Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1878-01-31

Mass, asked to have his salary re-
duced from $4,000 to $1,000 per an
mum, and it was done.
Hon. Luther Metcalf, of Midway,
Mass, on the 10th inst, celebrated
his golden wedding with his second
wife, whom he married when 80 years
Of age.
Alexander Dickson, wealthy ard
respectable builder of Jamaica plains,
Mass, cut his thu oat and put three
bullets in his head in the cellar of a
house he was building.
B. Scholes, of Trenton, N. j., and
WIN. Wheat, colored, lately of Pitts
burg, but now of New York, ran $50
yards at Fleetwood park, for $500
The affair resulted unsatisfactory.
and ali bets were declared off.
At PittsGeld, Mass, on Saturday,
Geo. Howard, negro tramp, was
sentenced to imprisonment for life,
and John Gilbert, colored, to fifteen
years Imprisonment, for assaulting
women.
1t is suspected that a lady named
Bartholomew, living near Bath, Penn
sylvania, who died suddenly last
Tuesday was poisoned by the servant,
girl, with whom her father was pndu-
ly intimate. The inquest, which be-
gun on Saturday, WAS adjourned I'M
Ill to-day.
The one-ar ned teacher Of a village
school in Frenont Centre, Michigan,
became suddenly insane on Thursday
last, and, after demolishing some of
the furniture, began an irdiscrimin-
ate attack on his pupils, lnjuring sew
eral Of them severely.
The Kent News reports that suit
growing out of a recent fox hunt is to
be tried on Tuesday. The complain
ants are a number Of fox hunters, and
the defendant is Mr.. Greesio, Of Ken
nard's Point. a number Of Il e
hounds were killed on his premises
and it is alleged that one ottho hunts
men was fired at by Mr.. Gs daughter
A pet monkey in Atlanta was care
fully trained to catch a baby and
rock its cradle when it cried. lie was
considered very Trustworthy ard
useful brute, but one day, being left
alone with the infant, and finding
himself unable to stop its CRYING, he
jumped into the cradle, scratched the
child's face, bits it's ears and hose,
tore off it's clothes, and when liscov-
cred was stutt'ing the bits Of cloth IT,
to its mouth. He is no longer en-
ployed as nurse.
Charles Goodman, who assaulted
Thomas Lomuel Weldon in Washing
ton city in March last, and who suisse
qnently escaped from the Crimina
Court in that city, WAS captured in
Cincinnati, Ohio, on last Thursddy.--
Two detectives started from Crncin-
natl with HIN on Saturday, for Wash
ington, via the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad. When the train Was near.
ing Harpers Ferry shortly after mid
night, Goodman Jumped Oft and es
capped. lie las been captured.
The Martnsburg Statesman say
that the people Of IledgcsvilIe and vi
entity are much excited over the mys
ter GUS disappearance o.. Mr.. Nicholas
PotIenberger, an old gentleman eigh-
ty-two years OF age. lie Was native
Of Berkeley Co., but enigra.ed to lndi-
ana thirty years ago. lie was on his
way back to visit his old friends, and
landed at North Mountain Station
during Christmas week, and thence
walked, in company with a young
man named Smokey, to HedgevilIe
about a mile distant. From there he
started to 90 to Mr.. Lewis Grant
hams. The following morning a.
satchel was found on the road about a
fourth Of a mile west Of He'd geSvllle,
supposed to have belonged to the
missing mau. Suspicion rested upon
negro named Frank Gilbert. lie
was arrested and on his way to Jail /
admitted that the old man had been
at his house. subsequently the poor
old mans body was found under log
near the negro house, which discov-
cry completes the link in chain Of
evidence that will doubtless consign
the negro to the gallows.