Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1877-05-31
A fire broke out IL 80 Tuesday night

the village, were burned. Inc p'l'lu
ings were occupied by forty-Slx bust
ness firms. Total loss, s., 900 to 500
600 insurance, $50, 900 to $4,000
The postoflice department has COLI
tracted with j. II. Warren, Of Albany
Wisconsin, for mail service between
Paddock, Nebraska, and Custer CITY,
in the Black Hills, a distance Of 26O
miles, semi weekly, from June to
September 80, at the rate of ~, T93
per annum. This will make the sixth
mail route into the Black Hills coun-
try.
! storm Of almost UNPRECEDENTED
severity did extensive damage III the
nei ghborhood of Marion, Indiana, on
Sunday a week. Houses we're I'm.
rooted, fences destroyed and trees up
rooted in every direction. A church
filled with people. was wrecked and
one man killed and number serious.
ly injured.
Gen. Edward F. Beale, Minister tc
Austria who accepted the office on
condition that he should not be re-
CURED to remain abroad longer than
one year, asks that l. is successor shall
be at once named, as his landed and
other private interests demand his
present attention.
1t is reported that deficiency has
been discovered in the accounts Of
Chief Engineer Howell, Of the New
York division of the Pennsylvania
railroad, and that he has been sus,
pended pending an investigation OF
the matter 1t is alleged that def
clencies discovered extend for four or
five years and amount to some 49,
! 900.
General Grant is the FIRST ex- Pres
ilent to 60 to Foreign parts since the
days Of Frank Pierce. Of the nire-
teen presidents, Washington, Madison
Jackson, Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Tay-
lor, Lincoln, and Johnson never
crossed the Ocean. Those who visit
ed foreign lands were John Adams,
Jefferson; Monroe, Quincy Adams
Van Buren,, Fillmore, Pierce and Blu
chairman.
The commissioner Of Indian affairs II
in receipt Of y telegram from Agent
Clum announcing his safe arrlva at
the San Carlos, Arizona reservation
with all the renegade Indians brought
back from the vicinity Of the Hot
Springs He reports the onplete
success of this mission, and expresses
confidence that with the assistance Of
Gen. Kautz all hostile Indians elss-
where in the territory will soon be
settled.
On Thursday fternoon lat, says a
MELVILLE Pa, correspondent OF the
Harrisburg Telegraph, Josiah Dobba
a lime burner, met II horrible death,
at his kiln, three miles west Of that
place. 1t was 4 drawn kiln bat be.
coming choked it would not settle -
He stepped upon the stones abov., to
force them down, when lie suddenly
sank into the heated mass ny to Iii,
waist, and WAS literally roasted tc
death, all efforts 10y three men to re.
leve him proving without avail. lie
leaves n wife and two children.
Generals Ord and Sheridan have
held long conference in Chicago MP.
on the condition of affairs on the Tex
as border. General Ord thinks that
the maraulers should be punished
wherever found and in the same man.
ner as the hostile Indians. He ask,
for leave to follow the nwless MeXi.
cans across the border without refer
ring to the central Government &c
which they owe no Allegiance. THE
idea seems to prevail in military cir.
cIes this will be our policy. Raids
they say, must cease.
"THE SURE WITNESS"
The ninctccth century is the age OF
novels remarks literary historian, III,
might have added with equal truth, and
novel imposlions' Studied ppltcncsS
has been passed off upon us tor native re-
tincmcnt, the forms of devotion for its cs-
scncc and speculation or science until we
look askancc at every new person or thing
and to an assertion of merit, invariably cX
claim "Prove it" In brief, Satan has
made himself so omniprcscnt, that we look
for his cloven foot every wherc-evcn in
n bottle of medicine Imagine Il lady, hay
ing a complexion so sallow that you wouId
deny her claims to the Caucasian type il
her features did not conform to it purchaS.
/ in. her first bottle Of the Golden Medical
Discovery. The one dollar is paid in the
very identical manner in which Mr.. lay-
lor might be expected to purchase lottery
ticket after his experience With NO. lO1,'
1862" with this difference, his doubt would
be the result of personal experience, vile
| hers would he founded ON what II certain
practitioner (who has been a Whole year
trying to correct her refractory liver has
said concerning 1t At home She exam
ines the bottle half suspiciously, tastes at
its contents carefully, takes the prescribed
dose more carefully, and then proceeds Ia
watch the result with as much anxiety as
practitioner would count the pulse-bcatS
of dying man She takes another dose
and another and shows the bottle to her
friends, telling them she feels better. -
Her Skin loses its bilious tint her eyes re-
gain their lustrc, her accustomed energy
returns, and the fact that she purchases
another bottle is a sure witness that she
has found the Golden Medical discovery to