Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1884-11-27

railroad west that formerly left Frcderich
city at AGO p. m, now leaves at $50 p. M
thus avoiding the delay at the Junction
LARGE HAwK.-Onc day last week MIR
VIM. Hetterly of this place, shot a hawk
near Humans Saw MIL which measured
four feet four inches, from tip to tip Of wings
| Mr.. Edward Jones, druggist of B:lti-
more city, formerly of near Liberty, THU
county died in Baltimore last week . His
remains were inferred at Central Chapel
near Liberty, on Sunday last.
| FARM AT PUBIC SALE-Mr. Henry W
Bennett will sell his valuable farm lying ont
mile cast Of this place at Public Sale on Sat
urlay December 18th at 2 O'clock, p. H.
See posters.
| We are in the midst OF the butchering
season. The hogs that are being killed
weigh we'll and are fully un to the average
| weights in this town, bat thus for there have
been none reported of mammoth size. II is
generally conceded that porkcis above $50
pounds do not pay.
Tie committee appointed by the Balti
more County Fire Insurance Company tc
investigate and assess the loss by the recent
fire at tie Canning House here, visited this
place today (Thmsday) The committee
consisted If Hon. Joshua Biggs, tie Frcdcr-
lex County director end Mr.. Francis Shriver
secretary Of the company.
MnErISG.-We have been requested by a
number Of persons interested, to publish @
cali for Il meeting of all who desire TO sub
scribe to stock iii a new building associa-
ton, We therefore give notice that on Sat
urday evening, December 18th ut : O'Clock
in Mr.. Fred'E Whites oifice such meeting
will be held and all Interested in lis success
are expected 20 labor to secure as much stock
~ possible and 10 report the same on that
date, when, if there is promise OF success, the
necessary steps for the securing OF charter
will be taken.
Frederick City's mail facilities are st pres
cnt tic poorest Of any city of like size known
to us. They are moving for an improve
ment in the service and as they assurcdly
deserve it, we are inclined to think they will
receive it, The Ne'rs says: AT the present
time there is no possibility of getting through
from Baltimore TO Frederick between the
noon of one day and the corresponding hour
of the next" We are not sure that we know
lust what that means, or just whca they can
get through but as the Neaos puts it, Fredcl-
lex is nj present the most isolated town We
know.
WHO'D A THuNK TT "A artist, who evil
IDENTITY has just been graduated by the Nat
ural History department of some college de.
voted to the training of Election Design ar
Tits, has chosen a board fence that we pass
in going to- and fro between cur dwelling
and our Office, on which to paint Black
Spanish rooster, in al! tue pride of spur and
f, ather 1t hears aioft the legend 1--WE are
Cock Of the Walk " and as we walk by, the
stare us out of collntenancc, but rs we 90 q
step or two further and learn that his defiant
cock a-dood)c-do winds up with the prosaic
request Read the Frederick Ne,Ss," he
seems to wilt and to give over all hope that
he will he able to make us take "the other
side" But, wilhal, The Nc,os should not have
put that disqueting fowl right on our road
to dinner.
The Chronicle mas heart of steel, is an ice
berg, ITS scnsiblites are a relic of the glacial
epoch; il says hogs hog and that any
body would know by its habits, thst its
name was hog" and cruelty decrics its as
serted privilege to squeal before it dies and
follows up this anathema with the blistcring
libel on its mortuary exit, that it dies hog
gishly. May the EDITORS sausages burst in
the pan, his pudding snap like trc-crackcrs,
his ponh0ss court the nightmare and his
chine fail INN in the saer-kraut season, for
lis unsympa'hctic reflections upon the gen
erous animal, that so willingly becomes a
fattened sacrifice, for heavy weight para
graphers:
upon such sacrifices, my Cordelia,'
"The gods themselves throw incense"
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A SUCCESS THE Democratic Jubilee, OK
roast, torchliyht procession and Illumination
in Frederick on Wednesday last was fine
success in spite of the weather
Col Victor's invitation to the democracy
of this district was not accepted to any great
extent and we verify believe that it was not,
because of the intimation that the party here
was under a ban so to speak, on account of
the unmerciful drubbing administered it on
election day. It's not fair to hit fellow
when he's down and the Colonel should not
have put it in slch shape that it will not be
pleasant for Mechan;cstown democrat to
show his face away from home, until all re-
mcmbrance of the late onpleasantness shall
have faded away into the dim limbo Of polti-
cal ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
AGAIN SUCCEssEUL-The deer hunters re.
turned on Monday last, having been absent
ten days in the mountains of Virginia and
w. Virginia. They did not strike their
usual streak of luck on this trip; in the first
place, they found the entire hunting grounds
of the very successful past, in fumes on
their arrival, fully twenty miles of mountain
having been burned over including the won
derful "cove," SO that they were compelled
to 60 to other hills to find their game. They