Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1881-02-17
PROTECTION OF MEAT-Baughman
Medicated Paper Meat Sacks
For Sale at
ROOTS.


For Sale at
ROOTS.
The Fifteen hour System was in vogue
in the CLARION office last week. OF sale
bills, there seemed to be no end. There is
lull, but not a perfect calm, as yst, this
week.
The ice has moved from Hunting Creek
and that stream will be open for naviga-
ton by March 4. All interested will take
due notice and govern themselves accord
inglv.
Mother Shiptou names 1881, as the year
for the final balancing Of ali earthly ac-
counts do not fail .hcn to have your ac-
count with the CLARION, ready for the FL
nance Committee.
What has become of our Sabillas, Grace
ham, Rocky Ridge and Creagerstown cor,
respondents Gents: if you will agree to
resume your duties we will agree to doub,
lie your salaries. Nuf ced
1t would make a stone image turn green,
with envy to observe the expression OF
profound disgust that settles down on the
face of the doctor when he hears his pa
tients praising Dr. Bulls Cough Syrup.
Several instances of apparent negligence
On our part made their appearance during
the past week Not so: but Il lacH OF
ability to do all, that has been required at
our hands must account for them.
Ho FoR THE CoSCERT-A G. Pennell
will take passengers to Lewlslown on Fri
). day evening next, I, attend the Ethiopian
Concert at that place, for forty cents, the
round trip Call carly and secure your
seat.
What circus the printer would organ
ze were he to follow copy on ali the
Sale Bill MSS. brought to the Office. Were
he to do SO, the CHESTS Of Lindley Murray
and Noah Webster would pursue him to
his death.
Wen wager cemetery lot, that this
district can place above board more bran,
splinter new babies to the square roo, than
any one of the remaining nineteen III The
county, and we deal, in futures" in the
above venture.
We are gratiiicd to he able to affirm that
the circulation with this issue is just douh-
lc and twelve % spare, villa: it was fifteen
months ago. The principal increase came
in the first two and last three months
Let the good work progress.
What would have been deemed sacr!le re
on the part Of men several centuries ago
groundhogs now are allowed to do with
impuni,y What with that sub,crrancau
beast and Vennor in few years We Shall
', know it all, clear to the other end
Rev Thomas Guard, pastor Of Nj, Yer.
non Church. Baltimore, delivered his lee
turc on "The Morality of the Bible" or his
reply to Col Robt. lngersoil, at Bucl,cyS
town. on Monday night, OF last week, for
the beueit Of the Methodist Church at that
place.
We have ascertainci, on authority, that
there has been something less than one
! hundred thousand dolIas Life Insurance
risk taken in this district during the past
half-s ear; the ave rage age Of the insured
ranging and averaging in the immediate
ncighborhood of fou score. Noi0quc,
ANOTHER OUTRAGE On Monday last
one John Sherman Of CatoCtin Furnace
WAS arrested and brought before Justice
Mcpherson, Of this district, on the charge
of having committed vicious and in lie
cent assault on Young lady, residing al
DR.. VIM S. McPhcrson's. The evidence
proved the assault to have been most vi.
client one and the accused was sent to Jail
1t is proposed that the government shall
through the signal service advise the farm
ers by colorcd signals of the change or state
OF the weather, each night for the ensuin,
twenty fonr hours. TO make this a Sig
nal Station and to send them forth from
Chimney Rock would be a bright idea -
This point is visible for many miles and j:
easy Of access and, If the system is adopted
we shall doubtless have red, blue or greer
rockets sent up nightly from that point
Gus. woUld readily undertake it.
We take occasion 10 acknowledge ou1
appreciation Of the very graceful act o
courtesy extended MS by the Webster Lit
erary Society of Western Maryland Col
\ lcge Westminster. Such honor. although
possibly not merilcd Ivy Us, is as kindly &C
cepted by us, as is intended by the Society
RETURNED-Our E dgar L Root have
returned. 1--WE are now privileged to use
him, as a plural substantivc) and much
were We rejoiced thereat For divers
reasons, rejoiced We first, after a pro
longei absence, it did us good to behold
his open, smiling countcnance; again those
semi occasional absences from our mids
will have ceased; further, his mind will bt
more at ease and he will be all the belteI
qualified for his work, moreover, he has
brought into our midst a charming lady a:
his wife and besides, that dinner! There
il q charm in all such thlng0 for ia. II