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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1889-06-14
COmus Items.

The lady members of the NJ. 4. Church
South Of Comus gave pleasant entertain
ment at Mt. Vernon Hall last week, the
purpose of which was to raise the means TO
pay for fine new organ recently purchased
for their church. The evening was chilly,
but the chilling effects of the weather, the
ice-cream and the lemonade were speedily
removed by the genialitY of the ladies and
gentlemen who had charge of the entertain
ment. Brother Wesley Maxwell, the founder
of the church at Comus, and his little band
of associates always give good measure,
heaped up and running over, whether it be
of ice cream and cake, hospitality or sound
Christian doctrine. The affair was sue
cess, and the organ, which was tried with
good effect by our teacher, Miss Nettie Nj.
Rice, was pronounced by all present to be
fine one.
Miss Rice will not teach our school next
year. We trust that a teacher as competent
as she may be obtained for the school, for
her work for our young people in the last
three years has been good one.
canal is u sad one. The freshet has settled
the canal question forever.
There have been no marriages or deaths
recently.
Wheat never looked better; corn needs
work.
Summer boarders from the cities are ar
irving at our village.
Miss May Selman had visit from
cousin, Miss Beardsey, OF Arkansas, last
week.
Miss Miller, who remained in the neigh
borhood for some time, returned TO her home
in Ontario, Canada.
Mrs l. N. Emmert has been quite sick
since she entered her new home among us.
The people Of Comus extend to her and
hers their best and kindest wishes
May 10, 1889 y.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1889-06-14
Germantown Items.

The recent rains did considerable damage
in various ways around this place, washing
corntields to pieces, tearing down fences
&c.
Mr.. Horace Belt, OF Washington, ID. c.,
has rented the Spates cottage, near this
place, for the Summer.
MIR. John Il. Rail, Of Baltimore, has en-
gagged board for himself and family with +.
l.. Waters, OF this place.
Mr.. j. Il. Wallick, who has been danger.
ously i'll Tor sometime with an acute attack
of rheumatism, is slowly improving.
A pic mic was given in school house grove,
near old Germantown, ON the 10Th instant,
for the benefit Of the Germantown brass
band and is said TO have been quite a sue
cess.
The negroes have had II jolly time dur
ing the holidays, as numbers. ol fights at
pic MICS are reported, and cut arms and
black eyes are seen on all sides.
June IL, 1889 f..
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1889-06-14

Lameness In Horses -Lamcness OF ev-
cry kind and wounds of every description
ere carefully treated in DIR. Woods new
book. Francis Wood, V. S., Washington;
d. G., post.ofiice box GA.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1889-06-14
On SATURDAY, 2sth day of June, 1886
at the hour Of 3 o'clock, P. NJ

at the hour of O'Clock, p.
all the property mentioned and described in
the mortgage from the said William 7. Aud
and Susan V. Aud, his wife, to Martha Poole,
dated the 10Th day of May, 1876, and record
ed among the Land Records Of said Mont
gomery county, in Liber B. p No. 10,
folios 2ls, &c, being the farm upon which
the said William Z. Aud now resides.
This farm is situated on the public road
leading from Poolesville 10 Edwards Ferry,
is FIVE miles distant from Poolesville and one
fourth OF II mile from the Chesapeake ADD
| Ohio Canal at Edwards Ferry, adjoins the
lands Of 4. Il. Jarboe, the beirs OF the late
Thomas Chiswell and William Seneca Veirs,
| and contains
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1889-06-14

handmade, Long Filler Cigars are only 10
be found at Owens Drug Store.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1889-06-14

Judgment Reversed.-On the 18th in
slant the Maryland Court of Appeals made
the following decision, Judge Alvey deliv-
ering the opinion: Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad VS.. William II. Carr, judgment re-
versed and new trial awarded. Carr pur-
chased a round trip ticket from Rockville TO
Washington. He went to Washington, and
when he went back to the Washington de-
pot to return to Rockville he was refused
permission to go through the gate. The
proof was that the gong for the departure
of the train had sounded, but for some cause
the train WAS delayed and Carr could have
gotten on it if he hal been allowed 10 pass
through the gate. Carr got verdict fol
$3.50. The Court Of Appeals reverses the
judgment because the court below erred in
its instruction as to the measure Of damages
Mr.. Calvin 5. Bruce has been elected chair
| man of the Democratic national committee
to fill the unexpired term Of the late VIM
| n Rarnum
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1889-06-14
1867 ACRES OF LAND

HVNTE VTt FFT's''Ji
about len acres Of which are in good Oak
and Hickory timber, and the balance is ara
BILE land of good quality, well watered and
under good fencing.
IT.. ;,a,rn,.,nants conaist In a I.roa Frama
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1889-06-14
WASHINGTON CITY, D. G.
THE THOMAS

Hand and Self Dump Hay Rakes aud
Feeders
The Syracuse Arch Steel. Frame.
Spring Tooth HARROW. with detach
able point. which can be removed for
ten cents each. Bckford Il Huffman. or
Farmers Favoritc) DRILLS, with Fer
tilzer and Grass Seed Attachments
CORN PLANTERS, with and with
out Fertilizer Attachments
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1889-06-14
Hamburg STEEI. PLOWS,
ROAD CARTS.

FARM CARTS. We keep in stock Buggy
Carriage, Wagon aud Plow Harness, Whips,
Hair Collars, Riding Brides and Saddles,
harness Oil and Soap, Brushes, Combs, Feed
Boxes aud Racks, Carriage and Wagon Jacks,
Howard's Patent Wagon Springs. Full. line OF
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1889-06-14

LOG, 600 Feet Seasoned No. 3 Floor
ing-virgioia Pine, mostly lG feet long
for sale at $l4 80 per Thousand feet, delivered
on cars.
This is old stock, thoroughly seasoned, and
must be sold to make room for new stock oil
South CAROLINA Flooring to arrive.
First come first served" At
SMITHS LUMBER YARD,
Opposite Baltimore and Ohio Depot,
Washington, D. @.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1889-06-14
Projected Railroads.

PPOiect ted Railroads.&c. is rumored
that IA number d! prominent and Influential
citizens Of Medley's district have in contem.
plation the construction Of II railroad from
Poolesvile to Sclman's station The dis
lance is about four miles, and the grade is
comparatively light one. Weunderstand
that the b u O. Company have signifed
their willingness to stock and run the road
when constructed.
On Saturday last several leading and sub
stantial gentlemen near Seneca or5aniZ at II
movement looking 10 the building Of a rail
road from Seneca TO Choppers Station-the
sum of $4,000 was subscribed, and it was
ascertaned that many OF those through
whose lands the contemplated road would
be likely 10 pass have signified their inten
ton to give the right of way. Tne distanc
between the two points is some seven miles
and some portions Of the grade are said to
be heavy. These movements have been ne
cessitated by the destruction OF the canal.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1889-06-14
Trustees Sale {!

DY VIRTUE of Decree Of the Circuit
ID Court Tor Montgomery county, as n
Court Of Equity, passed in cause in said
Court wherein William W. Poole, Admins
traitor of Martha Poole, deceased, is plaintiff
and William r. Aud and Susan V. Aud, his
wife, are defendants, the subscriber, rs Trus-
tee, will Offer at public sale TO the highest
bidder, ia front OF the Store Of Vernon
Hempstone, in the town of Poolesville, in
said Montgomery county,
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1889-06-14
Closing Exercises of the Graded

Closing Exercises of the Graded
SchOOl.-'rhe closing exercises of the pub
lie school of this town will take place at
the Town Hall ON this friday evening
The exercises will consist OF recitations and
songs with instrumental accompaniment
Everything of comic character will be ex-
cluded from the programme. The evening
programme of exercises is intended as an
offering of gratitude on the part of the pu-
pills of the school to their parents and friends
for educational privileges SO literally be-
slowed through the public school system
Patrons and friends of the schools Of the
town and neighborhoOd are cordially in
vited to be present. Doors will be opened
at 7:30 p. NJ, and the exercises will com
mence promptly at O'Clock.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-09-19
Crowded rhOrOughfares.

A recent statistical publication of the
city of Berlin gives information concern
ing the number ol persons who pass daily
along the most crowded thoroughfares of
that city. In the Leipziger strasse, be-
tween the Leipziger platz and the Will
helm strasse, in February, 1878, were 43,-
GA persons every eighteen hours; on the
Jannowitz bridge during every eighteen
hours in December, 1883, were $4,000 per-
sons At the same time some $4,000 per-
SONS were passing over the Oranien bridge.
In April, 1884, 58,753 passed every sixteen
hours through the NUM- strasse, between
the Grenadier and Kaiser Wilhelm strasse.
In the same month the number of pedes-
trians in short stretch of the Getraudiel
strasse was 47,5O6 exery sixteen hours.
The daily travel of pedestrians over the
London bridges is estimated to be: Over
London bridge, 11O525; Blackfriars, 79, 1873;
Westminster, 44,46O; Waterloo, 32,815. In
the work lies Traveaux Publics de
France" Paris, 1874, the number of persons
daily crossing the Pont Neuf, in 1912 al
ready $4,000, is estimated to be about
$4,000.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-09-19
To view the SUMS Eclipse....The
Head Of the Expedition.

The total eclipse of the sun, to take place
on December %. will be invisible in the
United States, except at Capes Sable and
Hatteras. whore it will end atsunrise. Con-
Rress, however, has appropriated five thou
sand dollars to defrsy the expenses of an
American observing party, who will pro-
ceed to Africa before long, and are busily
preparing for the trip. We print portrait
of the eminent man who will be at the
head of the expedition. /.
David Peck Todd, of Amherst. is the son
of Serene Edwards Todd, and was born at
Lake Ridge, New York. March 19, 1855.
He studied at Columbia College. New York,
and at Amherst College, where he was
graduated in 1875. In August OF that
year he was appointed assistant to the
United States Transit of Venus Commis-
sion, and spent three years at work in re-
ducing the obserservations of the transit
expedition of 1874. In 1875 he was elected
q member Of the Washington Philosophical
Society: of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science in 1877, and q
Fellow of the same in 1881. He is o men,
her of several f.reign learned societies. In
1878 Professor Tood was sent by the United
States Government to Dallas, Texas, to OBJ
serve the solar eclipse of July Goth, and on
his return in 1879 was appointed assistant
and computer in the Office of the "Ameri'
can Ephcmeris and Nautical Almanac" In
| 1881 he was called to Amherst College, ano
accepted . profeesorship in astronomy. Tht
| 70 lowing year he was appointed teacher O
astronomy and mathematics in Smith Col
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-09-19

American Member of the Venezuelan
Mission.

The Venezuelan Commission is now in
session at Washington. Its members are
engaged in studying the articles Of the last
convention and the preceding treaties and
the various acts of the governments of the
United States and Venezuela in relation to
the claims Senor De Audyade is the Ven
esuelan commissioner and John Little the
American. S. F. Phillips, of North Carolina,
is the third member or arbitrator. We give
q portrait of the American member.
John Little was born in Greene county,
Ohio, in 1887. He learned to be farmer and
mechanic when boy. In 1862 he was
graduated at Antioch College, and was ad-
lnitted to the bar in 1865 He has been
prosecuting attorney, member of the Ohio
Assembly, and twice Attorney General of
his State. Mr.. Little was professionally en-
gagged in the Florida Presidential contest
before the Returning Board at Tallahassee
in 1876. He was selected by the Ohio au-
tborities in 1886, at the time of the Payne
investigation, to represent the State in the
matter, and he appeared a. the States At
torney before the Senate Committee. Mr..
Little was q member of the Forty-ninth
Congress-
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-09-19
JOHN BURNS.
The SOcialistic Agitat0r and Leader
oft London Labor Strike.


The head of the strikers in London is q
man from thirty to thirty-five years old.
He is working engineer by trade. For
ten years he has been stump speaker and
a leader of discontented labor. His arrest
on several occasions did less to keep him
within bounds than his election last spring
as member of the new County Council of
London. Little public notice was taken of
him until 1885, when he was q candidate
for membership in the House of Commons.
He was badly defeated. His next promi-
nent situation before the authorities and
the public was in February, 1886, when he
was arrested as the leader of the rioters
who started from Trafalgar Square on an
alleged mission ofplunder He was prosecut-
ed for this offeDse, but the jury disagreed.
Burns was not 80 fortunate on Novem-
ber 13, 1887, when he was clubbed by the
police as he wa leading procession of
Radicals and Socialists in their attempt to
possess themselves of Trafalgar Square.
The sequel to this performance was three
months Imprisonment in addition to the
clubbing. As member of the London
County Council be has been useful and, for
him, quiet not to say conservative. Burns
does not work at his trade, but is paid
agitator. He is a good and powerful
speaker and fairly well informed man.
His home is in Dattersea, London, where
his figure is familiar. Burns is about
middle height, hairy and noticeable man,
stern and resolute and of powerful physi-
cal proportions. He is a married man.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-09-19

A.. from, the outer world you pass
just where the forest sEirts tne Piaah-
An o,,en book lies on the grass,
And there for years untouched mas iAin
The leaves are yellow now with age,
But one may read In letters nee,
As tba wind turns the ragged page
The blotted name-PhilosoPhy'
,Tis said a student one day stood u
Outside the bounds. when on MIN ioii
The mystic power Of that wooo;
And Love cast over him SPELL
Then long he strove to enter there;
But guardian spirits In array
Prevented him, until dispair
Had made him throw the pooK AWAY
And then when he at length had cast
The stern Philosophy ASIDE: H..
Love bade him enter-held Nun ias'
A. conoueror of Self and Pride.
And now, in dim, enchanted DOCKS
Ruled by low g that never IHns'
He seeks not sympathy OF books
Love whispers to him fairy taies'
Outside. swept by the wind and RAM
Philosophy, uncared for, nes;
II cannot enter Loves domain;
II was not meant for paradise.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-09-19
Her Perennial Experience.
Washington Post.

tWasnlngtOn fOet
One day while living at Beaufort, s. G,
said gentleman the other day, the young
colored nurse in my family came in with
terrible lugubriohs face. Around her head
was wound white cloth, which extended
fully two feet above.
"What on earth is the matter, lilly ?"
said my wife.
"Oh, Is seekin'."
"What are you seeking?"
"I's seekin' ligion."
"Do you have to wear that when You are
seeking religson?"
'Oh yes, miss. has to weah dat to
mortify de flesh"
That afternoon she came to her mistress
and said:
II cyarnt tex keer de chin dis after
noon. I'se got to 60 to de woods An wras-
ale wild de spirit"
She "wrassled" for four days, and finally
came in with beaming countenance and
with the cloth taken from her head. She
had found Jesus and had been baptized.
"Tilly," said, do you have to 60 through
that performance every time you get re-
ligion?"
"Yes, Marse Thompson"
"How many times have you been bap-
tized in the course of your life ?"
about 'leben times"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-09-19

A Tale From Boston Which Carries
With it Universal Moral.

There was told in my hearing the other
day tale which carries with it q moral,
writes Arlo Bates in the Providence Jour-
nal. A gentleman who travels good deal,
being b bachelor with good fortune and
a plenty of leisure, has, when in town q
suite of rooms at the house of his married
sister, He returned recently from trip
rather Unexpectedly, reaching home in the
evening. His sister, who received him,
apologized for the fact that his apartment
was not wholly in order.
1--WE have q new chambermaid," she ex-
planned, "and I haven't wanted to tell her
too many things at once, and as l didn't
know you were coming didn't bother her
about you room. l will send her up the
first thing in the morning"
In the morning the new chambermaid
did, indee !, come the first thing, and the
gentleman was still in bed. He, however,
slipped into his dressing room to remain
until the maid should do whatever was
necessary in his chamber, and taking his
book he sat down to read while he was
waiting. He always carried with him q
diamond ring, which had been his mothers
WulCu uO 6OulCUtAnCC VOAO oho OOAAS0iAASc
had in his pocket. This he had left, with
his watch, on the stand by the head of his
bed.
He sat reading for some time, and even
after he heard the maid 60 out he kept on
with his book. Suddenly he heard slight
noise in his chamber, and folding his dress
ing gown about him, he opened the door
and looked in. The chamber was ap-
parently empty, but his eye was caught by
q chord which seemed to extended from the
open window toward the bed. Going for
ward to examine this, he perceived mon
key, till then hidden from sight by the
bed, that, with his diamond ring in his
clutches, was making off. The owner of
the ring shouted and ran forward. when
the thievish animal dropped it's prey and
skurried out of the window as fast as his
skinny little legs would carry him, and,
picking up the jewel to assure himself that
it was all right, the gentleman reached the
window in time to see an organ-grinder
making off with the monkey on his shOul-
der. There was no doubt that he had
trained the beast to climb into windows
and steal any valuable upon which he
could lay hands, and the incident may
serve as warning to those who allow
organ monkeys to scramble at will over
their chamber. blinds and windows.
But the impressive aspect of the story,
if one considers, is the position in which
the chambermaid would have been put
had the owner of the ring appeared on the
scene but q moment later. The girl was
new in the house, there had no one but
herself entered the room, the ring would
have been missed almost Immediately, and
the circumstantial evidence would have
been overwhelmingly against her. As it
was, she never knew how great peril she
escaped. But the man who tells the story
declares that he shall never be able to be-
lieve in circumstantial evidence again.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-09-19

When in the halcyon days of old. was little
used to fish in pickerel ponds for minnows and
And. oh. the bitter sadness with which my soul
When / rsmbled home at rightfall with the
puny string I'd caught
And. oh, the indignation and the valor I'd dis
When / claimed that all the biggest fish I'd
caught had got away!
Sometimes 1t was the rusty hooks, sometimes
the fragile lines,
And many times the treachFrous reeds would
foil my just designs;
But whether hooks or lines or reeds were actu-
kept right on at losing all the monsters just
Inever lost a little fish-yes, am free to say
II always was the biggest fish caught that got
away.
And so II was. when later on, felt ambition
From calIow minnow joys to nobler greed for
found it quite convenient when the beauties
wouldn't bite
And returned all bootless from the watery
To feign a CHEEKY aspect, and recount in accents
How The biggest fish that 1 had caught had
somehow got away.
And really, fish look fbigger than they are,
before they're eau Mt ,
When the pole Is bent into a bow, and the
slender line Is taut
When a fellow feels his heart rise like a dough-
nut IN his throat,
And he lunges in frenzy up and down the
leaky boat!
Oh, you who've been a f-hiDg will indorse me
when cay
That 1t always is the biggest fish you catch that
gets away!
IT'S even so In other things-yes, In our greedy
eyes
The biggest boon is some Elusive, never cap
tured prze; j..
We angle for the honors and the sweets OF
h man life
Like fishermen, we brave the seas that roll In
strife;
And then at last when all is done, and we are
spent and gray.
We own the biggest fish we've caught are those
that got away.
would not have 1t otherwise; tits better there
should be
Much bigger fish than 1 have caught q swim
ming in the sea;
For now some worthier one than l may angle
for that game
May by his arts entice. entrap and comprehend
the same;
Which, having done, perchance he'll bless the
man who's proud to say
That the biggest fish he ever caught were those
that got away.