Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1877-01-11

The funeral of Eph Horn, the ne
gro minstrel, took place on Saturday
from the Little Church Around the
Corner New York city, Rev. Dr.,
IIougl ton officiating, A large con-
course of actors was present and Il
accompanied the remains to Ever.
green cemetery, where they we're in'
tered.
The five negroes who murdered
Hausman and Portman near Aiken,
South Carolina, last November, have
been found guilty of murder in the
first degree. The murdered men were
respectable German citizens. One of
the negroes confessed the crime and
gave the names of other prominent
citizens whom the gang, OF which he
was a member, intended to murder.
Last Sunday, near Fayetteville, N.
G., while posse Of white men were
escorting negro from town to his
home in the country, to protect him
from violence by other negrors, who
threatened him for voting the Dem
ocratic ticket, they were ambushed
by a party Of negroes, and a bloody
conflict ensued with knives, some
eighteen or twenty persons participa-
ting. A white man named Candy
was killed and a number of whites
and blacks wounded.
The Rev. Richard T. Brown, the
Episcopal Minister of Rockville, re-
celved a pleasant surprise on Friday
last, in the shape of Donation Par
ty, given at the parsonage, by the
Rockville and Jamestown congrega-
tions. The Donations We're numerous
and liberal consisting of about $40 in
money, large quantity Of groceries,
turkeys, chickens, and many other
acceptable presents. Mr. Brown was
much pleased by this manifestation
of the high regard in which he is held
by his people, and expressed his last
ing gratitude for the favor.
A new method Of catching; musk
rats has been tried with success by
Berran Grant and John Schlyhawk Of
Smyrna. They put "a torch in tn"
bow of a boat, and row down the
creek back Of the mill at night. The
rats see the light and seem lrresista
blv impelled toward it. They are
shot whilst swimming to the light
The experiment was tried for three
or four nights before the freeze and
fifteen lats and wild duck w,re
bagged. The dnck seemed moved by
the same impulses that possessed the
musk rats.
A report is in circulation late Sat
Saturday night, that the sum Of near
~ twelve thousand dollars, belonging
to the Illinois National bank of Chi
cago, recently stolen from the Treas
ury Department, in Washington has
been restored, the person who com
m,tted the larceny having returned
it to the treasury through third
party 1t is further stated that the
guilty person, fearful of detection,
resorted to this means of restoring
the Stolen funds in the hope Of being
saved from public exposure, and that
no pe,s N connected with the detec-
tive service had anything to do with
lis recovery.
\ telegram irom Louisville states
that tne particulars concerning the
double murder committed at Harrols-
burg. Kenruckv, on Friday, show
HAT botu Robert and James Gallagher
! father and son, were killed by Zach
Henry, who was thrashed severely
by Robert Gallagher some time ago
lhe deed was done with a shot gun
Nine buckshot entered Gallaghers
head, heart and neck, producing in
slant death. James Gallagher ran
toward his father and the murderer,
seeing him, fired the other barrel,
eight buckshot piercing Young Gallag-
hers body. The latter fell, but ris.
ing fer a moment was shot down again
by Henry, who used a pistol the last
time. Henry is in prison.
TIE GOSPEL OF MERIT.
Where there is so much rivalry as in
the manufacture of family medicines, he
who would succeed must give positive and
convincing proof of merit. This is an age
of inquiry. People take nothing for grant
ed. They must know the 'mdWs' and
"uherrtores' before acknowledging the su
periority of one article over another
Among the few preparations that have
stood the t. st, those manufactured by r
V Pierce, NJ d., of the Worlds Dispen
sary Buffalo, n Y, have for many years
been foremost The truth OF any state
ment made concerning them can be easily
asccrlaincd, for Dr. Sage's Ca,arrh Rene
DIV and Dr. Picrce's Golden Medical Dis
coycry are now prescribed by many ply
sicans in curing obstinate cases of Catarrh
and incipient Consumption. The Discov
cry has no equal in curing Coughs, Colds
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