Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1884-05-29
Local Items.
CIariOn's Telephone Call 23l-3.

On Monday next you may 60 a-tlshing.
There will be preaching in the U. B.
church in this place, this Thursday evening
at Sp. IN.
June bugs have arrived; like mortals they
arc little previous, if there is to be anything
III name.
Suffer no longer with Corns and Bunions-
Schroeders Corn Solvent will cure them.
rs cents. Druggists.
The gentle spring zephyrs come to us
ever and anon, laden with the perfumes of
the little onion.
Has our new board of town commissioners
attended to their sanitary duties in the al
leys? The season is here.
Frederick Leatherman, formerly of Volts
vile, this county, has purchased farm in
Berkeley county, w. Va, for $4,000,
The robins are feeding their young .-Er.
Well, they're not Robin you to do it; you
don't relish worms.
The pre.tiest girl in Mechanicstown has
not got her new bonnet yet. Now look out
for street full of last years head gear.
HA1L,-A hail and rain storm passed this
way on Tuesday evening. The fall of hail
was considerable but the stones were not
large.
lfany trouble is attendant upon the baby's
tce,hing, don't hesitate to use DR., Bulls ba-
by Syrup 1t is invaluable. Price 20 cents
hottie.
The Farmers and Mechanics National
Bank of Frederick, has declared dividend
ofsix per cent, for the six months ending
last Saturday.
MIRO. f. Uorner's bread and cake wagon
visits this place and Graceham ON Tuesday
and Friday. 1t is a convenience OF Which
many avail themselves.
Boy WANTED.--We want, Immediately,
a bright, intelligent, willing boy to learn the
printers trade. Apply at once at
TIE CLARION OFFICE.
DR.. Lewis II. Steiner, of Frederick City,
has been invited to deliver the annual address
before the Literary Society of Western Mary
LAID College, on the eighteenth of June
The heavy rains in this locality have scor-
ed the corn fields right deep and have, be-
sides, caused tough crust on the surface, so
that the plant has u hard fight to get through.
There is an abundance of locust blossoms,
this is a sign" of a good yield IN the corn
crop. Is there any way of Judging by the
blossoms whether or not il will probably ma.
tnrc?
Five bcyclers arrived in this place about
2 O'Clock on Tuesday. They stated that they
had made the trip through from Winchester
Va, that day. which was certainly most ex-
cellent time.
The Banner says: cant you telephone
us?' We might try it over the ground"
wire; that is the only present means of COM
munication other than by that mighty en-
CINE, the press.
A LARas BARN-Possibly ths largest barn
ever erected in Frederick county is the one
lust completed for JAS Bussard about one
mile north of Middletown. It's dimentons
are 16Ox6Sx5O feet and is an imposing struc
ture
The second Quarterly Conference of Me-
chancstown Circuit, Va, Conference of the
U. b. Church, will convene at Deerticld,
Saturday May 3lst at p. M, Rev. A. M.
Evers will preside. Religious Services Sat
:.l. low nj rht
Ask for Days Horse and Cattle Powder,
prepared by A. G. Meyer & Co., Baltimore,
Nd, from the celebrated recipe of DR.. Jas.
q. Day, of London. See that you get no
other! All druggists keep it. Price rs cts.
per package of one pound, full weight.
A RIpPLE.-We were pleased to learn
last week that the surface had been stirred
by another ripple of business enterprise here
but as We, it has not developed sufficiently
to be recognized as a wave The disturbing
clements are yet at work, and concerning
which we may have yet more to say.
After next week the political bee will be-
gin to buzz and the quadrennl agony of
half. years solid politics will be upon US
There being no county or state officers to
elect, the fight will be one of pare, national
politics, which We fear is destined to be an
issue simply Of well get in If VT can" IS
you'll not get in if we can help it."
HANDsoME.-We arc in receipt of an invi-
tation to the Graduating Glass Farewell Hop
at West Point, at the hands Of Mr., George
Landers 1t is beautiful piece of work
manship, in keeping with the decidedly
"tony" affair to which it bids us. Thanks
George; we regret the many existing circum-
stspGes that deny us the pleasure.
UruoRsED. DR. M. e. Leatherman has
lately purchased pair of matched bloodcd
colts; one partially broken, the other not.
One day last week the DR.. backed the I'M
broken one for the third time, but only sue
ccedcd in staying few seconds, when the
colt was out from under him and he was ly-
ing prone on the ground. He bruised his
hip and twisted his back right severely and
was able 20 walk only by the aid of cane
for several days lie is looking for an OK
,2rt horseman to break the colt.