Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1877-03-15
NEWS OFTHE WEEK.

The Western Union telegraph com
pany has laid another cable acros
Hampton roads.
A private telegram from Japan say:
that the rebellion in that country vii
probably be finished soon.
Robert r. Lincoln, the eldest sor
of the late President Lincoln, has
been appointed one of the Railroad
Commissioners Of Illinois.
Mrs. Rebecca Anderson, aged liz
was baptized by immersion in a Brook
lyn church last Sunday, week.
A Miss Forney, a north Carolina
bride, dropped dead from heart dis
ease in the middle of the ceremony
one night last week.
The Union Pacific Railway is Sc
riously considering the project Of con-
structing a branch road to the Black
Hills country.
Geo. II. Sanborn an extensive iron
merchant of Beekman street, has been
adjudged a bankrupt on involuntary
petition. Liabilities are $4,000.
The damage from the destruction
to buildings, windows, etc, and the
sinking and collision OF vessels in
N. Y. city, by fridays gale is esti-
mated at nearly 100000.
The Chinese of San Francisco have
made arrangements for celnetry
near that city. This will put a stop
to the practice OF sending home the
bodies of their dead.
Mr.. ]. NJ. Sears, the young million
aire Of Boston. feels poor. His prop.
erty has shrnnk so his taxes lat year
were only $4,000, falling off Of
$l7, 900 from the year before.
In California wheat growing is
yielding larger returns than gold
mining ever did, and in a few years
the whole area Of state bids fair to be
turned into one vast wheat field
The famous little mare "Sadie Bell
owned by a gentleman in Accomac
county. is to trot in Norfolk on the
81 Of April for a purse of $500
Her antagonist, it is said, will be a
we'll known Baltimore trotter.
An jnc.n Larry fire at Lansing,
Michigan, on Tuesday. DESTROYED the
Central Hotel, one church, several
stores and barns, and number Of
smaller buildings. Loss between $780,.
900 and $4,000.
Two ladies, Mrs Ursula Terhune,
aged IS, and Mrs. Eleanor Kent, aged
G. were burned To death at Hacken-
sack, Bergen county, n. j., Monday,
by the explosion Of a Kerosene oil
lamp.
a special dispatch from Boz"rnsn,
Montan, SAYS that the Sioux have
killed Irvine Mcclure and lowry, Of
Della lodge, Mngcins TavIor. Yankee
Jim, Iced Dauels and Bill Randall,
of Bozelnan, and several others, at or
near Saltwater.
Mrq. James VALENTINO Taylor,
known on the operate stage as Miss
Laura Joyce, has brought suit against
her husband for divorce. The hus.
band is very wealthy, is tie 6tep-son
of Senator Fox, and has for many
years been conspicuous in the best So
ciety in Bottom.
Two actresses calling themselves
Frou-l'rou and Hazel have been pay
ing "The To orphans in Texas with
peculiar sweetness and g,aco, accord
ing to Texan critic. In Dallas
l'rou- Frou got drunk and bit oil one
Of lIazel's thumbs.
Joe Simpson, one of Colonel Nc
Daniels rider, WAS thrown from a
horse in Trenton, N. j., Thursday
His foot became cntan9led in stir
rup, and he was dragged some dis
lance, his brans being dashed ont
and an arm and leg broken.
DEPUTY Sheriff I4esitt, Washing
ton county arrived in Baltimore
Wednesday last, and delivered to
Warden Wilkinson, at the Maryland
penltentiary, two prisoners recently
convicted in lla9erstown, viz Thorn :
as Stevens, of murder in the second
degree Of his reputed fathor.In-law,
William Hawthorne, sentenced to one
year.
don. J. Ross Snowlen, ex.director
Of the United States mint is now in
Charlotte, N. c., where he will re-
main for some timo for the purpose Of
examining into the mining resources
OF that section, with a view of making
a report Of their character to the d.
rector of the mint, and advise as to
the feasibility of re-establishing a
branch mint and coinage at Charlotte.
A difficulty occurred at school
house in Johnson county, ILL.,, last
week between the teacher, young
MN named Gray, and sixteen year