Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1875-11-05
MISCELLANEOUS.

If they want to pull EN- back all
the men in the land can't stop EN-.
A Boston murderer, in consequence
Of his poor health, wants his execu-
tion delayed.
A Virginia baby has fondness for
ink. and it's plain tnat he'll never
make Philadelphia editor.
There is nothing beautiful that is
not true. There is nothing true that
40 40. L~auVifui DuauV,ruI viuvn.
The funeral Of General Pickett oc-
Cured at Richmond, Monday. Fully
5000 persons were present to do hon
or to the illustrious dead.
DR.. Linderman estimates the Weld
Of gold and silver for the ensuing year
at $lOO,OOOOOO, Of which the Com
stock load will furnish half.
Ben Boyd and wife, the notorious
counterfeiters, who were arrested at
Fulton, Illinois, last Thursday, were
brought to Chicago on Saturday.
The number of deaths of colored
persons in Washington during the last
week was nearly double the mortality
of the whites for the same period.
Of the three and FIVE cent fractional
currency issued in April, 1869, nearly
So 100000 have not been returned to
the Treasury, and are presumably
lost.
John Rupert, aged eighteen, was
accldently killed by the discharge Of
gun he was handling on the Belair
road, Northeast Baltimore, Monday
morning.
A North Carolina editor will dress
his paper in morning for $40 if any
one dies, and his liberal terms have
endeared him to the hearts of a
whole country.
Three Northerners with capital OF
SIS to swing on, have started fire
insurance company in Louisiana and
are taking in everybody who wants
perfect ide1nnlty against loss by the
tiend.
house locked up. Getting in at the
window with considerable difficulty,
be found on the table note from his
wife--"I have gone out. Vow will
find the key on one side of the door
step
A colored man, employed as deck
hand on propeller, was rushing
around town yesterday, and inqnir-
ing where the polls were. Polls?
Polls ?" repeated the citizen, "why,
there's no election going on now.
"There haint p No sir" The man
stood for moment looking greatly
disappointed, and turned for the
river with the remark Aud now
de programme is to find dat sleek
young man who said dey was payin
six dollars apiece for voters I-De-
NoU Free Press.
NOTWITHSTANDING that an honest
man doesn't generally object to pay
ing hotel bill in advance if the
hotel is a good one, the following con-
versation is reported to have taken
place at Chicago house:
"lou will not object to paying be-
fore you 60 to your room, sir p
"Certainly not make out the bill.
"For how long, sir p
"Well,' says the stranger, "you
may charge me for about ten minutes
on the European plan. By the end
of that time l think | shall be at
hotel where the clerks wear smaller
diamonds and have more confidence
in human nature.
A little boy four or five years old,
while playing near a deep gutter in
street in indianapolis, Sunday af-
ternoon, lost his balance, and fell into
the water. 1t was after a rain and
the current was rapid. The boy flea
ted swiftly with the stream, Seminal
says, and before he could be rescued
had passed under a platform which
extends over the gutter for four or five
hundred feet. The little fellow
hoated along in the water for nearly
ten minutes before he emerged at the
south end CT the wooden tunnel.
When picked up out Of the water by
those who had run to the opening to
watch for him, life seemed to be ex-
tinct. He was resuscitatsd after a
while, and is now in fair way to re-
covery. 1t was very fortunate that
the lad did not lodge in the tunnel
while on his involuntary trip, for had
he done so he would inevitably have
drowned before aid could have reach
ed him. As it was the escape was mar.