Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1878-01-17

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Jno. M. Butler, discharged letter
carrier of Philadelphia, is held in $3,-
| 900 bail to answer for robbing street
letter boxes.
One of the large cattle sheds at
Terre Haute, Ind, was destroyed by
fire Sunday night. Three hundred
and sixty cattle were burned to death.
George Mcdonald, charged with
horse stealing, has been brought on a
|requisition from Governor Carroll,
from Harrisburg Pa, to Hagerstown.
Lieutenant Alexander Rogers of
the Fourth Cavalry, has been detailed
by order OF the President, to repre-
sent the Army Of the United States at
the Paris Exposition.
The Central Pacific Railroad Com
pany have ordered 100000 trees to
be set out along the line Of their road
the comiog season.
The daily papers continue to re-
port failures upon failures of banks,
savings institutions and business
firms in almost every section Of the
country.
There are now twenty-seven States
whose commissioners of fisheries re-
ceive, hatch and distribute the eggs
of fishes furnished by the United
States fish commission.
At Lancaster, Ohio, on Saturday.,
Mrs. Sarah +. Creighton, convicted Of
nanslaughter in killing her husband,
was sentenced to three years in the
peaitenitentiary at hard labor.
a frightened team backed a wagon
containing Mrs. Morris Goodloe and
four children off a bridge over Obon
river, near Nashville, Tenn. Tuesday
week. The four children were
drowned.
Jonah Broughton, of Philadelphia
the temperance advocate, delivered
an address on temperance in the M
f. church at EIlicott city, yesterday
week. At the close Of his remarks
IS persons signed the pledge.
One of the largest shoe firms in
Boston has just concluded an arrange
ment with the Peruvian Government
to furnish $4,000 pairs Of mems shoes.
They had previously filled an order
for the same Government for 10000
pairs.
Guilford Whites lawyer Of Suffolk,
Mass, convicted Of receiving two ten
thouran! dollar registered United
States bonds, knowing they had been
stolen, was sentenced, on Saturday to
Imprisonment in the House Of Correc-
ton for two years, and the payment
Of fine Of $4,000.
President Hayes rises as early as
6 o'clock, and devotes eight or ten
honrs q day to routine work at tho
White House. Before hreakfastng,
between s and 9 o'clock, he reads and
writes private letters, and then de-
votes aA hour to lnstructing his secre-
tagles.
Charles De Wolf, Of New York,
has been reported t. have ridden SO
miles or horseback on Christmas
day, at Mobile, in one hour AMI fifty
three minutes, against a wager that
he could not accomplish the feat in
2 hours, He changed horses at the
end Of every milo.
Caledonia county w., is greatly ex-
cited over the discovery that Hon. j..
D. Abbott, who was entrusted with a
large amount of funds Of widows, far
mers and estates, and who EN- Dyed
the utmost confidence Of the commu.
nifty, is a defaulter Of many thousand
dollars. Immediately upon his ex'
posure he attempted suicide by tax
ing poison, and it is thought will die.
At Kingston, Pa, Peter Walcott,
proprietor Of the Kingston house, was
arrested Oh Saturday for passing
counterfeit five dollar bills on the
First national bank of Hanover, and
vas placed under $1,000 bail. Thos.
Irving of West Pittston, Pa, was ar
rested Saturday for passing counter
felt SIS on the same bank.
1t is reported that Robert Bonner
Of Now York, has concluded bar
gain for the purchase of Mazomanla,
the trotting queen of the West. The
price paid is said to have been $4,000.
Sporting men in Milwaukee greatly
regret that she has been taken t.om
the turf, as she promised to be the
coming horse for,the next season.
The dead body of Richard G. An
derson, one of the most prominent
citizens Of Dayton, Ohio, was dlscov-
cred last week in a field on his farm
| Just beyond the city limits. He was
supposed to have been dead twenty
hours when discovered, and died Of
apoplexy. When President Hayes
and family visited Dayton last Febru-
arv and Sentemher thew were quests