Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1858-08-13
The WASHINGTON AQuEDucr. The

for the construction of the Washington
Aqueduct, Captain MEIGs, being unable
to agree with the Great Falls Manufac-
turing Company for the purchase of a
portion of Conn's or Bishops Island,
which is required for the construction of
dam to turn the water of the Potomac
into the Washington Aqueduct, and also
for portion Of the water power at the
Great Falls-the right to which is claim
ed by said compauy-caused jury to
be summoned to assess the damages
which said company would sustain by
the construction of the dam and the alb
stracting one-eighteenth part of the wa
ter from the Potomac river.
The jury assembled on the premises
on Monday last, and continued their in
spection until Tuesday evening, when
the cause was adjourned to this place
for trial. We presume that the exami-
nation of testimony and argument in the
cause, will consume the whole of the
present week.
We have never before seen such an
array of counsel in any cause, in this
county, as is present on this occasion.
There are, on the part of the Z States,
Messrs. Brewer, Of this place; Ould and
Caperton, of Georgetown and Caring
ton, of Washington, d. C. On the part
of the Company, Messrs. Bowie, Bouic
and Kilgour, of this place: ex-Governor
Lowe, of Frederick city; Messrs Scott,
Pendleton, Strother, and Love, of Vir-
ginia; and Chiffon, of Washington city,
The following gentlemen compose the
jury:
Francis Valdenar, w. Thompson, of r.
DR.. f.. p. Duvall, Charles Saf1e,
/ Thomas Fawcett, Thomas Iansdale,
James Perry, Reuben Dorsey,
DR.. c. A Harding VIM. H. Farrer,
DIR. A. II Sommers, David A. Zeigler,
James G.. Howes, Capt w Chiswell
Capt.Z. T. johnson, John II. Gassaway,
Jonathan b. Benson.
We shall give a full account of this
case in our next issue.
RECORD YOUR DEEDS By an act of
the late Legislature of Maryland, chap
ter 30S, it is declared that all deeds pro-
perly executed and acknowledged, no
matter of how long standing, shall be
made valid under the act Of 1856, chap
ter 154, provided the same be recorded
within six months from the 9th of March
last, the day on which the act was passed
The act of 1856, chapter 1874, required
all deeds to be recorded within six months
after the date of acknowledgment, but,
as it introduced the simplfed forms Of
conyeyancing, many persons, it seems,
either from misapprehension or neglect
still retain deeds in their possession which
only need recording to become valid and
ei1cctual on or before the Sth of Septem-
Der next.
SLAyE-HoLDERs' MEETING AT CAM
BRlDGE.-The adjourned meeting for the
protection of the shareholders in Dor
chester county, took place at Cambridge,
Nd, on Monday last. Addresses were
delivered by the Hon. James A. Stew
art, Hon. Daniel NJ. Henry, and +. w.
Thomas, Esq. Resolutions were adopt
cd in favor of holding convention OF
the shareholders Of the Eastern Shore
in order to adopt measures of protection.
Il TELEGRAPnING MESSAGES FOR LONDON
The Boston Traveller reports that two
business messages from New York mer-
chants to their correspondents in Eng
land, passed through the American Tel
egraph office on Thursday, en- route for
London. One of them, containing fifty
seven words, paid through, ffy-sevcn
dollars, and the other twenty-seven words
for which twenty-seycn dollars were
paid.
CRoPs IN KANSAS. "A letter dated
Ossawatomic, July u, says: Crops arc
I going to be enormous this season. -
Wheat has been secured in good condi-
ton, and corn, if the remainder of the
season is to be as favorable as it has been
thus far, will yield beyond all precedent"
TEXAS U. S. SENATOR. The Tyler
I CTcxas) Reporter of the 22d ult. says
that Gov Runnels has appointed Col.
Matt. Ward, of Cass, a United States
senator, to fill the vacancy occasioncd
by the death of the lamented Henderson.
ES'- Gov. Melville, of Mississippi,
has summoned an extra session of the
Legislature of that State, to meet on the
first Monday of November next
E1- On the 4th of August, 1492,
Columbus discovered America; on the
18th of August, 1858, the Niagara reach