Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1878-02-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

flood.
The trunk lines are still cutting on
Western freights.
A railroad~ticket forger has been
arrested in Chicago.
There are over two hundred five
cent shaving shops in New York.
The public school teachers of
Brooklyn refuse trade dollars in
payment for books.
A teller in the Bank of North
America, at New York, has defalca-
ted to the extent of 100000.
Over two thousand people attended
the cocks ball at the New York acAd-
envy Of music Tuesday night.
The Babylon Long Island) way
train ran off the track at Springfield
junction Thursday last. Nobody hurt.
The next contest in the National
Rifle Association for the Centennia |
trophy will take place in September.
The mother Of the revivalist Bliss,
who was killed in the Ashtabula dis
aster, died on Monday last week, at
Towanda, Pa.
Richard +. Bell, convicted Of muir
der of one M2Glway in Mercer coun.
ty, Pa, last summer has been pat
doned.
Christopher Brutz, a church robber,
was sentenced at Buffalo, N. Y,
Wednesday, to fifteen years imprs-
onment.
j. II. Batcheldor, of Middlebury,
Vermont, was held in $4,000 bail
Wednesday, to answer the charge Of
raising notes.
Bob King, notorious negro, shot
and fatal y wounded Laura Burnshlll
ard policeman Restemeyer in Mem
phis Wednesday.
Bertha Won lIillern will walk in
Pittsburg at the request of about all
r the physicians in the place.
Henry S. Moss, Louisville alder
man and prominent merchant Of that
city, has forged paper to the amount
. Of $4,000.
6 Thomas Lord, Jr. claims that Mrs
llicks-[orl has during the past
seven years received over $4,000
1 from his father.
: A loan of 100000 is said to have
a been recently negotiated by Port Roy
\ al, S. c., in London at 80 cents, with
G interest at per cent.
A break occurred in the levee be,
: low Sacramento City California, and
submerged the country for 20 mile'
around.
Mrs. Cassidy, mother Of the chill.
dren that was suHocated at the fire in
, east South street, N. Y, Monday
| night, died Wednesday.
Flora McKeever and Fanny Nc.
! cusker were terribly burned by an ex-
plosion Of cartridges at Lowell, Mass. y,
yesterday.
Mr.. Jefferson Davis has been in.
dorsing colored man, Mr.. S, Minor
for president OF Southern college, in
, opposition to several white candi-
dates.
A colored conan and child and
four or five deck hands were drowned
, in the Atchafalaya river by the sink.
ing Of the boat Leslie Taylor, on Sun
. day last week.
J. II. Miller, charged with forgery
6 in Atlanta, Ca, was committed tc
Jail at St. Johns, N. B. Wednesday
to await his surrender to the United
States authorities.
The steamer Merlin collided with
the Anchorage line steamer Utopia,
from New York, near Gravesend on
Wednesday evening a week. The Up
+ topia was badly damaged.
The remains of the man who was
found dead near Greenwood cemetery,
on October 18th, last, have been iden-
tilted as those of DR.. J. Il. German, a
we'll known physician Of philadel-
phia.
The widow and children of Jacob
P. Boyer, who was killed by collis-
ion on the Norristown branch of the
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad,
in May last, Eavo recovered damages
Of $4,000.
The Williamsport Pilot says: Mr.
John Stake departed this life on Fri
day morning at his residence in this
place, after long and painful illness,
The deceased was one of our Oldest
citizens, and was long and favorably
known.
Professor Henry of the Smithson-
ian Institute, Washington, reports
that Prof. Peters, Of Clinton, announ-
,es thn discovery of the sixth of Feb.