Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1889-06-06


ty inches long, was caught on Pennsyl,
vania avenue, opposite the National
Hotel. In the evening thousands OF the
fish were attracted by the electrical
lights, and could plainly be seen dis
porting in the flood.
Nearly two hundred pounds of letters
addressed to Mr.. Cleveland during his
presidential term were consigned to tie
flames the other day. They We're epls
ties from cranks, and represented the
oldest tumble of insane whims that
could be imagined. They did not gem
orally consist, as might have been ex-
pected, of requests for official favors.
The cranks who address the President
are generous and long only to give, not
to receive. The letters were full of ad'
vice on civil service reform, tariff, for
eign affairs, Samoa, Oklahoma-eve
thing, except the White House rats.
There was nearly two hundred letters
from one David God, seemingly on as
many different subjects. Many Of the
epistles were from people evidently de.
mented on religion, and in these letters
the strains OF piety are interrupted
with worse TRADES of filthy obscenity,
blasphemy and billingsgate then ever
fell from the mouth of a Seven Dials
fisherwoman. Expurgated Of the filth,
the collection would have been Of value
to dime museum.
As a specimen of the most curious
letter is the following from Vermont:
"Dear Mr.. President when l got
up this morning and went to light the
fire, l found the stoye pipe gone. l
looked all around the house for it, but
could not find it. Finally found it
leaning up against the door on the out
side of the house. The weather is warm
and pleasant now and l can get along
very we'll without any stove pipe. Very
truly your friend, j. H. Whiting
What devils dance of ideas is this ?
The writing is fair and legible; the
signature is made with flourish
There were a dozen letters from the
same man on us inconsequential sub
jects.
Sir Julian Pauncetote Is the last man
YOU would select us a swordsman-es-
pecially knight of the foils. He is
heavy in figure and indolent in manner
his eyelids are feshy and the expression
of face dull. Like most elderly men Of
his class IN England, the British min.
lister shows in appearance the triumph
of wines and rich foods over the once
splendid physique that early training
developed. And yet Sir Julian gives
promise of making fencing popular in
fashionable society here. Those who
know say that he Is the most sklllful,
and enduring foilsman seen here in
years. These upper class Englishmen
are always physical surprises. There
was Lord Sackville; he had the same
bored indolent manner, and yet he was
a magniticently preserved man and
could reel off ten miles on the high road
in a manner that would make profess
sional pedestrian eIvious.
The President has finally promised
to receive the Anti Malone Republicans
of Virginia, on June II. What they
will accomplish is easy to see-nothng.
The President is evidently inclined to
snub them and is simply putting off
the torture for few days.
While the Unit ted States may not
have succeeded in obtaining precicely
what it has favored in respect to all the
points of issue IN the Samoan conference
the indications point to the substantial
adoption of the American contention
by the commissioners. Unless the
public forms on insufficient Foundation
too high an idea of what the American
commissioners have accomplished, and
prepares itself for disappointment by
inhaming its imagination Of achieved
results, the decisions of the conference
can hardly fail to give satisfaction in
this country. Germany has not obsti-
nately resisted and England has practi-
cally assented to the American conttn-
ton that Samoa is to belong to and be
governed by Samoans, and that no 9TH
er nation is to be permitted, either di.
rectly or indirectly, to absorb the is
land or to control their government.
Their Business Booming.