Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1876-04-28
Blabber's Letter.

Bornesvilc improvements Court House Ju
no Jaii-Sometling about tie assessors, Sc
! Washington news in BarnesyHe-Our E1-Lieu-
tenant Gooernor's Uissful ezperienee-B laine
and ofhers-Failure 10 get Road and Slaughter
Pen, &c.
GAINESVILLE, Mn, April 18th, nc.
! Mr.. EDITOR 81 commence this letter by
! telling you of some of the improvements made
in our village during the last few years. 1t
| is said there has been but one house built in
| Venice in the last three hundred years, and
! that was built on the site of an old one.
Well GAINESVILLE has done better than that,
| even since the last Centennial, though some
thing like Venice, most Of The houses built
lately have beeG in place of old ones torn
down or moved off. Mr. r p. Hays moved
an old house back few yards, aud then built
almost in front Of it a substantial brick house
which so nearly resembles the toy banks used
by children as to defy further architectural
criticism. Mr.. r. 7 Pyles has built a new
store-room which is neither one or Two stories,
and most composite in its architecture, ming
| ling together most anonymously the Pennsyl-
vania barn, Italian villa Chinese pagoda and
Hebrew tabernacle, to say nothing of dash
of fancy bird cage and Jail style. Mr. P. is
also building addition, or subtraction,
DOM know which, to his residence. Which
ever it may be. it presents a very good and
harmonious appearance. 1t has a two-slory
bay horse window in 'front.' mean bay
| window. have heard so much hOrse-talk
lately that have become infected with it.
| Mr. Orme has built cabinet SHOP, and the
Messrs. Miles wheelwright and blacksmith
shop, both Of which occupy ground though
they may not add much TO the landscape if
scanned to closely. Bat The creates improve
ment is Mr.. Talbott's Talbot House.; this
building would be a credit to village or town
of far greater pretensions than GAINESVILLE.
whether considered in its effect on the eye, or
in the material, workmanship and money ex-
pended in its construction. And then there
| is the new school house and the Episcopal
church, (yet unfnished), The Changers too,
are building hall for their own accommoda-
! ton, but as the foundation is yet but partially
laid can't say what kind of an edifice il
will be. Altogether | think we make very
fair show of improvements enough any how TO
keep us out of the list of finished.
We have no Court House like your people
have, but we have several houses that answer
very well for courting purposes, and in which
evening sessions are held nearly all the year
round. Sometimes these courts are very
common pleas, while at other times Judging
| from the way in which the suits are continued,
| | infer they must he courts Of (mighty poor
chancery. Now and then case terminates in
favor of the plaintiff, Tor plaintive) sutton,
but not often. Some of them, too, courts
nisi pri@s mice price,. (My friend Y. of
| Poolesville must not get excruciated now.
| The appointment of Assessors, etc, having
been made and confirmed, good many eX
pec!anis breathe easier. Though there was
some division amongst the applicants before
the last convention about who should be the
candidate for Governor they all joined in cho-
rus to Carol The excellencies of his ExceIlency
when they came to think about these appoint
ments
Amongst the various irregularities in the
| National Administration of affairs now being
developed at Washington it appears that Drs
Bliss and Cox, of the Board of Health for
Washington city, received $1,000 each in
stock of the Odoriess ExcaUating APpa' atus
| Company in consideration, &c. Now that is
bad DR. G. G. Cox, nine or ten years ago,
WAS Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, the
only Lieutenant Governor we have had for a
long time. While in that position he took
stock in an address he was to deliver at his
inaugural as Governor for it expected
that Gov. Swami, who had Just been elected
to the U S. Senate, would resign the guberna-
torial Office, so Cox prepared his inaugural ad-
dress and sent invitations to his friends down
on the Eastern Shore and elsewhere 10 come
| aud hear him deliver it, and have good time
| afierward. But Swami dvining some of the
schemes that Cox had laid as prospective Gov
ernor didn't resign worth cent, and Cox's
address was left on his hands TO spoil, and he
has not liked the odor of it since. OF course
he took this o. L A. Cos, stock with Bliss,
bat ii does not promise to be very blissfui
now, but rather blisierful Bliss took stock
several years ago in Cunderango, some
such stuff which he claimed was dead sure
| on cancer and quacked ii over the country
with great flourish II amounted TO nothing
however but in bringing him into bad odor
with the profession as well as with other gen
/ tlemen. So it WAS perfectly natural, if not
proper, that these odorous gentlemen should
desire that the next stock they took should
he odorlcss, especially as they could get it
simply by toking it. It would have been the
better way, however, TO have sandwiched their
coored colleague, DR.. Langston. His natural
African odor might have neutralized their
acquired republican perfume.
That $64 600 matter of the ex-speaker of
the U s II. r. was such a cool transaction
that it may prove chill Blaine TO the Mary
land radicals choice for President.
The Republican party when it won its first
great victories of 1860, was largely composed
of an organization, that destroyed much coal
oil and whlskey-called aoide-d- tcakes, lately
however u good many of them have been
caught mapping Beknapping.
That U. s. Insane Asylum appears to have
been quite crazy place.
| Harrington, Babcock & Co., are beginning
TO find that that Safe Burglary was not a very
safe burglary for them.
You see, Mr.. Editor, we are keeping an eve
on what is going on. Some of us have our
views on the currency, too, bat they are very
| distant ones.
We have no sympathy with the crooked
whiskey business we all take ours straight,
or at furthest sugared little, no water by
| any means.
Reverting back to local affairs, US heart
will be glad. and he can laugh now at that
funny jest of his for the Road Commission
met yesterday and reported unfavorably on
our petition, so we can't have our slaughter
pen or any experiment with ''tbe mills of The
Gods, :" and we are left entirely dependent on
private charity Tor interest) for access 10 the
railroad at all. Yours, BLABBER.