Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1885-02-20
Items of General Inter est,

Col. Rob't Christy presented to President
Arthur on Friday last a petition for the par
don of Is. +. Bigelow, the teller of the Ma
tional Bank Of the Republic, convicted of
embezzlement and sentenced to the peni-
tiary.
Owing to the danger threatening the Penn
sylvania Railroad bridge at Columbia, Pa.
in the event of an ice break up in the Sus-
quehanna river, the railroad officials decided
TO blast the ice In the immediate vicinity of
the bridge. 1t was then discovered that the
river in many places is frozen to the bottom
thus rendering the plan impracticable
Abdul Kerim, servant of Gen. Gordon,
has given an account of the betrayal OF
Gen. Gordon by Farag, a former slave Gen
Gordon's clerk and nine others were killed
by the Mahdi's forces when Khartoum was
taken. There are limitations that Ell Mahdi's
men are weakening, and many Arabs are
deserving TO Gubat from the garrison at
Metemneh.
Col Thomas Buford, brother of Gen. Abe
Buford, and the slayer of Judge EIicott, of
the Kentucky Court of Appeals, died last
Friday at the Anchorage (Ky.) Lunatic Asy.
lum. Buford shot and killed Judge Ellcott
for rendering a decision against Bnford's sis.
ter involving considerable property. Buford
was adjudged lunatic and sent to the
asylum.
The opinion Of the Attorney. General de.
Gliding that the title Of the Aqueduct Bridge
Company to the bridge at Georgetown Is
not good unless the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal Company release to them certain
abutment, or at least the ground on which
the abutment stands, is said to be fatal 10
the title, for the reason that the Chesapeake
and Ohio Canal Company will refuse to
give the release. 1t is said that if the ground
asked for was released 10 the bridge com.
pany II would give the government the right,
as owners of the ground, 10 cut off the canal
TO Alexandria. This, however, is denied by
Others.
II has been rare that any prison has been
reported TO be In such shocking condition
as the Jail of Washington county at Hagers-
town, and not often that grand jury has
SO strongly condemned an abuse as the
Washington county jury has just done in
their report To the Court last week. The
Jury declare that the Hagerstown jul Is "a
most revolving place and burning shame
and disgrace to any civilized community"
where prisoners, regardless of sex, age, color
or condition, are thrown promiscuously TO.
gether in cells which are nothing more than
reeking dungeons This is strong indict.
ment, and II ought To influence the authori.
ties to tear the prison down without delay,
and correct the abuse Immediately.
A dispatch from Romney, w. Va, TO the
New York Tribune says: AT Okonoko,
east OF this place on the Little Capon river,
some days ago Miss Cox became i'll. A
physician administered dose of morphine,
leaving another 10 be taken a day later. BY
mistake 1t was given in an hour or two.
The girl apparently died and was prepared
Tor burial. One woman protested, but was
not needed. The night after the Young
woman was buried, dogs in the vicinity
visited the graveyard and made so much
noise that the grave was opened. A sicken-
ing spectacle was revealed The girl had |
died 10 the coffin. She had torn her clothes
from her body and ripped them to shreds. |
The flesh hung Ia strips from her arms. A
lip was nearly bitten of, and nearly all the |
hair had been pulled from the head"