Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1879-11-06

Pharmacy.
For childrens slate sponges, 60 to Gilds'
Pharmacy. ,
For cheap dry goods and groceries, so to
Gilds' Pharmacy.
For ladies Ruffs, choicest in town, 60 to
Gilds' Pharmacy.
The. time has passed for the 'Elixirs.'
'CoNials,' etc, for the Baby and Dr. Bulls
Baby Syrup is now the established and re.
liable remedy. Price IS cents.
NoTIcE-The subscriber living on the
property adjoining Martins mill has on
hand 1900 heads Of excellent Cabbage, suit
able for Kraut. He will sell them in lots
to suit purchasers.
JOHN w. SHAW,
oct2 3t Mecllanicstown, Md
We neglected to state last week, THAT it
Is our intention to fill all Mr.. A. p. Beat,
tvs contracts for advertising, at the rate
contracted for by him. and that all sub
scrptions, prepaid or otherwise, will he
filled by us, as though no change had ia
ken place.
Some one has suggested to us, that we
change the name of our paper, to one that
Is more "tony" and sounding To
show our reades that there is no trouble
in finding name. we give below, the name
of a weekly, lately started in Georgia. 1t
has for its title the Du Pont Okereenokean
and Waycross observer.
We heard it rumored last week that an
other German Reformed church would he
built at GracehaM. This may be. and in
all probability is, without foundation, as in
that case, there would be three churches
within radius of three fourths of a mile,
in which the same congregation worslips.
The coal team Of George w. Stocksdale
may be seen at all hours of the day deliver.
ing coal to his customers. His charge has
been reduced to twenty-five cents per ton.
or per load, if less than one ton. Now is
the time to lay in your stock. rs it Is very
probable, that prices will continue to al
vance, with the winter.
BY the same strange fatality usually at,
tendant upon elections. but twrnty-throe
out Of the forty SIX candidates lately before
the people, have secured their election and
now there are twenty three disappointed
men, These things should not I've and
there must be something radically wrong
with our institutions"
II was a little too cold on Tuesday, to
make clcclIoncerins a pleasant past mc,and
several of the b'loys" had onr sympathy,
one, who talked Franklnvilc
man for thirty seven minutes, standing in
the. rude blast and, just during the first
eleven seconds of the next minute was in
formed that his man had W ted and that he
was truly sorry rs his arguments were
really incontroverlible.
Our town is the create fence rail depot
along the eastern slope Of the Catoctin
There are more rails shipped
from this point, than any other station
Llong the railroad, besides, the thousands
that are IL ken away monthly by teams. -
Mcssrs. Stockslnle, Root, Dorsey and
White arc the principal dealers, any one of
whom is able to fill an order for several
carloads at sight
Friday Oct. 81, was the 1863 birthday of
Lulheianism, and last Sabbath being the
one, nearest to Oct. 81. was observed ms
the anniversary. Rev. w. G. Wire, deliv
cred a discourse, appropriate to tho occa
sion, and gave a brief history Of the prin-
ciml tcncts, and creeds, of the early chris !
tan church, upon which Luther, and the
other dissenters from the Papal faith built
the different Protestant churches.
On the first page we publish some yer
sc., dedicated to the memory of ScGtt H.
Wilherow. 1t is with pleasure, that we
give them pace in or columns, recog
nizing their worth, and feeling, that, al
though thousands of miles separated the
writer from her subject, vet that the mem
cries Of al atfectionate heart were prompt |
ing the uttcrances, and that II KIND and
loving word, written of SO noble a cliarac-
ter, does hnnur to the autha-.
1t is source of considerable annoyance |
to go to the Railway Office at 10 05 p. M,
and be Informed that the Office is closed,
and will remain 50, until p. III; and set that
has been our experience on several occa-
sions, and we learn, that others have also
been compelled to await the expiration of.
the agents 'hour off for dinner" 1t
strikes US, that inasmuch as there are two
employed in the office, the company could
and should. make some arrangement, that
would he less inconvenicnt to our bust |
ness men.
The Republican mass meeting in Oslers
Hall, on Saturday evening, was fairly at
tended by the rank and file of the party in
this district, and during the first address
by DR.. Steiner, quite u number Of Dcmr'
Gratis were present. The speakers were
Dr.. l. IL. Steiner, Col. Vernon and
Messrs Wilson and Seabrooks OF the
three latter, we are only able to say, that
they made the stereotyped stump speech,
that is ready made for all political cam.