Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1879-09-04
TOWN AND COUNTY.
WHAT HAPPENS AROUND US.

Railway travel is very heavy.
Laid in your winters coal yet.
Prepare to press autumn leaves.
The world is tho biggist revolver.
A brakeman-an extravagant wife.
The business outlook is promising.
Til, days of straw hats are num-
bored.
Politicians are beginning to shake
--hands.
Appointments once made become
debts
Jack Frost is one Of the coolest
fellows going.
The best cure for imaginary trou-
bles is corn
Our public schools opened on
Monday last.
Good doctors are liable to be rap
ped up in their business.
Never abuse a thermometer when
it is down, unless it gets too low.
The secret which you never tell is
the only one which is absolutely safs.
How beautiful tho moonlight now !;
and how ardent tho lovers VOW.
1t is thought that peach and honey
will be abundant next winter.
When man is as savage as meat
axe, he makes cutting remarks.
Adams county, Pa, Agricultural
Fair September %, "a and IS.
Orators who wish to strencthea
their voices for the fall campaign
should eat onions.
The man afraid of trsmps has tied
no bis dog and put up notice
'Laborer wanted.
Harvest is over. Don't now say
that you will pay up when hog kill
ing time comes.
Frost Was predicted by the weather
wise for Wednesday, September Sd.
We couldn't see it
The man who areamt he dwelt in
marble halls woke up to find that
the bedrlothes had tnmblsd off.
TIL. Observation-Disclosures days have
come, when you buy a melon rcd to
the rind and find it green to tho core
Correspondents should remember
that however much We may wish
news, articles purely personal we do
not wish.
A Philadelphia girl snuobed her
how legged escort at a ball because
she said she did not like te waltz in
parenthess.
The girls have a new scheme Of
flirting with their parasols. The
boys return with their canes. Some
times tho old gent takes hand in
the game. He firts with his boot.
A. bell for the new school house at
Libertytown, purchased by the citi-
gems, was put in place on Tuesday Of
last week. Although not large, it is
of pure bell metal and gives clear,
ringing sound.
A dispatch was received here on
"Wednesday evening last stating the
sudden death of Mrs. Major G, B.
Mcclellan, daughter Of Mr.. J. B. Gill
bert, at Camp Bowie, Orizona. We
have no particulars
On the evening of tho 10th instant
ightping struck a grain shed on the
farm of w. H. Reifsnider, on Big
Pipe Greek and tho shed, with about
B5O bushels of unthreshed wheat was
destroyed.
ATTENTION FARnRRs-Look to your
pwn in,eres, and buy Zell's Economzer,
1t $33 cash, or $35 ut crop time, which
tannot be beat by any $40 fertilizer. Phos-
pilates on the market at
G. W. STOCKSDALE'S
The Furnace teams were, in the
Parly part Of the week, engaged in
pauling coal to that place. which we
Understand is in full blast and large
lumber OF workmen employed.
The phosphate mill at the northwest
ind Of town Is doing rushing trade
ust now-running a full force. The
roma which arises therefrom at night
not however the most 0xhileratlng
persons residing in that vicinity,
|ut then who cares, SO as Thaddeus is
Pppy.
John Kehn has resigned his posi-
on as chief tinker" in the phosphate
bill and gone into the huckster bust
ess with Capt. Damuth. He looks
|sll behind the big gray and bay
ohm, you're lucky man.
A substantial AZ we'll as handsome
itching post has been placed in front
the residence of ?. N Hammaker.
eter has certainly one Of the most
stractive residences in town, And he
4 good fellow, too.