Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1878-08-01
NEWS OF the WEEK.

NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Tuesday evening Of last week Mr..
Joseph Qasin, of Kent county, lost
twenty head Of sheep by lightning.
Hon. Thos. Swami has appointed
Ross W. Whistler to fill the United
States cadetship at West Point made
vacant some months ago.
The well.known stallion Tanker
Vile, at one time the property of Ex-
Gov. Bowie, died in Charles county
last week.
There was tried before a Keyser
Justice last week case involving
$l.OS, in which the costs were $25.
Mrs. Mary Dowd died in New
York Wednesday, aged 1902 years.
She was born near Longford, Ireland.
Catharine Young attempted to
drown herself at New York, Tuesday
week, because her husband told her
to.
Catherine Meyer, a German widow,
forty years old committed suicide in
Cincinnati Tuesday week, by hanging
herself to the bedpost.
J. +. Davis, dry goods dealer at
Ironton, Ohio has made an sign.
ment. His liabilities are $4,000,
and his assets nominally the same.
1t ig rumored that Mrs. Titon is to
follow Beecher on his lecturing
tour this fall, delivering a lecture af,
ter hin at the towns where he stops,
entitled "Woman's FALL
Mary Mccoy, aged twelve, and
Lizzie Sweny, aged fifteen, Of Mine
ola, i. l., were drowned on Tuesday,
in mill pond near Grea! Neck
l.. |.
The military commission was in
session five hours Wednesday, at
Greenbriel, White Sulpher Springs
They expect to form a bill which will
meet but little opposition in Congress
Truman lIibbard while driving a
cart over the towpath of the canal al
Albany last Tuesday night a week
was thrown under the wheels and had
bis neck broken. He died soon after
ward.
The r. foot hy-wheel in Painter
& Sons hoop mills, Pittsburgh, burst
about 7 o'clock Wednesday evening
and completely wrecked the building
lhe employees fled before the wheel
burst.
The Nevada bank sold one million
ounces of fine silver to the govern.
ment, payable in standard dollars, tc
be delivered Immediately, in equal
quantities, at the San Francisco and
Carson minis.
Wednesday morning a farmer by
the name Of George Smith, living neal
Rockland, Norfolk county, Ontario
was murdered by his son, who also
beat his sister, it is supposed fatally
and then hanged himself.
John Shannefey, the insane man
who attempted to kill Elk Governor
Bed!e, Of Jersey City, in 1876, es-
capped from the State lunatic Asylum
at Trenton, Friday by twisting an
iron bar from the window.
Oliver ?. Baldln, Of the editorial
staff Of the Baltimore Sun, a high
toned and modest gentleman and one
of the ablest writers connected with
the American press, died at his resi-
dence in Waverly, near Baltimore, Oh
Wednesday.
A fire at Sharon, Mercer county,
Pa. Friday morning destroyed Bow
den s carriage factory, Mackens gro
Gerry, Henlon's grocery, Heelter's shoe
store, McCormick's tobacco store,
Hilzer's packing, house and Evan two
dwellings.
The latest advices from London
state that Captain Webb, for a wager
of goo, swan from Gravesend to
Woolwich and return, a distance Of
forty miles. Webb had to accom-.
plish the feat in ten hours without
leaving the water. He won by three
minutes.
A dispatch from Batavia, Ohio,
says that ]. II. Sharp, treasurer Of
Williamsburg township, has been de-
tected in forgery and has disappeared
to avoid the penalty. 1t is also stated
that he is short in his treasury &C.