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

r. If Mr.. Ed Martin and James Mackley,
went fishing last Friday in the Monocacy
for fall fish. If Ed. is as lucky in catch
ins fish as he is selling Ice Cream he will
do well.
70 The Star Confectionery is now in
full blast in MechanicStown. The new
firm OF the Martins are wing-in.wing, and
keep the best assortment OF Ice Cream
and cakes in the county. Give them a
CALL
Ma In this country there is one
doctor to every 6l8 of the population
while in France and England there is
only one to every 1000. The reason
of this is there are more "quacks" in
this country than there are in Europe
and more women doctors and more
negro 'Empyrics' BY twenty times over
than there are in England. Quacks
and humbugs don't succeed SO we'll
IN Europe as they do in America.
This is patent fact, and more s the
pity.
The grass boppers or locusts have
made their appearance in immense
numbers in Minnesota and Monitoba.
In some places the ground is covered
with them, and they are destroying
grass, grain, and garden vegetables.
The National Republican Executive
Committee has been called to meet in
Washington next month, to consider
the political situation and consult
regarding the good of the party.
The Missouri State Woman's Stuff
rage Association has adopted an appeal
to the people Of Missouri for subscrip-
tions to aid the people of Michigan to
conduct the summer and fall campaign
in that State in favor of extension of
suffrage to women. They expect to
raise S 5000.
Nor ASKING TOO MUcH.-When
the editor of the Rochester N. York;
Chronicle was thrashed by his washer
woman the other day for her monthly
bill offifteen cents, lie is said to have
followed her fourteen squares, begging
her to acknowledge the thrashing as
a receipt in full.
So says the Couricr-Jou/"al
rTy- The Changers are in motion.
I S.,
their cattle to raise money to run for
Congress. Hing, of Minneapolis, sold
bull for s IT 900, and his county
PAPER thinks that nis Election is as
sured.
BY Candidates for Congress in
this district are rapidly multiplying.
The Election takes pace next Noveu-
Der.
rfs.- A Montgomery County Dem-
ocrat objects to the nomination OF
Mont yome,y Blair on lie ground as
Le ALLEGES, that Dial va, once Il
"Black Republican and voted fo'
Fremont and Lincoln. IND \ Frost
burg Alleg"ay corn,y Dem crat oh.
jects to Andrew X. Sye>,er for the
position, because he savs'he was once
"A Wing and Knew Notling and oppos,
Billy Hamilton FIR Congress. Who
objects tothe next candidate and Oh
what grounds?
A Washington Correspondent says
that the claim Of Ex-Governor Brad
ford. of Maryland, for the value of
his dwelling destroyed during the
war by Coufederates, in retaliation
for the destruction Of Gov. Letcher 5
house, in Rockbrilge, Va, by federal
raiders, has been favorably acted upon
bv the committee of the commit
tee of claims, to which it was referred.
1t is estimated that the cost Of drap-
ing the railroad stations and engines
owned and leased by the Pennsylva-
MIA Central, as testimonial to the
worth of the late president of the
company, Mr.. Thomson aggregated
$4,000. Emblems of mourning are
displayed from New York to Chicago
on the railroad lines operated by the
company between those cities. The
sa the respect has been shown the fallen
chief on the Northern Central and
Philadelphia and Erie railroads and
other lines. Thousands of locomotives
and railroad stations are arrayed in
the habilments of sorrow The ex-
pense involved in the draping OF the
Philadelphia depot was alone 1000.