Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1877-12-20
NEWS or TIVE WEEK.

~ New lOrk IS preparing lot ca
show. The entries are numerous.
There are some indications that tn
: Molly Maguires intend to renew thei
outrages. =. -
. Miss Bertha Won Hillern, the fe
male pedestrian, now proposes to wal
$50 miles in fifty horus.
We notice quite number Of Eng
lish sparrows on our streets at times
Q Throw them few crumbs.
Captain Emery Landen, Of Fair
J mount, Somerset county, has grown
, potatoes this season which weighed
eight pounds.
somebody asserts that all Of th.
ships of the navy which have beer
lost, with great destruction Of life, in
the past decade were named after
tribes of Indians.
Official returns from all but two
counties in Mississippi give J. M
Stone, Democrat, for Governor, sc, 454
votes, and 1853 scattering votes
against him.
Miss Bertha Won Hillern concluded
her walk OF $50 miles in 50 hours late
last Thursday night in Philadelphia,
the actual walking time being 80
hours and 5 minutes.
The Viaduct Iron Works at Coates
Vile, Pa, that have been idle for two
years, will shortly resume operations.
About 800 men will be employed.
The iron steamship Oregon, launch.
cd at Chester, Pa, on the 10 inst, is
800 feet long and of2700 tons burden.
She was built for the Oregon steam
ship company.
The repairs upon the State House
at Annapolis are rapidly approaching
completion, and twill be ready for
occupancy by January LIST. The pres
ent building has now been standing
l08 years, having been built in 1859.
In the exhumation Of bodies from
an old cemetery in Baltimore recently,
says the Sun, thirteen were found to
be "petrifed," and some Of them ss
perfect in form as when they were in
tered, many years ago.
Some hunters in the southwestern
part of Utah, few days ago, found
some large, exquisitely colored rubber.
They were examined by experts at
Salt Lake city, and pronounced valua-
bic and rare for size and beauty.
The Board OF managers Of the House
of Refuge at Baltimore, have removed
DR.. Leas from the SUPPLEMENTARY Of
that institution, on account Of the
charges against him Of cruelty to the
children.
Mr.. John Hedrick, an aged gentle.
man living near Mt. Carmel church,
in Washington county, was thrown
from his horpe on Monday last, and
| had two ribs broken, besides being
otherwise injured.
A colored girl in Annapolis, and
another in Baltimore, were burned to
death last week, the former by her
clothes taking FIRE at stove, and the
latter by an explosion Of coal oil, while
attempting to fill lighted lamp.
The body Of Charles Little, who was
drowned during the late freshet in the
Potomac, was found on the lst inst,
about four miles above Shephsrdstown,
on the Maryland side of the river,
where it had been washed ashore.
The Ellicott City Times, which was
published during the last ten years by
John r. Brown, Jr., lately deceased,
has been purchased bv l.. j. 81. Har-
wood Watkins, for $4,000, and the
publication will be continued by them
The moveme Mt against the tramp
is beginning to take shape and it is hop
ed means may be adopted by which
we may be rid Of the intolerable nui'
sance. The convention in Baltimore
this month will be looked forward tc
with much interest as it is expected
that body will adopt ways and means
to dispose of this ugly question.
Seven droves of cattle from Moor.
field Valley, West Virginia, passed
through Cumberland on Friday, the
owners being forced to take them te
the Eastern markets in consequence
of the destruction by the late foot
having left the cattle raisers withou
food for their stock during the winter
WOOD CHOPPERS