Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1880-04-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Waddingham's steam saw mill at Kingston,
Ont, and large quantity of lumber was burn
ed Saturday. Loss $4,000.
The Commercial Bank of Texarkana, Ark,
closed Friday short $35, 600, owing overdrafts
to G. 7. Potter, a cotton buyer.
VIM. Blanchard, a New York grain opera
tor, suspended Saturday, being largely long on
wheat both in Chicago and New York.
The Permanent Exhibition at Philadelphia
will be opened on May 10, arrangements for
its continuance this year having been CON-
! pleted.
On Friday last mare belonging to Alfred
Lord, of Somerset county, Nd, foaled three
mare colts, and all were doing well at last
acc cunts
A resolution has been introduced in the
Lou siana legislature prohibiting playing with
the Fifteen puzzle while the legislature is in
session.
A New York company has obtained the
right 10 construct tabular wrought iron pier
500 feet long and 90 feet wide at the foot of
York avenue, Atlanta City.
The Cincinnati excursionists had an en-
thusiastic reception at Augusta, Ga, and left
there Saturday for Charleston, S. c., where
they will spend two days.
The employ es OF the Hudson Cotton Factory,
at Montreal, have struck for Is per cent
advance, and he police have been called out
in force 10 prevent riot
81 John, N. f., advices say large numbers
of seals are being taken all along the northern
coast, even TO st. John. Six hundred were
brought in Friday and eight hundred yesler-
day.
Charles j. Berry, youth of Is, who had
been discharged from employment at Living
ston, N. j.. committed suicide on Thursday
night by shooting himself in the head with
pistol.
church nearly completed in Moscow has
cost over S3,000,0O0 Dome and cross are
thickly plated with gold, and it is calculated
that millions of this metal are on Russian
church roofs.
Alexander Stephens and Mrs. Mcintyre were
arrested in Philadelphia Saturday night
having been traced there from Guelph, Ont.
where they are under indictment for abortion
and larceny.
At Fulton, N. Y. Leroy Jones' the man
who recently caused his dead wife to he kept
unburied nearly two weeks in the belief that
of nervous and religious excitement.
General Grant and party arrived in Bloom
inGton, H., Saturday, and was received by
large crowds ofpeople. They reached their
home in Galena Monday afternoon. Their
vasit to Leadvile has been postponed.
Two thousand and twenty-one immigrants
were landed at Castle Garden, New York,
Saturday, mostly consisting of Germans and
Swedes. Portion left on the outgoing trains
for the West and Southwest, and the rest will
soon follow.
Mr.. VIM. Il. Schaifer, President of the
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, who re-
Gently purchased the hall adjoining the Acade-
my of Music in Philadelphia, for SIS, 200, has
presented the property to the society over
which he presides.
At Ithaca, N. Y, seven women, confined in
Jail were allowed 10 have a trunk They
used the poker to make hole in the wall,
packing the stones and mortar in the trunk
When detected they had made a hole two
feet square nearly through the wall.
Burglars attempted Saturday night to rob
the postofice station al Harlem, New York
city, but were frightened off before reaching
the safe by the approach of officers. The
business of the station is very large, and con-
siderable sums of money are always on deposit
there.
1t is said that Maryland has four million
acres of uncultivated and one million acres
of wild pasturage and only Isl, 900 sheep.
From six 10 eight per cent of The sheep raised
on cultivated farms are yearly destroyed by
dogs, and yet nothing is done 10 prevent this
slaughter
Colonel Jere W. South, keeper of the Ken
lucky penitentiary, fell dead in the Senate
chamber at Frankfort on Thursday He
visited the Senate chamber for the parpose of
speaking to some of the senator's when he
was attacked with apoplexy, and in two min
utes was dead
The Aagerstown MeWs says: Wednesday
the heaviest mortgage ever recorded in Wash
ingion county was placed upon the Record.
II was given by the Shenandoah Valley rail.
road company 10 the Fidelity Trust & Safe
Deposit company, trustees OF Philadelphia
for 5000, 900.
The heavy rains o. Friday night partly
checked the spread OF the great forest fires in
Monroe and Pike counties, Pa. 1t is estimated
that nearly 20, 000 acres in Monroe county
have been burned over. Large quantities of
game have been destroyed ia Sussex county,
N. j. The large fires are sill burning
SOulol, WOEhluR slout-
Mason at Erie, Pa, who became crazy over
the gem puzzle and had TO he conveyed 10 the
Dixmont Insane Asylum has been restored TO
reason, and is TO be taken home TO h family.
When first attacked with madness he at
tempted to roast his child on the kitchen fire,
and was possessed with the idea that he must
reduce TO fifteen fragments everything that
came in his way
Charles Vail, boy years old, the son of
lamplghter AT Plainfeld, N j has been
acting as a veritable fre-bug for nearly year
past in that town. Barns, shops, sheds and
unoccupied houses were fired but were mostly
discovered and put out with slight damage
These fires occurred early in the evening, and
were attributed to the rivalry of the volunteer
fire companies, but Mt last suspicion fell upon
Vail. When first arrested he confessed his
guilt but said he only did so for fun. He has
been committed for trial.
Thomas Boyd clock tinker, claiming
Belfast, Ireland, as his home, with an ambi-
ton to outvie Sam Patch as II jumper, has
made leap from the bridge across the Green
river, at Mumfordsville, Ky. The bridge is
at an elevation of 1875 feet from the bed OF the |
river, and the leap was witnessed ny a crowd
OF more than a thousand people, he having |
previously advertised his intention. lie went
down head foremost and in a few seconds re-
appeared swimming Justify to canoe that
was in readiness to paddle him ashore. lie is |
the same man that jumped off the Ohio Falls |
bridge; but this is at least thirty feet higher, |
and is decidedly the highest jump aud the |
most daring feat OF tbs kidd ever performed |
in America lIs only reward for these dlr-
ing acts is collection taken up among the |
spectators. His next feet is II lump from the /