Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1873-05-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


Boston school girls play at football.
Hon. VIM. L. Orr, of s. Carolina, Minister
to Russia, died in St. Petersburg, last week.
Hon. Cakes Amos, died at his residence in
North Eaton, Mass, on Thursday, 9Th inst.
A doctor was shot lately in Iowa, and To-
cal paper chad strong fears OF his recovery"
Virginia jury made up of lawyers dsa-
greed.
Postal cards are now being printed at
Springfield, Massachusetts, at the rate of six
to seven hundred thousand Gay.
The democrats carried the charter election
in Morristown, n j., on Tuesday last, the
first time since the Incorporation of the city.
1t is said that the Hon. John Richie intends
TO remove to the city of Baltimore, where be
will open law office
1t is against the law to kill blue birds, mar
tens, swallows, robins, Or other insectivorous
birds at any season. The penalty is five dol
lars for every offense.
man Dunnell undertook to sanctify his draw
ing Of back pay by giving $50 of it to his pas
tor, but the worthy minister sent it back"
In late funeral discourse it was patheti-
caly remarked that the deceased chad gone
to his rest, where the cares Of this world
couldn't follow him, and where he wouldn' t
rave and curse about taxes any more"
A horrible case of child torture has just
come to light in Winnsheik county, Iowa. A
farmer and step-mother imprisoned daugh-
ter, Is years old, for some time in den eight
by ten feet square. When the child was dis
covered there was nothing in the room but a
box three feet long by twenty-five inches
wide. The poor creature presented a painful
spectacle.
The Vineyard Gazette says: One day not
long since, horse belonging 10 Capt Richard
Flanders, of Chimark, walked into black
smiths shop and looked around. Mr.. Reed
the blacksmith, drove him out. He walked
down the road few rods, then turned back
re-entered the shop and commenced paving
and stamping. Mr.. Reed on examining his
shoes, found one had been broken After he
had put on new shoe, the horse trotted home
The United States Supreme Court recently
decided that policy Of insurance against the
perils of travel by public or private convey
ance does not cover the case of a man who is
beaten to death by highway robbers, while
walking at midnight to his home, several
miles distant from railway station The
Court held that walking is not travelling by
public or private conveyance these terms sug-
costing the use of a vehicle or vessel
The Jackson (Tcnnessee) Wig md Tribune
tells of a woman Who sent her husband to buy
a jug of molasses. He got drunk and fetched
home the jug filed with whiskey. She took
it up, smelt, set it back, and then squaring
herself arms alSimbo and eyes flashing, she
exclaimed, "whar's them molasses ~ The
old man smiled and winked pleasantly, and
waving his hand propitiatingly, exclaimed,
''Them's they !" He is now couvaescent, but
the jug is hopelessly dcransed
An Iowa clergyman was just unreasonable
enough to want his salary, and when the
church failed utterly to pay him any consider
able portion of it, he sued and recovered Judge
ment. The matter was recently made the
subject ofinyestigation by a council of inqni-
ry, and that tribunal arrived at four solemn
findings, viz; That thechurch did wrong in
falling to pay the pastor his salary; that the
pastor did wrong in suing the church, and
that the church should apologize TO the pas
tor, and that the pastor should apologize TO
the church