Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1877-09-27
NEWS OF The Week.

II. Malber g. Co., silk merchants Of
London, have failed. Liabilities $500
600.
Great damage to properly by storms
is reported in st. John S parish, Louis
lana.
Major Parsons, of Burlington Iowa
IS charged with stealing $4,000 FROM
bank with which he was connected.
The San Francisco Bulletin wei.
comes the projected New Haven COL
ony saying that California has room
for hundred such,
A lady of Fall River, Mass. has
lest 10 Of her immediate relatives and
connections by death during the past
eight years.
The Sons Of Honor Of New Orleans
behave so badly in their social gath
erings that neighbors have asked the
police to drive them out.
In camr-meeting near Gurnevi'le,
CAL, a house of three stories was made
of hollow tree, TIE cavity being thlr-
teen feet in diameter.
A Chinaman named All Fook, one
of the Sargent ,ranch murderers, was
arrested at Folsom, California
Wednesday last.
The Merchants, Farmers and
Mechanics savings bank of Chicago
has failed. Assets and liabilities not
stated.
The engnehouse Of the Wabash
railroad at Defiance, Ohio, was burn.
ed Tuesday with two locomotives
Loss $4,000.
a robbery of $l2,s0O took place
Tuesday on board Of the steamer
Beanharnois en- route from Montreal
to Beauharnois. There is no clew to
the thief or thieves.
Thomas Francis Curley, executed
at Norristown, Pa. on the 10th inst.
for the murder Of Miss Whitbv in the
spring Of 1878, left full confession in
the hands of his counsel.
A colored man named John Thorn
as, was struck by lightning and killed
on the 10Th, near Patuxent river, in
Anne Arundel county, while seeking
shelter from the storm under 4 tree.
A company of the Second artillery
left Fort Mcllenry last Wednesday
night and marched to the Calvert
station where they took the train tor
Wilkesbarre, Pa, acting under orders
from Washington.
Joseph Dwikof, of the Marine band
of Washington, while attending the
funeral of Freeman Mansfield, a broth.
err Knight Of Pythias at Alexandria
last Wednesday, fell dead OF heart
disease.
Rev. Benjamin Schneider. for for
ty-two years missionary OF the Amer
board in Turkey, died at the City
Hospital, Boston, yesterday week.
He was a native Of Pennsylvania.
Over railroad in Nevada many
tr' ms loaded with silver ore pass, and
the dust has sifted through until the
road is ballasted with dirt that is sald
to give, when it is assayed, fifty dollars
in silver to the ton.
Jacob Norris, 40 years Of age, fer
mer member Of mercantile firm in
Baltimore, but who had been unfortu-
nate in recent business transactions
and stock speculations, committed SUI
icide in that city last Sunday by
shooting himself in the head with a
pistol.
The wife of Postmaster Logan, Of
Hagerstown, while passing through
the yard of her residence one night
last week, was seized by the throat
by a man. Her screams brought her
husband to the scene, when the strange
man fled and managed to get away.
The marks of his fingers were left on
her neck.
The Post-onice at Catskill, N. Y.
was entered on Monday night by
burglars, who tore open the registered
letters and took all the money they
could find, everything IN the office
was in such confusion that no mails
could be made up.
1t is stated at the Treasury Depart
ment that should the present bonded
debt of the United States, other than
the Pacific Railroad bonds, be all
funded in four per. cent. bonds, the
aggregate interest paid annually by
the United States would be reduced
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