Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1877-07-12
NEWS OF THE Week.

| Aleution, Zealand, says the fur catch
this year will be less than usual, ow-
ing to the growing scarcity of seals.
Montreal papers attack Superinten-
dant Smith bitterly for prohibiting
the Royal Canadian Insurance Com.
pany from the further transaction of
business in New York State.
Oregon crop prospects are unusual
| ly fine. 1t is estimated that the sur
plus wheat for export will exceed a
hundred and sixty thousand tons.
The Towsonton Journal says man
in that place owns hen l6 years
old, and gives notice to boarding
house keepers that the hen is not for
sale.
Particulars have been received of
the death Of Charles H. Upton, consul
at Genoa and acting charge aafmres
in Switzerland. He died on the 18th
of June, aged sixty.five years, of heart
disease.
The Clinton Savings Bank, N. Y,
has suspended payments, the trustees
having decided to suspend on account
of the decline in business and shrink
age of stocks and real estate values.
| On the fourth of July last, Mr..
Geo. w. Childs, editor Of the Phila-
delphia, Pa, Ledger, gave a dinner
and banquet to the carrier boys Of
that city, This has been long and
lasting custom Of Mr.. Chlds.
The largest shipment Of butter ev-
err made to Great Britain from this
country in any one vessel was taken
out on Saturday by the Anchoria,
from New York, and consisted Of
5,270 packages.
No professional or criminal men in
the world have so easy time OF it as
the Irish Judges. The Lord Chancel.
lor gets $4,000 year and a retiring
pension, no matter how brief time
he serves, Of $4,000.
A Vermonter is driving about
Northern New York an OK attached
to buggy by al ordinary harness
sometimes going 40 miles a day, and
continually Boosting that he can drive
him a mile inside OF three minutes.
A filial New York spirltualist re-
moved the body of his father last
week from Greenwood, where it had
rested for 80 years, in response to
commune ltion from the departed one,
who complained that the grave was
damp.
A landslide in Schodacl, N. Y,
filled sreek, and turned the water
in different direction. The owner
of mill further down sues the farm
er who owns the land on which the
slide occurred, to compel him to re-
store the stream to its former condl-
ton.
1t is statd from Vienna that a groom
of an aristocratic house, during q fit
of religious fervor nailed both his feet
and his left hand to the floor Of his
bedroom, and then with his knife cut
his left side open. During the entire
operation he gave no sign OF pain.
A telegram received at the War
Department Saturday morning from
General Sherman announces that he
was to leave St. Paul, Minnesota, to-
day, accompanied by General Terry,
for Bismark, thence they 90 to the
Big Horn, where they expect to meet
General Sheridan on the 10Th.
Mr.. Joseph X. McCammon and
Major Thomas H. Bradley, of The
board investigating the alleged rreg-
ularites in the Indian office, left
Washington for the West, Saturday
evening on business connected with
their official inquiries.
After the commencement exercises
at Lutherville Female Seminary, on
June Dist Miss M. Cordelia Freas, of
Pa, teacher of Mathematics and
History in the Seminary, was united
in marriage with Rev. Frederick W.
staley, of Gettysburg, Pa. Rev. J. Il,
Dimm, principal of the school per-
forming the ceremony.
A grove of great trees Of the Yose'
mite has Just been explored. 1t is Of
an altitude similar to that of the 9TH
er groves, 5000 feet Instead, how
ever, of being only a cluster Of trees
it is a six-mile square collection OF
ten thousand. There are trees esti-
mated to be from 100 to 4, 900 years
old.
Three men named Floy, Bellinger
and Pierce were boating in the Maya
ra river above the falls last Thursday
evening, when the boat got into the
rapids and Bellnger and Pierce
jumped out and attempted to swim to
shore, but were carried over the falls.
F'loy remained in the boat and was
rescued.
Mrs. Frances Preston Blair, relct
Of the late Francis ?. Blair, and
mother Of Hon. Montgomery Blair
died suddenly at the family mansion,
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