Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1873-01-24
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


10 - years olui anu "ortn paw OOViVO
During the year just ended lG4, 900 emf
grants left Liverpool for the United States.
Hair has grown to the length of nine feet on
the head Of young lady at Humboldt, Ken.
Henry Dumas, a colored Conservative of
the Pinchback Legislature, is worth $40 0OO
Corn is selling in Kansas for fourteen cents
a bushe, and no market even at that price
BY recent law in New Hampshire We
man divorced from her husband can again as
sumo her maiden name.
In Maryland the returns from five counties
report over l 900 sheep killed in one year by
dogs.
The Governor of Ohio has three hundred
applications before him for the pardon of
State Prison convicts.
Mrs. McMulen, of Moline, H., burnt her
bedstead the other night 10 keep her children
from freezing.
A farm in Queen AIMS county, containing
% acres, with good improvement, was sold
on Tuesday last at So per acre.
The laws of Iowa no longer make any dis
tinction between husband and wife in the con-
troll over their own property
j. N. Bogy has been elected United States
Senator by the Missouri Legislature, to succeed
Senator Frank Blair on the 4th of March next.
A Yankee has invented a patent birds nest
to keep the feathered songsters from spending
their winters South.
Terrible suffering in Minnesota. Constant
snow for fifty hours. Three hundred lives
lost. Men, women, children and teams frozen
TO death.
a Richmond paper calls on some one TO in
vent cure for timber jaws for members of the
legislature. The disease, it says, costs the
State a great deal of money.
The new Missouri senator pronounces his
name Bo,jee, with the accent on the last sylla-
BILE. Tom Benton once said his name ought
really to lie called Bogus.
An inheritance of 5000, 900, the estate of the
late William Mitchell, of Albany awaits the
claim of that gentemans only son, whose
whereabouts is unknown.
cable telegram from London briefly an
nounces the death, on Saturday afternoon. of
the Right Hon. Edward Bulwer Lytton, the
well-known English novelist and poet.
A IF tba Passion V,.y,IJ -
that everything be ever took hold of failed and
says Horace Greeley told him "he was intend
ed for some other planet and sent by mistake
to this one"
In Germany, when the vote Of the jury
stands six against six the prisoner is acquitted
vote of seven against i've leaves the decision
to the court, and in a vote of eight against
four the prisoner is convicted.
A worthy farmer in Georgia, who was car
ried home on litter the other day, solemnly
asserts that nothing but twenty ton anchor
can hold sorrel mule down to the earth after
he has sic2psi in yellow ,ciets nest.
CARRY Me- BACK. -CoIored emigrants from
Virginia to Illinois are returning to the Old
Dominion. They say they 'Iiked Elcnoy well
enough, but the shakes was terrible" Hence
their desire to be carried back to old yir-
ginny."
The ladies of Kansas City think the practice
of keeping open house Oh New Years rather
One lady received six calls
from the same gent, during the day, who
would have called again if his legs had not
gone back on him.
Bartholomew c. Calvin has commenced
a suit against Secretary Boutwell, to recover
the sum Of two millions, being the alleged
value of certain plans which he furnished
TO enable him to equalize the price
of gold and currency, and prevent gold gamb-
ling.
A million American oysters, taken from the
Bay, were recently planted at the
mouth Of the Humber river, in England. If
the experiment succeeds it will be but the com
mencement of new trade between the two
countries by which the people of Maryland
ard Virginia will profit largely.
A London letter says the retirement Of Bis
mark from the Prussian cabinet is really due to
differences arising between him and the En-
peror William on the church question. The
Kaiser became alarmed at BismaIk's war up
on the Catholics, and declined to further fol-
low the Prince in his policy
''EMBoLIsM' (which the Emperor Napo-
leon died, is a coagulation Of the solid parts
of the blood into clots, which block up the
heart and arteries. These plugs are called
emboli, and by blocking up the arterial cour-
ses give rise to fatal consequences. They are
dependent upon previous disease of the system
The TEMPEST of snow which recently swept
over Minnesota and Iowa is described by let
tiers written from the scene as having been
unparalleled in that section. How many peo-
pie persisted is not positively known, but the
estimates range from $50 to 73s, and hundreds
of cattle have also been frozen to death or
buried alive in the snow.
The coored man, John B. Syphax, clerk of
Alexandria county court, having proven him
self to be entirely incapable of discharging the
duties of his office has been notified by Judge
Coekerel to show cause, if any be can, why
be should not be removed from his office, for
malfeasance, misfeasance ana gross neglect OF
duty. Ills make up of the proceedings of the
court, turned things generally upside down,
and so confused the business, that the session
had TO be suspended