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Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1883-09-06
The Great Earthquake in
Java.

On the goth of August in the island
of Java, occurred one of the most dis
astrous earthquakes Of which there is
any record.
With the exception of the great
earthquake at Lisbon and that at
Calabria, Sicily, the one referred to
has probably accustomed the greatest
loss of life, as it seems to be accepted
that $4,000 dead is not an exaggera-
ted estimate.
Java lies south of China in the In
dian ocean and is Therefore nearly on
the opposite side of the earth from
us, not regarding its latitude.
1t is inconceivable that mountains
should sink into the sea and that the
entire bed of a channel should be rem
uered dangerous to navigation by the
rocks and reefs thrown up by the
CONFUSION, but such has been effect
ed by the hidden forces at work dur
ing the earthquake in Java.
Thousands of lives were lost by be-
ing swept out with the ocean by the
huge tidal waves that relied upon the
shores and rushed back again, carry
ing whole settlements with them
Fifteen volcanoes were in active OPP
GRAFTON from which red hot stones
rained down upon the houses, setting
them on fire, while great volumes of
carbonic acid gas rolled down into
the valleys by which numbers We're
smothered.
The island of Java has been fire.
qucnted throughout its history by
such visitations, but never before has
there been such great desolation
wrought 1t is a fertile country,
thickly settled and likely to remain
90, on account of the great wealth Of
its soils and its salubrious climate,
but with so brittle she'll between it
and the subterranean fires, there is
little security for life or property
within its bounds.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1883-09-06
General News.

! Judge John NJ Buchanan died at
his residence, in Ellerslie, six miles
from Cumberland, Saturday the 18th
ult. He was chief judge of the Or
phans' Court. In 1924 he establish
ed the Maryland A1uoratc, III Ale
ghany county.
Within ten days the First Nine of
the Westminster Association have
won three decided Wet cries over
three good clubs. On August 22d
they defeated the ExcelSiors, Of Bal
timore, by score of II to 9; August
"a they beat the Brown Stockings,
of Littlestown, by a score Of 7 to 3,
and on August % they beat the sour
Boys" of Baltimore, by score Of 10
to 6. Next.-A,lrocate.
Hon. MONTGOMERY BLAIR 5 WILL.
Judge Blair's will was admitted to
probate in the Orphans Court, Mont
gomery county, on Tuesday of last
week. All the property, real. per
sonal and mixed, is left to his widow,
Mrs. Elizabeth Blair, who is made
sole executrix. The personal proper
ty is valued at $25. 900, and the real
estate estimated at about $4,000.
Mrs. Blair, as executrix, bonds in
amount of $50 900.
Jesse Workinger, who has just
been nominated by the Democrats of
York county, Pa, as their candidate
for Sheriff, has been II candidate for
that position for the past twenty
seven years. lie had more abiding
faith in nomination than falls to the
lot of most men.
sale that is disconnected in one
place will seldom be happy in anoth-
err" People are constantly changing
their homes from East to West and
from North to South or uice rerSn, in
search of a healthy State. If they
would learn to be contented, and to
use the celebrated Kidney-Wort when
sick, they would be much better off.
The whole system can be kept in a
healthy state by this simple but effect
nal remedy
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Watches and PerfuMery.
NOE aGE
-IO-
WAX-p Ay Frs.
FREDERICK Mp. july 3, 1888.

FREDERICK MD, july ., 1903.
Taxpayers for 1888 are respectful! re-
fcrred to the following Section ID, Article
II, Revised Code of Maryland:
"All persons who shall pay their State
taxes on or before the first day of Scptcm-
Der of the year for which they were levied,
shall be entitled to a deduction of five per
ccnt',m on the amount of said taxes, All
that shall pay the same ON or before tie LIST
day of October of the said year, shall be en-
titled to deduction of four per ccntum;
and all that shall pay the same on or before
the first day of November of said year, shall
be entitled TO deduction Of three per cent
UNI; and at the same time ofrecciving said
taxes the proper officers shall make the de-
auctions aforesaid, note the same upon the
receipts to the persons so paying; hut moth
ing herein contained shall extend to the
taxes payable on the public debt of Mary
land or the stock loans of the city of Balti-
more"
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Ordinance No. EG.

BE 1t enacted and ordainM By the PERSISTENT
and Commissioners Of tie Corp,rution ct
Ncchunicstopn, Md,
That the curb and gravel ordinance be
extended on the south side of West Main
street from the northwest corner Of VIM.
Danuth's lot to the northwest corner OF
Cornelius Dubcrs garden.
All persons owning property on the
south side of said street within sand limits,
shall before the first day of October, 1888,
grade or cause to be graded Tie walks
fronting their lots they shall also plant
curb stones aud Gravel said walks 50 as 10
make good fontWays, all of which shall Ne
done according to the width and grade
prescribed by the Commissioners of Cor
poration Of Mcchanicstown and the said
grading, curhing, and grnvcling shall be
done at the expense of the said owner o.
owners of said properties.
If any owner or owners of said proper
ties shall refuse or neglect to comply with
the requirements of this ordinance within
the time specified, then the Commission
crs of said Corporation may order the sam"
to be done at the expense of the owner or
owners of said properties, and the same
shall bc lien on the said property, and
may be collected in the saline manner aS
other debts.
Passed and approved August g. 1888.
j. II. COVER,
aug l6 It President,
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ing up.
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Blohm, the owner Of the fast three
year-old Little Minch, is also butch
or. George F. johnson who owned
Lizzie Mac, and ut present is the
possessor of thatspeedy three-quarters
of mile sprinter Battledore, acquir-
ed his love for speedy horse flesh
while busying himself about his faith
er's meat blocks in Centre Market.
Captain Cottrill of Mobile, Alabama,
who owned Buckden, the sire Of such
great race horses as Bend Or, Ascend
or and others is butcher. The two
elder Johnson's the well known
bookmakers started out in life as
butchers. On the road and in the
trotting track it is the same.
had a talk a few days ago with II
member of leading publlshin 6
house. and he tells me that the agi-
tation in favor of international copy
right is practically at an end. "Au-
thors,' said he, "have so many diver
gent interests, that in the movement
in question, what will prove one mans
meat, will prove another mans poi
son. You can never expect united
action from them. So far as publish
ers are cor cerned, the establishment
of an international copyright would
make but little difference to them, us
they would simply have to raise the
prices of their books, but the public
which has got so USED to cheap books
would be the sufferer, even more than
a large number Of authors whose
books would not be read at all if they
were expensive
Tomorrow hecatombs of oysters
will be sacrificed to the letter R
With the first of September, the
slaughter ofthe mute bivalve becomes
proper again, and Of course everybody
with due regard for the fitness of
things will do his duty on that day.
In conversation with an old oyster
dealer, | learn that the crop this
year will be very large, but that the
quality upon the whole has declined.
Even the luscious Blue Points have
deteriorated. OF course this is per
ceptible only to the connolsseur, but
all the same it will give the Fish
Commissioners some work to asccr-
tain the cause. In England and
France the quality Of oysters has
been detcriorating for years, and in
consequence diminished their com l.
mercial value. Should our oysters
continue to fall off in the same way,
it would materially injure branch
of export trade which is only spring
ing up.
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---.S.--
From the intensity of the heat with
which we have suffered last week, we
have plunged into weather which is
as cool as it might be in October. At
the same time the tides in the river
and in the bay have been unusually
high and the water very rough. On
Tuesday last | went down to Mon
mouth Park to witness the close of
the Long Branch racing season, and
to be ready to shout with true Amer.
lean patriotism should Iroquois the
first American Derby winner, succeed
in capturing the renewal of the Mon
mouth Stakes. The passage on the
boat to Sandy Hook was exceedingly
rough, and the Chancellor rocked
about in manner which made it
difficult to keep ones feet under him.
OF course there was great deal Of
sea sickness.
On the way home it was noticed
that the beach off the Highlands was
strewn with carcasses of cattle. The
evening before, an English steamer
had left her dock with an enormous
cargo of live stock. She was packed
to the utmost below, and in addition
had an abnormally large deck load.
In fact she was SO heavily laden that
she rolled in the easy wash of the
upper bay. No doubt when she got
further down she had to Tighten her
load, and the poor beasts were thrown
overheard.
have often asked myself the ques-
ton how it is that butchers, more
than members of any other trade are
70 much addicted to the keeping Of
race horses and trotters. There are
the Dryers, the leading owners of
racing stock in this country. Their
stable as it stands today, could not
be bought for quarter of a million,
and their winnings this year amount
to at present over $4,000. Young
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Notice to Delinquents.

Delinquent taxpayers are respectfully
urged to pay at once and save costs, as |
am compelled to close for the years 1880,
1881 and 1882. ID. II. ROuTZAuN,
iuly5 81 Collector
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FOR SHERIFF.

To tho Tcters Of Fret'ertch County,
AT til" solicitation of cutie II number OF
friends, ! announce myself is Il candidate
for the next ;5hcri.ta,y Of Frederick coun-
ty, subject to the decision Of the Rrpubli.
can Nominating Convention, and respect
fully ask your support.
July ) to- ALONIO BEN NER
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Newspaper Law Decisions.

:. Any person who takes paper regularly from
the pOst,incc-whcther directed to his name or an
,trers or whether he has subscribed or not-iS re-
80 ,nSiblc for the payment.
>. If any person orders his paper discontinued,
he or she must pay all the arrearagcs or the pub
Usher may continue to send It until payment IS
made and collect the whole amount, whether the
paocr is taken from the office or not.
NJ paper will be discontinued until paid up.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1883-09-06
For States Attorney,

To the Voters IF Frvderirh County:
ELYING upon the kind assurances
/ lirom all parts of the county, |, a, my
own suggestion, announce myself rs Il can
didatc for the States Attornrvship for
this county, and respectfully ask for your
support, My candidacy, of course, is sub
iccl to the action of the Republican Nom
mating Convention.
EDW. s. EICUELBERGER.
aug rs tc.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-04-12
Life and Death in Nature.

For some inscrutable reason, which she
has as yet given no hint of revealing,
Nature is wondrously wasteful in the
matter of generation. She creates a
thousand where she intends to make use
of one. Impelled by maternal instinct,
the female cod casts millions Of eggs upon
the waters, expecting them to return
after many days as troops Of interesting
offspring. Instead, half the embryotic
gadj are almost Immediately devoured by
spawn-eaters, hundreds Of thousands
perish in incubation, hundreds of thou
sands more succumb to the perils attend
ing ichthyic infancy, leaving but few
score to attain to adult usefulness, and
pass an honored old age, with the FRA
GRANGE of a well-spent life, in a country
grocery.
The oak showers down ten thousand
acorns each capable of producing tree.
Three fourths of them are straightway
diverted from their arboreal intent,
through conversion into food by the
provident squirrel and the improvident
hog. Great numbers rot uselessly upon
the ground, and the few hundreds that
finally succeed in terminating grow up
in a dense thicket, where at last the
strongest smothers out all the rest. like
an oaken Othello in a harem of quercine
Desdemonas.
This is the law of all life, animal as
well as vegetable. From the humble
hyssop on the wall to the towering cedar
of Lebanon-from the meek and Iowly
ameba, which has no more character or
individuality than any other pin-point of
jelly-to the lordly tyrant, man, the rule
is inevitable and invariable. Life is sown
broadcast, only to be followed almost
Immediately by destruction nearly as
sweeping. Nature creates by the million,
apparently that she may destroy by the
myriad. She gives life one instant, only
that she NAV snatch it away the next.
The main difference is that, the higher
we ascend, the less lavish the creation,
and the less sweeping the destruction.
Thus, while probably but one fish in a
thousand reaches maturity, ofeyery zoo
children born 604 attain adult age. That
is, Nature filings aside 999 out of every
900 fishes as useless for her purposes
and two out of every five human beings
John McEzrOy, in Popular Scie'1c'
Monthly.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-04-12
A Fellow Feeling.

A gentleman was arraigned before an
Arkansas Justice on a charge of obtain
ing money under false pretenses. He had
entered a store, pretending to be a Gus
toner, but proved to be thief.
'Your name is Jim Lickmore?'' said
the Justice.
eyes, sir"
"And you are charged with a crime
that merits long term in the peniten-
tiary?"
eyes, sir"
"And you are guilty of the crime?"
81 am"
"And you ask for no mercy?'
''No, sir. !"
'sYou have had great deal of trouble
within the last two years.
Yes, sir, l have"
"You have often wished that you were
dead?'
az have, please your Honor"
''You wanted to steal money enough to
take you away from Arkansas?"
sYou. are right, Judge"
eff man had stepped up and shotyou
Just as you entered the store you would
have said, Thank you, sir ?''
eyes, sir, I would. But, Judge, how
did you find out so much about meF'
"Some time ago." said the Judge, with
a solemn air, 81 was divorced from my
wife. Shortly afterwards you married
her. The result is conclusive. I dis
charge you. Here, take this ffty-dollaP
bill You have suffered enough. ar.
EGnsGaV Traveller.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-04-12
A Needed Etiquette.

There are plenty of etiquettes in the
world-too many, most reasonable folk
would say-but yet we feel inclined to
suggest an addition to the number. We
want it to be made an etiquette that a
man who announces that he is seeking
rest should be let alone. Nobody ques-
tions that in the hurry and strain of
modern intellectual life, a necessity has
arisen for periodic rest, such as our
grandfathers, whose lives were slower,
never felt. The handicraftsman has re-
duced his stint of labor on the average
by two hours day, but the class which
uses its brains works as it never yet
worked, and is haraSsed as it never was
harased before, till physicians are recog-
nizing ''overwork' as a specific cause of
disease, and a few of them are making
the effects of overcerebratiOn, under a
hundred names, a distinct speciality.
There are, we believe, at least three
first-class doctors in London, whose In
comes flow almost entirely from men
with brains which are overworn, but not
shattered, who seldom know what Is the
matter with them, but who one and all
confess that their nerves are "over-
strung" or "understrung," or "gone to
pieces" or $50 excited that they can
neither sleep, nor work, nor remain quiet.
They do not say, with Mrs. Camp,
(which fddle-strings is weakness
to expredge my nerves this night" -
but that is their permanent con-
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-04-12
Freak Of the Flood,

One of the strangest freaks of the flood
is reported from Whitewater River, few
miles above Lawrenceburg, where farmer
Hunt lost forty acres of land, and his
neighbor, Fred Newhouse, had a barren
and rocky mill site converted into ten
acres of as rich land as the fertile valley
affords. The land along the Whitewater
is as rich as any in the West, and has
only to be tickled with a hoe to make it
laugh with harvest. An acre of ground
here is an independence for a gardener,
and ten acres are a little less than bo-
nanza. During the flood the Whitewater
bottoms were over flowed for miles along
the stream, and the extraordinary height
of the water created currents that had
sidence of the flood it has been found
that forty acres of Farmer Hunts richest
soil had been carried away, leaving that
portion of his farm practically worthless
until restored by system of tillage and
fertilizing. Fred Newhouse, who recent
" removed to the Whitewater valley
from Aurora, owned a mill site just
below Hunts farm. NewhOuse's
property consisted of ten acres Of rocky
and barren land, unfit for farming pur-
poses. A portion of this was large mill
pond. This mill pond is now filed to
the level of the breast of the dam with
the richest soil in the valley, and MIR
Newhouse's remaining acres of unpro-
ductive rocks are nowhere to be seen, but
are covered to the depth of several feet
with the same rich deposit. Instead of
being a loser by the flood he is ahead
the value of ten acres of Whitewater
valley land, which, when there is any of
it in the market. commands from 5000 to
$500 an acre. MIR. Newhouse is "a fine
practical miller, and the whole neighboC-
hood justnow isput to greatinconvenience
mill. eff it were not for the annoyance
and delay Of changing my mill from
water-power to steam-power-for 1
am left without a DAM" said Mr.. New
house, 81 would laugh at my loss. -
Cincinnati Enquirer.
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of others, had darted from the water,
this one striking the man fairly in the
forehead. The gurnard are also chased
by dolphins, and they are frequently
seen to rise in schools, to escape from the
larger fish. while lowering above them
are watchful gulls and man-of-war birds,
ready to steal them from the jaws Of their
enemies of the sea.
In company with these fying-fish may
often be seen curious white bodies, with
long arms and black eyes. The are fly
ing-squids, members of the cuttle-fsh
family, and the famous bait of the New
foundland cod-fishermen. On the Banks
they are often seen in vast shoals, and
during storms tons of them are thrown
upon the shore. When darting from
wave to wave. they resemble silvery ar
rows, often rising and boarding ships in
their headlong flight. So valuable are
they for bait, that four or five hundred
vessels at St. Pierre are engaged in catch
ing them by means of jiggers.
Many of the squid family leave the
water when pursued. Even the largest
of them, often forty or fifty feet long,
have been seen to rise ten or fifteen feet
in the air, and sail away as if propelled
by some mysterious force, their hideOus
arms dripping and glistening. They are
certainly the largest and strangest of the
flyers without wings. Nicholas.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-04-12
Flying-Fish.

In the sea there are three flyers that
really, from the extent of their flights,
deserve the name. Those of our readers
who have been at sea, especially in the
South, may have seen the common flying
fish, with its brilliant blue-and-silver
body and lace-ike, sheeny wings. From
the crest of a blue wave they dart, singly
or in tlocks, futtering along, rising and
falling, turning in curves, and returning
to the water with a splash-perhaps to
fall victim to some watchful bonito Cor
dolphin) that has been closely following
them beneath the water. These priYa-
teers of the sea are their greatest enc
mics, as they rise in the air following
them under water, and emerging Just in
time to catch the luckless flyers as they
descend. The dolphins will take great
leaps Of twenty or thirty feet in follow
ing the poor fying-fsh, which, nOtwith-
standing their long wings and wonderful
powers, often fall victims to their tireless
pursuers. They frequently fly aboard
vessels at night, perhaps attracted by the
lights, or, it may be, caught up by the
wind from the crest of some curling
wave, and carried high in air against the
sails.
The gurnard, though it has also long,
wing-hke fins. presents otherwise totally
different appearance. Its head is inclosed
in bOny armor, from which project two
sharp spines. Some of these fish are of g
rich pink color, while Others are
mottled with red, yellow and blue,
and as they fly over the water,
and the sunlight falls upon their glitter
ingscales, theyseem to glow with golden
luster. With such hard heads, it will not
be surprising information that they are
disagreeable fellows to come in contact
with; at least, so thought sailor who
was standing at dusk upon the quarter.
deck of vessel, near one of the West
India islands. Suddenly, he found him
self lying upon his back. knocked over
by a monster gurnard that. with a score
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-04-12
The Shad.

The shad season has already opened in
southern rivers, and we shall soon have
shad fresh from the Hudson, the best in
the market. The shad has been a
mystery for years. He comes into the
rivers in the spring in vast numbers, and
soon departs to the ocean. His food is
little known, and his sea life is a mystery.
The bulletin of the United States Fish
Commission for 1881 contains a paper
which throws some light upon thenatural
history and habits of the shad. The
paper is founded upon examination Of
the shad of southern rivers, Immediately
after they leave the ocean. The micro
scope was called into use and revealed a
remarkable state of affairs. The shad is
toothless, and it has been a mystery how
itlived. The naturalistOf the. Fish Com
mission found that there was attached to
the alimentary canada great number of
coca, or blind sacs, like the vermiform
appendix in man. These pockets vary
from an inch to three inches in length.
These pockets number about seYenty-five
in each fish. Itwas ascertained that all
these pockets were full of food when the
fish entered the rivers. af s2 W.
The theory is that these pockets are
employed as magazines from which the
fish draws from time to time while in
fresh water. The food was a sea-weed
with parasitic animals attached. The
sea-weed and the parasites were found to be
undigested and Intact. 1t may be possible
to find the ocean home of the shad by the
contents of its numerous food magazines.
The fish is very interesting and very de-
licious. 1t is to be hoped that more of
its life history may be traced.-ROchester
Democrat.