Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1878-12-25
TOWN AND COUNTY,.
WHAT HAPPENS AROUND US.


We wish you all Merry Christmas
"Twas the night before Christmas" etc
Amid the driving winter remember the
poor.
Nothing plcascs vain minds so much as
flattery
Uneasy lies the head that tells good
many of them.
The only people who really enjoy bad
health are the doctors.
How to get good wife-take good
girl and 60 to parson.
Don't bet, don't fret, don't get wet, and
you'll have no regret.
"Ltt US resume" is the latest style Of in
vitation to take drink.
Dancing is said to be like milk because
It strengthens the calves
Twent five newspapers suspended in
Iowa during November.
Snow to the depth OF twelve inches fell
at Chicago on Saturday.
And new the skates steel rcsounds over
the frozen ponds
The boys are beginning to improve tier
appearance by falsefaces.
The dlp,heria is widespread and unusu.
ally fatal in Montgomery county.
five are to be be afflicted with corpu
lency, let it attack our pocket book.
A Kershaw. S. c., farmer raised 416
bushels of swectpotatocs to the acre.
Now is good tune to pay the printers
so he can have good time Christmas too
The hest Christmas present You can give
TO friend is q copy Of the CLARION for
ole year.
Mrs. Mary Snowbcrgcr died near
Wayncsboro, Pa, on the 18th inst, in the
9th year Of her age
Spcno yonr cash among the home mer
chants, in order to make business better
and the town richer,
Let those who have plenty share with
the deserving poor, during the Christmas
festivities. Come and see us.
Store and shop windows look beautiful
and tempting. Cne can hardly pass them
without pausing to alnli,e.
Young man get ready to- turn over n
new leaf. How does the old one that you
seal doNr impress youy
Adams county, Pa has n boy, son of
John Nary, whose weight is lol pounds.
lie is only twelve years of age.
A clock that came over in the Mayhow.
er is exhibited at Omro Wis. Fortunate
~, it diln stop when the old man died
Cholera IS raging with unusual severity
in Morocco. In one small village thirty
ak out Of thirty seven persons have died
The costliest switch of hair ever mad .
in Paris sold there lately tor $500 1t VAS
snow white, and yard and aqulucr lons
A small portion Of alcohol rubbed on
windows occasionally at this season of the
year will prevent ice from collecting and
freezing on them.
Send us in the local news We don't
want loag wind d communications, hui
ST ort crisp letters, bris'lng all over with
l,cal items. Send en- in.
We refer our rea les to the adv in an
o'hcr column, Of the Messrs Bennett, near
Graccham, Of private sale of valuable real
estate. A rare chance.
A Christmas tree rs present to mar
ried gentleman around whose hearth stone
thtrc is no children, is the latest practical
joke OF tn" season in Mechanicsown
Our John Ed. says he is railroad con
ductOr, but on what road we have not been
able to learn, unless it is the "CYcrland
route" or, the "FIcctown extension" Oh.
that tramp.
We have not learned whether tho "weck
Ofprsycr' will be observed in this place
but We suppose not. Too bad, as in near
ly every other town of any consequence ii
will be.
No man can lay claim to being n first
class farmer unless he can produce nice
yellow golden butter in winter White
butter il mn evidence of poor farming.
The census of Centreville, Md, taken q
few days ago, shows the population 10 con.
sist Of ISL while and 401 colorcd persons
total LISP. Since 1870, so houses have
been built
VIM Brown, Sr, aged rs years, well
known citizen Of Rockdale, near Chester
Pa. recently drank two ounces of tincture
of aconitc in mistake for whiskcy and died
instantly.
Benjamin Long, uho was in Jail at Ha-
gcrstown. awaiting trial on an indictment
for burning barn, and against whom
there was also an indictment for assault
ana battery, hung himself on Tuesday OF
last week
Ho for the Holidays! Go to Roots for
your Groceries.
New Crop New Orleans molasscs, 60
cents per gal. Syrup 40, so and go. Sugar