Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1880-04-23
gneal aud gersunal.
Town and Country.

CnaS. w browning, Oh DrOWningSVllle,
this county, offers hearse for sale at bar
gain.
Justices of the Peace and Coroners will
find a card to interest them among our new
advertisements
A. Williams has been appointed postmas-
ter at Jacksonville, this county, vice Nathan
w. Alnutt, resigned.
Mr.. j. w. Batchalor, aged 66 years, died
at his residence in the lower part of the
county, on Friday last.
= j. E. Kephart who was pronounced insane
by order of the Court was sent to the Mary
land Hospital at the county's expense on
Saturday last.
Rev. Father Foley, of st. Martins church,
Baltimore, was presented with a purse of
five hundred dollars by the members of his
congregation.
There will be instructions in st. Mary's
church, GAINESVILLE, by Jesuit Father
from the first Sunday in May to Ascension
Day inclusive.
Nine converts, six gentlemen and three
ladies, of the Tennallytown Baptist chuch,
were immersed in Rock Creek, at II o'clock,
last Sabbath forenoon.
On Wednesday last a monument to the
memory OF Jos. Gales, once editor of the
old National Intelligencer, was erected in
Congressional cemetery, Washington, D. c.
The Gaithersburg Carriage Factory offers
some rare inducements in its line. Those of
our readers who desire new or second
hand carriage should visit the works of this
company before purchasing elsewhere See
card in another column.
The State tax to be levied for this year is
49, cents on each 800, this to be the assessa-
BILE basis. Of this amount 81 cents is to the
defense or loan tax; l to the Deaf and Dumb
Asylum; Il to the treasury relief loan tax,
and 10 cents to the public school tax
Tomorrow, Saturday Messrs. James w.
and Thomas Anderson, will offer at Trus-
tees sale, in front of the court house, 900
acres Of land with improvements. Those in
terested in matters of this kind will read the
advertisement in another column and attend
tho sale.
A son of the widow John G. Myers, re-
siding in the neighborhood of the Mont
gomery Gold Mines, has deposited with us
several specimens Of rock in which Mica
and other minerals were largely predomi-
nant The officials at the gold mines say
that gold is alsocontained in these stones.
The first Quarterly Meeting for Rockville
next Saturday and Sunday at Brookeville
Rev. S. Rodgers, d. D., p. E., will preach
on Saturday at 1920 A. NJ. and Sunday at
II A. NJ Quarterly conference after preach
ing Saturday. Love-feast at $50 A. M
Sunday. DIR. Rodgers will preach at Me-
chanicsville at night.
If we would stop exchanging with the
Hart county (Ky) Democrat its editorials
would fall off terribly. For a long time, al
most weekly, we have observed our edito-
rails copied entire with no credit or allusion
whatever to the SENTINEL or the authorship
of the articles in question. If they were
nearer we might lend them the type and
save them extra labor of setting.
The school master who sat down on
bent pin got off bright thing, although
he momentarily regretted it, but the man
who purchases his harness, saddles, brides,
etc, of Mr. John NJ. Nichols, of German
town Station, never regrets it. This gentle
man is gaining an enviable notoriety in his
line of business. But this is easily explained
by the fact that he uses none but the best of
material and employs none but first-class
workmen. Read his advertisement and find
out how Money Made is Money Saved"
We are now more fully convinced than
ever before that our locals and poetry on
spring-time were decidedly premature. Ike
is threatened with "gallopin' consumption"
and like Rachel refuses to be comforted
Old Prob gave us lovely Sabbath, the fair
weather drawing the youth and beauty of
Rockville from their home seclusion TO the
different churches; Monday was rainy,
dismal day, making man feel about as So
ciable as a meat axe, and ladies were de-
spondent; Tuesday it allowed great guns"
in the morning, accompanied with an coca
sional shower, as though Old Sol was weep
ing over such strange contraricties. We hear
of a chap down street getting up, in his inn
aginaton, an opposition TO every known
business in Rockville, and we would here
kindly suggest the expcdiency of his trying
his hand on the weather clerk II can't
make it more changeabe, anyhow.