Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1876-04-21
Blabber's Letter.
BARNpsvILLr, April 18Th, 70
"Spring has come, gentle spring,
And frogs and snakes and every thing

"SpriDg has come, gentle spring,
And frogs and snakes and everything.
GAphorism from Somefellow.
Yes, Mn. SENTINEL. spring has eome-in a
fashion. The fields look green and many OF
the people ditto. The gentle lambs gambol
DER meadows fair, getting ready, fast as they
can, 20 he eaten with green peas aud asparagus
that is expected in early summer. Aud so do
some of our people gambe-on horse races.
The humble lnborer goes forth in the morning
| rejoicing in good, square meal, rejoicing AS
bridegroom whose bride has took up
| with another fellow, and patiently lnhors he
| through the day: impa;ienily walls he TO! the
suns going down, and still more impatientiy
awaits he the day when he can ask the boss
for little change; if he gets it he prudenily
invests it in five cent whiskey, which he i'm
mediatey puts aways in a safe place.
| Carefully now does the frugal granger-the
| patron-the sovereign Of indusiry--esiimate
with how.litte Industry. labor and expense,
he can make much corn and yet use little fer
| ilizer. All this and a great deal more, that
you have more time and opportunity to tell
about thnn I, follows in the wake of gentle
spring. Yon might add, however, dropping
| into poetry. ''1he winter is over and gone,
and the voice of the gudno seller is heard in
! the land +" This is another aphorism from the
! Samefellow translated from a choice collection
of arise say ings
have been fervently wishing for month
past that some well insured house would burn,
or that we could have no earthquake or some
other diversion, that our store stove-warmers
might have something else 10 talk Of than
horse races. They have talked on that sub
ject without niermisson for six weeks The
races came off to-day, both parties 10 the main
race Withdrew ia disorder, and the sport Of
the day was only had by side races There
was about two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars bet on the main race didn't see the
money put up. ] estimate the amount simply
from the offers and baners | have heard given
by enthusiastic capitalists-frends of the re-
speciive horses; so may be either over or
under the exact figures. I might have had
other great things to write Of had it not been
for the horse race excitement that has absorb
ed every thing else, SO when you know about
that YOU know all.
have, however, to set my forked friend
from Pooesvile right on one or two points in
his letter published last week First in relation
10 he quotation he corrects know The coup
let he quotes translated from the Snnedichte
of Won Lagan or Logan, by Longfellow but
that was not the one quoted; it, think, was
expressed by Seneca. some old rooster of
far bygone days and was doubtless amended
by Won Lagan, SO that il would read more
theis.ica
The other point wish to correct is this
In my last letter there was nothing written
that could be tortured int reflection on the
agent or his assistant for their management of
our railroad station. What was written was
simply a complaint, if it amounted even 10
that, against the railroad company for not
providing better station accommodations for
instance something like those ut Rockville and
Silver Spring. The complaint is, think,
just for onr station furnishes more business
to The road than any on il with, perhaps, one
exception.
With these two points corrected, VS. apollo
gy is perfectly satisfactory, and having init
mated as he interprets it, that he was half
wise, &c. | take il back. | will not be out
done in the way Of apology if can help it,
the ameude honorable is something delight in
Please. Mr. Editor, set somebody to setting
mp my letters that can see well. In my last
there was one entire paragraph that your
compostor di6n't see at all, and | thought il
the smartest paragraph of all While in an
other he saw il so badly and spelled the names
so differently that | couldn't recognize it at
all. Yours, BLADDER.