Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1876-02-18
Love prompts gifts.
SrRouT your spring chickens.
House hunting is now in order.

SpRouT your spring chickens.
House hunting is now in order.
Work must come or paupcrism and
crime will.
THE Green Bag" is still a mystery. 1t
il l,chtd up.
THE travelling public are a9ain afflicted
with bad roads.
REAL Estate in this county is d,preciat
ing in value Why's
CENTENNIAL handkcrcheis for the little
folks arc now the rage.
WITH many of our farmers corn-shclhng
is the order Of the day.
JAMES lIopwood of Frederick is tearing
Gown the old County Jail.
REV. G. !. T. Brave, o",nc 10 il! heath,
will no. preach ioi " YEAR.
Is 1922 hay sold IN this :,wn at SO per
toa now it is selling at Sl5.
THE Old Fe!lo1o says that Boonsboro'
has had six Centennial babies already.
sror and think before you allow your
eelf TO form tisagrceable companionship
To-Day tho Trustees of MoN.ryuc Hos
p:,.l elect Keeper of that institution
Ti(:: Chains of habit are generally too
small 10 be lelt till they are too strong to
ht broken
PuLlCE OtEccr jacob Bender, Of i'rcdcr-
lex, is busily engaged in arresting tramps
and thieves.
THERE has been radical change .,i
the las, day or two III the state Of .ne
weather.
TuASEs.-We are indebted to the Hon.
VIM. Wals!, NJ. c. for continued Congress
ional favora.
THE rain and sNow make muddy roads,
but the warm sun and Whistling wind soon
dries them up
OUR former townsman, Mr.. j. W. n.
Giils, is now stationed at Palkers, Arm
strong Co., Pa.
Don't tail to examine the list of sales in
this issue. You may sec something that
you stand in need Of.
THE Maryland knights Templar will
have an cncampment at the Centennial
exposition at Philadelphia.
Or late years February has been the
cold month. So far this scacon 1876 has
proved rather mild, but cloudy and rainy.
CoLD.-Weathcr prophets in this place
predict that the month of March will be
the most severe of any during the entire
winter.
THE weather of Tuesday was rather bad
Tor the wedding, but occasions Of this kind
can't be postponed on account OF the
weather.
JOSEPH Sheffield, young Printer of
Frederick, an attache of the Citizen office,
died in that place last Sunday, aged about
20 years.
SEE advertisement Of Charles NJ. Sticf
iu another column. His pianos are said
10 be the best manufactured, and are war
rantcd tor five years.
A NUMBER of the sturdy farmers OF Car.
roll county, in this State, are emigratins
to the vicinity of Harrlsonburg, Rocking.
ham county, Virginia.
LAST Thursday week was so sprlrg-
like a-day that the honey bees came out in
all their glory, and scared aloft in search
Of the swcctened nectar.
Mr.. Chas. G. Ridgely, assistant entry
and clearance clerk in the Baltimore Gus
tom house. died last week, after severe
illness, in his sixty fifth year.
Mr. Isaiah Mealey, of Frederick, re-
Gently slaughtered q shoat CT months old,
which weighed 220 lbs. gross, and 1S2 net.
1t gained 155 lbs. in 81 days.
The church bells of Frederick were
tollcd on Sunday evening at 3 o'clock, in
honor of lieyerlay Johnson, who was bIl-
rcd in Baltimore at that hour.
THE Frederick Examiner says that Mr.,
Valentine w 0. DouD, residing on North
MARKET street, IN thst city. W parrIylr1
Z, irNN G2ts ago