Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1877-03-08
NEWS FTHE Week.

Brussels has a cremation society
with 400 members.
Governor Nichols is improving
His physicians consider him out OF
danger.
Mrs. Young, the Vermont who
murdered her two children, has been
committed to await trial.
The creosote works Of the New Or
leans and Mobile railroad at Pascou-
gala burned Friday night, loss $780,
900.
The steamer Anne. ique, on the
beach a Long Brahch, has moved
twenty-five feet eastward and thirty
south ward.
The Southern railway has awarded
the contract for the construction of
the Tennessee-river bridge to a rhil-
adelphia bidder.
All the State militia of Vermont
will participate in reproduction of
the battle Of Bennington, in August
next.
A new Methodist church in Bos-
ton is to be the largest belonging to
that denomination in America, and
will seat 5000 persons.
A strange epidemic has appeared
in various parts Of Scotland among
horses and there are 500 suffering
from its effects in Edinburgh alone.
The Connecticut State legislature
has passed bill providing that crlmi-
nails from another State can be re-
turned without a requistion from the
Governor of State.
There are 1920 languages spoken
in the world, and when a Democrat
wants to give uttera::ce to his feelings
about the Electoral count he wishes
there were five or six more.
The semi.centennial convention Of
Sigma Phi fraternity was held at
Schenectady, New York, last Friday
evening. Charles T. Cromwell, the
only surviving founder was present.
William Murphy and Austin B.
Cornell, Of Provincetown, Mass, fish
erman, are supposed to have been
drowned LAST Friday. They visited
their travis in dory and have not
returned.
Greenfield, the Oswell (Oswego
: county, New York;, wife murderer
was convicted on Saturday Of murle,
in the first degree. A stay Of pro.
ceedings till March 10Th was granted
Lewis Payne, the newly-appointed
United States marshal for the south.
ern district of New York, filed his
bond on Saturday, and was sworn in
as United States marshall by Judge
Blatchforl in the United States Dis
trict court.
Fall River, Mass, is over. flowing
with orders from South America. An
agent recently sent down there to open
a market for American cottons has
had success, and reports the way
clear for trade.
The average annual production OF
kid gloves in France is two and a hall
million dozen pairs, three-fourths Of
which are exported. Ninety thou.
sand operatives are employed in the
manufacture.
One hundred and forty emigrants
from New York, Pennsylvania and
other parts sailed from New York
Saturday, on ship Seria Nevada for
Australia, and three hundred more
will leave in fortnight on the ship
Annie II. Smith.
The excitment in New York over
the President complications Is dying
out, and the city is once more assuln-
ing itsAwonted business.like appear,
ance, AM hhopes are revived Of a good
spring trade, and nearly every one is
, thankful that the political imbroglio
is over.
How much may oe accomplished by
, untiring industry is shown by the ex-
ample Of young man of San Francis
co. He went to Virginia City, rep
resented that he was a clergyman,
made the acquaintance Of thirty per-
sons borrowed money from each to
an7aggregate of 81, 700, and ran away,
all within a week.
! A little girl of twelve years recent.
" drowned herself at Besseges
France, because her mother scol1ed
her several days for giving sausage
to the cat. The child told playmate
that if she heard anything more
about willful waste she would commit
suicide, and she kept her word.
New York has just discovered that
the map makers have made her geog-
raphy crooked. Whole cities are
misplaced. For instance Buffalo is
two miles from where it ought to be,
and the New Workers are trying to
decide whether it would be cheaper
to move the cities and towns to cor