Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1877-07-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The New York postodice employee
have received their new uniforms.
Ohio promises to produce 100000
bushels of wheat this year.
Troy claims to have over one hun
dred horses that can trot a mile IN.
side Of three minutes.
The Boston Commonwealth accuses
Boston women OF using inordlnate
quantities of opium.
The supply of house servants in
Boston exceeds the demand, ma
ny families have reduced wa ges.
DR.. j. II. Tucker, vouched for as a
"staunch Democrat has been ap-
pointed postmaster Of Carnesvill, Ga.
The Norwich (Vt) University has
received an application from a young
lady to enter the next freshman class.
It is stated that an old man recent
" declined II! cents on the dollar
for $3.50 Confederate money at Black
vile, S. G.
The steamer Canada from New
York, which reached Queenstown last
Wednesday with her machinery disa-
bled, will proceed tonight,
The Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western railroad company advertise
the sale Of l25, 900 tons Of coal on the
last Wednesday Of this month at New
York.
Eugene Digges has bought Freder-
ick Stones interest in the Port Tobac-
co Independent, and that paper will
hereafter be published by j. S. But.
ton $50.
The Owens house, Ocean City, will
be kept open through the winter
months for the accommodation OF
sportsmen, game being plentiful along
the beach and and on the bay.
Inside of the blouse of a Baltimore
stevelore, who was arrested the other
day, were fou al twenty pounds Of
rice, which gave their bearer such an
air Of corpulence as to cause his arrest
"on suspicion.
Samuel Cooper, letter carrier,
was arrested in Baltimore on Monday
for rob ing the mails. He drew a
pistol on the special agent who arrest.
him. but was dis,rmel. Cooper had
been a carrier for eight years.
Major II Kyd Douglas, Of lIagers.
town, a member of Gen. Stonewali
jackson staff during the war, has at
tribnted an interesting collection OF
"reminiscences of his old chief to the
Philadelphia Weekly Times.
The farmers are in ecstacle5 in
Queen Anne's county over the heavy
weld of their wheat crops. Many
have finished threshing, anl report
an average Of eighteen to twenty
bushels for one bushel Of seeding.
The ontbuiIlings on the farm Ct
YIN. J. Price, Queen Annes county
were destroyed by fire Saturday might
last, together with 80 bushels Of corn
300 bushels of whelt, 100 but oIs Of
oats, SO tons of hay, 10000 shingles
and 1000 feet OF lumber.
Mr.. Edwin Scott, Of Yves ern Run
Valley, Baltimore county, raised tins
year on three acres Of ground, nearly
twelve tons of hay The hay crop
generally throughout the county is
short, and this, in view Of that 1act,
may be considered an extraordinary
yield.
Surveyor Sharpe, with other gen
tlemeE representing his, office, We're IN
Washington last "Wednesday in con-
sultation with prominent officials OF
the Treasury Department regarding
the proposed reductions in the office
Of surveyor Of customs in that city.
The fishing schooner Edward Gro
yer arrived at Gloucester, Mass, last
Wednesday, and she reports the loss
Of two of her crew, Alexander Denim
ga and Peter Kelly, June 9, on the
western banks while attending trawles
during fog.