Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1881-01-14
gofal aud gersuual.
Town and Country.

gemery Grange will meet at Brighton.
Losses by fire during the past year cost the
Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Mont
gomery County $22, 1O3 81.
An effort is now being made to have a
bridge erected over Watts branch. An i'm.
provement very much needed.
Several of our lady friends have had their
most valued house plants badly frozen dur
ing the past few weeks.
1t is rumored that several young men of
Rockville will soon have to pay the "tax on
matches"-to the minister.
There is warm wave coming, let us all
rejoice, it will be here about the first of july.
This reporti is reliable.
The head of an empty barrel in the cor
ner grocery may support the curb stone or
ator, but it won't feed his family.
The Farmers Convention which assem-
bled yesterday, at Sandy Spring. was largely
attended by some of the best agriculturists
of the county.
The scarcity Of locals and other interest
ing reading matter is compelling school
journals" etc, to publish old district laws
to fill up with
The Rockville Lyceum's next public en-
tertainment will take place on Friday even
ing, 28th inst. The programme will proba.
bly, be published next week
The soiTee promised by the young folks
of Gaithersburg will be given on Tuesday
evening next, in Diamond Hall. A large
attendance is expected
The ice and snow accommodating upon the
trees in the Court-Hous yard has broken
off many of the limbs They have needed
trimming for several years past
Leap year-wth all its fears, hopes and
anxieties-is past and the young man who
parts his hair in the middle can now quietly
settle down to business-if he has any.
II has been pretty well demonstrated on
the streets of Rockville that the good little
boy" can pull more of boy on hand-sled
than he can of coal or wood.
Deputy Sheriff Miles, Of Medley's Dis
trict, conveyed four colored men, Henry
Russell, Henry Ridout, Levi Anderson and
VIM. Simms, to the House of Correction, on
Thursday of last week.
Nothing will chap lips quicker and more
eitectually than going out into the night air
after goodnight kiss" so says some of the
young men of this place and they ought to
know.
The deadlock" in the Frederick CITY
council has not yet been broken. Neither
party will yield and the vacancy still con-
tinues, to the utter disgust of several candi-
dates for aldermanic honors
On Sunday morning last Rev. Mr.. Hatch.
er officially assumed the duties of pastor of
the Baptist church of this place, and will
hereafter preach on alternate Sundays, in
the morning and evening.
Navigation on the canal will be resumed
at as early day as possible, in order to lei
the boats now bound get into market II
is now thought that more business and less
litigation will be attended TO.
The Frederick Times comes to us this week
in an entire new dress, and looking remark.
ably bright and attractive Outside of lis
politics this able journal is one of the best
papers in the State. Its proprietors have
our best wishes for their future success.
--~N@h. Thompson, tramp, was committed
forthree months to the House of Correction
by !hstice Kiger, of this town, on Tuesday
last. f'ince this item was in type, Thompson
succeeded in obtaining a re-hearing and was
discharged from custody.
Mr. George Brewer, on Thursday Of last
week.. received a severe kick from horse
just below the knee of his right leg, the
corker of the shoe embedding itself in the
flesh. Mr.. Brewer, however, is getting along
as well as could be expected
Mr. Frank Hardy, living on the Seventh
Street pike, this county, we are informed
had his eye gored out by a cow, last week
Immediately after the accident medical aid
was summoned and the eye was reset in
the head, with what effect our informant
did not know
A girl in London struck her croquet part
ner on the head with a mallct; brain fever
set in, and the young man nearly died. This
is probably the first case of the kind on
record, as not one young man in thousand
who plays croquet, possesses enough mate
riel for the brain fever to grab hold Of
Society ladies of Washington are not in
lavor Of the introduction Of the electric
light into private houses or public resorts
1t is, they say too trying for the complex
ion, giving the face ghastly look, and i
rouge is worn as foil the light is SO search
ing as to show the application of the car
mine as plain as the paint on a rcd barn.
Edward Re:nhart, under sentence of death
on Staten Island for having murdered his
wife, asks for brief respite in order to cna
Bile him to fully prepare to meet his Creator
He thinks he can fix up things satisfactorily
in about ten days Nearly two years have
elapsed since the murder and il Is doubtful
whether Gov. Cornell will grant his request
Airy Green, colored, died seddenly al
her residence in this town, on Tuesday
morning last. She was hitherto strong
and healthy woman, we might say she had
lived without days sickness On the
morning of her death she called to her boy
to get up and make the fire and returned t.
bed. Sleeping latter than was her custom
her room was repaired 10 and she was found
dead. 1t is supposed she died from hear
disease.
The Scientific american advances the fol
lowing important information to those who
desire TO get rid Of stumps upon their farms
ain the autumn or early winter bore holt
one or two inches in diameter, according t.
the girth of the latter, and about eighteen
inches deep. Put into il one or two ounce.
Of saltpetre. oil the hole with water and