Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1877-05-31
TOWN AM COUNTY.
WHAT HAPPENS AROUND US.

On Saturday, June Cd, Frederick Rider,
in Eylers' Valley, household and kitchen
furniture sc. See ad.
FRlpAy, Is June 1st
WHITE ink to be used on dark paper, is
one of the novelties III stationery.
FRUIT prognosticators say that the apple
crop will be short Que this year. What a
pity.
THE barkeepcr is>thc only person from
whom man does mt try to obtain reduc-
ton.
A WORD: kind reader, send us every
item of news that occurs in your neigh
borhood.
THE May Term of the Circuit Court for
Frederick county adjourned on Friday Of
last week.
THE boys, who went bark peeling some
six weeks ago, have all returned with their
pockets full of lucre
QUITE number of our citizens visited
Gettysburg ycsterday,to witness the decora-
ting of soldiers graves.
"FAcrs are stubborn things" A moth
cr.in.Iaw and mule must be facts, for it's
no use to dispute with them.
THEY omit the word "obey" from the
marriage service nova. days 1t probably
does not materially affect the result.
THURSDAY, the It'll day of June, has been
set apart for the decoration Of the graves
Of the confederate dead lying in Frederick.
john Miller, stock dealer of this place, is
the owner Of one of the pretticst little
boodcd mares VIC have seen for many IL
day.
PANTAL0oN pockets are made very low
on the leg this season, and man can pull
up his socks now without letting every
body know it.
THE air is sweet with the perfume of
the locust bio SONS. 1t is said that when
the locust trees are full Of flowers there
will be good crop of corn.
THE dogs of Mcchanirstown are not
only, strictly speaking, the most worthless,
but they have loud voices and their song,
are not partl( ularly mclodious.
MIR. A. ID. OLcary has been elected
President of the Franklin Savings Bank
of Frederick, to fill the vacancy occasloncd
by the death of Mr.. Andrew Boyd.
THE Baltimore post-olice trouble has nj
last been settled. Gen. Tyler is the p. NJ
Meclanicstown will, no'doubt, he the mex,
great question at issue. 1t PAYS $500.
THREE Italians discourscd some sweet
masic on Monday last in front of the Gil.
bert House. 1t is needless to say all hand.
had to quit work to listen to the music.
THE young spring chicken will soon
gaze his last upon the bright sun, and the
mild tones of the preacher will be heard
in words ofpraisc in regard to its tender.
ness.
STRAW hats and busters came in play
the early of last week, hut before the week
WAS out ovcrcoats were just rs much in
demand Some persons are never salts.
fed.
Mrs. Mary A. Miller. formerly Of Mid
dlctown, in this county, died on the 9Th of
Nay, in Xcna, Ohio, in the 12nd year. She
MAS sister to Mr.. p. J. Levcy, of Mid
dlctown.
A MAN, supposed to be Frederick Hun,
ter Of Frederick, Md. was run over and
kill BIZ Philadelphia, Wilmington and
Baltimore train at Edgcmoor, Del, last
Thursday afternoon.
We sec by the Baltimore papers that the
colored boy who was arrested for breaking
into the Frederick post office and taken to
Baltimore for trial has been released. He
being adjudgcd not guilty.
Pic Nlc-Thc Changers picnicked on
Saturday last in Zimmerman's woods near
Lcwistown. A large crowd WAS in attend,
ancc and several distinguished speakers
from distance addressed them
SEVERAL sections of our State were Wis
tied b." violent hail storms last week 1t
is said that the wheat is greatly damaged
in the vicinity Of Tancytown from hail
Snow in August will be the next.
ICE dealers Of Frederick are retailing
tlnt article at Accents per hundred weight
Our pure mountain water needs no ice to
coul it, but then little on the butter would
, add greatly to its appearance these warm
days
AN exchange remarks. Those glorious
summer nights arc coming when lover
whispers impassioncd words in the dreamy
chr of u favored maiden and feels his ln.
der shirt sticking closer to him than a
brother.
NoTwITnsTANDING the severity Of the
last winter and the depth of the January
SHOWS, which it was thought would destroy
the birds, especially the cartridges, the IA
miliar "Rob White is heard in the fields
on every hand.
A CITIZEN living across the branch took
a cat by the hind leys and beat its head
several times against tree and threw it
aside for dead. You ought to have heard
him short timo after WHOM he saw the