Catoctin clarion., 1877-08-02
TOWN AND COUNTY.
WHAT HAPPENS AROUND US.

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popular side.
BUTTER keeps better in alr tight tirkins
than in salt water.
AND already the busy farmer prcpareth
for next years crop.
KEEP away from the corn, now, for it is
beginning to "shoot.'
THE mercury is still basking among the
ninctles, and "yct we're not happy
THERE will be just peaches enough this
summer to make a fellows mouth water.
HAVE you paid for the last several years
subscription to the CLARION If not, why :
THE relations between the railroads and
the strikers have been anything but freight
aSrn-ai.
GREEN apples are in market and the doc
tors are anticipating a demand tor collie
medicines.
THESE are "dog days" and they arc the
doggondcst hottest ones we have yet cx-
pcricnccd.
AN Ex remarks that green apples arc
now hcart-aching. And make fellow bel
lcr.achc, too.
To-day one week the camp meeting at
Emory Grove commences. The hotels are
already opened.
Our community was visited with some
delightful showers on Saturday and Sun.
day afternoons
TuURspAy and Friday were the hottest
tlays of the season, the thermometer indi-
eating 96 degrees.
RuMoR has it that the recent warm
spcll melted down the sign post OF the no
tel de Crcagcrstown.
SOMETHING New. Excelsior Syrup,
Cheap and Good. Try It,
julyl9f KOol n Hhoff.
Pur q cabbage leaf in your hat and then
90 forth and defy "old Sol If you don't
happen 10 have hat don't go forth,
that's all.
THE new house of Mr. Cyrus Davis near
Smith',ury is rapidly approaching comp'' :
lion and will be read, for occupancy in y
few months.
THE first freight for Frederick for the
past ten days from tins place was shipped
on Monday last hy that untcrlilicd agent
AW. \. Hahn.
EruKAlM Eckcnrodc, the young man
who had his leg broken some six weeks ago
ly being kicked by u horse, is up and about
again on crutc'cs.
,TolIS lIammcl n former resident OF this
place, who has been spending the pas,
week in oar midst, returned to his home
in Baltimore on Monday.
R!DO,-For 800 we will furnish IA
splendl new I}urdcttc Organ and @lvr :
music lessons in the bargain. Call At this
office ard see the instrument. 1t Is Il
beauty.
SeoS the mellow and volumnouS tones
of the camp,mcciing cNh" rtcr will iAl! np
ON the ear of the apprccia,ivc listener AMI
soothr him 10 refreshing sIum)"r,
TIE time to sell farms is near, and the
WAY 10 make the most ont of them is to adj
vtrtisc in the CLARION. \ few dollars thus
invested; may return Il hundred fold.
THE members of the Frederick Cornrt
Band nave new uniforms, consisting OF
navy blue pan, ,aloons and coats and fatigue
caps, and make very fine appearance.
One hundred and sixty dollars was
raised by collection for the widowed moth
or of the unfortunate ncwsboS who was
shot and killed in the riot in Baltimore last
week.
Coz. John i. Tate, formerly proprietor
of the Eagle Hotel Gettysburg, died sud
denly in that place on the 22d inst Col
Tate was well known to many of oGr citi-
zens.
A DEATH and wedding took place in
the same house on Sunday last. The scene
of this affair was in one of the small houses
In the mountain about five miles from this
place.
THE railroad bridge is becoming too
much of a loating place for young boys on
Sunday evening. Parents should take n
walk 10y there some evening and see fol
themselves.
WM. Hebron, colorcd has been arrested
in Clcarspring, Washington county, and
committed to jail on n charge of attempt
y irg to outrage a white woman, wife of j
n. Jcnkcns.
QUITE n number of young children
throughout this section Of the county are
quite i'll with what is known as Summer
complaint Several deaths occurred during
the past week.
KILLED Mrs Frederick Koch, of Adj
ans CO., Pa. was thrown out of q wagon a
few weeks ago and almost instantly killed
She only lived twenty minutes after the ac-
cidcnt occurred.
THAT enterprising nrm, Root 4 Croft
notwithstanding the recent trouble in
freight matters are constantly receiving
new goods, which they sell cheap for cash
and at rapid rates.
A YOUNG child Of Mr. Edward Biggs re