Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1879-01-17
THE SIL YER LINING.

For the past FIVE or six years the black pail
Of distress has hung over the business pros
perity Of our country TO an extent never
before witnessed iu its an nails. Every mate
rial enterprise has su fferei, every hear.hstone
has felt it's blightening and whitening effect
but the indications encourage the belief that
the clouds are breaking and the silver lining
Is once again becoming discernible.
Resumption has become fixed fact, and
that without disturbing our financial equi-
iibium, confidence seems to be gaining foot
bold and business men feel that they are stand
ing upon q su bstantial basis.
Farmers as well as the bond-holders will
receive gold or its equivalent for Their produce,
and labor will be regulated according to the
prices received for their marketable merchan-
disc. Gilded dishonesty is no longer at a
premium, and the thousands Of stock-gam-
blers, shoddy contractors and spectators can
not retard the operations of trade, control the
markets or pronounce DEGREES as to the value
of property.
Extravaganza in living and dress, which
fourished 10 the palmy days of ''the Repub-
lican Court" when -FOUR Babcocks and Bel
knaps were the splendid lights of social life at
the Federal Metropolis has had to give way
under the pressure of hard times and close in
vestigation of a Democratic House. The
mania for speculation is over and the days Of
'big bonanzas'' are numbered with the past.
Real Estate in our Metropolitan cities has let fly
.'fancy prices and is fast sinking to its true
value. Capitalists are fleeing from the fury Of
the storm, and must and will seek safe and
permanent investment 10 the rural districts.
As a consequence, our manufactures will
quietly open up, our streams will set in mo-
ton countless numbers Of silent spindles, the
vast surplus of dormant labor, which crowds
our cities aud sea-board towns or tramping
through the country in search of work, Will
find remunerative employment.
The New York Journal Of Commerce, the
most influential and reliable merchaniile jour
nal Of the country, in alludiug to our financial
condition, says, 1.-THE year 1878 closes with
gold at par and with a decidedly favorable
outlook for the maintenance Of specie pay
ments. The crops, both of cereals and
cotton and other staples, have been so greatly
10 excess Of former years as largely 10 reduce
the expense of living, and though the liquida-
tions during the year have been heavy and at
tended with individual distress, the mercan, title
interest which survive are on a more solid
basis, and with confidence in the future and
indomitable perseverance chsract eristic Of our
people, we may expect soon TO realize the
frnition Of our foudest hopes"
Adopting this very favorable and encourag-
ing view Of our affairs as given us by those
who have made our financial, mercantile and
industrial interests a study and speciality,
we may congratulate ourselves that better
times are coming, the clouds are drifting away,
and as the busy hum of industry souuds
throughout the length and breadth OF the
land cheerful faces will greet us aud the sun
shine of prosperity will gladden. our hearts
q blessing devoutly to be wished for.
TIE AMERICAN TRAMP ABROAD.
Recent foreign news is TO the effect that this
huge tramp Is doing Ireland up. He has Wis
tied Dublin and had extended to him the hos
FATALITIES Of the city. He is under the special
care and guidance of General Noyes, who, 1t
will be remembered, figured SO conspicuously
in the steal OF the Florida electoral vote, and
for which he has been rewarded by his Fraud
ulency with the mission of United States Min
lister to France.
To the close observer or to those who watch
with any degree of interest the movements
now being made upon the great chess board,
II is not hard 10 discover why the diplomatic
agents Of the present administration are toai.
ing, and have been fo- the past three months
General Grant around the European courts
soliciting interviews aud public demonstra-
tions.
Weknow thai II has grown to be a maxim
that the American people are easily duped,
but Il can't be said that after being once fool
ed they bite again soon at the same bait -
And when General Grant shall have retired
from the gaudy splendor of foreign courts aud
licau people this reflected light will soon be-
come furnished under the blaze Of Republican
institutions and the whitening criticism of a
free and antrammeied press.
When General Grant comes before the peo-
pie for another election he will not be fresh
from victorious battle fields, but he must stand
upon his record of eight years as the Execu-
live Of this nation, bis capacity as statesman,
bis ability to be Of service.
There Is third-siory room in the state
house, a, New Orleans, which will figure in
the history of the great Presidential fraud
when that record Of iniqnity comes 10 he
written up for future generations TO blush at.
II was 10 that room, under the care Of Kel-
loggs man Kelly, and Kellogg's private Sec
re,ary. Conquest Clarke, that D. P. Blanchard,
one Of Kellogg's clerks, forged the names Of