Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1874-06-20

and not until then will it pay its
stockholders.- Waynesboro Record.
sE A mandate has been issued by the
Pope of io1.e convoking the Synod Of
Dublin to consider the condition of the
Catholics of Ireland. The mandate causes
considerable excitement.
A Maine woman has hair seven feet
and FIVE inches long-too long to be
available for uee in butter.
"a Among the last remedies" is
this: Mrs. Samuel Deforce, of Bel
mont county, Ohio, writes to the
Scientific American that her potato
vines We're very quick Y and effective
iy cleaned OF the Colorado bug by a
couple Of guinea fowls, and she thinks
that these industrious and persrrver-
ing big pickers might be very alvan,
tageously employed wherever pota-
toes are grown.
Out of the nettle danger, we plur..
the flower safety.
No word like pardon" for kings
mouths so meet.
Tell the truth and shame the dew
il.
Oxen at a stall are better cherish
ed, still the nearer death.
Uneasy lies the head that wears a
crown.
Fine weather for hay making.
A NICE SENAToR.-It is said Of
Senator Spencer, of ALABAMA, that
when he WAS barkeeper in Indiana
before he got to be a sutler in the
arm, he could fling whiskey cock
tail further without splitting it than
any other man who was ever in the
business. He was the sutler of a
Nebraska regiment, l believe, OF
which Thayer, late Senator from that
State, was Colonel, and Upton, the
Greeleyite Senator, who still occupies
a desk in the Senate chamber, was
chaplain.
The Railroad across the chain Of
the Andes in South America, runs
several miles above the clouds.
Freights are correspondingly high.
re Elk Coz. FRANCIS THOMAS, writing
from Peru, says the country of the equato'
rial attitudes in South America, although
extremely warm in the middle Of the Z,
when the better class take "siesta' for
hour or two, is extremely pleasant IN the
evening, when the sea breeze from the "a
diic Ocean, is waited to Lima and the
flower gardens all through the city are well
attended by gayly dressed Senoritas, and
the violin, harp and guitar are in motion
and music floating from every balcony. Ex
Gov. Thomas rather likes the equatorial
ATTITUDES.
SEVERAL Mormons, among them q
grandson of Brigham Young, sailed
from New York on Tuesday in the
steamer Idaho on proselyting mis-
sion to Europe.
ARCHBISHOP PURCELL. of cincin'
natl will perform the ceremony at the
marriage of Miss Lizzie Sherman
eldest daughter Of General W. l.
Sherman, which will take place in
Washington, in October next.
There is a probability that the
grave in which rests the remains o.
Calhoun, the great apostle Of Southern
notification, may presently become
the property of some Northern spec
ulator. He was buried in church
in Charleston, South Carolina, which
is about to be sold for taxes, the
congregation claiming to be too pool
to pay them.
Plant sage in your garden. 1t is
elegant to season sausage, to season
turkey or goose or veal stufhng; anc
it is good to make tea for sore throa
or severe cold.
JOHN .LoHR, at his new Brick House or
Emmitsburg street, has recently added
Harvest Home supply to his stock of Gro
ceries. Notions, etc. Also he is selling
rim Ware made by James r. Hays, Esq
of Emmitsb,Irg. ,%