Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1873-01-17
NEWS OF THE WEEK.



The weather is mild, and the ice and snow
fast disappearing. Roads getting bad.
There are thirty-two persons in the prisons
of New York city charged with the crime OIL
murder.
The Nichols Mill property was sold recent.
ly 70 Mr.. John Knots, of Talbot county, by
MN. S. Ridgely, trustee, for SO, 300.
Another mammoth porker, weighing COS
pound nett, las been slaughtered by Elias
Bixlcr, of Bachmans Valley, Carroll county.
Itrequires S3s, 900 worth of Irvine per an
mum to tie up the dead letters which the
PostofIice Department fail to deliver.
The widow of President Tyler is about to
sell her property on Staten Island TO repur-
chase the Tyler estate in Virginia.
A bill has passed the Senate of Pennsylvania
fixing the salary of the Governor at 50, 600
| per annum.
Louisiana boasts OF two brothers who sat
on a jury and found their own brother guilty
| hanged.
A child in Helena, Mon, who swallowed
kept alive since then only by feeding him
through a stomach pump.
Columbia county, New York, has suffered
heavy loss By the dedication of Richard f
Clark, the County Treasurer. The defalca-
tion extends from 1864 10 the present time,
and amounts to $3.50, 600.
negro named Alfred Saunders, has been
arrested for the murder of Eugene A. Burdell
The body of the murdered man found on the
morning of Saturday December 18th, near
IIowes' store in Calvert county.
Mr.. Henry Chairs, shriir of Anne Arundel
county, Maryland, who has been i'll for about
two weeks, oftyphus fever died on Sunday
last. Mr.. James W. Allen, of Annapolis,
has been appointed by the Governor TO fill the
vacancy.
A witty Universalist defined the difference
between a Unitarian and a Universalist to be
that the Universalist believed God was too
good to damn men eternally, and the Unita-
rian believed that men were too good 10 be
etcrnaly damned
People should be careful to buy their post
age stamps at postoffices only; the postofIice
department is in receipt of information, it is
reported, to the effect that large quantity OF
bogus stamps are circulating. They are ex-
cellently engraved, nearly equal to the genuine
DR., Edward L. Shelby died at his residence
in Upper Marlboro, Prince Georges county,
Thursday morning, after two weeks illness
from pneumonia. lie was universally beloved
by an extended circle of acquaintance, among
whom he has .practiced medicine for more than
twenty years.
OBESE. Hart Governor Of Florida, weighs
one hundred and nnety-eight pounds Stearns,
Lieutenant Governor, pulls down the scales
to Two hundred and ten. Before these two fell
lows became fat on the plumber of Floridians
the two together would not have made good
feed for litter of hound pups Biltimorean
Sailing RAILWAYS. The board Of health of
New York has received protest by medical
man against allowing the habit of street rail-
way companies sailing the tracks during n
snow. 1t states that sore threats and colds are
the result of mixing snow and salt while the
horses feet are injured The matter is a sub
jet of grave complaint in all the cities every
winter.
Mrs. Lydia Sherman has been sentenced to
the Connecticut State prison for life, for hav-
ing in the course of the past twelve years poi
soned three husbands and five her own chill
dren. This, according to her own confession,
made since her condemnation. She deserved
the gallows but failed to receive the punish
ment due to her enormous crimes.
Craig, the colored man, who was convicted
| Of a heinous crime, near Cumberland, Nd,
paid the forfeit of his life, by hanging, on Fri
day last. He was executed in the jail-yard, =
A strong effort was made to have his sentence
COMMITTED to Imprisonment for life, but the
evidence of his guilt was too conclusive to ad-
nit of palliation. A few more such examples
may produce good results.
"WALNur KERNELS. During the past
year 1000 pounds of walnut kernels were
shipped by rail from Broadway depot in Rock
| ingham county. They sold at 80 cents per
pound, bringing the handsome sum of $500
for these small and seemingly worthless
things. The Register says: These walnut
kernels were gathered mainly by poor chill
dren in Brooks Gap who had no other way
in which 10 turn an honest penny They are
used in making candy.
On Tuesday morning last a man named
Lee, together with his son, was over taken by
a heavy snowstorm some twelve miles south
east of Sioux City, Iowa, and both persisted
Near Yermillion, Dakota, a man and wife left
their children in a hut to look after their
stock, and both persisted. The children were
! found almost frozen 20 death the following
morning. 1t is feared that many distressing
events of the same nature have occurred all
through that region.
AN ELoPEMENT. VIM. Dickey who
is well known to picnic parties visiting the
Great Falls of the Potomac, where she resided,
has elopod with an Old lover named George
jackson. Mr. Dickey, who is twenty years
the senior of his spouse, takes the matter very
philosophically, and says he "don't care
much about the wife, but he would like tc