Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1880-04-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

blaiBllleul Iuhl bntIt nave DtcU th5tS Oi Nti
low in New Orleans this spring.
The Frederick Examiner and Boonsboro Odc
Eel,ow have placed Blaine at their masthead
as a candidate for the presidency.
The towboat Iron Mountain and one Of he
cargoes left St. Louis on Monday for New
Orleans with 400, 900 bushels Of corn on board
Charles f. Vienne, aged eleven years, Will,
playing on u lrapeZe at New Orleans. accl
dentally hung himself. When discovered he
was dead
The Centervie Observer, of Queen Anne
county, says the peach crop IN that sector
is not much injured by the recent cold snap
and frosts.
Whitaker the colored cadet at West Point
solemnly declares under oath that he knows
nothing of the persons who perpetrated the
recent outrage on him
The Maryland appropriations as agreed tc
thus far in the river and harbor bill are $780,
900 for improvement of Baltimore harbor and
| $4,000 for Wicemico river.
Mrs. Salie F. Heating, wife of Hon. Thos
j. Heating, comptroller of the State treasury,
died al Centsrvlle, Md, Monday afternoon,
from congestve chill.
| DR.. White and Robert Adams, two we'll
known Philadelphians, fought II duel on the
Maryland line, near Newark, Del, Saturday
morning last. Neither was hurt.
Three inches Of snow fell at Frostburg, AL
legany comfy, on Wednesday, the 18th inst,
and at Cumberland the air was decidedly
winterish, ice formed in exposed places
The people about Rawlings Station are
much exercised about a panther that is prey
ing upon the stock. A company is to he or
| ganized to go in search of the marauder.
The anniversary of the fall of Fort Sumter
was celebrated, Tuesday, at Mount Pleasant,
within sight of the famous fort, by the
Charleston Is. c. military organizations.
During the races at Opelousas, La., Satur-
day, Colin Fusiler accidentally shot and kill
ed Louis Cortez and in attempting TO escape
was shot by several of a crowd that had col
lected and died on the spot.
Lawyer Lockw God, as counsel for the plain
tiff in the Raymond-llill seduction case, de-
MES that there is any conspiracy against Sena-
tor Hill, and pays her respects to II male law
yer whom she thinks is no gentleman.
Mrs Plummer of Talbot county while on
her way TO visit her daughter, Mrs. Captain
Start, on Paca's Island, last week, was thrown
from the carriage, and died in tw hours from
nervous prostralion caused by the shock
a young man named George Crosley, OF
Accomac county, Va, whilst ON a hunting
expedition last Tuesday accidentally dis
charged his gun, the load entering his left
breast, inhciiug wound from which lie died
in few hours
boy about five years of age, The son OF
Mr.. WIN. Staylor, of Greensborough. was
drowned in the Choptank river at the rear OF
his fathers house on Monday last. lie was
taken out of the water ia few moments, but
could not be resusctaled.
AT Louisville Saturday Mrs Wlhemina
Fiske, German woman sixty years of age,
was murdered by her eldest son, William, the
instrument used being buicher-knife. The
boy has been insane for the past three years
No one witnessed the deed
A premature explosion occurred in the
work of siraglening the Pennsylvania Rail-
road near DOwninglown, Pa. John Powers,
the foreman and Robert Taylor, II workman
sustained fatal injuries, and eight or ten
Others were more or less hurt
A dispatch from London announces that
Mr. 2. Lorilards 3-year-od bay fly Ger
aldine, broke her back on Saturday last
while exercising, and was Immediately put
out OF her misery Geraldine was entered
| for several races this season
Gov. Hamilton and his family will remove
from the executive mansion TO their home in
llagerstown at the close OF this week. The
! Governor will 90 down TO Annapolis from
time 10 time us occasion requires, and will
probably be there every week
Ephrain Hooker, the Western Maryland
| freight conductor who was run over by u
train on Thursday of last week, AT Brucevile,
died in about an hour. lie leaves wife and
six children al Union Bridge, who were de-
pendent upon him for support.
On Friday Of last week. while the mother
was engaged down stairs, a six-year-old sou
OF Alexander Little, residing at Parks roll
ing. MILL got hold of the laudanum bottle up
stairs aud drank OF its contents, from the ei-
fects of which it died in u few hours.
Considerable excitement prevails in White
county, Ga. over the finding of rich pockets
of gold in Nacoochee Valley 100 nuggets
were taken ont IN four days, one of which
shown il Atlanta weighs over II pound The
yield grows richer rs the washing proceeds
Hart, the colored pedestrian, won the second
contest for the O'Lcary belt in New York
scoring 565 miles in six days; Pegram, sec
ond, with 543 miles to his score Seven o
the contestants made over 45O miles Alet
walked SO miles Saturday, and got the last
days prize.
The dead body ofa man, supposed to be W H.
liams Downs of Baltimore, was found ia In,
barn Of VIM II Barnes, near Taylorsyile
Carroll county, on Monday last A Jury o
inquest rendered IA verdict that death WA
caused by rupture The man had with hin
n lot of timers tools.
While gang of men were engaged in rails
ing bridge on the new mill Of the New JET,
sey Steel aud Iron Company at Trenton, Tues
day, beam accidentally fell ON four of them
instantly killing W. O Bendenier aud Lewi
Powell, and slightly injuriug Wm. Wors an,
the other, name unknown
William Deck, of Sandy Hook was kille,
on Sunday last hy auiag under u rrsieI
train lie had been enjoying a stolen ride oi
II car and fell in leapiue of while The trait
was in motion. His legs were both eat OF
and his skull fractured lie was only sixtecl
years old, and the son Of II widow
Rev. VIM. d Orvis was expelled Tussdat
from the Philadelphia Association of Cougre
galonal ministers because Of his connrclivi
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and Surge-y--a bogns college The dean
president and secretary OF the concern wer
ministers OF the Methodist Episcopal church
A oolored boy, II years old, whose parent
lived near Ilopewell, Somerset county, Sc
cured an old nuskrt one day last week an,
went cunning. la firing the piece he place
the breech against his stomach Tie ha,
overcharped the gun, and the discharge in
iured him SO serious that he died the mex
dav,
DE- Minor, health officer at Cincinnati
Tuesday found on the Louisville mail boat
lot OF yellnw fever feathers from Memphis
consigned to n dealer who had not ordcrr,
ihrn aud who refused to receive them. Dr
Minor ordered them roshipped to Louisville
They are the same lot that were recently sen
out Of Chattanooga
The recent storm iu Worcester county wa
very damaging to property IN the upper par
Of ihe county Showells milldam. ur4
Showcrs Station, which was swept ava,
last August aud has since been repaired az
cost Of over $3.50, was again broken an,