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


church on Sunday morning.
AL. NJ. Nusbaum, of Philadelphia, and
Joseph A. Murphy, with II. r, McNally e.
Co., of Baltimore, dropped in to sec us on
Tuesday last, and paid their respects to all
hands. Both arc very clever gentleman
and full of fun. Call again
A YOUNG son of Cornelius Dubcl, living
a short distance from this place, was badly
injured by u horse on Tuesday last. He
was taking him from one stable to another
when the animal seized him by the top
of the head with its teeth, fracturing the
skull and injuring him in a shocking man.
nCr.
A RARE CnANCE.-Thc undersigned in
tending to quit business on the lst Of April
Will sell the following articles OF furniture
made by himself, on very reasonable terms;
. sets bedroom furniture, leaf table, |
large secretary and sinks. The above are
all new and put up in good style. J. Harry
Freeze, Water street. 3t
CAUGHT IN THE ACT Several nights
since, the child of Il prominent citizen was
detected in severe paroXySm OF coughing.
A prompt recourse to DR.. SchlcY'S Family
Cough Syrup rescued it from Group, and
all are now happy. The intelligent reader
will take heed. Sure cure for only 70 cts.
Try it.
Gus Hahn, the obliging, informs us and
the community in general, that hereafter
all messages Of ten lines Or less will be ,
sent to Baltimore for % cents. Messages
of over ten lines will he at the rate of two
cents word. This will be Of untold ben
eft to our business mc4 who potronizc tel
cgrapA wires in sending orders &c Gus is
u live man sure and its ali owing to him
that the reduction was made.
FREE IECVUKE.-RcY b. b. Collins, |
Missionary from Africa, will deliver II free
lecture on this Thursday evening, in the
Lutheran church. His subject will be
the mode Of living in That country, Gus
toms of the natives Sc. He has Il number
of curiositic5 brought from there which
will be on exhibition and a general cXpla
nation given. a collection viii be taken
up for the benefit Of the Foreign Mission
cause.
A CAPITAL joke, says the Westminster
Advocate, occurred in that city on Monday
last MIR. F. |. Wheeler, of the Wcstmin
stcr Hotel, received letter from Cinciu-
natl, of four pages foOlscap, written in Ger
man, asking him to give the writer some
good office that would pay, and giving
him, for reference, Tie name Of Il resident
Westminster clergyman. Mir. Wheeler brg>
to say he is not Vice President Wheeler,
and has neither Office to dispense nor in
llucncc at the new Republican court.
ACCIDENT. - David WiIiar, residing
near SabillasvilIc, met with rather a scri-
Gus accident last week whilst loading logs
on wagon. IL, had Il rope tied 10 the
logs and Il horse attached to the other end
for the purpose Of rolling them on to the
wagon and lac WAS brhnd pushing. He
/
whcn the horse stopped causing the log TO
! roll back and before ne had time 10 get out
oi the way it fell on his LEGS. He was la
| ken to his home, but ON examination it was
/ found that no bones were broken although
! I've WAS considerably bruised. He is about
again bHt considerably si!.icncd up.
NARROW E>CApE-On Monday of last
week, The quiet of Double Pipe Creek, was
greatly disturbed Ivy the report that Mr..
Oliver Young, employed in the Touring
mill u, that place, had met with Il serious
accident which came near taking his life.
| He was engaged at his REGULAR work about
! the mill and in some way or other got
caught in some Of the hcltin" used in the
mill, and before assistance came his right
arm was terribly laccratca, in fact the flesh
was entirely torn off, but strange TO say no
bones were broken. Some parties who
were in another part Of the mill at the
time heard him calling for help and they
Immediately stopped the machinery and
went in search Of the man whose voice
they heard and found him tangled up in
the betting alive but terribly injured. Med
ical aid was summoned and the sufferer is
now doing well. lie was unmarried.
BALTIMORE AND CUMBERLAND VALLEY
)! RALRoAD.-Thc Western Maryland Rail
road Company is now making active prep
arati0ns for the construction of line of
railroad into the ich agricultural and min
cral regions of the Cumberland Valley, to
be known az the Baltimore and Cumbcr-
land Valley railroad. The project has
been quietly on foot for sometime, await
ing the surveys and other prcliminarics
and has now attained such u shape that
the work of construction will be COM
commenced at an early day. The new
road is to connect with the Western Ma.
rynnd railroad at Smiihhurg Station, sew
cnty-cight miles from Baltimore, and run
through Wayncsboro', Pa. to Chambers
burg, there connecting with the Cumbcr-
land Valley railroad The line is very
direct one, twenty one miles i'll length, and
travcrses the western valley of the Blue
Ridge for several miles through bcauti-
full and picturesque country.