Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1884-06-26
Clarion's Telephone Call a3l-3.


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Mrs. Harry Beam, who has been on a Wis
1t to her former home in St. JOseph's, Mo.
has returned to her home in Emmitsburg.
Samuel Rosensteel, while saving wood a
St. Joseph's House. Emnitsburg, had tn
little finger of his right hand cut of by tn
saw.
There was frost in low places on Monda.
morning. On Saturday and Sunday fire
and overcoate were comfortable in the NOR
ming and evening, says the Westminste
Advocate.
The Grand Officers of Odd Fellows visited
Hagerstown on Wednesday, 25th instant, tt
confer the past grand degree upon all Pas
Grands in the country. The occasion wal
one OF interest to the fraternity.
Professor D. w. Herring, who has held thu
chair of Mathematics at Western Maryland
College for four or five years, has declined
denomination, and has accepted call to thu
chair of physics at the Western University
of Pennsylvania, at Allegheny City.
The Village Record says: MARY will star
on her trip over the mountains on the ENC
day of July, to return on the 10Th day of Au
gust. If shc chances to get her stockings
wet on the way over, according to an ole
saying, we win have six weeks reasonable
weather and consequently fine corn crop
The city of Hagerstown takes high rank
as q railroad center. There are forty-siS
passenger trains and twenty-five freight
trains arriving and departing daily, making
q total Of sixty eight trains. The roads cen
tering there are the Cumberland Valley, the
Shenandoah Valley, Western Maryland and
Baltimore & Ohio.
SrICKRN WITH PARALYsIs.-Our..agc and
very highly esteemed townsmnn Mr.. Abel
Mitchell, sustained two attacks Of paralysis
last week and was at one time quite ILL.,
Mr.. Mitchell has suffered very severely
from rheumatism in the past, it having a.
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writing his condition is somewhat improved
IMpRovlNa.-Mr. L. N. Philips, who was
compelled to return f.om the Chicago Con-
yention on account Of ill-health, remained in
Frederick with his daughter, Mrs. c. A.
Castle, until Thursday last, when he return
ed to his home in our town. Mr.. Philips was
not strong when he set out for Chicago and
the heat, long journey and excitement was
too much for him. We are gratitied to be
able to report him very much improved.
LOST AND FOUND Mr.. Jos. Flohr, re-
siding about three miles north of this place,
failed to find his horses in the pasture field
one morning last week. After hasty
hunt, he left for Emmitsburg to telegraph
and telephone a notice and description OF
them, under the very natural superstition
that they had been stolen. Upon returning
home he was gratiied by the news that bis
neighbor, Mr.. Knott, had found them in
some bushes several hundred yards from the
barn.
To read or write now by candle light" Is
to challenge an invasion of representatives OF
the entire beetle and moth kingdom. They
csrom on the lampshade, ricochet from the
car to the shirt collar, struggling, they de-
scend, while the rapid movements OF their
wings and feet, fires the dullest Imagination
with a certain belief that at least four, taking
IS many directions, have picniced ON your
spinal column and have taken the initiatory
with the Lanccrs Quadrllle. And that leads
ns to inquire; to what other special duty
have these insects been assigned in creation
save it be to suffer and die on the pin of some
enthusiastic entomologist, or to make the
light unsteady while it flutters out It's exist
ence in the coal oil lamp burners
The wheat crop in this section Is very
heavy, but owing to heavy rains much OF it
down and badly tangled however there is
also much of it that stands up nicely. har-
vest has begun and by the end OF the week
probably one-third of the wheat in this local
ity will be in the shcaf Last week was
grand piece of haying weather and the oulk
of that work has been completed. The
promise of the oats crop could not well be
better and it has commenced to head. The
showers and extreme heat of tho past
ten days has brought the corn up nicely
and it is now looking very we'll The grass
crop has been we believe fully up to and
probably above the average and in all, we
believe that our farmers, thus far, consider
this = favorable year
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On Saturday morning last all the teachers
and IS of the students of the Baltimore Man
nal Training School visited the shops Of the
Western Maryland Railroad Company at
Union Bridge, where Mr.. Holtz, master OF
machinery, welcomed them. This was one
of the most instructive tours ofinspection
the school has yet made. The instrument
for testing steam gauges, an express car IN
process of construction, o locomotive under
repair, were explained, and attention was
called to the wear on the face ofcar wheels
n driving wheel worn more than ! OF an
inch in depth after performing about 1lo'o"
miles service being shown. In the paint
shop which is made almost air-tight to keep
out the DUST and temperature of 70 degrees
Ia maintained nv n system of steam pipes