Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1873-02-07
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


Thousands ofcattle in the Neuces Valley ar
dying Of hanger.
Delaware proposes an election for a consti
tutional convention on May 20.
Gen. Dix is the Oldest Governor, SO far al
years 60, in the nted States.
An Alabama woman has just gained her
case in court by arguing it herself.
The Georgia papers are calling for the re
peal of the usury laws Of that State.
''None but farmers for legislators" is tht
motto Of a strong rural organization in Iowa
The prohibitory liquor law has had the eff
feet of closing all but 2, 1853 bars in Boston.
Rev. D. L. Kane, of Indiana last yea
preached 1856 sermons and Travelled 3,O4'
miles, for the moderate salary $3.50.
"Send us wives is the piteous plea tina
comes from Washington territory, and natu
rally the question arises, "W hose wives shall
we send ~
In the United States Senate on Wednesday,
the credentials of Hon. George R. Dennis
Senator elect from Maryland, were presented
and laid on the table.
Miss Addie Saylor, of Bridgeport, Conn,
attended Frenchnan who was sick of small
pox few months ago, and now he has given
her fortune Of $50, 600.
The Tweed juror charged with being an ex-
convict states that he did plead guilty on a
trial for defrauding the Government, but that
he was Immediately pardoned, and no indict-
meut how hangs over him.
The Macon, Georgia, Telegraph, a leading
paper, sensibly concludes that 'the whites of
the Southern STAKES must gradually settle the
so-called labor question by going to work
themselves, and they are now getting into that
wholesome way very fast"
The destruction of Timber-about 1000
acres are cleared of timber each weekday in
this country. of the annual crop, $75, OO0,-
600 worth goes to fuel, and twice as much to
fencing. The locomotives in this country con-
sumo no less than 100000 cords a year, or
500 acres year.
The Rev L. D. Huston, of Baltimore, whose
case has been the subject of so much unfavora-
BILE comment, will have formal trial before the
general conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South next March. The libel suit for
800, 600, instituted by him against the Bati-
more American, has been postponed for the
second time.
Colored Candidate for an elective Office is
a novelty in Mary land politics. But at Clear
Spring, in Washington county, at the NUM-
cipal election which took place Yesterday, one
of the nominees was colored citizen of that
pleasant little borough, and came within six
votes of being elected, although his successful
opponent, Mr.. John A. Miller, is republican
Mysterious Disappearance Of a whole fam
lily is reported from Madison, Wisconsin,
There lived there prosperous farmer named
Glady, and is missing, with his wife and two
daughters. Neghbors, on going to The house.
found the stock nearly starved, but of the
| family no trace was TO be discovered. The
fact that the farmer kept sum of 81, 500 in
the house may have something to do with the
matter
Too much wheat, it seems, was raised in
| California, last summer. There are not
enough storehouses there TO hold the crop, or
ships enough coming to San Francisco to car
ry away the surplus. Many thousands of
bushels remain unthrashed in the fields, and
although freights double the rates of the
| previous year, a hundred ships at least could
be filled up with the wheat now stored in
San Francisco.
| THE o. BRIEN MURDER CASE. This morning.
in the Court General Term, Judges wylie,
DIN, Macarthur and Humphreys, the Court
announced its decision in the case of Charles
| II, o Brien, convicted Of the murder of Sam'l
Cunningham, at the Green Springs Pavilion,
near Georgetown, in July last, oyeruled the
motion for new trial. VASE Star FEB. A.
FAILURE o F POSTAL TELEGRaruY Tho Sen
ate of Pennsylvania has passed resolution,
by a vote of twenty-eight yeas TO one nay,
instructing the Senators and requesting
the Representatives of that State in Congress
to vote against all bills authorizing the gen.
eral government to control the telegraph lines
| The Philadelphia Age remarks that this action
is eminently praiseworthy, and puts the State
in proper position on the question, SO far as
the Senate of Pennsylvania is concerned.
ANOTHER New COUNTY PRoPosED.-It is
proposed TO form a new county out of por-
tions of Washington and Frederick, to be
called Boone county, to begin in the neigh
borhood of Dam No. 4, running along the
Potomac TO Weverton, thence up TO Burkius-
vile, taking in portion of Middletown Val
ley, up to Msersvlle and Wolfville, crossing
the mountain, taking in portion of Beaver
Greek, and crossing over the river Thi:
would give an area of about twenty square
miles with population of 20, 900, divided of
into election districts, with Boonsboro' as thu
county seat--Boonsboro' odd Ftllo,c.
THE DAvIs-LYYN MURDER CAsE.-The Cour
of Appeals of Maryland on Friday, January
3!st, filed their opinion in the case of JOSEPH
Davis, convicted of murder for the killing o
Abraham L. Lynn, near Westminster, il
Carroll county, on the 18th of April last, OF
/ appeal from the Circuit Court of Washington
county, overruling all the exceptions taken b!
the prisoners counsel, Mr.. Maulsby, to tn
rulings of said Court, and affirming the judg
ment of the Court below, in which he wa