Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1877-05-17
TOWN ANC COUNTY.
WHAT HAPPENS AROUND US.
WHIrsuNTIDE--ncxt Sunday.

vention.
LETTUCE IS the very best salad one car
now use.
STRAWBERRIES are quoted rs scarce ana
high as ever.
Walking in your sleep is now called a
transaction.
LOOK out for drunken pigs when ale
comes in hogshcads.
SEE advertisement of valuable real cs-
tate in another column.
If you want to see the elephant why 60
to Frederick on Saturday.
= TURKEY is now as much or more talked
about than at Thanksgiving.
Mike Finncgan like the martins returned
on Wednesday. Shoot the boots.
THE man who is welded to his own
ideas is a difficult person to divorce.
LARGE parasols are out of fashion alto
gethcr: Ladies will bear this in mind.
TnAyER s Noyes circus and menageric
will exhibit in Frederick on Saturday, 10Th.
Who's going?
Roof & Croft are constantly receiving
new goods of all kinds Their goods and
prices seem to suit all.
THE semi annual love feast Of the Dun
ker denomination takes place at Rocky
Ridge on Tuesday the Goth.
SEWING machines can now he bought
for mere song, and the numerous agents
are already beginning to sing.
JOHN A. Baker, is appointed postmaster
at marlborough, Frederick county, Md,
vice f. A. Albaugh, resigned.
DoN'T be in q hurry to throw aside your
underwear. Wait until the Locust bios
SONS make their appearance.
Shocmaker's wax is said to be a datesta-
bic bore to some persons in our town, and
they hate the very name oft. Shcw
A noticeable feature this spring is the un.
usual number of birds which have arrived
to spend the summer season amoug Us.
WILLIAM Stull, butcher of this place: has
sixteen hundred pound steer which he
will kill and serve to his customers on Sat
urday.
- FRANK Whitman displays good taste in
ornamcntng flower garden. a peep in
to COL Rouzcrs yard will convince you OF
that fact.
TIE office at Schlcy's Bros lime kiln,
near Frederick, was robbed one night last
week Some seven dollars was secured by
the thief.
POTATOES will only be three cents a
bushcl next year Gus Hahn expects to
raise about 100000 bushels on his fam
along the railroad.
Mr.. T. Alexander, of Frederick, had his
hand very badly injured.one day last week,
whilst removing some wiskcY barrels at
lIorscy's distllcry.
CRoqvEr is largely indulgcl in by the
young ladies and gents OF Gracclnm,-
Some of them are quite expert players and
are open for n challenge
GIRLS, here is something for you. I'll
said that by putting a lover in the light
from blue glass window, he can be made
Ito propose at one sitting
WE hear it stated that Mr.. A. +. Orn-
!orH will commence the manufacture OF
igars in this place some day next week.
YOpposiion is the life Of trade.
A DOG belonging to Mr.. Simon Weller
OF this place, was run over by the cars on
Saturday last and had both hind legs cut
off The canine had to be killed
If you want good boot or shoe and Il
neat fit call on the Stull Bros, sign of the
big black boot, Main Street, this place
John knows how to put them up.
II J. Crise, of Creagcrstown, WILL in
course Of time remodel and paint his hotel
property in fine style Workmcn are cx-
pccted to commence the job very soon.
Thomas Shaw and II corps of workmcn
are engaged building large barn for Il
Mr.. Echelbcrger near Utica, this county.
Tic raising of the same takes place to-day,
Thursday.
write me as one who loves his fellow
men, said Abou Ben Adhcm The in
ventor of Tcrry's Salicylic Soap is destined
to receive this tribute from countless
thousands.
ALL persons having accounts against
the county should prove them at once, and
leave them with the clerk Of the County
Commissioner, 50 as to have them placed
on the levy
DR. Edward Nelson, of Frederick city,
has been invited to deliver the annual ad-
dress before the American Dental Associa-
ton, which meets at Deer Park, West Va,
in August next
WE have not heard of any mile and a
quarter long snakes being captured this
season by our mountain friends. Can't
some body go out and bring US in good
sized snake story?
A MINISTER of the NJ. f. church South
said the other day che had been saved from
Consumption by DR.. Schlcy's Cough Syrup