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Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1877-03-08
El4cVItriX Notice.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the SUBJ
v scribcr has obtained from the Or
phans' Court Of Frederick County, letters
Tcstamcnlary upon the estate of
ANDREW WELTY,
late of Frederick county, deceased. All
persons having claims against said dcceas-
ed, are hereby warned to exhibit the same
with the vouchers thereof legally authen-
tica;c1 to the subscriber, on or before the
22d Of August next; they may other
wise, by law, be excluded from all benefit
of said estate. Those indebted are request
cd to make immediate payment.
REBECCA \. WELTY.
fcb22-4w EXccutriX.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1877-03-08
EsHsaEsasli NOTICE.

NOTICE is hereby given that the UNI
~ dcrsigncd citizens and tax payers in
Frederick county, intend pctiloning the
County Commissioners for Frederick Co.,
at their next meeting, after 30 days from
this date, to build Il bridge across Monoca-
cy River near StulHs ford, and also TO re-
locate the road leading from Stull's ford to
Martins mill in Craagcrstown district
Frederick county, I'D.
JNREMIAH"MARTIN,
SAM / Ell BOSSARD,
ABRAHAM LONG.
mar1-5w
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1877-03-08
HsEREEeasgI NGsEECE!

t,MNA Can't be made by every agent cv
SyST cry month in the business wctur-
TSoS nish, but those willing to work
can easily earn dozen dollars day right
in their own localities. Have no room to
explain here. Business pleasant and hon
orablc. Women and boys and girls do as
well as men. We will furnish you COM
plrtc Outt, free. The business pays better
than anything else We will bear expense
of starting you. Particulars free. Write
and see Farmers and mechanics, their
sons and daughters, and all classes in need
of paying work at home, should write to
us and learn all about the work at once
Now is the time. Don't delay. Address,
TRUE & CO.,
Augusta, Maine.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1877-03-08

If You Want Bills Of Any
Kind Printed, Call at this Ot-
flee. We know how to do them
Cheap and Neat, and at Great
Nv Reduced Prices from last
Season.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1877-05-12

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friend Of mine Who went 10 his stnaio
b see the statns u IL e1ay. I" Yea
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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1877-05-12
THE WRONG MAN IN BED.
A story Of 81. David's Day.
CHAPTER I.


It was the 1st of March, in the
year of grace 1S-. In a merchants
office, not far from Cheapside, a lit
tie IN an sat at a high desk, trying
hard, apparently, to keep one eye
on the rows of figures before him
and the other ON the office clock.
Failing in this, his glances travelled
from the one to the other with pen
dulum-like regularity. At last the
clock struck the wished for hour of
six; and the little man shut the big
ledger with a bang. and after locking
it up carefully in the Office safe,
dashed into q dark cupboard, and
began hasty but careful toilet, in
volving great splashing of water, and
much violent exercise with stumpy
nail-brush. Evan Jones was nom
inally managing clerk, and really
general factot,lm to the firm of Bor-
wick & Brown, woodward mer-
chants. He was fifty years of age,
short, fat and good-natured, though
little peppery at times. He had
numerous family, whom he found it
anything but easy to feed and bring
up on his modest salary of fifty shil-
lings week. With strict economy,
however, he managed just to make
both ends meet. Not for him were
the breezy sands of Ramsgate or the
chestnut avenues of Hampton Court.
Not for him were the mild Havana
or the fragrant cigarette. He had
no vices and desired no luxuries.
One indulgence alone, in the course
of the year, did he permit himself.
He was a Welshman to the neck
bone, and herein lay his one extrav-
agance. Come what might, and
however depressed the condition of
the domestic money market, he was
always present at the dinner of
the United Welshman" on St.
David's Day. The necessary guinea
to Jones as much rs hundred
to many of the other guests who
assembled at the banquet in ques-
ton "A sum to be saved and
scraped together by infinite sacrifice
and self-denial. But
Though back and side go bare,
Though hands and feet 20 bare,
as the old song says, scraped togeth-
er it must be, by hook or by crook.
For nearly week prior to the pres
ent occasion. Evans dinner had
consisted of a saveloy and q penny
roll; and on the day of our story he
had taken no food whatever since
his frugal breakfast, intending to
compensate himself Handsomely for
his abstinence at the expense of the
"United Welshman." He had, in
truth. gone so long without food as
to feel a little exhausted; bot lac
consoled himself with the thought Of
the splendid appetite he would carry
to the festive board. and having a,
last cosapleted his toiles. ke shu, up
the ofaioe and started for the hsssssirv
where III dinner wns to he held
fs~hng xs lea<s ssx feet hlsh. .na
hznzzang Ar Ayf y Ss= wIth F4srssssc
en~rg-
Al zlma~a the ~zz@e mnsm@nf wb~n
Era. 1one~ Started 90 kas SsGru~y
q sal. kxz~Aszms@ REAR N fmmzhe~~
sxemEng sEfzrs. sseF%~~a ams ex a
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fzA hssae Aaaav. wz<h hwazAs srssku~a.
f~~. .nz@zF@ns-a ham ~ sAs hals-
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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1877-05-12

sz. s@~& Eu1~z hz~ I e-at kw
tam @sN aa $50 s4M mAww
@ gaat rs~ ~zaz hss ku~a w-uz.
We uara Awek ks - &eass &snnw
hass @s-Af- 2z1 uns sF zz ssa<k Ezziw
49, asaoA
i h~Az szlAezsv 6~zA<a a---
Eszz mz4
~ ru~~a@h-sr zsw. sars In akrxzS
wrzs p~ET r@As - vu@-
WeE. yuz wess = kz<i~ Kiziz-xrus-
Ssa. &Hd ! =4zs xuz Esy card. a.
s<s&4 ruz q nee wsaAea 70 xpns~rznp
yoz waGl1 k1Sx wAexs % f.x -.
! nsas; szs ] a1ans expect you wuuka
have esGss qElss 80 ss1. tho~FA-
The fsct -. y0a wess trszxks ksss
by the mistake Ct q e&izz.xn, Who -
Iso~sd my card xas ycux o~n--
" I'm sure I bnmbly beg your psr-
don AR. sid poor Evan. compisssly
eressfallen. a. I can't think hoe i
came 50 to disgrace myself; bat 10
tel you the truth, sir, I'd had %
pinch bit to buy my ticket, and sn
day yesterday / hadn't tasted bit q
sup since breakfast, and when il csne
to dinner-time / was that faint aud
weak that the very first glass seemed
to set my head all swimming like.
I'd let it go too long, sir, that's what
it was. I humbly ask yon pardon.
I'm sure, for the trouble I've caused.
and I thank you kindly for giving
me q nights shelter. Ifeel don't
deserve your kindness. SIR, but am
grateful assure you."
And with tears in his eyes, Evan
moved humbly to the halle door to
depart.
"No, no." said Mr.. Owen Jones:
"you mustn't think of going without
your breakfast. We are all Welsh
here; and if brother Welshmsn
does take glass too much on ST.
David's Day, we know how to make
allowance for him. Come, step IN
here. We have had breakfast an
hour ago, but Mrs. Jones is waiting
to give you yours"
Looking very shamefaced and r.
pentant, Evan Jones followed his
namesake into the breakfast t-paYIor
where Mrs. Jones, who had hsex3
' a;s hsRsla, ,aoRisss ~ es1
was soon seated before ! SnOWy ~
ble-cloth and, as well a his he'd
ache would let him, enjoying plen-
teous repast. During the meal hiss
entertainers quietly drew him out.
and were speedily behind the scenes
as to his daily life and his hard
struggles to keep the wolf from tho
door; and when he finally took his
leave well-flled basket was waiting
for him in the hall to take home Is 8
present to the children. Nor was
this by any means the last which
found its way to the Same quarter.
sent by the same friendly hands; and
I am sorry to say that OF all days,
that held in the highest veneration
by the little Joneses is /" the day
when papa got dreadfully tipsy at the
Welsh dinner"
y -
feel as if there must be moral
to this story somewhere, but / can't
quite see where it lies. You can't
call it exactly q temperance story,
because you observe. Evan Jones not
good nights lodging aud made 3
couple of kind friends by getting
drunk-which is not poetical justice
by any means. After much anxious
consideration. the only safe moral /
can see Is that . married lady should
never order any gentleman, however
tipsy, to be put into her own bed
without making quite sure, in the frst
place, that he Is thegentleman who.
right-fully belongs to hsr.-London
Society.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-03-15
The Sea.

There is something, says Hazlitt, IN
being near the sea like the confines OF
eternity. 1t is new clement Of pure
abstraction. The mind loves to hover on
that which is endless and forever the
same. People wonGer at steamboat,
the invention of man. managed by man,
that makes its limpqd path like an iron
RAILWAY through the sea. I wonder at the
sea Itself, the sast leviathan, smiling in
its deep. walked into fury, falhomless.
boundlcss, a huge world Of water drops.
Whence is it? where goes it? Is it of
eternity, or of nothing? Strange, ponder
Gus riddle, that we Can neither penetrate
nor grasp in our comprehension;. ebbing
and flowing like human life, and swsllov-
ing it up n thy remorselcss womb-what
art thou? What is there in common with
thy life and ours who gaze at thee? Bind,
deaf and old, thou seest not, nearest not;
neither do We understand who behold and
listen to thee, Great as thou art, uncons-
clous of thy r,a,ness, unwie'dy, enor-
nous, prepOsterous twin birth of matter!
rest in thy dark, uufathCned cave OF
mocking human pride and weak
ness. Still it is given to the mind to Won
der at thee, to confess its ignorance, and
to stand in awe of thy stup.ndous might
and majesty, aud of its own being, thu:
can question thine.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-03-15
Light and Shade.

The following remarks in the London
Standard are rot at all original, but they
serve to throw some light on the blue
glass theory. Even colorless glass will
prove e. blessing if it induces habit OF
bathing in the sunlight:
1T IS known 10 every person ,pretend-
ing } education tEat an animal ar plan,
|deprived for many hours of all access to
fresh air would perish bya kind of suff0-
cation. But 1t is much less generally
known that neither animal nor plaht can
flourish or enjoy heslth in darkness Ger
tain blanched flowers aud vegetables are
obtained by the very. process of rearing g
them IN darkenrd cellar. but their white
ness is itself disease. and Indicates the
destructive effect produced by lack of the
vital element of light. Bright, clear. full
sunshine for many hours daily is essential
to real health"
1t is stated on the authority of Sir James
Wylie, THAT the cases OF disease on the
dark side of an extensive. baTrack at St.
Petersburg have been uniformly for many
years. in the proportion of three to one ,
to those on the side exposed % strong
light"
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-03-15
Fast Walking Horses .

1t.has been shown that the, production
of thoroughbred and ,rottius horses has
been largely in excess of the death rae,
that as necessary sequence the stock in
the country is increasing from year to
year, and that unless foreign demand is
created, prces must inevitably decline.
Breeders should therefore turn their atten-
ton more to the production Of fast walk
ing horses, both for the saddle and general
draught The business would pay hand
somely, for the utility and value of such
horses would be properly appreciated.
thus creating STEADY demand. which
would not likely be diminished for the
next half century at least On the farm
a s!ow-wa:king horse docs not do half the
work that rapid walker is able to accom-
plish. In towns and cities where draught
horses are usee! in tbs truck, cart, dray.
&C., il Is .he same, NC. half the work is
performed Ivy the slow walker, who crawls
along at snaiPs pace, and when drawing
a load. cannot be, ), gaIvaniz' into rapid
action. As traveller, both under saddle
and in harness, the slow walk is q nui-
SARGE. No matter what work he is err
gagged in, time and money ars lost TO his
owner every day that be lives.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-03-15
GeneralitieS.

The Maine Legislature has REDUCED the
legal rate of interest to FIVE per cent
The United States government has ex,
pended $500. 100000 in its Indian vars.
Arizona a.!y,c.S state tia. the Governor
has trlegraphed to the Secretary OF War
for arms, aud will call out volunt' er
scouts against the hostile Apaches
In some countries commOn tree frogs
are Us, d "a barometers. The frog is
placed in a tall bottle with light ladder i.
ard always comes down when = storm is
approaching.
The sa'oops and drug sores of Crcssco,
Iowa, we're raidcd on the Eth Of January
at the instance OF the Woman's Temp,r-
aEce League, and all liquors of the places
seized. Four drug stores and five saloons
were cleared of their liquors, valued u;
$4,000.
There are aptreher s;ons that Mr.. Til
den S MUD has been affected by the pro
loneed anxiety to which he has been sub
jected in this contest, and some of those
acquainted with his condition express the
fear that he will be taken in much the
same manner as Horace Greeley was.
brigham Young has Withdrawn from
Salt Lake City with his favorite wives
and his court, AID has taken up his abode
on the southern confines of Utah, on the
border Of Arizona, anil it is asserted by
those who profess to know, that he has
left the chief city of his realm permanent
ly, now thai it is no longer his own.
A Camden, n j., man has been figur-
ing u.mn the apparent daily income of
the late Commodore Vanderbilt. He has
reduced it.down to an exceedingly fine
point, and concludes tha, eve'y time the
great railroad king drew his breath, his
stocks and bonds together realized him
.he sum of ffty-tive cents.
A bill is now pending before the Vir-
ginia Legislature which provides that
every bark, eper shall supply himself
with sheets of stamps, to be prepared by
the Auditor of Public Accounts, anu for
every drink sold the bar-kccper stall
tlctach q stamp in the presence of the
This, in effect, taxes the
retail liquor dealer according to the mum.
ber Of drinks he sells.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-03-15
American Dueis.

Jackson, it will be remembered, fought
number of duels, several of lhcm fatal ):
but not to him. Commodore Barron and
Decatur met in 1920; the latter was fatally,
and the former severely wounded. John
Randolph spoke of the political union Of
A'ams and Clay es "a combination of
the Puritan and The blackleg." A cbal-
lenge followed. Clay and Randolph met
in 1926, but neither YVES injur,d. Clay
was the challenger. RandoIph's pistol
went off before the word; Clay fire was
int ffectual, though seriously intended,
and Randolph declined to take second
aim. When Colonel Benton was serving
at the head of a regiment under General
Jackson. they quarreied; jackson attempt.
ed 70 strike Benton with horsewhip in
Nashville in 1918, and ily lost his lifu
by pistol bal from Ben,on's brother.
Benton himself was fighting man. he
was called out several times. and one ot
his competitors. Mr. Lucas, furnished
evidence of the directness of his shot.
Governor Dewitt Clinton exchanged hva.
shots with an obscure assallsnt in ,lSQS;
be was made NJ yor Of New York The fol-,
lowing year. The duel in which Senate,
Brodefick lost his life is still frs silly re-
nemberel. lie was very fra In his
of the DrU-slavery m"n.
,ne of whom. Judge David >. Terry.
challenged him: they met near San Fran,
cisco, In September, 1889. and Broderick
lii not survive. The affair created y
nsas,on at The time. Judge
re' ~ died receLtiy.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-03-15
Typical Trees.

For gouty people, the achecorn; for
anhquarians, the date; tor school boys the
birch; for the 1rishman, the och; for
conjurers, the palm; for negroes, see dab /;
for young ladies, the man 20; for farmers;
the plaat'ir; tor fashionable women, a
set of frs; for dandi's. the sp-uee: fot
actors, the poplar; for physicians. syc =
more; for your wife. her will, O; for
lovers, the sigh press; for the disconso-
late, the pine; for engaged people, the
pear; for sewing-machine people, the
hemlock; for boarding house keepers
bash; always on hand. the pawpaw; Who
is this written for? ycw.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-03-15
Grants Future.

A plan IS on foot fol- providing place
for Grant which promises to secure him
a POSITION and to keep him still. in one
St y. In the service of the country. 1;
has long been intended when the rest OF the
National debt come to be refunded, that the
syndicate assuming the work should be
under American control and it ls now
proposed that some strong New York
bank, either the Bank Of America Or The
Bank of Commerce, be organized as a
National bank, with capital Of ten to
twenty millions, for the purpose of con-
ducting all further operations for refund
ing the National 4. .bt, with representatives
in The boarIo directors from all members
Of the present syndicate, and also from
the houses of Brown Brothers, Barings,
aud Won Hoffman. The plan procee Is
upon the idea that Grant could be chosen
and could be in uced to accept the presi-
dency of this bank. This would give
aim an assured income with an occupa
tion sufficiently dieniGed anal agrees bic,
while it would crafty his family feeling
by fixing his future residence near that of
his sons. Ulysses Grant, jr., hiss been in
New York for a day or two con ulting
with bank officers on the subject, and
there is stroug disposition among some
of the moneyed men, with whom the mat
ter originated, to carry it through.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-03-15
Coral.

The scientific world is greatly interested
IN the statement that the United States
ship of war, Gettysburg, in voyage from
Fayal to Gibralter, discovered an ia,mense
coral reef, located in latitude Sc deg. 30
min. north, and longitude IL deg % min ;.
west. Until the discovery Of the Getty /.
burg the existence OF the reef had never
been suspected. The reef has been
thoroughly surveyed. and the dispatches
show that the delicate and valuable pink
coral. so highly priced by the world of
fashion in all ages, will be fcuad in i'm
mense quantities. The finer shades of
this coral excel in value. by weight, Il At
of rnre gold, selling at from $l5 % $40
per ounce.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-03-15
sELECTED.] ]
The ,Celep,,one:

The fact that electricity in passing
through magnetic helix, or coil Of wire
lis productive Of souad, was first discover
ed by Prof. Charles q. Page. of Salem
Mass, as long agn as 1857. His obscrva-
tions were published, and, as he was a
man of large attainmcnts. his cxp"rImeuts
attracted attention at home ard abroad.
The fact, therefore, that sound could be
conveyed electrically to considerable dis
tances has been known for some time
But 1t remained for Professor Bell to dis
cover that articuIatc sounds can be con-
veyed ty the electrical current. This he
has done during his residence in Salem
Professor Bell is Scotchman by birth,
and is engaged in teaching in the State
Institution for the Deaf and Dumb in
Boston, where he employs the ingenious
system of visible speach," of which he
is the inventor.
The apparatus by which this astonish-
ing result Is secuted is wonderfully sim.
pie. Only telegraph wire, horse shoe
magnet, two h'lices and vibrating disk
at each end. The audience can see ma
hognpy box upon the table, of the ap-
pearance of an ordinary PHOTOGRAPHERS
The tube In the e!:d is used in
This case to spc:.k in'o and to hear out of
Within the box is hOrae shoe magnet.
Opposite each arm Of TIE magnet is a helix
OF the usunl construction. One end of the
wire among the hclics is connected with
the ground. and the other with Boston CT
the place in operating connection. Set up
9g .inst the hclics, within sixteenth OF
IN nch, is sheet of Thin POLISHED iron
upon which tile voice of the operator i'm
pinges when speaklngs The magnet in
luccs an electrical current in the telegraph
wire. The vibrating disk impalts pusa.
lions 10 this electric II current corr. spond.
ny to the sounds, which are conveyed toI
Boston and reproduce themselves upon
The vibrating disk there with exactness of
tone and articulation. The little four in
.hes IF iron u;tcrs the whole gamut of the
human voic'. This is indeed wonderful
lie greatest achievement of modern
;ciencs.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-03-15
Fun.

| II you want TO buy a Circassian wife
now is your time. The price is down to
5000.
Of course Noah look swarm of bees
into the Ark, e'se of what use would the
archives have been to him?
A Chicago man at the point Of death
was asked if a clergyman should be. sent
for. No." said lie, ''send tor brandy
cocktail"
An arctionecr recently declined to
lpraise scu,e old China he was offering. for
Isale, sayin.! it had already been sufficient.
ly Cracked up"
knowledge is vouchsafed to all who
seek for it. If a young man cannot have
an Astor library he may own a patent
medicine almanac.
A Wattrsown sportsman went out shoot.
ing the other day. When he returned a
friend asked him what he had got. Got
back" said the other.
Some sIand rer asserts that paper max
ers are The greatest magicians of the age.
inasmuch as they transform beggas's rags
into >h cts for editors to lie on.
A mammoth sponge has been found in
Florida, measuring twelve feet in circum-
ference and weighing nineteen pounds.
We know of 9 few sponges hereabouts,
not near SO large, that will bring down
the scales at from $50 to 200 pounds.
The Boston Times. Sunday paper, in.
sists that the irrevercnt Boston boys sing
a new version of "Hold tie Fort" like
this:
Hold The fork, tue knives are coming,
The p'ates are on the way;
Shout the chorus to your neishbor,
Sling the hash this way.
4 gentleman who rather suspected tina:
somebody was peeping through the key
hole Of his office door made AN invcstiga.
ton with syringe full of pepper sauce,
and went home to find that q chip had hit
his wife in the eye willie cnnttinS wood.
A Philadelphia man says that when hia
wife gets up in the morning with a jerk,
and neglectins to do up her hair, goes
silently about her work, she is ma,eriali-
zing a domestic row which before night
will shake the house to its foundation.