Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1877-05-31
NEWS OF THE Week.

South Tor the year VIII DC o,OOO,OoO
bales.
A fire Tuesday night destroyed the
extensive whitehead works Of Davis,
Chambers & Co., at Pittsburg, Penn
sylvania. Loss 100000; fully in
sured.
The Residence fire insurance COM
pany, Of Cleveland, O., organized in
1874, with a cash capital Of 5000, 900
has decided to retire from business.
A fire at Indian Town, Neb., last
Tuesday morning, burned Lees sash
factory, Shaws large carriage factory
and eight or ten dwellings. Loss,
$4,000
r. A. Sheckell sold his farm, one
mile distant from Rockville, to gen
tleman from Washington city for ST.
900. The purchasers idea is to start
a Grst-cl boarding house on it.
Mr.. S. W. Storm, of Waverly Bait
imore county has q goose as is goose.
According to Mr.. Storm, sh. laid sew
enteen eggs one day, and the eggs
weighed more than the goose did.
The members of the young mems
Christian association Of Annapolis
held their first open air meeting since
the organization of the institution in
that city Oh Saturday afternoon last.
A contagious dease, said to resem-
bl pleuro, nemonia, has broken out
among the cattle Of Mr.. A. Amos, near
Jarrettsvle. Several Of his COWS
have died and others are sick.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company shops at Piedmont are
working quite briskly. Six engines
are being rebuilt, and a number Of
hoppers are in course OF construction
This work employs $40 men.
The game and fish law, as amended
by the last session of the Pennsylva-
MIA Legislature. prohibits hunting,
shooting or fishing on Sunday under
q penalty of twenty-five dollars.
The peaches have not been killed
in any Of the great fruit growing sec
tons of the State, but it is feared ma
ny of the trees will not bear such
healthful specimens as usual. Already
signs Of decay or drlyellns, are appa-
! rent.
Patrick Walden waa arrested at
Chester Pa, Saturday, for robbing the
United States mails. He had mail
bag containing a great number OF let.
tiers in his possession.
In the Supreme Court Of Rhode Is
land on Saturday a verdict Was rea-
lered for $4,000 against the New
York, Boston and Providence railroad
company, for loss cfa life resulting
from the Richmond switch disaster
The Jury in the case of DR.. Warren
C. Westlake, Of Elizabeth, n. j., on
trial for manslaughter in killing Wal.
ter Lewis with chloroiorm, while eX-
tracing tooth, on Saturday last y
week, rendered verdict Of not guilty.
Travel on some Of the Kansas rail-
roads is still interrupted. The wash
out is the most destructive the Atch-
ison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad
has ever sustained, and it will cost
the damage
About nine han 1red head Of cattle
slaughtered and dressed at the West
Philadel phia abattior, and weighing
in all about 100000 pounds was
shipped to ENGLAND on Thursday last
by the steamship Indiana.
An undertaken in Dallas, Texas,
fearing that be would not get pay for
a coffin, dug it up three days after the
burial, and carried it back to his shop
leaving The dead mans body in the
box which enclosed the casket
A negro man named James Howard
was badly beaten in fight near
Walkers Store, in Talbot county, re-
Gently, and has since died. a man
named Alex Triple WAS arres ted for
the crime.
The Bell Air -f;gs says that a col
ored man, named Harry, whose age is
set down at ITO years, died near the
residence OF Mr.. Jesse Garrett, Baltl-
more county, on the 30th Of April
Harry was formerly slave Of Mr.,
1 Garrett.
The Towsentown Journal gives a
rnmor that a young girl was buried
alive in the fifth district last week.
| The body was exhumed, and the head
found turned around, with one hand
behind it, the fingers clutched in the
hair.
The wool clip of the San Fernando
. (Cal.) Sheep Company this year was
in many respects a remarkable one.
1t was probably the largest single clip
in the United States, or perhaps in
the world. The hocks of the compa-
ny comprise SO, 400 sheep, and their
yield Of wool was 33l 900 pounds
AS amongst this number there were
a good many lambs last fall, this was
an average of over nine pounds to the
sheep.