Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1875-10-15
TOWN AND COUNTY.
WHAT HAPPENS AROUND US.
Secure your coal.

pccI birds were never more abundant.
man in tho leather business never gets
strapped.
Ro,oruas made of lean meat last the
longest.
Another name for the pull-back is nip
andtuck.
Some of the bridal silks have just the
fntest rose tint.
Straw hats are the incest things in the
world for kindling fires.
A pound and a.half Of rags will make
SQUARE yard of rag carpet.
More than one hundred speakers are
engaged in the State canvass.
A Kansas man advcrtiscs "unapproach'
able" oysters. Must be stale.
Irregular broken plaids in wooden goods
orc preferred to checks this season.
The autumn months is the proper time
Time for planting nearly all the dubious
roots.
The naples are yellow, and will soon
assume garb of blazing scarlct-an au-
tumnal beauty.
C,LDs & Cos rev adv. appears i'll this
issue. Read it carefully, as great bargains
arc contained therein.
THE Wlliamsport Pilot was five years
old ON the 9Th inst, and still sports the pat
cnt outside Enuff scd.
PnoLIFIc-Philp Lambright Of Fred
crick City has SOW that gave birth to %
pigs on Tuesday of last week.
NoTMISG dauntcd. Geo. W. Johnson's
store is still on the corner and his stock is
diminishing rapidly. Call early.
Star Spanglcd Banner stockings are
predicted for centennial year. How will
Mcchanicstown girls fancy these.
Hair nets are gradually making their
way into favor, md by the winter will
probably be worn as much as ever.
INCREASE your business Ivy the judi.
cio,,s use of printers ink. Hundreds OF
men have become rich by 50 doing
THE freight and passenger income of the
Western Marylanl railroad is very en-
couraying, and all the time augmcnting.
The sound Of the up.going stovcpipc is
heard once more, and the work ofpolisl-
ing the noble base burner goes bravcly on
TIE spring house Of George f. Rudy
in Midllciown Valley, was robbed Of one
hundred pounds Of butter q few nights
since.
FIVE Republican delegates slept in 8
J. room with two beds in it, in Frederick, OF
Wednesday night last No small fellow:
either.
The mail train due here at 1888 WA:
an hour and a.half late on "Wednesday
last. Connections at iascrstown were
spoiled somewhat.
THE Advcnt.ts bring us the painful in
tclgcncc that the world is to end on sun
day next We can't see any use in hcin!
in such hurry about the thing.
4 YOUNG boy from the mountain clicitc'
considerable surprise and delight from on
town boys by hullng green chcstnuts witt
his bare heel. He's 4 tough one.
A LITTLE child of Mr.. John Bicklc, liv
Ing near Middlcburg, this county, fell int
a tan vat, Thursday last, and was drowncc
The child was about three years old.
Mrs. Ca,low left for her winter home
Baltimore, last week Mrs. C's residence
will be occupied during her absence by u
{. Martin and family, late Of the rural dis
trict.
Mr.. AID. Lynn, near this place, raise
from an acre of ground, adjoining the barr
500 large pumpkins Pies made of thi
sort o fruit ought to be very cheap thi
winter
A MAI named Smith has been arrcstc
in IIagcrstown for entering stores durin
the propriclors absence and taking there
from articles to the amount Of $500. Sen
lin up.
TIE corn fields in this locality, in pol
of yicloi, will be simply immense. I'll
height of the stalk and the size Of the c;
amount to almost an agricultural MOI
strosity.
A VERY handsome Italian marble NOM
mcnt, made by Maxwell, of Baltimore, hi
been erected over the grave of Maj. La"
renee J. Brcngle, at Mt. Olivct Cenicter.
Frederick.
THE Emmitsburg branch road is pro!
ressing rapididly. The iron is laid for
considerable distance, and it is suppose
by the LIST OF November it will be in run
ming order,
OWING to the crowds of customers wi
visit Roo. e. Croft s store daily, the fir
have been compelled to lay new pay
ment in front of their store. Heavy boo
n specially.
A YOUNG man of rather an obscrvi
disposition informs us thet nova GA.
a gir who doesn't wear an enSasehcI
ring at fourteen is considered matrlm
NAL failure.