Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1877-01-11
NEWS CFTHE WEEK.

in Pennsylvania to go to Kansas to
SETTLE.
The laa Hershberger, who was re
Gently shot in Allegheny county, has
since died.
A special agent of the government
is at Bidlcford, Me-, Investigating
postofiice affairs.
Hon. A. X. Syester has been APP
pointed general attorney Of the BALI
more and Ohio railroad.
Governor Porter, of Tennessee, sent
pardons to four convicts in the Penl-
tertiary as Christmas gifts.
w. J. Sanford, city clerk Of Coving-
ton, Kv., is charged with forgery and
suspended from his office.
The Methodist Episcopal church at
Antwerp, N. Y, was burned last Fri
day, causing loss of sec, 900.
Beecher and Titon while on lect-
uring tour, met last Tuesday at an
humble lunch counter at Utica.
F. w. Martens, broker in New
York, committed suicide Friday last,
by shooting himself through the heart.
Sage brush, which has hitherto been
regarded as valnless, is eing gathered
and sold for fuel by the cord in Me-
vada.
Societies have been formed in many
of the New England states to provide
hot meals and soft beds ior itinerant
tranps.
California proposes to cede a por-
ton Of the great Colorado DIES rt to
parties who will reclaim it from its
| barrenness.
The snow and ice Of the past fort
night have been the cause Of nnmer-
Gus railway accidents in various parts
Of the country
The latest news from tn. burning
mines at Lykens, Pa, is that the fire
men are slowly but surely getting con-
troll Of the flames.
The troops comprising the late
Powder-river expedition are being
distributed from Cheyenne to differ
ent points in the West
General John J, Abercrombie, of
the United States army, died on
Wednesday last at his residence il
Roslyu, Long Island, aged 70.
King Lee. he richest Chinaman in
Montana, was recently murdered fo'
his money at German gulch, and his
assassins got away with $4,000.
A noted criminal LAWYER of San
Francisco bad wooden jac a PR
scented to him on Christmas day by
some ofhis professional brethren.
The money obtained from the banks
of Philadelphia on the checks stolen
from the mails from that CITY will
foot, it is supposed, about $50, 600.
The Farragut monument associa-
ton has given the commission for the
statue Of Admiral Farragnt to Mr.
Aug. St. Gaudens, Of New York city
A schooner, supposed to be the
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broken to pieces off the coast of that
state, and it isfeared that her crew
! lost.
The steamer Greece, which went
ashore on Thursday in The lower bay,
upon departing from the port of New
York, g off and is now on her way
to London.
Mrs. Charlotte De Forest Egbert,
sister of the late Commodore Wander
biIt, died at her residence on Staten
TsIand Of pneumonia, Saturday, aged
50 years.
The English minister at Teheran
tel, graphs that IN consequence OF an
apprehended scarcity the expectation
Of grain toBnsbire and the Persian gulf
Is prohibited
In an alteration at Shenandoah, Pa
on Thursday night, boy named Os,
car McCord struck Joseph Rokart on
the hea with a club and killed him.
McCord was lodged in Jail.
Coles Morris, weIlknown lawyer
in New York city, is reported 10 be
defaulter to the extent Of $3.50 900,
belonging principally to an estate
which he held in trust.
A Boston paper on Saturday an.
nounced the death of President Smith
of Dartmouth college, but it is con-
tradicted with the assurance that that
gentleman health is much improved
The special committee Of the Sen
ate on counting of the electoral votes
held a prolonged session on Saturday
which was devoted to discussing his
torical and legal data for future action.
The Toledo express on the Cincin
natti, Hamilton and Dayton railroad,
ran off the track near Hamilton, Ohio,