Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1877-02-01
NEWS or TINE WEEK.

One Boston flrm made some IL, UU'
childrens carriages last year.
, AS soon as the frost leaves look on
for more railway accidents.
Four hundred national banks ar
preparing to retire their circulation.
A discharged domestic poisoned
E baby at Green Bay, Wis.,, last week
A Wisconsin postm,ster's dog ha
swallowed $500 worth Of stamps at
lick.
There is nothing mean about Pete
Cooper. He says he is in favor OF
new election.
MATED and "cremated" will b.
the style of marriage and death mott
ces OF lie future.
Chief Justice Waite is reported tt
possess the largest head in Ohio, bu
the sculptors will get a-head Of hin
yet.
A Mr.. Blanc, of Paris, has perfect
ed a mode Of bronzing plaster anc
casting it with the consistency Of
marble.
Ostrich eggs are worth $40 each al
the Cape of Good Hope. The ostrich.
es ought to be able to lay by some
thing at that rate.
Barry Sullivan was welcomed back
to Belfast by an immense throng OF
citizens, who formed in procession and
escorted him to his hotel.
Queen Victoria had her whole
household vacclnated recently. Roy
atty have the same smallpox that
Plebians do, astonishing as the state
meat may seem.
B. w. Stockton, chief clerk at the
Willard hotel, Memphis, was shot and
probably fatally injured Friday, by
W. c. D. Whips, his employer.
The liabilities of Jacob Hermance,
who made an assignment at Ellen
vile, N. Y, few days ago, are re-
ported at 100000 assets, nothing.
A TitusviIle (Pa.) physician, DR..
Richard Robertson, has fallen heir to
$50, 600, bequeathld to him by his
rather, Sir William II. Robertson, Of
Northern Ireland.
The case of Bishop John D. Lee,
convicted of murder in the Mount
ain Meadow massacre of 1897, was
appealed to the Supreme Court of the
territory, which has granted ID stay OF
execution.
The Missouri Pacific railroad CON.
pany entered suit Friday, against the
Atlantic and Pacific railroad, now
called the st. Louis and San Fran
cisco road for breach Of contract and
asking judgment in the SUN Of st.
100000.
Judge Gray, of Oshkosh, Wisconsin,
AS invited to lecture on some light
topic and did so, dIscourslng on "Can.
dies, Kerosene and Culture 1t is
stated that there was no gas in the
lecture.
A New York lady was surprised on
! the occasion of her wedding the other
day, to receive as present an arI-
Gle Of silver that she had presented
to a bride six months ago. This shows
how hard times are.
John James, Jeremiah Mccarthy,
and James Riley, the masked rob
bers of Astoria, l.. l., have been sent
enced, the first to 80 years, the sec,
ond to 20 and the third to IS years
in the New York ponitentiary.
| The Chicago Tribune estimates the
municipal debts Of Illinois at forty
millions, averaging eight per cent, IN
;erest, and says the burden is 50 heavy
/ that all hope of paying the principle
| has been abandoned.
The combined, capital Of the Roths
childs is state / by Emile Burnont,
the well known publicist, to have at
tanned in the past year to the almost
incalculabIe sum Of seventeen billions
Of francs, or SIS 400 100000.
Howe London Circus was levied
on at Augusta, Ga, last week, under
attachment of the United States. The
circus and menagerie is now in charge
of the sheriff and will be sold.
A few weeks ago, Mrs. Mcdonald,
the wife of coal miner residing at
:. Williamsburg. Pa, gave birth to quad
ru| ,lets-two boys and two girls-all
Of them however, dying within three
days.
DR.. May, father Of Frederick May
one of the principals in the late duel
was before the grand jury Friday, in
relation TO that encounter. The doc
tor could give them no information
relative to the duel, and he emerged
from their rooms after fiveminute
interview.
Frederick William Hanaeurahel