Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1859-05-20
GENERAL NEWS.

anu slAty-one emigrantS arrived III NeW
York last week from Europe.
Rg- Mexico, since its establishment
as a republic, which is thirty-seven years
ago, has had fifty-six Presidents.
Ey- $50 bushels prime white Wheat
sold at Alexandria on Friday at So. OF
per bushel.
Ess- James Tilghman, Esq, member
of the last Legislature, died. suddenly in
Somerset county on the Sth inst.
Ey~ The New Orleans Bulletin brags
of having Toasted already on green corn,
full grown, and remarkably delicious,
ES- A convention of the creditors Of
the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company
is to be held in Baltimore on the 9th
instant
ED- The Leonardtown (Md.) Beacon
says that the fly has made its appearance
in several wheat fields in St. Inegoe's
district.
ES- The name of Hon. j. G. Brock
inridge is mentioned in connection with
the Presidency, in a number of our ex-
changes.
ES- The corporation of Annapolis,
Md, has laid a city tax of sixty cents
on the 500, and appointed John NJ.
Brady collector.
Ess- The loss of the American clipper
ship Pomona on the Irish coast, with
large cargo of emigrants, is confirmed.
Nearly 400 lives were lost by this disas-
ter.
G5" The following hit from the New
Haven Register is sharp but good natur-
ed: " Philosopher Greeley, Of the Tri-
bune, proposes, as we learn, to point his
nose westward, and travel some months.
The globe is unfortunately round"
AN ABOLITION FUND.-C. +. Hovey,
of Boston, has left $50, 900 to w. l..
Garrison, Wendell Philips and Francis
Jackson, as his residuary legatees, to be
expended in the publication of abolition
tracts, papers, &c.
HEAVY Frost. The Frost was quito
heavy upon the ground in the suburbs of
Boston, on Tuesday morning At Dor
chester, at A. NJ, the thermometer was
down to 80 degrees, and the foliage of
trees and plants, it is stated, were frozen
stiff.
EXODUS OF MoRMoNs. 500 of
the European Mormons who arrived at
New York last week, left for the West on
Saturday evening. They carried some
30, 900 lbs. of baggage. The others
about 200--of the original party remain
in New York and adjacent cities for the
present.
ES- A man named George Kunes was
stabbed to death at Havre de Grace,
Nd, on Tuesday night, by another NAM
ed Peter Fetzner, keeper of drinking
house, in drunken brawl Lewis Ohr-
man was badly cut by Feizner at the
same time. Fetzner was committed to
jail at Bel-Air.
DISTRESSING MoRTALITY.-There has
recently been an unusual mortality in
the family of Mr.. Joshua r. Selby, at
Bladensburg, Md. On the 18th ult. 4,
his son. aged ten years, died; on the
10Th his daughter, aged thirteen years,
and on the same day his wife, all of scar
let fever; and on the following day Mr..
Selby himself died of consumption.
ES- In New York, on Friday, horse
belonging to Mr.. j. Minot was attacked
with hydrophobia. He broke loose from
the stable, and in the effort to capture
him, Mr.. Minot and another man were
bitten. Finally the horse was shot
A few weeks since dog belonging tc
Mr. Minot was seized with hydrophobia
and died. Previous to his death the dog
bit the horse.
THE TIcISo.--A name which is in ev-
cry ones mouth should be correctly pro-
nounced The letters of the Italian Ian
guagc do not all have the same sounds
which they have in English. The pro.
nunciation of this name is Teccheeno.
1t is small river, connecting the Lake
Of Maggiore with the Pc, and has its i'm
portance from its being the boundary be.
tween Lombardy and Sardinia; therefore
the Austrians become invaders the mo-
mcnt they pass to its western bank.
Es- In Baltimore, on Saturday night,
the mombers of the 'Eubolt Club met at a
ball and had difficulty. On their leav-
ing the ball about the same time, the
cry of "Oh, you EubOlts" was raised,
and fight with pistols cnsued, in which
several of the Tigers" we're wounded !;
one. named Augustus Ford, seriously,
but it was thought, not mortally.
STRANGE HISTORY OF MURDERER
Felix Sanchez, Cuban mulatto, who,
in January last, killed his father-in-l law,
and stabbed his wife and mother-in-law,
in New York, has been arrested at New
Orleans. The Bee says:
4" He was hid away in a Spaniards
house some fifteen days in New York.
The Spaniard then took him 20 Balti-
more, and by reason Of his naturally
dark skin managed to sell him as ne
gro for 81 400. lie was subsequently
taken to Mobile, where he was sold to
Mr. Brooks, and subsequently, to Mr..
Ledbetter, who sent him here to be sold
by Mr.. Foster. The latter put him in
the parish prison for safe keeping, where
he was subsequently identified as the alleg-
ed murderer. Sanchez is said to be the
child of N froa na0roea in Crha and tbo