Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1876-11-17
BREVITIES.

The political sun is brighter.
Congress will be in session in less than three
weeks
In Norway drunkards are compelled to sweep
the streets.
" Samuel J. Tilden, President IT, s. :"
sounds well.
AT the recent elections in Wyoming and
Utah territories ladies voted.
The New York Times makes Gov. Tilden' 8
majority in that State 81 1851.
Semi-ofIicial returns from all the counties
of Ohio show majority for Hayes of 1882
The Popo has appointed rs his secretary of
state, TO succeed Cardinal Antonelli, his
late Nnncio at Madrid, Cardinal Simeoni
Ii has been ascertained that nine hundred
and SIXTY women in the United States pro-
fessionally practice what they call asirology
as means of livelihood.
! Sir Henry Thompson, the eminent English
! physician, thinks that even the moderate use
| of fermented beverages dmnishes the men-
| tai power.
The Cumberland papers record the death of
Miss Jennie Zelch of that city, a young lady
OF many excellent qualities, after brief i'll
ness.
The Cecil (Md) Democrat saws that il is
represented that the principal OF Cherry Hill
| Public School recently whipped four boys
mercilessy, drawing the blood and covering
the backs of the boys with cruel stripes.
| Young Ladies rife clubs have been organ
| lied in various sections of the country There
is one in Ntw Orleans, some of the members
OF which can hit the ''bnll's-eye" every time
at 500 yards.
Henry 7. Bryant n prominent citizen of
| Prince George county, Va, and for many
| years a commissioner of the revenue of the
county, accidentally shot himself through the
head and expired instantly on Sunday after
noon.
In Boston, Thursday week, Jules Briere, n
| Frenchman, aged foriy-six, hanged himself
with a rope to n skylight in garrett room at
his reedence, los Bowen street He had
sworn that if Tiden was TO be President he
would kill himself.
A Memphis lover, refused by his sweet
heart, thought to soften her stony heart hv
mock tragedy, and pulling out his pistol,
| placing the muzzle between his arm and his
! side, he fell in stimulation of death A real
| istic policeman, who witnessed the affair
took the desperate lover TO The station house,
where he lodged over night, and in the morn
| ing contributed So for disturbing the peace
1
A remarkable accident occurred to a pas
senger train while running into Jersey Citv.
| NJ, Monday last. The air brake broke and
the engine dashed beyond the end o. the
track across sixty feet of pavement, througha
building and into the river, the baggage aud
smoking cars following. Some fifteen or
twenty persons escaped with ducking, while
few received bruises.
Now that the worry and excitement of the
elections are over the Presidents thoughts
revert TO the few of his friends who still
languish in Jail. Yesterday he pardoued
Avery, and the pardon of Mckee, the editor
of the Globe Democrat, is announced as forth
coming. We think Mckee has been treated
unfairly. All the other whiskey thieves have
already been pArdoned out, and yet, although
his paper is stanchly devoted TO Gratism, he
is still obliged to indite his powerful editorials
in the ST. Louis jail.-Bqito. Gazette, l4th