Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1878-08-01

the purchase OF Secon0 steamship Is
proposed.
One hundred and sixty car loads Of
people arrived in Atlantic City, Sat.
urdav and Sunday. and nearly five
thousand persons bathed on Sunday.
General Buffers yacht America is
at Boston being rapidly fitted for sea,
and is being provIsioned for voyage
of several weeks.
A four year old daughter of Dan
iel Regel, of Hamburg, Pa, was killed
Tuesday by swallowing teaspoonful
Of a remedy intended for the cure Of
sick headache. The child mounted
a chair, obtained the fatal drug, and
inside of twenty minutes was corpse.
A recent dispatch from Utica, New
York, announced the finding of the
body Of a man in the Erie Canal,
near Mowhawk, who was supposed 20
be John PAUL, Of Boston. but Mr..
PAUL. is safe at home, and who the
dead man is, remains mystery.
Mrs. Anna Hochleitner, of $50
South avenue, New York, awoke her
hus! and and son early Tuesday morn
ing and said, 81 have taken strych-
nine am dying" She died soon af
terward. Illness had made her de-
spondent.
A report was received at St. Paul,
Wednesday night that farmer near
Faribault, shot and instantly killed
two tramps whom he caught in the
act of setting fire to the harvesting
machine in the wheat field. He gave
himself up, but was instantly re-.
leased.
Captain A. p. Wenerich, Of the
Reading (Pa.) Rifles, charged with
Incorporating the compsny's funds
to the amount of seyeral hundred dol
lars, was court-martialed Tuesday, -
The result which was not made pub
lie will be forwarded 10 the Governor
for his action. Captain Wcnerich
did not make his appearance.
While at picnic Tuesday, B. F.
Klec OF Buler, Pa, fell over y ledge
of rocks to the ground. a distance Of
fortv.seven feet. striking upon his
head and shoulders. Both arms We're
broken, his fingers smashed and his
head and face badly mnngled He is
alive but unconscious, and it is
thought may recover.
A Baker City dispatch received at
San Francisco states that General
Howard formed a junction with For
sy,h's command Wednesday, and the
whole force left the camp, near Rob
insonville, to follow the fleeing hos.
tiles, VIII" are making direct toward
the Malheur agency. The hostiles
will be forced to fight soon, as tie
troops are moving against them from
several directions.
The IIagerstowu Daily News says
"Mr. George Miner informed us that
in about two weeks he lost Gfty-two
head of choice hogs, many of .hem he.
ing almost large enough to slaughter
The hogs would be attacked almost
Instant , in some inst; noes, with fooc
in their mouths, and after running
around few times in circle, wou!c
fall dead, while the blood ran from
their mouths in copious streams. II,
also lost all bis small pigs.
In an ahr.y Wednesday morning
between Samuel Hicks and Edwin
Nathaniel, Jere and Jones Baxter
sons of Judge Nathaniel Baxter, Dem
ocratic candidate for reelection a
Judge of the Circuit court, Hicks an'
Jones Baxter were fatally shot. Tn,
former received several shots from the
Bakers, and his skull was fractured
in two places by blows from the muz
zle Of a pistol in the hands Of one O
them. Judge Baxter received only
one shot, which entered his body neal
the heart, and from some party un.
known. Hicks expired in a few min.
utes and Jones Baxter in about an
hour. Jere Baxter received slight
wound in the hand, Nathaniel Baxter
in the foot, and a negro girl, thirteen
years old, was struck in the thigh by
a stray shot, which inflicted painful
but not fatal wound The Baxters
gave bond Of $4,000 for their ap.
psarance on Monday week.
The meeting Of the Southern Alum
nj Association of Gettysburg College
in Hagei stown last week, is reported
by the Daily News as IA very pleasant
affair, and quite a success. The at
tendance was quite large, and the pro-
ceedings Of an interesting character.
Judge John A. Lynch, Of Frederick
city, presided; Dr.. j. Mop. Scott, Of
Hagerstown, acted as Secretary. The
address was delivered by Judge John
E. Smith, Of Westminster, and was of
course, an able and interesting pro-
duction. The association net at the
Washington House in the afternoon
and sat down to a bill Of fare as long
as the report of the Potter commit