Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1871-03-25
General News.

/ Hampshire election gives the Demo
/ Gratis a majority in the Legislature
. which secures the election OF Dem
! ocratic Governor.
]. The reign Of terror RACES in France
e Riots and murder and bloodshed ar
! the order of the day. Unhappy L.
: Belle France!
: The United States Consul at Lima
$ Peru, writes Secretary Fish, at Wash
. ington city, that a more unpromis
! ing locality for persons seeking EN-
t ployment cannot easily be found thar
l Peru.
!, Not single Republican who vote(
against the impeachment of Andrew
Johnson remains in the United State:
Senate.-PhiM. Press.
, This is mistake. Senator Trum
bull, Of Illinois, remains.
At Napa city, CAL, the proceedings
in a divorce case We're abruptly ter.
minated by the husband shooting the
wife and then himself.
The mother gave away the bride al
a recent New York wedding. Glad
she ism t our mother-inlaw.
The Philadelphia L1quircr says that
President Grant has "only contempt
for newspapers.
Felix Biyler, aged 100, one of the
old soldiers under Napoleon I, is
dead. His sister, who died two years
ago, attained the extraordinary Ion
gevity OF III.
The Penn manuscripts, y valuable
collection of papers, have ust been
purchased by some gentlemen of the
City Of Philadelphia.
The Democrats have succeeded in
the recent election of New Hamp-
shire. They elect their Governor, a
majority of the Legislature and three
members of Congress. This is the
first Democratic victory in that State
since the year 1855.
The Emperor Napoleon III arrived
at Chiselhurst. England, at = o'clock,
on the Dist inst. He was received
with enthusiastic cheering in that vii
lage and at all the Railway stations
along the route from Dover.
The English journals are filled with
the programme of the marriage of the
Princess Louise, daughter of Queen
Victoria, to the Marquis Of l.ornc, on
the DIST. Immense preparations We're
made for the celebration Of the event
by fireworks and rannona Throughout,
England.
The Hon. Richard 7. Mrrrirk OF
Washington city, has been nominated
as the Democratic and Conservative
candidate for Congress from the Dis
trirt of Columbia.
President Grant and his family will
leave for san Francisco" California.
May |, for Il six weeks visit to the
Pacific Coast.
1t is thought Congress will adjourn
about the middle Of April.
The State Election and for Con
sreSs in Connecticut takes place on the
Sd of April. In Rhode Island on the
9th of the same month.
Col. John W. Fornev, Editor Of the
Philadelphia I>t,s,has been appointed
by President Grant Collector Of the
Customs at Philadelphia.
The Democratic majority Of the
Senate Of North Carolina havercmovvl
Governor Holden from office
Among the ridiculous petitions laid
before the French National Assembly
1T Bordeaux, is one 81 gncl by over
two thousand persons, and in which
the assembly is requested to pass with
out delay u law prohibiting the teach
ing of the German language and the
circulation of German journals in
France.
Sixty thousand horses were eaten
at Paris during the scige.
Count Bismarck has been elevated
to the rank of Prince of the German
Empire, and General Moltkc has been
presented with the grand cross of the
Order of t.lr Iron Cross.
News from Panama to the 10th
instant, says the Ship Canal Survey
on the Pacific side were progressing
favorably. Commander Selfrllgc as
cended to the junction Of Paya and
SYRIA rivers. No new discovcrie; were
made.
The insurgent National Guards still
hold possession Of Paris, but there arc
indications that the Government will
soon make an energetic movement
towards suppressing the revolt
The first number of the London
Times was printed on II sheet smaller
than the Catoctin Clarion.
The "lntellectual Regale and Even
ing Companion, printedand published
by Geo. Richard Weber, VIM. y
Magill g. Co., in Frederick in lS23-24
Was the spiciest sheet ever issued il
that quaint old town.
The Maryland Republican, pub
lished at Annapolis, to our eve, is thu
neatest paper printed i'll Maryland.