Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1879-01-30
NEWS OF THE week.

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reported from Frio county, Texas.
Navigation on the Potomac, betwee>
Washington and Alexandria, was re
sumed Sunday.
In case of DR.. Linderman's dissolu
ton A. L. Snowden, postmaster a
. Philadelphia, will be appointed, it
thought, as his successor.
The Legislature Of Arkansas elected
on Saturday J. D. Walker, Democrat
United States Senator, by vote o
60 against AZ for Robt. w. johnson
The President Tuesday signed thu
consular and diplomatic appropria
ton bill.
Hanlon, the oarsman, accompanied
by David Ward, left Ontario Satur'
day for New York, en- route to Eng
land, where he rows Hayden in May.
The Government authorities of Ven
ezuela have man. DIVA at Puerto
Cabello, with which they are bonn
harding the revolutionists III that
city.
At Sempronia, Texas, fifteen des-
peradoes. heavily armed, entered a
Snowman tent, drove away the au-
dience, assaulted the shoN man and
brutally treated his wife.
Judge J. Haley Curton, formerly
of the United States District Court Of
Virginia, died at Richmond Sunday.
Daring the war he was a prominent
Judge Of one of the Confederate States
court.
A great tide of emigration is get
ting il towards the fertile prairie. Of
Western Texas. All the roads in
Texas leading South and West are
lined with the canvas covered wag
ons Of the hardy pioneer.
Robert Davis, of Pittsburg, Pa,
who in 1870 killed Samuel Rodgers,
with baseball bat, having been con
victed last week of manslaug liter, was
sent to the penitentiary Saturday for
two yearl.
The Rev. DR.. NJ J. Michelbocker,a
prominent Jewish rabbi, died at h|
resdence,in Richmond, at two o'clock
a. m. Sunday. He WAS we'll known,
universally respected and a member
of some eight or ten secret organIza
tons.
A fire broke out in Eager's block,
Warwick, Friday night, destroying
the block and six other buildings
Loss $4,000.
Private Sprawl, ambulance driver
started to drive to the old camp one
mile from Fort Robinson, Neb., Sat
urday, and at night was found lying
in the road with his skull fractured
His condition was critical.
Sheriff Wilson, of pinti county,
Texas, and Marshal Bail, OF Sherman,
same State, met Thursday at Austin,
whea a personal difficulty ensned that
resulted in a looler-on being serious
ly wounded, Bali MANNED and Wilson
shot dead.
NJ. J. Kramer, a large dry GOO $
merchant in Allentown, Pa, has h d
his store closed by the sheriff and
will be sold out on Saturday, Ills
Indebtedness is about $4,000,
Six miles from Trenton a collision
occurred between two freight trains
on the Pennsylvania railroad, at TuI-
lytown, Saturday morning. David
James, fireman, was killed, and By
ron Wright, brakeman, fatally IN
| jured. Frank Farrell, engineer, es-
capped by jumpiug of.
The Musical Festival Association,
at Cincinnati, offers a prize OF Sl,OOu
| for the most meritorIous work Tor
chorus and orchestra, the competition
to be open only to native born clu-
zens of the United States. The wol X
will be performed at the fourth lest
val in the mouth Of May.
II. Madden, a sailor on The British
ship Ombs, was on Thursday shot
dead by Smith, proprietor Of saloon
in Oliver street, New York.
S. Mishler, an amateur pedestrian
while endeavo. ing to walk a hundrec
miles IN "a hours at Music Hall
| Reading Pa, fell senseless on the
track and was conveyed home having
accomplished 60 miles in 10 hour
and 81 minutes. He is now out agar
and says he is in no wise affected.
Gus Philips, actor and theatrlca
manager, better known as "Ofty Colt
has had tragic rehearsal or passage
alarms with the mistress of his atlec
lions, whom he kicked aud beat 81
severely that her life is in danger, -
She continued to reciprocate atten
lions 10y shooting and woundlng hin
badly in the left side.
Charles Van Gasbrek, R9undont
N. Y, was convicted on Thursday Q
setting FIRE to carpenter S shop. H.