Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1883-01-12
Germantown Items.
News rather scarce this week.


News rather scarce this week
There has been great deal of sickness in
this neighborhood the past few weeks, bu
everybody now seems to be improving.
Mr.. II. d. Waters, our enterprising mer-
chant, intends moving his immense stock of
goods into his new and more capacious
rooms on the corner of Main street and
Mechanics avenue. No one can come to
our town without noticing the air of hustle
and business which ever prevails
Our young men appear to have very little
success hunting. Would advise them to
give it up.
/ Mr.. Thos. Williams, who broke his hand
sometime since, is, we are happy to say,
getting along as well as could be expected
Everybody in this neighborhood seems to
be in favor of Col. l.. w. Odeall, of Darnes-
town, for Governor, although aRox" thinks
the Hon. M. Blair so very popular.
We fully agree with your correspondent
in what he said with reference to that one
of the "42" and would say to the Advocate
that we Germantown Democrats) neither
scratch" nor use paste, but vote as one
man.
Jan. 10, 1888 HANDSOME HARRY.
suicide of Young Merchant =
About 7 o'clock last evening, at the family
residence of the late Augustus Perry, No.
626 f street, the youngest son of the deceased,
Mr.. Charles Perry, commit d suicide by
shooting himself in the right temple, using
small pistol. Mrs. Perry, the mother Of
Charles, hearing the report of the weapon,
fastened TO the room of the deceased and was
shocked to see him lying on the floor with
hand glass in one hand, the pistol in the
other, and wound in his temple. DR..
johnson Elliot was sent for but could do no
| good, as within a few minutes the untortu-
nate young man died.
The cause of the suicide, as is generally
the case, is matter of conjecture. Mr..
Hempstone, Mr.. Perry's business partner, is
of opinion that depression of spirits, due to
a malady affecting the heart, was the cause
Mr.. Perry had recently been i'll with in
| fiammatory rheumatism, affecting the heart,
and seemed to have dread or foreboding
of sudden and fatal attack Since the
sudden death of Minister Allen at the White
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much depressed in spirits. Mr.. Perry's bust
ness associates discredit the published stories
that Il love. affair was the cause of the suicide.
| That the suicide was not long premcdtated
\ seems To be- indicated by the fact that Just
before committing the act Mr. Perry visited
his store, as has been his custom, and lighted
the gas for the night Wash. Star, 9M inst
The deceased was u son of the late Angus
tus Perry, who was a native of this county
and during his life one of the most promi-
nent merchants of Washington City
In Il Trance.-A Mrs. Reagan, of Wash
ington, experienced suspension of ANNA
tion," ON Monday last. The physician and
Father Nooman pronounced her dead, and
the latter offered prayers in St. Aloysius
church for the repose of her SOUL She re-
covered after lying inanimate for several
hours and related her experience in the fol-
lowing words
"She was conscious OF voices around her,
and knew that the priest and the physician
were pronouncing her death as near at hand .
She struggled, with all the power she could
master, to open her eyes, or move or speak,
| or in some way to show that she was not
altogether lifeless. Particularly did she en-
deayor TO whisper wish not to be put on
ice, having an intuition that she might after
all be frozen to death in an ice-box Then
she tried to tell her family not to bury her
in the valley of the cemetery, but on the
hilltop. Both limbs and senses refused TO
obey her will, however, and she lay per-
fectly helpless until restoratives were forced
down her throat, when, with one great ef-
fort, she turned over on her side and slowly
returned TO life"
A Choice Book We are in receipt
from the publishing house of Messrs. John
b. Piet g. Co., of Baltimore, Md, of new
work entitled, "a Crown for our Queen"
from the gifted pen of the Rev. Father A. j.
Ryan, the poet priest. 1t is written in that
fascinating style SO peculiar to the distin-
| guished author, and the pious thoughts and
/ suggestions it contains are clothed in the
most beautiful and impressive language.
| The book is gotten up with much artistic
taste whilst the printing is clear and large.
| We are satisfied that our Catholic friends
will be delighted with this new work of
Father Ryan's, which is intended to be used
in conjunction with other works of devo-
ton and pous reading.
A Hale and Hearty Old Man.-At
the election on the LIST of January Of the