Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1884-03-27

IL lhS Va A'i''
One empty house, in advance, gives an cx
cellent opportunity to "movc," as has been
demonstrated during the past week. num-
Der thus obtained an advantage of the fine
weather.
The extreme ill-health of the community
reported several weeks since has somewhat
improved although not materially. The
principal ailments at present are ola catarrh-
al nature.
Jimmy Giles, character in his way, known
to many Of our readers as having been "a
bad man before the war;" has met the grim
DESTROYER He died at his home in Hagcrs-
town last week.
Mcssrs. Stocksdalc e. Bussard received q
twelvc-ton carload of bran last week and the
demand was so great that one week su'ilceh
to see it gone They will, however, keep it
on hand regularly il possible.
FAsTER-Wc have no forebodngs as to
Easter. THE CLARION S hens are coming out
nobly. Scventy-six eggs in three days from
less than forty hens that are "on the lay,
makes us feel like dividing the Growing with
the other ROSTERS.
VIM. II. Warner has bills up for his celc-
bratcd horse Vauxhall, jr., horse. The horse
is without superior in this county and his
terms are very reasonable, Farmers will DO
well to secure the services Of this horse.
REMEMBER, ifyou have a friend to whom
YOU would wish to have the local news OF
YOUR home sent weekly, our offer to furnish
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do not simply come to us with anothrrs
subscription and ask for it at halfratcs that
is not what we mean; ii is only where
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applies.
AsTAR IN Observation-Disclosures say that
this evening at 9 O'Clock Neptune on his way
west will encounter Y nus on her way east
When they reach the same point of right
ascension they will he in conjunction.
There will be an ocCultat:on OF one planet
bv the other, that is, there will he an eclipse
1t is very rare occurrence, and is said TO be
a very beautiful phenomenon; but no one
can be sure about that, because there is no
one alive who ever saw it, The last record
hn loSt hp+nra that
in 1891.
PRcrIcAL JOKING One young man
heard good thing and told it; another
Young man listened to him and then repeat
ed the good thing but made it practical
by giving it as an actual occurrence in which
the first young man was concerned. Then
it spread imaginative people soon knew all
about it the other parties to the joke were
figured out scientifically and rs it happened
that all circumstances combined to make it
appear n plain case, when in fact, it was all
fiction innocent people became involved
and then it became necessary that the prin-
ter, who is relied upon to set all things
straight, WIS tHIitu uI'''i w uh''o "h"'''''
of mischief had come of it, and, to the best
of his ability, he Las done it.
A Meeting of the Republican central com
mi,tcc for this county will be held in Fred
crick on Saturday next, Goth inst, for the
purpose of fixing the time for the holding Of
primaries for the election of delegates to the
county and Congressional conventions. The
resolution recently adopted by the State Re
publican committee empowering the mem
bcrs of the State central committee for the
different counties to designate the places and
hours of the coming primary and county
conventions, and to prescribe rules and reg
ulations for their conduct will be entirely ig-
nored by the members of the local commit
tees of this county, who claim that in them
alone is vested the power to manage the at
fairs of the party within the county.
BY the passage of the bill creating an adj
ditional district out Of the northwestern
portion of Frederick district, to be called
"Tuscarora district" this county will now
have in all twcnty-one election districts.
THAT SQUIRREL LAw.-,t is Unusual that
trivial local laws for the protection Of game
should cause much trouble IN legislatures,
but the present body has had quite time
over a law to protect squirrels.
In the first place, two hundred and seven
ty petitioners asked the legislature to passa
law prohibiting the shooting of squirrels, ex-
ccpt between the dates August Is and De-
ccmber 90; second the Society for the Pro-
lection of Game in Frederick County asked
for the same law, changing the date August
Is to August 1.
Four out of five of the county delegation,
supported bill that made the date June 10
instead of Aug. or Aug. Is; just what con
stituency they represented we are at loss
to say. The bill passed in the House of Del
egatcs, but was amended in the Senate, to
Aug. l. Upon its return to the III ouse, the
amendment was concurred in, but motion
was made to reconsider it, but after giving
the matter some consideration two of the
delegates came over to DR.. IIenshaw, who
had charge of the bill as originally drawn,
and that made majority of the delegation,
SO the bill as amended by the Senate is now
the law We are not positive as to the date,
whether August LIST or 18th, but from one
of these two dates until December Goth only
will it be lawful to shoot squirrels in Fred
crick county. The friends of the law as
Il ii.