, have in this unmistaka bic
| evidences of large deposits of anthracite COAL
But before opening local description It'll proper
to glance at the geological formation of the vast
fields further north and see if relationship with
these can be sustained In the Carboniferous Pc
| rod these foot hills were not entirely submerged,
as was the case with all the eastern part of York
and Cumberland counties, extending even to
Dauphn, the lowest limit of the upper coal region.
| During the Azoic and previous epochs OF the
Palaozoic eras internal volcanic fires forced the
|
waste until they looked not unlike low continent
tai islands adjacent to that mighty upheaval in
| the higher ranges to the west. Wherever plutonic
rocks were exposed erosion, aided by sediment
from the deep and an atmosphere heavily charged
with carbonic gas, produced gigantic growth OF
vegetation. The petrifed remains of these forests
are our coal fields of to-day, supplying wealth and
comfort to millions. How much higher these foot
hills were since cycles of time have passed is only
| a matter of conjecture. Sufficed to say erosion
has steadily and surely done its work, burying
this treasure deep for future use. But there is
| not the slightest doubt the coal of York and
Schuykill counties was formed in the same age.
| Returning to the local description where strong
evidence of coal is found, the reader is directed to
the property of Oliver Zeigler and M. Wanner, in
Codorus township, about three miles west of this
| place, on a road running from Seitzland westward
| and Joining the Glen Rock and Manchester road.
The topography of this section is wild and rugged.
| The hill in question is prolonged arm OF the
main range trending north and south. Its south
| ern face terminates in a rocky precipice with
nearly perpendicular height of three hundred
feet. This face is faulted and tilted at different
angles. Vast crevices of igneous origin rend the
surface from top to bottom. What wonderful, un-
told scenes have been enacted here in ages past
| The igneous rocks beched from internal depths
stand as the grand foundation around which
| erosion has wrought ruin in smoothening the pro-
| gled with flint and broken through in places by
red, eruptive feldspathic granite, showed the com
| bined action of fire and water. In this found
evident traces of vegetable FOSSIL The coal mea-
sure appeared to me very deep and below the
true level of the drift prospected to depth of one
hundred feet. The compositions taken are con-
| glomerate shales, flint and sandstone intermin-
gled with a hard compact variety of mineral stone
| of high lustre free from sulphur and containing
carbon with small amount of bitumen. j. G. d.
| Fullerton, 18th District.-A young man
named Nicholas Marx, living on the Belair road,
below Fullerton, died on the 2Sth of January, af-
ter an illness of nine weeks. He was a son Of
| Mr.. Marx, we'll known trucker. The funeral
| took place on Sunday, 3lst, and was one of the
largest ever seen in the neighborhood. The re-
mains we're inferred at the Lutheran church, near
| Putty Hill.
| A singing school has been organized at Gatch's
| Church, with the following officers: President,
| VIM. c. Vogts; secretary, Carville Mccormick !;
treasurer, Miss Laura Cole directors, Miss Cora
Wolf, Robert Grace and John j. Ehrhardt. The
services of Prof. Singleton have been engaged to
give weekly lessons. None but members, or those
| who wish to join, admitted. The class meets
| every Monday night. N'IMpoRT.
| Some evil disposed person or persons entered
the premises of Mr.. Adam Lenhoff, P. NJ. of Full
| lerton, last Sunday night, and demolished new
| "Brown and Milburn" wagon that he had recent
| ly purchased. The double trees were stolen, the
tail gate was shattered and many of the castings
broken, rendering the wagon almost useless. Not
| being satisfied with breaking the wagon they
smashed up the buckets at the pump. The Gull
prits left behind pair of pincers and part of a
carriage whip, which can be had by applying at
| the postofice.
Otto and Joseph Kahn, brothers, living near
| Fullerton engaged in "fraternap difficulty, in
which Joseph cut Otto in the arm and almost Sc
| af .cE ftorfh o
made tracks for New York. Evidently we need a
police in Fullerton.
Mr.. Frederick Lassahn, the undertaken, has
numerous calls, and always gives satisfaction
His charges are quite reasonable.
An old colored man died in this neighborhood
recently, who was said to be ITO years old. He
had been paralyzed for some time. B.
Rossville, 18th District.-The weather dur
ing the last IL days has called forth many re-
marks and conjectures as to the past, present and
future. Some of the older folks say there hasn't
been as deep snow and as cold spell of weather
for twenty or thirty years and the believers in
the grounding theory think that there will be at
least six weeks of disagreeable weather yet, and
others say that the weather will be best known
when it comes This reminds me Of a story /
heard told of old Mr.. Seroggins and his son Pete,
who lived in rural district of Pennsylvania, and
|
wise. One day some hunters called at the house
and learned that the old man was absent, and on
making their business known to Pete, he said
know just as much about the weather as dad does
only dad can tell before hand what it is to be and
1 can tell after it comes.
Mr.. Henry Smuck, who is sub-supervisor OIL
the Philadelphia turnpike from the 10th mile
stone to the city, was prompt in breaking the
track over his section. Supervisor ]. M. Smith
was also on the alert and had the county road:
opened in his section.
On last Sunday morning Mr.. Frank Hance, o.
Baltimore, while driving to his farm, had one Of
his sleigh runners broken and he and gentle
man who was with him, were thrown out, but for
tunately were not hurt.
Mr.. Joseph Grassel, who resides near St. Jo
seph's Church, has lung disease among his cattle
and four have died other cattle in the neighbor
hood have the same disease.
Mrs. Michael Mullen, of this vicinity, is sue.
cessful poultry raiser, and the quantity of tur
keys that she produces for market about the hol
idays doubtless makes Mr.. Mullen's heart glad.
A slight mistake occurred in my last letter
The gatehouse to be built will be located near TIT
Back River County bridge and not the P. W.