Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-06-02
NEWS FROM ROCKVILLE.
Working of the Free Delivery System-Bap-
tist Meetings-Real Estate Matters-Notes..
Correspondence of The Evening Star


Correspondence of The Evening Star.
| ROCKVILLE. Nd, June 1, 1891
The third month of the free delivery and
collection Of mail matter at this place closed
Saturday evening with the following amount
of business for the month: Registered letters
delivered. IS; mail letters, s.276 postal cards,
702; second. third and fourth-class matter,
2,749 pieces. Local letters collected. 2S; mail
letters. $751; local postal cards. "a; mail postal
cards. POI; second third and fourth-class mat
ter. so pieces. Total number of pieces handled,
s,479 This shows an increase in the business
of the previous month of several hundred
pieces handled. and the new system is rapidly
growing in public estimation.
| Saturdays session of the ministers and lay
| mems meeting at the Baptist Church, this
| place, was one of much interest and we'll
attended. After the usual opening with re-
! ligious exercises an essay. entitled Church
Discipline, prepared by Mr.. Frank Nj. Griffith,
was read and followed by several addresses on
the same subject. Elder John Kingdom de-
| livered a forcible address on the Duties of
Churches to Pastors" and Mr.. David H. Bowie
| read an interesting essay on the same subject.
A further discussion of the same subject was
participated i'll by Mr.. VIM. Cartwright and
Rev. /. ID. ID. Clark and J. r. Milbourn, the
resident pastor.
At the 3 o'clock session Rev. T. d. d. Clark
OF Hagerstown delivered an able and impress
sive sermon, which closed the exercises for the
day.
Sunday the largest congregation pres
ent at any of the sessions listened to an able
! sermon by Rev. J. L. Lodge, DID, on "Obedi-
ence to the Law of Christ the Sole Test of
Christian Character, after which the body adj
journed to hold its next meeting in August
next at the Baptist Church in Germantown,
this county.
The following transfers of real estate have
been recorded In the Office of the clerk of the
circuit court during the past week: Emile Huck
to VIM. +. Mock. lot 2S, blk. g. Kensngton;
| S222.17. Jas. Rannie to Mary c. Cowel 60
acres; $4,000. f. G.. Davis to Ferdinand Wei
Ter, lot A, North Kensington $. b. T. Leigh
ton to j. H. Gulick, blk. %. Woodside; $40.
metropolitan Investment Company to Zacha-
riah Montgomery, 81 acres; 81 ,030.10. L. A.
Lodge to Samuel H. Pines, acres near Glen
Echo railroad: $1,000. b. F. Gilbert to Ia
koma Springs Company. lots "a. 80, blk. l6,
Launt, lot ~, blk. Z, Glen Echo: S1,209.36.
II. J. Launt to s. H. Pine, lot 10. blk. 7, Glen
Echo; 81, 511.70. Z. G.. Davis to Moses Rich, lot
:, blk. l, North Kensington $3.50. J. H. Gu
lick to Hattie H. Webster, lots 2 and 3, es-
tate of late G. C. Wilson, / acre; ~, 400.
William Meyer to John Hoffman, lots 80.
81, blk. 20, Takoma Park; $40. L. S. Carroll
to John Hoffman, lots 81 80, blk 16, Takoma
Park; $40. T. ii. Warner to Geo. c. Maynard,
$1,000 square feet of land at Burgundy; s..
10 Joshua Lowe, 4 acres; SfUU.
Joshua Lowe to Jesse Bean. acre; S25. Beulah
Thomas to j. ]. johnson, 51I acres; 81 ,O36.
Henry s. Krusen to Mary J. Homer, acres;
500. Jacob A. Gloyd to Joseph L. Gloyd. 524
| acres; So, iS1. Peter Il Henderson. trustees, TO
Wm.T. Garrison, roods and perches of land:
5000. The National Chautauqua Of Glen Echo
to Maude NJ. Crane, lot ID, blk. 8; Glen Echo;
$3.50. s. l.. Snowden to VIM. W. Darby, 80
acres: g, 500. Chas. I. Anderson to s. L. Sny-
der. acre; S29. Jno. ID. Purdum to Jas. W. Bur-
dett. sc square perches of land 8. j. kilgour
to W. o. Bohrer. acres; $. Z. Baltzley to
Emma G. Manning, lot %, blk IA, Glen Echo;
Il, 400. Same to Elizabeth L. Richards. lot So,
blk. Az. Glen Echo; sl,699. Same to L. p.
Young, lot 3s, blk. 141a, Glen Echo; Sl,S94.20.
Same to Hannah Z. Eddy, lot 81, blk. 1415,
| Glen Echo; 1854. Same to same, lot g. blk.
l5 Glen Echo; S1,16I. Same to same, lots 20
and 80, blk. 81, Glen Echo; 1854. Same to
Samuel II. Eddy, lot l, blk. 70, Glen Echo;
| u. 964.75.
months transfer agent at Shepherd. the termi-
| nus of the Alexandria branch of the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad, has been appointed assistant
agent at the depot at this place and has en-
tered upon the duties Of the place.
The copious rains of the past week have had
| a very beneficial effect on the growing crops i'll
this county and will greatly increase the yield
of wheat, oats and hay.
DIR. Charles J. Maddox of this place, who was
badly injured on Thursday last by falling into
an excavation in the basement of the new court
house building, is still confined to his bed,
though mendIng slowly.
During the first week in Nav an assault was
committed on Mr.. VIM. Mountjoy at Takoma
Park railway station by several coiored men, who
afterward made their escape without arrest. The
case was put in the hands of Deputy Sheriff s.
III. Jones, who has since been on the lookout
for the assailants of Mountjoy, and finally To-
Gated them at West End Park this place. where
they have been employed as laborers for some
a ho,, l.