Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1858-07-23
GENERAL NEWS.

ing the oats crop near Harrisburg, Pa.
Eg- 1t is said that coinage of double
sovereigns is shortly to be issued in Eng
land.
ES- There are eighty persons aged
70 years and upwards in Hebron, Conn,
a village of 1900 inhabitants.
Eg- Gov. Denver, having accom-
plishcd the object of his visit to Mr.. Blu
chanan, is now on his return to Kansas.
EE- Samuel Vickers, Esq, Register
of Wills of Queen Anne's county, Nd,
died at Centreville last Sunday.
EE Alex. Wilson, Esq, of Phila-
delphia, has been appointed U. S. Dis
trict Attorney for Utah.
Ey Ormand W. Hammond, of Fred
erick, Md, was among those wounded
in the late Indian battle in Oregon.
EE Rev. VIM. Barrett, pastor of St.
Thomas (Catholic) Church, in Cincin-
natl, died on Sunday last.
Eg- One thousand boxes of peaches
arrived at New York on Monday, in the
steamship Columbia, from Charleston.
EE The vegetables shipped from Nor
folk to Baltimore last week amounted in
the aggregate to 4 ,764 barrels.
ES- A farmer in Mclean county, III. i,
has 500 acres in wheat, which be an
ticipates will yield 10000 bushels.
Eg Five young ladies, inmates of the
House of Mercy, New York city, we're
drowned on Friday last, while bathing
in North River.
Gss- Col. j. H. Dunn, lately appoint
ed United States Consul to Havana, died
suddenly at Macon Miss, on the 18th
inst.
E1T The editor of the Savannah Re-
publican boasts of having received n
watermelon weighing 554 pounds on
Thursday week last.
re- 1t is proposed in South Carolina
to erect monument to Gen. Francis
Marion, the Swamp Fox" of the revo-
luton.
SAILED FOR EURopE.-The Rev. j.
N. Hank, Of the Baltimore Conference,
sailed on Saturday, in the ship Pales-
tine, from New York for London.
ET Hog cholera is causing many
deaths near Fairfield, Nelson county,
Ky. Three hundred or more hogs have
persisted within few weeks.
EFT Nebraska is our largest Terrific
ry. 1t will make about eight States as
large as New Hampshire. and is about
one-sixth the size of Europe.
YIN. T. Porter, editor CT Poy-
ter's Spirit Of the Times, and of various
sporting publications, died at his resi-
dence in New York on Sunday last.
EE- Charles Hatcher, editor of the
Free Love paper, at Berlin Heights, O.,
has committed suicide-a victim to SEN
sual fanaticism.
GSr II is now asserted that Minister
Forsyth has been instructed to withdraw
the legation from Mexico and return
home, and that Mr.. Henry, of the Army,
is bearer of'despatches to him.
Ev 1t is stated that the present Con-
sui to Liverpool, Mr.. B. Tucker, of vir-
ginia, has written his friends here that
he cannot live upon the salary of his
office and pay all the necessary expenses.
ES- The New York Express says that
the Frazer River gold fever is likely to
carry off number CT furtuno hunters
from that city by the next steamer. If
the excitement holds out, large emil
grafton will follow.
MAILS ON THE SABBATH. petition
to the Postmaster General has been got
up at Knoxville, Tenn, requesting him
to discontinue the Sunday mail through
East Tennessee. Similar petitions are
said to be on foot between Richmond and
New Orleans.
A BEoUEsr. Miss Susan Ramsburg,
late of Frederick county, Md, deceased,
bequeathed about SIC, 900 to the benevo-
lent societies of the Pipe Creek and JEFF
ferson circuits of the Methodist Protest
ant church, in trust for home missionary
purposes.
Crops IN INDrANA.-The indianapolis
Qnd } Sentinel thinks that, on the whole, |
tho crop of wheat in that State will ex-
iced that of last year. In Laporte coun-
" alone it is estimated there will be a
'urplus of 100000 bushels for shipment.
The grass crop is fine all over the State.
OATS are unequal in some localities an
Iverage crop. while in others there is
lmost total failure.
A DANGEROUS GANG or COUNTERFEIT
RS. 1t seems that arrests have recent