Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1875-03-26
General News of the Day.

| The Boston Globe is bold enough to think
that mans verncity eau hardly be ascertain
ed from his religious belief.
PuLlic spelling matches are becoming very
| fashionable and are being held in all parts O.!
the United States Spelling is a very essential
accomplishment.
The New Orleans Times thinks there will
not he much destruction Of property Ibis sea
son by AN overflow Of the leyees by the lis
/ sissippi river
| Charles r. Landis shot Uri Carruth, editor
! of The Independent, al Vineaud, New Jersey,
on March the 10Th. The provocation was an
article in the paper whch--althoa2h mentiou-
| ing no name-Landis believed referred TO him,
and he went 10 the office Of the Independent
and committed The act
Efforts having been made to procure the
pardon Of jesse Pomeroy, The boy murderer,
by petitions signed by ladies, a delegation of
ladies, numbering about twenty-five, waited
on the Governor and urged The execution OF
the Young barbarian as measure Of safety to
society.
management Of the New York canal
system is just now undergoing a severe over
hauling by Governor 1ilden, who in a spe-
cial message 10 the Legislature, calls attention
TO various abuses for private benefit at the
public expense. He shows that in some in
stances the Board has paid nearly fonr times the
amounts called for by the terms OF the con
tracts under which The money was paid.
The Lower House of the Austrian Reichs-
ralh has approved grant Of S25. COO for 1875
and one Of $50, 600 for 1876 to defray the
expenses of The representation of Austria al
the Centennial exhibition
Postmaster General Jewell has given drec-
tons that the new postal rates, two cents per
ounce on ihlgd-class matter, go into effect AT
once instead of April LIST rs he had heretofore
contemplated. He saws this course has been
deemed necessary IN order to obviatc the cor
responaence which il was presumed would en-
sue by various questions which would he raised
ed by the several posimasters in the United
States.
The hest executed counierfeits of national
currency that has yet madean appearance, are
heing circulated in Piltsburg and along the
line of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The bill
is The denomination Of FIVE dollars, on the
Traders National Bank, Chicago, Ill.
The South Carolina Legislature after
protraeied debate, has refused to demand the
removal of Carduza the State treasurer and
its action is regarded as a vndicaiion OF Gov.
Chamberlain s administration, and the intcg-
rity of the present management of the State
finances.
Lvcnrgns Liitle's trial for The murder Of his
brother, Clinton. was begun in the Circuit
Court, Of Frederick county, Va, Wednesday
March the 23rd II will be remembered that
The crime was perpetrated AT the residence Of
their father, on the 9th Of july 1873, while
engaged in dispute al the breakfast table
regarding the division Of patruony.
Boston has another cruel and mysterious
murder on its conscience. Mrs Mary Bing-
ham, widow, aged about thirty 1ears was
found in the cellar of her mothers house.
beaten, stabbed and ehoked TO death Her
mouth was found packed with gravel and a
stone was removed from her windpipe
A very interesting animal, a dwarf ele
plant, has Just arrived in Paris from India
Gawnpore, ms he is called, is nineteen years
old but for wears he has MOI grown any, and
is now only thirty-nine inches in height He
is remarkably intelligent and performs many
tricks.
A disease more fatal than the epizootic has
broken out among the horses in different pla
ccs in Culpepper, Va. A staggering gait and
a loss of appetite, accompanied BY "A vioeat
cough and fever, are its characteristics, and
post-mortem examinations show the disease
10 be serious affection Of the lungs.
Worm $3.50 900 900 w s. OiBricn, Of
San Francisco, whose immense riches were so
suddenly acquired in " Bonanza specala-
lions is son of Wemore o l5rien, a poor
but respectable citizen Of Minneapolis, Mime
sofa. He arrived AT the mines with hut fifteen
cents in his pocket and worked rs laborer
taking mining stock in payment Of wages in
lien of money which he corld not get. His
fortune is estimated al $3.50 600, coo.
Ii is noted hr y correspondent that crows
were never plentiful as at present in the
neghborhood of Robinson Illinois One
hunter brought down tbirty-fve nj three shots,
and after opening their craws and finding
them filled with ehinch hugs, he put up his
gun aud was willing to do penance, even 10
the extent of eating chilled crow He shot
no more Of the sable scaveugers--who are
dongs their Masters hidiing-apd other per-
sons with murderous inte2t would do well to
speedily adopt and live up to a similar good
resolution - Tribune.