The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1888-11-17
Correspondence Baltimore County Union.
LETTER FROM BALTIMORE.
Settling Wheelbarrow Bet-Bishop Fo-
ley's Departure-Signs of Approach
ing Christmas = Two Brilliant
Weddings-The Theatres
Ready for Wal, etc.

Ready for War, etc.
BALTIMORE November 18th, 1888
nesSrS. Editors The spectacle which saw on
Monday last of one man in tall white hat bear
ing large placards on his breast and back, trun-
ding another big man in wheelbarrOw up South
street and pauSing at the Sun office for repOr-
ter's notice, proves that once in four years at
least we are truly intellectual people. The two
men aforesaid were settling bet on the late
election and it was a question with the crowd
which of them was the real winner. At the end
of the prescribed route the triumphal chariot
was relegated to a back yard and drinks all round
having been disposed of peace again reigned in
the bosoms of the betters. 1t was truly inspir-
ing spectacle and will be very gratifying TO the
successful Presidential candidate when he hears
of it,. AS a Yankee once observed, You don't
find no folks taking airs on themselves about
election times. Then one man is as good as an
other and some are a darned sight better" A
large number of hungry looking men have been
house in the last ten days picking out the offices
they want to fill, so that after the 4th OF next
March they will have nothing to DO but to step
the stock market, to follow Immediately the cleo
ton of Harrison, has not yet arrived, however,
and the millennium is consequently postponed
until after the inauguration.
Bishop Foley has departed for his new see at
Detroit. He celebrated pontiticial mass at ST.
last i'm the presence of Cardinal Gibbons, a large
number of priests and an immense congregation.
He was made the recipient of many elegant pres
ents and carries with him the good wishes of very
many outside of the Catholic church. Two Bal
timOreans now fill important bishoprics in the
West, Monsignor Chatard, whose see is that OF
Vincennes but stationed at indianapolis, and
DIR. Foley, at Detroit.
Signs Of a merry Christmas are already upon
us and the illustrated newspapers ana magazines
have advanced specimen plates for the festive
season of colored engravingS. The London NeWS,
Graphic, Yule Tide. &C., all have brilliant pictures
forthcoming especially attractive to the little
ones. For persons of a larger growth the Lon
don Art journal furnishes as an extra Christmas
number the works of J. G. Hook, of the Royal
Academy more particularly distinguished as a
marine painter and this number is replete with
beautiful steel engravings and wood cuts OF sea
scenes. Every year the Art J0u9n0t has some
great painter represented in Christmas num-
her, and those of Alma Tadema, Sir John MillalS,
Meissonnier and Sir Francis Leighton may still
be had at very moderate price, forming charm
ing series of the works of eminent artists.
On Wednesday evening two large and brilliant
wedding; occurred-that of Mr.. Howell Carroll
and Miss Rogers, daughter of Mr.. Grafton Dua-
ny Rogers a very pretty young lady, at Grace
Church, and that of DR.. Clark of Boston, and
Miss Lindsay Poor, noted as a brilliant belle. at
Mount Calvary Church. Miss Rogers wedding
took place in the afternoon and that OF Miss Poor
at night. Mount Calvary, which is one of the
high ritualistic churches of the city, was COM
pletely packed long before the arrival of the
bridal party. Major Richard L. Poor, the father
of the bride, gave her away. The bridesmaids,
who with the uSherS formed long cortege, were
dressed in the brilliant style lately adopted of
each two being distinguished by different cQlored
sashes, bouquets. gloves and slippers. A num-
Der of young and charming debutdnfeS are coming
forward this winter and among them Miss
Thompson, the daughter of Mr.. Henry +. Thomp-
son, of Monument street: Her mother has issued
cards for reception in her daughters honor on
next Tuesday, from to p. NJ. Miss Thompson
is a great granddaughter of Mr. Robert Oliver,
the original proprietor of the Greenmount es-
tate then a superb country seat and after his
death purchased for the cemetery.
The theatres are now presenting unusual at
fractions and are nightly thronged At Ford's
Opera House the Crystal Slipper, an adaptation
of Cinderella. is put upon the stage with all the
brilliancy that ballet. costumes, scenery, chemi-
cal effect and rapid transformations can possibly
produce. 1t is truly fairy pageant. AT the
Academy of Music the thrilling society drama of
IA Possible Case" is presented by capital New
York company. The play abOunds with brilliant
and startling episodes, holding the attention
breathess, while the gaze of the feminine world
is also fascinated by the exquisite costumes OF
the heroine, no less than six marvellous crea-
tions of the milliner being assumed by her alone
in the course of the evening. AT Albaugh's Hol-
liday street theatre very good opera company;
dramas. The other theatres. Front street, ker-
mans and Forepaughs Masonic Temple, offer
CHARACTERISTIC pieces. Next week the Lyceum
theatre, on Charles street, opens with the ever
popular Jennie Winston, in a series of light and
pretty operas This is a very convenient and
cosy place of amusement for persons residing in
the northern section of the city who do not care
to go very far from home for theatricals.
The White Chapel fiend seems to exceed him
self even in murderouS horrors. believe it will
be eventually found that he quits London imme-
diately after one OF these murders ana Is at sea
him in the crowded stewS of the city. He is in
all probability maniac on this one subject, for
no entirely sane man could do such deeds and
not betray himself at some unguarded or re-
morseful moment, while the cunning and secre-
tiveness of insanity often battles all detective in
vestigation.
By reliable statistics it now appears that the
five great powers of continental Europe, France,
Russia, Austria, Germany and Italy, have actual
ly enrolled for twelve millions of men,
about one quarter of the whole population of the
United States. The next shock of arms must be
terrific, core when and where it may.
The Maryland Institute begins its course this
year with large number of pupils under excel
lent masters. Many persons have idea that
our public schools do not instruct in drawing
with the thorough system of the Institute. This
is mistake and unjust to the competent and
careful teachers of the public schools, whose in
struction is admirably fitted to drill pains
taking scholars for the higher branches of art at
the Institute. WALPOLE.