Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1889-11-22
gufal aud gersuual.
Town and Country.

master at Sandy Spring, this county.
At DR.. Thomas new Drug Store, pure
spices, extract, vanilla, lemon. &c.
Mr.. John b. Belt is lying dangerously ill
at his residence few miles from this place.
The school board will meet here on the
Goth instant.
The letters from Pooesville and Ednor
were received too late for publication this
week.
Preparations for the formation of loan
, and trust company at this place are pro-
\ crossing favorably.
Miss Hattie Simms, of Washington city,
is at present the guest of Miss Rena Ma
loney, at this place.
Mr.. Jas. Dawson, formerly lawyer at
the Rockville Bar, has located at Rockford,
Spokane county, State of Washington.
Mr.. VIM. Reading, of this town, left at
this office, last week, turnip of his own
raising that weighed four pounds.
Ben Davis and Henry Newman, colored,
have been committed to Jail here on the
charge of violation OF the local option law.
In our columns this week are advertised
Some fine sows and pigs and we'll grown
shoats by Messrs. Mills and Mcfarland. See
ads.
Frank X. Ward, the murderer of Maurice
Adler, has been denied bail by Washing.
ton Court. The "milk of human kindness"
has soured on him.
A corps of engineers is now engaged in
running a line for a branch of the Metro
politdn Branch railroad from Forest Glen
station to Georgetown.
In Baltimore City the sentiment in favor
of high-license is raging like wild-fire-all
denominations, sects, parties and peoples
are advocating it,
Rev. Father Rosensteel, the new pastor
of st. Marys Catholic church, this place,
held his first services here or Sunday last.
A large congregation was in attendance.
A rare chance to procure first-class goods
at less than cost prices is offered by w. W.
Welsh, Assignee of the firm of S. d. Hig-
gins & Son, at this place. See ad.
Mr.. Eustace Ansley, jeweler OF this town,
has for sale high quality roll plate gold
chains for ladies and gents, warranted to
wear five years.
The third Quarterly Meeting of the Rock
vile circuit, M. E. Church South, will be
held at Potomac church on Saturday and
S,n1au Os(J ap1 0itb inotont
DIR. X. Choate announces that his office
hours are from Z to 1890 in the morning
He keeps office at $40 Indiana ave, Wash
ington, ID. G., from to Z afternoon and
evening, daily, Sunday included.
There will be union Thanksgiving SER
vice in the Methodist church, this place, on
next Thursday, at II A. M. Rev. Mr.. Mil
burn will deliver the address, and the Meth
odist, Baptist, Christian and Presbyterian
congregations will unite in these services.
The sale of splendid stock and farm i'm
plements by Mr.. Geo. r. Cashell, admins
traitor Of Thos F. Cashell, ST., takes place
on Wednesday next, at the late residence
of the deceased, one and a half miles from
Norbeck See ad.
A negro woman was struck in the head
the other day, in Washington, with a ball
fired from pistol, and to the establishment
of no one but herself, the ball rebounded,
making only flesh wound.
Bernard Mcmahon died at his residence,
near Gaithersburg, on Monday last, after
a recent stroke of paralysis, aged about 60
years His remains were inferred in the
Catholic cemetery, here, Wednesday.
A special meeting of Montgomery County
Grange, No. 7, will be held at the Rockville
Fair Grounds on Tuesday, December 3rd,
at 10 o'clock, A. NJ, to receive the report of
the executive committee of Washington
Agency, and consider business connected
with it. A full meeting is earnestly desired.
Delegates will supply their own lunch.
Cards are out for the marriage, on the 9th
instant, of Mr. II. B. Cramer and Miss Bes-
sic M. Snouffer, of Gaithersburg district !;
also for the marriage on the same day, at
Christ Episcopal church, this place, of Mr..
WIN. Wilson, of Prince Georges, and Miss
Mamie Dawson, of this county.
William Simms, colored, was committed
70 Jail here this week, charged with com
INVITING felonious assault on the person of
. = EVeline drummer, a colored woman resd-
ing near Martinsburg, this county. The
grand jury has found an indictment against
the prisoner, and the case will probably
have a serious termination.
Sales of livestock at Drovers' Rest, Mon
day, November IS, are reported by Tavenner
Bros, as follows: Cattle-best, 81 to cts.
good, 80 to 80 cents; medium, 3 to 3t cts.
common, 2t to 2f cents sheep and lambs
sheep, 81 to 4s cents; lambs, 5 to 81 cents
calves, 5 to q cents; 10 cows and calves,
$25 to $45.
Work at the Sawyer gold mine, in Poto-
mac district, is progressing finely and the
stamp mill, which has not been running for
some days. has again been put in operation
with enough rock mined and brought to the
surface to keep it running for a month. A
Few days ago piece of quartz rock as large
as flour barrel and showing large guam
tity of free gold was taken out of the mine
Many persons who have examined it pro-
nounce it the richest specimen ever taken
out in this section. Other mines in the
same locality are reported as yielding well
Mr.. Richard Walters, who resides nea
Jamestown, has lost lately three yearlinG
cattle with strange disease. They wert
taken with a sore tongue, which later be
came very raw. They lost their hair anC
their skin dry cracked, exposing the flesh
from which the blood trickled. Mr.. Wal
tiers has other cattle affected with the dis
ease, as also have Mr.. Erasmus Jones, who
has lost one head, and Mr. McAtee, who re