Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1877-08-30
NEWS OF the WEEK.

NCW-JeFSey DeLnoclalS llolu lI'li
state convention at Trenton, Septem-
TENDER 10.
Stephen f. Nye has been appoint
ed revenue storekeeper for the First
district of California.
Striker Donahue, Of New York, has
been released on one count, and re-
arrested on conspiracy.
Governor John L. Pennington, Of
Dakota, writes to Washington that
the crops are immense and the farm
ers in high spirits.
Sugar spectators in New York
have $50, 200 pounds Of that use
full commodity en- their hands, with a
prospect Of being compelled to unload
at a heavy loss.
Two thousand Free-thinkers had n
picnic in Western New York this
week. Perhaps the attractions Of the
picnic had something to do with the
NUMBERS present.
The striking miners near llaz(eton,
Pa, endcavored on Monday night to
force their working brethren to DIN
them, but failed in their attempt.
The sum spent annually in Great
Britain upon horses and carriages,
used simply for pleasure and not in
trade or business, is about T2O0,O0O,-
600 in gold.
Charles A. Minnie, n colorel boy,
has won cadetship in West Point
Military Academy over thirteen
white competitors from the schools of
New York city.
A tramp recently died of starvation
in Missouri. This will help amazing
" to rid that State Of these gentry
who get their board by the sweat Of
other peoples brows.
George Weaver, alias "Rol Jacl,
the pirate Of the Chesapeake has
been sentenced to seven years i'm
prsonment in the PENNSYLVANIA poni-
Tertiary for burglary.
The citizens of Hooking county,
Ohio, have petitonel Judge Wright
for special term Of court to try VIM
V. Ferrill, the murderer of John
Weldon, his wife and Nancy Ilite.
1t has been discovered in Washing
tonthat prisoners arrested by the police
on Saturday afternoon are kept in a
narrow cell, 1x4, without any food
whatever, unless the prisoner himself
provides It, until the following Mon
day.
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad
company recently presented a bill to
the L. S. Government, for the trans,
portation Of Government troops to
protect its own property. This claim
may be Just one, but it is rather
cheeky.
Louis Bcrnere was shot through tie
heart in Dallas, Texas, by q religious
fanatic named p. +. ChambIess, Of
sect known as Cobbites. The muir
derer said that God Aad told him to
do the deed, and II kill physician
Of that city.
Vim. Thompson, confined in Jail at
Culpepper Court House, Va, for com.
hitting a brutal assault on a little
white girl, was recently taken from
the prison by mob and hanged to a
tree. His body was left hanging
about - hours.
\ man will carry five hundred dol
lars in his vest pocket but woman
needs morocco portemonae as large
as fist and too heavy to carry in her
pocket to escort tifty-cent scrip, a
receipt for making jelly cake and
two samples Of dress goods
Two negro boys in Florida discoy-
cred an alligator's nest containing
seventy young gators, about eight or
ten inches in length. They com
menced to dispatch them, but Mrs.
Alligator returning home unexpected
" the boys found it necessary to de-
camp.
| A bullet from some kind of hrearm
shot by some unknown party, struck
Mr.. J. NJ. Beals Oh the leg Saturday
evening, while he was placing a
switch at Cumberland, but glanced
out without injury. The shot no
doubt, says the Cumberland Allegha-
MAN and Times, was made through
carelessues s.
Senator Thomas w. Ferry lives in
an old fashioned two-story brown
frame house at Grand Haven, Michi-
gan, which house is surrounded by
handsome grounds. He is a bachelor
and his aunt, an unmarried lady near
lv seventy years old, presides over
his household. lie just recovered
from his severe illness.
Two young girls in New York,
who were attending a picnic in the
suburbs, were induced by Young
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