Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1877-04-26
TOWN AND COUNTY.
WHAT HAPPENS AROUND Us.
/ THAT the times are dull We can't deny
Few arc able or disposed to buy;
I But It's a fact, known unto the wise,
Thot trade will come. lust advertise.


SOME persons like moonlight nights and
some don't. Why?
Excursions arc already talked about and
brass bands are tuning up for the festive
dance. Where?
The difference between salary and Gel
cry is, that one quiets the ncrvcs,th other
your creditors.
FRIEND Casscll's expectations have been
more than realized this season in the sale
orhis poudrcttc.
VANB. Oslcr has been chosen Mayor by
The Commissioners. Make note of this
yf1evi' doers'
LOVERS retreat has been Abandoned
Church street, near the Catholic church, is
now the garden spot
EMORY thinks he could destroy about
three bushels of apples per week-with
the aid of n gum stomach.
A SALOON keeper in Cumberland has
signed tho temperance pledge and shut up
his shop Good for him.
Soon the mud of six months accumua-
ton will be washed off in Sandy hole. The
boys will go in swimming.
ANY person finding stray dollar bill on
Carroll st will please return the same to
. J. Harry Freeze. He lost it.
,IRcUsEs and mcnage-les are on the go
Come this way if you want to get
bur Golfers filled with shining lucre.
- SATURDAY last Was regular March
day. high winds and rather cool. 1t
dried up the mud in our streets though.
A. A. Troxc!l, of this place, is now en-
gagged plascring house at Blue Ridge
Summit. lie has several others to plaster
also.
THE spring races at Westminster will
commence on the Goth Of May and last
three DAYS. $1,000 in premiums are Of
fcrcd.
Numerous weddings are talked of, and
all to come off in the next fifteen days or
three weeks. Cards neatly printed ut this
Office.
SERVICES were held in the Moravian,
Methodist and Reformed churches las: Sun
day morning and in the Brethren in the af
trrnoDn.
AN election fer town commissioner, wee
Henry Cover resigned, will be held on Sat
urCay May lth, at A. Sticks tailor shop, 3
O'Clock p. III.
Mrs Parramorc was quite i'll last week
from sore throat. So much SO that she
was unable to attend to her musical duties
for few days.
Our town will, no doubt, be filled with
fashionable city people this summer. We
hear of several families who contemplate
taking boar'lcrs.
4 LETTER from the far west brings the
intelligence TINT the Fulton boys arrived
there safely. May they remain there is all
we have to say.
Mr. Adam Nusbaum an aged and high
ly respected citizen, of Liberty district,
died week before last Of dropscy, aged
about - years.
THE sacrament Of the Lords supper was
administered to the congregation of TIE
fnrmed church (Appe's) on last Sunday
Rev Wisslcr.
"a Mr.. IIcdgcwood residing near Crca-
gcrstown is going to build a handsome res
idcncc for himself shortly. Joseph We'd
die has the contract.
By rcfcrc ace to our advertising columns
it will he seen that Josiah Schildknccht Of
frs his valuable property near Catocliu
furnace at private sale.
Murder among the cats which prowl ut
night is look, for; somebody has invent
cd II noiselcss rifle, warranted to kill at n
distance Of forty four yards.
TRUsTEE's Standardization Lohr trus-
tee Of John Lohr. will sell at public SALE
Saturday, May 10 at 10 O'Clock a. m val
liable real estate, &c See advertisement.
THE sacrament Of the Lords supper will
I've administered in the Methodist church,
this place, Sunday week, at r O'clock T.
IA, Rev. West presiding. All arc invited
The Independent Hose Company, Of
Frederick, which lately procured n steam
il,c engine has sold their large hand en-
CINE to the fire department of Winch. stcr.
ALL hands bow gracefully to Peter
Hammakcr for a lot of fine apples deliver
ed at this office May your shadow never
grow less, Peter, for this act Of beucvo-
lcnce.
THE potter business for this season has
opened. Lynn 81 Co., near town, burned
a kiln of crooks last week and now await
orders from merchants throughout the
county.
THE Misses Barrick of Rocky Ridge,
and Miss Scabrooks of Crcagcrstown, spent
Saturday and Sunday ia our town. They
were the guests o., Mrs. DR.. Geo. NJ. Tim.
norman.
/ FIND no trouble at all now in sleeping
since we used DR.. Schlcy's Family Cough