Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1879-09-18
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Scarlet fever is 80 prevalent in Indian
apolis that the advisability OF keeping
the public schools closed for time is
being discussed.
The drought in Roumania continues.
A partial famine is likely to ensue IN
many districts unless the government
assists the inhabitants.
Forty-one OF the candidates on the
Workingmens ticket i'll San Francisco
were foreigners, and Of that number
twenty-four came from Ireland.
Since the reduction in the tobacco tax
the loss thereby to the internal revenue
department has been over three-quarters
of million of dollars per month.
All the directors of the West of Eng
land and South of Wales District bank
except one, have been committed for
trial for publishing false balance sheets.
King Mtesa, ruling near Victoria N.Y.
ANA, Africa, has abolished slavery
throughout bis dominions. At least half
million of slaves were liberated on
Saturday.
Eggs imported from Chicago last
month we're eaten ut Dublin breakfast
tables, and good American butter at Cd.
per pound was and still is Oh sale on the
Dublin quays.
James Bullock, of Walton county, Ga,
while hoeing in cotton field recently,
found concealed in stump $40, 600 in
gold and silver and pile OF greenbacks.
The paper money had rotted.
A span OF the Great Kaw river bridge,
Kansas, gave way, ,preoipitating 27O cat
tic and two herders distance of eighty
feet. Oae herder was badly injured.
but less than dozen cattle were injured.
Early in 1880 the Bible revision COM
mittee hope to give the public sight of
the New Testament. Two editions will
be issued-one small and cheap, for gen.
eral use, and the other large, hand
some octave.
A negro was watching negroes IN
Griffin, Ga, play billiards. In turning,
his stick knocked down several coats,
in the pockets of one of which was
derringer, which being discharged in
ficted a mortal wound.
Indian Agent Newell, at Rosebud
Agency, Dakota, reports during the
month of August the Indians made good
use of the twenty moving machines and
scyshes sent to them by tho department.
Four thousand tons Of good merchant
able hay has been harvested by them.
The king of Abyssinia claims the
whole of the strip OF coast which was
cedea to Egypt in 1877, and also several
towns anu the territory i'll which they
are situated. Ii his demands are re-
iectcd war is apprehenaed. General
Gordon has been empowered to offer
compromise.
The Now York produce exchange has
issued a circular to the manufacturers
OF -four throughout the country, recon-
mending that hereafter all barreled Hour
intended for shipment to that market
shall weigh 200 pounds, and all -four III
sacks 100, $50, or 200 pounds, the mum.
Der OF pounds to be marked on each
package.
In the chancery court of Campbell
county, Kentucky, Chancellor Menzies
rendered written opinion that the lot
terry commonly known as the Common
wealth Distribution Company of Ken
tucky is an illegal enterprise, subject to
suppression at any moment by grand
juries, and that purchasers OF tickets
have no security for payment OF prizes.
A new colony to be introduced in
Georgia will be composed of many
wealthy members, who will bring a
printing press with them and publish
an organ styled The Worker, edited by
Mrs, Elizabeth Thompson, lady OF
great wealth, noted for her many noble
acts of charity, and who gave last year
over $50, 900 to the yellow fever suffer
ers of Memphis.
A terrible disease has appeared in
Pauliing, Harrison AMI Polk counties.
Georgia. 1t has been fatal to all per-
sons attacked. 1t tappears to be sort OF
typhoid fever with unusual symptoms,
and it is quickly fatal. Physicians say
they cannot tell what it is. One doctor
had twenty-nine cases and lost them all.
The disease has carried off sixty young
men in the three counties mentioned.
A railroad across the Isthmus Of
Tehuantepec is to be built by Massa-
chpsetts man who has secured from the
Mexican government the right of way
and the promise OF subsidy of $12 600
mile. The limo will be an important
rival of the Panama railroad, and will be
of immense advantage in assisting the
Mexican authorities to enforce order in
a large section of thoir turbulent repub-
lie.
A Milan, Italy, correspondent. refer
ring to the Philadelphia and Reading To-
comotive exhibited at Paris last year,
SAYS that it has given most satisfactory
and creditable results on the II oman and
Alta Italia railway, burning every kind
of Ignite found in Italy, and, according
to the report of railroad engineers who
made the tests, more successfully than
any other, at the same time doing better
service and drawing heavier trains than
the best italian engines.
A young Kentuckian named Thomp-
son, who was happily engaged to fair
widow, got intoxicated while IN the oom"
pany OF some exciting companions,
whereupon the lady broke the engage.
ment, declaring she would never marry
a man who drank. This decision go work
ed upon the mans mind that after mop
ing about for O few days he descended
into an unused we'll and held his face in
the shallow water until dead. When
found the body was on its knees, and