Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1877-03-29

ArRIL with its showers will soon be
here.
SUNDAY is the first day of April and
Easter.
TOMORROW is good Friday. A legal
holiday.
ANY news in your locality? 1fso, send
it to this Office
LADIES are now turning their attention
to flower beds.
OUR public schools will close the second
week of April
THE GROUND hog prophcsy held good
this year, sure shot.
THE annual hunt for the garden rake
aud hoe will soon set in.
FITTING season. Blessed is the man
who is not obliged to move
MUMPs are prevalent in our town just
now. There are several cases.
SERVICES will be held in the Moravian
church every night this week.
REV. J. Summers will preach his fare
well sermon ON Sunday at o'clock.
DoNT fail to attend the grand concert
next Tuesday night. Admission free.
TIE notorious Fulton boys went west
last week. Our citizens breathe freezer
now
LEWIS Crawford, trustee of George IIar-
baugh, sold and purchased his farm fol
$l5 per acre.
Lon Stull has embarked in the tanning
business lie has no opposition either
Picking is gone.
II you want to see pretty flowers, why
Just take look at Miss Mary Longs front
windows on Church st
TIE beautiful snow was made to skip
last Friday. The warm sun did it. How
nice it was-thc weather.
LIMBER Bill rode to Middleburg las,
week on saddle without stirrups. lie has
been in the circus before.
Col. John r. nouzcr offers at private
sale some valuable lots, situated near this
town, on reasonable terms.
As Easter draws nigh have an eye 10
your eggs and keep stables locked. Egg
thieves ahound--mostly boys.
SUNDAY last, unlike Friday and Satur
day, was cold and disagrccabic. Thank
fortune March IS nearly gone.
J. Ed. Martin sold apples last wcc! at
cents per QUARTZ il quart too. They
Xarcn'l as big as him though.
A GREAT many cellars Throughout on,
town are filled with water The result o
last Monday and Tuesdays rain.
ARE you ready to meet your obligations
ON the first of April? Don't forget "
when you are making your rounds.
PEOPLE viii find out by trading wild
YOU whether you have religion. There l.
40 need Of making much talk about il.
AMERICAN beef Cali Uc shipped to Ing
IL
here. This looks unreasonable, bat ii is ;
fact.
MR. G. f. Casscll has been elected Stage
Manager of the McchanicstoWn Dramatic
Association, size DR.. Marsh resi- gncd, an(
Mr.. l.. Waesche IS assistant Stage Manager
TIE old log house on Church St. being
rcmoddled and fixed up for the accommo
dation of Il small family. What a pity thu
owner doesn't put good substantial house
there
ELECTIoS.-IrEe election for five com
missioncrs for the ensuing year will take
place on Second Monday, April ., at A
Sticks shop. Polls open fropl 3p, m. unit
Gp.m.
TIE devil took tea with our newly mar
ried foreman on Sunday las; and has come
to the conclusion that he too will jump til,
broom stick when he gets about six years
bigger.
GEORGE Clifton, young son of fricnc
Casscll was nigh unto death last Saturday
from spasms He is all right now, poo
little fellow, and the parents are happy
thcreat.
REV. Maydwell and family left for thci
new home at Docksvillc, Berkeley county
Va, on Thursday last The Rev. gentle
man takes the best wishes of this commu
]ity with him.
MIR. John G.. Miller, an old and well
known citizen of Washington county, dice
suddenly at his residence, near Rreathcds
willie, last Monday night a week, in the ISL
year of his aye.
TIE following is as good in this latitude
as any other: "True religion teaches ;
man to do three things--to trust in God
to bear no i'll to his ncighbor, and to pay
his honest debts
PUBLIC SCHOOL FUND.-Thc Comptrol
Ter of Maryland has just made another
quarterly distribution of The public schoo
~daX fund, amounting to $l04,G to white
schools and $24 500 to the colorcd schools
OF this sum tho white schools of Frederick
county receives $G,55770 and the colorc>