Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1881-04-21

position to foster and encourage the en-
ployment of capital and having given evi'
dence of our resources Of willing and Intel
ltgrnt worknlcn, there will be but slight
difficulty IN inducing others To locate here
With the employment of labor and capital
in factories, the products OF which are
sold abroad and some or all of the raw ma
terial drawn from our own 50 or mines
will c'fme Il new era to our town. until
the permanent arrival Of which blessings,
We can add nothing to our general wealth,
rather do we become poorer each year
with ":he balance Of trade" against US.
A PAYING DIscnvERf.-Four members
of our new board of town commissioners
visited Frederick ON Monday of this week
to quality, as has been the custom during
the past ten years. Being men ola natu
rally inq,,irlng turn Of r:ifnd and careful to
do things right, they, partly by accident,
partly by dcslg !, discovered that the annu-
al EXPENSE to the horough Of sending five
men in there to qualify, has been an utter
ly unn occssary expenditure OF money and
that it is nftessarv only, that the President
of the Commissioners, the Burgess. should
make the Tip, the President at the old
board being competent I" qualify the five
newly elected commissioners when they
cleo, Burgess and he appe rs before the
Clerk Oft Circuit Court to qualify Had
this been known and acc ON every y ear
since the Incorporation Of this E"rough it
would have resulted in b saving Of fully
rre hall Il one years receipts from taxa
ton, which wou have Been no small item
While ,n this subject, We will state That
mis- wear as we understand the law, it will
lie required tn a new assessment I've made.
the last one h,ving been made in 1875 and
the la& requires one to be made every five
YEARS
AccoMrL1snED. Although li,tlo re-
manned to hc done at the lime of writing
ur article last week in reference to the
! Canning E,lnb ishncnt, and that little
certain Of being accomplished, we refrain
ed from reporting the work done AS We
hive snil, We ss.w the sure frulinn of our
efforts, hu, preferred to wait until it be
crl,c an ac,3mNi ,flH II thing done. before
We reported it rs such. AS it now stands,
the full amount Of stock has been sub.
4rrihcd a charter obtained, organic I'll m
effected, 1t purchased, the seed here and
II sufficient amount Of II dclvere to farm
crs 30 insure the full amotnt of acreage,
! both Of tomatoes and corn If all the seed
| lie taken ny, which is probable, and II the
yield be nm average one. ii will require UP,
warus of BOO 600 cans to hold TIE yield,
Mess Youn, and Osnond being practical
men, in this BUSINESS and disposed to lin
may he limited in their receipt Of trlil,
vegetables etc. we may, safely predict
that This enterprises luckily secured for
ur .GWh, will BE- valuable AMI perlha
ntnt benefit to our citizens and to the
! farmers within several miles of town.
The Western Mary land Railroad Com
pa,y and the SLannndmh Valley Railroad
Company have entered into an arrang"-
m.nt by which through Nrc is formed
Between Baltimore hnd poiatsoa the Shen-
anduah Valley Road and rs connections
The Shenandoah Valley Railroad has been
completed from llagt1s, )wn, Md where
it connects with the Western Maryland
Railroad, to Wayn, sbnrp', Va, Oh t'Ic
I Cheshpeakc aud Ohio Railway, di>lanc.
of IA miles and wa, be opene,i liz entire
present length ON Monday, April ~. II Is
proposed To extend the ShrnAnloah Val
lev Railroad ut once from Wnyneeb'ro
Va 10 o connection with the Atlantic
Mississippi and Ohio Railroad. now ths
Norfolk aud Western, thus opening vi
another through lnc between Baltimore
and the South The Western Maryl,nt
Railroad will b. the recogniz II line of thl
system for Baltimore business and arrange
ments will be made to builup and eacnur
arc traffic to the fullest extent. Thronsi
passenger schedules will he nrr,n led q
soon IA practicable, as well as every fhcll.'
afforded Tor the prompt movement %
. freight Ii is expected that through cX
nr,ss trains will be run by tnyliCll ovel
this ROUTE between Baltimore and Whit
Sulphur Springs during the coming sum
mer.
We have FRI quent occasion to "hscrv
the various ideas held by country ncvspa
pcrs a. to lheir tight, duty and prrroga
tive; also We read in city dailirs, in high
. toned wccklics an heavy cllibrc month
lies, Tine estimate placed upon the wor,l
. and influence country newspapers. TIN
. former. as u rSle, are ln0st no icsl IN 'hell
estimate Of their weight and ability tt
shape or determine the moral ann intel
,ectual standard Of the cnp:munity i,
!, which tlIrH paper circnatcS while the Int
ter are disposed to ri icule The country
newspaper, as a lever, whose fllurum /
distributed its entire length, thus rendered
incapable of raising anything, not even it
self.
, Our conception o, the place TINT til
; country newspapers should occu " is, tina