Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1877-09-13
TOWN AND COUNTY.
WHAT HAPPENS AROUND US.

SUMNER boardcrs are fitting.
THE oyster vacation has ended.
IT will sorn be time to put up stoves.
Lock up your trees boys arc crazy for
fruit.
blue Windsor Plaster for sale at Cass.
ellis.
WILD pigeons have made their appear
ancc.
Corn cutting will be the next thing on
the programme.
Venus is conspicuous in the Western
sky in early twilight.
Straw hats, with broad blue bands still
vic with the "hclmct."
SINCE the rain, dust has disappeared and
mud has taken its place.
WE arc indebted to Mr.. John W. Mar.
tin for late Texas papers.
= GRAPES ara ripe and plenty, but we have
not noticed any coming into our office.
September. from ssptcm -scven-it be-
Ing the seventh month of the Roman year
OWING to the death of Brigham Young,
there is corner in Grape at Salt Lake
city.
THERE will be yet many hot days this
ycar-a fact it was well enough to bear in
mind
A mans dearest object should I've his
wife; Tut alas Sometimes it is his wiCc's
wardrobe.
lr has been supposed. that four barrels
OF silver coin passes in and out of our
freight agents pocket each month,
MANY Of our farmers are ready for seed
! ing. We hear that some in the vicinity Of
Emniitsburg have already finished.
JUST few more moons-A few more
swiftly gliding wecks-And you'll be kick
IN" yourself for having found fault with
hot weather.
BIZ not hasty cast off every aSpcrsion
that is cast upon You. Let them alone for
awhile, and then like mud on clothes, they
will luh Oft themselves.
Our part Of the country was visited by
day, hcnctiting to a great extent the late
potsto and corn crop.
,.; 4 a., 81,
get understandings was Solomoi's al
wee tn his son. If he were living now he
would add: Get T,rIy's Salicylic Soap,
II is sail they had a fall ofsnow on Say
Hagc mountain Alcyhany county, last Sat
urday week, deep enough to track rabbits
This no doubt accounts for the polar wave
that struck us last week.
THsEH is many slip 'lwixt the cup an |
the lip. hut there can he no danger in using
Dr. Schlcy'> Family Cough Syrup for al
your Coughs and Colds. 1t never fails
~ Gilds' store. only - cts.
JACOB Freeze, the great practical joker
of the season. who likes to play tricks ON
other people, had a nice one played ON
linn few nights ago hv some ne pultlngn
dead kitten in his coat pocket Wasn't he
mad?
PEESoNAL.--W~ noticed the tA'niliar
lace Of Krv E b Brain in iuwn last
week. The Rev gentlemen has been
spending some time at Berkeley SpriAgs
for his health, which ha, been greatly bvn
Gifted thereby.
In Il few weeks. we will he tempted TO
lead ourselves ny the car, doNn INTO the
cellar, and administer 10 our ungratrfll
10 les, II sound demonstrating for growli z
and Tuning because the mercury wouldn't
come down ont of the "ninctics'
THE most unanimous election on record
was our own election on Saturday last for
one member of the town council Mr..
Isaac Barton receiving fifty nine, out of
sxty-onc votes cast Should he 90 his
duty strictly however, we fear that lis
popularity would wave ere another cleo
ton.
THE prolonged drou,h of August was
relieved by \ copioUs rain last wrcE, and
now the troublesome question is, was it
the equin"ciial, or may we expect another
in week or two" Bc'that as it may, it
has brought relief TO our miilcrs, who have
been running on ore half time, for two
months.
OWING TO the rain, the Sabbath School
Picnic that was to be held under the al
spices of the Lutheran School of this place
has been indefinitely postponed, we pre-
sumo until next year. 1t was quite a dis
appointment to all, young and old alike,
especially as the Bucl Family were to
have been there.
TIE cheapest trip ever offered to our
community was the one given to Annap-
oils and return on Tuesday of this week
One hundred and eighty miles for one
hundred and fifty cents. About G5 of our
citizens awaited themselves of the oppor-
tunity by the way we think that rather
thin Joke of the advertising agent to speak
of or Capital us the finished City,"
RETURNED.-Dr. Buhrman Of FoXvilc
who went out to Arkansas last spring has
returned, looking rather the worse for
wear The DR.. suffered a very severe at.