Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1878-02-15
BREvITIES.

King Humbert has sold off one thousand OF
his fathers houses, still has few more left.
The New London Telegram thinks il possible
that the debate on the silver bill may last un-
Ill after the date fixed for resumption.
Secretary Schurz is aching for seat in
Congress. He is strongly 10 favor Of members
of the cabinet being allowed the privilege OF
the congressional floor.
Hon. Gideon Wells, ex-Secretary of the
Navy, died at As o'clock on Monday last, at
his residence 10 Hartford, Connecticut, from
the effects of carbuncle.
A Vassar-college girl objects tie continuing
the present fashions because they interfere with
the exercise of sliding down the banisters
NeW York Herald p l. Nan.
General lie Due SAYS that his idea of pro-
noting the cultivation OF native tea has been
so we'll received that he receives ut least eco
letters day making inquiries in regard to it
and asking for iea-pants. The commissioner
already has 100, OOc tea-pants started, and
the demand for them, will he thinks, far ex-
coed the supply.
Charles Harriss, ESQ a wealthy citizen OF
Norfolk, Virginia, and writer of considerable
ability, has been recently cured of blindness
by DR.. Geo Reuling, OF the Maryland eye ia
Urinary, who removed the cateract from his
eve. Mr.. harriss had not been able to see for
two years, but was enabled to read ordinary
newspaper print within Two weeks after the
operation.
At the Cathedral in Baltimore on Sunday
last the most Rev. Dr. James Gbbins was
solemnly invested with the palium, and FORM
ally installed Archbishop Of the Metropolitan
See OF Baltimore and primate of America -
Through respect for the memory ofthe deceased
potiif, Pope Plus *, the ceremonies were d.
vested of all external display not demanded
by the rubrics of the Church, but notwith-
standing they were of a highly imposing
character.
Rev Henry Ward Beecher in his sermon in
Brooklyn Sunday evening spoke of the late
Pope as 'that dear and good old man who
had just gone to Heaven from the pontfcal
chair" ''Wheu Plus TX died. said Mr.
Beecher, "that instant God s angels bore him
gently as little child in the arms of its
mother into the presence of his Saviour. Ii
was not because he was Pope, but because a
new heart had been gwen him. The nature
of the Pope was all love-"
Gov. Holiday, of Virginia, on the th inst,
through Gen Echos, Of the House of Dele
gates offered TO reduce his salary one thou sa nd
dollars per annum. The offer could not be
accepted, on account of constitutional prohi-
billions. The House as compromise, amended
The bill reducing the salaries of State officials
twenty per cent, SO as TO allow the executive
to pa his secretary out Of his own funds. This
virtually reduces the Governors salary eight
hundred dollars per unnum if the bill is
adopted.
An alarming future is in store for Virginia
in the opinion of the Louisville Courier-Jour-
nal, which says: Virginia some time ago
levied tax upon every drink of whiskey that
is drunk in that State, and now she is about to
levy tax of one cent on every cigar that is
smoked. The next thing you know she will
be coming down with tax on every GA tn thai
is sworn; aud il begins to look as things will
come to such a pass after a while that Vir-
gilman can'teven kiss his wife nor kick another
fellow for kissing her for him without having
to settle with the tax collector for it,"