Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1875-05-07
General News of the Day.

Yellow fever is said to be prevalent at Key
West.
James Foard, mate of the schooner l.. J.
Coz, was drowned in Bohemia river, Cicil
county, on Tuesday last.
| II. NJ. Atkinson, the new commissioners of
PENSIONS was sworn in and took charge Of
the pension bureau at Washington on the lst
| instant.
Josh Billings says he never attends
'speling bee;" that they are "frods," and
only fit STEW amooz ignerent foaks."
The grand Jury of New Orleans has indicted
five persons charged with brhing members of
the Louisiana Legislature with intent 10 infiu
enee their vote.
The building OF the first section of the Gulf
Colorado and Santa Fee railroad was commenc-
ed at Galveston, Texas, Saturday, in the pres
ence of large number of citizens.
Specie shipments from New York for Europe
on Tuesday amounted to SAT- 800, of which
1861 600 was in gold coin and the remainder
in silver bars.
D. D. Pratt, ex-United States Senator of
Indiana, has accepted the position of com
missioner of internal revenue rendered him
by President Grant.
The democrats Of Montgomery, Ala, elected
mayor, clerk and twelve aldermen This is
the first time the democrats have carried that
city since reconstruction.
J J Prior. playing with the Lolita troupe
at Toledo, Ohio fell dead of heart disease in
the dressing room of the opera house during
the performance of Little Nell Saturday night.
The trial of Lincoln May, between eleven
and Twelve years of age, for killing David
Heating. aged about fonr;een years. in Queen
Neck, Kent county, took place on Monday
last at Chestertown, and resulted ia his ac-
qaittal by the jury.
Henry Benson, charged with attempt TO
commit an outrage upon Mrs Denny, last fall,
has been convicted by the Dorchester County
Court. The case was removed from Talbot
county. The sentence has not yet been passed.
negro riot occurred in Darien Ga, Fri
day night last, in which the sheriff, two whites
and negro were slightly wounded with shot
1t grew out of the arrest of Tunis G. Camp
bell, a colored magistrate.
AT foreclosure sale Of the United States
Hotel, at Saratoga. N. Y, Saturday. the hotel
was bid off for $3.50. 900. Tn is subject TO a
chattel mortgage, which will bring the Price
up to about half a million.
In addition to the famine which is raging
with nnabated violence, Turkey is visited with
another national affection. cattle disease
is ravaging the flocks and herds all over the
empire, from Bagdad on the Tigris 10 the
Adriatic coast.
With the last Issue the Port Tobacco Times
entered upon its 32nd volume 1t is one OF
our ever welcome exchanges. and is one of the
oldest and ablest conducted papers of the
State, especially editorialy.
The Boston gunpowder case, a snit against
the city of Boston for the value of goods and
buildings blown up duriag the great fire 10
prevent the spread Of flames, was concluded
in The United States District Court in that city
on the 4th instant and a verdict for the de-
PENDANT was given.
A fearful tornado struck Columbus, s. c.,
and Rntiedge, Ga, on Saturday evening doing
considerable damage to property and killing
several people. At Knoxville, Tenn, heavy
storm blew down the county bridge over the
Tennessee river and also damaged the Charles
ton railroad bridge. Loss to the country
around Knoxville $40, 00C
John Andrew, the colored preacher, who
murdered his wife at Georgetown, Del. was
arrested on the Goth ult He was found in the
attic of the church Of which he was pastor
and SAID in answer to an inquiry. that he had
been seereled there ever since he committed
the murder-fve days. From his hiding
place he heard his wife's funeral sermon.
The marriage of Miss Ida Greeley, eldest
daughter of the late Horace Greeley, to Col.
Nicholas Smith, of Coyington, KY, who serv-
ed throughout the war in the Confederate
army, took place on Saturday morning at the
residence of the brides aunt, Mrs John F
Cleveland, in New York The services were
solemnized according 10 the Roman Catholic
form-that being the faith of the brides mo-
ther-by the Rev. Father Farrell The spa
cous parlors crowded with invited
guests. Misses Greeley aud Cleveland acted
as bridesmaids while Whieaw Reid was one
of the groomsmeD. There was no display Of
bridal presents except rich and exquisite floral
gifts. After the ceremony the bridal party
and number of guests took carriages to pro-
coed to the steamer Abyssinia for Europe on
their wedding tour.
The New York Evening Post, which has
been independently inclined Of late, says of
Mr. Adams programme for the Liberal party:
The assumption that third party can long
exist in such relation TO the other two is con-
trary to all political experience. II must in-
evitably yield TO bad control, or modify one
| OF the TWO so AS as to merge in it, or else
dwindle into insigni6cance In any event Its
mission and career are bound to be temporary
| Independence of partisan control on the part
OF Tue lHulVluunI voter is one tning, hut the
permanent organization of body of voters to
be bid for like goods at an auction sale is
something very different.
| ANIMATED BUTTER,-A grocer in Ottawa,
Canada, made the recipient of a valuable
present one day last week A young woman
entered his store Offering butter for sale He
informed her that he had a su lficient quantity,
and did not wish to buy any. The woman
asked permission to leave her basket in the
store while she went to see friend She left
promising TO return in ten minutes for her
property. She did not return. and few
minutes later sounds attracted his attention,
aud on tracing them to their source, be found
that they came from the basket of butter He
raised the cloth which covered the basket and
discovered baby. The woman did not re-
turn to claim her property.
| CuRIous.-Mr Albert s. Hoffman, son of our
townsman, Edward Hoffman, ESQ.,, was drown
ed while attempting to cross the Shenandoah
river on dam, near Strasburg. about two
weeks ago. A curious circumstance occur
red in connection with the search for the BODY
cousin of the deceased when a boy had
been told by his mother, if a loaf of bread
were thrown into the water at the point where
a person had been drowned, that the loaf
would float TO where the body lay, and
there remain. We are told it was tried in
this case, and singular 10 say, the loaf did
float directly TO where the body was found