Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1895-07-19
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Town and Country.

The pastor will preach In the Iravilah
Baptist church next Sunday at $3.50 P. NJ.
The stock of goods In the drug store OF
the late DIR. d. F. Owens is being sold out
at cost.
Rev. L. II. Milbourne will preach in the
Baptist Church, Rockville, next Sunday
morning and night
Forty Hours Devotion will commence in
St. Mary's Church, Rockville, on Sunday,
July 2lst, at 1890 A. M.
Church, Rockville, on Sunday, July 2lst,
at3P. M. All are invited.
Rev. H. M. Canter will preach in the M.
E. Church South, Emory, next Sunday at
II A. M, and Goshen at $3.50 P. M.
Mrs. Farrall was acquitted in La Plata,
Charles county, Tuesday of the charge Of
poisoning her husband with strychnine.
Rev. T. j. hewitt will preach in Rockville
M. E. Church South next Sunday at II A.
M. and P. M, and Potomac at P. NJ.
The Clerk of the Court for this county
has issued marriage license to the follow
ing parties; David H. King and Cordelia
Drudge.
Messrs. Anderson & Bouic, trustees, on
Saturday last sold the Dove farm, near Ger
mantown, containing "a acres of land, to
Calvin Engle, for 1891.
Itch on human, manage on horses, dogs
and all stock, cured in 80 minutes by Wool
ford's Sanitary Lotion. This never fails
Sold by D F. Owens, Rockville.
The young ladies' of st. Peters Parish,
Poolesville, will give festival on the rec
tory lawn, on Friday, July 26lh, from to
9P.M. Proceeds for the benefit Of Sunday
School library.
There will be an ice cream festival at
the Germantown M. E. Church, in the grove,
on Thursday, July 25th, commencing at 8
P. M. If Thursday be rainy, it will take
place Friday. All are invited.
The great Baptist Convention Of Young
People in Baltimore this week is overflow
ing the big tent with numbers and enthu-
siasm. A number of delegates and visitors
from Rockville are attending this meeting.
A hog belonging to Mr.. BAIL Burrows, of
Layhill, died few days ago from pro-
nounced case of hydrophobia. A strange
dog passed through the neighborhood few
weeks before and was known to have bitten
the hog while in a pasture lot.
Mr.. M. L. Littlefield, of Lay Hill, has re-
Gently sold to George T. Cashell the farm,
containing 1928 acres, that formerly belonged
TO the late Stephen l.. F. Holland. Also,
house and lot, the property of Albert Sta
bier, TO Lloyd Monkey, of Washington, for
$500 cash.
Episcopal Church services will be in
augurated at Garrett Park next Sunday,
July 2lst, at 4;30 p. M, and continue there
alter each Sunday at the same hour. The
services will be conducted by the Rev. II
Allen Griffith, Rector of st. Johns, Chevy
Chase. The service will be held in the
Garrett Park school house.
There will be convention of the Prohi-
bitionists OF Montgomery county to meet at
Gaithersburg, on Tuesday 23rd, at 10 A. NJ,
for the purpose of nominating candidates
for the county offices and to nominate dele
gates TO attend the State convention, which
meets at Glyndon, on August LIST, at which
time candidates will be nominated for State
offices.
A dispatch from Gaithersburg says: Sun
day as Mr.. Joseph Wood, Of Washington,
was riding along the county road to visit
Mr.. II. B. Brooks, near here, two unknown
colored men came from the woods, halted
him, and robbed him OF the money and val
uables upon his person. Before he could
give the alarm the men had made good their
escape.
The Salvation Army will hold camp
meeting during the first five days OF August
at W Washington Grove, which promises to be
most interesting occasion. 1t will be the
first time that the Salvation Army has held
camp meeting there, or indeed anywhere
near Washington, its camp meetings in this
vicinity having hitherto been held at Glyn.
don, Md.
George Richter, mulatto residing in the
neighborhood OF Germantown, was brought
here last week and lodged in Jail, charged
with committing felonious assault upon
the person of Mary Proctor, colored, of that
vicinity. on the previous Sunday night She
charges that the assault was made while on
her way home from church. Richter will
be held for court.
On Friday evening last, during the pro-
gress of tournament and pic mic about
mile west of Jamestown, a considerable
row occurred In which man named John
Carter was cut in the side with knife, said
TO have been in the hands Of one Angelo
Grimes Grimes was arrested next day,
brought here and lodged in Jail. He after
wards gave bail and will have a hearing
next week.
The first of series of games for the
championship pennant between the clubs OF
Howard, Prince Georges, Anne Arundel
and Montgomery counties was played at
the Fair Grounds, this place, on Saturday
afternoon last and attracted large crowd.
The contestants were the Laurel club and
the Athletics of this town. The game was
played in the best hnmor on both sides and
at the close the score stood 25 to In favor
Of the home team.
A number of persons in Rockville wit
messed the brilliant phenomenon of large
meteor flying across the sky about 9;l5 last
Wednesday night. The track of the meteor
deviated slightly from due north and south
line 1t moved from a point east Of south
through the zenith toward a point west oil
north. AS it sped on its course the meteor
threw out an intense blue light, and bril-
liant particles like sparks appeared To be
scattered in its path.