Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1881-04-07
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PRRsoNAL.-Alcx. P. Beatty arrived
here on Saturday; returned to Washington
on Mop'lay last He reports the appropri
alton 10 printing well nigh expended am
expects with all the other employees in TIT
Government, Office, to he furloughed some
time between this and June ls' He viii
doubtless retain his lace and return july
1st.. tn. beginning of the new fiscal wear
There is excellent sl"igh'ng on about tel
miles of the road between this point Hnt
Hagers,own. !, may I~ found on thu
Harmnn's Gap road over the mountain. II
many places the snow les in drif,s "fthre'
~ five feet On ) ,ur'ay last the snow
dhif,ed 1T points on the W NJ. r, X. al
high rs the car windows and the morni'!
train East reached this point nearly three
hours late
ENTERTAINMENT Il, is the intention u
hold an enter ,inmpnt on Easter MONDAY
evening in the Mora>ian church. this place
The Mite Society IF tia, church having
charge oi the exercises A recollection n
the past furnishes ia with sufficient e'l
dence nf the thomnghness with which sncl
matters are prepared by the Membership
of tina, church and society, to warrant us II
expecting something fme'it
One week from tomorrow our publ {
schools will close. With wlner still upon
! va this is made TO seem unusually early
! There will he two suhsrripti, School,
taken up,hy Mr. f l.. B"hlitza"h Mr. John
Landers and parents s..ould not hesitate t.
send their children. ny the exp nse + moth
ing compared with the double advantage
to lie gained; that ofk'eping them at lheil
books and out Of the streets
lta,pears TINT our reminder TO the ISL
pe,Ilrrs be,ot quite turore As was mat
ural we aSs,m "a lh t the b Is ness reqlir-
ed a license and to This en- NJ ,de the >ny-
sesti N so that none mig meet trouble
If license is required We can see vile Elm
We ii | those entitled to pv it, favor bv
reminding them of it, and if no license j.
required We fail 10 see wherein any one
mas been ,jurrd by our suggestion.
New BUILDING Mr.. Jns Firor has
purchased lot Of ground Of Mr. james
Creeger on East Mnin at (?) opposite the
resi,ru,e nf the former and has well under
| WY the erection 0fn frame building on
The lot. This carly beginning in the cree
lion of houses lend. ms to expect n toir',
long Ii of new buildings before the sum
mer is over, being now able t. Coun, t1v'
| N various stages of completion
ACKNOWLEDGED We are in rece pit OF
six verses on The Graveyard" accompsn
ie by a,a'emen, that it WAS written foI
the CLARION" In this as in all other in
s'anors we aust adhere to our rule q
turning down all Anonymous communion
lions. We have no personal acquaintance
with Sparrow" as such and while we rec
,gnige the merit Of II" composition, We
must say that We have little taste fol
graveyard eleri"cs.
I; isnow currently believed AMI expect
I'd that sufficient money will he subscribed
| hy the friends of Nj. So, Mary's College t'
relieve it ,nt rely of its embarrassment
and tina, th0s,. of it's friends whose none,
| il had aud had placed in such srrtcari"u'
condinon. viii not in all probability loss
anything that they have 20 willingly ye
80 ncaut ously placed within it, keeping
| II will I've with no small degree OF pleasure
that we will chronicle that fact, should il
once become one.
| The most original and thorough apr
| Fool" that we have to record is, wherein
one of the CLARION Staff. standing abou
| welye ttcl from another hold w an egg
and askel whether he wanted it, nnt
without, waltz & for reply threw il. will
mis- bcs, muscle, direct nj nim. II slrucl
him, II eccaIess, for n time The shell In,
previously been deprived uf i,s conienl
by making n small hole in either end ant
forcing the contents through one by blow
ing in the other.
Our Corporation election takes place or
Mon,lay next We regret to learn tn"
what promised at one time to I've sriri,e'
comet will, it see rs be bnta lest on o
who will serve True, tho EN- )lunents o
the office are slight. while doubtless, TIN
vrxation If spill, wears away more brai,
ti-su, than the pride Of o'lice replaces yet
wilhal, the post Is one that IN Isl tie filed
then let w eadcav,r h. elect five mo = who
will de- honor to the Office. 50 that homo
may come in one direction, if not in annlh
Cr
A learned disqnisitinn on the intent an
meaninI of the words consecutive" ant
dumb" Is being INDUCED in by the Ban
nor an Chronicle. II isto such discussion
that man, may give ear and learn. |,
the province Of the loo II press +" enliyl,teI
each other rs well as the general rca Ter, ol
points thu, come up every 'lav for ..ecisior
II is the friction of mind against mind, tin,
and begets habit OF ready reply tina, Gil