Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1878-02-28
NEWS OF the WEEK.

OCaTlet leVeI pIeVaAls IA 4o"soH
town.
Chicken thieves infest Frederick
county.
Typhoid fever prevails to an alarm
ing extent in Hagerstown.
A new cotton mill has just been
started in Nat:hez, Miss, the opera
tives going from Georgia,
Wild ducks are selling at Annapo.
lis, at twenty-five cents pair.
The Cumberland Fire Department
had parade Friday, and made 9
very creditable Display.
DR.. NJ. E. Ranken, Of Parkton, has
been appointed a surgeon to the Nor
them Central Railroad Company.
Hagerstown Council at its last
meeting appropriated $3.50 to buy
wood for distributing among the poor.
The treasurer of the Dexter (Me.
savings bank was found yesterday
bound, gagged and nearly dead.
Ten barges loaded With coal were
swampel near New Orleans, last
Thursday. Loss from $4,000 to $l5,'
600.
E. l.. Goodwin, city clerk, New
Britain, Conn., who was supposed tc
be a defaulter, poisoned himself last
Thursday.
Some very fine ripe and full grown
tomatoes from the sunny cline of Flor.
ida were exhibited in Centreville last
week.
The barn of DR.. Biggs, at sharps
burg, two horses, COW, loS Of harness
hay and corn, we're consumed by fire
last Sunday week loss $1,000.
The drying house and paint shoe
connected with G. M. Bsi!ey's oil
clothing factory at East Redfeld, Me
were destroyed by fire Frlday. Los:
$4,000.
The rubber factory OF L. Joy j. Co
at Newark, N. j., WAS damaged
Wednesday week, by fire 10 the ex
tent of $4,000.
At Haverill, Mass, Wednesday
week, Charles A. Harrimen, Of that
place performed the extraordinary
feat Of walking 100 miles in Is hours
and % minutes.
Sylvester Nafew, of Jersey City, at.
ter placing all lis real estate in other
hands, over drew his bank account
$ll 900, contracted debts for $ll ,OOC
more, and absconded.
VIM. Dickinson, aged 49, fell dead
while attending prayer-meetng at
a private house near the Providence
Paper Mill, in Cecil county, on Sa.ur.
day evening week.
NJ, c. Allister, of Cecil county, il
still digging for gold on his farm. He
asserts that it is there, and he intends
to find il, if it takes all summer.
The Eastern shoreman says that
the house of a colored man near Wet
ipquin was burned during his absence
on Tuesday neek, and his two chill
dren persisted in the flames.
Ella Campbell, little girl Of 8ish-
opyille, was fatally burned on Tues
day last week. her clothes catching fire
while she, with other children, was
engaged in burning grass in field.
Many Of the houses in the village
of Washington, California, have been
swept away by the flood. Travel is
still delayed. The Sacramento levees
are considered safe.
The schooner Elma P. Shaw, Of and
for Philadelphia, from Booth bay
with ice, was cut down to the water 3
edge by collision with an unknown
vessel off Vineyard Sound light ship
Wednesday night week.
A man named John Davis, who has
served several terms in the peniten.
tiary, was arrested in Boston Wednes.
day week, for the wholesale rot berry
of the street letter boxes. Seventy
four letters were found on his person.
Suit has begun in New York against
the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany to restraint it from carrying out
the terms of the agreement with the
Atlantic aud Pacific Telegraph Com
pany, for pooling of the earnings
and expenses of the two companies,
which was made last August.
An Atlanta woman made serious
attempt at suicide in store in that
city on Monday. She was in serious
conversation with q man, and sud-
denly drew a pistol saying, II am
going to shoot myself" fired. The
elaborateness Of her skirts saved her
life, tho ball passing through her
dress. but not touching her person.