Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1875-06-11
OK the first Of July the rates on

as follows: ten cents Tor any sum up
to fifteen dollars; over fifteen dollars
and not exceeding thirty dollars,
fifteen cents over thirty dollars and
not exceeding forty dollars, twenty
cents; over forty dollars and not ex-
ceoding fifty dollars, twenty-five cents.
At present the cost of a money order
under ten dollars is only five cents.
The run Of salmon in the Sacra-
mento River, California, is greater
now than ever before known. There
was a time when many thought that
the STEAMBOATS, and muddy water had
kept them from their former spawning
grounds, but for two years past they
have been becoming very numerous
in the river and now appear to be as
plenty as they were in l849-'5O.
Mr.. TowNE, of Philadelphia, who
recently died in Paris, provided in
his will for an immediate gift to the
Pennsylvania University of YooO,OOO
to meet its present necessities, with
provisions for the future that will
increase the permanent endowment Of
that institution to the amount Of \
million dollars. This is a munllicent
gift, and the spirit which prompted
it is worthy Of general imitation.
Gen. Ferdinand G. Latrobe was
unanimously nominated as the Demo
cratic Conservative candidate tor
Mayor of Baltimore, by the Conyen-
ton which met in that city on last
Thursday. The nominee in 4 neat
speech accepted the position Of stand
ard bearer.
TIE libel suit for $4,000 brought
by Stephen Grant against the Portland
(Me.), Press, was decided there Sat
urday. The Press asserted that Grant
was the biggest liar in the State
What the jury thought Of the matter
NAV be inferred from the verdict,
which was for the defendant.
THE Western Maryland Railroad
Company is putting siding at Nc,
Donogh station, or Shiloh, nine miles
from Baltimore, and have leased tho
beautiful grove at that place for the
accommodation Of picnic and excur-
sion parties from Baltimore. or from
towns along the line Of the road.
A letter from Sir Edward Thorn
ton, the British Minister at Washing
ton addressed to a gentleman in
Indiana, i. said to have contained a
prophecy that the Government Of Eng
land and the United States would
eventually become alike IN their main
features, that Of England being assln-
Hated to ours.
THE attendance Of women, in large
numbers, at the Beecher-Iilton trla
in the City Of Brooklyn, has rarely
tagged from the beginning and now
that it is drawing to close, the at
tendance is becoming more genera
than ever.
BISHOP Wood, of Philadel phia, who
has been in the Good Samaritan Hos
p,tal, at Cincinnati, for some days,
suffering from severe though not dan
gerous illness, is now by his physicians
said to be rapidly recovering.
THE month Of May has been re-
markable for cool weather, great dis
astors at sea, extensive conhagrations,
railroad collisions, destructive cylones,
centennial celebrations, etc. In these
respects it stands without a peer.
THE Treasury Department at Wash
ington was robbed of package OF
SAT 800 in some mysterious way on
last Wednesday. Suspicion rests upon.
two or three parties but the authori-
ties do not give their names.
THE Baltimore Gazette under its
new management has been greatly i'm
proved in appearance and the arrange
ment Of its reading matter, the tone
and vigor Of it's editorials. 1t now
ranks among the first class dailies o:
the country.
Rev. Thomas Guard, late pastor Of
Mt. Vernon NJ. f. Church, Baltimore,
left that city last Thursday, en- route
for San Francisco, California, where
he will take charge of the First Meth
odist Episcopal Church.
President Grant and wife, Mr.. and
Mrs. Sartoris Mrs. Col. Fred. Grant,