Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1877-04-20
BREVITIES.

| Emigration from this country continues.
The Eastern situation is regarded in Eng.
land as very serious.
| Spotted Tail has brought in one thousand
six hundred warriors 10 surrender, but Crazy
| Horse still holds aloof
| With a vitality in amazing contradiction to
his slight and frail appearance, Mr.. Alexander
| II. Stephens holds on TO life.
! Turkey is pushing ahead her war prepare.
lions as rapidly as possible, and at present has
eighty-hve thousand men in the field.
! Steamers which sailed from New York for
Europe on Saturday took extraordinarily large
quantities Of provisions. Besides 1876, 600
pounds and 1000 quarters fresh beef and many
live sheep, there were heavy shipments Of ba-
con, pork and lard, and 100, 900 bushels Of
grain.
The new jury law of Florida provides that
when in any case, civil or criminal, kpowl-
edge of reading, writing and arithmetic is
| necessary TO enable juror TO understand the
evidence to be offered, he may be challenged
il he does not possess such qualifications. A
good law.
Governor Hampton is fifty; has been mar
ried twice and is widower He had three
ehildren-two sons and a daughter. His
eldest son, Preston Hampton, was killed at
Gettysburg, and the second, Wade, Jr., lives
in Washington county, Miss. His daughter,
Margaret, is the wife Of Colonel John Hascall
of South Carolina.
IIoosick, New York, has case ofsuspended
animation. DR.. r. II. Green was supposed 10
be dead, but once before having narrowly es-
capped burial while in trance he was put 10 a
vault and frequently visited by bis wife. Its
now stated that on Saturday signs OF life
were noticed, and the body was taken home to
wait further Developments.
A State of hsalth-Md.-T Danbury N,,os
A State Of suffering-ll Il Washington Ma
tion. A fatherly State-Ps.- Norristown
Herald girlish State -Miss.-7'hiladelphia
Bulletin. The cipher State Tin ofice-hoding)
o. Gin Com. A State of refuge-Ark.
R. |. A State for Cathoics--Mass. A State
or Egotists-Me.
A correspondent of the New York Herah
has had an interview with Mrs. Eliza j. Webb,
the mother of Ann Eliza, the recently divorced
wife of Brigham Young. Mrs. Webb is one
Of the original Mormons, and claims TO be
converssnt with the details Of the Mountain
Meadows massacre. The correspondent met
Bringham Young instigated and probably
ordered the slaughter.
The Radical onslaught on Hayes policy
which will be made at the approaching session
OF Congress is already manifesting the force
and vigor which it will contain. Packard is
receiving multitude of communications from
Northern Radicals exhorting him 10 stand firm
and ''hold the fort" promising him help from
the party in the next Congress. Blaine will
probably be the leader OF the movement and
whenever be makes fight there is lively
time.
Saturday last deserves TO he rated as a red
letter day in the annals of crime. A fenG
crazed with drink, salles forth in the streets
Of Pennsylvania town, terrorizes the people
and after stabbing two of its citizens is finally
beaten down and shot to death. lmpellcd oy
morbid insanity an Ohio husband murders his
neeing wife aud then deliberately commits sui
eide. In Philadelphia two sailors fall out aud
one OF them, a mere lad, stabs the other with
fatal effect. Then from Boston We have word
OF intense excitement over the abduction and
probable murder OF Miss Harrington and from
the Buckeye state Of the jAiing Of a child
stealer.
The skeleton ola man, supposed TO have been
murdered for his money, was found - Sunday
last about two miles from Oakland, Allegany
county, in this State, in a laurel swamp Ills
name is supposed to have been Richard Petty
bone. The theory Of the case is founded on
the evidence Of woman who lived near the
swamp. Over year ago two men boarded at
her house and worked at neighhoring miEes.
One, named Richard Pettybone, from Pitts
burg, was paid $3.50 wages, and left with the
other man for Piedmont. Soon after ihe lat
ter came back and said that Pettybone had
gene to Pittsbnrg. lie has never been seen
since. The woman described the coal-knirs
and shirt buttons OF Pettybone, and they tall
lied exactly with those found with the skeleton.