Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1877-02-22
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The revolution IN Santa Cruz, DO
livia, is assuming threatening proper
tons.
The captured bank robbers were
lodged in the northampton Jail Sat
urday night.
Pen advices report fresh discover
les of guano in the south of Immense
proportions.
Secretary Cameron and General
Sherman returned to Washington
Saturday morning.
There was heavy shock of earth
qake at Queen, Plumas county, Cal ,
on Saturday.
The lost steamer George Cromwell
had five passengers and crew OF
twenty-three persons.
E. J. Finnis' dry goods store at
Medina, o., was destroyed by fire
Saturday morning. Loss $4,000.
At the opening Of Parliament Min
lister Plerrepont': wife wore stun
ming garb of lace and velvet.
In England hangings are no longer
conducted as spectacular entertain
ments for the public.
Florida offers inducements to So
900 Menonites to come and engineer
orange groves.
The Cecil Democrat, one of the
best papers in the state, has entered
on its thirty-sixth year.
Lonaconlng is to have a new bridge
leading to the railroad depot at that
place, the present one being unsafe.
4 man named Trenant was recent
~ killed by fall Of coal in the Big
Vein mine of the New Central mine
at Homecoming.
The boys of Berlin, forty or fifty in
number, will celebrate February p
with a grand parade on horseback
with flags aud banners.
James F. Hayden, formerly Of the
Oakland Herald, has purchased the
Oakland Gazette, and will assume its
management on March l, making it
IA republican paper.
Isaac Coffin is putting up a new no.
tel at Ocean City SO by 1000 feet and
three stories high. Another hotel
and several cottages it is said will be
erected in the spring.
Shafer & Kemps pork factory, at
Middletown, o., WAS destroyed by
fire Saturday, Loss, f23, U0O insu,
rance, i2l 900.
The National trotting association
adjourned at New York Saturday
sine die, after passing upon large
number Of cases.
Guilds block and C,lling's build
ing at AttleDoro', Mass, We're burned
Saturday, Loss, So, 900; insurance
$4,000.
A fire at Sag harbor, n. Y, Satnr-
day morning. destroyed thirty build
ings, burning over a space of guar
quarter Of mile. Loss, 100000.
Gov. Vance, of North Carolina, has
refused to comply with demand
from the Secretary Of War for the
years 1861 to 1863.
Samuel Smith, farmer, was way,
laid and robbed near Franklin, Ind,
Sunday. Smiths skull was fractured
by his assaiIant and he will probably
die.
Captain Eads has been paid half a
million dollars in bonds by the Treas.
ury Department for his work in deep
ening the channel Of the mouth o.:
the Mississippi river
Colonel Fred Myers, revenue agent
at Waverton, Mo-, Was shot and Sc.
riously wounded Saturday by Nat
c. Dryden, lawyer Cause--a quar-
rel over whiskey seizure.
Some dirt from farm in Mime
sofa is on the way East in box with
a glass top. A swarm Of infant
grasshoppers may be seen through
the glass, and they are growing fast.
John S Norton, IN actor of consid-
cradle popularity, tried inetfectiv,ly
to commit suicide in Cincinnatti- He
had become discouraged by lack Of
employment.
The locomotive engineers all along
the line of the Boston and Maine
railroad struck last Monday, and g.
600 people We're at the depot in Bos-
ton Monday night, awaiting transpor.
tatlon.
A party of Pale face horse thieves
have been captured by United States
troops near Red Cloud agency. where
they had been running off ponies for
some time. Twenty-six ponies were
raoouara1