Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1879-01-16
Flo for the Holidaysl Go to Roots tor
your Groceries.

freely Saturday. night last. Too bad !
For gcntlemen's wcar-silk felt IN hats
and silk fell in-soles.
When doctors disagree who shall decide?
is She question of the day.
Hop Understanding your girl to a hop,
and having some other fellow dance with
her continuously.
New Crop New Orleans molasses, $50
cents per gal Syrup 40, so and 60. Sugar
rs, 8, 10 and 1 cents per lb.
Beer may not make you fat, but al
overdose will make you lean-up against
something.
Gettysburg has been mentioned in con-
ncction withan encampmcnt by the Penna.
National Guard next summer
The market for elephants is quiet ; bull
frogs arc active ut current rates, while
crooked whiskey is preferred to whiskey
straight.
The rrnphcsies of the man that predicted
twenty.ciyht SHOWS this winter, will be
weighed in the balance and found want.
ing"
Quite number of young men and boys,
we are sorry to say, amused themselves
skating Sunday morning last They should
refer to the fourth commandment.
Where Is Jasper, the man of the theory
"the sun do move" We have not heard
of him lately.
During the recent cold snap quite a
numehr of PERSONS lost potatoes by frccz'
ing. Mr.. Geo. W. Stocks,lale OF Carroll
street, lost it is said between seventy i've
and hundred bushels.
Work IN the Methodist church has been
resumed owing to the favorable weather.
H. is hoped it will be finished before anoth,
CT cold spell sets in.
One Of the most fascinating sights in the
world is to see sleigh belle dumped into
big snow drift, unhcknown to her until
she is over her head. Try it some day.
Reports are rife that Barnnm has caught
the author of "Bcauliful Snow" and will
shortly put il on cxhi',ilon Let the Joy
bells ring and the bombaloon evoke its
loudcst strains.
Bv reference to the statement of the
Frelcricktown Savings Institution. it will
he seen that this institution is rs ably con
Quoted us any in the state.
THE great waves Of Temperance and Re
form that are now sweeping over the
country have not reached us yet Our III.
fortunate incbIiatcs still continne to stag
ger along the streets.
Our merchants are now doing a better
business than they have for some time
past Glad to hear it. Hope the printers
will soon be able to do the same.
4 laughahc joke was recently PLAYED on
Washington Augustus, tho railroad agent,
and it is our opinion he will prepare no
more pens for hogs, until he secs the same
Tr,r "''r OF Nlnc saws, since III. miro
duclirn Of DR.. Schlry's Family Cough Svr.
up all coughs and colds disappear, and our
nights arc undisturhcG by hacking coughs
Sure cure only % cents. Try it and be
convinced.
Our energetic merchant, John Roo;
SAYS there has been mere goods sold in
McchaniCStown this last season, than there
has been for wears past So much for
hard money and good times coming.
4 series of meetings has been in progress
in the lutheran church during the past
week under the auspices of Rev Wire, and
VII be continued during the remainder Of
the week. The object Of sad meetings is
to impress sinners with a sense OF their
wrong, and to cause them to turn to Christ
Personal. Mr. Edward Wcddlc, who
has for sc 'cral years past been residing in
one of the Western states, returned to his
home near this place last week Also
Miss Alice Little, an accomplished and fas
cinating young lady of IIagerstown, is
paying her sister, Mrs. d. c. Martin, OF
this place, Il visit.
FALSE Report. The report extensive
ly circulated in this city, on Saturday
morning last to the effect that Mechanics
town had been visited by terrible confla
grafton, and that the greater portion Of
the town had been destroyed, proved to he
false in every respect. Upon the arrival of
the mail carrier from that place we were
informed by him that nothing of the kind
had occurred up to the time he had left
which was IA ME.
SUDDEN DEATH-William Hahn, W ho
was well known in our town and commu
nitv AS a stout, robust, hearty man, after
an illness of about ten days died very un.
eXsectcdIv on Monday at p IN, and his
remains were int erred at Hawks church
Yesterday. How uncertain is life. Let all
be ndmonishcd. The fell destroyer is not
Il respcctnr of age, or condition, but cuts
down the Young as well rs the old, the
stout and robust as well as the delicate and
feeble.
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