Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1877-11-16
o BREvITIES.

Miss Grundy says Stanley Matthews is the
handsomest man in the Senate.
The Milwaukee Nescs is anxious to know
whether Hayes will resign. and gives eight
reasons why such an event should surprise no
one.
Pecent events in France have rudely crushed
the fond maternal hopes Of a marriage be-
tween Mile. Marie MacMahon and young
Bonaparte.
The carpet-bag Congressman Smalls, of
South Carolina, has been convicted of a hri-
berry by jury, one-half of WHOM were
negroes. Put him in the bag"
Two great discoveries have been made in
social science. The woman who does not
know how TO hold baby does not deserve TO
have one And the same is true of her tongue
The Charleston journal Of Commerce ad-
rises the party managers in lis State to nomi-
nate colored Democrats IN order to compete
with the Radicals in bidding for the colored
vote.
Very few men are lucky enough 10 obtain
from Congress an act declaring ninety-two
cents worth of their community to be worth
one dollar, but that is what has happened to
the Bonanza mine overs.
The meaning Of The Republican Senatorial
movement in the opinion of the Cincinnati
Commercial, is that ''the impracticabes and
implacables, the spoil-pedders and the horn
blowers, are resolved that if they cannot rule
the Republican party they will ruin it,
The Frederick City Times states that recent
ly quarrel took place on the Chesapeake and
Ohio canal, near Catoctin switch, between the
captain of a canalboat and a white man ems
ployed by him as driver, during which the
latter was shot and killed. The captain left,
he said for Hagerstown.
Conkling braudishes the tomahawk over
Hayes head. He gave the New York Herald
a three column interview, 10 which he pitched
into Evarts, Congressman Roberts and jack
son S. Schultz sneered at SchurZ, and 'the
four members of the cabinet who are not Re-
publcans' and gave Hayes rasping down
as man who lruckled and barganed for
office. The CALLED jade of Utica evidently
winces badly uuder the burden of the New
York customhouse changes.
1t understood that duriag the Paris Inter
national Exhibition there will be tests made
of the vavious methods of lighting streets and
buildings with electricity and the relative
value of the different systems will be deter
mined. One division of the Exhibition is
devoted exclusively 10 electricity. Although
tricity is far superior TO any otherwise availa-
ble some difference of opinion exists regarding
the superiority of the several opparaluses now
introduced and the comparative expense
| Measures are to be taken TO insure the utmost
impartiality in the experiments, and the result
will be anticipated with great interest.
| Gen. Eppa Hunton introduced bill in the
! House Of Representatives authorizing the Sec
rotary of War TO build bridge over the Poto-
mac at or near the Three Sisters Islands, and
appropriaies Sl4, 900 for the purpose. The
cost Of the bridge is 10 include the construc-
ton of substantial bridge over the canal and
over all approaches TO said bridge No part
OF the appropriation is to be paid out of the
Treasury until contracts have been entered
into with responsible parties, and with good
and sufficient suretes for the completion and
construction Of the bridge, which is TO be so
constructed as not to interfere with the usual
navigation above the point mentioned in the
bill and with view to its future use for cross
ing purposes by any railroad or railroads that
may desire to enter the District Of Columbia,
such use to be under restrictions and reguia-
tons by the Secretary of War, and the rail-
roads 10 be charged with the repairs of the
bridge.