Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1878-01-04
BREvITIEs.

OF huSsldn TlSOneTS Ut TleFud.
Artemus Ward says of the Mormonitss
Their religion is singular, but their wives are
plural.
Henry Watterson has stigmatized VIM. E.
Chandler as malicious liar o connecting him
with the fraudulent seating of Hayes.
The Cincinnati COMMERCIAL says 'no" to
the proposed dinner in honor of the Blaine
Conkling reconciliation. The cry of "Tur-
key gobler and toast" it fears, would pervade
the whole world.
The postmaster at New York has received
two postage stamps from remorseful individ-
ual who confessed TO having used two stamps
which passed through the mails without being
Cancelled
The veteran, Thurlow Weed, has dropped
into active politics again. 1t is now reported
that he is going TO Washington to aid in
negotiating treaty OF peace between the
President and the Conkliugites.
When a woman whose husband receives
only $l5 week insists upon occupying a
fashionable suit of rooms and sleeps in six
button kid gloves TO keep her hands white,
she illustrates some of the inconsistencies Of
life.
Lockport youth lost his sweetheart BY
making mistake in addressing his Christ
Aas presents. His sisier-in-law received
jewel case and a note requesting her to marry
him, while the infants bottle went to his
sweetheart,
Here is biblical parallel for the Blaine
Conkling reconciliation exhumed by the Hart
ford C0ur1nt; "And the same day PLATE and
Herod were made friends together; for before
that they were at enmity between them
selves. Luke xiii, IL.
A family quarrel between Geo Washington
and James Hutchinson, at Georgetown, D. c.,
ended in a fatal recontre in the yard attached
to the house they occupied. Washington
stabbed Hutchinson in the region Of the heart,
causing death in less than an hour.
young Sco.chman who drowned himself
for love in San FRANCISCO, left this note pen
ciled on the wharf, 1.-THE water is very cold,
Annie have just felt III but Mcdonald of
Glengarry was never afraid to de- God bless
you.-DUNcAN FALKLAND MCDONALD"
Washington city was the scene Friday night
Of another brutal outrage by a negro monster,
his victim being young lady about sixteen
years Of age. Much excitement prevailed, and
upon the arrest and partial identification Of
man as the perpetrator Of the yillainy, resort
TO lynch law was imminent.
His wife caught him with his arms around
the hired gilr's neck, but his courage even in
this trying extremity never iorsook him. 81
suspected some OF onestealing the whiskey on
the preserves, Jane for some time, and OF course
you know her breath would have told il she
was the guilty party"
The Tennessee Legislature has adjourned
sine die, without having adopted any measure
towards the compromise of the State debt all
propositions having been defeated by obstruc-
ZIONIST or low tax men, who desired to agitate
the question before the people at the next
election.
The Paris Exhibition will open on the LIST
of May, 1878. Several hundred applications
have already been received by the United
States commissioner, Mr.. Mccormick, who
says they come from all parts Of the country,
and relate to great variety of goods. None
can be considered which are not received be-
fore the 10th OF January.
The st. Louis Globe Democrat suggests the
following Republican presiden ial ticket for
1880: "For President, Ulysses S. Grant, Of
Illinois; for Vice President, Roscoe Conkling,
of New York" The Inter Ocean suggests
that such ticket would not snt Lord Roscoe
No, indeed that would be in his estimation
''the tail wagging the dog"
Stanley Mathews is the crested jayhawk of
the mountain in the Republican party, while
John Sherman is the bald-headed snipe of the
valley. Stanley is worth his weight in sill
yer. He may be dark war-horse blowing
Democratic fame and smoke from his nosris
by the time the Legislature is ready to elect
Senator Cincinnati Enquirer.
Secretary Evarts has been severely centured
in many quarters for not recognizing DaZ as
President of Mexico, and it has been frequently
limited that he is DESTROYS Of finding pretext
for a war with our turbulent neighbor. He
fiuds at least one. defender, however, in the
Courier-Journal, which commends him for not
recr gnizing government which is recog
nized in Mexico.
The latest runner from Rome is, says the
World that when the present Pope dies the
Italian and German Governments will try to
secure the election Of Cardinal Won Hohen-
lobe to the tiara. His Eminence is one of the
youngest members of the Sacred College, hav-
| ing been born in 1923 lie was created card l.
nal in 1866 when Plus TX. was anxious to
conciiate the Prussians in general and Bis
marck in particular.
| Judge Pierce, of Philadelphia, has refused
to review his judgment and impose q heavier
sentence than two and a-half years imprison-
ment on John H. Brown, coored, for shooting
and seriously wounding the son of Hon. VIM.
| D. Kelley in a street car in that city. He,
however, gave him one year more in prison
| for carrying concealed weapons, and would
hold him 10 So, 900 bail for one year after the
expiration of bis Imprisonment.
The President maintains "a aboriginal
stoicism in regard to the rejection Of his New
| York nominations. He is represented as say
ing in conversation with Senator the other
day: al want you to understand that il al
| any time II is shown to your satisfaction thai
have nominated an unfit man, you will do
me favor by helping reject him. Do moi
hesitate for a moment TO do so, and do no,
believe | shall be offended but the contrary. p
The failure is announced of the wel-knowr
New York brokers, Bonnev L Co, and the
flight OF John Bonner, the senior member o
the firm, to Canada. Several other firms have
failed in consequence. The Bankers and
Brokers' Association, of which Bonner wa.
president, has also suspended, having beer
"gutted" by Bonner. The liabilities OF the
firm are variously estimated at from $500. 00(
/ to 81 900. 900. Poledo Rionda h Co., larg,
sugar traders at Havana, Cuba, failed Monday
The liabilities are unknown.
Miss Marila Richor, who is fighting 10 b,
made a notary public at Washington, is 9
New Hampshire woman, stately aud majestic
with short curly black hair, rich dark com
plexon and deep blue eyes. She is rich and
devoted to her darling black stallion, who's,
miniature, set with diamonds she wears as
breasl-pin and who, in the event Of her death
will inherit 10000, the interest Of which /.
10 be devoted to keeping him in com:or, Will,
be lives and burying him in style when b,
dies --Nep York World.
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