Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1877-03-22
NEWS GFTHE WEEK.

TIE business men of Nashville las
Wednesday, endorsed President IIaye:
and Postmaster General Key.
Franklin Hall, an aged counterfeit
err, has been captured with his coun
terfeiting machinery" at St.. Louis
The Delaware, Lackawana and
Western railroad company will sell
100000 tons at auction at New York
March %.
Friends Of Senator Logan lelieve
that he would prefer to remain in this
country rather than accept foreign
appointment.
The Governor of New York has
sent to the senate the name of Gener-
al Mcclellan for Superintendent OF
Public Works.
The steamer Florence Meyer is re-
ported sunk seventy-fve miles above
Little Rock. with one thousand bales
of cottc. on board.
A Scranton dispatch says a general
strike of miners will result when the
notified reduction OF Is per cent. in
wages takes place.
The furniture factory of Y. W. D.
Pitcher & Co., and an adjoining saloon
in Athens, Ohio, were burned Satur-
day morning loss. $4,000.
w. J. Rntter, the defaulting CASH
Ter of the National Bank of Pottstown
Pa, who embezzled $4,000 of the
banks funds, has escaped.
The Signal Service Observer at
Cape May reports a schooner ashore
on Cold Spring Bar, two miles north Of
Cape May loaded with coal.
The New York State Senate passed
bill authorizing the laying Of Il pipe
from Pennsylvania to Buffalo for the
transportation ofcrude petrolam.
The betting on race between the
Oxford and Cambridge crews, which
takes place on the Thames on the 9th
inst, is | to 8 in favor of the Oxford.
James Fisk, ST., of Vermont, has
been driving a hourshing trade in
family Bibles, having sold nearly one
hundred since the middle of January.
A brother of Tom Hood TIE poet,
is florist in Bergen, n. j. is said
that beside being an accomplished
botarist he is we'll versed in the C las
sizes.
A number Of patriotic capitalists
have offered to loan the governme mt
without interest, "a 900, 900 to 5000,
600 to pay the army from July to De-
cember
Mr.. W. IT. Nanderbilt's conn'e
stated on Tuesday there had been no
settlement or compromise on the part
of proportionment Of the late commo-
dore' will.
Walter S. Bogy, appointed to adj
Just the half million dollars worth Of
claims of Montgomery, Ala, is meet
ing with success in New York. One
half the holders have accepted the
proposed terms.
The suit for the recovery Of one
million dollars, being Of twice the
amonnt Of which Jacob Rehm defraud
ed the government in connection with
the Chicago whiskey ring, will be
pushed vigorously.
A detective from San Francisco ar,
rived at New York with requisition
from the governor Of California for
Alex Blackjack, the defaulting presi-
dent Of California oyster canning COM
pany.
Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll lectured
in New York Wednesday night on Po-
litical Questions and Answers" advo-
eating the new Southern policy out
lined in the Presidents inaugural.-
Special treasury agents seized
Wednesday in a house in Rector street
New York, 5000 fine cigar. $4,000
cigarettes and a large quantity of fine
leaf tobacco that had been struggled
The internal-revenue agent for New
England has preferred grave charges
of frauds under the revenre laws
against Home & French, of Boston,
druggists and dealers in alcohol, in
tamperiug with the gaugers mark on
packages.
Ellen Brown was arranged in New
York on Saturday morning before
coroner Flanagan, and co nmitted to
the Tombs, for causing the death OF
Mary Ann Rush, by throwing her in
to East river on last Friday.
Attorney General Fairchild, of New
York, has given notice to the officers
Of the World mutual life insurance
company of New York to appear at
Schenectady next Monday, and show
cause why a receiver Of the company
should not be appointed
Professor Marsh's curious and val
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