Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1884-12-18


Thieves are now at work again preparing
poultry and other supplies for the holidays
and cold weather. Have your guns loaded
and thus warn them IN manner not to be
forgotten.
A DIME MUSEUM and Variety Entertain.
ment will appear in the Academy this place
on Saturday evening of this week. White
Polar bears and black European bears will
make the entertainment interesting. A lady
has charge of the fun: go see the bears.
ENTERTAINMENT The Bijou Theatre
Company will present that intensely inter
estng melodrama, Hazel Kirke, in Emmits-
burg this Thursday evening. The play is
in four acts, the syno, ,sis Of which Is rs fol-
lows: Act 1st, A Fathers curse; Act cad,
The Fatal Marriage; Act Bird, cannot save
10 thy fathers heart. The company is high.
iy spoken by newspapers published where
they have given Hazel kirke and they will
he we'll patronized in Emmit-burg.
A GOOD TEAM.-lIaving been summoned
home from Enmts5urg ON Thursday even
ing last, after the train had gone we called
the veteran liverymen Beam & Guthrie, by
telephone, for team and in few minutes
we were on our way, in one of the darkest
nights we were ever out, but we felt no fear
Of mishaps for they had placed the lines in
the hands of Lee, and we knew that no
more careful and reliable driver was known
in these parts. Despite the darkness our
fine gray kept up q good round trot, nor
rock, nor rut disturbed our cushioned and
comfortable equilibrium. For good horse,
easyriding carriage a reliable driver, and
reasonable fare, we. recommend Messrs.
Beam s. Guthrie Of Emmitsburg
II 1T A THREAT fine following item
which we find in the last issue of THE CAron-
scle has been a source of some uneasiness to
us.
1.-THE Clarion has its Turkey in training
for Christmas and zoe hare none Better send
itup here brother g. and SAFE trouble; a week
hence will do
The italics are ours, placed thus to indi.
cate the grounds of our uneasiness if to in
siduously slip the quill or scissors under our
editorial fifth rib be sine qua non, we'll ship
the Turkey but then Bro. Motter has a
wonderful faculty for double entente.
a., ~ -,
j. Peddicord, an old and well-known citizen
of this place died at the residence Of his
daughter, Mrs. Edward Davis, at Catoctn
Furnaces on Sunday morning last. The de-
ceased had lived here the major part of his
life, was married once and was the father of
10 children of whom 10 are yet living. Until
about seven years ago the deceased actively
carried on shoemaking here, at which time
he lost the use of one of his hands by a cut
and subsequent blood poisoning. He was
appointed constable and served two terms,
but during the past year or more his mimi
ties were Of both body and mind and he
broke rapidly in strength. The deceased
was in the 10th year of his age at the time of
his death. His remains were inferred in the
Hill Cemetery on Monday afternoon.
WE HUNT.-On Thursday last in company
with and under charge Of DR.. J. T. Bussey
and Mr. Bun Hickey of Emmitsburg and
Mr.. D. s. CHILEAN of near that place we en-
joyed immensely a shooting expedition, nom
inally partridses, actually cartridges and
rabbits Neither were plentiful as was the
fun and the latter is as good as the former.
One dozen birds, five rabbits with blue jay
aud an owl for practice shots sums up the
success so far as game was concerned, but
we 60 up into hundrends, even yet further,
when we come to rate our enjoyment of the
trip, which, by the way, would have been
marred beyond conception had there been
two wicks less in that spirit lamp, had that
milk been drank under misrepresentation
O. had the fur out Of that rabbit risen and
darkened the sun in proportion as it whiten-
ed t4st weed field