Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1877-11-29
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Gentlemen vests are now single
breasted and without collars.
Genera, Sherman's salary, includ-
ing rations, &c, is $4,000 year.
German expcrimenters assert that a
silver spoon wears out in ooS years
The tobacconists' strike has elu'ted
the Connecticut market with cabba-
ges.
A single county in New York Yields
100000 worth Of apples in good
years.
Pittyburg hasa female black smith.
When the horses do not behave she
takes off her switch to them.
Al Benton Harbor, Michigan, they
10 their marrying and giving in mar.
riase at the public school house.
General Grant will come to high
honor in Madrid, week after next
The Spanish Government intends to
give him an official reception.
The St. Michael's Comet savs in
that section there is very good Irish
potato crop this year-much larger
lhan last season.
An effort is being made br the d.
rec,ors Of The Drum Point railroad 10
raise means sufficient to prosecute the
extension Of that enterprise.
A sugar.honse on the Arcadia plan
tation, lhorviile parish, La, the prop
o,ty OF Colonel Rivers, was burned
Friday night, II COS. forty thousand
uninsured.
John Starr, Of Cincinnati, invented
tue electric light, aud died in Paris
thirty years ago, while trying to in
troluce it. IT. proposed 10 i,lumin
ate Whole city with one electric ball.
The farmers OF Cecil county have
passed resolutions to protect their
sheep from logs, declaring that all
dogs running At large shall he con~id,
cred at the mercy Of the community.
An election WAS held at st. Mich
ael's last week to decide whether hogs
may be raised within the corporal q
limits. One hundred ana two votes
rolled, Of which ninety-s.X We're for
hogs.
Harrison 7. Thompson, q Clark
county, Ky, cattle dealer, has fled a
petition in bankruptcy. His liabili-
lies are f2216, 59l assests not stated.
HIS creditors are mostly Kentuckian
banks.
On Friday, Thomas Kelly. en-
plovel on a farm in Smithhe!l, r. l.,
stabbed Charles Northrop, proprietor
of an adjoining farm. Northror, lies
in a critical condition. Kelly is un.
der arrest.
Mr. Jacob Wickard, a prominent
citizen of Cumberland, and the fonn-
der Of the old Allechanian newspaper
of that city, died last week from q
stroke Of paralysis, aged about seven,
ty-fve years.
Governor Carroll last week signed
the death warrant of Henry Norfolk
convicted at Annapolis Of the murder
of his wife on the Goth of May. The
dav Of his execution is fixed on Friday
the Olaf Of December next.
In Stanley county, N. G., a few DAYS
since, the coffin had been made, gal
lows erected, and the fatal moose pre-.
pared for the execution of Allen Car.
ter, when dispatch arrived from Gov
Vance committing the sentence to i'm
prjsonment for life.
At Boston on Saturday, johanna
Morrison was held in the sum Of S.
600 for killing her newly born child
Carl Lorengen, keeper Of a beer sa-
loon, wa; held in $4,000 on a charge
of fatally wounding Fritz Coblint2
Tuesday night, Coblentz is dying.
( General Abraham Dnryea. ex police
commissioner, was arrested in New
York on Saturday night on the charge
Of obtaining money under false pre-
lenses. The general was arrested by
the sheriff and is understood to have
given $4,000 bonds.
General Joseph Johnston SAYS tina
General Longstreet's description O
the Gettysburg fight is the only salts
factory one that has ever appeared
General Longstreet has received ap.
proving letters from officers Of higl