Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1884-08-01
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Town and Country.

TOWN ana country.
Commissioners meet Thursday, Angus
9TH.
We have had a full week of almost con
tnuous rain which has been of much ben
eft to growing crops.
Judge Poole, Of Medley's district, lost his
fine driving horse last week. He had Just
secured policy of insurance upon his life
The general wheat crop of this county is
not so large as it was first thought to be and
many farmers are much discouraged by the
result.
The Michael Leather will case, which
was set for hearing in the Orphans Court
on Tuesday, has been postponed for two
weeks
Married, on the 14th ult, at the residence
of the brides mother, by Rev. ]. s. Wick
line, Mr. b. ID. Buxton, of this county, and
Miss Mollie j. Titus, Of Loudoun county,
Virginia.
John Layton, aged "a, died at his late res
idence, in Cracklin district, this county, on
Monday last. He is supposed to have been
the oldest man in the county and was highly
respected in the community.
The storm of last week did no damage
in this county further than to blow down
wheat and hay stacks. Western Maryland
and West Virginia were again flooded and
sustained serious damage to life and prop.
erty.
Mr.. John II. Gassaway has secured Mr..
w. d. Knight as an agent to buy wheat for
him, TO be delivered at the depot at this town.
farmers in this locality and they will no
doubt take the advantage OF it.
The cholera is killing great many hogs
in the upper part of the county, where 1t is
yet confined, but is expected to pervade the
whole county. Among the heavy losers are
Messrs. Lawrence Darby, Samuel Higgins
and Edgar Tschiffely, who have lost up.
wards of forty odd large hogs each.
Wesley Grove Camp Meeting begins TO-
day and continues until the 18TH The fol-
lowing TRANS which pass here will stop at
camp: The 7:19 A. NJ. and the Hagerstown
Accommodation at 0:19, and on return from
camp will leave Baltimore at 4:30 and arrive
at Rockville at 622 p M. This will enable
persons from here to attend camp and re-
turn the same day.
Any housekceper who sends at once the
names of five married ladies, at same ad-
dress, and 12two-cent stamps for postage, will
receive free for one entire gear, handsome,
entertaining and instructive Domestic Jour
nal, devoted to Fashions, Fancy Work, Dec
Grating, Shopping, Cooking and Household
matters Best paper published for ladies'.
Eoay h0usekeeper aoants 1t. Regular price,
$100 Must send nOW. Address Domestic
Journal, Nunda, N. Y.
During the past two, weeks the farmers
generally in Frederick county have been
busily engaged in thrashing their wheat.
From all sections the yield and quality are
reported to be unusually large and fine.
In Woodville district, for instance, where
the soil is not considered the best in the
county, Weldon Clary raised $40 bushels
on ten-acre field, an average of 81 bushels
per acre The aggregate crop in Frederick
county will, it is thought, reach at least
100000 bushels.
We are informed that the fields that
yielded Mr.. II. b. Farquhar such large
crop Of wheat the present season and of
, whichi there has been so much said, have
been surveyed by Mr.. Allen Farquhar to
acquire the exact number of acres and the
yield per acre. One field Of 29i acres pro-
duced as bushels per acre; the second one
of 53s averaged 40 bushels per acre. The
first field was reported previously to con-
tain 27i acres and to have produced AZ
bushels per acre.