Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1885-11-20
Potomac Items. aar
The yield Of corn is not as good as was
generally supposed.

Potomac Items. sse
The yield Of corn is not as good as was
generally supposed.
The new school house built about half a
mile north OF Potomac Chapel was occupied
by Miss L. Clagett last Monday, the old one
being vacated.
Some few cases of scarlatina are reported
in the neighborhood.
More damage was done to the new dam
than was at first supposed. Some stone in
the walls were moved sixty yards below, and
one or more gaps made in the walls where
not protected by rip rapping, &c. 1t is said
it is hardly possible to complete the work
this season.
Major Lydecker. W. b. Webb and Judge
4. Totten, District Commissioners, and Maj.
Maun paid an official visit to the new works
at the Great Falls the first of the week. We
don't know what will be done with the
fishway, but presume il will he abandoned
for the year.
Mr.. Jno +. Lyons, the contractor of the
fishway, visited the Falls last week and
paid all his employees and other bills con-
tracted to date. MIR. Lyons paid this large
amount from his private funds, the Govern
ment officials refusing to allow him an esti-
mate on work that had been done according
to specifications, but unfortunately the ex-
IRENE high water had taken out, and may
be total loss to him. Surely Mr.. Lyons
deserves the commentator of all. He is a
young gentleman of about "a years of age,
and this is his first venture as q contractor
The opinion of all is that he should be paid
for all work done, as it seems impracticable
to put the fishway where it is endangered by
heavy and sudden rise as the Potomac is
noted for. Col. Thomas Sheppord, with
gang of men, is at work moving material,
machinery, &C., to place of safety for the
winter.
From Is to % boats pass daily. A de-
mand for coal is made that the number of
boatmen now in the business are unable to
supply The old ditch may yet loom up.
We noticed an article signed by MI
Vcnable about the readers for our public
schools and his reasons for their being in
adequate, &c. While your humble CORE
spondent believes in progress, yet he be-
lieves II wrong TO compel parents to buy,
buy, buy books from one end of the year to
the other merely because some teacher finds
out that "sepuchre" is defined as sepulchre,
or some such little imperfections or a modi-
fication should be made. Let us appoint II
commission to make such books as would
suit the pupil, parents and the public, in
fact let US hold IL congress OF the people,
have our books printed on slab boards aud
make them Interchangeable us the Laws OF
the Modes" and posted at every corner, and
perhaps then some would be suited, pro-
ylded the slab lizard could be reversed every
Saturday night.
Miss Katie Case is in Washington on a
visit. 3-
Potomac Chapel is filled at every APP
pointment
Lex Script, your correspondent, paid II
visit TO Coesvllc and Spcncervile two
weeks since. He could not but note the
great improvements where but few years
ago pines, old fields, delapidated old planta-
tons once stood, neat and handsome dwell
lings, commodious outbuildings and signs
of thrift are in their stead. But many of
the old landmarks had gone, many faces
once familiar had died, moved away or
grown to be old. How vivldly the poets
verses flashed across my memory, when he
said:
Backward, turn backward, o Time in your
flight
Make me u child again, just Tor Tonight! p
1t seemed but yesterday Old Federal Meet
ing House was attended by a large congre-
cation. Now it is owned by J. I. Baker,
Esq, and used as hay barracks. Large plan
tations are cut into, comparatively speaking,
patches. The once muddy and billy road
to the District of Columbia is now beauti-
ful pike. So it is, it seemed, a day-dream,
but the same hospitality exits, and surely
Old Montgomery is veing with other coun
ties in the State in its progress. 1t will soon
be the garden of Maryland.
Nov. II, 1885. LEX SCRIPT.