Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1888-06-14


BASE BALL-On the day of the Hose Cos
excursion to Union Bridgea game OF Base
ball between the players of the two towns
was played. 1t was wocfully onesided, oul
boys winning by score of 90 to 7.
FEsTIvAL.-Thc Graccham Mite Society
Will hold its annual festival on the Church
Lawn, in Graccham on Thursday, Friday
and Saturday, June 81, % and 23. This is
always accepted as one of pleasant events OF
the early summer and is largely attended.
A TERRIBLE SToRM.-On Sunday after
noon at the completion of the exercises OF
Memorial Day at Lcwistown, a hurricane
cycloric in character passed over that section
and from reports that we have it is likely
that the centre of the storm passed the church
on the hill north of the town, at which place
the exercises were held.
The storm was not Of more than five min
utcs duration, yet in that time dclu%c
of water and hail fell and the fury of the
wind overturned several buggics, while the
DtillIln nan ttlIilltN VIC libIotS uht III a
minute the greatest confusion rcigncd. Scy'
cral horses ran away; in one instance Il horse
started to run, while to the axle of the buggy
another horse had been tied and the two
rushed wildly down hill. There was no
one hurt but considerable damage done to
buggics Mr.. Will. Wncschc of Franklinvilc
lad new buggy badly wrecked by II
runaway ovcrlaking it, \ window of the
church was blown in, shutters torn of and
the chimney top oyrrlhrown. The hail
stripped the leaves from trees and has ccls
tainlv done some damage to the crops in
that locality
BlslIrr NEwMAN'S LUCTURE.-On Mon
day evening last Mcchanicstown audience
enjoyed rare opportunity, that of passing
an hour under the vivid word painting, rich
imagery and profound thought depths Of
Bishop J. p Newman in his lecture, "Thc
March of CivilizatioA.'
He prctaccd lis lecture with the statement
that the schools Of modern thought draw two
gcncAlogical lines, the one extending back to
the Garden Of Eden, the other ending in Il
mcnagcue. The promise implied in this was
fulfilled in the criticism of Darwin in his
descent of man" and other ductrinarcs of
Evolution.
The Golden are and the subsequent decline
in The arts ard sciences was then noted to rs-
tablish the fact that man has refrigerated at
certain periods and has not f,llowcdan UNI
broken ruc of advancement towards pcltrc.
lion as strict application Of the Evolution
list theory would require.
The almost theoretically perfect, organic
cl government of the ChinrSc, 1000 years
old the magnificent ritual of the Hebrews
the mapproachablc pocsy of Greece; art
that saw the marble breathe under the chiScl
of Il Phidias and the jurisprudence OF an
cicnt Rome were cited III evidence to
strengthen the claims Of supcrlorciviiIzaijon
in the Golden are, over that Of Il period of
of time intervening between that and the
present and III some respects challenging
with even that Of today, referring
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