The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-04-10


Eklo 9th DiStrict.-As the inclement weather
precludes the possibility of my engaging in any
outdoor pursuits, will occupy my leisure time in
writing few items which may interest your read
ers The frogs, dear harningers Of spring, have
been holding their evening matinees for some time
past and as the musical resonance of their pipings
Is waited to my ears on 9Olian wings, realize
that the verna season is at hand in spite of snow
squalls and other indications to the contrary
The recent rains have retarded tho farmers con-
siderably in their spring work, such as sowing
oats, etc.
Mr.. Dorsey Cooper recently purchased the house
and lot of Capt. II. Wilhelm, the price paid being
$500. Mr.. Charles Royston, our genial harness
maker, who formerly occupied this dwelling, has
moved to Beckleysvile, where he is still engaged
at his vocation.
Nor is Mr.. Royston the only one that is moving,
for some are moving from the state of single bless
edness into the nuptial state of matrmony, the
happy ones being Mr.. James c. Spicer and Miss
Laura 7. Lloyd, who were joined in the holy
bonds of wedock, by Rev. Jacob Shamberger, on
March 25th.
Death has twice visited this community during
the past week, his victims being Mrs. Nelson
Tracey, of Hoffmanvlle, and Mrs. Rebecca Wine
holt, of this place. Mrs. Tracey, who was un-
known to your correspondent, died after short
illness. She leaves family of three small chill
dren, the youngest being but few days old. Mrs.
Wineholt had been long and patient sufferer
She was most estimable Christian lady and her
loss will be deeply felt in the community wherein
she resided Mr.. R. N. Trabert, undertaken of
this place, had charge of the funeral arrangements
of both.
Among the sick are Mrs. Samuel Baublitz, of
this village who is confined to her bed with dropsy
and Mr.. Clarence Bull, son of Mr.. j. L. Bull, who
is quite i'll with pneumonia.
Rev. Harry W. Kemp, who has been holding a
protracted meeting at the Baptist Church,
preached his farewell sermon on Tuesday night,
after which he went to the Forrest Baptist Church,
where he contemplates holding protracted meet
ing. Mr.. Kemp is young man of great promise
and through his instrumentality about 20 persons
prefesaad e9n ysrsi9n. during the meeting here
After reading the appeal of your correspondent
"Observer" for new school house at Rayville,
feel like asking have the taxpayers of the rural
Upper End no rights which the ''powers that be-
are bound to respect. Some time back those in
terested petitioned the Commissioners for bridge
over the stream which crosses the county road
leading from Mddetown to Shamburg, but we
have never heard from it since. Perhaps those to
whom it was sent locked it up in the fire proof
addition for safe keeping and have forgotten the
combination. BERTHE NJ. C.
Mr.. Walters New mportation.-The last
lot of Percheron horses imported by Mr.. William
I. Walters, whose farm is situated on Woodbourne
avenue, near Govanstown, arrived safely in New
York and were brought to Baltimore in good con-
dition. There are twenty four in the lot of which
IL are mares and II stations. All of the animals
are from the Department de POrne, where the
Percheron breed is purest. Only one or two of
the collection is more than four years old, almost
all of them being very young. They are all gray
in color, of various shades, and fine examples of
their race large of size, strong of limb and stylish
of carriage, and their clean-cut heads and fine
bone show the Arabian blood which flows in their
veins. One of the stations is a yearlng, already
IL hands high, while one, called very properly
Goliah, is three years old, and stands liz hands
high. The mares are from two to six years old,
and from Is to 163 hands high. Only one of
them has been bred.
The Percheron horse is the cross of a Norman
and an Arabian. When Napoleon was laying out
post routes across France, he looked about for
horses which, while strong enough to pull the
heavy mail coaches, would be light enough to
travel rapidly. 1t was decided to breed Arabian
stations to Norman mares, and stock farms for
raising the government draught horses were
placed in the little district of LIE Perche. Horses
bred on those farms were therefore called Perch
erons. A pure-bred Percheron has the small
the size and strength of his Norman mother. His
legs, when seen from behind or in front, look very
thin. From the side however, they are very broad,
the bones of the leg being placed directly in
line, thus making the leg fiat instead of round.
A pure bred Percheron is always black when foal-
ed, becomes gray when about three years old.
blood.