Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1879-09-04
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Water is 81 barrel in Bellville, New.
Cistern water 1926 per barrel at
Corpus Christi, Texas.
The annual revenue on matches in this
country amounts to $3,0OO,OOO.
Praise God from whom all blessings
Aow,' doxology, was printed in 1897.
Senator Hill, of Georgia, looks ten
years younger, having shaved OFT bis
beard.
One of the big Coney Island caravan.
saries employs 730 walters, has $50 ia
bles for dining, and feeds 32, 600 people
day.
Germany insists on the legal recogni-
tion of the German land purchases in
the Fiji islands, which has hitherto been
refused by the colonial authorities.
George Monro, publisher Of cheap
periodicals in New York, has endowed a
Halifax college with $4,000 annually to
support professorship Of physics.
New York States superintendent of
insurance has been investigating the af-
fairs Of numerous companies, and un-
carthed several defalcations committed
by officers of high standing.
The United States consul at Leipsic,
Germany, says the market is filled with
bungling limitations of American ma
chinery, and that consequently the de-
mand for our labor-saving inventions is
falling off.
The oat crop OF Illinois this year
amounts to 81, 664, 500 bushels, grown
on ,631, 139 acres, an average OF thirty
three and a.half bushels per acre. The
total value of the crop is estimated at
$l2, 100000.
Bob McCorkle, lately hanged at Tay-
lorville, N. g., was one of the few muir
derers who did not feel sure of going
from the scaffold direct to Heaven.
kind friends were his last words,
remember me in your prayers tonight,
for don't know where III be-
The Memphis appeal says: 'Notwith-
standing the fever, marriage licenses
are procured as usual. But few white
people engage in matrimony these times
in Memphis, but the oolored people are
not to be frightened so easily from unit.
ing in wedlock for better or for worse.
Our consul at Geneva warns shippers
of smoked and cured meats to Switzer-
land to forward only first-class articles,
as the authorities, alarmed at the i'm
mense trade in American meats, which
Injuries their home traffic, are endeavor-
ing to find cause to prohibit the ship.
ments.
A rule of the Illinois Central railroad
provides that dogs shall not ride in
passenger car; but big and ferocious
bulldog walked into n car at Chicago,
appropriated whole seat, and rode 300
miles unmolested. 'Ho had such a
meaning SMILE was the conductors
apology for not ejecting him.
A gray hair was espied among the ra-
ven locks of charming young lady,
on, pray, pull it out, she exclaimed.
'If pull it out ten more will come to
the funeral, replied the one who made
the unwelcome discovery. Pluck it out,
nevertheless, said the dark-haired dam
sci; its no consequence how many come
to the funeral, provided they all come in
black.
The New York papers are filled with
appeals from poor persons in all sections
OF the country who have been induced
to invest in stocks by the alluring ad-
vertisements of So called bankers, who
hold out pretended means OF easy en-
richment. The schemss are 80 adroit
as not to be liable in the eyes of the
authorities.
That the attempt of the government
in providing means of investment for
the saving poor in issuing the four per
cent. certificates was not success, is
evidenced by the fact that of the $4O,--
Ol2, $50 put forth, 1886 323, $50 have been
converted into four per cent. bonds,
which shows the certificates were bought
by spectators.
The Massachusetts Quakers declined
an invitation to participate in the two
hundred and fiftietb anniversary of the
founding of Puritanical church ,on the
ground that their Quaker forefathers
declined to acknowledge any OF the
Puritan churches as churches of Christ,
owing to their not dealing Justly and with
love of mercy in their intercourse with
the Indians, and did not follow the
golden rule.
The Hualupai Indians, Of Northern
ATlIOud, uuIuDSTluS uuoup I.ooo poioaoj
are in starving condition and have ap-
piled to army officers for food. The
Indian bureau has requested the secre-
tary of war to direct rations of meat and
-four to be issued to them temporarily.
The Hualupais are non-reservatlon
band of Indians, who have heretofore
subsisted upon acorns, wild seeds and
some little corn which they raised.
It is thought that before long the
cotton mills III New England will be
built with one story. The advantages
claimed are increased safety, convent
ence, and higher speed for machinery.
A gingham company has tried the exper-
iment, and finds that a building of that
description, covering about an acre,
cost 1923, 900, and saved in gas alone
sum equal to the interest on the cost OF
the building, and obtained an increased
speed of twelve per cent.
The recent quick passages across the
Atlantic are explained by the fact lat
when new steamer is built she is crowd
ed to her utmost capacities, without re-
gard to expense, during the first few
trips to make record for speed,
in order to induce passengers to take
passage by the line owning her. The
steamer Arizona on her recent fast trips
burned 100 tons OF coal day, while IN
making an ordinary voyage only half
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