Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1876-05-19
Blabber's Letter.

More aJom tie improvements and Industries
Wheat Crops 2dter Bugs-Lime Dealers
toho don't understand Long Measure, &c.
GAINESVILLE, May 10th, 1876.
Mr.. Editor: Referring to the improve
menis in our village and neighhorhood |
have to note first, that Of the GAINESVILLE
Grange-I forget the number by which the
grange is known in the brotherhood. Their
hall was raised last Thursday, and is now be-
ing enclosed IFS dimensions are IS by sc
feet, two stories high the lower story is d.
vided into two rooms suitable for shops and
The upper one, which is eleven foot story,
will be all in one room and will be the Grange
Hall. This hall will be entered by raised
stoop and enclosed stairs; at the bead of the
stairs will be the ante-room where will be kept
The goat, the greasy pole, the branding irons
and grand sentinel, or whatever else his
title may be, that guards the sacredness o.
the inner courts. When finished. and judg-
ing from the energy Of the committee and that
of the contractor it will soon be finished, it
will be quite an addition to the appearance of
the west end of town.
Mr.. Talbot has built two story store
house adjoining his hotel property, and occu-
pies 1t for the sale of peanuts and cider, as
well as for the general trade of dispensing
fluid and vapory hospitality TO his guests or
any one else favorng him with call.
Down at the railroad, in DOG Hollow" us
the irreverent youths call the locality, Mr.
Thomas of the B. & o. r. r. Co, is building
a neat two story dwelling, and Mr.. Bochmer,
of the Smithsonian Institute, Washington,
has built n two story house on the Rockville
road not far from town.
The improvements however, are not all
confined to the village, nor do they consist en-
tirely in buildings Many of our farmers have
I'M cd L., -. ;sl, IN
bring up their lands. This will doubtless
prove permanent improvement 10 the farms
on which the lime is put, and also good in
vestment of the money expended for it. There
is a general complaint, however, OF the short
measure melted out by the lime dealers. Car
loads consigned as two hundred and fifty
bushels have without exception fallen short OF
the measure in some instances by as much MS
forty or forty-fve bushels The farmers there
fore very justly complain that this is digging
them II little too deep, in fact it is cheating,
and you know cheating is not honest except
in horse-races.
We havu't any newspaper printed heIf, but
we don't need any for we have telegraph Of
fees, not of the Morse kind but much older
invention. They are conducted by linea de-
scendents of the Athenians, described in the
Acts of the Apostles XVII chap. 81 verse. J
We havn't many of them, but those we have
are no slonches, they don't allow any oppor-
unities to be wasted they can tell at a
moments notice or without any notice at all,
all that has happened up TO that very minute
and good deal that never happened Can
tell who got drunk and what he said and did,
who goes TO see somebody and what he'd
better do instead of going and a great deal
more interesting and necessary information
that no well regulated village can do without
Our farmers are getting about done plant
ing corn, and are all in fine spirits over the
prospect OF good wheat crop. They say the
wheat never looked better at this season than
it does now. Il it turns out as il now prom
Uses it will rather explode the belief in snowy
winter being necessary to good wheat crops
The potato bug now sits on the new-made
potato hills and patiently waits the coming up
of the tender shoots don't mean the poit-
ical potato bugs we had last fall, and which
Governor Ca:roll-aided by the Montgomery
legislative delegation -drove into their holes
forever; but the chronological ''varmint'
with n striped coat and phlematic tempera-
ment He went somewhere with his political
namesakes, but he didn't go all the way, for
be is back already, while they are stranded
high and dry on the "echoess shore ofsome
Radical Dead Sea. Maybe ''Yn can tell me
how they can be in holes, and vet be stranded
high and dry. don't know my self but ri
let il go so, for it won't do TO sacrifice rhetor-
ical finish 10 meiaph0rical consistency What
meant to say, when tackled the potato bug
business on the wheat prospects, was that the
p b doesn't cheer the farmer SO much as the
wheat prospect does.
We have had several fine rains lately--one
last highland very wet rain it was. That's
all now. BLABBER.