Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1859-03-25
GENERAL NEWS.

begin to tell US that there will be no
peaches this season.
&c" A writer in the Port Tobacco
Times recommends Gen. Walter Mitch
ell for Congress from this District,
AMERICANS IN ROME Over one hun
drod Americans we're soiourning in Rome
during the last week in February.
E8' Ex-Gov. Campbell, of Virginia,
died at Abingdon, in that State, on the
18th instant, aged about eighty years
GfT A bill to prohibit the marriage of
white with black persons has passed the
Wisconsin Legislature.
Re- No less than three hundred per-
sons were burnt to death in the city Of
London during the year 1858
E9 George P. Morris, Esq, editor
of the Home Journal, has been appointed
U, s. Consul to lIavre, France.
Ee" It is said that one of the strong
minded women in New York has chal-
longed the 'Benicia Boy to trial of
the manly art"
Es- A negro girl, aged II years, II
months and few days, gave birth to a
large fine looking boy on the 4th inst,
near Glasgow, Va,
Es Rev. Mr.. Hill, Of tie Tenth
Street Baptist church at Washington,
will, it is said, soon sail for Europe for
the benefit of his health.
Eg \ large number of dry goods
merchants in Buffalo have recently sub
stitutcd female clerks for those Of the
masculine gender.
Rg- y cargo of wheat, from France,
is expected at New York, orders having
been sent some time since in consequence
Of high domestic prices.
~" Some miscrcant on the night of
/ the 18th ult, entered the stables Of
]Iessrs. Simmons & Sutton, Grenada.
Miss, and poisoned between 80 and 80
Of their horses.
FlRG- On Monday night The barn and
stables of VIM, 7. Hicks, in Dorchester
county Nd, were destroyed by fire.
with 800 bushels of corn.
Gs- On Monday breach occurred in
the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, ten
miles below Williamsport, but is, proba-
bly,, by this time repaired,
e. a Washington letter says it is
reported to be the intention Of Mr.. Sick
les, in case Of his acquittal, to leave this
country for extensive travel in foreign
binds
~ Rev. DR.. Tdo showed some eight
dollar brandy al temperance meeting
. in Springfield on Wednesday evening,
which was manufactured at cost Of only
ten cents per gallon.
Gg- In a recent Gghtin California be-
tween lawyer and doctor, both armed
with broadswords, the lawyer cut of the
doctors left hand, and the doctor gen-
tcelly cut off the lawyers head Sharp
practice
Et Ire New Orleans True Delta
announces the death on Monday, March
llth. Of Judge Strawbrijgc, Of the
Fourth District Court lie was q native
Of Maryland, but had been a resident Of
New Orleans for about forty years
DEcGAsED.-Jobn Williams, ESD. died
at his residence in Worcester county.
Nd, on the 18th instant. The deceased
represented that county several years, in
both branches of the Legislature, and at
one time was a momber Of the Governors
/ Council
/ ED On tho day after the explosion of
the steamer Princess, on the Mississippi.
an infant about Z months old was picked
up in the river below the scene of the
disaster, floating with a life-preseryer
made fas, to it. Tt was alive, and is now
in healthy condition, having been de-
liyorcd to its mother.
n SEVERE Storm AT THE WEST. - On
4 Friday night Cincinnati and the adjoin-
?. ing country were visited with a severe
storm, accompanied with snow and hail.
and it is feared that the peach crop, the
trees being almost in bloom, will be Sc
riously damaged, i: not entirely destroy
ed.
ABOLITION or THE GRAND jury ~
MICHIGAN The Detroit Free Press
says the act providing for the trial Of
criminals by information zoos into effect
sixty days after the 12th Of February,
at which time it became o law. This
law virtually abolishos tho grand jury.
which has for 50 long exercised inquis-
torlal functions, rescrying for tie circuit
judge power to call il into session when
ever special cases need its aid. All
cases are to be examined before Justice
Of the peace, and by them committed
directly to the higher courts, instead Of
for indictment, as has previously been
done.
Gas. WILLIAM 7. HASKELL, the well
known Tennessee orator and politician,
died at the lIopkinsyille (Kcniucky) In
sane Asylum, on Sunday last The
Cincinnati Commercial says: He was at
zone time one Of the most brilliant men
Of the South lie was one of the first
orators Of the nation, a poet by nature
and the author Of some beautiful sianzas,
and gallant soldier distinguished in the
Mexican war His insanity is believed
to be chargeable to the effect Of an ox-
cessivc use Of ardent spirits upon q high
y excitable nervous system. The coun-