Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1882-02-17
NOTES AND PERSONALS.

President Arthur steadily adheres to his
purpose of refusing to receive personal APP
plications for office. He is wise, and il is
TO be hoped that he will keep refusing dur
ing his term.
Senator Dan Voorhees, says that he has
cured himself of rheumatic govt by taking
lemon juice and warm water three times a
day. Some are unkind enough to say that
it was taking lemon juice and fire acate,
that brought it on.
Your correspondent would remark for the
benefit OF your country cousins" that there
is at this time a great demand for farms
large and small, improved and unimproved
The truth is that the country is now enjoy
ing such prosperous career that real estate
everywhere has taken an upward impulse.
From all parts of the country, and espe-
cially the centres, there is Il growing activity
Of this species Of prosperity. II is attract
ing the attention of capitalists and iar-see-
ing men, and is everywhere in demand to
accommodate our rapidly growing popua-
ton. There Is no longer any reasonable
doubt that the new era of commercial, in
dustrial and agricultural development upon
which this country has entered opens up u
long career of prosperity before it, Inter.
ruptions such rs are always incident TO bust.
ness will occur, but they will neither be seri.
Gus nor prolonged. With no wars on hand
or at all probable, with great undeveloped
resources towards which the surplus popu-
lation of the world is flowing, with the
cheapest government in the world, with
splendid energies and splendid resources tu
| employ them, there is nothing in the way Of
the continued prosperity OF this country.
Railroad and other stocks which depend
/ Of
value and safety were never before so high.
| For the first time in the history of this coun-
try the North and South are now pursuing
the same road to national development and
| prosperity; all their interests are now homo
genious and harmonious, and this is the cause
and the reason why capital is seeking real
estate investment,
The Oscar Wilde excitement, if such il
may be termed, has entirely subsidized, il
not forgotten, at the Capital Of the Nation.
in referring TO this subject one can but
realize that 1t is sad commentary on the
visit of Oscar Wilde to America as mis-
sionary of the aesthetic renaissance, that a
prize fight should have occurred Just at this
time, which has excited greater interest than
that which a thousand such missionaries
could create. The worst thing about it is
/ that the victor in the fight is citizen of Bos-
ton, the supremacy aesthetic American city,
which Mr.. Wilde processes to prefer to all
others, The Boston people have been more
wrought up about Sullivan's victory over
Ryan than they have been by anything that
has happened since the battle of Bunker's
Hill II is quite clear that Oscar Wilde is
failure rs reformer in America. If he
wants to be real hero, he must turn bruiser
and p ize fighter
Theie is now no hope left for Guiteau.
Judge Cox struck the keynote Of the case
when be stated that the assassin by wretched
sophistry worked himself up to the commits
sion Of the crime against the protests of his
own conscience, and that q deliberately mis-
guided will was the sole impulse. His terse
statement Of the case, which had been pre-.
coded by close and cogent decision over
ruling the motion for new trial was fol-
lowed by the sentence of the law that the
prisoner shall be hanged by the neck on
June Both until dead. His prompt action
had been anticipated, and now the assassin
and his counsel may appeal TO the court in
banc of which there has been so much boast
ing II may be taken for granted that Judge
Cox has been freely advised by the full bench
and that the verdict and the sentence will be
sustained. Executive clemency is not even
by hitherto sanguine defense. ]