Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1874-02-13

Inc new Dounty Oil which tne SENATE MI
tary Committee has agreed TO report, al
which will probably be passed, provides f
the payment of eight and one-third dollars p'
month 10 every soldier who served in the Vi
ion army between April IL, 1861, and Apr
ID, 1865, deducting all previous payment
bounties by the United States. This bill vi
not benefit the soldiers who enlisted for Mr
years, for they have already received bount
EAR in excess of eight and one-third dollars fc
each month Of service, and the legal represer
tatiyes Of the three years soldiers, who died {
were killed in the service, have received ii
same. There are, however, great many hr
months soldiers who did not re-enlst. Penn
sylvania sent to the field some thirty or fort
regiments of drafted men, besides fifty or ski
thousand soldiers who enlisted for nine month
and twenty-five or thousand who enlisted 4
one year. New York and Ohio also furnish}
number Of one year regiments. None
these soldiers received any bounty from II
United States, and this bill is intended TO pI
them on equality with the rest. We belle
that there are some soldiers in Maryland wi
will be entitled to claim under this bill
What do the Changers think Of this
grave and learned publication, the Fortnight
RrieV, deliberately and logically argues, TIL
the day is not far distant when EARNING wi
carried on by large joint-siock concerns ssY
ing shares often, fifteen, or fifty pounds eaca
and occupying from three TO ten thousan
acres" True, this applies directly to Eng
land, or better, perhaps, Great Britain. Still
the vast tracts OF uncultivated land on TIL
continent, and within the limits Of the Unite
States, afford still better fields for joint-stoc
farms than the overcrowded soil OF the thrt
may seem somewhat visionary one, yet it
not at all improbable that the very anti-mC
nopoly Grange movement may, in the cours
Of a few years, end in great agricultural col
railroad companies, and Illinois and Iowa IL
gislatures may be called upon to regulate tn
market price of wheat, corn and oats.
DEsTITUTIoN IN New YoRK-A New Yor
paper of Monday last publishes an elaborai
article on the subject of poverty and deslitr
tion in that city. The reporter interviewed
beggared broker, several pauic-runed clerkI
ana others who were on the verge Of starvi
ton. Several instances are known in whic
respectable ladies have stayed in bed for da,
aud nights together because they had netht
food nor FIRE, and one woman, widow, VIII
had pawned everything else in the world hi
velvet cloak, in which she bid her miscr
and rags, absolutely stopped lady going
church and begged from her fifty cents 10 pu
chase the first food she had eaten for fort,
eight hours. The rerort gives an insight ini
the dark side Of city life, and shows the teri
BILE distress in the great metropolis, precipiti
ted in great measure by the commercial an
financial panic.
| ATTACHMENT OF WAGEs.--As the law no
stands a creditor may attach any sum Of IN,
ney over ten dollars in the hands of an en-
| ployer and due an employee. A bill is no
before the Legislature, and will most prob
bly, become law, raising the amount of e.
emption from ten TO one hundred dollars
This would almost virtually amount to an e.
emption Of the wages of laborer from a
tachment.
The press not only of this State but also
Virginia is very severe in their structures u
on the verdict acquitting Resley of the mu
der of Lloyd L. Clary in Cumberland. II
Wheeling IVA. Register advises the people
Cumberland 'to abolish their courts Of iu
tice, as they are expensive luxuries, and