Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1879-07-24
TOWN AND COUNTY.
WHAT HAPPENS AROUND US.
Too thin-Picnic lemonade.

The mercury Thinks there 10 room NJ the
top.
This is the dullest season of the year for
news.
Patience under persecution Is Christ
Ian virtue.
There are 3e,e79 post offices In the Uni.
ted States.
This weather is nearly warm enough to
take the corn starch out of ice cream.
Mrs. John A. Kuhn, widow CT our form
erexcellent tow nsman Mr.. John A. Kuhn,
Is now in town.
The wife beaten only asked $4,000
damages. We paid him $4,000 and
now we are free. Lucky, wasn't it.
Almost every week we arc compelled to
destroy a couple of communications, for
the simple reason that the proper sigma
lures are not attached.
A sprig of pennyreyal, or few drops
of the essence, upon a cabbage head will
drive of the green worms 50 destructive
to that plant.
The average American kitchen and DR..
Bulls Baltimore Pills both know Dyspep-
sia; the one creates it, the other destroys
it. Price 25 cents.
The First National Bank OF Frederick
last week declared n semi,annual dividend
of six per cent, payable to stockholders on
and after the 2.st inst.
John Cosnsll, an employee at Schley's
lime-kin, near Frederick, was Frustrated
bythe heat on Wednesday of last week,
and had to be carried home and n physician
summoned
The Mechanicstown band certainly did
wonders the excursion last week but un
like their trip TO Pipe Creek they left lit,
tie bit of beer for the balance of the crowd.
Whoe, Frank.
The Wayncsboro' Gazette says large
force Of men are employed along the line
of the Baltimore and Cumberland Valley
Railroad. and that in about ten weeks
track laying will commence,
Led like victim to my death I'll GO
This sentiment has many a sufferer uttered
but since the advent Of Dr. Schlcv's Fam
ly Cough Syrup none need fear to die for it
is a sure cure for coughs, colds and kindred
affections, Only 25 cents
TRNpERANcE-By reference to our adver.
Using columns it will be observed that
there will be temperance county Conven
ton held at Junior Hall, in Frederick city,
on this Saturday, the 26th, at 10 o'clock =.
m, to which everybody is respectfully in.
vited to attend.
SALE OF FARM-T. T. Herspergcr
Esq, Trustee, on Monday last sold at pri
yatc sale the home farm Of the late Capt.
Heury Herspcrgcr situated near Broad
Run, in this valley, and containing III.
acres to Mr.. Cornelius Harley, for the
sum of ss,OO0,-Rsgister.
Sympathy is best shown when practical
in its application. Therefore when you
sympathize with your suffering baby, show
it practically by using DR., Bulls Baby
Syrup and thus cure your child. Price 25
cents,
Our town has been rather Gull for the
past ten days, owing, no doubt, to the in
tonsc heat, and also to the fact that the
farming community haye been so busly
engaged in the harvest field as to prevent
them from visiting town to purchase their
accustomed supplies.
PARALYzED.-Mr. Jesse NJ. Little, an
old and we.l-known resident Of Jefferson,
in this valley, suffered stroke Of paralysis
on Friday last. Although the stroke was
net very severe one, yet at his time Of life
being in the Slst year of his age, it can
hardly be expected that be will ever fully
recover from its effects-Reqister.
The many friends ofMiss Zeppa Grouse,
previus to her departure for the west, gave
her surprise party on Tuesday night of
last week. Some ten or twelve couples
were in attendance, and, from all that we
can learn, enjoyed themselves amazingly
Miss Zcppa was quite popular and her ma
ny friends regret her departure exceeding.
ly.
QUERRY-What is the hes! family medi-
cine in the world to regulate the bowels,
purify the blood; remove costiveness and
billiousness, aid digestion and tone up the
whole system ? Truth and honor compels
us to answer, Hop Bitters, being pure per.
feet and harmless Ed. See another col.
umn.
DEAD-In our last we mentioned the Sc
rious illness of our townsman, Mr.. VIM
H. Gaugh. On Saturday morning last he
breathed his last after much suffering
His funeral took place on Sunday at Toms
Greek, and was largely attended by his
many friends and relatives. Rev. West
preached the funeral sermon. Mr.. Gaugh
leaves a wife, widowed mother and three
children to battle this life's storms.
The annual picnic of the Graceham
Sabbath school will take place on
Saturday, August End, in Mr.. Geo.
Hankey's woods near that place. The