Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1882-07-14
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Town and Country.

Farmers should read the new advertise
ments of F. L. Moore.
A nice little farm near Beallsville will be
sold on the 22d inst. Seq ad.
II you want to buy good watch, call at
the Store of S. d. Higgins & Son.
The blackberry season is at its height, and
gatherers report full average crop.
The Postoffice Department has ordered
mail to be sent east from here daily on the
100 train.
A picnic by the children of the Presby-
terrain Sunday School was held at the Fair
Grounds on Tuesday last.
The premium for the best pound of butter
at our Fair in October has been Increased
to $40 by contribution from Mr.. H. #.
Crosby, of Washington.
Mr. Vennor has been kind enough to favor
us with a few days of very hot weather
lately, for which he will please accept the
thanks of our corn-growers.
Bowen, the colored boy who robbed Mr..
r. II. Humphrey, at Germantown, has been
sent to the House of Correction for eighteen
months by Justice Morgan.
Marriage licenses have been issued this
month to Samuel Ward and Maria M.
Murphy, John Brown and Maria Howard,
Edward Chambers and Mary Wallace, Chas.
L. Rice and Hickey Gond.
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Spring Parish, Grace in this county, on
Thursday evening, June Goth, 1882, by the
Rector, Rev. James B. Avirett, Edward G.
Cssel to Helen d. Wilson, both of that
parish.
The grand Tournament at Colesvllle, on
Thursday, the Goth instant, promises to be-
very enjoyable affair. We are certain, from
the character of the managers, that every
thing will be provided for the comfort and
pleasure of all who may attend.
A practical Pennsylvania farmer says that
two bushels of salt per acre, sown broadcast,
will clean out the army worm, and also in
crease the growth of grass. The remedy is
one which can be easily tried, and if it does
no good it will not do any harm.
The first hop of the season given at the
Summit Hotel, Gaithersburg, on Saturday
evening last was quite brilliant affair and
was much enjoyed by the large crowd pres
emit They will be repeated on Tuesday
and Saturday evenings during the season.
1t was generally supposed that "Tom
Pepper" had been killed years ago for lying,
but it is now strongly suspected that either
the old man or a younger member of the
family has been employed to write letters
from Gaithersburg to the Baltimore Ameri-
can.
Gardeners in this section are complain
ing of green worm that has appeared on
the cabbage and is rapidly destroying it.
AS yet we have heard of no certain mode
for their destruction, and if any of our
readers know of a remedy they will confer
favor by informing us of the same.
Mr.. II. S. Patterson, register of voters for
this District, opened the books at the Court
House on Tuesday last Up TO the time of
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1lS voters on the list. To-day he goes to
Montrose, and on Saturday to Hunting Hill.
If you wish to become voter, give him a
call
Superintendent Mills, of the Delaware
railroad, estimates the coming peach crop
in the districts traversed by railway at A.
004, 740 baskets. The heaviest yield will he
in the district between Mddletown and
Clayton, and with continued favorable
weather the crop may reach 100000
baskets. This is exclusive of the sections
which are dependent upon water transpor-
tation.
A lady who was preparing bathing suits
for trip east for the summer wrote To an
eastern fashion paper to know what the
style of bathing suits would be for children,
say from five to six years old. She received
reply that this year the bathing suits for
boys were very simple, consisting of wad
of cotton in each ear The lady will add to
this suit red yarn string around her boys
neck and let him go loose.
Scarcely any disease to which human be.
ings are subjected, is so thoroughly discour-
aging as Fever and Ague The periodical
return of alternate chils, fever and sweat
ing, is terribly depressing. Ayers Ague
Cure is the only remedy known, which is
certain TO cure permanently. by expelling
the malarial poison which produces the
disease. 1t does this surely, and leayes no
i'll effect upon the system.
Vennor predicts very hot and oppressive
weather, with heavy rain and wind storms
between the 18th and Goth of this month
Between Goth and 23rd cooler and windy
weather, with continued rains and cool
evenings and nights Between Gath and
Goth there is likely TO occur a very hot
term. After the 26th or 9th, sultry, warm
and oppressive weather, with thunder.
storms up TO close of the month.
Thousands OF dead fish lying on the
islands and banks Of the Schuylkill river
near Pottstown, Pa, would seem TO Indicate
that the water has been poisoned. One
theory is that the impurity ia caused by
Paris Green, which had been distributed
over potato plants; another that II is due to
the pumping out Of an abandoned copper
mine. Should II prove to be the former the
fact would have serious interest to many
other localities besides Pottstowp.
Bigelow, the delaulting teller of the Ma
tional Bank of the Republic, Washington,
has been traced as far as Pittsburg Detec-
tives are on his track, as reward of 81 900
has been offered for his arrest The people
that know Bigelow do not believe that he
will be overtaken, and are of the opinion
that he would rather die than return to
Washington. Some think that he has gone
to Europe. 1t is now believed, though the
bank officials are reticent on the subject,
that the deialcation will amount to $50 900.