Montgomery County sentinel., 1888-07-06

Town and Country.

Big bargains in summer footwear can be
found in Hahn's new ad.
OF all good flours Royal York is the best
s. d. Higgins & Son, Agent.
Walter Sommers has resigned the posi-.
ton of lamp-lighter of Rockville.
On the second Sunday in July Rev. Jas
r, Graham, Jr., will preach in the Rock.
vile Presbyterian church.
For the whitest and most nutritious bread
use Royal York Flour s. d. Higgins &
Son, Agent.
The name of Brooks postoffice, Washing.
ton, d. c., Chas. f. Padgett, postmaster. has
been changed to Brookland.
The tax rate for 1889 in this county has
been fixed at $1.10 on the hundred dollars,
which is two more cents than in 1885,
All the counties, as well as the city of
Baltimore, will have 10 provide new ballot
boxes, to conform to the new election law.
Mr.. Thomas G. Groomes, contractor, has
commenced the erection of fine three
story mansion for Mrs. r. T. Veirs. in this
place.
The whitest, worst looking hair, resumes
its youthful beauty and softness by using
Halls Vegetable Sicilian Hair Remover.
Try it.
A bill to incorporate the Georgetown and
Tennallytown Railroad COMPANY was re-
ported in Congress on Monday last and
! iiiAned "a siie uaiendas. =
High prices have been "kuocked out" at
Adlers Ten Per Cent Clothing House, on
9TH street, Washington, d. G. Read his
new ad. and give him call
Cooke ID. Luckett, real estate agent, has
sold Commodore Badgers handsome resi-
dence, overlooking the Fair Grounds, to
Mrs. Jane r. Codwise for SO 800 cash.
The survey OF Rockville was begun on
Monday last by Mr.. Minor Anderson and
his assistants. The town limits comprise
Railroad.
The teacherships of Unity and Brooke
vile public schools are vacant. Miss Dove,
who has been teaching in the latter school,
has received an appointment to Wayside
school near here.
The Fourth of July was spent quietly by
the citizens of this town. The national flag
was thrown to the breeze by some few per.
sons, and the children amused themselves
exploding fire crackers.
Rev. J. A. Hopkins, of Bethany College,
West Virginia. has been engaged by the
Christian church to take charge Oi the
churches of this denomination at Rockville
and Hyattstown for the next three months
May Brothers, Nurserymen, Rochester,
N Y, are in want of good statesmen to sell
their choice varieties oil nursery stock, either
on salary or commission. TO the right men,
steady employment the year around. Write
them for terms.
The Rev. Father James Cunningham, for
mer pastor Of St. Mary's Catholic church,
this place, will go to England and Ireland
on the 1lth instant, for four months alb
sence, and in the early fall he will go to
Rome.
Messrs. M. Hackett and Chas. W. Good
love, OF the United States Geological Sur
vey, are located here, and are engaged in
making survey OF that portion of the
county lying south Of the Metropolitan
Branch Railroad.
Sufferers from chills aud tever, who have
used quinne as Il remedy, will appreciate
Ayers Ague Cure. This preparation, if
taken according to directions, is warranted
a sure cure. Residents in malarial districts
should not be without II.
There is man living in Georgia, eighty
one years old, who has never taken chew
of tobacco nor smoked cigar, never was
drunk, never swore, and never married.
And yet he probably thinks that "he knows
it all" notwithstanding.
Mr. Allen E. Wilson, son of J. Henry
Wilson, of Georgetown, and Miss Filth M.
Bushby, youngest daughter Of WIN. Bush
by, of Virginia, were quietly married in
Washington on Monday evening last. The
parties are wei KNOWN mere.
There will he an all. days meeting held ia
the grove adjoining Mount Carmel NJ. P.
Church, near Unity, on Sunday, July 9Th,
commencing at 10 O'Clock. Prominent min
listers from Washington and Baltimore have
been invited and will be present
The Gazette, published at Upper Marl-
boro', Prince Georges county, this week en-
ters upon its fifty third volume. Although
far advanced in years this Journal shows
no sign of decrepitude, and is one of most
ably conducted Democratic papers of the
State.
The following Washingtonians have taken
rooms at the Montgomery House, this place,
for the summer; Mrs. b. X. Walker, Mrs.
r. A. West, J. II Eldridge and wife, Il. ID.
Gambrill and wife, J. H. Hinton, w. Van
Hoy, A X. Balloch, A. b. Appler, and b.
W. Moore.
No medicine is more conscientiously pre-
pared, more powerful, or more highly con-
centrated than Ayers Sarsaparilla. Its
standard of excellence is the result of care
iul study. This preparation ls acknoWl-
edged by the medical profession TO be the
best blood purifier.
The police have completed their work OF
taking the census OF the District of Colum-
bia, and the returns show that the popula-
ton of Washington city is now nearly 227,
600 The census taken in 1885 showed the
population to be 203, ,459, and these figures
show an increase in three years of 23,541.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad has paid
to Mr.. Stevenson Archer, State Treasurer
1896, 900 due the State of Maryland on &C
count of the bonded debt created by the tax
settlement act of 1878. The State is over one
third million better off, and the railroad is
relieved of fixed charge of over 5000 q
year.
Judge Brooke was at Upper Marlboro
last week and passed sentence upon Lemuel