Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1878-07-12
MARYLAND NEWS.
DEMoCRITES.


of Washington county received $5l, 662. 93
for taxes-more than fourth of all the taxes.
| A German named Otto Bonner attempted
suicide on Tuesday of last week at the Queen
City HOTEL Cumberland, by hanging himself
with bell-rope. He is believed to be insane
| On Tuesday of last week a tramp, who had
| plo@ed corn during the afternoon on the farm
of Lloyd Belt, Buckeyestown district, Freder-
lex county, was Frustrated by sunstroke and
| died in few hours.
| Captain Elijah Williamson, of Caroline
| county, has caught within the last two weeks
$50 turtles, weighing in the aggregate $500
pounds, and sold them readily in Philadelphia
at twenty cents per pound.
On Sunday last, in Prince Georges county.
Samuel Butler and David Green got into con-
troversy, in which Green shot Butler with n
gun, inficting dangerous wound in the side.
The wounded man is in q critical condition
The Port Tobacco Times saws reports from
Charles county farmers thrasning grain pro-
mise but poor turnout indeed. In some
instances, where very fair yields had been an
ticipated, we hear that the turnout will only
be four bushels for one seeded.
The Beacon SAYS the yield of wheat in St.
Mary's county is less than five bushels of
wheat to one of seed. Farmers are divided as
TO the character of the blight but agree tina.
worse wheat failure has not overtaken ST.
Mary's county in the last twenty years.
The Cumberland Nesos says all the coal
companies, with the exception of the American
Company, have reduced the rate of tonnage on
coal 20 Georgetown to 80 cents. The Necs says
the movement was publicly inaugurated by
the Hampshire and Baltimore Company, and
was occasioned, they claim, by the action of
certain companies in privately cutting under
the prevailing rates. The Ne,cs further learns
without much grumbling.
On the Fourth of July the enactment of a
terrible tragedy threw the village of Port
Deposit, into excitement. Magill, former
employee of the firm of Armstrong & Arm
strong, OF the village named, wounded both
of the members of the firm by shooting them
and then shot aud killed himself Magill was
q cousin to the Armstrong; and his wife sis
ter of the wife of one of the ArmsIrongs -
The crime was committed by Magil through
a feeling OF injustice done him by his en-
ployers. Magill while employed in the stove
factory patented a stove and was to receive a
royalty of q certain amount on the sale of each
one. He commended that the contract had not
been complied with. while the employers con-
tended that they had paid him all that was
due him. Magill was discharged from the
factory and had become very poor, so much
so as TO he unable TO take care of his family
a wife and two children. Both of the Arm
s.rongs were so badl y wounded that they have
since few days after the sad occurrence died
Terrible as this visitation is, the full extent of
its effects is yet to be realized. By ii three
wives are widowed, fourteen children left
fatherless, and an entire firm wel-nigh ami
hilated the victims being the only active
partners. The Armstrong brothers employed
az Port Deposit about fifty men and IA large
number of boys, aud though wages were low
they were sufficient to live on, and this sudden
cutting of of their means Of support will be
seriously felt in the community Even should
the surviving brother, William, make arrange
ments 10 continue the business there must oil
necessity be some delay in recognizing the
concern. The funeral of William Magill, by
whose pistol all three died, took place at 2
o'clock Saturday afternoon. II was attended
by the order Of the Knights of Pythias, to
which he belonged, and which escorted the
remains TO their last resting place. By the
rules Of his church he was denied Christian
burial, but the citizens turned out in large
numbers, and sprig Of evergreen was dropped
in the collin as they took a last adieu In
spite OF everything, those who know Macill
speak highly of many traits OF his character,
and great sympathy is shown towards his
family.