Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1875-07-16
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Items Of interest from Home and ABROAD

A collision occurred between two passenger
trains on the Detroit and Milwaukee railroad
by which fifteen immigrants, both conductors
and two other train employees were Injured
.... Tho internal revenue receipts FOR one
year up to July frat amounted to sl56'4 49,
2O,. The Iowa Republicans nominated
Samuel J. Kirkwood for governor The plat
form declares that al specie Is The only re-
liable legal tender, currency convertible with
coin should therefore be gradually attained;
a revenue tariff adjusted to encourage home
industries that no moro public land should be
coded to cornorations: that the patent laws be
revised to relieve industry from monopoAcs
oppcec4 a third term aud thinks the Presidents
letter ol1octually does away with the subject !;
inlorscs free education and the public schools.
:. One weeks health report OF New YORK city
showed 1l7 cases Of contagious diseases, AZ
follows: Diphtheria, scventy-cight; scarlet
fever, fifty-one; smallpox, seventeen; typhoid
fever The California Democratic
Coventon nominated VIM. Irwin for governor.
The platform opposes the unconstitutional III
reference of tho federal administration III
the domestic affairs Of tho States, by which
ono portion OF tho Union IL ground with taxa
ton to keep another portion of the Union III
bankruptcy and scrytudo deuOunccs the Re
publican party for corrupt administration,
for the curse OF an incOnyortib!o currency and
for tho attempt to pass tho "Forco bill OPP
poses tho division OF Tic school fund declares
=, ,F II, "a
late corporations to prevent them being made
monopolics fav)rs equal taxation and OPP
poses all Legislation known ~ "prohbtory.
. The United States steamer Lancaster
has reached Fortress Monroe from Rio Janclro,
having on board several cases OF yellow fever.
There i. no dimnution i'll the frightful NOR
talitv from measles anI typhoid fever in tho
Fiji Islands. Medical aid Is to he sent from
Australia The pca-aIltH OF Dnya and vicinity
in Tran"ylvania, Austria, have rcyollGd against
the nobios ana defeated u battalion OF militia.
Many pcrrous hayo been killed, including two
Judges Regular troops have been rent to tho
scene OF the outbreak. ..... The report that
the king of Burmah refuses to allow British
troops to pass through hls territory il officially
confirmed go. Gen. Cortna has bscn arrested
and placed under guard by Col Manuel Parrat,
Of the Mexican regular cavalry. Cortinas
police have boon arrested, disarmcd and i'm
prsOncd. There ID great excitement in Malta
moraB and trouble il anticipated Alexander
Erwin, having charge Of tho foundry burInesH
Of Henry q. Morri-, OF Philadelphia, who re-
Gently failed. has been discovered to have ON
bczzlcl sums amounting to $1,000, coo, and
extending over several year-. ...,.Col. l.. b.
Carlinp, WIGrtcruaatcr at Fort Sanders, NyO-
ming Territory, committed suicide by cutting
his throat from car to car. Financial cmbu-
ra-5mcnt, compcating his oi'ic ial affairs,
il assigned as the cause Of his suicide. ... he
new postal arrangement with foreign countries
went into effect July first. .....A member Of
the Baltimore city council was expelled for
taking "A bribc. lie makes the second man OK
pcllod from that body for corruption. .... ono
hundred Germans, men and women cxilcd on
account of the new religious laws Of Germany,
have arrived in this country and were cnthusl-
astically received.
John Hughes WAS hanged i'll tho Jail yard
at Newton, n. j., for brutally numbering his
wife in January last. In hir remarks while
upon the scalod he neither acknowledged or
denied the crime, although at the time OF hls
arrest he admitted it......lhc Philadelphia
revenue officers seized tho large tobacco ware
house of Henry Mell & Co., and took Mr..
Mohl into custody on Il charge Of removing
snuff from his factory uustamped and i'm
properly stamped. 800. Paris dispatches place
the lo-s by foundations III the southwestern
portion of France at go, 600, coo, and the mum
Der of lives lost at three Thousand ...... The
official figures from tho Irish American rifle
match show tho Americans won by thlrty-nino
points instead Of thirty-cIght. ..... The SWISS
national council has voted IS, 600 to dcfray the
expenses Of proper representation of Swiss
products and industry at the Philadelphia Cen
tonnial !. The assembly OF Cape Colony has
unanimously adopted revolutions i'll favor Of
tho annexation Of Sundry Independent terri
tories south Of Natal inhabited by QUO hun
drcd and fifty thousand Caflrcs. .....By the
burning of the stables of the Eaet Gcncecc
street railroad company, at Auburn, N. Y,
eighteen horses persisted. ..,., Private adyiccB
from the Black Hills report extensive dis
coverics Of gold,
The governors council Of Massachusetts,
have decided by a vote of five to four against
a Communication of tho death sentence pro-
nounced against Jesse Pomcroy, the boy muir
dorcr. The subject may be yet rcconsidorcd
by the council before the time appointed for
the execution while it Is possible that Gov.
CASTOR may withhold his signature from tho
death warrant. .....A frightfully large death
and mutilation by accident record was made in
tho United States on the fourth and fifth Of
july the victims being to n great extent chill
drcn Although the disaster Oh the Southern
railroad If Lcng leland was Of the mort dis
aatrouB that has lately taken place. the only
wonder il that loss Of lifo was 30 small. Donhu-
~ crowded trains were running to and from
Eockawav, and ono of these trains cUllidcd,
tclcscoping and turning Il scene Of pleasure
into one of DEATH In one instant, Us it were,
und with scarcely a warning, seven persons
,vnro ipCtuutly killed siy fatally anI twrutv-