Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1871-01-13
Letter from Poolesville.
PooLEsvILLE, Jan. 10th, 1871.

IoOLESNlbLEi Jan. lUtui 1911
! MEssRs. EDIToRs Doct n BREWER, regret
| to state, had his arm broken last Thursday
night. 1t appears he was called out to attend
to some business, and, going down the steps
from bis dwelling, he slipped and fell, causing
| the accident. DR.. Brewer is extensively known
| throughout the county, having served the peo-
Pile faithfully as a delegate to the Convention
to frame our present Constitution, and also as
Senator. His many friends in the county will
regret 10 hear Of his accident aud, no doubt,
| deeply sympatbise with him in his present af-
/ Fiction. 1t is to be hoped he will speedily
recover, and again be blessed with good health.
The festival. and supper, advertised in the
| Sentinel to take place last Monday night at the
| Catholic Church. in GAINESVILLE, came off ac-
cording to notice, and was attended by n large
crowd OF ladies and gentlemen. Everything
was conducted to the satisfaction Of the audi
ence; and, i understand, the proceeds realized
on the occasion was fully up to the expecta-
tions of those who had charge of the feast
The water was let out of the canal last
Wednesday, and preparations now being
made TO have the needed repairs done while
the water is out The cold weather and accu-
mutation of ice will necessarily retard .he work
very much all business, dependent on the
trade of the canal, will be at stand-still until
navigation is resumed
understand Col. E. V. WHITE, from Vir-
ginia, has negotiated for the purchase of the
property at Whites Ferry, with the intention
Of engaging in the business Of shipping grain
from that point. Edwards Ferry and Whites
| Ferry are the two prominent points for ship
ping grain to market from this neighborhood
and Virginia.
understand there were shipped from Ed
wards Ferry, some seventy thousand bushels
of grain the past season, besides the back
freghting Of fertilizers &C, from Georgetown.
Messrs FLETcHALL SPATEs the present own
ers have made considerable improvements at
that point-having erected, in the past two
years, four dwelling houses q smith shop, and
| lime kiln, which is quite n convenience to
every one who has occasion to use lime for
any purpose. Edwards Ferry is destined to be
one of the best business points along the canal.
believe the farmers, as a general thing,
have hired their regular hands for the present
year. There was no fixed plan of hiring-as
predicted would be the case-with .he farmers
every one acted independent of the other, and
| have no doubt some have agreed to pay more
than the present price Of grain will Justify
There was considerable changing about with
the negroes, and hardly any one has the same
hands he had last year. | noticed several
who have tried housekeeping, and in
MEASURE, lived in idleness, waiting | suppose,
| for the mule and forty acres of land TO come
along, as promised by their pretended friends,
have come to the conclusion, as the old saying
goes, they have got to ''root pig or lose your
tater," have, as they say, gone into seroice,
wiser if not better negroes.
JcHN W. Poole, Esq, living about three
miles from Pooesviie, departed this life about
4 o'clock this morning. He was good, quiet
citizen, and hardly had enemy in the Dis
| tric; he was stricken down some time back
with paralysis, and has been a great sufferer
ever since, He leaves wife and several chill
dren to mourn his loss. f.