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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1877-03-16
"NEoz1ae1ates
YOU MAY
Still select your Winter Clothing
FROM OUR IMMENSE
Bankrupt Consignment,
OPPORTUNITY
LETTER JUST RECEIVED WILL SHOW:
DECEMBER 4th, 1876.

10 Messrs. liable Bros, Washington, ID. c.:
GENTLEMEN Your letter of the LIST inst, covering
ment of sales to date together with your check hand
and has been submitted to meeting of the creditors of the
firm of , and declared by them to be perfectly salts
factory They also passed unanimously resolution request
ing you to all possible dispose of all goods
hand immediately that the affairs of the bankrupt firm may
be settled up You will therefore please out
the goods forced sale Get something for them; don't
what Never mind their market value, but force
off and get rid of them any price, and report
as possible. Yours, with respect,
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1877-03-16

Eternal Spring IN the circus business.
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They had tough subject in the in
quiry-room this week. Moody wrostled
with him, aud Sankey sang with him,
but tho man seemed 10 despair Of for
giveness. Finally, Moody asked him
what heavy sin burdened bis mind, and
he confessed to having beat newspaper
publisher out Of three years subscription.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1877-03-16
,gvILLIAM BREWER.

w ATTORNEY AT LAW,
ROCKVILLE, MD.
Particular attention paid TO congeyancng
and the sale of Real Estate.
OFFICE, west Of the Courthouse and one
door north Of the Presby terinn Church.
sep lift
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1877-03-16

Barber" said farmer TO his tonsor,
"now corn's cheap, you ought to shave
for half price" Cant Mr.. Jones'"
said the man Of razors. II really ought
to charge more; for when corn's down
the farmers make such long faces that
! have twice the ground to go OVER
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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-09-14
INDIA.
Dreadful Mortality AnoHJ Gte Starring
Millions.


Dreadful MOrfqlHB Am0HJ G,e Starring
Millions.
The editor of the Madison Times, a
member of the relief committee, writes,
under date of August 1st, as follows;
"The population in southern India more
or less afflicted by famine number
twenty-four million. In the most favor
able circumstances at least one-sixtb will
die. Twenty three people in all have
died OF starvation in Bengal. In Madras
one camp of three thousand rises morn
ing after morning, leaving thirty corpses.
In the interior the distress is most fearful.
One gentleman, in passing down the val
ley in the Wynaad district, counted
twenty-three dead bodies on the road.
A coffee planter seeking shelter from the
rain in a hut found six decomposed
COZ lses in it. Every day mothers may
be seen in the streets of Madras offering
their children for sale, while the found
ling portion of the poorhouse is full of
infants found by the police iu the roads,
deserted by their parents. Since the
famine begun FIVE hundred Thousand
people have died of want and distress
The FIRST big tragedy may be expected IN
Mysore, in that province indeed, inlor-
nation has reached here from Bangaiole
of two cases Of cannibalisnl already
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meat and drink no whisky. In facss
they are an army ofteetetalers and Yes95T s5
tarians, and can be maintained at snlali
expense.
A STATEMENT was recently pu6ilsheu
in England giving the cost OF the famous
Tichborne trial, from which it appe53lss
that it took $500, ,374 (S to defeat u Ins-
claimant and settle him in jail. Inc
LAWYERS received $11S,37 %; the VII
nesses. S7I, sol 50, and the jurors slos-
900, while sol, ,34I % was paid out hI
printing documents, and $16, ISL % went
to the stenographers employed. It wou4q
be interesting to know just how the es
tate stands. and how long it will be Deio5es
the revenues from it viii make good the
expenses incurred in defending the title.
A DIR. C. w. SIEMENs in England es-
Inmates that the Falls of Niagara do as
much work in a year as 266, ,00O, 600 tons
of coal, at the rate OF fonr pounds per
horse power consumption in an hour.
He considers that the Falls might drive
an electrical machine, the currency OF
which might traverse a copper rod. he
asserts that rod three inches in diameter
would transmits I 600 horsa F,al,er a. -
as thirty miles, and that at the end t1<e4
could be used to create riotion
or light. For the latter there would be
sufficient to equal $50, 900 candies
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FoI eig5i Netcs.

A DREADFUL fire has occurred in the
Rosario mine in Mexico. Twenty-f1ur
lives were lost, and many persons were
seriously injured.
ALREADY the famine in India has cost
the government $40, ,000, 900, and Is ad-
ding to the colonial burdens at the rate
of E3,000,000 per month.
Ex-PREsIDENT THEIRS, in receiving a
deputation the other day, expressed the
opinion that a republic was the only gov
ernment possible in France.
A WARRANT has been issued for the
arrest of Gambetta for uttering language
disrespectful to President MacMahon
The punishment by law on the counts
found against him amounts to about six
years imprisonment.
A PARIS dispatch SAYS that a council
OF ministers, at which President MacMa-
hon presided, it was decided to prosecute
Gambetta for a speech which be deliv-
cred at Lille, France. The journals
which published it will also be prose
cuted.
4 PAPAL bull has been completed at
the Vatican in reference to proceedings
at the death of the pope. 1t authorizes
the summoning of the conclave imme-
diately after the arrival of the foreign
cardinals at the pleasure of Cardinal
Camerlengi.
The executive committee of the Cuban
league has issued an address to the people
of the United States, recommending the
establishment OF leagues in the cities for
the purpose of exerting moral infuencr
upon our own aud other governments in
favor of the suppression of the war
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-09-14
rl1m1GE oy EIUGHIyG.


Br,Nher Talmage spoke as follows in
his sermon last Sunday God says that
the bible is true; it is all true. Bishop
Coleman laughs and Herbert Spencer
laughs, Stuart Mill laughs, all the Ger
man universities laugh, Harvard laughs
softly, great many OF the learned in
stitutions OF this country, with long rows
of professors sitting on the fence between
christianity and infdelitv, laugh softly.
Now, with this perfect bible in my hand,
let me tear out whs- modern scepticism
demands 10 be torn out well, " says
man in the audience, take out all that
nonsense about the creation Of the world"
Away goes Genesis. '' Now take out all
trat miraculous stuff abou. the wander
ing Of the Jews in toe wilderness" says
another. Away goes Exodus. Deute-
ronomy and Kings contain things not ito
beread." Away Deuteronomy and Kings.
" The book Of Job is fable" says one
man. Away goes the book Job. "Au
that implies the divinity of Christ ought
to 90 out, says another. Away go the
Evangelists. The book Of Revelations
is preposterous," says another. Away
goes the book Of Revelations. Now,
there are still few pieces left. cob"
SAYS some man, " don't believe a word
Of the bible" Away goes the whole
bible Now you have put out the last
light of the nations; now it is the pitch
darkness of eternal midnight. How do
you like it? When the bible comes to
be preserved as a curiosity in our city
libraries, the koran on one side and the
writings of Confucius on the other, let
US keep a copy Of it for our own use to
CONSOLE us when afflicted
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-09-14
Religious.

THERE are a good mary pious people
who are as careful of theIr religion as of
their best service of CHINA, only using it
on holiday occasions, for fear it should
get Clipped or fawed in workingday
wear.
SOME of the Presbyterian delegates to
the Pan-Presbyterian council are said to
have refused to meet their brethren at
the communion table IN Edinburgh, on
account of differences growing out OF &c
clesiastical relations.
THE Oldest Jewish congregation in
America IS the Sheriff alsrael, of New
York. which was organized in 1854 the
next in age is in Lancaster, Pa, organ
lied in l775; the third Is in Philadelphia,
organized in 1880.
The Reformed Episcopalians have
elected Bishop Cheney chancelloro of their
new University Of the West, with Rev.
Messrs. William H. Cooper, j. Howard
Smith, Mason Gallagher, Joseph d. Will
son, and W. J. Hunter as professors.
A BRONZE statue of Robert Raikes,
The founder of Sunday-schSols, will soon
be placed in his native town in England
Gloucester. The money has been
aised by a general substitution under
me auspices of the English Sunday
chool union.
AN English Methodist preacher re-
Gently caused a sensation by pausing
.ter he announced his text and then say
ng that he had thought of it all the
week without finding any Interpretation.
.--c>-sSstha;, his last resort, the Inspiration
s';,sIlpit, having also failed him, he
Feelings preach.
-, LongteY preachers certainly viii
men 11 s'aFs money a bar to their en-
lhai cara Ten. 4 minister at West
When, turning said that he had been
Hew fonily a,sife pair OF shoes for
That dear compslary for that time had
In answering nineteen cents, and he
And y,bo,. ,ysl.sld be winter before he
How .o-aa, So, She would not let him
To read wjtlin alen he tried TO work in
Tho ran...~.-se was offered as pay a
LAYS OF 1Auld me 0ds Decu a oe
.en.hlel iu the corrar two years WIN 'hC
lav=S'--- s-irr that Lht1
are too poor To pay for preaching, and
he and his wife consider it their duty to
remain.
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rELOCIrF or nERTE-IMPULSEs.

The earliest experiments were made
with reference to the rapidity of move
ment through the nerves. The first
attempt to measure the velocity of
nervous impulses proceeding from
the brain under action of the will was
made long ago by Haller. He ascer-
tanned, by reading aloud with great ra-
pidity extracts from the d" Eneid." the
average number of letters which he could
pronounce in one minute. Then he
calculated the length of the nerve from
the brain to the muscle IF the tongue
and mouth. Eact letter he regarded as
requiring a nervous impulse. He was
obliged then only to multiply the num-
Der ef letters spoken in each minute by
the length of the nerve. This gave as a
result that the rate Of nervous transmits
sion from the brain was about one hun
dred and fifty feet a second. Thisexper-
iment was defective IN failing to take
into account the facts that both the act
of willing and that of musular cUntrac-
LiOli LlAC N4llC- II al ALtst Dull L "ll-
sidered, the solution would have been
farther from the truth than it really was.
Recent invest cations OF more precision
have not, however, given results that
differ widely from that obtained by Hal
Ter. The rate as given by Helmholtz,
after many experiments, is about one
hundred and eleven feet per second.
This Is now generally accepted as the
most accurate statement. Slight differ
ences in results for movements from the
brain, and for those proceeding to it,
have been obtained in the investigations,
but the rate is regarded by the best
authorities as essentially the same for
both movements. If there be a differ
ence, it arises because the rate of volun-
tary impulses moving from the brain
outward is the more rapid of the two
T. z. BroWnsH, in PopuLariScience Monthly
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tURRENT PARAGRAPHs.
sonther,. Ne,rs.

NEGROES in Montgomery, Ala, are
making contracts" this early, for next
year.
MAJOR Mason sends t the Tennesse
Historical society a rounLwooden snuff
box, which was presented to David
Crockett by Henry Clay, while the
former was member of congress.
RALEIGH ( n. O. Observer; The corn
tree on the banks of the Neuse, in New
Light township, Wake county n. c., that
is eleven feet to the first silk, twenty
eight and one-half feet in length, and the
same that a two hundred and twenty-five
pound man climbed FIVE feet without its
yielding, has been purchased by Messrs.
Williamson and Upchurch, and will be
exhibited by them at the state fair.
THE Norfolk (Va) Ledger says the
speculation of the United States in in
vesting 100000 in the Dismal Swamp
canal has resulted is obtaining $136, 900
in cash dividends, in an increase of its
interest in an enlarged and improved
work from tgo-fifths of 1886, 900 to two
fifths of 81 800, 600 in other words from
nearly 5000, 900 to nearly 5000, 600, be-
sides the incidental savings for its naval
supplies.
The Nashville American states that
within the past N 0nth one hundred car
loads of Tennessee and Kentucky wheat
have been sent through Nashville to
Charleston for the Liverpool market.
One cargo of 700 bushels of this wheat
is now in transit via an ocean steamer.
The steamship Mexican, now at Port
Royal, will convey $500 barrels of -four,
and this shipment is being made up from
Nashville.
COLUMBUS (Ga.) Enquier: . Green
sank mari has been found in Houston
county, near Perry, the layer of which is
two feet thick, and doubtless extends 4
through the county. This is the first |
discovered in Georgia, and is reported
equal, if not superior, to the celebrated
New Jersey green sand. 1t contains very
little if any lime, and is far superior to
the calcariOus marls as manure. The
green color is due toa silicate of iron and
potash. 1t is a first class manure and
splendid for grass crops.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Charleston I
Is. c. News and Courier writes from
Georges: / was accosted by colored 4
man, who desired me to tell him some
thing about Liberia. Said he, - have .
been informed that potatoes grow there I
to such an enomOus size that single one
will more than supply the want OF large
family for whole day. And all you
have to do" he continued, speaking
very earnestly, "when you are in need
of sugar, or syrup, is simply to bore a
gimlet hole in tree and apply your
vessel, and in a short time it Will be
FULL / was about to reply
but he interrupted me by adding that
he had also been told that certain trees
produce bacon, and fires were almost un-
known, the heat of the sun being suff
cient for cooking purposes"
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-09-14
General Notes.

The American association for the
advancement of science wa' in annual
session at Nashville, Tenn, last week.
that did the shooting in Baltimore at the
commencement of the railroad strike has
disbanded.
THE return of the Sioux chief Sitting
Bull TO the soil of the United States Is
announced. He is encamped south OF
the British line with 300 warriors.
IN the list OF states to which patents
have been issued during the year, New
York leads. To individuals in the state
3,914 patents were issued. Pennsylvania
is next, 1895. The lowest is New Mexi-
leo, /.
THE new Edison telephone was tested
recently at the western union building in
New York, at the extraordinary distance
OF two hundred and forty miles The
wire used was loop to Hartford, Conn,
aud back, over which music was trans
mitted distinctly.
y SERVANT of Dubuque, Iowa, has
confessed to her mistress that there exists
in the town ring" of domestics. each
one OF whom is pledged to bring from her
employer a certain amount of provisions
each week for the support of the girls
who may be out of employment.
CHIEF JOSEPH appears to not be too
much hurried on his retreat to kill a few
miners now and then. On the 24th of
August his band killed seven men of
Helena (Montana) party and took two
women and one man prisoners. On the
oath they killed nine men all but one in
the party.
MOTHER NATURE, SAYS the Boston
Herald has this season done her perfect
work. The soil has brought forth its
fruits in abundance, and every branch
of industry is likely soon to feel the be-
ginning influence of the remarkable in
crease OF our production of cotton.
wheat, corn, tobacco and meat.
WOMEN are coming to the front in
Illinois. Three counties have women
for superintendants of public instruction.
Miss Raymond is superintendent of the
Bloomington public schools, and Miss
Georgiana Trotter is a nember of a pros
porous lumber dealing firm and a mem
Der of the board of education, in Bloom
ington.
THE catalogue of the Pennsylvsnia
State college, near Bellefonte. gives a
faculty of twelve members, with four
superintendents of the collage, central.
eastern and western far2ls. There is an
infantry battalion and IL IRE are one hun
dred and ffty-seven students of whom
ninety are in the preparatory department.
and one hundred and thirty-seven belong |
to Pennsylvania
Now that the Russians and the Turks |
are lighting each other, it may be inter
estlng to know what kind of creature |
a Turkish soldier IS. As a rule he is tall
and souarely built. PHYSICALLY, many
of them are very handsome ; hardly any
are brutal in lock or disposition. They
can both read and write, and thera are
10 better soldiers. If beaten in war il
will not be their fault. They eat no
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-09-14
DO NOT FACE THE LIGHT WHEY At
UObK

Statistics kept by oculists employed in
infrmaries for eye diseases have shown
that the habit of some persons in facing
window from which the light falls d.
rectly in the eyes as well as on the work,
injure their eyes in the end. The best
way is to work with a side light or, if
the work needs strong illumination, so
that it is necessary to have the working
table before the window, the lower por-
tion of the latter should be covered with
a screen, so as to have top light alone,
which does not shine in the ewes when
the head is slightly bent over and down
ward toward the work
In the schools in Germany this matter
has already been attended 10 and the rule
adopted to have all the seats and tables
so arranged that the pupils never face
the windows, but only have the side
lights from the left and as light sim.
ultaneou-ly thrown from two sides gives
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-09-14
Scfence a,,d Industru.

THERE was recently quarried, without
the use of powder, at the Barre, Mass.
granite quarries, block weighing over
6lS tons, being 40 feet long, II high and
10 thick.
THERE are some establishments in New
Jersey devoted to the production of win
dow-glass. The capital invested is about
SO, 900 600, while the annual production
OF that state is between 100000 and
10000 boxes OF various qualities and
sizes of glass.
INVESTIGATION by Professor Marklyn
and Mr.. Cooper, would seem to place
rye before wheat in the scale of nutrition.
They pronounce it one third richer than
wheat. Rye is especially rich in gluten.
This corresponds with the generally re-
ceived idea of farmers. In Pennsylvania
rye has so long been considered one of the
most valuable cereals as food for horses,
and in Europe it is held in high estima>
tion for bread. 1t winters easily and
thrives on comparatively poor soil.
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an interference of shadows, it has been
strictly forbidden to Luild school rooms
with windows on both sides, such illu-
mlnation having also proved injurious to
tho eyes of the pupils.
We may add to this the advice not to
place the elampin front of you whena work
in the evening, but little on one side +;
and never to neglect the use of a shade,
50 as to prevent the strong light shining
in the eyes. This is especially to be con-
sidered at the present time, when kero-
sene lamps with their intensely lumin-
ou4 flames, become more and more COM
mon.-Aledical Journal
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-09-14
Commercial Notes.

ONE msnufactery of silverware in this
country has the credit of working up
more silver than all similar manufac-
tories in the United Kingdom of Great
Britain.
TIE British trade returns, Just pub
7Iished, shows that the total value of i'm
ports into the United Kingdom during
the last year was -E37j, $50, 90, being az
increase of e, 200, 900 overNJ5. r.,
total exports were s2sdfe-.r -, ,..sing
decrease of s24, 500
the previous year. Ssu'c1'oh uAuer -
ONE of the sip--7--7-es- They should
eagerness vitt-'efore Police or Circuit
and shoe M
in in the tbeir T4fe goI I6.ey, in the Clinton Dem
fairly. Ameance column, says, the
and there is 6eiug brought iuto disre-
ing the ChlEt violations, and that IN
\ i1l'iIca. TsiI e. where it has been repeal
and ri tbe w VYsst We become disgusted with
hands Of Amerient and no fault Of the
steamers are con
a triumph OIL
ships and in the NJ gixs. bis. county l n.'a
THE city of Paterson, \. J., is notable
only for its immense silk factories. The
capital invested is about $4,000, 900, and
the number of pc ersOns employed Is nearly
1000. The N; lufacturing capacity of
the mills is over 81, 100000 annually.
The wages of the employees last year
amounted TO more than 8, 600 600
This business Is now at standstill,
owing TO q strike.
THE importatiOns of sugar this sum-
mer are immense. and tn. expectations
small. In eleven months the importa-
tions have been 1929. 544,0 OBS pounds,
against ! 233, 900, III pounds in the cor
responding period last year, and they
have been made at five cents a pound, So
against four cents last year. The exports
has been about 36, ,O00, 900 Sunds Last
year in the same period it Sas st, ,O0O, 600
pCunds.
a SLIGHT advance in the stocks of the
railways the most heavily afflicted by
the strikes, and in the midst of the worst
of the strike, shows a money-confidence
in the roads which must have seriously
disappointed the financial sympathizers
with the strikers
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FzssIse rHr END or THE SEA T.


hsas morning cl, ar in the new born year,
=, hen the frost vas holding reyel;
he church heii's call, from ne bsliries TAIL
Fealet forth Ger the town so Level.
Then the people drest in their extra best
Went TO ehurchjln this sabbath morning
With thoughts fully bent on pious conteut,
md the spirits meek sdorRipg.
The church doors wide, for the coming tide,
sald alaintF words could say,
Il ou'Te welcome all whD hear TINS call,
Some-Sership Ia here to-day"
he coming thrdng, as they press along,
Feel the Joy ofthe sacred place.
III down the aisle they walk erewhile
And seaeeh wiyB wisiful face
And search sgain mid the selfish train
sIss. DO S,..v have taken the end Of each seat
, Unless you vault over our feet.''
Nii you iasSe the church, be left in the Iurch,
= try the gantlet.Of thorns;
3reasi' over ~ feet t. get in the at
AID crush their nuniberless cornsf
y you are slim, your sails In Trim,
Your success may be completes
But, il you are large, Ills desperate charge,
The attempt 10 gst into the seat.
n "A terrible plight, to be fastened tight,
- i-s7se izliaspe ones l,enEsst 49,
Aze-inore lunee, one vauiting plunge,
At last you've surely done It.
One good you get of this needless fret
And You know revenge Is sweet
You've battered the nose aud crushed the toes
OF the one in the end Of the seat.
But should there come more timid one
" no shrinks sIch notice te meet.
Ora stranger attend, then Heaven defend
From the one III the end Of the seat.
o what is the reason that every season
These folks with stup0r replete
VIII compel such search for a seat in church
While they sit in the end of the se2t2