Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1878-07-11

third cash, balance in three and six months
Tor all cash as the purchaser may elect
The credit payments to bear interest, and
to be secured by the notes Of the purchas.
or. endorsed to the satisfaction of the trus
tee.
JOHN 7. MASON, r.,
iuly11ts Trustee.
George w. Stiles was committed in
Philadelphia. by the coroner, Thurs
day, for cutting the throat Of his
daughter Lille, five years old, on
Thursday week. At that time he shot
his wife and cut his own throat. Both
he and his wife are out Of danger.
Early Thursday morning George
w. Stiles, who lives on Edgmcnt
street, above Lehigh avenue, Phila-
del phia, shot his wife in the breast,
and then cut the throat of his three
year-old child, and afterwards his
own.
The school commissioners Of Dor
chester county believe that SILL 900
will be sufficient to run the schools
there next year, and have asked the
county commissioners to appropriate
that sum for school purposes, instead
Of Sl3, 900, as heretofore levied.
A composition in Springfield news
paper office got into a quarrel with
the foreman the other day, and struck
him on the head with the towel, tract
uring the skull and causing instant
death.
A man in Cardiff, Wales, who had
been bedridden for five months, and
for several weeks had been so low as
to be fed with Il spoon, got up lately
in fit OF somnambulism, climbed
through skylight, and perambulated
over the ueighboring roofs.
George Weller, a stable man, liv.
ing at Adelphi street, Philadelphia
was accidentally shot by the discharge
of a pistol in the hand of his son
James, thirteen years old, Thursday.
There had been no quarrel. The in.
lured man died shortly after the
shooting IN the Pennsylvania Hospi-
tai.
After the first Of next month post
masters of the fourth class will be
paid their commissions upon the
amount Of stamps cancelled, oath be-
ing made by them to such cancela-
ton, and the system Of payment Of
commissions upon stamps disposed Of,
through which an enormous aggregate
Of fraud has been perpetrated, aboi-
ishel
A News Coacha special says: Kee-
Der, Of FL Paso county, reports to
Judge Blacker that one thousand
Mexicans are en- route and drilling at
FL Paso, Mexico, and have petitioHed
the chihuahua government to cross
over to aid in The rescue Of Desedaco
Apodaca and dispense the Texas state
troops. The prisoner Desedaco Apod
AGA has implicated some prominent
Americans in tie December riot.
The following has been received at
Portland Oregon, from Pendeton,
from N. A. Cornoyer, the Indian
agent, dated Monday night: Some
of the Umatilas, who have just ar.
rived in haste report that the Snakes
are within Sixty miles of that place.
killing all they meet. They fear that
some Indian families are killed. Two
Indian runners arrived that evening
and report fight at Camas prairie.
They say number Of Indians and
whites were killed.
The Cumberland Daily News says ::
On the farm Of Mr.. Amos Gross, six
miles eat Of this city, are hundreds
of apple trees, on which this years
growth has been destroyed by a worm
or grub that burrows into the stem.-
A gentleman of this city states that
trees belonging to him were similarly
attacked, and that he found rene
dy in blue mass, which he deposited
in hole bored into the trunk of the
tree, afterward plugging up the hole
"A fly in the gravy caused Mrs.
Miller Of Burkeville, Va, to kill Mr..
Miller. "Wife, here's a fly in the gra-
Wy" the husband remarked, as he sat
down to his beefsteak You're all
the time finding fault" the wife re-
piled. Harsh words were followed
by angry ones. Mrs. Miller seized
coffee pot and Mr.. Miller ciutched
carving knife, The scene Of combat
was shifted from the kitchen to the
woodshed, and there Mrs. filler
picked up an axe, severed Mr.. Millers
head from his body, and tainted.