Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1878-04-19
gutal and gersonal,

Mrs. Dillehunt Mrs. Scott Dillehunt
ence at that place on Tuesday night last with
a tasteful programme of select readings-the
comic, pathetic and echo styles 1t is in her
comic readings, especially those of rural CO.
quetry, where she is most at home and makes
her best effect with her hearers. In these she
is more than interesting. Her natural grace
and coyness of manner and her bewildering
smiles and fine face make her representation of
the shy but willing country iassie an effort Of
great success. so did the "Sinack in School"
provoke great appreciation, whilst lovers of
Pickwickian humor were furnished with the
story of Gabriel Grub and the COLLINS p
Her pathetic selections are all rendered with a
great deal of feeling and intelligence, yet her
voice has not that rich fullEess and round
ness which should make pathos telling
Only once here did she equal her best en-
deavors, and that in the maiden Martyr"
The story is sad one and her plaintive voice
in the singing of ''To thee, 0 God, lift my
soul, )" which occurs in the tale, were given
the audience. Her elocution of the old favor
it's Poe's 'Bells" and Tenuyson's 'tBugle
Song" was artistic and merited great ap-
plause This style of peculiar rhythmic elocu-
tion seems perfectly fitted TO her voice, which
was displayed to a beautiful advantage in the
stanza of the mellow wedding bells and her
excellent mastery of the difficult echoes in the
bugle call.
We have seldom, if ever, heard more
bewitchiug and artistic reader than Mrs Ollie
hunt. Her voice is one of unusual strength,
not of compass, but of endurance-it never
flags and keeps all through the programme its
pureness and ringing clesrness.
Opening of the CanaI.-A George
town correspondence with the Baltimore Sun,
dated the 18th instant, contains the following
in relation to the opening of the business of
the CO O. canal:
"The Chesapeake and Ohio canal was open
to-day from Cumberland to Georgetown for the
first time since November 25th last, when the
ong-to-be-remembered freshet occurred The
engineers of the canal company, who have ex-
amined the entire length of the canal, express
the opinion that the canal is in better condi-
ton now than it has been for years While The
freshet did great damage and threw all the
boatmen out of employment until now il also
furnished work for one thousand men during
the entire winter and up TO this time in re-
pairing it. The first boats from this end left
yesterday, and to-day there was a great rush
to get away by the bOatmen, who have been
housed up ever since the freshet. The most
of the boats that left to-day were empty,
though four or five of then we're loaded with
fertilizers for farmers in Maryland. Boats
have been arriving for two or three days, the
arrivals so far being twelve with coal and FIVE
with grain. These have laid near Seneca
since the freshet, on the line of the canal
There are n number Of arrivals expected to-
morrow.
Great preparations have heen made along
the entire line Of the canal for a resumption
of business The general forward movement
will not take place before Monday, the 18th
instant, although there is large number Of
boats moving to-day at different points The
millers and merchants of Georgetown have
felt the effect of the stopping of the canal
very severely, and look forward with pleasure
to the resumption Of business Several Of
the mills in Georgetown are stopped for over
TWO months, on account Of the scarcity of
grain"