Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1877-08-09
NEWS OF THE WEEK..

operation in Fall River while drunk,
and killed the patient. He has been
indicted for manslaughter.
Wade Hampton, coored, who was
once a slave of Gov. Wade Hampton
is lecturing in Southern Indiana on
the "Condltion of the South.
Massachusetts, sends daily to New
York City 1000 4O.quart cans Of
milk. Out Of which the enterprising
New York milkman makes ;, 900 cans
of whitewater.
Placards containing life-size por-
traits of the Colorado beetle in all its
stages of development have been print
ed in Germany and will be distributed
throughout the country.
A fire at Murfrecsboro n. c., sun
day night destroyed the main build
ing Of Wesleyan female college,
Loss, $4,000; insurance, $50, OOO.-
No lives lost
Steps are being taken in Montreal
Canada, by Catholics to prosecute
prominent Orangelnen as members OF
an illegal association, secret societies
being prohibited by law in that prov
ince.
John Texter, who farms 900 acres
IN Berks, Lebanon and Lancaster
counties, Ps., with extensive crops to
harvest, does not own is moving and
reaping machine bnt Gus his grass
with a scythe and grain with the sick
lie and cradle.
At Ogallala, in Nebraska, on last
Thursday, William Campbell was
killed and five men were wounded IN
shooting ati'ray. The QUARREL re-
suited fro n a few chatting words that
passed between Campbell and man
named May at q dinner table.
1t is reported that the Southern
Pacific Railroad Company have en-
gagged quarter Of a million encalyp-
us trees. The company will plant the
trees along the line Of their track, and
will use the timber, when sufficiently
grown, to replace the ties as they
wear out.
Clark Mills, the ulptor has been
TO Florida and taken casts of the feat
ures OF sixty four Indian chiefs held
prisoners at s.. Augustine. They are
for the Smithsonian Institute at
Washington, which is forming col
lection Of casts Of representatives OF
every nation in the world
A Chinese house at San Fable, near
Oakland, CAL, was fired on Saturday
morning, and nine houses were burned
before the flames were eXtinguIshed
Prominent citizens Of Oakland and
other towns in the vicinity having re-
ceived threatening letters, the people
have organized for defence.
A letter bearing Confederate ten
cent postage stamp IS said to have
passed the inspection Of two Virginia
postmasters recently, and reached its
destination unchailanged. The post
mark was written with a pen directly
under the stamp, and the likeness of
jeff. Davis must have stared the post
master full in the face.
A white swan in the Public Garden
in Boston manifests strong atiection
for one of the veloci pode boats on the
pond, which are made 10 resemble
swans. According to an eye witness
he attends the boat whenever it leaves
its moorings, and stays by it through
the night, biting viciously at any one
who attempts to drive him away.
Boston Corbett, the man who shot
J. Wilkes Booth, is sick and in desti-
tute circumstances at his home in
Camden N. j. For some time he has
been preaching to the frequenters Of
a mission, ard also on the shore at
the foot of Pine street, Camden, but
the hard times have prevented his par
ishoners from doing much for him,
and he is unable to get work or DO it
if lie had 1t.