Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1872-10-12
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L. B. Church. The Third Quarterly
Conference of the Mcchanicstdwn Circuit
| L. b. Church, will convene at kcysviilr,
Carroll county, on Saturday, ETH instant,
to-day.
GERMAN BAPTIST LOVE FEAST. = The
Scmiannual Love Feast of the German
Baptist Church will commence at the
Rocky Ridge Meeting House, on Thurs
day, the ;ll inst. The Brethren are cor
daily invited to attend.
| Rev. ] y. UNRuM. - This gentleman.
| formerly Pastor of the Lutheran congrc
CATION of this place and this cilaryc. and
now Pastor of the Lutheran church at
Williamsburg, Blair county, Pa, preached
here last Sunday morning To Il very large
congregation. and during The week has
preached several evenings ut the |. Is.
| Church, on the hill. where the house was
50 full that many failed to obtain admit
lance. He has madra deep impression on
the minds of his old friends. 1t is a very
GOOD "Sign' when Il man is absent for some
time and comes back among his old friends,
that he is cordially and enthusiastically wei
coined To their homes
-. Give the Devil nuts enough to
| crack and he is all right. We mean CIR
Devil. He is the boy to crack them.
sY" In 1912, Col. CHARLES GILpIN, cam
didarc for Elcrtor of President on the Re
publican ticket, delivered a Fourth of July
Grafton in the woods near MechanicstOwn,
VIM JOHNSON. Esq. being President of
the day on that occasion. 1t was very
crcditablc and eloquent address. On the
26th of this month he is to speak TO the
people of this District in favor of the re-
election of President Grant Hear him
for his cause and be silent that YOU may
hear" Coz! Gilpin has been n great tray,
cllcr-is an old sailor-has sailed around
the Cape of Good Hope and around Cape
Corn, and into the IIarbor of Callao, where
he went ashore and visited Lima in Peru.
The same place where our Minister, Hon.
Francis Thomas, on the Pacific side of the
American continent, is holding forth in the
the PcruvianS, and about their mode of
farming and cultivating Cilano, and IFS ag-
ricullural virtues, as well as the Battle Of
Monocacy Col. Gilpin has many old
friends in Mcclianicsown, and they would
like to hear him touch upon these salient
points,
-" Read this paper all through, from
the first line to the last, if You want to
find out something You never heard of be,
fore.
-" Ii was a saying of old William Null
lon No. / that Enmtshurg would become
the Athens of America. 1t is no wonder
then that the wise men and religious men
and downright men of Maryland and Of the
United States often assemble there to take
counsel together.
CE- The Brlncr family was one of the
oldest, most numerous and industrious
families that ever settled around Frederick
Town. Daniel Dulanv, the great lawyer
of Maryland in the days of George ILL., and
the owner of the ground on which the
Court House of Frederick now stands
said that the Bruncr Bros. and Joseph
Bcall were the best farmers in Frederick
county about the year l1'6.
So" An empty barrel sounds the londcSt
an empty head makes the most noise.
TIGurEH-Monov is said 10 he tight,
hut we saw several of the "old sports on
last Saturday and several days since, tight
cr than money was ever known to he.
BIG SWEET PoTATo.-Wc are indebted
to Mr. Joseph Firor for large red sweet
potato raised in his garden in this town.
Ii weighed pounds.