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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1882-08-18
MOWERS.

II you have not bought your Lawn Mower,
call and see the easy" the lightest run
ming, most durable and perfect Lawn Mower
on the market. Price $40.
juue2 WELSH & WAKEFIELD.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1882-08-18
CR0PLEY. BOYELIR 4 CHAMPIONS
Q Q L u MI N.
FERTILIZERS!
/ FERTILIZERS,
FERTILIZERS!

We are now prepared to fur
nish the Farmers of Montgom-
cry county, and elsewhere, with
our brands of Fertilizers, which
we make with animal Bone"
basis, at Agents Prices" as we
have no agents, and allow the
Farmers agents commissions
when negotiating with us. We
can confidently recommend him
the best goods on the market
for the money invested, and do
not claim that no other Fertili-
ger could be made as good as
ours for the money /; but we
feel confident that the follow
ing Brands are the best, and
will tell where they are given
a trial:
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-09-07
Criminal.

GEORGE FULLJAMES, feather-weight
pugulist of Toronto, was arrested for rob-
bling a countryman at Victoria park re-
Gently.
On the road from Levant to Bangor,
Maine, Fred. g. Ango was assaulted in
Arizona style and robbed of $3.50, receiv-
ing bullet in the face.
SIX Of the Sioux chiefs captured by
Major iiges two years ago have this sea
son raised some fine crops on the reserva.
ton at Fort Yates, and will send samples
to the military chieftains.
HARRY GENET, one of Boss Tweed's
pals, opened a gorgeous drinking saloon
in New York, recently, and drew together
many old-time politicians.
A CHICAGO millionaire, who largely
controls one of the greatest business in
ing disgrace upon his family by his relss..
tons toward siren in Saratoga. A sen.
satlonal divorce suit is in full view on the
horizon.
THAD. w. CnENERY, chief clerk in the
office of the county treasurer at Spring
field, H., killed himself in his bed with a
revolver. He left a letter for DR.. JAYNE,
containing Instructions in regard to clos.
ing up his business matters, but giving no
cew to his reason for taking his life.
A COURIER IN Arizona, who rode 1876
miles in thirty-two hours, reports that the
victim of the murder at Rancho Gabilan
was not A. c. Hesing, but his nephew,
who had been sent to Hermcsilo for
money to pay the miners. 1t is believed
that several persons were engaged i'm the
butchery, but no arrests have been made.
A. {. Kissing, of Chicago, is said to
have been murdered by his servant, be-
tween Hermosillo and his Mexican mine,
to secure possession of $1,000, which was
being taken to pay the miners. His skull
was found crushed and his face badly
mutilated. On all former occasions he
had taken a guard, but was persuaded by
his murderer not to do so. The body was
found by troops who had previously offer
ed to escort him to the mine
The double tragedy at Leland, Ill.,,
creates intense excitement. 1t appears
that Jonathan M. Stratton was the princi-
pal attorney OF the town, and that the ia
tai quarrel with his wife was precipitated
by accepting a retainer from saloon
keeper. as she was a strong advocate of
prohibition. Their quarrels had extend
ed over the past two years, the first ar
rising over the sum of $500 bequeathed
to her, she claiming that she had not
been given a fair share Of it. He had
been widower with two children she
was divorced woman with Young
daughter. o n reaching home one even
ing he threatened to obtain a divorce,
when she took his life and her own at the
same time.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-09-07
From the Capital.

THE Hon. l.. S. Sackville West, TIE
British minister, will visit England II
| October.
THE Indian bureau has received Id
-. 'het Contain ,Pavne and his folbw
| ers are III indian Territory
THE commissioner of internal reveaae
is having no trouble this season in o,ect-
ing the bank taxes.
THE pos,o flee department, beside be-
ing self-sustaining the past year, will
have 81, 100000 surplus TO put into the
treasury.
THE number OF immigrants who ar
rived in the L nited States duripi the
month of July was 65,010; same mnth
last year, Sc 607.
The treasury department, with NJ APP
preparation OF $4,000, is about to eab-
lish at the chief Atlantic seaports quran-
tine stations for imported cattle.
BUSINESS men in Washington com,lain
that the political assessments upor de-
partment employees make the latter ulable
to meet their obligations.
In the case of Sergeant Mason, Jldge
Advocate General Swain has decided
that the proceedings of the court-matial
were irregular, and that imprisonment
under thesentence is illegal.
The Ohio republican association aave
under consideration the purchase q the
Garfield mansion, the project being to
utilize it as the republican heaiq urters
of their state.
MRS. NUGKNT, who was empioyei az
cook at the white house by President
Garfield has written TO the first Cmp-
troller of the treasury to learn il her
name is included in the list of empoyes
to be specially reimbursed.
THREE and half per cent. bons to
the amount of S3,750000 have been With
drawn from the treasury for CONVERSION
into the new per cent. bonds.
MAJOR liAINES, engineer in chage Of
the reclamation of the Potomac fat, has
submitted his plans of operations 10 The
secretary of war for his consideration and
approval.
SECRETARY LINCOLN has approved the
recommendation of the Mississippiriver
commission for the apportion ment If the
fund appropriated by the last co ngress for
improving the navigation of the Nissis-
sippi river.
The acting secretary of the intenor IS
about to sign a lease for ten years of a
certain portion of the Yellowstone park
TO company which proposea to build
hotels and supply guides, transportation
ard telegraph facilities. The scale of
prices 10 be charged will remain subject
to the approval Of the secretary.
On the ground that they were counter
ieits, the chief Of the secret service in
New York seized thousands of d,llars
worth of plates Cor printing imitation
greenbacks as advertisements. Solicitor
RYnor decides that these false notes are
issued in violation of law, but those who
use them cannot be punished for counter
feiting.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-09-07
A Subterranean Abyss Swallows up a
Child
London Times.

The I'rknitz See, in Cdrniola, is re-
markable tor the periodical disappear
ance of the water every summer, sub
terranean passages serving as channels
of escape. a rapidly ripening crop OF
grass and some quick. growing vegeta-
bles are gathered during the autumn
from the dried bed of the lake by the
neighboring peasants. A letter from
Laybach reports singular accident OF
which this place was the theater. A
peasant woman and her daughter We're
being conveyed in a cart across the bed
of the lake, which was still covered
with water in some places. Suddenly
the cart and its occupants were preclp-
itated into chasm, through which the
water was being swallowed down in a
great vortex, and which had not been
noticed till too late. With great difficult
ty the woman was rescued, but the
child and cart were sucked down into
the abyss below.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-09-07
DOTS AND DASHES.
Telegraphic Intelligence Of the .ast
Weak Summarized Into
Close Quarters.
Latest Events.

GIN. SHERMAN will establish his home
in ST. Louis before the date for his retire
ment from the army.
The citizens OF York county, South
Carolina, served notice to depart on two
Mormon missionaries operating with suc-
cess in that region.
SECRETARY FoLGER has been forced to
the admission that he would accent a
nomination for governor Of New York
and enter heartily into the canvass.
APPRAISERS appointed by the sheriff at
Detroit have placed valuation of 500 492
on Coup's circus and menagerie. which
will be sold at auction.
FLIPPER, the colored lieutenant who
was dismissed from the Z. ;. army in
Texas, has been commissioned as captain
in the Mexican army.
THE mother OF President Garfield Is in
Grand Rapids, Mich, where public re-
ception will be rendered her by Sen. Ferry
and other prominent citizens.
FREDERICK PRENTICE, OF New York. an
old resident Of the Lake Superior region,
has appeared in Duluth with an attorney
to bring suit to recover seven hundred
acres Of land ia that city.
/ ADAM FoREPAUGH, who owns 1877 resi-
dences in Philadelphia, is said to have
purchased for $4,000 the block on State
street, Chicago, between Twenty-se cond
and Twenty-third, known as the Uhlich
tract.
THE Texas and St. Louis railway. with
600 miles Of track in operation. which il
eventually to run from Cairo to the city
of Mexico haR made a Messenger and
freight traffic arrangement with the Hi.
| nois Central road. to continue for half a
| century.
MAJOR ROGERS. locating engineer Of the
Canadian Pacific road. teegraphs that he
has discovered a favorable pass for carry
ing the road through the Selkirk range Of
| British Columbia, which will save the
company millions of dollars. The pass il
one hundred miles north of the boundary
line and directly east of Kamloops.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-09-07
Accidents.

A FIRE at Wells, Mimi. destroyed the
vinegar factory and stock of w. q,
Thompson. the loss being 5000.
The greater part of the business pot
ton of Farmersvile, Louisiana, was
burned August 81. The loss is estimated
at $4,000.
II is officially stated that 531 persons
persisted of cholera on Tuesday aud
Wednesday at Manila, in the Philippine
islands.
A MYSTERIOUS fever is raging among
the operatives of the knitting-mill 1t
Little Falls, n. Y. Four have died ard
twenty-eiQht are PROSTATE.
PENSACOLA reports fourteen cases of
yellow fever up to date, and two deaths.
The disease i, confined 10 four squares IN
the lower part of the city.
Is attem pting to board moving tran.
William W. Elliot, president Of the
Highland Foundry company, of Boston,
was instantly killed.
SPARKS from a locomotive at Cleveland
fred three hundred barrels of petroleum
on the flats, the flames extending IL a
train of fifteen jl.cars, causing 3 loss of
$50, 600.
4 FREIGu train on the Canada Pacific
road, between Montreal and Ottawa, aad
A car thrown from the track at the h,lf-
mile iron bridge over north river. The
effect was to send $50 feet span into he
river.
DR.. HAMILTON, surgeon general, reports
seventeen deaths from yellow fever dur
ing last week on the Texas aide of the Rio
Grande, The treasury department estab-
lished Gordon around the infected dis
trict in time to catch fifty refugees, who
will be detained. The Mexican govern
ment has co-operated in tie work.
A LITTLE daughter Of William Z. Sell
den, of Brooklyn, who was kidnapped asst
Monday, was found BY the detectives il
the possession of a young women Who
works in an envelope factory, and Who
claims to have picked up the chic in
Greenwich street, New YORK. Mr.. Sellen
was called to a police station, and his Joy
at the recovery of his daughter affected
the stoutest hearts in the room.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-09-07
Chicago Market.

CHICAGO, Sept. Flour 49, Steady and un-
changed Wheat-Steady; fair demand regular,
90 for seller September; 97s. for seller October;
ga for seller November; y71a for seller the year:
No. red winter, 10ld1.0l1s for seller cash;
l,OO24 GlOl for seller September; No 2 Chicago
spring 9S& d99 for seller cash; 9S1Sd9S4 for
seller September; No. Chicago spring 90 Corn
Active but weak and lower, 75Aa74 for seller
cash; :. for seller October 6, for seller Novem-
beri j71l fer seller January; 62zs for seller thet
year; 5795sS for seller May; rejected, TX.
oats-Actiye but lower; S6]l seller cash; 3j3. for
seller September 3i1, for s.ller October 3l4
for seller November 3i}a for seller the year
81 for seller May rejected. 3i4a34h. Rye
Easier a. GGq66h. Barley Steady and I'M
changed; 80 for seller September Flax Seed
Steady and in fair demand. Butter-Dull and
lower; creamery, 24a3O; good to choice diaries,
l9G2ii packing, l3Gl5h. Eggs-Steady and
unchanged. Pork Easier; 2l.0SG21 s. for SELL
er cash; 2lS2 for seller September: 2Ig7b
for seller October, 2l.22h for seller November
1000 for seller January; 20.0O bid for seller the
year. Lard-Dull with a downward tendency
l2,225 Ter seller cash l. % for seller September
l237h for seller October and seller November
1920 for seller January and seller the year. Bulk
Meats-Sronger; shoulders &c %; short rib,
1880; 30 clear, 1850. Whisky stronger. Corn
to Buffalo 2. Call-Wheat stronger; advanced
a ~ for regular, Others dull but irmer Germ
unsettled and lower; 1874 for seller September
liz for soller October; 66A for seller November ;
62ss for seller the year; $50. for seller May. Oats
Easier and geenrally declined &c; cash, 55X :
Proyisions--Pork in fair demand at lower rates
Pip fur seller September 2l.423, for seller
October; 2l.lj for seller November. 10 80 for sell
cr the year; 20, 90 for seller January. Lard-Ac-
tive but lower; 1920 for seller September; 2.32&
for seller October and seller November 12.171,
for seller the year; l2,12i4 for seller January.
Recepts-Flour, {, 500 bbls.: wheat, 2O3 500 bus.
corn 2G2 600 bus; oats, 2s6 600 bus rye, Is, 600
bus; barley, 100 bus. Shipments-Flour, 5, 500
bbls,; wheat, 1913 600 bus; corn. 225 600 bus;
oats, $4,000 bus; rye, 24OO bus; barley LOO
bus
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-09-07

MILWAUKEE, September Flour Quiet and
steady. "heat-Tame and steady No. 9Ss.
9Sss for seller September; IS for seller October.
9SA for seller November; Ne. 8, So. Corn-Quiet
and unchanged easier; No. 2, 7s% bid; rs asked;
rejected, II asked, 0ats-Demand fair; No. 2,
36 white IS d39. Rys-Dull and nominal; No.
l, GO; No. 2, Ga. Barley-Qmet but tirmer;
No. 2, sepso; nber, 76ys bid extra No. nominal,
at 81. Provisions w eak-Mess Pork-2l 80
for seer cash and September; 1855 for seller
October. Lard-Prime steam-l2.2j for seller
cash and September IL. 81 "a for seller October.
Live Hogs-Easier; 7.Tj@S.65 Receipts Flour
$50; wheat, 500 barley, nona. Shipments
Flour, $500; wheat, $50; barley, none.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-09-07

the arrest of fifty persons engaged in en-
listing men in behalf of the khedive. Os-
man Pasha il said to have been the inter-
mediary. A secret investigation is being
made.
Two legislatures organized in the Mex.
lean city Of Zscatecas, one being friendly
to the federal and state government. the
other supporting General Cadena Tor the
presidency. A fight of twenty minutes
duration took place between Cadenas adj
herents and the state troops. the former
surrenderipg with the loss Of one man.
AT Alexandria the British artillery
fred twenty rounds of shell upon the
Egyptians on the left bank of the Nah
moudieh canal, to which feeble response
was made. The M;notaur shelled the
enemy's outposts ia the direction OF
.lboukir. where several thousand laborers
are at work on the intrenchments. The
British forty-poundors at Ramleh also
cannonaded the rebel lires.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-09-07

IT is announced that Gen. Sherman
has definitely decided upon asking to
he placed on the retired list of the
army in November, 1883. Under the
compulsory-retirement clause OF the
army appropriation bill, passed at the
last session of congress, Gen. Sherman
would go on the retired list Feb. .,
1884, but he has concluded to antlci-
pate that date by few months. He
will make his home in st. Louis.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-09-07
Cablegranls.

Steele payments will not be resumed in
Italy until next April.
FlFrEEN thousand pounds in bonds have
been stolen from a firm of London stock
brokers.
SMALLPOX at Cape Town, South Africa,
Is causing great mortality among the in.
habtagts.
The city of Manila, in the Philippine
islands, reports three hundred deaths from
cholera in a single day.
Prince LEOPOLD, the Youngest son OF
Queen Victoria, suffers from hemor-
rhage which necessitates the presence of
his physician.
THE corporation of Cork has passed
resolutions demanding tse release OF f..
Dryer Grey, and couferriug unon him the
freedom of the city.
ORDERS have reached Woolwich arsenal
to forward at once to Egypt light siege
train. It's weight will be 1000 tons, and
IT will require 1876 officers and men.
MNrAMoRAS reports eight deaths from
yellow fever. In Brownsville there were
three deaths and tfty-two new cases
among the latter being Major Witherell
of the l9th infantry.
De LEssEPS, on arriving at Naples de-
clned the banquet rendered by French
journalists, on the ground that the Sues
canal company must keep out of political
complications.
SAID PAsHA has informed Lord nufferin
that the Turkish council Of ministers
resolved TO publish a proclamation agains
Arab Pasha and TO accept the military
convention with Eogiapj
CABLEGRAMs from Constantinople report
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-09-07

1T is ann ounced that the New York,
Chicago & st. Louis railroad company,
quite generally known as the MCKEE
Plate from its strict adherence to the
pay-as-you-go principle in the con
struction and equipment of its line OF
preos company w." Of s 8 9%n tbe tf& s3l
New York, Chicago, and ST. Louis.
What with its independent telegraph
system, its fast-freight line, and ex-
press service the new road promises to
be formidable competitor with the ex-
isting pools and monopolis.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-09-07

THE immigration to this country in
July numbered $500 against Sc COY in
the corresponding month last year.
They came from the following coun-
tries England and Wales, $500 Ire
land, 5658; Scotland, lii Austria,
l1S0 Germany, 1921 ; Italy LIS;
Norway, 1896 Sweden, 5.SSS Do
minion of Canada, 1882 all other
countries, 1897. Over half of them
or $3.50, landed at New York, and
6,S27 at San Francisco.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-09-07

THE legality of the prohibitory
amendment to the Iowa constitution
adopted June q is to be tested in An
agreed case, wherein a brewery firm
sues a saloon-keeper to recover the
value of beer furnished the first two
weeks in the present month. The de-
PENDANT admits the purchase of the
beer, but denies the right of the plain
tifis to recover in n suit at law for the
reason that at the time of the pur-
chase, the plaintiffs were engaged in
the business of brewing and selling
beer, contrary TO the amended consti-
tuition. The case is to be carried
through the highest courts.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-09-07

AN Italian peasant has written a
work called "The Voice of n Peasant,
describing the hardships of his class,
which is attracting attention from the
European press and may lead to inn
portant results. Here is his picture of
the agricultural laborer: Imagine
that it is in the middle of winter. The
peasant must be in the fields at san
rise, and after four or five hours of
fatiguing work he is permitted to ie-
pose and refresh himself for a short
hour. Seated on stone or the make
few slices of badly-cooked polenta and
warns them at an improvised fire, to-
and with this miserable food recuper-
ates his strength. At times he varies
the diet, eating his polenta with a fen
dried figs, or moldy crust of cheese,
or four small picked fishes, or few
edible snails, or a pair OF frogs cooked
in stuff that is sold for olive oil, but is
nothing more than unwholesome and
sinking grease" The evening meal
is no more inviting, comprising few
leaves of lettuce, scanty quantity of
oil ana vinegar, or instead herring,
little bread, an apple, or radish, onions,
or something of the sort.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-09-07
MINERAL POINT, WISCONSIN,

A REPORT from Egypt states that
Arab Pasha has asked for an eight
DAYS armistice, but that General Wolse-
ley answered, Offering him one day
Reports from Turkey indicate that the
Turks generally sympathize with Ara
bis cause.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-09-07

TIE three men who were concerned
in the recent kewanee, H., band rob-
berv are now in custody-Welch,
commercial traveller, Scott, a st. LOUIS
dentist, and Pratt, the acting cashier OF
the bank. Most Of the stolen money
has been recovered.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-09-07
The Ford Boys.

CHICAGO, Sept. 1.-OEe of the Fora
boys, jesse James executioner, was ar
rested in the streets this morning, on
charge of disorderly conduct, and
carry ing concealed weapons. Inc
Ford boys have been living fast lie
here the past two weeks, playing IN a
cheap theatre and seeking notorlety on
the levee.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-09-07

SENATOR MAHoNEis bossing it little
too tyrannically in Virginia, and al
ready there are evidences of revolt IN
the party of readjusters against his
dictatorship. Bossism in American
politics-the running of 81 party by one
man for his individual gloritication-is
doomed Monarchy is hateful in this
ap,1pTry
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-09-07

THE largest locomotive ever built has
lust been completed at Paterson, n. D.,
for the Central Pacific road, and twenty
our more will be constructed. Their
weight will be go tons each, and they
have eight driving wheels.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-09-07
bis cause

ALARM is reported among the Britt sh
forces in Egypt by a report that there
is cholera on board vessel en- route
for Alexandria from Coiro. Cholera ID
reported to be raging terribly in Japan
and tho PHILIPPINE Islands.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-09-07

SILVER CREEK, y. Y, Feb 6. 1850.
GENTs-I have seen very low, and have tried
everything. to no advantage. / heard your hop
Bitters recommended by so many | concluded 70
give them a trial. | did and now ain around
and constantly improving, and am nearly as
strong aseyer. W. II WELLER
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-09-07
AT KAsSASSIN.
COMPLIMENT WoLsELEY.

LONDON, Aug. 81. - Sir Hughes
Chiders, secretary of war, telegra pied
Gen; Wolseley, speaking highly of his
conduct ofthe campaign in Egypt, the
ability Of hts generals, and the gallan-
try OF his officers. The duke Of Cam
bridge, COMMUNICATIVE of the
army, has sent similar telegram.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-09-07
AS EGYPTIAN EXECrrIoN.

AS was driving this morning to the
Rss- el-Iin Palace | met Major French,
of the royal marines, and about thirty
Egyptian policemen, each with a blue
ribbon tied about the left arm As a
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-09-07
No W reck Ashore

was ever mere hopelessly stranded than a wrecked
constitution whether its disaster be the product
OF some formidable malady, or that slow, prema-
lure decay that seems to tasten upon some cOnsti-
'utons without apparent adequate cause. An
excellent means of checking this gradual drain OF
the sources Of vitality is the bcneticeat tonic
HoStetters Stomach Bitters. which promotes di.
gesuon enriches the blood, and gives substance
as wen as stamina to an enfeebled frame Con
supatlon, ieeoleness of the kidneys and bladder
FEVER and sgue and rheumatism, are among the
bodily ailments which it remedies promptly and
thoroughly. Persistence in its use is well merted
by it.
Prince Leopold, the youngest son OF
Queen Victoria, suffers from a hem
orrhage which necessitates the pres
ence of his physician.
The fall term of the North Western
Business College and Academy, Msdi
son, Wis, begins Monds V, Sept. 4th
Send for College journal.