Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1888-05-24
Local Items.

the Drug Store.
Local Items.
Most Pleasant.
To the taste, more acceptable to the stom
ach, and more truly beneficial in its action
the famous California liquid fruit remedy,
Syrup of Figs, is rapidly superscding all 9th
ers Try it. One bottle will prove its mer-
its. For sale by DR.. NJ. E. Leatherman, Me
Mchauicstown, Md.
People with thin heads OF hair should use
Halls Vegetable Slcllian Hair Remover to
make the hair grow out thick, healthy and
strong.
Snow began falling about 3 O'Clock on
Wednesday morning last, and continued for
over half an hour. On Thursday frost injur-
cd beans and tomato plants.-Aduocdte.
Mrs. Peter Hoke of this place has drawn
onc.tenth of the second capital prize in the
Nav drawing Of the Louisian, State Lottery
aud Will realize $4,000 thereon. The ticket
was No, g, 402 Chronicle.
The Blue Mountain House had pretty
close call from destruction by the lite noun
tam fires. The conhagration crept up within
1ifv feet of the buildings and but tor the ac-
tivi,v of Che watchmcn the magnificent hotel
would have been Il heap OF ashcs.-Adoocdte.
In chronic diseases, medicines should be
restoring, and not facilitating, in their &C
ton. The wonderful Strengthening and
curative effects, realized from the use of Ay-
er's Sarsaparilla, sustain the reputation OF
this remedy as the most popular blood pur.'
tier.
We are In receip, Of an invitation to at
tend the Tnirty-tifth Annual Commence
mcnt Roam IKE College, Salem Va, June
10Th to 18th, 1883. Mr.. Robert Leatherman
ofLcwistown, this county, is graduated at
this institution at the coming commence
mcnt.
PATENT SoLD.-The administrators OF
John B. Kurle), deceased, sold on Saturday
last at public sale in Frederick City, Il pat
ent secured in 1876, for the elimination OF
phosphorus from pig iron, for $500 cash.
The purchasers were Parties from Ne"
York City.
Mrs. Jasper Grushon died suddenly in
Cleacelstown on Sunday night last. She
had passed safely through the measles and
was considered convalcsccnt, when she was
attacked with a chill and died within TWEEN
,y-four hours The dcce; scd was sister OF
Mr.. Jos A. Wcdlle, ofthis place.
Wurr MONDAY was observed here; the
business men held enforced observance, the
town having been nearly dcpopulated dur
,nr the afternoon A large delegation went
to Mt. St. Marys College 10 witness game
of baseball: number went a-tishing CHM
ncy Rock parties were popular and many
drovc.and walked to points of interest about
the town.
An ELABORATE MAP-Mr. r, A. Ragcr
has Just completed Il very elaborate map fer
Messrs Char cs w. Ross and VIM, Z. Mauls
byJtrustccs, of all the Catoctin Furnace land,
comprising nearly eleven thousand acres OF
land in one body. Mr.. Rager made survey
of the entire property for the late Col John
B. Kunkel in 1888 The work at that time
occupied more than month in the field and
the expenses attending it aggregated nearly
one thousand dollars.-Ners.
Last week the Mechanicstown CLARION
entered upon it 18th year. Friend iCassell
gives his readers all the news Of that end OF
the county, and occasionally goes for" his
big brothers in the county seat, very much to
the qualification of his patrons
The CAToCTIN CLARION, published at Me
chanicstown, Frederick county, by MIR. Chas.
E. Cassell, entered upon ii eighteenth VOL
ume recently 1t is bright and newsy pa
per and deserves liberal support-!uend.
light.
On the day of the funeral of Miss Carrie
Beaver daughter of Oliver and Hester Bea-
yer, a land terrapin, with the initials Of the
deceased, &C. b. $780," marked on the un
der shell, came to the door IN the rear of the
house from which the funeral was held AZ
ter examination by the mother of the deccas
ed daughter, the tcrrapin left as deliberately
as it hau entered 1t was recalled that the
letters had been inscribed by the deceased
herself. and the effect of this message from
the grave on the bcreavcd family is better
imagined than escribcl.-Sentinel.
The commissioners of Franklin county,
Pa, under authority of a recent act Of the
legislature, will inspect the stones marking
the boundary line between that county and
Washington county, Maryland, beginning
their route at the Fulton county line. Her.
aid and Torch Light.
Those commissioners should he watched,
for they may claim more of our territory
1t is known that in the Olden time the lands
around Hanover, Gettysburg, and perhaps
Chambersburg, belonged to Maryland, and
to their great injury were gobbled up by
"honest Pennsylvania "-Chronicle.
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Commenting upon the proposition OF the
Women's Christian Temperance Union to
r,oko tbe annual oyhihit If our A horticultural