Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1881-03-18
goeal aud gersouaI.
Town and Country.

Court begins on Monday next.
A barber is generally a strappfng fellow.
Hagerstown banks will not receive mutt
lated coin.
Some men are like little birds in the
morning-their bills are over dew.
Steel lace is now the new agony in bon
net trimming.
Horse, buggy and harness is advertised in
to-days issue. See advertisement.
In Laurel nineteen dogs were recently
counted in front of the postoffice. Prolific
LAUREL
The Police Board of Baltimore on Tues
day last elected Hon. Geo. Cotton as its
President.
Hunt up your garden tools il you have
been careless, if you have not you know
where to find 'em.
Several articles of interest have been
crowded out of this issue. They will ap-
pear in our next.
Hon. Francis Dodge, collector of the port
of Georgetown, D. c., died in that city Sun
day, after long Illness
Be sure and read the new advertisement
inserted by Mr.. F. L. Moore, in this issue,
of the Fish Bro. wagons.
Sheriff Kelchner will sell at public sale
tomorrow, at 2 o'clock, the canal boat IN.
c. Miegs," now lying near the chain bridge.
The time is now at hand for the farmer
to provide meat sacks for the preservation
of his of bacon from shippers and insects.
The Comas Club will give their first pub
lie entertainment on the 18th of April. my
Turn Next" and "Poor Pillicoddy" are the
pieces selected.
The fashionable spring bonnet will be
large enough to be seen without the aid of a
microscope. The real bon-ton style will be
almost as broad as three cent piece.
If somebody tells you that somebody else
said something mean about you, don't be-
lieve word of it; ten to one he lies. A
gossip is just the biggest scalawag unhung.
The public are invited to attend at Crom-
elm Lodge Hall, March oath, at O'Clock,
p. M. Prominent members of the Order,
TX. of P.,) have been invited to address the
meeting Don't fail-all come.
A Boston man says it was a far-seeing
man who invented the telescope, but the
man who buys his goods of G. M. Towson,
636 Pennsylvania avenue, Washington, ID.
c., beats the Boston man "all hollow"
The Washington horse market is getting
into bad odor. Scarcely week passes but
some unsophisticated countryman is taken
in by swinders. Why is this? Are the
police unable to protect the people, or do
they 'stand in" with the rascals?
1t will be well for our farmer friends, es-
pecially those attending Court, TO remember
that Mr.. S. s. Connell, our resident saddle
and harness maker, would be glad to have
them call and examine his stock and prices
before engaging or purchasing elsewhere
Messrs Grafton Becraft, Geo. W. Mob
ley and Luther G. King having been ex-
cused from attendance at Court as jurymen,
Messrs. Chas. A. Crawford, James S. Perry
and Chas. E. Brooke were drawn from the
box TO fill the vacancies.
Mrs Kitty Ann Allen died on Monday
last at the residence of her son, Edward
CAN'T, Washington, d. c., in the 10th year
of her age, and was buried in the family
burial ground on the farm of her brother
James Anderson, near this town, on We'd
nesday morning
The proprietor Of the Montgomery House,
ton ten-pin alley for the use of the guests
of his house and the public in general. The
alley will be ready for use next week and
then we hope the sheriff will do a rolling
business
The friends of Mr. Thomas Entwistle in
ahis locality we're startled on Monday morn
ing last by the announcement of his death in
Washington, d. G. The deceased was O
son-in-law of Mr. Joseph T Bailey, County
Commissioner, and son Of Building In.
spector Entwistle Of the above city. He
was man of undoubted character, un.
swerving in his consideration of right and
duty, and had established for himself a
bright, untarnished name in the business
circles of Washington. He died of heart
disease and was buried in Mt. Olivet GENE
terry on Wednesday.
Death appears to be visiting the old and
the young of this locality and making re-
cord unsurpassed in years gone. One of his
latest victims Is Mr.. John Clayton Ball, who
died of consumption, at the residence Of his
uncle, about four miles east of Rockville, on
Tuesday, 10Th instant, aged q years. Mr.
Ball was an exemplary young man, and had
by his affable manners and genial disposition
made host of friends who will miss hin
in the daily walks of life. Lately Mr.. B
connected himself with the Catholic church
of this place The remains were consigned
to mother earth, in st. Mary's cemetery yes.
terday.
Miss BERTHE Carr, well known TO many o.
week, at the residence of her mother, al
GAINESVILLE, aged % years. In the death o.
Miss Carr society has lost one Of its bright
cat jewels and circle of relatives and friends
hnd a missing link which can never be re
placed. BERTHE was kind, gentle, loving
daughter and sister, the Joy Of the house
hold aud the pride Of cberishing mother
But "the good and best are always taker
first" is an old sdege, and that fell destroyer
consumption. never yields its grasp wher
once its fangs are securely fastened upon lis
victim Miss Carr lived a life without q
blemish, and her example may well be emu
lated by her companions left behind.
Lyceum Program.-The following il
arranged for the public entertainment TO b.
given by the Rockville Lyceum, on Sat
urday evening the 26th inst