Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1877-08-16
NEWS OF THE Week.

NEWS OF The WEEK..
The police now arrest all tramps
found in Baltimore city, and they are
committed to Jail for thirty days.
OF the PIG deaths in Baltimore city
last week, 81 We're from cholera in
fantum and ID from whooplng cough.
The Baldwin locomotive works,
Broad street, Philadelphia, are at
present working about eleven hundred
men.
A man in Chambersburg, Ill.,, has
been sued for destroying property by
splitting tobacco juice on the floor of a
church.
In Pittsburg, Pa, Harry Croft has
been committed on the charge of hav-
ing shot and killed soldier during
the late riots.
The Detroit Free Press Doesn't be-
leve that the Pittsburg mob could
have been dispersed by some one NOV
ing to take up a collection.
An Iowa paper relates that Sioux
county bachelor rewarded young
man with COW for successfully ar.
ranging a matrimonial match for him.
1t is reported that the indications
now are that the blockade on the G.
& O. Canal will soon be abandoned.
and that without the aid Of the mill
tary.
It is expected that the ne" depot
at Pttsburg will be completed by
next Saturday. The pay roll of the
workmen engaged upon it IS $4,000
per day.
The Smith sisters Of Glastonbury,
Conn.,, live in house 1879 years old,
sit under a tree lOl years old, and
are the possessors Of the Gov. Sa!ton-
stall china, which is 200 years old.
A new company has been organized
to operate the cotton factory at Laurel,
Prince George 9 county, and work will
be commenced at once. Employment
vii thus be given to 800 operatives.
The squaws at Austin, New, catch
ing the infection Of the recent strike,
raised their prices for days wash
ing from 50 cents to 10 cents. Their
demands were acceded to peaceably.
The schooner, George Treadwell,
belonging to Joseph Henry & Co., Of
Baltimore, was cappized and sunk 10
miles from Nassau, July 10. No lives
were LOST. She had Il, 500 silver coin
on board.
The Brandywine wooden mills, sit
uated about three miles east Of Sche-
nectady. n. Y, and owned by George
McCIyman, were totally burned
Wednesday afternoon. Loss 100000
insurance $4,000.
The proposals for the five million
five per cent water loan OF Baltimore
city were opened Monday, last week.
The bids altogether amounted to over
eight million dollars, and all Of those
accepted were above par.
One genius down in Georgia has in
vented way of blowing up dogs with
gunpowder, and his average is eigh-
teen dogs per night. lie calculates
that he can explode the last dog in
the State by January, 1879.
The loss by strike and obstruction
to business for 5 days on the five truck
lines Of railway, including destruction
Of property Of the Baltimore and Ohio
and Pennsylvania railroads, is estl-
mated at 26t millions of dollars.
1t is proposed to bore tunnel UNI
der the Mediterranean from near AL
geciras, in Spain, to point between
Tangicrs and Ceuta, in Africa, a dis
lance of nine miles. The cost is estl-
mated at "a 100000.
The "road agents in the Black
Hills are humorists in their way. A
gang Of them recent lily robbed a stage
made the messenger surrender the
treasure box which contained $500
and then told him that he ought tc
quit working for a company that did
not carry more money than that.
The United States minister to Swe-
den and Norway, writing to the De-
partment Of State relative to the IN
ternatonal exhibitions, states that
the prizes awarded to Swedish exhib.
itors at our Centennial will be dlstrlb.
uted by the Grown Prince the latter
part Of August. With reference to the
coming exhibition at Paris, both Swe'
den and Norway are working with
characteristic efforts in similar direc,
tions, Sweden having already appro.
priated for this object YoS, $500 and
Norway $50, 900.