Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1879-11-21
Condensed Locals.

Condensed Locals.
On Tuesday evening last horse was
stolen from VIM. Taylor, near Clarksburg.
By reference to the table on our first page
it will be seen that change of time has been
made of several trains of the Metropolitan
railroad.
The French beet crop is reported failure,
but glance at the sunny spots on the streets
of Rockville convinces us that the American
crop is big one.
cartridges are reported as being very scarce
in Frederick county. In fact it is claimed
that there are two huntsmen to every par
fridge in the county.
The old Calvert case which has been in
litigation for forty years, was finally disposed
of on Friday last by Judge Lynch, of the
Circuit Court for thiscounty.
The typhoid fever is continuing its rava-
ges in the vicinity of Ellerton, Frederick co.
Twenty-Five members of ten families have
been Frustrated by its dread power.
We are in receipt of a letter signed "Sin-
cerity," with the request that it be published,
but as it is not accompanied by the name Of
the author, we are compelled to refuse Its
publication.
Candidates elected should notice the card
of f. B. Prettyman, notifying themth that their
commissions have been received at his Office.
A failure to comply vitiates the election I'M
less complied with within thirty days.
The trial of the case in the United States
Court, at Baltimore, of the Atlantic and Vir-
ginia Fertilizing Company against Edw. G.
Belt, of this county, was begun on Wednes-
day last. The case will continue probably
week.
The shipments of coal on the Chesapeake
and Ohio canal are now larger than for any
period during the year. There is hardly an
other month for shipments over this line,
and the companies are pushing forward all
the coal they can before freezing weather
The weather of spring time, which we
have had for the past few weeks, has been
oppressive, and we have heard of several
cases Of "spring fever" We hope it may
not prove an epidemic, as we have several
cases in this community which are evidently
Chronic.
We are requested to state that the Forest
Oak, b. B. c., will give minstrel perfor-
nance, at Garthersburg, soon for the purpose
of raising money to add to the fund for
the purchase of the monument to the confed-
crate dead. We hope there may be good
house.
The star-gaZers of this section were sadly
disappointed ON Friday morning of last
week after anxiously waiting the entire
night for the startling phenomenon which
was said by astronomers would take place
on Thursday night, to find that nothing
new in the heavens occurred.
Among the marriage licenses issued in
Washington, on Monday last, we find the
name of Marshall Steelean Dora L. Muir
ray. This is the same name as that of the
Young man recently shot and dangerously
wounded at Martinsburg, West Virginia,
the particulars of which we published at the
time. Having escaped the bullet he still has
the courage to try the halter.
Spencer c. Jones, Esq, of this count y,
elected clerk of the Court of Appeals, will
leave our place on December LIST to fill the
duties of that Office. Mr.. Jones carries with
him the best wishes of our people in his new
sphere Of usefulness, and all wish him hap
py and prosperous career. Mr.. Jones has
appointed James P. Bays of this place as a
clerk in his office. A good appointment.
At the early part of the present fall, @ go.
lmmick was placed in Jail here on the
charge of assaulting with an attempt to kill
one Rawins. A day or two ago he was
tried upon the charge, and convicted. On
Thursday last his paramour came to the Jail
where they were married. Soon as the GER
emony was over the bride and groom sepa-
rated with loving kiss, the former for her
home in Berry district, and the latter TO his
cell to await his departure for the peniten-
tary in a few days when he will receive his
sentence.
Rockville is certainly improving, and we
now have the pleasure of stating 10 people
outside of our limits that so great has been
the demand for town-lots that they have
been selling at four hundred dollars for a
quarter of an acre. In our neighboring town,
tiagerstown, a few weeks ago the citizens
of the place contributed 5000 to a party
who wished to establish wagon factory in
the place. Let us have little more public
spirit and enterprise and our town, situated
thousands of feet above tide-water with
none Of the miasma incident to such locali-
ties-with a population ever ready 10 well
come the stranger who may come into our
midst, we should have many coming 10 us
who feel it burden to live in over-crowded
cities and would, in place of paying out a
whole years salary for medicine, rather live
in our health giving town. Will not some
philosophical citizen offer piece Of land
10 any man or company who will guarantees
to put buildings on the same, and thus in.
crease the business and population of the
town.
On Saturday last we visited the farm o.
Mr. y. N. Jones, which is about eight miles
from this place, and partook of the hospital
ity Of him and his wife. Mr.. Jones is cult
waiting farm Of five hundred acres. Some
six or seven years ago when we visited THU
farm Mr. Jones was only cultivating a small
portion of it, the rest was grown over with
pines and sedge. Upon the last visit II wa
wonderful to discover what improvement
brains and tact had made in the place. II Il
all now covered with clover and has upor
it every convenience which a farmer needs
excepting a large barn Of modern style
This we were informed by Mr.. Jones he In
tended 10 erect in short time with timbe
from his own woods which is there in abun
dance and Of the best quality. The only
reason why he has not done this before wa
because there was no place 10 have log
sawed. A pen Of eighteen "Iocks" wer