Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1875-07-09
General News.

Professor Jenney reteraies his former state
ment that, so far as he has explored extensive
gold mining operations in the Black Hills
would not pay.
The centennial anniversary of Washington
assuming command Of the continental army
was celebrated at Cambridge, Boston, Satur-
day last.
On Tuesday night last the residence of Mr..
| f. Chew, Hartford county, WINS strck by light
ming and Mr.. Chew rendered inseusible AT
the same time a valuable horse was killed by
the lightning.
The dwelling and stable of Mr.. James Davis,
Mt fredericksburg, Dorchester county, Md, were
consumed by FIRE on Thursday last. A fine
horse, for which Mr.. Davis had refused 81 900,
was also consumed in the flames.
Frank Doud and Walter Whittaker, rival
suitors for the hand Of a young lady at Scran-
| ton, Pa, quarreled Monday when Whitaker
stabbed and killed Doud with u butcher knife
Tie murderer was arrested
The freightiug and receipts of the Chesa-
peakc and Ohio Canal Company during the
month Of June were larger than those of any
| preceding month. The net revenue over all
expenses was $57, 262. Al.
The shooting for the All-Ireland challenge
shield took place at Dollymoun;, near Dublin,
Saturday, the competitors being :our members
each of the Dublin Belfast and American
teams. The ranges were 1000 and lloo
yards, and resulted in the success of the Dub
lin four.
During the month of June, IL, $50 immi-
grants arrived at New York, of whom 3 264
came from Germany, 3, 1872 from Ireland, o.
246 from England, and the remainder from
i'm tbn Al
same port for the past three months numbered
40, 566, decrease of %, $3.50 from the immi-
grafton of the corresponding period last.
The Spanish commission to prepare new
constitution for the Kingdom of Spain have
reported a draft declaring individual and re-
ligous liberty, forming Legislature, to con-
sst of Senate and Chamber of Deputies,
composed as in other liberal monarchical
States, and making the magisiracy irremova-
BILE. tits believed the constitution will pass
without modification.
Twenty-seven murder cases have Just been
disposed of by the United States District Court
at Fort Smith, Arkansas, before which trihu-
nal all the criminal cases from the Indian Ma
ton are brought. 0utef this number per-
sons were convicted of murder in the first de-
gree; 7of those convicted including two boys
one aged II and the other 10 years, will be
hanged together on the 3rd of September next.
One of the most honest satires of the day
was uttered by Fred. Douglass at Hillsdale,
near Washington city, Monday, in an address
on the condition of the eolored race He said
Plainly and keenly: :" We have been injured
more than we have been helped by men who
have protested to be our friends. They are
lawyers without clients, ministers without
churches, wandering teachers without
L.. r.,f,. 1
the 'poor black people" pretty much on their
own hook. and for every one hundred dollars
they collected the ''po black people got
abou. hundred cents In like vein he re-
ferred TO the great fraud Of the Freedman's
Bank, and exeoriated the ''white friends
having the run of that ill-starred institution
with an unsparing hand. He concluded by
appealing TO the colored to be independent of
the wandering mendcanis who have followed
them simply for gain, adding, sand in the
future, if We want Moses. we will find him
in our own tribes"