Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-04-04
Letter from Rockville. Md

MONTGOMERY COUNTY NEwS-BACKwARp SEA.
SON-IMPRovEMENTS, ETC.
Special Correspondence of THE EVENING STAR:
ROCKVILLE, April 4.-washington Camp
Grove, popular with so many Neutrality-suspicious..
is to have some eight or ten new cottages
Other improvements are anticipated by the
board of management, which will add greatly
to the natural attractions of the place.
The most discouraging reports continue TO be
given of the poor outlook of the wheat crop
throughout the county. Within the past three
or four days some of the largest farmers in the
county have stated that the only vegetation they
have been able to see since they seeded their
wheat was within the past few days.
Roseola is prevailing to such an extent
schools are reduced to an attendance of from 10
to 15 scholars per day.
Boyd's station. a favorite summer resort
with many from the District, is TO have new
town hall. In Rockville the new Episcopal
church and also the Baptist parsonage are TO be
driven rapidly to completion.
The board of management of the Montgomery
County Agricultural society are active in their
preparation for the spring exhibition on June
the Sd. II is thought that the friends of the So
ciety in the District will manifest much interest
in this new exhibition.
Small farms continue to be in great demand
In this county. Several sales have been con-
sumated in the last few days. The proximity
to Washington with water and rail transporta-
ton, with the heavy importation of lime and
fertIliZers for % years in any part of the county,
have bad the tendency to make lands high.
Nationai and county politics is the absorbing
IedtuTe ueTe WIFI ali Glasses. Hon. r. b. Pretty
man, who enjoys a wide popularity throughout
the state, it is said will be formidable rival for
the collectorship of Baltimore Hon. Geo. Peter,
DIR. f. E. WoOtton and VIM. y. Moberly are
mentioned in connection with the senate
from this county, whilst for every other office
to be filled this fall there is simply battalion OF
aspirants.
The EVENING STAR is a welcome visitor at
this and other points of the county on the even
ing of publication.
The New Commissioners of Agriculture.
HE rs A sLAPPER.
Washington cor II. Y. World
Mr.. Cleveland was very much pleased with
Colman, the st. Louis candidate for Agricultu
raj commissioner Congressman O'Neill, who
was specially backing Colman, felt very certain
that the President could only see him he
would be sure to appoint him. He brought
Colman on here last Friday and presented him
to the President. Colman is one of the most
enthusiastic agriculturiSts in the world. He sat
very close to the President during his interview.
He responded to every question of the President
with such a flood of technical agricultural in
formation that the President was very much
impressed with his learning and ability. Dur
ing the interview Colman became so delighted
at the good Impressions that he saw he
was making that he raised his hand to slap the
President upon the knee. The President glanced
at him Just as his hand was raised to It's full
height, and the heavy palm was checked half
way in its fall. 1t is said by those who wit
messed this interview that its most amusing
feature was the evident struggle upon the part
of Colman to control his enthusiastic right hand
from slapping the august parsonage of the Chief
Magistrate. He got through the interview, how
ever, without hitting him blow. He is the
happest man in the United states to-day over
his success. The agricultural reports of this
erudition, if the influences in his department
controlled and directed by the chief clerk do
not divert the mind of the new commissioner
from the lofty subject OF agriculture into less
worthy directions