Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1873-02-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
q To shoto The age and body Of The times,
Its form and PRESSURE"


head of her faithless lover
One-third of the buclwheat grown in tn,
United States is raised in New York
Stealing dog isn't theft in Kentucky, be
cause dog isn't property-only company.
North Carolina ladies are substituting plait
cottons woven in the States for prints from
New England.
Isaiah Shoemaker has been appointed post
master at Tennaly town, D. c., vice John II
Wendell, moved away.
An Indiana farmer died lately from the bite
of calf which he was instructing how tc
drink milk
A man has been sent to the Michigan State
prison for three years for burning his barn to
get the insurance.
South Bend, Ind, has chime of "a bells
ranging through two octaves, which is heard
twenty miles away.
The oldest printer in Boston who stands
daily ut the case, is Mr.. G. w. Bazin, aged
upward of 80.
Two Bridgeport men lately watched by the
bed of dying neighbor and made of with the
spoons before morning.
A girl twelve years old at Carlinville, III.
supports her blind father and invalid mother
by chopping cord wood.
Michigan never brags much about it, but
she has sixty murderers in her prison under
life sentences.
Brides dresses are now made of two differ
ent materials, the back brcadths of brocade and
the front of white velvet or satin.
Five hundred and thirty women in the Uni
ted States are doctors, twenty-four are dem
lists, five lawyers, and sixty-eght preachers
drunken man who threw his little son
of four years upon the stove, received but
thirty days Imprisonment in the Yorkville, N.
Y, police court.
The New York Post, says: ''Principles, not
men," used to be a popular political motto
| But it has not been successful. Men without
principles appear TO be ahead.
A good rule for inexperienced young Con-
gressmen-Don' do anything you are asham-
ed of, and when you have don lie about it,
boston transcript.
PARTRIDGEs.-The Gettysburg papers state
that between four and five hundred cartridges
are now housed and fed by different persons
at East Berlin. The birds will be let out in
the spring
The question is being debated, 'Why not
have Old Mems Christian Associations ~
That's SO. Old men sometimes stand more in
need Of controlling influences than young
men.
The Nashville STATES is of opinion that the
sale OF kisses at fifty cents apiece, to raise
funds tor Gospel purposes, should be sternly
| disconntenanced, The States is right They
are worth dollar apiece at least.
The Pottsville (Pa Miners Journal states
that 708 miners have been killed and ,692
MANNED in the anthracite coal region, since
the inspection laws were in force, period ex-
tending from 1869 to 1872
Vice President Colfax was robbed Of 81, 900
in bonds ard coupons on Saturday. W hide
he was engaged at the Capitol some thief en-
tered his room, broke open his trunk. The
valuables have since been recovered
The sword of ''Mad Anthony" Wayne, of
Revolutionary fame, is preserved at Whining
ton, Delaware, being the property of Mr. W
II. Naf. 1t is a straight, light blade, in a
leather scabbard, which is worn and looks the
worse for wear
A tr;b 10 al IL
of Griffin, Ga, is from the Register of that
| place Gle was fine man in all respects
he was owing us seven collars on that last
game of seven-uP, but we will throw that in
towards his headstone."
The Virginia Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church North is now in session at
Norfolk, Virginia The Rev Mr.. Chickering,
at its meeting on Thursday. made temper
ance speech, in which he stated that the en-
emies of Vice President Colfax were the enc
mics of Christ.
| Mrs. Rent, wife of Lewis Rent of Mechan-
icstown, left her home last week. taking with
her all the money she could get, and leaving
behind husband and two young children
! Wv Ohig ooOut tulSc years OH. her
| husband followed her to Frederick, but she
refused to return.
1t has been decided by the Postoflice Depart
ment that after letter leaves the mailing Of
flee it passes from the control of the writer. and
must be delivered to the person addressed -
Should, however, that person not be found,
the letter will be returned to the sender. This
ruling applies both TO registered and ordinary
| letters.
young man of Cincinnati has just reached
the bottom dollar of the $40, 900 he stole from
his father last summer to go touring with one
of the fascinating divinties of Lydia Thomp
sons troupe of blondes. The blonde dropped
him and picked up Nevada politician as soon
as he became impecunious, and he now takes
his lodging in the Kansas city, Mo jail
One of the most outrageous cases of cruelty
on record occurred in Marshall county, Tenn,
according to the Lewisburg Gazette, week
or two since. Two drunken men found poor
man bare-footed, and procured a pair of horse
shoes, and with hammers and nails proceeded
to nail them on his feet, using their knives
freely in parting the feet to make the shoes fit.
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