Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1871-07-15
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

! HL1F1JhS/ "A ElJ&kESS.
CO" A sharp fash of lightning accom-.
panied by the loadest clap Of thunder
heard in these parts this year, occurred IN
this place last Tuesday evening.
DIRECTOR ELECTED.-Milton @. Crncr,
ESQ. Of Frederick, has been elected d.
rector in the Farmers and Mechanics
National Bank of this county, vice Joh,s
II. Bruner, deceased.
cT" Apples, pears, pld'ns guages aud
aprcots are coming into market. This Aas
been plentiful fruit year
cY- Farmers should be on their guard
against sharpers who are now proving
around the country vending spurious agri-
cultural implements.
Rev DR.. ID. II. Bittlc, Pastor Of the Lu
theran church at ShepherdStown, West
Virginia, has resigned that position, and
accepted a call" from the congregation Of
the Lutheran Church at Savannah, Gcor.
gia,
CT OR advice to farmers is TO thrcsh
your wheat and put ii intb market as early
as possible. The large breadth of wheat
raised in the tscst and the tlattering pros
poets of a good corn crop, will have ten
dcncy to cause wheat and flour to rule low
LAND CONDEMNATION. - On Tuesday
and Wednesday this week, jury of inqui-
sition was held on certain lands needed for
the construction ofthc Emmi,sburg Branch
Railroad from Rocky Ridge belonging to
Henry IIcincr, George Arpold, r. Eckrn-
rode, George +. Ovelman, Sarah Rooms
and Felix b. fancy. Mr. lIeiner was
awarded $40G %; George Appold $500;
Mr.. Eckcnrodc 1881 40; Mr.. Ovclman
$500; Mrs. Rooms $500, and Mr.. fancy
$3.50. The jurors were all fair-mindcd and
impartial men, and their award appears to
be satisfactory
cB" The Republican Central Committee
of Frederick touhsv will meet at the Cop
pcrsmith building in the City of Frederick,
next Saturday, the 22d instant,
Cg" Mr.. VIM. G. Landcrs, at the Frank.
lin Mills, near this place has commenced
the manufacture of flour from new wheat
The qualify Of the article is said to be very
superior,
a REM1SIscENCE.--It is said the oldest
schoolmastcr who ever taught school at
Apples ch-.r"h was Mr.. John IIytlcr, for
mcrly Of Noodsboro', but afterwards Of
Uniontown, Carroll cc-,lrty. He was lord
of the "fcrulc' in 1907 Mr.. Frederick
Lcathcrman 4 tanker or German Baptist
Preacher succeeded him in teaching both
English atl German
The first schoomastcr that ran now he
recol""t"d az having Taught the young
ideas how to shoot in Mrchauicetown,
was MIR ,iamrs J. Mullon son of Wlliam
Mullon No. of diminishing. He taught
school here in 1910, III the loe.r noW occu.
pied hy Mr. VIM. Cover. Water or! olrl
stress and boarded with Nani,l Rouzrr
MI, Pctcr RUuXrr nns .mn Of his tirst
scholars. II" ~, il III. possession s,lu"
of his old rap ~ pIa'r limitation lessons il
writing, the VERSE of one of which run az
follows:
Il love to roam where ia" wood pircor.
For Who could -'.h @pHbr bird Of is
Young.
And l@"-.' h"r the more when | heard
Such ."n'ItrnceS tall from her touIu"
Mr.. Rotzcr often copied ili. verse " hi4
style Of l"nman>hip after having been in
doclriMat"si i'm the .i'r,, ~ grace the pti
mans every live, by Mr. .Ioin NcDonalA
of Fr,hs rick
While here Mr. Mulr,n. who va. roasiG
cradle "i AZ aNI,l, ~t;"rchrd "a Photographic
view of this ulacr dtring the war Of 1872
with Mr.. MuHsuu's shoemaker shop and
the old OAK ts.c in the foreground, which
was quaint old picture or profile of thr
village liz h-.>rcarIy days. We afterwards
studied for he pr;, sthood, and subs, oncnt,
" became an eminent Catholic CLERGY man
in the South, and was Pastor of ST. Pat
ricks Catholic c'hhr"h in New Orleans.
where hr ~aS qni~e prominent and cXer-
ci%cd great influence
Mr.. Peter Rou2cr, after having been
taught by John McDonaIG, Samuel Knox
Edward NusaM, Frederick Etalhcrman
and }. j. Mullon, b,cant Knight of the
Fcrule himmlf; and taught school in An
gusta county, Virginia, whese the Rev. j
summers was one of his scholars, and
where he became ultimately acquainted
with ". Nani"l ;:"&"tlcr, ;hc greet Frcdcr.
,icktown sh7~Ms,ssr lawyer. During tin
second war fot Independence in l-l2'14
Mr. X. was soldier in The west and seen
Cen CaSs and The Mad River Trappcis Of
Ohio mach II The Nla1,,.cr of The Mia,nia,
and the Iatk'S, and camp on the ground
where Mad Anthony WAYNE "salvathd
the lndianr of tte Northu a-t. Mr.. Rou2"r
is still alive in thia pka'r at thc ripe old
age of ~ years, and has Kind feeling of
remembrance for his cd teacher of Pen
manship }. J. Mullon lNho Gird some or
. yrars ago., and his younecr friend anC'
pupil Rev. j. Summers, new the Lnthrral>
Minister OF this place He also heard tn"
news II Pcrry's Victory in Put-in-Bav ON
Lake Era, proclainrG ise ths st-rrta of
Dayton, Ohio.
EHtcorrvE APPOINTMENT. $50 Nj
chacl Kccfcr, Frederick county, In
spector General of Flour, vice Samuel
Dickinson, deceased.
AcclDENTs.-The ,">onyboro' O65
fr((ow says that four men fell out Of
cherry trees near that place during
last week, with thc following result
Mr., VIA. Stem sustained internal in
Juries :; Mr.. Philip E~icAard broke ono
Of his slbs Messrs. Alfred Beard and
John +. HORNE We're mere or less
bruised
scs" 1t the Democratic primaI,
MaotiAg in the City of Frederick, on
Satnrc:av last, for the selection of Del
tga'ts to the County Convention, six
FtSr.y1red AID aaventy-Gye votes were
po|'.4, the ti"llot headed Ivy the Hon.
James {. Clarke, receiving majority