Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1877-06-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

the White Sulphur Springs, III WI
ginia.
Messrs. Moody and Sankey will be
gin a four weeks revival in Baltlmor
about the lst of September.
Twenty-eight Chimes, boys are o
their way to English and French ma
val colleges.
The Galveston News thinks tn
next census will show a larger IN
crease in population.
The agent of the New ZeaIan'
Government in England is instructed
to send out 5000 migrants.
The fig crop Of Florida promise
good results this season, as the tree
are overladen with fruit.
Houston county, Texas, contains
about two hundred square miles O.
prairie land.
It was cold enough in Rome, Ga.
the 10th of June to make fire necessa
ry to comfort al day.
More than $4,000 worth Of driet
fruit has been sold for cash in Griffin
Georgia, in one season.
Fort Worth, Texas, claims to have
more buildings in course of erection
than any other town in the State.
The court. house at Lampasas, Tex
az, Was robbed Il few days ago, and
most of the records carried away and
destroyed.
The Democratic Committee Of Mis-
sissippi will meet at Jackson on the
Goth, to name the time for holding
the State Convention.
Four thousand pounds of Mississip,
pi grown hides are tanned in Aber'
deem and shipped to Baltimore week
ly by one tannery.
Five hundred tons Of steel rails
have been received for and will be
laid Immediately on the |lcksburg
and Meridian railroad.
The late Augustus Hemmenway, Of
Massachusetts, who died about a year
ago in South America, left an estate
of IS, S9l, 1880.
Mr., Lenoir, Of North Carollna-a
descendant OF an ancient llugenot
iamilv-owns a successfully managed
estate in l.oulon county of 800
acres.
The population of Great Britain HIS
since 1901, increased from lO,UOO,OOC
to 23,ODUO 900, and the London
Times estimates that it Will be donb-
led in hfty-'our Years.
Col. George P. Kane was nomina.
ed on the first ball OF by the Demo.
cra.s Of Baltimore, on Thursday, last
as their candidate for Mayor.
The Eirginians will hold postal
convention at Fortress Monroe in Jul
". President Hayes it is probable
as well as several members Of his Cab,
met, will attend the conference when
it assemblies.
Texas has variety Of climates. -
Two weeks ago corn was coming W
in the Pan Handle, while it was waist
high in Middle Texas, and the peo-
pie Of Galveston and Brownsville were
eating roasting ears.
There is a merchant possessing de-
ciled ileas where the line Of credit
should be drawn, who announces by
a ulacard in his shop window on
Broadway: "In God we trust. All
others are expected to pay cash.
The heirs Of Turner, the painter
have brought an action against the
heirs Of the attorney who acted for
them, and who paid them only $ r.
900 for engravings which he after
ward sold for $lS5, 900.
A man has jrst redeposited in a
savings bank in Maine the identical
package of bills which he withdrew a
year ago under the influence Of a
scare. He has lost fl75 in interest.
A belief in the value Of fresh blood
as medicine in cases of consumption
is entertained by several st. Louis
ply ;ici,ns, and every morning the
chief slaughter house Of that city Is
visited by patients.
An admrcr Of fine homesteads in
Greenland, N. H., has placed 500 in
banh This sum, with interest, will
90 to the man who has the handsome
est road and most ornamental trees IN
front Of his premises at the end Of
three years.
Opposiion steamboats, between
Baltimore and Chopts nix river land
ings, tri- weekly, have cut the fares
for passengers from - to so cents,
and freights down to ten cents bar
rel.
There is a place in New York city
where boys, such as bank and bank
ers' S clerks, gamole in stocks the SAINT
as the regular stock board. 1t is
at such place that a boy is prepared
to become first class thief, and fire.
ouentiy finds himself in the penlten