Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1877-06-28

: for use at $40 each. San francesca
proposes to lift this tax by preparing
the skins hers If. One hundred anc
O fifty thousand skins constitute the
yearly export.
, A man in prison stretched his hand
through the grating of the Jail door
in Liberty, Mo-, recently, and mar.
ried young lady on the steps of the
e building. He had been imprisoned
year for obtaining money under
false pretences. The bride returned
to her home and the groom to his
| cell.
The detectives Of Cincinnati became
suspicious when they smelt perfumery
, on most of the thieves they met, and
thev knew what it meant when they
learned that a drug store had been
robbed. The scent was SO strong that
it led the officers direct to the burg
lars.
A gar fish weighing thirty pounds
was caught in a trap in Flint river
in Georgia, BY Mr.. j. J. Murry, on
Monday last a week. This is the
largest fish Of the kind ever caught
in the Flint. 1t measured five feet
in length.
St. Louis papers have arrived at the
conclusion that there is no danger OF
m overflow in the Mississippi from
the influence Of the rain storms nst
passed, and advise the farmers below
to proceed with their planting.
Reports carefully collected in Now
! Orleans and in Nashville show that
the cotton crop for the coming year
will exceed in area or acreage that OF
last year, and the promise of the cron
in other respects is most excellent.
An invention has been patented
which may produce almost as marked
an affect as the cotton gin. 1t is a
wagonlike machine called the picker,
and when driven through the II pened
fields picks clean every scrap Of cot
ton, and saves the labor of 100 hands.
A special to the Globe Democrat
from Ware lburg, Mo-, says he two
story brick building occupied by llar
rson 4 Redtord, grocers, fell on the
10TH carrying to the cellar, with the
debris, \. b. Harrison, one of the
firm, who was killed and George
Kane, who was MORALLY wonnded.-
Several other persons We're more CT
less injured, but none seriously.
Several gentleman who We're con
nected with :he commission on civil
service reform under President Grant
are now engaged by the direction of
President Hayes, in the preparation
o. rules on the same sui ject, to oper-
ate in all public Offices throughout
tie country.
Here is bulllozng item from the
Elkton Wing: An EIkton literary
man while fishing in the creek the
other day, found that his fish disap,
peared as fast ~ he threw them upon
the bank. Examination revealed the
presence Of huge bull frog, who
compIacentlv reposel among the
grass with the tail Of the last fish pro-
tubing from his .aouth.
The MARYLAND House Of Correction
is now approaching such a state OF
completion that the main building and
one cell wing will De ready for use in
about three months time. The ground
around the building will be leveed
and Enclosures erected before its occu-
patton. The State appropriation is
$25O,OOO, which will complete the
present work, but new appropria-
ton will be needed for the building
of another prison wing similar to that
already constructed.
Gov. Carroll has directed a nolle
prosequi to be entered to the SIX in
hictments against VIM. Baker oX-Oitv
Councilman, Baltimore, one for set
ting fire to his store under the new
Assembly rooms and five for forgery.
The cause assigned for this exercise Of
Executive clemency was the fact Of
/ Baker having been found }y a jury
lunatico inquirenlo incapable of TAX
ing care of his own person. Baker
has been for some time and is now IN
Spring Grove Insane Asylum.
There is an Advent preacher in
Missouri named Harris who thought
being a prophet, that he ought to
look like Elijah, and be correspond
inglv bald-headed, wherefore he
shaved his crown, to the deep disgust
Of his congregation. He argued that
it was no more deception to shave
the head than to trim the hair or in
any other way improve the personal
appearance but the matter being put
to vote, the Rev. Mr.. Harris WAS ex-
PEELED from his pulpit.
One evening last week handsome,
" dressed young women approached
Mrs. Louis Werner, at the shoe store
of her husband, on Warner street,
near Conway street, and requested
her to hold baby a Few moments
Mrs. Werner took the infant, and The
mother disappeared and has not since
been heard of. The child is female
,Lo,+ , ,nontb old ard heoutifu]ly