Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1873-02-21
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


The ice gorge at Port Deposit is decreasing
Hotel keepers are people we have TO ''put W
with"
John II. Surratt is teaching school at En-
mitisburg, Md.
An old lady in Pensacola, Fla, aged l01
years, died last week.
An Illinois hog, buried under haystack
eat his way out in one hundred days.
citizen OF Hartford has lost his FIVE chill.
dren by scarlet-fever within month.
The name of Huntingdon City, Prince
Georges county, has been changed to Bowie.
In Norfolk an old record has just been pub.
lished, showing that in i749 the preachers o.
Virginia where paid in tobacco.
81 900 of the funds of the Elkton Building
Association sold on Saturday night last fol
81 per cent, and 81, 900 for ST per cent.
Rockville Division, No. 40, Sons of Tenn
perance held meeting at the Court House on
Monday night last, and initiated seven per.
sons.
IO-u"y hIhahs"S nas oOu miles Vi rallTOa0
equipped and in running order. Three year:
ago she had only about so miles completed
bill has passed the Virginia Senate max.
ing the seduction of females felony, with q
penalty of from five TO ten years imprison,
ment in the penientiary.
San Francisco's city hall has already cost
$500, 600, and the foundation is not yet com.
pleted tits a mile outside Of the business
centre of the town, but the place expects tc
grow.
Richard Simpson, a hotel keeper of Will
Jamestown, Ky, has absconded from there
in company with widow, leavining large
number of creditors. He is married man
but had no children.
Gov. Bowie has recovered $4,000 damage.
against the B. g. o. r. R. Company for inju-
ries done his race mare, Australia, at the depot
at Washington
Ten thousand people gathered about the
late residence Of Gaffney, hanged at Buffalo
on Friday, to witness the funeral on Saturday
The police were obliged 10 use their clubs 10
make passage for the friends to enter til,
carriages.
The Kansas Lndepeadent of the 9th instant
says: Two companies of Choctaw Indians
who were in pursuit of a number of horse
thieves on Friday previous, captured sixteen
and on Saturday morning, after holding q
council, shot six of them
The Knox Express Company's stables, on B,
near Second street, were destroyed by fire
on Monday last, at IL O'Clock, p NJ. The
stables were adjoining those of Adams Express
the latter, however, not injured. The loss is
variously estimated from So, 600 to SIS, 900.
The horses were all saved.
John Wheatley, a bricklayer, was instantly
killed at Wheeling, Wet Virginia, on We'd
nesday last by being struck by crane and
knocked from platforms his neck was brok-
en-. He leaves a wife and two children. His
mother resides in Georgetown, D. c.
An old negro woman the other day COM
planned to white acquaintance that the times
were never so hard BEFORE and that really she
you think is the cause of such hard times 2''
he inquired. "Ah,' she replied, tive all
knows dat well enough-too much negro in the
Legislature. IN. o. Times
A letter from Chicago says the farmers
throughout Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, wis
consin, Iowa and Minnesota are banding them
selves together in opposition to the railroad
monopoles, which bold such high rates Of
freight that they cannot send their products
of grain to the seaboard, and eastern markets,
ana are consequently compelled to burn their
corn and wheat for fuel
We are told of the death of an American
named Roberts in London, leaving fortune
Of 5000, COO When his father set him up in the
secondhand clothing business, in which he
made his money, he was advised by that fa-
Their 'fnever to let his expenses exceed IS. Cd,
per week y He adhered to the advice, and
one ofhis last struggles was an attempt in his
seventy second year TO live on diet of horse
chestnuts. 1t was a failure, and he went to
join his reverend ancestor in place where the
weekly expenses are still less.
ARREST OF HoRsE TmEF.-On Saturday
last Officer Morgan of the county arrested a
well-know horse thief named John A. Gather,
for stealing sorrel mare from Phil Burdette,
who resides in Howard county Maryland
Gather, during the night of January 3lst,
entered the stable and put a saddle and bride
on the mare and rode off to this city He was
sent to Jail to await the action of the Maryland
authorities. - Wash. Critic.
CATTLE DISEASE IN BRooME COUNTY NEW
YoRK.-A number of cattle in this vicinity
have been attacked with disease supposed to
be cerebro-spinal meningitis, or Inflammation
of the membranes enveloping the brain and
spinal cord. 1t is said to be similar TO the
disease that attacked horses, and proved so
fatal, a short time ago. after the epizootic was
prevalent, and was by some persons called a
relapse of that disease. If this cattle disease
should become as widespread and prevalent
as the epizootic was it will cause an enormous
loss TO the dairy interests, as well as a serious
Inconvenience to consumers of dairy products.
-Bisyhampton Repu6.
Platter ~ TUE PENITENTIARY--Yester
evening John r. Platter, recently tried at
Cambridge, Dorchester county, for murder
and convicted of manslaughter--his wife being
the yictim-was brought to this city in the
steamer Champion, and handed over to the
Warden of the Penitentiary. When the boat
came 10 her moorings the sister and brother-in-
law of the prisoner went on board and had an