Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1884-11-13


Frederick ...... 1868, 5.217, 5000, $3.50
Montgomery .... 2.9l;, 234S, 1881, 23o2
To,als.. ......1l, 4l0 l5.13o i5,S!j li,42'
NJ, on,ss mai. 1903. Mn|"mw' M; j. 1910
The re ,ub iclns Of tbs district surprised
themselves and stunned the dtmacracy.-
Tlcy expected for McComas ;hout what
Blaine got and for Blaine about twenty-five
less.
The political scc-saw csciilat"i with cXas-
pcratiag regularity on Thursday, Fri 'ay and
Saturday last. Ii even won't so far as to dis
turb Tie ruuilibrium OF things on Sunday
Bets were made here Oh Thursday and Fri
day and offered yet on Saturday. The tcIc-
phone stood asiride the fulcrum and gave its
wrimit first to this side, then to that. Tue
telegraph OPP rators were more or less m'H-
z!cd, but managed at intervals TO find some
thing privileged to report.
The funny part yet to come will be the
athletic performances Of those papers that
rot them elves up after the i5ahion of what
we should expect from an illustrated poster
advertising that won ler!Glly entertaining
periodical, Tie Phunny Phal0m; rs beth
sides were cut with tier coons, caHnona,
chickens and cheers, one or the other must
come down.
EXTENDED THE LIMITS OF THE SIXTH
DI,TEICT-In thr excitement of tn" moment
some ODD telephone messages were received
st night from the exchange by private
liners. One Of the operators was asked II
any Il reports had been received The
operator who in one moment had McComas,
Gettysburg and $4,000 bawlcd at him, placed
the three Together and informed the anxious
listener that Gettysburg had given McCon"s
$1,000 majority. An anxious politician who
had just returned from the telegraph office
reported the receipt of telegram f. om llar-
pers Ferry announcing Nelson's majority in
that place !-Neacs.
By the wording of the local option law,
recently voted upon in this county, and the
provisions of which were rejected by Il large
majoriy, the Clerk of The Court Will at his
earliest opportunity make proclamation OF
the result of the election in this comfy. BY
this proclamation, the local option rcstrlc-
tons that have existed in severa! districts of
the county will be annul ed and the entire
county be placed on an equal footing; that
is, it will be lawful to sell liquor III all the
Districts - GloJG.
Last Saturday evening, at o'clock, all the
saloons and hotel bars in this city clio eel to
the public without warning and continued
closed until Wednesday morning. The L:Q-
uor Dealers explained the case to be that it
was done to prevent the advocates ofl'rohi-
bition from influencing persons TO become
drunk, so as TO give force to discussion OF
the local option law-liagrstown Globe.
TIE COUNTY VOTE OFFGCIALLY.-Thc
Judges of election of the 81 districts Of Fred
cllck county assembled at the court house at
noon to make returns. The vote of Frcdcr-
ck county, as the result showed stands -
Blaine, $500; Cleveland, 1904 McComas,
5j51; Nelson, 1881; st. John, 1876 F. b Sap
pington, 5. This gives Blaine. 295 majority
and McComas, go. In 1876 Tiden carried
the county by 237 and in 1880 Garfield was
given first place by 1852 majority.
1t is estimated that there are 81 gil j,
itcfatc voters in the United States, at least
three fourths Of whom exercised their right
of ba'loting at the late election. 1t is also
said that there is enough Of them in at least
one half of the thirty-cght states to change
the result in every one OF those States.
1t was scarcely in keeping with tie titncss
of things that one of the polling places in
Frederick yesterday was the window of q Ia
ger beer saloon, but right radiant were the
faces of the followers of St. John as they
cast their ballots thercin-NcWs.
Ex-President Grant did not vote on Tues.
day. He was confined by lamoness at his
residence in New York city. President Ar
thur voted in New York city, a straight re-
publican ticket. 1Ieary Ward Eeecher de-
posted his ballot in Brooklyn, and no one
asked his name or what ticket he voted.
Governor Cleveland voted on Tuesday at
the First district poll of the Ninth ward in
Buffalo, N. Y. He voted full Democratic
ticket.
In Augusta, Me-, on Tuesday, as Nj.
Blaine, leaning on the arms Of his Two sons,
approached tie dark and din&y smi,hshop
which formed the polling place of his ward
the crowd that was sitting abont the en-
trance arose and quietly formed into two
lines, between which tie three passed to the
polls. Mr.. Blaine voted the straight Repub-
lean ticket.