Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1883-07-26
Where will the Telephone Exchange be

Where will the Telephone Exchange be
located?
Soon will be heard the sound of the sep
arator and the voice OF the plowman.
The Colchester Beach excursionists ar
rived at home at about 2 a. IN, on Sunday
morning last.
It is believed that tomatoes will be de-
livered at the canning house from two to
three weeks earlier this season than last.
Steel for the track has been delivered to
this point and will be laid shortly. With
the exception of short stretch of track,
We will then have all steel to Baltimore.
SENT TO JAn.-Daniel Dubel, a lad Of
about 10 years of age was committed to
jnil on Tuesday last by Justice White, in
default of hail, on the charge of stealing q
musket from r. II. N. Freshour Of Frank
linville.
EXCURSION. The Lutheran Sunday
School of this place will make their third
excursion to Pcnmar on Saturday of this
week. The train will stop at all stations
from Rocky Ridge to Blue Ridge Summit
inclusive The fare from the different
points will be as follows
Rocky Ridge 6Oc, Logs and Gracch"m
55c, Mechanicstown Soc, Lantz 3Oc and
Sabillasvillc and Blue Ridge Summit 20c.
The train will leave Rocky Ridge at S35
a. IN. and this point at Ga. M.
REMEMBER the Harvest Home to be
held on the Lutheran Parsonage grounds
here on Thursday.
The opening will be celebrated by a
dinner and ice cream and other refresh
ments will be served during the afternoon
and evening and on Friday and Saturday
evenings following Addresses will be
made and some new and pleasing features
introduced Seepostcrs.
The passenger traffic on the Western
Md. railroad is now simply enormous; the
capacity of the road is being fully tested
but owingto its excellent management, it
meets all demands, possibly not to meet
the requirement of every one, but every
one is not capable Of Judging just how far
il is policy to 60 to meet them.
The democratic county central commit
tee of Carroll county met in Westminster
on Monday last to prepare for the coming
campaign The convention to nominate
county officers was called for August u,
the primaries therefor to be held on the
25th. The convention to select delegates
to the State nominating convention will
he held August 10, and the primaries on
August II.
TUE WONDERS Of our mountains are
but impcrfcc,lv recognized ny its denlzcns,
ave mountainccrs," as appears from
highly colorcd account given bya versatile
writer in the Baltimore american on
Tuesday last 1t would appear that num-
her of prominent citizens OF Baltimore
placed themselves under the guidance of
that experienced woodsman, j. NJ. Hood,
president of the Western Md. railroad com
pany on a pedestrian jaunt from the Blue
Mountain House to the proposed new OBJ.
servatory on Mt. Misery.
Like most eminent men, these soon con
ceiycd the idea that they were well able to
take care of themselves and willfully cast
themselves off from their experienced
guide, with the not infrequent result in
such cases, that they became incNtricably
entanglcd in their ideas of location and di-
rection and in ground oaks and black
jacks.
After rc-awakening the cchos, long since
gone out OF business, those of the red
nborignc, the "lOst were found and as
they continued their ramble through ma
lures best licks in the wifls business, their
guide metamorphosed the buzzards, az they
hung in graceful equipoise, into eagles,
over which all fell into patriotic rapture
as in their minds eye they saw him bear
ing .loft in his talons the Star Spangled
Banner and in his noble beak the tail Of
the British Lion.
They saw in the tops Of trees and mac
cessiblc crags, leaf hammocks in which
last years squirrels took their afternoon
sicsta but in which their infallible guide
informed them, the Bird O. Freedom was
incubated.
In road long fallen into disuse and
general decay leading to super animated
wood lot, they find, aliunde, an injun trail,
that dates back to the tim" of block houses,
the very thought of which begets a
thrstiness, which owing to the great heat
was only to be allayed in those trackless
wilds by the kind of water most sought
after by the more modern descendants Of
the Poor Lo, that acted in the capacity Of
civil engineer when said trail was original
ly located. They also discovered chasms
millions of feet in the depths Of their pro-
fundity, but we have frequently read
statements wherein the belief of this is
made possible inasmuch as we are dlspos-
ed to consider that when that vision ap-
peared before their eyes, that they had
missed their footing and were docking