Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1878-05-17
BREVITIES.

was In session all day Friday in New York
devsing plans for the coming fall campaign
The President has approved the bill provd-
ing for the payment for 1uartermas ters and
commissary stores allowed by the accounting
officers of the treasury under the act of July
4, 1864.
The San Francisco Chronicle says that if
Congress, after taking time to consider the
infamy of the syndicate contract, fails to i'm
peach Secretary John Sherman, it will fail in
its plain duty TO the country.
The late John Morrisey's will, after be-
queathing to each of his three sisters the sum
of $40, 200, gives the rest of his property to
his wife The Saratogioan adds that the es.
tate is much larger than supposed.
Ex-Boss Shepherd speaks of General Grant
as ''the greatest living American" This is
beautiful tribute from the smallest Of de.
ceased Americans. The poor old Boss seems
TO be in the new Third-Term movement.
The discovery having been made that Pope
Leo has diseased liver the able agent of The
Associated Press 10 Europe will occasionally
be able to give US an old fashioned paragraph
about the health of the prisoner of the Vatican
1t has been great while since the State of
Pennsylvania produced so great a man as
ance in Congress of ,ate have reminded the
country of the antics of small yelew dog
in tall rye.
The demagoguery of the legislation in re-
gard the eight-hour law will be fully compre-
hended by the laborng men employ ed by the
government when they find that they will not
be likely to receive ten hours pay for eight
hours work.
The Ohio Senate Tuesday passed the house
bill for re-districting the State for Congress
sional purposes. The signature Of the Gov
ernor will make it law. This will give the
Democrats twelve, and probably fourteen, out
OF the twenty Congressman.
According to the Columbia Is. G Register
ex-Judge Samuel W. Melton on Thursday re-
ceived dispatch from Washington stating
that the ku-klux cases had been nole pressed,
and that the prisoners confined in the Albany
penitentiary had been pardoned by President
Hayes.
From synopsis of the exhibit prepared by
the collector of church property in Washing
ton in default of taxes, for which property
sale was made June 20, rs, and which re-
mains unredeemed at the present time, it ap-
! pears that no less than ninety-hve churches
are indebted for taxes from $40 II to So, $685.
| As. The Foundry church, which Mr.. Hayes
attends, is included in the list.
R. G. Mccormick, who has charge of the
American display at the Paris exhibition, has
gray hair and only one eye, and was once
active in the Young Mems christian associa-
ton, but during the Fremont campaign he took
to politics, and has since lived at the expense
of the people. The New York Sum- it may
be remarked, is authority for these startling
statements.
| The Philadelphia Times says of the ticket
OF the pennsylvania nationals: "While free
| from personal objection il is not aggressvely
strong, and will not crystalline in its favor
the tens of thousands which are to- day among
the hesiating and doubtful on the issue"
The Philadelphia Ecening Chronicle says /. is
not ticket calculated to carry terror to either
the Republican or Democratic parties.
| Dispatches from the North and Northwest
indicate that the recent frosts and SHOWS have
inflicted much damage upon growing crops.
The mild, dry weather had advanced vegeta-
ton generally, aud the nipping fross have
found plenty TO do The farmer never had
such promise of plenty in this land as he had
week ago, but there is great satisfaction in
knowing that there will be still enough and
some to spare.
| When the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher re-
| ceiVed nouhcation that his eldest sister, Catha-
rine, had been stricken with apopexy, he rose
in Plymouth church and eulogized her in
glowing terms. In conclusion be said "For
myself rejoice that she has gone, and that
her death has been so sudden She has been
spared the pain of a long and lingering ILL
ness. give to God great thanks for her life
of usefulness and for her departure" Some
| people may not be able to find compliment
10 these closing lines, but of course, Mr..
Beecher did not intend to slur his unfortunate
sister.
1t is fact we'll established by unquestions-
BILE testimony that Halls Hair Remover re-
news, ceanses, briehtens, invigora,es and re-
stores to its original color and lustre faded
gray or diseolored hair, cheaply quickly and
surely The poorest people prefer to buy il
aud use IT, rather than to proclaim in a man
ner more forcible than words can deliueate,
through blanched locks or grizzly beard. that
they are aged and passing to decay. very
short trial will convince The most skeptical
that il does eradicate the scalp diseases which
rob the hair of It's color and life.-Fort Scot
(Kon.) Daily Monitor.