Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1881-02-04
gufal aud gersnnal.
Town and Country.

do.
Inauguration ball tickets sell at five dol
lars apiece.
Teachers Association meet on next Satur-
day week.
st. Mary's Institute is to have donation
party next Thursday evening.
The Agricultural Society is called to meet
on Wednesday, the 18th instant.
Mr.. Vennor says stormy weather for Feb
ruary and March Mr.. G. Hog, ditto.
Do not forget to feed the little birds that
come to your doors these cold wintry days.
Hagerstown has 1859 houses, 9 hotels, 10
churches, 1873 stores and 1879 manufactures.
Mr.. ]. Sprigg Poole shipped SO, ITO bushels
of wheat from Gaithcrsburg during the year
1880.
1t may be well enough to state that on
Monday night and all day Tuesday--it
showed.
A fruitful arch is now ON exhibition at
the store Of Mr.. H. A. Dawson. Call and
see it,
Do not forget the Town Hall Meeting that
is to be held tomorrow evening at the Court
House.
Only three months until the first of May
and then whatf Corn plantin' and Local
Option.
There are thirteen new canal boats being
h,,;lf ut T,,rA nd hr.o Ia
ticipated this year.
Mr.. Richard T. Gettings, of Burnt Mills,
after long Illness died last week in the
53rd year of his age.
See call under Special Notice head for
a meeting at the Court House tomorrow
Saturday evening.
Mich COWS in winter should be watered
twice day. If the chill be taken off, so
much the better for the cows.
Dame Nature gave Mr.. &. Hog all the op-
portunities he could desire to see his shadow
on Wednesday-and he did in this locality.
The most afflicted part of the house is the
window. 1t is always full of panes, and
who has not seen more than one window
blindg
The atmosphere of w Wednesday and Thurs
day mornings was bitterly frosty and on the
streets a man exhibited a fellow feeling for
his ears.
w. II. Humphrey, Rockville's popular I'm
dertaker, has added another fine hearse to
his stock. Reuben is bound TO stand first in
his occupation.
Coastng on the hillsides is dangerous
sport for boys and girls. Our exchanges
from all quarters TEEN with accounts Of
broken and sprained limbs.
Valentine Day approaches, and already
the sentimental youth begins to hoard up a
little cash, and look pensively into the store
windows of Messrs Bouic and Owens.
Come to the Town Hail meeting to-mor-
row evening prepared to take from one To
one hundred shares of stock in the build
ing; no limit to stock, take as much of il
as you want-anythng for Town Hall.
Owing to the crowded condition of our
paper to-day by advertisements our regular
market report has been left out this week.
Few changes, however, and small ones at
that, have occurred since our report of last
week
Married, on the 26th ultimo, at IL o'clock,
in the Parish church, (Grace,) Of Silver
Spring Parish, by the rector, Rev. james
b. Averitt, in the presence Of quite num-
zlAAsE of the parishioners, Miss Frederick Pau
me Birgfeld to Mr. Emile George Brucht.
The County Commissioners on Tuesday
gave the Trustees of the Poor authority to
purchase seventy-five acres of land adjoin-
ing the Aims House farm and owned and
offered by Mr. J. w. Wagner, at $25 per
acre, if they shall be satisfied with the land
after an inspection.
We regret to learn that quite a number o.
our citizens are very sick at the present time
especially Jos. Bailey, Esq, who was unable
to attend the meeting of the Board Of County
Commissioners, of which he is a member, or
Tuesday last We have not learned the
nature of his affection.
The mail route from Rockville TO Potomac
has been extended to Great Falls, to take
effect from the first of July next This will
place the Great Falls in daily communication
with the county seat, which is very greatly
TO be desired, since the Falls has become 6
popular resort during the year.
Tom Stewart, a colored man, in the EN-
ploy of Judge Bouic, was severely kicked
in the stomach, on Monday last, by a horst
which he had turned loose for exercise
The kick was a surprise to everybody, NOR
especially to Stewart, who thought the hors,
too old for any such playful freaks as tina
above mentioned.
The Kliendienst Hotel, now under tn,
management of Mr.. VIM. Carr, is doing {
fine business, and as a hotel keeper Mr.. C
has proved himself a success. He has re
tanned all the old customers of the hotel and
has added many new ones 10 its list of pat
rons. We wish him abundant success il
his new venture.
Marriage licenses were issued in Washing
ton to the following parties since our las
issue: George l.. Austin, of Grenada, Mis-
sissippi, and Miss Eleanor L. Buford, of thi
county; r. B. Holland, of this county, and
Miss Ada Drummond, of Washington, d. G.
Mr. G. Heffner and Miss Rosa A. Wirtmil
Ter, also Of this county.
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Rem ember the Poor.-It might b,
well enough TO call TO the recollection o.
the charitably disposed citizens of our coun
ty the fact that in every community ther,
are more or less a class termed deserving
poor" who should be substantially remem
bered by those who have been blest with al
abundance Of cash and whose granarie
groan beneath the weight Of a bounteou
harvest. The long continued winter, al
most unprecedented in this section, has de
nriyed many industriOTlg neonia from uivin.