Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1878-07-19
FROM WASHINGTON.


WASHINGTON, D. G. July l6, 1873.
Our Thermometers have been climbing up
so high of late that one begins to think they
have exhausted all attitudes and are now send
ing down such blasts of swelering heat as to
rouse suspicion that this is an installment Of
that perennially hot climate which gives such
great concern to Bob Ingersoll and the clergy.
| It's hot as blazes here, and our whole popula-
! ton seek the country, excursion parties down
the river, and our beautiful parks TO escape
the suns swelterng rays.
! Our daily Post is sued for libel. This paper
under 1aring headlines recently announced a
painful and very embarrassing scandal occur
ring in certain Methodist church Of this city,
the parties thereto being one "Britt, book
binder" and Miss Julia A. Simmons "whose
tender heart was throbbing with dreams of
heaven and husband, and whose yonng girl
ish nature felt it necessary to cling to some
strong pillar which promised protection in
her pilgrimage to piety and paradise, &C., all
of which appears by the petition asking dam
ages to be nadulterated fiction, the parties be-
ing total strangers TO each other, &c. 1t is
doubtless interesting to the Post to contem-
plate the notoriety of one suit oy Miss Simmons
claiming damagest at $40, 200, and another by
Brother Bitt' for an equal amount. Had its
item referred to Julia, not Julia A., it would
have escaped suit.
There seems to be an unusual emulation
among discharged clerks employees and the
like to prefer serious charges against their
superior officer, bringing on the inevitable in
vesigations of which the season is so prolific.
For some time past our Columbia Hospital, a
Congressional pet, has been the stage of grave
inquiry into certain serious charges of brutal
ity to the inmates on the part of DR.. Murphy,
the physician in charge, preferred by dis
charged nurse. Not only has the evidence
failed TO sustain the allegations, but the COM
plainant has ingloriousy failed to appear to
sustain them, and our public mind is relieved
from the indignation excited at the supposed
cruelties and wrongs done to the helpless
Our defunct Board of Health, which Con-
gress wiped out OF existence by the new Dis
trict government charter, gracefully submitted
recently to the inevitable by holding a final
meeting al which each member alluded TO the
work accomplished during the seven years the
Board has been in power. No ono who has
noticed the summary manner by which health
nuisances have been abated, typhoid and
small pox have been stamped out, and the
sanitary reforms effected among our ignorant
colored and white people through our Board
OF Health can, now that il is gone, refrain
from commenting its labors, aud from hoping
that its good works may be continued by the
Health officer who succeeds it.
The President has pardoned Charles Good
man who was sent from here to the peniten-
tiary for shooting Lem Weeden, thus ends
rather exciting fued. These two worthless had
been warm friends in the fast circle in which
they moved, but between a bad woman and
worse whiskey they became deadly fighting
enemies, and for several years our police re-
ports chronicled constant series of assaults
upon each other. First one would perforate
the other with bullet, and the wounded man
upon recovering would give Roland for the
Oliver he got, and as consequence. the doc
tor, police aud the prison authorities have had
constant charge of the fellows Both, how
ever, have become reconcled friends, and the
Presidents pardon of Goodman, we trust,
takes both out Of public notice by terminate
ing their jail-bird career Our roughs in their
brawls rarely oblge US by fatal shooting We
could well spare many of them and we regret
their undoubed longevity for evil.
Mr.. Hayes has removed to Soldiers Home,
where the administration will remain during
the summer. Nature and art have done so
much for Soldiers Home that no more fitting
place for rusticntion by the President can be
found in the country. Martin Van Buren,
spent much of his summers in Alexandria
county, Va, al the house Of friend named
Brown, distant about three miles Fl ON George
town. Since the war Caleb Cushing pur-
chased the Brown residence for summer
home, but has recently sold it.
DEMocRITEs.