Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1879-11-06
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Loral Me'ns.
Hunters are busy.

The streams are still low.
Beautiful moon light nights.
Fresh pork is now in order.
The autumn leaves are falling.
Call at this office for your job work.
There will be seven eclipses in 1880.
Thanksgiving day Thursday, Nov. 81.
Compromise or pay your election bets.
For select drugs, 60 to Gilds' Pharmacy
See our CLUB RATES, in another col
umn.
A silent schoolhouse makes a noisy car
room
The matrimonial market is dull in this
section.
Fer Patent Medicines CT all kinds, 60 &c
Gilds' Pharmacy.
One rad fight on election day, only it
didn't come off.
lit does not soon rain, milk will be sold
by dry measure
Twelve thousand books haye been writ.
ten on our Rebellion.
For the finest Illuminating oil in town,
90 to Gids' Pharmacy.
The New York Sun says it consumes
100000 pounds of paper yeallV.
The price of wheat, the thermometer
and tho pendulum, still continue TO Oscil-
late.
Now the small, boy wishes it would
5uezc up so that lie could try his new
skates.
Our lob work is admired by good
Judges. No apple butter daubs so out of
our print shop.
The weather for several nights past has
been suggestive of two in bed and spoon
fashion.
An unsuccessful effort was made to mr..
range with the telegraph operator TO re-
Gel &c returns Of the election.
The Range of the thermometer IN eight
DAYS, from Oct 10 to "a WAS sixty two
degrees, and ye, the doctors arc not salts
fed
Ice formed on Owens Creek on Sat
urday night, CO, ering the stream from
bank to bank at the bridge on the Ridge
road.
Isaac Psrtncr. while dressing coal pit
one day las, week, broke through and
burned his legs severely, before he could
rxtricatc himself
Wha, has become of the Band Fair? If
ANYTHING is to hc done in the matter, it is
full time that active steps should be taken
towards its accomplishment.
A Michigan paper ia said to steal most Of
ils matter from the bible; yet its readers
declare you can never believe anythin.
you see in n newspaper"
A three year old child of Mr.. John W.
Shank, living near WalkcrsviIe, was
drowHed by falling into the mill race, on
We .nes,lay afternoon Of last week. Er.
uniner.
There is "corner' in chcstnu:s and n
great many are "short." From 96 cts. to
s. so per hnishcl inside Of ten days. Look
on, for BLACK Friday" when the market
breaks.
Just to- think of it, Got our editorial
head rolnbed with three legged stool, at
N nI liz.
stool for it.
A correspondent, H. J. y, wishes to
know what to Il" in case his dog shows
symptoms Of hydrophohin. We'll, friend
~" i, you can't shoot the dog, climb. u
tree
The United Brethren and German Re-
.ermed Sabbath Schools at Wolfsville have
closed and tho Lutheran School will be
CLOSED an Sunday Nov. 8. The u. B. re-
vival at that place is still in progress.
And now IL is time for the poeiical cdi
tor to volatilizc himself into iuto a half
column of ecstacies, over the delicate tints
and roscatc hues, of the gorgeous autumn.
nal foliage of the mountaln forests, and
SIGH.
One day last week. Jos. A. Miller at
Nonocacy bridge, shot with rifle and
killed fifteen ducks in eleven shots making
one triple, two double and eight single
shots. There were but fifteen in the flock
a,d H.. lao ,ypod thn,N oil
The cold wave which struck this section
last Thu. sday afternoon a week was quite
general and came from that part of British
America lying north of Minnesota
Snow fell at numerous points, it being sew
eral inches deep in the western part of Pa.
A Russian physician, NJ. Malareysky,
struck by the prevalence Of shortsightcd-
ness among literary men, proposes that
books should be printed in white ink ON
black paper, and he has made experiments
with fifty persons which tend to confirm
his view.
We may not have been sufficiently ex'
plicit in Our statement last week, in re-
gard to our contract with Mr.. Beatty, and
will state further that all Subscriptions or