Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1877-04-19
NEWS OF THE Week.

day. Taylor is in custody.
During the month ended March
81, 1877, 3,490 emigrants arrived at
the port of New York.
Francis M. Weaver, of West Vir-
ginia, has been appointed Indian
agent for the southern Ute agency.
A Halifax dispatch says ninety
six-foot whale was driven ashore by
the ice at Schooner Pond, Cape Bre-
ton, and secured.
A. D. Goodwin, the absconding
United States vice consul at st. John
N. B., has returned to Bost n and
made restitution Of $1,000. Woman
in the case.
The President has reappointed Pc
ter G. Shannon to be chief justice Of
the territory Of Dakota, and Jacob J.
Foreman to be associate justice Of the
territory of Utah.
There are ten vacancies in the med.
ical corps Of the army all in the grade
of assistant surgeon, but no appoint
ments will be made therein until
next fall.
Governor Colquitt, Of Georgia, has
granted stay Of execution for three
weeks in the case Of William Meeks
who was to be hanged at Cedartown
Saturday.
James II. Taylor was held in $40.
900 bonds at Boston Saturday,
charged with enticing away Mary +.
Harrington. 1t is believed Miss Har-
rington Is dead.
John Brennan, convicted Of opera
ting an illicit whiskey still, was sent.
enced in Ne York Saturday to the
penitentiary for six months and to
pay fine Of $500.
The president of the Ohio Fat Mems
Association has just died. His name
was John Templeton, and he is assert
ed to have weighed sos pounds. His
wife, who survives him, weighs only
90 pounds.
An indianapolis father, who gave
his son funds to 60 abroad for a coup
lie Of years, that he might not enter
into a matrimonial alliance that the
father opposed, is half frantic with
the tear that the twain have gone to-
gether.
Saturday morning the coal, boat No,
ali, lying at the foot Of Washington
street, Brl oklyn, loaded with coal
sprung leak and sunk. The crew es
capped. The boat was owned by Thorn
as Counelly, Of Philadelphia.
At West Rocky Hill, Coma, Sa:ur-
Saturday Robert Epsy murdered his
wife. He had been drunk for several
days. Her body was found on the
floor naked, and beaten, ard tram
pied into most shapeless mass, Ep-
sy was arrested and lodged in
Jail.
Major Bell, the newly appointed as
sistant secretary Of the interior, re-
ceived on Saturday from the Hon. Z.
B. French, second auditor of the treas
ury, and ll5 clerks OF the second au-
ditor office, handsomely engrossed
letter containing their congratulations
on his appointment.
Mrs. VIM. Morrison, of Holbrook,
Long Island, was bitten in the wrist
by a dog two months ago. The
woman was Immediately cauterized,
but on Monday last Mrs. Morrison
was seized with hydrophobia, and
died last night, after intense suffering
Gen Terry, commanding the de-
partment of Dakota. reports to Lieu
tenant General Sheridan that one
hundred lodges of Indians have
passed Fort Peck, and are making
their way to Fort Hotten. These In
dams are a portion OF the hostile
bands which recently surrendered at
the solicitation of Spotted Tail.
The .rial Of James Maloney, watch
man, for the killing of Wm. Cooney,
youth, at Mount Glare Station,
Baltimore, on December 81, 1875,
was concluded in the Circuit Court
of Howard county, Saturday, by a
verdict of murder in the second de-
gree. He was sentenced to seven
years in the penltentiary.
Bridget Harmon was found dead in
her room, 73S Bainridge street, Phil
adelphia, under suspicious circum.
stances. She had been stopping there
several days and came home last
Thursday evening intoxicated. Next
morning she was found dead with
clots of blood on her pillow under her
head, and wound resembling a cut
was found on her head. Timothy
Cunningham, man occupying a por.
ton Of the house, has been arrested
and held by tie coroner.