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, 1878-07-06

A barge with two thousand
beehlves aboard is afoat in the
Mississippi, and is. to be moved
up and down the river during
the season, so as to be all the
time in the midst Of flowers.
The bees will thus be kept con-
tinually within the reach of the
best material for honey.
, 1878-07-06
Eastern Washington.

Hon. Edward Eldridge writes
from Walla Walla to the B. 3. Mail:
This portion of the Territory is
rapidly filing up, and to-day forms
marked contrast to what it was
twenty years ago. At that time,
where there was nothing but an
open prairie, without tree in sight,
now stands the city of Walla Walla.
with beautiful avenues, where locust
and poplars upwa, ds Of hundred
feet in height completely shade the
city. No portion of the continent
can compete with this in the pros
duction of wheat, and whenever
direct route is opened between Pu-
get Sound and Eastern Washington,
50 that every farmer can feel assured
of having his grain conveyed to a
market, the growth of Washington
Territory in wealth and population
will be equal to that of any State in
the Union. Nothing is of such ma
terial interest to even the remotest
localities of the Territory as the con-
struction of a railway across the
Cascade Mountains. It is estimated
that with an average crop there will
be two million bushels of wheat
raised in this Territory east of the
mountains this year. nearly all of
which will be for expectation. This
amount will continue increasing for
the next fifty years. Whenever a
road direct to the Sound is put in
operation. at least one-half OF all the
products of the eastern portion of
the Territory will pass over said
road, no matter how great the i'm
provements on the Columbia river
may be. This will put money in
circulation on the Sound, stimulate
ship building, open a new market
for lumber, coal, iron and lime, all
of which articles are required to a
great extent in Eastern Washington.
No two regions in any part of the
world Can SO materially contribute
to the welfare of each other as East
ern and Western Washington. Each
/ one has to an unlimited extent what
the other requires-the two together
make perfect whole"
, 1878-07-06

Buy your Sewing Machines OF Il.
G. Graves. Agent for the celebrated
Wilson Machine. the best in the
market, and the lowest in price.
Every one guaranteed for five years.
All kinds of sewing machines re-
paired. m29.tf
, 1878-07-06

them, he would appoint them immedi-
ately and as speedily as possible make
terms with the Indians, allowing white
people to enter the Hills. The session
was drawing to a close. During the
last hours at midnight a conference
committee upon an appropriation bill
was in session. Kidder hurried to and
fro through the capitol with an amends
ment in, lis hand to go into this appro-
priat;on bill. He found the committee
just as they we're ready to report. and
tired as they were the good nature of
the judge proved successful in getting
their consent to put in his amendment.
1t authorized the president to appoint
commissioners to visit the Black Hills
and negotiate with the Indians. and
made an appropriation therefor.
The bill was Immediately reported to
the Senate and House and passed, and
probably no one but those III the COM
mittee knew IF the amendment being in
there which las been fruitful Of such
vast results
A Skeleton Inside Of a Horse.
A miner in the Black Hills, writing
to friend in this city. tells horrible
reminder of the Fearful snowstorms of
last winter and the perils of these who
were caught ont and lost their way on
the plains. He says recently, while he
and two others we're crossing the coun-
try, they came upon the skeleton of
horse. within which was the skeleton of
man, with the grinning skull looking
out at them between the ribs Of the an
imal, like a prisoner looking through
the bars Of his cell. The two skeletons
told the whole story. The man had
killed his horse. cut him open and
crawled inside of him, but the flesh of
the animal frcze solid, and the man
was now as much of prisoner as if he
had been shut in by walls of iron. The
wolves and carrion birds had stripped
the greater part of the flesh from both
skeletons. The miner concludes his
description by saying: ut was sight
shall never forget. cen see it now
whenever close my eyes. - Virginia
Cii,, EDfernriss
, 1878-07-06

In the first place old Mr.. Wash
ington never left his hatchets around
loose, and so Young George corld
not have found one. If there were
no hatchets to find the very fact
proves the absence of falsehood.
And in the second place no one can
prove that there were any cherry
trees on the old mans land. And
in the third place such thing as u
lie was not known in those days.
, 1878-07-06

A NEW CHURN.-A certain
Clarke county farmer, says the
Vancouver Independent, on a GER
tam stream, not long since
placed a pail of cream in a Gov
cred spring, to keep cool for the
mornings churning. The good
lady Of the house went in the
course of her mornings work
to get her cream for the churn-
ing, but found that the cream
had totally disappeared, and in
its place was a pail of butter
milk, floating in it big chunk
Of butter and a big frog CON-
placently seated thereon. Her
astosishment was only cquallcd
by her disgust, but it did not
take her long to conclude that
the churning was accomplished
by the motions of the frog 5
legs IN his efforts to escape tiom
the pail.
, 1878-07-06
BEEcHER's SERMON ON DEATH.


The NY. Times says Beecher
preached on DEATH" and his
entire sermon was in opposition
20 the idea that there was any
thing horrible about dying, so
far as its physical aspect is con-
cerned. All our melancholy and
horrible ideas Of death are OF
heather origin. Beecher then
read Bryant's "Thanatopsis, !"
which he said was among the
best specimens of exalted and
beautiful heathenism, the sweet
est pagan song ever sung. He
made comparison of Christian
sentiments with Bryant's pa
gan song" by reading several
passages of the Scripture bear
ing upon the subject of death.
After which he continued in
substance as follows: All this
dark and gloomy literature about
death is unscriptural and the
whole paraphernalia Of gloom is
pagan. Why should we darken
our houses when the gate of
heaven opens to = saint? Was
not the death Of Christ the de-
struction of death and the illu-
mination of the tomb? The
consultations of religion ought to
be stronger than our grief at
death, even Of our loved ones.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1878-08-16
ECONOMY AND COMFORT!
T-AYLOR'S
ELASTIC SEQ HuTTgmr

1--WE subscribers having bought the rirh,
a Tor this valuable patent article for mis-
county are now prepared 10 manufacture ana
furnish them on very reasonable terms.
THE PATENT BED BOTTOM Is SO con.
sirucied as 10 combine lighiness, strength and
durability, and is pronounced by all who
have seen II TO be superior TO any Spring Bed
yet introduced.
a iall description Il deemed unnecessary, as
Il can be seen az all times al the Warerooms
Of W. X. PUMPHREY, in Rockville, or al
kLElNDlENST'S HOTEL, 10 the same place.
i will be placed on the bedsieads Of persons
desiring 10 purchase, aud can be made 10 e.
all sizes Of bedsioads
The public are cordially invited 10 call and
oxaialne he above article.
W.R. HUMPHREY,
p. s. KLEiNDIENST,
iep 22- v Rockville Nd.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1878-08-16
RATES OF ADMISSION.

Commates-F A Tschitfely W m II Farquhar
Mrs John II Gassaway and Mrs Asa NJ Stablor
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1878-08-16

TINE SUBSCRIBER having been In the
i LIVERY AND HIRING BUSINESS
for the past nine years, would respectfully re-
turn bis thanks TO the public for the generous
patronage heretofore extended 20 him. he
can still be found nj bis old stand, at Tie East
Side Of Court lionse Square, prepared 10 hire
SADDLE HORSES, HORSES AND RUG
GiES, CARRIAGES, &c.
He has enlarged his stable, and added many
new aud stylish iourn-outs, which be will
furnish At ioU price,.
STAGES furnished for piC-NlCS aud other
parties, and persons sent 10 any part Of the
county.
1zo- BY keeping gentle horses and careful
drivers, be hopes 10 merit contiuunuco OF
public patronage.
llle Ally wv. II. Rabbit.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1878-08-16

aPlo-iy Fountain Green, Harfordc.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1878-08-16

Persons on foot or in carriages. 25 cents
tickets for the Fair, rs cents; Children 10
years of age and under, free. Carriage, one
horse, % cenis Carriage aud horses, so cents
saddle horse, % cents. Attendants in charge
OF each separate class Of stock win be ad
United free.
Tickets must be procured from the Agents
or Ticket Offices OF the Society, outside Of the
grounds, as no money will be received at the
gates. JOHN II GASSAWAY,
W. v. BoUIc, Jr., President.
Secretary.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1878-08-16
nxCoIsiO1. PI11aap
Al shortnotice.

. sHVTI hOIlre.
Always on hand all kinds of Pump Fix
lures, of the very best quality.
Common Wooden Pumps mad e IN the prem
lses where they are TO be placed, when desir-
ed, at 80 cents a foot
AllPumps constructed by the subscriber
are warranted for one year. After the first
year, they will be kept in order bv him. for
ten years, for the moderate sum ofSl pr year
All Pumps put in and not proving satisfac-
toryj viii be taken out aud the money re-
funded.
orders by mail, or In person, attended to
win ptomptnessi and at moderate prices.
~ For anyfurther information, applyto
NJ. B1kRs, Montgomery House, Rockville,
Maryland.
WIN. OLDFIELD,
PuNr MAKER,
apl9-iy Fountain Green. Harfordc.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1878-08-16
g. UNDERTAKING.

5rE0- am also prepared to attend to any
calls ia this line OF business, on short notice
and reasonable terms.
SHOP In BroOkoville, at The terminus Of
the Washington and Btookcyille turnpike
dec p #
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1878-08-16
w a S h i n g ton. d. G.

MEMS BROGANS, 81, 1 %, 1 so;
Mems Plow Shoes, 81 rs, l so, 1 rs;
Fine Caters, 81 25 to Sc;
Kip and Stout Boots, 81 so to S.;
Fine Calf Boots, So to So,
Ladies' Shoes, rs cents to S.;
Boys and Mems, Is cents to So;
Children's Shoes, 10 cents to So.
Rubber Boots and Shoes all sizes.
Esp. S.-To dealers liberal discount.
mar 8-y
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1878-08-16
HAMS.
CULINARY DEPARTMENT.
CLASS FIRST.

Committee Montgomery Blair, Mrs E .
Hall, Mrs John R Dawson, Mrs r NJ Mackal
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1878-08-16
THE BEST DRILL.

40 - ~ uM9 ~ A. Has
THE KELLER Grain, Seed and Fertili-
A zing DRILL, the best without doubt,
and Drill without a fault The most per.
feet Fertilizing distributor in use, 10 which
thousands OF Farmers will testify who have
used 1t. Eight hundred of these Drills were
sold in the season OF 1873 and $50 short of
filling orders.
The Keller can be seen all the prominent
points on the principal lines of railroad Our
Agents will take pleasure in showing Farm
ers the important advantages this Drill has
over all others aud give all the necessary in
formation wanted
This Drill needs no praise, as il has estab-
llshed its reputation by its own merits and
every Drill is branded THE BEST, being pro-
nounced 50 by all who use them For infor-
motion, apply or address
STEWART & PRICE,
General Agents, Frederick, Md.
| sep lily
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1878-08-16
OLDFEE LIDS

E X C @ / sior p IL m %.
TINE undersigned has now on hand about
i 10, 1000 feet of White Oak Pump Stock.
which has been in soak in Spring water
suthclent length of time to free ii from sap
Any Pump constructed of this stock is guar
anteed not to give an unpleasant taste to Oh
water His arrangements for preparing PUN
Stock In the above manner are most ampl
nd complete, and he will always be prepar
TO put up the
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-27
GREAT JACKSON ROUTE.
THE QUICKEST TIME EAST.

This line Is now making the quickest time
to New York ever known, leaving New Or
leans daily at 5 As p. m. and arriving at New
York at 35 a. m. Allowing for the difference
in time between the two cities, the run is
made in the unprecedented time of fifty-nine
and three quarter hours. This quick time
is made only by the Great Jackson route,
and is the result of its enterprise in rebuild
ing it's track at great expense with steel rails.
Only one change of cars, which is made at
Columbus, o., where breakfast is taken in the
splendid dining hall at that place at a. M
This route also makes the quickest time to
Boston, arriving at 40 p. m. Actual running
time, sixty-seven and one-half hours. The
time to all intermediate points is correspond
best route to all the Northern and Eastern cities.
Excursion tickets to Waukesha, OconomO-
VOC and all the Northwestern summer re-
Sorts to Niagara Falls, Put-in-Bay, ETC., are
time made by any line, and only one change
Of cars.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-27
NEW ORLEANS, july ~, 1875.
WEEKLY DEMOCRAT.

We call the special attention OF our BUSH
ness community to the excellence Of the
WEEKLY DEMOCRAT as an advertising medi-
un. The circulation of the WEEKLY DEMO
Graf throughout Louisiana, Arkansas, Mis-
sissippi Alabama, Georgia and Texas is
second TO that of no other paper In the
Southwest. It contains the latest news from
all political and commercial centres and the
best selection of reading matter, Send In
your orders early
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-27

OF these gentlemen distinctly avow that no
promises or agreements were made on ac-
count OF any considerations or concessions on
either side. The men who spoke for Hayes
simply gave the friends of the Nichols gov
eminent assurances of facts Of which the
latter were ignorant, and these assurances
being given, the Southern members of Con-
gress agreed among themselves not to rebel
against the party caucus, but to abide by its
conclusions, already reached and formally an
nounced. 1t must be remembered that this
conference was held after the Democratic
CAUCUS had agreed not to oppose the electoral
count. II there had been any cowardice or
bargaining to the disadvantages of Tilden and
the Democratic party 1t had transpired before
this conference met All that the parties to
the conference consented to do was to stand
by what had already been agreed to, after
certain assurances had been made them in
regard to facts in existence before the con-
ference had been called viz: the attitude
Hayes proposed to assume towards the South
AS Major Burke said to Hewitt in the CONVEX
satiOn recited in his testimony" now that the
Democrats had betrayed Louisiana by their
action in allowing the electoral count to go on,
without some understanding or guarantee
the only thing left for her was to trade or
fight, and Ii it came to fight 1t would plunge
the country into bloodshed." AS soon as
Louisiana showed her teeth, and her friends
refused to accede to the surrender made by
the Democratic caucus, she got the assur-
ances and guarantees she wanted and which
had not entered into the unconditional back
down Of the Northern Democrats.
Having obtained these, the Southern men,
bers declined any longer, on their own respon-
sibility, to force conflict which their North
ern allies had declined, and in which they
would most likely have been deserted at the
end.
This was all of it, and II there is any dis
honest bargaining, any treachery or coward
ice on our part, we fail to see it. The evil
dence Is that the Southern Democrats did
show fight until the assurances they demand
ed were given-that they refused to be parties
to the unconditional surrender and thus allow
Louisiana and South Carolina to be made
scapegoats of in q national quarrel, and that
all these facts transpired after the Demo-
cratic caucus had agreed not to oppose the
electoral count, and that they had no bearing
on that transaction.
We hope, now, that we will have an end of
the SANDERS that the Southern Dem ocrats
sold out Tilden and the party for their own
aggraDdizement.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-27

An interesting communication from DR..
Austin, relative to the yellow fever, will be
found in another pI ace together with the tes-
timony taken relative to the introduction
here Of the disease by the steamship Emily
B. Souder.
So far there have been thirty-seven cases Of
the fever, including doubtful ones, and sew
enteen deaths. The fever has never yet
threatened to become epidemic, while yester-
day 1t seemed to be under the control of the
Board of Health and its progress checked.
The unusual notoriety given to the first
cases that appeared, with the threatened ice
famine and the extortionate increase in the
price of that commodity, seem to have pro-
voked premature apprehensions, and caused
regular panic.
We have no idea that we are on the eve Of
an epidemic. The Board of Health Is using
every means suggested by experience and de-
vised by science to exterminate the disease
and we believe it will.
After two o'clock yesterday and until late
last night the city was swept by pleasant,
healthful breeze which rendered it quite
pleasant. In a day or two the yellow fever
panic will have subsidized, and we will laugh at
the scare.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-27
WHAT NEXT?

The Washington Post punctureS a number
Of the falsehoods and misrepresentation in
regard to the Potter investigation, which such
papers as the Tribune and Inter Ocean have
been so industriously circulating in order to
bring that investigation into disrepute. The
first complaint of the Tribune was that the
Republican members Of the committee were
selected on account of their weakness and lack
of capacity To this the Post replies that
'tthe fact is that Messrs Reed, Hiscock and
Cox were selected by Republican conference
and the names handed to the Speaker by Mr..
Hale in his own handwriting. The anti-Hayes
Republicans were also allowed the selection
Of member, and their choice was Butler"
The committee further showed its COM
plaisanoe by allowing Sherman to be repre-
scented by counsel and by leaving it entirely
with the Republicans to decide whether its
sessions should be open or secret The Post
says the Republicans first decided to have Sc
cret sessions, but afterwards yielded to the
universal demand and opened the doors of the
committee-room. The next complaint was Of
the Republican representation on the SUBJ
committees. This was left entirely with
themselves. In proof Of this Cox, who declines
q denomination, came down mere 10 feleVe
Reed, who wants to go to Congress again, in
order to allow the latter to go home and attend
to his canvass,
The last and Ioudest howl, however, was
that no witnesses would be summoned but
such as were sure to testify to fraud, and that
the committee refused to open up the ques-
tion of intimidation. This charge has at last
been set at rest. Not single witness Sher-
man has asked for has been denied him, and
the most damaging testimony elected has
been from those summoned by him. Mr..
Stenger's letter put an end to the last COM
plant by informing John Ray he could go
into the question Of intimidation and could
summon all the witnesses on that subject he
wanted, which offer he declined on behalf Of
Sherman What the next complaint will be
no one can tell but we have no doubt that
there will be others forthcoming.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-27
THE WORMLEY CONFERENCE.

The testimony of Mr. Ellis and Major
Burke before the subcommittee, last We'd
nesday, in regard to the Wormley conference,
puts conclusively at rest the charges of dis
honest bargaining that had been made against
the parties to that historic confab. The evil
dence Of these gentlemen merely gives au-
thenticity to what has all along been as
serted and known or accepted as true
In regard to that conference. These gen
tlemen have repeatedly asserted that
there was nothing that occurred on
that occasion which they desired to suppress
nothing for which any Louisianian should
blush, no bargaining or trading, no promises
or concessions, which any honorable and con-
scientious man could not have entered into.
In fact the sworn statements of these gentle
men, who knew the history of the whole affair
from its inception, and who were instru-
mental in bringing it about, discloses no sim
gle fact which has not all along been known
to the public, or which has not been repeatedly
averred.
The upshot of the whole affair is, in few
words, that the Southern members of Con-
gress, with few Northern allies, were aware
Of the determination of the people Of Louisi-
ana to stand by the Nichols government, and
not to submit to the Packard usurpation with
out resistance, even If 1t involved bIoodshed
and open conflict with the Federal troops
Knowing this fact, they resolved, If there was
to be trouble, that it should be national
affair, and that Louisiana should not be let
as the scapegoat of a great iniquity. They
accordingly determined not to abide by the
IL 80
tered upon a course Of tilibustering to pre-
vent the electoral count. The friends
of Mr.. Hayes, becoming alarmed at
these manifestations, provoked a con-
ference with the Southern members, in
order to.satisfy them of Hayes pacific 1ispo-
sition and to disabuse them of the idea that
the article in the Ohio State Gazette correctly
stated his views or outlined his policy. Both
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-27

The Cincinnati Gazette can derive no COM
fort from studying the probabilities of the
next House of Representatives. It has
studied these statistics closely, and cannot
see how the Democrats can fail of success,
not only in securing majority in the House,
but In gaining as well majority of the States,
far different thing In the present Congress,
for instance, although the Democrats have q
good working majority, the State delegations
are tie-18 to IS, with two States, California
and Florida, tied. AS the House elects the
President, voting by States, in certain con-
tingencies, it Is Of great Importance to secure
majority of State delegations in the next
Congress. The Gazette sums it up that the
Democrats are certain of sixteen, and the Re-
publicans of only fifteen States. The doubt
full States are Connecticut, New Jersey and
Florida, almost certainly Democratic; New
York, In which the Republicans have only one
majority; Ohio, California, a tie, and Colorado
The Democrats have to secure only one of
these California, New York, Ohio or Colorado,
at least two of which, Ohio and California,
they are reasonably sure to control the cleo
ton of President by the House.
That they will gain one, If not more, OF
these States, there remains little doubt.
The Gasette. indeed, gives up this point. 1t
charges, moreover, that the Democrats, GER
tain of this success, are taking advantages OF
it toinsure Democratic President in 1880
Confident of Democratic control in the next
Congress, "they are postponing," says the
Gazette, land will continue to postpone all
legislation on the subject of the electoral
count; all laws needed to make the troubles
which threatened the nation at the last count
impossible in future" In other words, the
Gazette charges that the Democrats, knowing
that under the present laws they have COM
plete and entire control over the counting o.
the vote for President, refuse to change OF
alter these laws.
The Republicans have already officially
given up the Senate; the Gazette now moi
only gives the Democrats the House, but
practically declares that they will control the
election of President in 1880, much more
thoroughly than the Republicans did in 1876;
that they will. in fine, have the presidential
election wholly in their hands.