Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-04-26

All the 'burghs are now to be spelled burg
Centers are to be spelled ter not 'trc,' and
boroughs 'boro' So says Uncle Sam.
Our thanks are due Rev w. L. Martin,
Secretary, for q copy of the minutes of the
Eighth Annual Session of the Maryland Con-
ference of the United Brethren in Christ held
at Keedysville, March 8 to 10.
A thrce.year-old boy IN Lynn, Mass, was
struck by locomotive and knocked high IN
the air. He came down on the cowcatcher
and was carried quarter of mile, when he
rolled to the ground unhurt and smiling.
The grand electric railway scheme is in
in the Cumberland Valley.
1t is proposed to connect all the towns from
Hagerstown to Harrisburg by an electric
railway. AS the country is densely popula-
ted and dotted with towns and villages, the OBJ
ject will be remuneratye.
WEATHER CRoP BULLETIN No. 3.-The
fruit prospects, in Western Maryland, were
still more unfavorable by the SHOWS of Tues
day and Wednesday, and by the heavy frost
on Thursday morning; yet there are some
hopes that the peaches and apples are not all
killed. Grapes are reported as apparently
uninjured Wheat looks well, and oats arc
coming up. Much land is beng plowed for
corn. Some potatoes planted.
New VoLUME.-Wnh our last issue we
entered upon the NXIV,h volume.
OF the twenty-threc years that THE CLAIR
ION has been published, more than fourteen
have been under the present management.
During these years VIC have endcavored to
serve the interests of this section as we have
been able and recognized our opportunity,
We ale fully content with the results ofthosc
labors, and have no apology to make for the
accident of our existence.
In these days, when men who are unable
to do anything else satisfactory to themselves,
90 into the country Newspaper business, we sigh
for the days when the local editor was being
set apart today the profession has grown to
be eclectic, the sanctum grihd'out the art,
artless and the business sloppy These re-.
Elections are cast with wholly impcrsona'
intent and only embody the impressions that
have been made upon us by the ruthless
hand of fifteen years experience.
OUR STREET Policy .--Annually we spend
between three and four hundred dollars
Oh our streets and while they arc fairly good,
we do not know what solid surface of
street is. In round numbers
the cost last year was $3.50 and an equal
sum will be expended this year, probably.
Now suppose, instead of this annual re-
ncwal of Il portion of our streets, tat five
dollars worth Of flyer cent bonds
were issued to run for twenty years and the
proceeds of their sale applied to the making
of solid surface streets, how would the &C.
count stand at the end Of twenty years and
how different would our streets be during all
that time?
Such a bond would readily sell at 5 ner
cent premium, which would start the sinking
fund with $3.50: allowing for the increase in
tax basis, the same percentage of receipts
that is now allotted to street repairs should
bring the amount up to an average OF $40o.
This would pay the annual interest and
leave $3.50 annually (f25 more than sufficiently
for the sinking fund. In the first place
though $500 is surely a less proportion OF
the gross amount of taxes tor the average OF
the next twenty years, than $3.50 is at pres
ent, and $50 is more than need be set aside
annually for sinking fund. What, then,
does the above prove? 1t proves that we
car not only secure uniform and excellent
streets for twenty years, but that it will cost
less money during each one of those twenty
years, IN fact a calculation will show that
by setting aside for the sinking fund, the
premium assumed to be $3.50 $l25 annually
thereafter to the sinking fund at 8 per cent
would provide for the bonds in 20 years,
showing that a less percentage OF the taxes
than is now used will give us the best streets
in the county.
WEDDED.-On Wednesday, noon, in the
Lutheran church, this place, by Rev. j. II.
Barb Harry Nelson Brown of Washington,
ID. c. and Mamie Rouzcr of Thurmont en-.
tered wedlock. AS the bridal party ncAred
the altar, the organlst, Miss Margaret Osler,
played the wedding march from Lohengrin
The chancel was decorated with potted
plants, in front of which the couple stood,