Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1884-08-28
Local Items.

Local Items.
ClariOn's Telephone Call 231.2.
Our boys are yet on the sick list, but are
much better.
It's girl and we're proud of it.
PERsoNAL,-Mr Jos. w. Seton and fam
ily of Dayton, o., visited Mr.. SIS friends in
this place last week.
An ADDITION. Jno. r. Rouzcr has
erected at the rear end of his large brick
building now in course of construction on
Cnurch-st, a two story addition " feet,
which communicates with the second story
only of the main building.
Mr.. Henry w. Bennett has secured the
general agency for Frederick county, in the
Reliance live stock insurance company OF
diminishing and is appointing sub-agcntsas
he finds suitable men to fill the position Par
ties who may desire to take hold OF an agen-
cy should see him, or write to him on the
subject
The driving horse owned by Mr.. John
I,vpt hos bu.n put III tr"ining In Frederick
and is doing well in the hands of his trainer.
When placed there he showed up 2.55 gait,
Which he has since materially improved. He
is a good, strong trotter and may make some
frouh1e thia fall
should lie be entered of which however we
are not informed
Ex-Marshall Z. T Goldsboro took from
his pond lately, German carp twenty eight
inches long. Those fish were placed in the
pond eighteen months ago. when they were
but three inches long. The pond near this
pluce contains six now about twenty inches
long; about sixty that are from four to six
inches long and possibly thousands of this
seasons spawn. In several years it should
become valuable.
With the collapse in the iron trade gcner-
ally, we hear no more of the ore mines here
here and in the m un,ain the copper cX-
element has ahatt d and the silver shaft is
no longer worked, Posts, rails and tircwood
continue to head the list of mountain rcsour
ccs in trade, the hucklcbcrry crop is dwin-
dliny for want of mountain fires and the hill
truckers will be called upon to depend some
what upon the chestnut crop to i'll out the
= No, 1,ntr
pork" are now relying almost entirely upon
wheat and rye to feed their hogs. Bran, mid
dlings and rye chop are fed almost to the en-
tire exclusion of corn. 1t is next to impos-
sibe to buy even fairly good article ofcorn
and the price at which it is sold would be
considered high at which to pay for num-
her one article, hence there is but little fed.
Until we are assured that the cholera will re-
main away from u.s. 1t may not be advisable
to invest very much to the end of fattening
them now, for we may lose all. 1t is not
however closer than twelve to fifteen miles
at present. but is slowly spreading.
Some persons fail to understand what the
money requirements Of any business, large
or small, amount to. They assume that the
little or much that they owe would neither
keep the business running nor stop it as the
case might be- There is the great, big mis-
take if it would so happen that each bust
ness man had only one such person on his
hands, the argument would be good, but it
does not so happen on the contrary there
is a surprisingly large number of persons,
who r"ason thus and what in individual
cases is but a trivial matter, in the aggregate
becomes controlling item in the business
mans calculations.
Small dealers and manufacturers, and
county newspaper men feel the evil effects
of this mode of doing business to a great ey-
tent and if at any time said dealer should be
out of sugar, the shoemaker out of wax or
the newspaper fail them one week, these
same men, who reason SO carelcssly, would
be stupctied with amazement or possessed of
anger, but would probably never get sutfi-
cient distance into the cause to consider that
possibly there were large numbers who, like
themselves, each thought their little bill
wouldn't make any difference"
Cold SPRING has during the past several
years been entirely neglected as a picnic
ground; in fact the picnic has itself fallen
into disfavor by our people and we do not
hesitate to say that we regret it,
A few words will probably make one point
plain that we fear is not appreciated nor un-
derstood
In the first place. for whose special benefit
is the picnic held? Certainly for the little
children; those from four to twelve years old
embrace the real number most interested in
the picnic.
Now, is it not the fact that with those of
that age the picnic is not obsoletc not out
of Style rather would they not gladly at
tend one every week were it possible for
them to do SO give it minutes considera-
ton and you will agree.
Therefore, agreeing TO say that to the faith
efs and mothers, the picnic has lost its charm
do they, who control it, make a mistake
when they assume that because it is no long
or q treat TO them, that it should not be held?
Why? Simply because it is not held for
them, but for the little ones and even if it
requires a sacrifice on the part of the par
cnts, it must be considered slight one, in