Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1878-05-10
BREVITIES.

Mrs. Tilions name is to be dropped from
the roll Of membership of Plymouth church.
Packard is rescued from immediate danger
OF quickened conscience by receiving the
lucrative appointment of Consul to Liverpool
Says the Chicago Times "The Presidents
motto, revised and improved He serves his
party best who pays The biggest assessment for
campaign purposes
The National party of Maine proposes to go
into the congressional campaign with great
ylgor, their objective point being Eugene
iiale's seat, and boast that they will, be able
to cast 20, 600 votes.
Henry Ward Beeeher, chaplain of the Thir-
teenth regiment, Brooklyn, will make his first
appearance as military man in full dress
uniform and mounted on magnificent black
charger on Decoration day.
Still another illustration of the beauties of
civil-service reform Secretary Sherman writes
to Collector Weitzel, of Cincinnati, stating
mat there are no charges on file against him,
but still insists on his resignation.
Cardinal McCloskey visited the Paris exhi-
bilion Saturday last He was escorted by Mr..
Mccormick the commissioner general of the
United States. He will sail from Havre for
New York on the llth instant in the steam
ship Periere.
Who knows but in a short time we may
have the Chinese question brought home p
John Chinaman seems 10 be gradually work
ing his way across the continent, and already
it is estimated that the colony in New York
numbers one thousand souls.
The calculation that Congress will adjourn
at the end of June is interesting il nothing
more. The trouble with Congress has always
been that ii never conforms to calculation -
But we may be sure that it will not be willing
to sit through Washington summer
A mysterious female, very neatly dressed is
making communistic speeches in the open air
in Washington. Possibly it is Vera Sassu-
Itch, who recently created sensation in Rus
STA by attempting the assassination of an Of
hcial, and who is mysteriously missing from
the land Of her nativity.
Postmaster General Key backs water on his
recent uterances in regard to Mr. Hayes title
10 the presidency. He now says, "The Flee
toral Commission settled the question of the
Presidents title, and will not say uniustly-
in fact might say Justly. believe in the de-
csion and will abide by it, and think that
every one, democrat or republican, should
take the same view.
Bishop McCoskry is in New York still suffer
ing from nervous prostration. Church circles
generally believe him innocent of the scanda-
lous charges made against him. II is under
stood that the accused bishop desires the
acceptance of Bishop Potter's offer Of accom-
mediation for the sitting of the house OF
bishops in New York. There is probability
that The meeting Of the house of bishops may
be deferred until late in the season. as many
of the members have made arrangements to
go abroad this summer.
AT the Naval Academy in Annapolis obser-
vations were taken on Monday of the transit
Of Mercury The time of the first contact of
the planet with the disc of the sun was taken
and the the differences of the decnationa be-
tween the limbs of the Sun and Murcury by the
Three instruments were in use
all the time. Owing to tie motion of Mercu-
ry with tho-sdn, the little planet that seemed
no larger than pins head when viewed
through the big telescope at the academy,
appeared on mad race 10 cross the sun lu-
rid disc, whilst really it was making a slow
march over the surface of the greater light.
Kate Southern, who fatally stabbed Miss
Cowart in ball room in Pickens county, Ga,
in fit of jeasously, year or two ago, has
been found guilty of murder and sentenced
to be hanged on June2l. Miss Cowart danced
with Mrs, Southern's husband, and was killed
while at his side. Southern took his wfos
arm drew his pistol aud forced his way out
guarded by relatives. The couple retreated
to North Carolina, where they were captured
three months ago. The trial was intensely
exciting. Mrs. Southern had her baby in her
arms when she,was sentenced. Her husbands
case was continued. An appeal has been made
for stay of sentence
Mr.. ]. A ST. Andrew, the editor of the
Farmvile (Va.) Mercury, who has recently
visited the New England States saws that
neither a, Yale nor Harvard colleges did he
see any colored students, nor was the African
brother visible in the churches of the white
people, nor could he trace the the existence of
any colored statesmen in the six New Eng
land Legislatures. A special dispatch May
. to the New York Times from Newburgh, in
that State, shows that even on juries the
imam and brother" is not tolerated At
suit in Ulster county, N. Y, u jury of eleven
white and and one colored man was chosen,
and number of the jurors swore they would
not serve, and demanded to know "what this
county was a coming to when white men were
asked to sit on a jury bench alongside of a
nigger2' The result was that the colored
man had to leave before the jury could be or
ganized. This is too bad
Mr.. c. C. Fulton writes from London to the
Baltimore American of the depression of trade
in the following manner:
The same depression in all manner of bust
ness that prevails in the United States is
observable throughout England Prices are
not only being reduced in the factories and
collieries, bat work is limited to fonr days per
week. Even at this reduction of time, with a
reduction Of ten per cent. in prices, il is said
that the losses 10 masters are greater than to
the operatives-ihat they would save money
by suspending work altogether. 10 Lanea-
shire there is strike of the operatives against
these reductions and the losses in wages are
estimated at ESQ 900 per week. The number
OF mechanics and workingmen out Of employ
ment in London is very great, and they can be
seen in crowds in all sections of the city. 1t
seems TO be sort Of epidemic that has spread
all over the world, even to China ond japan,
which first made its appearance five years ago
in the failure of Jaw Cook A Co