Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1878-06-20

QenSDuTB, rlnce UeOISe > CouL1y was
standing in her door, she was struck
by flash Of lightning and instantly
killed.
An eighteen months old girl of John
Royer. of Carroll county, upset coal
oil lamp on Thursday last week and
the lamp exploded, scattering the
burning fluid on the clothing of the
child, burning her so that she died
the next day.
The preparations for the third Ma
tional Sch ietzen Fest. which takes
place in New York, this week, have
been completed. The total expenses
are estimated at $4,000. The shoot
ing committees will expend $ll 1888
for prizes.
John Brown, who has been the Nat
uralization Clerk in the Court of Com
mon Pleas, New York, for twenty
five years, died rather suddenly on
Monday. He had been twice men,
mer of the Legislature. He bore
among his associates the name Of
Honest John Brown"
A dispatch from San Francisco
says the stage to Camp McDormott
was CAPTURED by the IndiaHs and the
driver, ]. Clutely, was killed. One
of the passengers escaped on one Of
the horses and gave the alarm. The
stage contained boxes Of arms and
ammunition for Idaho.
Mrs. Margaret Francis, negro
woman said to be lob years old, died
in Newark, N. J. Thursday morning.
Up to the time Of her death she conld
read big print with glasses. 1t is COM
monty reported that she never saw
George Washington. She supported
herself by washing until five years
ago.
The excitement in Idaho on &C
count of the Indians is unabated.-
The settlers in the Upper Brunean
valley have abandoned their homes
and gone into a hastily constructed
fort. Thus far the Indians have muir
dered six men and wounded two
Advices from Nevada state that the
! Bannoclis are also numbering through
the northern country.
VIM. Cullen Bryant died at 5:3:
o'clock Wednesday morning. MIR
Bryant was a great poet and when h'
died was aged ST years. His daugh
5 ter, Miss BRYANT. and his grand
daughter, Miss Goodwin, Mr.. Johi
{ II. Graham and his doctors were a
f once summoned to bis bedside and re
S manned with him to the last.
Thomas White, employed az ;
: freight conductor on the Baltimore
S and Ohio Railroad, while engaged il
t coupling cars at Weverton junction
on Tuesday night week was caugh
between the bumpers and had his col
, lar bone broken and is supposed It
be injured internally. He was tAkei
en- the train to his home at lO4 John
street, Baltimore.
A. F. Boas, president Of the lat'
Reading (Pa) Savings Bank, whicl
failed last November with liabilite
;. of over 81 100000, is pronounced b,
his physicians complete physica
wreck, and his mind is almost entirel,
gone He passes most of his time
wringing his hands and imagining the
9 most terrible Of fates. His cXamina
ton before the Register in Bankrupt
, CIV was fixed for Thursday, but hi
condition was found such as to max,
s it impossible.
Mr.. F. G. Latrobe, the legal alvis
err Of the late Thomas Winans, vii
proceed to Europe at once to attenc
to some important business affair
connected with the estate. 1t is un
derstood that the bulk Of the proper
ty has been left to the son and daugh
ter of the deceased 1t is also ru
mored that the children of his sister
! Mrs General Whistler, have also beer
handsomely remembered.
The will of William S. O Brien was
admitted to probate in San Francisco
on the 4th. Mr.. Coleman, nephew
of the testator and a legatee under
the will, testified that O'Briep had a
brother who had disappeared many
years ago and had not since been
heard Of. 1t was supposed that he
had been killed in either the Mexican
or civil war. The value Of the estate
WAS stated to be not over Sc 1000, 900.
On the same day letters Of admins
tration were granted to the widow Of
the late Mark Hopkins, who gave a
bond for $lO,OO0,000.
The Sonora, California, 1ndepend-
ent says: 1T is we'll known, or ought
to he, that Yosemite tourist who goes
via Sonora passes directly through
the Tuolomme Cove Of Big Trees, as
fine as any in the State In this grove
are two stumps, larger than any other
on the coast. w. G. Priest, one Of The
Yosemite commissioners. has let a
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