Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1877-07-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

! General Sheridan ana CROOK, ac-
companied by aids, are on western
tour through the Yellowstone and
Big Horn countries.
The model town in the State of
New York is Alfred. 1t has 1000
inhabitants, has never had a single
glass of liquor sold within its limits,
and never pauper to support.
A man in Warsaw, Ark, has killed
four men on as many different occa-
sions. In each case he proved beyond
question that he acted in self defence,
and was acquitted by jury.
A man in Louisiana who lost his
arm by the premature explosion OF a
cannon offers $50 reward for the re-
covery of diamond sleeve, button at
tached to the missing shirt cuff.
The Pope presented medals to Mrs.
General Sherman, Mrs. Patterson, of
st. Louis, and Mrs. Sayler, of New
Orleans, who were among the pilgrims
to Rome on his golden jubilee.
Commodore John r. Goldsborough
us. N, died at his residence in
Philadelphia on Friday, aged SO years.
He entered the navy in 1924, and
was placed on the retired list in 1870.
The "big tree" which grew in CAL
averas Co., CAL, contained 100000
feet of inch lumber, and was felled by
five men working twenty two and
cne-half days making III days labor.
A farmer in Cumberland county
Pa, recently ploughed up a hunting
case gold watch. The case was in
good condition but the works were
somewhat rusted.
The Arkansas Supreme Court has
decided that the act under which
about $le,OOO,000 bonds We're issued
in 1869 in aid of railroads was uncon-
stitntional, and that the bonds We're
illegal
The will of John NJ. Whitehall, of
Philadelphia, bequeaths $4,000 to
the Haverford School Association, to
be added to the Endowment Fund
and to be devoted to teaching the art
Of drawing, especially mechanical
drawing.
The supervisors of San Francisco
have formally made known their de-
termination not to accept any street
hereafter upon which any material
imported from China has been used
in the construction Of the pavement,
curbs, or sidewalks.
Frank R. Wilson, under sentence
Of death in Dauphin county, Pa, pris-
on, has made another statement i'm
plicating others in the murder of a
man named John Rudy. His story like
the others, is believed to be false, and
made under the delusion that time
may be gained.
The New Jersey peach crop is esti
mated at 100000 baskets ; add to
this the product of Delaware and Ma,
ryland and there will be total Of at
least 100000 baskets, perhaps the
heaviest viell ever known. An at
tempt will be made to ship the fruit
to Europe.
In the second election district of
Hartford county, Nd there are over
1000 acres of land devoted to the
cultivation Of the succulent tomato
and nearly 100000 capital is in.
vested to can the crop, 1t IS said
there are from 40 to 70 canning es
adjustments in East Hartford.
A despatch to the board OF health
states that there have been one hun
bred and eighty six deaths in the past
ten weeks from yellow fever at the
military hospital, hundred miles
from Havana. This is the only place
in the tropics where the fever has
maze us appearance.
The Supreme Court Of Pennsvrlva-
MIA has decided as to church bells,
that at thirty minutes before the
hour of service upon Sunday, the
bells may be rung for five minutes,
Immediately preceding service time, a
bell of the smallest size may be rung,
At all other times the noiso is consil-
cred illegal.
A gentleman named Moulsdole liv-
ing in Hartford county climed tree
and shook limb on which there was
swarm of bees. lie got down the
tree in iitfy, and before the bees
were driven off he was stung several
hundred times about the neck and
face, and almost killed.
A dispatch from Mauch Chunk, Pa,
says the Mollie Magulres have MUIR
dered VIM. O'Conner, near White
Haven, and also assassinated John
Grady, miner employed in one Of
the Lehigh collieries, and that James
McDermott and Michael 0 Brien, who
were witnesses against several OF the
executed Mollies, have mysterlously
disappeared, and fears are entertained
that they have been foully dealt with