Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1876-02-04
TOWN AND COUNTY.
WHAT HAPPENS AROUND US.
If You Want Bills of Any
Kind Printed, Call at this Of
fec. We know how to do them
CHEAP and Neat.

FEBRUARY has twenty-nine days.
THE spring election is DIRE wing on.
SECURE your houses for another year.
Pork keeps up to a pretty high figure.
FEBRUARY comes in like roaring lion
REVIVAL meetings are in progress every,
where.
No money orders from the West since
last issue.
LAST Saturday was cloudy, rainy, blus,
tering day.
The first day of Lent comes OH the first
day of March.
THE phrase "just Charge it," is the key
to bankruptcy.
A GOOD newspaper is the best investment
a man can make.
THERE was grand fox hunt in Urbana
District last week.
!. .OpR,darling boys and girls are already
); sending valentines.
We will have another legal holiday on
she 22d of February.
'''1r you want to know whether tree is
hollow or not, axe il. -
SnIvEKy shakery, wasn't it cold on
Wednesday morning
How shall we celebrate the 22d of Feb
ruary this Centennial year?
WARN Last Friday was very warm
day for the 2Sth of January.
A SLIGHT difference is already pcrcepti-
bic in the length Of the days.
Poor winter for the livery stable pro
prietors., but easy on horse flesh
A MARRIAGE on Railroad train may
properly be termed a railroad tie.
Our ice dealers are thinking about the
propricty Of throwing up the sponge.
Ex-Gov. Groome has resumed the prac-
tice of the law at Elkton, Cecil county, Md
WE arc indebted to Will A. Otto for a
late edition of the Cedar Rapids Iowa
Times
RuMoN has il that a fashionable wedding
is TO take place at Franklinvillc in a few
weeks.
Two.TnIRDs of the winter gone and no
snow The ground has not been covered
this winter.
CAssELL's pretty green tipped fence was
brought to grief by the cruel wind on
Wednesday.
G1Lps 4 Co., keep Oh hand everything
that the heart and body of Il human being
could desire. ~.
ANDREW W. Baker has been appointed
Postmaster at New London vice &. +. Put
man resigned
THE Hascrstown DAILY News" s1ya T.,
nrst snake of the season was killed in that
town last Friday.
THE Brell Family will sing at the Lu-
,heran church in Tancytown, on Saturday
night, February l9th.
OLD Probs has braced up little, just to
give the ladies chance to wear the fure
given them at Christmas,
GEO. II. Johnson's reputation for selling
cheap goods is not to be doubted. All
other kinds in proportion.
OVER 900 yards of calico have been
measured off by Root g. Croft since
and still the cry is for more.
A HORSE belonging to Mr. joseph Frey,
attseled to wagon, made things lively
On Church street last Friday.
OYSTERS, fat and fresh, have been re-
Gently sold at the wharvcs IN Baltimore as
low as fifteen cents per bushcl.
In consequence Of the present spring
like weather, some of the country roads
are represented as being impossible.
THE Red Mea of Frederick City, viii
hold their annual ball at the City Hall OF
the evening of the 22d of February.
The Emperor of Brazil, who expects tc
be present in Philadelphia at the American
Centennial, wears a 100000 breast pin.
:. DE bone of contention has been pub
lished in full in the Littlestown News, fol
tho past three weeks. Interesting, very
Mn. Henry. fIerschcll, of Hubbord
Trumbull Co., Ohio, will please accept
our thanks for late numbers of papers
" the will of the late Benjamin Reiglc
Of Haeerstown, tne Deaf and Dumb lnsti
.ute at Frederick will receive about $10
900.
THIS is leap year, and we want the PEG
pie to remember it by leaping into our
office and paying their bills promptly
That's business.
THE owners of coops and memories re-
siding in Frederick city have been great
sufferers recently from the depreciation Of
chicken thieves.
THE total number of deaths in Batl
more for the week ending Saturday, last,
was 14O. Consumption IS; scarlet fever
10; dipther;a; 5.
NOT case of smallpox occurred in
Baltimore during the year 1875. The vac,
cine physicians made 10000 visits during