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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1880-03-19

In he Ci,cW Coarf Jor 1onigomery county.
ibis llih dny Of March, In The
" scar Of our Lord, 1880. by the suhscrib.
~, CLERK ~ iho Circuit Court Tor Nonigom-
cay county. that The sale 'Iado by Thomas An
defton aud james D. Henderson, Trustees IN
ihis cause. ~ Nicholas d O1iuii be ratified
aud confirmed unle,s cause 10 the contrary
thereof be- shown 0a or before ihe 1T dag Of
Apri next; Provided copy ~ this order be
inserted 10 some Newspaper printed aud pub
lislied in said Montgomery cOnniy, once In
snch ~ three spccessiyr weeks before said lat
dis 81 Apfil next
The Report ftsici ihe amount Of sale 10 be
$3.50 0u
n q. PRETTYMAK, Crk
Cif'ni Cont i0f Montgomery county.
True cop, -fesi
mar ~ - q q PRETTYMAN, CIR.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1880-03-19

Protracted Meeting "A protncted
meeting will commence at the Christian
&lurch, in Rockville, ON Sabbath next, the
Aiust Elder Fowler, OF Washington
I'M expected % preach every night
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1880-03-19
Attention Travellers.

TIVE subscriber hayiag secured The con-
Il tract carrying the mail between Rock
Villeand Dawsonsville, noiiiies the public that
qe will run STAGE between those points
DAILY leaving Rockville after the arrival ~
the Mail train 10 The morning Aad reaching
DawB0nsVille about ~ O'Clock. Leaving the
latter place will arrive al Rockville 10 tins
for the evening trains.
aaeis-if las. W. Roo
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1880-03-19
E1- | am Agent for the
ROWLAND CHILLED PLQM [

This Plow has gained such great rspu.s-
ton in so short time that all ! ask 10 uial.
The Pillow is guaranteed TO do good work or
money returned.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1880-03-19
ORDER MIsI.

10 The mnrirr Of The Petition OF John W. X.
ullHtl iur he benefit VI HE lnsolycnt laws
VI Maryland
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1880-03-19
SEEDS.

AND A LARGE SELECTED STOCK or
GARDEN SEED AND GARDEN
TOOLS
PLOWS, CULTIVATORS, &c.
300 One, 2, and s-Horse Minor and Horton
Plows; t
300 Farmers Friend Plows;
500 Double and Single Shovel Flows;
200 Wood and Iron Frame Cultivators;
100 Double and Single Harrows;
200 Tons Pillow Castings for all patterns Of
Plows;
500 Pairs Trace Chains;
1000 Back Bands;
300 Plow Ilames;
900 Horse aud Mule Collars;
1000 Pillow Lines;
200 Sets Double and Single Harness;
200 Kidding Saddles
500 Plow Brides;
1000 Cucumber Wood Pumps;
200 Coils (assoried sizes) Of Rope;
900 Well Buckets;
1000 Kegs Of Nails;
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1880-03-19
NEW MARBLE Ysssss.
The nudr,,rnrd viii npen - Marblc yard 10
ROCK VILE,
MjDUNINTS. tomb STDNES. Sill,
Sc &r BE-.

P.'ltrs r"nirinpin me the cftrli"p 81 -inu
~ IL" n"m"tA th'if 'ricndS wouiI i v,I
g. c.,l 80 " & lENfllEEi wbu,atl TO-
iof ~" 80 u 'ny dfdvu
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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1880-03-19

At first II blew
And then IL snew,
We thought we were gOncr,
But il changed 10 thew,
While we turned blue,
As We sat in our chimney corner.
II ia needless 10 say that Ike was very I'M
well afterwards but we gave him dose Of
10, Is, IA, and his genius is saved To the lit
erary world.
The Washington Post Of the 10Th inst, is
responsible for the following; Mr. John
Praul, a recent arrival from Leadylle, has
invented machine that walks. II is AN in
genious specimen of mechanical skill, and
is in the shape Of road and farm engine,
which depends for is means of locoinotion,
and main support even, ON four legs The
model was exhibited ON Monday last 10 a
number Of interested gentlemen. On being
set 10 work on floor II trotied around
tolcrably large room nj 240 gait The
purpose Of the invention, and ~ which IL
seems admirably adopted, IL 10 take the
place Of both horses and stationary engines
ON farms, IL being capable Of doing the plow-
ing, reaping. threshing and hauling 10 mar
ket, as they come round. The stiff looking
but vigorous movement of the mechanical
legs was strangely suggestive Of MyDheer
Won Clam, Of steam-leg fame
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-09-02
A Woman Preacher.

Mrs. Booth, the better-half of the
leader of the famous Salvation Army,
IS eclipsing her husbands reputation.
She has chosen the aristocratic West
End of London as her special field,
and is accomplishing, as a preacher
among wcll-bred folks. what her hus-
band is doing at the opposite pole of
society. The New York Euungeltst
contains this week correspondence in
high lautation of this woman as a
preacher. Whercat the editor ex-
claims "Now if this were merely the
careless and of-hand opinion of some
penny-a- liner, a strolling tourist in
search of novelties of all sorts, who
would go to hear woman preaching
as he would go to see a play at the
theater, it would not be worth much.
But fathers and brethren what shall
we say when he who writes thus is
himself Il grave minister of the gospel,
a Presbyterian of the straitest sect,
who i'll tue days of the division was a
pronounced Old-school man, and mod
orator of the general assembly, Yet
this is the dignified authority which
says Il have heard a great many prc;lch-
ers OF all denominations, all over the
United States, and l have heard a
great many in all sorts of churches in
London, and have heard Mrs. Booth
every Sabbath since she began in the
Test End-abOut a dozen or moro
timcs-I can freely say that for SIM
pie effectiveness, i'll the line and for the
end for which the preaching OF the
gospel was ordained, 1 have never
heard her superior, and rarely her
equal. God is putting the seal Of
His approval upon her preaching"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-09-02
New Orleans Women.

Inc New Orleans WOman proper Is
Galiic American, or rather an Am
erican Gaul. She perhaps may never
have been out of the country, OF even
out of the State; but for all that, she
is all alien to the Republic in the sense
that she has little knowledge of it
and less care for it and its affairs. If
Creole, or Creole descent or affinity,
she reads French newspapers, has
French habits and opinions, and she
is essentially French in mind and
manner. She talks English, though
she thinks in French she is an inhab-
liant of the United States but citi-
zen of Louisiana, especially of its
metropolis. most Of her grand outings
being to adjacent parishes. Once in a
while she may go to ST. Louis, or Mo-
bile, or Charleston, or New York, but
If she docs, it is q memorable event,
and she regards it as a Chicagoan,
BOstOnian or New Yorker would the
circumnavigatiOn of the globe, jour-
ney to Afghanistan or to the heart of
Africa. Should the New Orleans wo-
man be young especially should she
be unmarried, she may be very grace
full, though rarely slender in figure,
for plumpness and rOundness come
very early with her. She is usually a
brunette. Her manners are, as a rule,
superior to her person. 1t is marvel
Gus what she can achieve with a bit
of lace, half yard of ribbon or few
flowers. The New Orleans woman is
not very substantially educated, but
such education as she has she can put
to the best advantage.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-09-02
A SteeD Railway.

A letter from Naples, written by
one of the nine persons who made the
experimental trip on the new railway
to the crater OF Vesuvius, gives some
particulars of the line and the Jour-
ney. The actual railroad is 500 me-
tres long and terminates 200 metres
short of the crater. The inclines are
tremendous: in 10 for the first 1856
metres 50 in 100 for the next $50 me-
tres then, Sc, So and 48 in the 100 for
the remainder. The carriages are
drawn up by steel rope of forty
nine strands, which is coated with tar
as a protection against rust. An hours
drive from Naples takes the traveller
to the mountain observatory. Anex
cellent new road nearly two miles
long, has been built by the railway
company from the observatory to the
railway station. The ascent OH the
railway was made in seven minutes,
but it can easily be made in five. The
motion was quite smooth, but the
sensation upon looking out is far from
pleasant, and q feeling akin to sea-
sickness is said to arise. The view from
the summit repays all trouble, The
feels the proximity of the great store
house of heat. He was informed that
great pillars of smoke frequently burst
up from the ground, close to the spot
where the railroad ends, and great
chasms open, swallowing up anything
which may be Oh the spot, SO that
the expedition may sometimes not be
wholly free from danger.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-09-02
Ocean IcebergS.

During q recent passage of the
steamer Helvetia from Antwerp to
New York, the wind blowing a nice
breeze from the westward, o sudden
change i'll the temperature was noticed.
An hour before the weather was quite
suitry, awnings being spread fore and
aft; but at about three o'clock in the
afternoon, although the sun was Shin
ing brilliantly, a cold blast from the
northwest set in. The rapidity of q
change from sweltering summers
day to an Arctic frost naturally caused
considerable amazement, especially
among the greencr members OF the
crew. The more experienced knew
what was coming, and when the cry
Of 'Icebergs OH the starboard bow !"
followed Immediately by the notiti-
cation that others were visible on the
port side, the mystery was explained.
Then, right in the track OF vessels
were seen mOnstrOus mountains of ice,
some of them pure white, others
crossed i'll many directions by broad
stripes of blue. Some of them were
200 feet high and 1000 feet long.
There were ut least thirty of them,
extending for many miles.
The sea broke against them, forcing
torrents of spray up the steep accliv-
tiles of their sides. The rays of the
sun had melted the upper parts of
many of them into the most fanciful
shapes, and imaginary likenesses of
crags, cliffs, and castles could be traced
in those parts more exposed to the
lines of heat. Streams of water in
cascades were flowing
down into the sea, ami the huge, ma
jestic masses seemed to be moving
slowly to the southeast. The Helvc-
tia passed near enough to several of
them to distinguish plainly the noise
Of the waves as they broke against the
rugged sides of the bergs. AS night
closed in and the moon arose the sight
was indeed beautiful.
The British steamer Altmorc. from
also encountered number
of iceDcrys, probably tho same the
Helvetia met with. Her commander,
Captain Watson, describes one as be-
ng mile long and 200 feet high.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-09-02

silks, foreign wines, high-class dress
| goods, brlc-a-brac, hOuse-furnishing
and equipages which have drained the
country OF this enormous additional
sum. Our Weather classes have for
gotten the lesson OF economy which
the Nation set itself to learn in 1873.
| or rather they never accepted it.
During the lowest depression which
followed Jay Cookies failure there al
ways remained a large class of saiaried
officials and lnen who, having incomes
invested i'll mortgages, benefited in
stead OF suffered by the hard times
and lowering Of prices. They had
moro money to spend than before,
simply because more could be bought
with the money. 1t was o noticeable
fact that the shops whose trade meets
the requirements OF this class doubled
their attractions in that season and
made higher profits than before, ut the
time when the streets OF our great
cities wero crowded with eager, UNI
employed wOrknen. 1t is not, to
meet the requirements alone that the
present enormous increase i'll the i'm
pOrtaLiOn OF luxurious has occurred.
Dut the demands OF classes whose in
comes depend OH the tiuctuatiOn OF
every change in the currents OF trade.
II our nililonaires chose to fling their
money wastcfully into the sea instead
Of into the hands OF foreign purvcyors
OF luxuries, the effect upon the condi-
tion OF the country would be bad, but
slight. But the imitation of them
by every other class down to the very
lowest, i'll habits of prodigality ami
headlong imprudelce. will yet bring
about another crash OF ruin as it did
before, as heavy and more irremedi-
able.
1t is not the absolute fact of our in
creased outlay which is important,
but the condition OF society OF which
it 10 the index and warning.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-09-02
a Story With q Moral.

II Know Christian woman, SO pure,
SO consistent that to heaven she will
be so near the throne that 1 cannot
catch glimpse of her, and yet that
woman unwittingly by her traditions
made void the commandments of God.
One day from the breast of her dead
daughter she lifted a little child,
baby boy, fatherless and motherless.
And i'll that hour the commandment
of God came to her. Take this child
and nurse him for me- The child
grew. She fed him !; she clothed him;
she loved him she sent him to Sun
day school and to the day school.
What though her hands grew some-
times tired, and her eyes ached at
night sewing Oh his little garments?
Was he not her boy! Bone of her
bone, flesh of her flesh! All! but she
forgot that she was seventy years old
and he was only seven. She forgot
that he with his youthful restlessness
wanted something beside the primer
and the Bible. And when he grew
older and brought home his little
games, she didn't believe in checkers;
she didn't believe i'll chess; she didn't
believe i'll cards. And what was the
result! He said to me when l talked
to him: MIR. Bowling, l must have
amusement. Ii l bring these things
home they are put i'll the fire. And
when he found he could not have these
things at home, he did just That your
SON is doing, though you may not
know it. lie went where he could
have them. And ere long it was the
old story. Sunday school forgotten;
church forgotten. And the very wo-
man who would have given her hearts
blood for him forgotten. And when
she came to me tottering OH her staff,
her head bent, and the gray locks
falling on her temples, throbbing in
sorrow, and said, 'What shall 1 do for
my boy I" how longed to tell her of
her mistake but it was too late"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-09-02
Wasteful Habits Of Americans.
New York Tribune.

A statement of our imports and ex-
ports of merchandise for the month Of
March, 1880, and for the nine months
ending with that month, has just been
published. There arc one or two
noteworthy points in these statistics
! to which we ask the careful attention
of our readers. Our imports of for
eign merchandise in March. 1879, both
free of duty and dutiable, amounted to
| $41, ,S5G.611. In the same month of the
present year the amount was nearly
doubled, reaching the sum of $40, $685.
5O4. This very nearly equals the
amount expended by us OH foreign
merchandise in any month of our lar
gest imitation after the war. Nor is
this increased outlay sudden out
break of transient extravaganza refer
able to any given cause. 1t has grad
ually grown during the last year, be-
ginning with the first hint of our re-
viving prosperity. For the nine
months ending March, 1879, our ex-
penditures for foreign merchandise
amounted TO S329,375,177. For the
nine months ending with the March
just past, the amount had increased to
$468, ,213, ,622.
The Increased expenditure IS, of
course, gratifying lnulc2tlon oi re-
newal of prosperity, but the fact that
it exists ut all is indication of some-
thing else quite as significant and not
SO agreeable. 1t must be remembered
that Americans less than any other
people depend upon other nations for
the necessities of life. They are more
amply provided than any other with
food, clothes, fuel, and minerals. Even
during civil war which tore the Ma
tion into fragments, or during the
worst seasons of commercial dcpres-
sion we have ever known, there has
never been any hint OF actual want.
We have always been well-fed, we'll
clothed, we'll warmed. When We 90
to foreign nations for their wares, we
go, with but one or two exceptions,
for luXuries. These are dutiable ar.
ticles, and: it is in dntiable articles
that the enormous increase OF our inn
ports has occurred Il is the cQstly
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-09-02

with desperate pain at the sense of
utter loneliness that would never leave
him again.
And sweet voice came out of the
dimness to him that struck to his
very soul, and pair OF rare white
arms were clinginy about his neck
and the dear eyes he So loved were
smiling through tears in his face
Aura's own blessed eyes.
Il could not help it," she sobbed. as
he folded her to his heart - wanted
to know ii you were us good rs have
dreamed you were all these years. since
that night stood just here and prom
iscd l would do whatever you said
Oh, Alan, Alan, don't you UNDER
stand!"
And with sudden, almost startled
wonder i'll his eyes, he understood
then, for the first time, that it was
Winnie Maync-that the two women
were onc-who had won him.
"And, please, we will both STAY
mayn't we! We both love you, YOU
sec, Mr.. Sinclair, and we neither of MS
will give you up and, OH, my love.
my love, l Will never be Jealous
again"
And Alan Sinclair bowed his head
on her bright hair, and thanked heav-
EN- tor what had come to him.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-09-02
Earth Eating in Japan.

1t is rather surprising to find that
some OF the japanese are addicted to
the eating of earth. DR.. Love has
lately published all analysis of a clay
which is eaten to considerable ex-
tent by the Almos; it occurs in a bed
several feet thick, in the valley of
Tsietonai (eat-earth valley), ON the
north coast of Yesso. 1t is light gray
in color and of fine structure. The
people mix with the clay fragments
of the leaf of some plant for the aro-
matte principle it contains. They cat
the earth because they think it con-
tains some beneficial substance, not
because it is necessity with them.
They have meat in abundance of veg
etable food. The clay is eaten in the
form of soup. Several pounds arc
boiled with lily roots in a SINAI! guam
tity of water, and atterward strained.
The Almos pronounce the soup very
palatablc.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-09-02
On Board the Narragansett-
JUNE ii, $780,;
BT OWEN II. WILSON.

Harki Didst hear that wild, soul-thrilline
Upon the fog. .enshrouded night ring out
A cry for help-a wild despairing cry,
Asif from lips Of mortal doomed to die?
Again it rises, fearful in its might
Borne far and wide upon the wings of night.
"IIelpI for the love of GodI hand to savei
Leave us not here to find a watery gravel
Quick to the life boats. ere it be too late.
The tOonen Hrsg And if it be our fate
To meet Death. then like men let's meet him
herei"
voice commanding rings out, firm and clear.
But all unheeded are the bold commands:
hundred forms dash forward; eager hands
Unioose the boats; a moment more. and then.
Mid the cries of women and the shouts of
men,
The boats are lowered to the water where
Weak. helpless women. in their mad despair,
Are struggling. praying with fast failing
breath.
And sink from sight to silence and to death.
But seei light illumes the wild scene now;
The sh:p's ofrc-aIlaxs from stern to pro,ri
A thousand name-tongucs leap toward the
sky
They mount the masts. and lick the spars on
high;
The nimes leap onward in their curblcss ire,
And wrap the brave ship in q cloud of fire;
Above. below. like a great beacon light,
The flames light up the fog og-enveloped night.
Revealing unto each Wild watching eye
Dark scenes of sorrow that all words defy.
But now, as if in pity, over all
The darkness gathers like a funeral pail.
As the Narragansett plunging downward
goes,
While the parted waters 'bove her charred
hull close
But who will bear message for the dead,
Or to tell to loved ones the last words they
said,
AS struggling mid hell of flame and wave,
They sank unknown into shroudlcss grave?
Aye. who will comfort the sad hearts that
yearn
For those who sailed away nee to return7
Matcoakee, June 16, 1880
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-09-02
The Nights Too Good for SIeeu.

So we talked and yarned till grew
sleepy and dozed of, somewhat against
my will, for the nights are too lovely
to waste in sleep. Nothing can exceed
the beauty OF these northern nights, a
beauty SO calm, grand, majestic, almost
awful in its majesty, that there exists
not man, 1 believe, on the face of this
earth with a spirit so dulletl or q mind
so harasssd that he could Withstand its
peace giving power. BY day his trOu-
bles may be too heavy for him, but the
night is more potent than any drug.
than any excitement, to steep the soul
in forgetfulness. You cannot bind tho
sweet influence of the I'leladcs, nor
resist tue soothing touch of mother
Nature when she reveals herself in the
calm watches Of the night. 1t is
wonderful and strange experience to
lie out under the stars in the solemn,
silent darkness Of the forest, to watch
the consultations Else and set, to lie
there gazing up through the branches
of the grand old trees, which have
seen another race dwell beneath their
bough and pass away, whose age makes
the little fretful life OF man seem
insignificantly small; gazing up at
planet after planet, sun beyond sun,
into the prOfundlty of space, till this
tiny speck in the universe, this little
earth with all its discomfort and dis
cord, its wrangling races, its murmur-
ing millions OF nen dwindles into
nothing, and the mind looks out SO
far beyond that it tails back, stunned
with the vastness of the vision which
looms overwhelmingly before it.
The earth sleeps. A silence that
can he felt has fallen over the woods.
The stars begin to fade. A softer and
stronger light wells up and flows over
the scene as the broad moon SLOWLY
floats above the tree tops, shining
white upon the birch trees, throwing
into black shadow the sOmber pines.
dimly lighting up the barren, and
revealing grotesque, ghost-ike forms
of stunted fir anu gray rock. The tree
trunks stand out distinct in the lessen
ing gloom the dark pine boughs over
head seem to stOOp pcaressingly towards
you. Amid stiffness that is terrify-
ing, man is not afraid. Surrounded
by a majesty that is appalling he
shrinks not, nor is he disnayed. In
\ scene of utter Loneliness he feels him.
self not to be alone. A sense of COM
a sensation of satisfaction,
;reeps over him. He feels at once
with nature, at rest in her strong,
arms.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-09-02
Ananti-duelling association has been

Ananti-duelling association has been
formed in South Carolina, with ex-
Judge Kershaw as president. eve in
tcnd," the resolutions say, "to train,
educate and organize the public opin-
ion and moral sense of the people to a
true PERCEPTION of the criminalty of
this wicked and pernicious practice !;
to take proper measures to secure an
adjustment cf all personal difficulties
which might tend to involve any of
our fellow citizens in q duel ; to en-
force the laws against duelling in every
case of their violation hereafter occur
ring, whether the same shall consist
of sending, accepting or bearing a
challenge of the fighting of a duel, or
the counseling, aiding, OF abetting any
Of these offences"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-09-02

One of the Vcsuvian guides hoped,
from the aspect of the mountain, that
a grand eruption would soon over
whelm the new railway up the sides
of the mountain, and threw himself
from an upper window on finding
himself disappointed in his expecta-
tions of catastrophe. He was killed
on the spot. Notwithstanding the
douceur they have received from the
director of the Vesuvian railway, the
guides in general wish nothing more
heartily than that a stream of lava
may descend and destroy the whole
affair.