Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1877-03-29
NEWS OFTHE WEEK.

Hon. Joseph r. Pratt, judge Of thu
Court of Common Pleas in Thiladel
phia, died Monday.
John Lindermuth of New Castle, Pa
who has been missing since the lOtt
inst, was found yesterday frozen t.
death at Flowery field.
An attack was made by Highway
men on stage in the Black Hills
Sunday evening. The driver was
shot dead and a passenger slightly
wounded. The horses ran away, talk
ing the stage into Deadwood, and the
robbers got no booty.
Thieves made raid on the dry
goods store of Gage Bros, Madrid
N. Y, Saturday night, blew open the
safe, but got only $500. The store
was fired and consumed. Loss $4,000
The thieves escaped into Caneda.
Alfred Pickard, jealous French.
man, living in New York, bound his
sleeping wife, Heloise, to chair and
rubbed vitrol on her left cheek, which
ate the flesh to the bone and dis6g.
ured her for life.
The Lancaster, Pa, Intelligencel
announces the appearance of small
pox in that city in violent form, but
not epidemic, it having been confined
thus far to a single family, in which
two children have died.
At Shelbyville Thursday, Ben f
Mickey, regarded as the worst DIES
perado in Kentucky, was convicted of
the willful murder Of John ?. Wilson
in Oldham county year ago, anC
sentenced to penal servltude for life.
While fire engine No. % was pro-
ceeding to fire Thursday morning
it collidcd with street car at Third
and Walnut streets, ph;la., Patrick
King, the driver, was thrown under
the engine and intantly killed He
leaves wife and three children.
There was 100 babies on exhibition
at the baby show in Cincinnati. Of
this number there are thirty pair of
twins and two sets Of triplets Prem
iums were distributed last Thursday
afternoon.
Augustus L. Soulc, of Springfield
Mass, has been appointed to the va
cancv in the Massachusetts, Supreme
Court, created by the appointment Of
Gen. Devens to President Hayes S
Cabinet.
John West, employed in a saw mill
at Fort Wayne, Ind, was instantly
killed Wednesday last a week, by fall
ing across circular saw while it was
RAPIDLY revolving. His body was cut
entirely in two, piece falling on
each side CT the saw.
Mr.. George Brown, a well-known
citizen Of Baltimore county, died
Wednesday at his residence, "Ston'.
leigh, near Towyontown, in the forty
ninth year CT his age. lie was q son
of the late Robert p. Brown, and a
cousin of Judge Brown, Of the Grim
inal Court. The deceased was highly
cstce ned.
An effort to navigate the st. Lsw-
renee river at all seasons is to be
made under direction of the Canada
an Government. An exceedingly pow
crful propeller, iron sheathod, and
shaped somewhat like a wedge, has
been built for use as an ice breaker.--
In trial this vessel made good head
way through ice foot thick.
The jury in the Smith murder trial
at Marshal, Detroit, rendered a YER
dict Of acQnittal on Saturday. A
burst of applause greeted the an
nouncement that the liberated man
and Anna Owens, the mother Of the
dead child, We're to be united in mat
rimonv, which ceremony was per
! formed in open court.
1t is said to be no uncommon occur
renee in China for a man to kill him.
self at his enemv's door and to leave
him thus saddled with the moral and
legal consequences Of the death. This
proceeding is, it is asserted, the most
terrible form Of revenge man can
take, and it is much dreaded by those
WHO are conscious of having done
anything TO provoke it.
The latest use to which electricity
has been put is the calling of'the cash
boys in the large recall dry goods
houses. In one house, the cash girls
are stationed in one part of the build
ing at stand from which run tele-
graph wires to all the sales counters
and The saleswoman by pulling a strap
calls a messenger to her without the
noise and confusion attendant on the
former process.
A little girl in Cincinnati was at.
tackled lately by an English bulldog
A police officer shot the brute through
the head. After he was wounded the
doc spranp upon the officer and near