Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1878-01-03
NEWS OFTHE WEEK.

county, died recently.
The Times Rome dispatch says i
is reported that gangrene threatens
the Pope's leg.
The governor Of New York has par.
doned John Ryan, sentenced May s.
1874, for twenty years for burglary and
larceny.
A fire at Sweetwater, Tennessee,
Christmas night, destroyed five stores,
two warehouses and several other
buildings. Loss $50, 1000.
George "ildt, youth, residing in
Cumberland, died recently of lock)aw,
resulting from an injury received by
falling down a stairway
The Cumberland Daily News chron-
icles the advent of a wild turkey into
that city. 1t was chased through the
streets and finally captured.
Charles Mason, of Jackson district,
Frederick county, died recently from
injuries received by a COW falling on
him while he was in a sand pit.
At the New York colored baby
show there were three albinos. They
were curiosties to the dusby children,
who would not venture near them.
A citizen in Norwich, Conn, is be-
| ins prosecuted for cruelty to cat.
He wounded it by pistol, shot in his
cellar, and then carried it up STAIRS
and threw it into the kitchen fire.
The funerals of four well-known
citizens of Baltimore took place on
Tuesday, the 18th, viz. Richard H..
Snowden, Charles E Mullikin, Philip
?. Tyson, and Gustave Rose.
There were two incendiary fires be-
tween Central City and Blaek Hawk,
Colorado, Christmas, in one of which
four persons, Mrs Terril, John Terrll,
William John Terril and Robert JEFF
freys, were burned to heath.
A couple in Cleveland, Ohio, who
were divorced some time ago on the
ground of extreme cruelty by the hns-
band found that they had made mis-
take, and at their mutual request the
decree has been revoked.
Martin Poster was sentenced IN
Philadelphia yesterday to pay a fine
of $500 and costa, and to undergo a
term of fifteen yerrs imprisonment
for a felonlous assault on a little girl
The German ship Pauline (late
: American ship Kate Prince, Captain
Drummer, from Bremen December Is
for North America, was wrecked near
Harlingen on the 9th Of December
Her crew were saved.
The County Court in Lafayette
county, Mo, has formnl lily adopted al
, order requesting the citizens to devote
Thursday, Friday and Saturday Of this
week to the destruction ofrats, which
are there so numerous that they have
, become an uncomfortable pest.
The Garrett county Herald says the
mountains and hillsides in the vlcinl
tv of Oakland are fragrant and beau
! tiful, being literlly covered IN place
! with violets and numerous other wlI'
flowers. Such phenomenon was nev
!, err before seen on the summit OF thu
= Allegheny mountains during The
! Christmas holidays.
! The Hagerstown News chronicles
9 the killing Of a wild cat on the farm
I of William Lantz, Esq, near Letters
/. burg, by Messrs. +, +. McComas
r Samuel Mentzer, Jr. and G. A. Davis
| on Saturday, the 10th. tits not otter
that such wild animals leave thei1
d, Businesses to come into the settlement
unless soreIy pressed by hunger.
r On the night of Tuesday last Levi
Rowland, of indianapolis, SUDDEN
, at Cambridge, Mass, dreamed that h'
had received an Indianapolis pape'
, announcing his fathers death. The
, drea made such an impression on hi!
mind that he mentioned it to some o
/ his comrades Wednesday morning
! On Wednesday evening his fathe>
died and the son received Telegram
announcing the fact.
Henry Norfollz was duly and effect
} uaIly hanged last Friday at Annapo
lis for the murder Of his wife May last
; 1t will be remembered that he made
full confession of his guilt. A crowc
Of several thousand persons had gath
cred around the Jail and witnessed
,, the miserable wretch dangling at the
end of rore slowly dying by strangu
) lation. The murder was a cruel anC
|, heartess one, and the poor wretch sui
fered the penalty of the law with bu
little, ii any, sympathy from any one
9 The Cumberland Allegan,an relate
l the following incident, illustrating thu
: brave and hardy character of a noun
: tain boy. Week before last Dorsey
: ten-vear old son of widow Hartsock