Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1872-12-27
Rich Men in New York.

Here some of the city rich of New y ork:
Alexander I. Stuart, over $50, 000, 900.
George Law is worth Sc 900 900.
Apeiel A. Lowe is in for Sc, 600, 600.
Peter Cooper is worth S4 900, 600.
Cornelius Vanderbilt. nobody knows how
rich.
Daniel Drew can draw his check for
$40, 600, 900.
Good humor pays. Nasty. The funny man,
is worth $3.50 900.
The Brown brothers are worth from Sl2,-
ocO, 600 TO Sic, 900, 900 each.
Horace Claflin. of the firm of II. B. Claflin
& Co., is worth S!5 600, 900 to $50, 900, OOO
William b. Aston beats Stewart. He owns
upwards Of three thousand houses in the city
of New York.
Henry N. Smith, broker, hns cleared in the
last twelve months upwards of SIS, 900, 900,
and Jay Gould is on the books for a hal: a
dozen more millions.
August Belmont makes two millions year.
He is Dutchman connected with the Roth
childs, and speculates knowingly in American
securities. To him Mr.. Greeley mainly owes
his nomination, and indirectly his death
E. S. Jaffrey, the Broadway importer, keeps
his affairs to himself like true Scotchman,
but the Yankee guess is that be is able to han
die any day that he likes bag that would
contain about 81, 600, coo.
AN INDIAN S HENENGE.--ln ne tOllOWlnE re-
markable incident is related to have recently
occurred, by the Rockland county (Wiscon-
SIM Independent: An Indian trapper and
hunter has been operating in one of the north
ern towns of that country, and near his camp
lived farmer. The Indian had box cover
| ed over with glass filled with rattlesnakes.-
Last August the Indian came to the farmers
house one day intoxicated and sked the farm
er TO give him a certain sheep that he was
| l. ~
| saying that he was hungry This the farmer
refused, but offered him hen if he would
| shoot it. The Indian declared he would have
| the sheep, and fired at it, but missed it. The
farmer then set his dog on the Indian and
drove him away. A few nights since the
farmer was awakened from his sleep by some
thing cold crawling over him. and Selling the
object, he hurled it across the room. He was
Mortified TO hear the rattlcs in every direction.
Telling his wife to lie quiet for her life, he
raised up and turned to the light, when he
saw huge rattesnake coiled up at the foot of
the bed ready for a spring. Selling his re-
volver, he fred, and shot off its head. The
noise of the pistol aroused the hired man, who
FASTENED TO the room, and before reaching il
(the door was opened) killed two rattlesnakes
Two more we're killed in the bedroom, making
five in ALL At the foot of the bed was the In
dams box. 1t is supposed that he entered the
| the bed.
A BIG LAND GRAB.-Under pretense of Civ
ing l60 acres of land to each of the soldiers
and sailors of the late war, grand raid in
full force is made on the public domain. The
bill grants in the aggregate some $50, 900, 900
acres of land, the whole amount of agricultu-
raj land now left being not more than 400, 00O,-
900 acres. These soldiers grants will go al
once into the hands of agents. and the bene-
| iciaries will really receive nothing, or a tri-
fling sum at the best. The homestead policy
is placed in danger and in a very few years
ten at the outsde-the immigrants from Eu-
rope or colonsts from the older States will be
entirely at the mercy of land SPECTATORS. and
of the railroads which retain possession of the
grants already made to them This splendid
national domain is rapidly being wasted and
spoiled. 1t ought to have been so managed
as TO solicit immigration for these many years.
But many of the best parts of it are already
held at prices beyond the reach Of the poor,
and so check is put upon the population OF
the new States.-N. Y. Commercial, Rep.
AN IMPORTANT CLAIM DECIDED House
Committee on Claims established a most i'm
rortant precedent on Wednesday in its dec-
sion in the case of Richard II. Garrett, of
Maryland. This case arose out Of the capture
of Wilkes Booth, Garrett claiming that the
Government should compensate him for the
loss of his barn arising out of that capture.
A strong influence was brought to bear upon
the committee TO induce Il decision in this case,
as it would establish precedent which would
let in similar cases TO the amount of millions
of dollars, The committee however consider
ed the matter in but two aspects-either the
barn was destroyed by the order of a COM
manding officer, or else it was the act of a law
less soldier, in each of which dilemmas .he
Government was not responsible. The vote
on the claim WAS TO | for its rejection.
Washington Cor. -Nsg York Horld.