Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1881-06-30
LQL,VZ!Y' NEWS
lettings from our Exchanges.

lettings from our Exchanges.
ANoTuEu SUMMER RESIDENCE UnI-
ted States Senator Conger, of Michigan, it
ls said, contemplates erecting = summer
residence on South Mountain, near Mrs
Admiral Dahlgrcn's charming place.-I'n
Un
Stock KILLED During the thunder
storm which passed over the lower part OF
the county on the morning of Friday, tho
18th, two horses, Belonging to Mr. Joseph
Mobery, o Greenfield Mills, were struck
by lightning end killed. Times,
Acc1DENT.-Nlrs. Moscr. the mother OF
Mr.. Jacob Mnser, iving near Myersvilc,
end of Mr. John Moser, residing near Broad
Kun, an aged lady, who is afflicted with n
cancer, had the misfortune to fall recently,
While walking across the floor, and break
one of her legs.-Hegtster.
Army WORN Just rs we are getting
ready for press, we learn that the army
worm" has made its appearance in some of
Nue farmers wheat fields and are doing
Considerable damage Mcssrs X. II. APP
pelN, ,ttshra Albaugh and J. r. ling)irg
Arc the only names we have heard men
TONED as sufferers from this worm, but We
have no doUW there are many others. Mr.
hppleby thinks that a field of his wheat
which week ago promised over twenty
bushels per Aero will Not nov yield ten.
We hope it may not turn out rs bad as ex
pccted, and believe the crop is too far al
vanced to be Seriously injured BY the worm
banner.
LOOK OUT ron HIN-There is swim.
dler travelling through tie country selling
All article which he claims to be II C,:re for
the mvages of that destluc,ihlc rest o. the
farmer the potato hug, |, is put UP in
packages, and he directs the buyer not to
OPEN them until he is prepared to use the
preparation. Upon opening it the pur
chaser is much mys,lfcd to find two blocks
Of wood, but upor further examination he
finds the directions, VIII. Oh tully explain
the mystery, He Is to place the bug VI on
one Of HE locks and mash it with the
other. The farmer generally wishes he
had the head of the swindler in the same
position ne directs the potato bug to he
put He has thus far been able to cyadc
the clutches of the law Examiner,
FATAL ACrlDENT-Georgc Graham,
az ID about IS years, a plss,ercr by trade,
was struck and horribly mangled by the
fast express train at the crossing at New
Windsor on Saturday evening last, lii :
train at the time runni..g at the rate o!
about 80 miles per hour. The following
particulars we learn from party who was
at New Windsor at the time and had talked
to Graham few minutes before the acct
dent. Graham saw the train approaching,
and was warned not to attemp, to cross in
front of the tram, but it is supposed that
he thought he could cross the track in time
and made the attempt when the engine
was but ten or fifteen feet from him. lie
was struck by the COW catcher and Ills body
falling between the train and high plat.
form was carried for some distance. His
left foot was cut off by the car wheels, his
right leg and arm broken, his head cut, and
internally injured to such an extent that
he neither spoke woll or moved mus
Gle after liting picked up, and died within
All ho,ir AFTER Banhtr.
In a PERtLous Post r!oN.-1he Middle
town Register, of June 10th, saws: Susan
Crone, girl about II years old daughter
of Mr.. Henry Crone, but who is living in
the family Of Capt. II Kecier Young, in
this place, was sent to the icehduse after
ice last Monday mcrning Ent returning
as promptly as was expected, Mrs Young
fortunately went to look aftet her; when
the flightful discovery was made that the
little girl, with bucket in hand, had sunk
to the bottom of the ice house through a
narrow aperture in one corner where the
ice had melted from the wall, but being
;, covered with straw, had not been noticed
before. Mrs Young screamed for HiP,