Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1877-05-10
TOWN AM COUNTY.
WHAT HAPPENS AROUND US.


WHITE. washing is now the order Of the
day.
Early onions are doing WE'LL but oh how
they smell.
SuEw Shocl Shoemaker's wax. On
that door step.
Now is the time to renew your long ex-
PRED subscription since wheat has gone up.
SPRING has at last come Monday was
the first fine day VIC have had for long
time.
"Cicanlincss is akin to Goodness" 1t
can be attained by the use Of Terry's Sail
cylic Soap.
Mrs. McNulty. of near Mt. St. Mary's
college, died on Saturday last and was bur
ricd on Sunday.
I TROUT fishing is now in order, hut we
have not heard of any Of the spcckled beau
ties being captured.
Work has again been resumed at the
mine banks. The late fire only intcrfered
with it few days.
BUSINESS at the Gilbert House is largely
on the increase. The new landlord Knows
how to run hotel.
TO-DAY, Thursdays Ascension day, and
is commemorative of the day Christ as
cendcd into Heaven.
WINTER fingers in tho lap of Spring,
and Summer too, this year. Be off, we
say, and let us have peas
MEAsELs-Thcre are quite a number OF
, mcascls in and about the furnace. Several
of tho cases have proved fatal.
IAN X on the outside Of your paper
3eans that you are indebted to us. Please
call and have the same taken off.
INSTEAD of LIST and Sd Monday of each
month, DR.. Norwood, dentist, will be here
on LIST and Sd Tuesday. See card.
Mrs. Dorsey and her daughter Mrs.
Harrisburg, returned to this place on Tues
day Of last week to spend the summer.
EIGHTEEN marriage licenses were issued
hy the Clerk of the courts last month, being
ten less than the same month last year.
Nor much corn planted in this section of
the courty yet. Too much wet weather.
Garden crops arc on the rush however.
OuR sister town, Emmitsburg, presented
a lively appearance during the session of
the Reformed Chassis, the past ten days.
A valuable col, belonging to Mr. Thco
dorc Englar, of Westminster, WAS killed by
the SIS train on Friday last near town.
THE bulllozrrs We're not successful on
Friday last Their candidate was inglor-
iously defeated, and now he has to take q
back seat.
If YOU see lovirs couple seated on your
door stoop these dark evenings, give your
self no unnecessary alarm, as they mean
nothing bad.
WHO put shocmaker's wax on n certain
door step in this town? That is the qucs-
ton. 1t was a cruel joke. considering who
was the first victim.
Capt Isaiah I.ightner. of Uni" ..dge
Carroll county has entered II. the dis,
charge of his duty as U. $. Indian Agent
nj the Santec Agency, Nebraska
DIvIDEND-ThcM Mutual Insurance Com
pany of Frederick county, have declared a
dividend of five per cent payable on and
after Monday, the Attn day of June next.
! A gentleman from the rural district came
ksnto our office, Monday. and scquestcl us
not to PRINT any more papers for n neigh
Dor of his. Qucrry-"s We shut up shop
or not"
THE hotel property in Woodsborc, this
county, formerly owned by the late, Geo.
Saylor, was sold last week to Christian
Winebrcnncr and E. Louis Cramcr, for
$500
A MIR. Roland, of Washington CO., has
rented the Monterey Springs hotel, and
will open the same for summer boarders III
a few weeks This well known resort was
well patronizcd last season.
ARRANGEMENTS are being made to hold
the next State Fair at Westminster Carroll
county The premium list is partly made
out and the hope is entertained that the
Fair will re great success.
WE are now prepared to print bill heads,
letter heads, tags. cards, &c, equal to any
Office in the county and at more moderate
rates. Call and see specimens and get our
prices before going elsewhere.
YOUNG Waggaman, of Sabilasville, men
toned in our last as having lost his mind,
died suddenly at the residence of his father
in that place on Wednesday of last week.
He was buried the following day.
A MINISTER of the NJ. +. church South
said the other day "he had been saved from
Consumption by DR.. Schley's Cough Syrup
and would always pray for it," For sale
by Gilds-only IS cts. for cure.
QUITE number of our citizens, not
withstanding the weather, visited Emmits-
burg on Sunday last to attend the session
of the Reformed Chassis. A report of which
can be seen in an another column.