Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1884-11-06

Corn Is rating here at $40 per Darre'.
What will the Organs now do for "copy?'
Thanksgivings coming. Turkey, Turkey,
7urk-Turk-Turk
The moon got full the day before the cleo
ton: the other satellites got full day later.
The past dry season has made the grow
ing of celery to perfection almost IN impossi'
bility.
PRopEnTY SoLD.-Mr. Geo w. Stocks
dale of this place has sold the valuable little
farm lying east Of this place known as the
"Forney" place to Mr.. Jno l.. Whilhide Of
near Ladcsburg, this county. The price
paid was s., 800. Mr. W. will take posses
sim April LIST, 1885, He will build and 9TH
erwisc improve the property as soon as he
takes possession.
ANOTHER BUILDlNa.-'rhe spirit Of pro-
gress is yet on tho increase in our town and
the new street at the eastern limits Of our
town will this time receive attention. Mr..
Geo. w. Stocksdale will erect dwelling
and otherwise improve one Of his lots on
this street. 1t is his purpose to have the
dwelling erected during the fall and winter.
Whit ENTHUsE Pit having been in Or
der, to live in the glare Of torches. the fizz of
fireworks, the bang of cannon and shout O;
campaign orator for the last four weeks, is
it now in order to ask, will there be ratifi-
cation, jubilation, jolliflcation, illumination
10 beat the nation, over the final result?
DID TT AGAIN.-On last Saturday evening
Mechanicstown and district surprised her
self and everybody else by sending mon
ster delegation to the democratic mass met T.
ing ut Emmitsburg. This one with the re-
publican delegation one week before were
the two largest delegations sent out by any
place in the county, so far as we have been
able to learn and goes to prove that when
our people make up their minds, they can
make Rome howl" with any of them.
THAT RAnwAY.-Wc have been called
upon By the Chronicle to aid in its renewed
onslaught upon the railing around Court
Square in Frederick. Our contemporary
means business this time it speaks in no I'M
certain tone and says But the thing has got
to come down." which is assuredly forcibic,
if not classical.
If we remember Alright, this movement
was instituted by the Chronicle, but one of
the Frederick dailies stole its thunder and a
few weeks ago made as though it was about
to fix and finish the whole business and now
that the case of the railing appears to have
relapsed into the torpid condition that pre-
ccdes Information we suggest that it be al
lowed thus to rest during the winter: thus
will it furnish glowing theme when the
snow disappear, the buds swell and land the
robins nest again" Inasmuch as Frederick
is expected to raise sufficient funds where
with to beautify Court Park, we may sup
pose that as yet she has not sufficient to
complete the work on the same. principle
that Enmitsburg does not desire to have it
understood that the fountain has been com =
pleted, or will be, until it has been surround
ed by hanging gardens and the public Square
paved with jarper.
Take your sledge hammer down neighbor,
and give Frederick chance: you know how
It'll yourself
WILL NOT REBUILD.-Although no meet
ing of the stockholders of the burnt canning
house has been held and no official utterance
of their intentions been given, we believe
that it is the opinion Of nearly or quite all
that the building and machinery will not be
renewed, except in case the insurance COM
pany decides to replace rather than pay for
the property The latter we consider to be
unlikely, simply because there has not been
sufficient saved to make it possible for them
thus to save money for their company and
that would be the only consideration under
which such action would be taken. For sew
cral reasons the stockholders would decide
against the renewal of the business; the first
one Of which is the fact that such great
cutlery has arisen amongst our people at the
stencil alleged to arise from the refuse; a
second consists Of the scarcely less decided
outcry of housekeepers against the draft
made on the local supply of household help
during the summer months; the third and
decisive objection is, that, believing the late
fire to have been the work of an incendiary
it is necessary to assume that there was a
cause, a moving impulse to do the act and
that there is no reason why the same cause
snould not remain in force to incite the
burning of the new one, which would neces-
sarily entail an additional loss of just the
amount OF the margin: between the cost and
insurance, which would then be one-halc Of
it is now one fourth or more.
We. advocated, with all our might, the
building up..of this enterprise and speaking
for the scores of women and children who
have been by it enabled to earn unusual
wages, we will deeply regret to see it pass
from them as we believe it will but speaH
ing for the stockholders, ourselves amongs'
them. we arc in no wise doubtful as TO the
wisdom of such course To rebuild at ad
dtional expense in the light of recent and
past events, would, we feel assured, be al act
Of folly.