Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1880-07-16
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Town and Country.


last Friday to Mr.. N. d. Offutt for seven
hundred dollars.
Every woman knows that beauty is not
lasting; but a little more can be put on when
the first coat fades.
Capt. John II. Russell, a native of this
place, has been ordered to temporary duty
as captain of the Washington navy-yard.
There was one man in Rockville this
week who did not say it was warm-hot-
suffocating-he was deaf and dumb how
ever.
Our City Dads " are about to investigate
the why's and wherefores of gasoline lamps.
If satisfactory will place them on our street
corners. Z.
The Washington Grove Camp Meeting
begins on the 18th proximo this year. Some
twenty families are now occupying cottages
there and are having quite a pleasant time
of it.
Mizpah Lodge, No IA, A. F. and A. NJ.
will attend the funeral Of the late Dr. J.
Wilson Magruder to-day; the members will
meet in their lodge room at 8 o'clock this
Friday morning.
Gov Cornell, of New York, has refused
to interfere in the case of Chastine Cox, the
murderer of Mrs. Hull last fall or winter,
who will. suffer the extreme penalty of the
law to-day by hanging
A match game of base ball was played on
Saturday last, between the Laytonsville and
Brookevile clubs and resulted in a victory
for the latter, the score standing: Brooke
vile "a, Laytonsville IA.
In to-days issue Of the SENTINEL will be
found the professional card of Messrs. Laird
~ Beall, attorneys at law. Business en-
trusted to them will receive prompt atten-
ton and we bespeak for them large and
lucrative patronage
Garfields letter of acceptance says that
the American citizens of African descent in
the Southern States must vote. Certainly
they must and will vote, and enough of
them too, to send him browsing about the
headwaters of salt river in November.
The dwelling house of Mr.. Addison Ray
near Gaithersburg, was struck by lightning
last week. For short time things were in
chaos about that house, some of the inmates
We're stunned, the top of chimney knocked
off, but fortunately the building did not take
fire
Tuesday can be set down as the hottest
day that has been experienced for many
years on the Atlantic coast: In Washing
ton its highest point was 1902 in the shade ;
Norfolk, 100; Cincinnati, 95; Baltimore
80; and PASSPORT, Me, the coolest place on
the coast, 81.
Quite large concourse of people assem-
bled at the Fair Grounds yesterday, upon
the occasion of the NJ. 4. Church South
reunion, but not in such numbers as had
been anticipated, several causes combining
to prevent many coming who would have
otherwise been present
Tuesday last was the hottest day of the
season, the thermometer ranging as high as
100 in the shade at 2:30 o'clock in the after
noon, having started at 80 at o'clock A.
NJ. During the day about the whole popu-
lationof Rockville called in and gave us the
startling information that ats warm
whewl This water fresh ?"
II. b. Polkinhorn, 632 Louisiana avenue,
next door to city postoffice, is one of the
most enterprising newsdealers in the city of
Washington. He keeps on hand all the
leading dailies, pictorials, magazines, fine
line of stationery, such as paper, envelopes
inks, etc, and excellent brands of tobacco
and cigars. If our readers desire anything
in his line they will do well to call or send
To him.
DIR. Tanner, the English idiot, who has
undertaken to fast forty days and forty
nights, will conclude his eighteenth day to-
day at noon, in New York This fellow
would make a famous tramp-he wouldn't
he bothering people for cold victuals The
proprietor of restaurant with an eye to
business, few days ago placarded the fol-
lowing in his windows DR. Tanner took
his last square meal here before beginning
his iastw
On Friday last Peter Lynch, of Wash.
ington, whose skull was fractured during a
family quarrel on the 9th instant, died. The
coroner's jury rendered the following verdict
"that the said Peter Lynch came to his death
from a fracture of the skull inflicted by the
blow Of a brick which the jury believe to
L.. h,f no. Ia a &.
James, or his wife, Catharine Lynch, on the
9th instant, during family quarrel" The
coroner. committed her for the action Of the
grand jury.
At II meeting of the Executive Commit.
tee of the Montgomery County Agricul-
turd Society on Monday last Mr. John A
Carter was elected chief marshal. and he
has since appointed the following named
gentlemen as aids and marshals the Aids
being A. J. Lea and w. II. Humphrey, and
Marshals, Granville Stabler, j. c. Bentley
VIM. Gilpin, +. Z. Hays. Thomas Thomp
son, Gustavus Jones. Jr. Frank Hallowell
H. II. Miller, Thomas Bailey. N. ID. Ofutt
Jr., Chas Veirs, z. l.. Dowden, J. J. Hut
ton-leaving one other marshal to be ap
pointed.
BY reference to our advertising columns
IL will be seen that the Rockville Academy
will enter upon IFS seventy year Sep
TENDER 9th, 1880, the term closing June Both
1881. II is useless for us to 60 into detail al
TO the great and good results accruing from
this institution. as the course ofstudy is full
and instruction thorough, no pupil NEED
leave its walls without good edneation--
sufficient at least TO enter at once upon I
collegiate course. To young men wlro ar
ondeayoring to educate themselves and Il
parents who haze boys TO school we can re
commend no better institution than the
Rockville Academy
At ameeting Of the Board of County Com
missioners held on Tuesday last, the key o
the office Of the School Board was returned