Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1859-02-11

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ital of the Banks; $9,7l2 80 from div
idends on Bank Stock; $3.50 10 from
State per cent stock 81, 069 36 from
surplus revenue; 81, surplus trans
ferred of the appropriation for the edu.
cation of the INDECENT Blind; and 3d.
GAG 81 interest on the investment mado
by the Treasurer in obedience to the Act
of Assembly of 1853, chap. 295.
The sum of S20,9S7 73 remained in
the treasury on the 30th Sept. 1858, to
the credit of the said fund, which added
to the receipts Of the year, makes an ag-
grcgate of $95, 252 OF.
The disbursements, on the same nc-
count, for the same period. were ST.
1884 IS; and deducting the expenditures
from the aggregate, there will appear to
the credit of the Free School fund, as Of
the S0th of Sept, 1858, 1913, S67 rs.
The receipts on account of the Sink
ing fund in the fiscal year, which ended
the seth of September, 1858, appear to
have been 1925, 047 81 /; Of which omount
the sum of $2O5, 735 05 was the interest
upon the stocks held by the State for tho
use and increment of the said fund, and
Sl9,3l4 40 was surplus revenue trans
fcrred in accordance with sec. /, chap.
800, of the Acts of Assembly of 1858
The sum of 900, 457 40 of these aggre-
gate receipts was disbursed and invested
for the use of the fund; leaving unin-
vested and to its credit S134 500 05.
The sinking fund, at the close Of tho
preceding fiscal year, amounted to 3d.,
997 ,276 A, and it was increased during
the year Just closed to the sum of 3d.,
223,273 r.
REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY,
The assessed value of the real and
personal property in the State for 1858.
is set down at $3.50 447 ,588. an increase
compared with the preceding year Of
$3,7S2, 79S.
CONDITION OF TIE STATE.
Tho aggregate amount Of the States
capital and credits is placed at $22 1884,
5l2 o., of which only $500, 241 20
is productive The funded debt of the
State is represented to be SD, $685.
$40 %.
CONCLUSION.
in conclusion, the Comptroller may be
allowed to express the opinion that the
financial condition Of the State is sound
and healthy, and the citizens of Mary
land may look with pride upon their
I Commonwealth as she stands among her
Federal sisters
TRASHY READING Some newspaper,
in speaking of the literature of the pre-
sent day, with great truthfulness says:
Z" You may read many Of the Eastern
weeklies for year, aud scarcely find a
fact which will make you wiser or better
all fiction, romance, lies, velvet, and
little fends equipped in smiles and crino-
line, big scoundrels in epaulets and with
love of a moustache, turning the brains
and stealing the hearts Of simpcring
maidens, the every day history Of life in
geniously belied and genteelly outraged.
and yet it always ends beautifully.
Hundreds of persons who think they
can't afford a home paper, 10 the course
9f year spend three or four times the
amount in this worthless and abominabls
I trash.
| E2,' During the trial Of a case in the
Essex Common Pleas, at Newburyport,
witness who was brought from Plais-
tow, n H. was asked by District Az
torney Abbott, Didn't you boast, when
you lived in Newburyport, that you wors
the greatest liar in the cityT The Wit
ness looked wise for a minute or two be.
fore he answered ooh, ! know what
you mean. You Geo, went into n room
one night, and found half n dozen fel.
lows who seemed to be telling stories
Says one Of them, Here's -----; he'll
take the money What money" |
asked That quarter on the table was
the answer; the man .ha: tells The big
gcst lie takes IT,. merely told them
that shouldn't try for it, as ] never told
a lie in my life, and they gare me the
guorter." - Boston Traveller.
A NORM CARoJNA ANECDOTE Gov
s. was a splendid lawyer, and could
talk jury ont Of their seven senses ---
lie was especially noted for his success
in criminal cases, almost always clearing
, his client. lie was once counsel for a
man accused of horse stealing He
made long, eloquent, and touching
speech. The jury retired, but returned
in few moments, aud, with tears in
their eyes, pronounced the man not gull.
ty An old acquaintance stepped up to
the prisoner and said !:
FJem, the danger is passed; and
now, honor bright, didn't you steal that
horse =
TO which Jcm replied: well. Tom.
all along thought | took that horse
but since ! have heard the Governors
speech, IcLopt Jeiicre / did"
E5- A Western duck of a wife, whose
husband went for day or two on bit
Of lark, thus adycrtiscs him:
last, Hr0yed or Stoien-An indiyid-
nal, whom /, in an unguarded moment
Of Loneliness was thoughtless enough to
adopt as MY husband. lie is a good look
ing and feeble individual knowing enough
however, TO 90 in when it rains, unless
some good-looking girl offers her umbrel-
a. Answers 10 the name Of john
Was last seen in company with Julia
Ilarris, walking, biz arm around her
whist nm the plauk road. looking more