Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1884-07-25
Ideal ana gersnmal.
Town and Country.

Attention Is called to the card of Messrs
Singleton Il Fletcher in this issue.
There is an unprecedented drouth in Yves
Virginia, and wells, creeks and pastures ar
drying up
Agents can make money by engaging in
the sale of the Life Of Grover Cleveland
See advertisement
James b. Henderson, Esq, is improving
his property in "west end" by an additio.
to bis house, new porches, &c.
The time for holding the Democratic rat.
ihcatien meeting in Washington has been
fixed for the 18th of September.
A game of base ball will be played at the
Fair Grounds, this place, Tomorrow, (Sat.
urdayo between the Langley (Va.) nine and
the Rockville boys.
enterprising merchants, Messrs Welsh
u Warfield, have just completed the build
ing OF large warehouse adjoining their
store near the railroad depot.
Lieut.. Marion p. Maus, son of Isaac r.
Maus, Of this place, has been relieved OF duty
in the signal servce and ordered to report
to his command in the LIST infantry.
The Board Of Health of Olney district
has issued circular to the people of that
district advising cleanliness in and about
dwellings during the warm weather
Married, on the 23rd of July, 1884, in
Rockville, by Rev. T. W. Simpson, ID. D., at
- his residence NJ. Edward E. Crockett and
Miss Annie E. Pyles, Of Potomac district,
this county.
The second Quarterly Meeting of Rsck-
vile circuit of the M. Il. Church South will
be held at Jamestown on next Saturday
and Sunday, Goth and 9th insts All-day' 5
meeting on Sunday.
DIR. +. e. Stonestreet is having the old
house on Washington street, for many years
occupied by the late Basil Barry, removed
preparatory to having new dwelling house
erected on the premises. Mr.. w. II. Pun
phrey is the contractor for the new house.
Parents who wish to select good school
for the education of their daughters are re-
terred TO the advertisement of the Frederick
Academy of Visitation, in another col
umn of this paper. For excellence in all
departments this institution is not surpassed
by any in the State.
Drovers' Rest livestock sales Tuesday
July 49, One hundred and sixty cattle
offered and sold at Best, st 10 81 cents
good, 5 to 81 cents; medium, AZ to 8 cents
common, 3t to cents; 500 sheep and
iambs-sheep, 81 TO A cents; lambs, ST to
6 cents; 20 cows and calves at from sec
$50.
The Republicans of the vicinity of Sligo,
this county, held a meeting on Tuesday 10
make arrangements for flag raising and
mass meeting at that place. AS a great
many of the "bread-and- butter brigade
from the government departments at Wash
ington,ar temporarily located in that neigh
borhood the meeting will doubtless be a
success.
There will be an excursion of Sunday
Schools to join the Presbyterian and other
schools of Harper's Ferry in basket pic
mic at Island Park, to-day, (Friday.) A
brass band from Winchester will be in at
tendance, and there Will be singing by the
children, accompanied by the organ. Re.
freshments will be provided. Excursion
tickets will be sold at the depot at this place
On Wednesday the contract for piking
the street leading from Montgomery avenue
to the depot was awarded to VIM. H. Carr
by the Town Commissioners. lie also was
awarded the contract for piking Bridge
street from its intersection with Mont
gomery avenue to the top of the hill oppo-
site the residence of Mr.. r. A. Bogley The
price bid for the work was $149t per cubic
yard
A few days ago, John Smith, farmer.
living twenty miles east of Cumberland,
while digging post holes, discovered jar
containing quantity of old gold and silver
coin. He is reticent about the amount, but
rumor places it at from five hundred to five
thousand dollars. There are many theories
as TO where the coin came from, one being
that it belonged to a misery old bachelor
who was found dead in the road about ten
years ago.
On Saturday last II. w. Talbot, as Mort
gage, sold the farm of the late Sarah +
Hall, containing 1870 acres, TO John A. Hal
for $22.25 per acre. On the same day, as
Trustee, he also sold the farm of the late
John W. Hall, containing 1879 acres, to the
same party for the sum Of $2201 per acre
situated midway between Jamestown and
Germantown Station, on the metropolitan
Branch railroad.
Any housekeeper who sends at once thu
names Of five married ladies, at same adj.
dress, and IL two cent stamps for postage, will
receive free for one entire gear, n handsome
entertaining and instructive Domestic Jour
nal, devoted TO Fashions, Fancy Work, Dec
Grating, Shopping, Cooking and Household
matters. Best paper published for ladies
Eoey hO,Sekeeper acants ii. Regular price
800. Mast send nOW. Address Domestic
Journal, Nunda, N Y.
A writ of habeas corpus was this morn
ing, says the Neaos Of the nth instant, pre-
scented before Judges Richie and Lynch b,
John G. Motter in the case of Samuel Stein
who is charged with being implicated il
the murder of John Griffith, whose body
was found on the road between KemptowI
and New Market, of which our reader
know everything. Several witnesses wer
examined. The facts IN the case were mad'
known and Stein released from. custody
and freed from all implication in the al
fair-Fred. Examiner, 23rd inst
The mail pouch for this place, and which
reached here on the east-bound mail trail
on Monday morning, on account of beinl
carelessly thrown from the mail car, fel
under the wheels and was badly torn
When brought to the postcffice the con
tents of the bag were found TO be in
bad condition, letters, cards, fans, spectacles
stockings, books, &c, being torn TO piece