Catoctin clarion., 1885-12-03
New AdyertiselM ents.
Auctioneering.-Jas 0. Harnc.
JoLnson's Anodyne.

Auctioneering-Jas 0. Harne.
JoEnson's Anodyne.
TELEpHoNIC.-Catoctin Furnaces VIII be
connected by telephone with the outer world
shortly. A line will be erected thence to
connect at Hunting Creek where the main
line crosses on the Creegerstown road.
The Bell telephone is involved in great
lawsuit, the result of which will determine
the question of cheap telephones. The rates
are very high now and we should be pleased
to see this valuable convenience come with
in the reach of more people.
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SINGING ScHooL.-On Friday night Of
last week, MIR. &. A. Wilhide organized IL
Singing Association at the Academy. The
association will meet once week, on Friday
night, during the winter Mr. WillIide
should be supported and we are pleased to
be able to say that we believe he will.
The Young Mems Building Association
met on Saturday evening last to consider the
question of its future. AT the meeting there
were twenty-five shares of new stock sub
scription by the old members, these are about
| 10 to Is shares known TO he waiting hut
| there is needed yet not less than fifty shares,
committee to solicit which has been ap-
pontcd anL will report at the regular De-
cemhcr meeting.
Years have not $, cn and time shall not
see" the people sit down quietly to suffer
pain, when enterprise can afford such pan
acca AZ Salvation Oil.
The old saying "oppostion is the life of
business" has not been sustained in one in
stance at least. Since the introduction of
DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup all other cough rem
edies have been dead stock.
Headache thoroughly units one for any
active effort. DR.. Bulls Baltimore Pills al
ways cure this distressing disorder, giving
prompt relief and cure.
DR., Bulls Baby Syrup by its gentle yet
specific Influence qucs the little ones Price
IS cents
The best thing to relieve a suffering horse,
COW, sheep or hogs is Days Horse Powder
EDIFYING.-It is interesting as well as in
IL certain sense instructive to note the heated
race between the Citizen and EramineT as to
which shall speak in the most na,tcring
terms of Mcssrs. Lawson and Iakin of the
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have the moral courage, to ~. fer to them nor
MS you, both of you, did prior to the election?
Does the county patronage purchase a will
ing guilt Of transparent Inconsistency?
WIsDoM--We copy the following from
the Baltimore Tascs
"A sporting IL ticle in a local contemporary
says that partridge hunting is very tircsomc
because of the walking over rough plowed
ground" Who has been hunting quail in
plowed ground? Who is blowing at this
season of the year and for what crop might
We ask"
Now, whether the sportsman who looks
for quail on a plowcd field, or the writer who
questions the fact Of there being plowed
ground at this particular season of the year
displays the greater degree of wisdom is
lone of them things that no tellcr can find
out"
WAR TX croscne has exploded the fra
grant illuminator has made things hot as
well as light in Mcchanicstown. Coal oil
has tumblcd ! From IS to Is and then to II
cents per gallon and the "old man. no longer
questions the proprcty, nor the cost OF late
hours and our bcauX are now privileged to
court in the proportion of as 1S is to 12.-
'Rah for the Wah 1t will keep the Corpo-
ration mo on up, the taxes down, will aid
matrimony, lubrcate the wheels of business
and the tongues of mankind and woman
kinder.
Now, let us have War in Flour Wood
and Coal and we'll join the army of consum-
ers, content to be a private.
W.M r. r. ANNUAL REPoRT.-Mr John
N. Hood, as general manager of the Western
Maryland Railroad, by order of the directors
of the company furnished to the stockhold-
ers on Wednesday the statement of opera
tions for the year ended September 30, 1885.
| The gross earnings were us follows: From
passengers, $243 32G SO; freight and express,
$3o4 6O7 03; milk and mar keting, $33 500 "a;
mails $27 322 II; miscellaneous sources, $10,-
259 &C. Total, $619 PIT 27. The operating
expenses, including rental of Hillen Station
and cost of operating the Baltimore and
Cumberland Valley Railroad, were $3S7 1885,
80; the expenditures in bctterments were
$101 124 56 The total decrease in earnings
as compared with 1884 was SAC 77S AZ; total
decrease in expenses, $50 66S Os; decrease in
net earnings, 26 110 81. There were moved
during the year 72,316 passengers and 1885,
485 tons of freight. The decrease in earnings
from passengers was $95 965 "a; from freight
and express, $3S 5s1 20. Depression in gen
eral business and failure of the wheat crop
in the section served by the road showed
their bad effects on the earnings yet it is be.
licved that it will be satisfactory to note the
extent to which the net revenue was main
tanned. In the five previous years the gross
and the net earnings exceeded; 1885 only in
1883 and 1884. Those for 1885 are far in ex-
cess Of the gross and net earnings of either
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