Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1877-06-29
RREVITIEs.

The Murytaa@ Republican, published at
Annapolis by Luther f. Cotton, has entered
in its sixty eighth year.
Eight hundred and four prisoners are now
in the Maryland Peuitentiary- largest
number yet ia that institution.
A party of drunken Molly Maguires made
an attack upon some miners near Nanticoke
on Monday. One Of the miners was killed.
Chicago has raised over ten thousand dol
lars, Boston over thirteen, Philadelphia about
five, for the benefit of the ST. Johns sufferers
"Tenting on the old camp ground" will
soon be in order, and then the woods will
ring with loud hosannas and with love-making
strains.
Senator Bayard, of Delaware, refuses to be
banqueted. He doesn't want to be picked to
peices by the buzzards that hover around the
dinner table
A large number OF prominent and dstin-
guished citizens paid their respects to Gov
Wade Hampton nj the New York Hotel on
Saturday forenoon.
Mr. Hayes is getting along famously. He
has succeeded in making himself as unpopular
with his own party as with the one whose con-
tempt he has enjoyed from the beginning.
All the persons wounded in the Point of
Rocks disaster are in an improved condition.
Mr.. Green, ~ho was most seriously hurt, and
who was NOT expected 10 recover, is now con-
sdered out of dan ger.
Mcmahon, with the consent of the Senate,
has dissolved The French Assembly The de-
cree oil dissolution Mas read, and there seems
to have beer no great excitement. All now
depends on the Fall elections.
Out of forty county conventions in Penn
sylvania which have been held so far TO elect
delegates TO the Republican State convention,
which meets in August, but Que passed reso-
lutons supporting the policy of Hayes.
Forty-sx Jewish firms of Cincinnati have
entered into solemn compact to hereafter
have no business relations with "the house of
A. 7. Stewart & CO., of which Judge Hilton
is the acknowledged head"
Now that Chief Justice Waite has personally
denied that he was treated with dscourtesy on
the occasion OF his recent visit to Charleston,
it is quite time for the Radical press to invent
some other means Of firing the Northern heart.
Secretary Thompson has issued circular
supplementary to the Presidents, in which he
lays down the new cigil-service rules with un-
mistakable precision The Republican party is
travelling 10 destruction at tremendous pace
If the prosposed gathering of politicians at
White Sulphur Springs next mouth is for the
purpose of uniting the South against the re-
election of Speaker Randall, the projectors
may as we'll make up their minds 10 be disap-
pointed.
The Washington correspondents OF TIE New
York papers predict the speedy removal OF
Collector Arthur, o! VIII ON the President is
thought to have nearly the same opinion tn at
the public generally has of tho old layorites OF
Grants regime.
In a speech in Georgia lately Ben, II. Hill
TINS spoke Of Senator Blaine ~ think know
the old fellow. He has a tongue that never
Tires, an ambition that never sleeps, face that
never bushes, and conscience that never
hestitates."
Harlranft' S telegram of ''greeting" to Grant,
Care Of Victoria, Queen Of England, Buck
ingham Palace, is another step in the move
TO make Grant the Republican candidate IN
1880 1t is quite possible that this sort OF
clap trap will make him candidate, but il
will not elect him.
Heavy storms have been very frequent in the
West since the advent OF warm weather, aud
in several cases the growing crops have been
seriously injured. The tornado in the hissssip-
pi valley on Monday was one of unprecedented
violence, and later reports will undoubtedly
bring intelligence Of severe losses both in
town and country.
In this State the election this year will he
held on the first Tuesday Of November next
when Comptroller Of the Treasury, oue-half
Of the State Senators and Members of the
House Of Delegates will be elected Upon the
Legislature to be chosen will devolvo the
election Of United States Senator to succeed
Hon. George r. Dennis, whose term expires
March 4, 1879.
At one OF the New York synagOgnes on
on Saturday last II resolution was passed mot
to sell any more to Christian people of this
country, whether Catholics or Protestants, to
show that the Jews do not need the Christians
at all This is prescription not less obnoxi-
Gus than Mr.. Iiilton's Christians have no
such feelings toward the Hebrews; il is only
heathens like Hilton who wish to prescribe
them.
Four men who entered the express car of IL
train on the Lake Shore railway on Friday
night and were about to bind the messenger,
were suddenly confronted by n force of police
who had been informed that an attempt would
be made to rob the car, and had accordingly
concealed themselves aboard to await the ad-
vent Of the robbers. They were all arrested,
after desperate resistance and committed to
Jail.
The so-ealled 'Molly Maguires" are slowly
but surely expiating their crimes upon the
scatfold. On Thursday eleven of that uu-
fortunate class suffered the penalty of the
law at Pottsviile and other places in Pennsyl-
vania The atrocity of the acts of these men
is painfully familiar to the public and it is to
be hoped that the Organization will cease its
unnatural functions of destroying human life
without notice and without proyocation.
While the news of the great FIRE at St.
Johns, N. B., is still fresh, the details of
another conaagation are flashed over the wires
Over seventy buildings in the town of Marble
head, Mass, were on Monday morning con-
sumed, involving loss of over half a million
dollars, and throwing out Of employment two
thirds of the working people OF the place. -
Nlarbehead has been largely engaged in shoe
manufacturing Now all but five Of its many
shoe factories are in ruins, and hundreds Of
employees are without immediate means of sup
port. Many other business establishments,
besides dwellings and public establishments,
share in the extensive ruin.
The Coroner's jury that Investigated the
collision near Point of Rocks found themselves
unable to agree upon the point of locating the
responsibility of :he disaster and its sad con-
sequences. They were given nearly week in
which to reconcile their differences, and on
Saturday were discharged because they were
then as far apart from harmony as when they
first retired to consult. They were all united
in condemning the engineer and conductor Of
the excursion train, but while ten members
thought that the Company is TO blame for fur
nshing rules liable to misconception, and also
that the dispatcher at Camden station did moi
exercise proper care the minority of two were
| determined 70 make the engineer and condnc.