Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-05-03

We have eight occurrences I'VE puolc scnooiS
and no, one drinking saloon.
Maj. E. Y. Goldsboro will deliver All ad-
dress on Memorial Day, May S0th, In En-
mitsburg
MIR. Richard O'Tool is off this week on
trip that will take HIM as far as Michigan;
he is putting several American Signal Com
pany bells on new roads.
There never was known to be such mis-
cradle lot of skin flints, fakirs and dangerous
characters IN town since the war. They
played the film. fam game on number OF
persons Citizen.
On Monday last there was reported from
Iowa, eighteen inches of snow on the level
and still showing from another point in
that state three inches of hail was reported.
The cold should be along here about to-day.
Mr.. D. L. Boerner requests US to state that
lie will give his careful attention to the bus
mess of tailoring here in the future. More
satisfactory arrangements will be made and
some one will be in the shop to take charge
of work.
WHITE RABBIrs.-Pottinger Dorsey and
several friends of Frederick haye receiYed
from Main twenty pairs of white rabbits,
which are considerably larger than our home
rabbits They haye been turned loose in the
New Market district. This time next year
it is expected they will afford fine sport Tor
hunters.
VOLUME VI.-The Llttlestown Indepen-
dent has just completed its sixth volume 1t
makes one statement in referring TO the event
that carries more weight tlan columns OF
bombastic sclf-laudation. 1t says that there
are twenty-three hundred names on Its sub.
scription list. That's success and as the
Independent has merted it, further comment
is unnecessary.
Several farmers hayc stated to us during
the past week that an unknown worm is
destroying the young clover. Unless the
clover grows rapidly there Will! be short
crop this year. In several counties in Pen
nsylyania whole fields have already been
Observation-Disclosures.
THAT is probably the cause of the destruc-
,tlon of cloyer in this section and for which
the March cold amp April snow is blamed
Ed
Coon LORD DRIVER Us-It is now
threatened that another newspaper shall be
inflicted upon this unhappy county. Why
bless your dear souls, the Pantheon now oc-
cupied by the Frederick County Press con-
talns statues to greatness, monuments to
failure, lachrymatories, "busts" and records
of great deeds (of mortgage and yet you
would rush in where angels (of the better
CLASSY never direct their flight. Pause
Pause!!
One of the funniest things that We have
heard lately Is, that owing to the superior
style and beauty of the young ladies of
Thurmont, some of the matrons of a sister
village are disposed to be enyious even unto
.capliousness. Now, the queer feature of this
matter is. that when certain young ladies
visit US from that particular burg our NAM
mas give most positive and decided evidence
of envious feelings. Dear Mesdames do you
not know that a strange face possesses at
fractions that wane as they grow familiar.
An exchange says The non-advertlsing
merchant goeth forth to his lair at the ris-
ing of the sun and 10, no man entereth. He
standeth around all day like bottle of
, castor oil, and the people with the sheckles
come NOT to his shanty. He advertiseth not
his wares and his face is forgotten upon the
face of the earth. Who hath dried apples
Who hath Ay-solled g,nghams Who hath
,calicos made before the war? Who hath
patches all over his pants Who hath stale
baking powder without end? He that know.
eth not the printer
SPLIT HIS KNEE.CAP.-Mr. John w.
Lynn of Thurmont former employe ofthis
office, has been employed in The Citizen office
Frederick. During Coxey's entry last week
there was rush to see him and while on the
stairway Mr.. Lynn made a mis-step and the
wrench was so severe as to rupture the
knee-cap He was brought home and it
will be many days before John will be able
to do any work. We are truly grieved to
learn of his mishap he had waited patiently
for the job and had only been engaged on 1t
week when the accident occurred.
GIFT OF A FoUNTAIN.-The people OF
'Hagerstown tired of their fountain in the
square, or probably it would be nearer right
to state that their water supply is not suf
1iciert during the dryer season ofthe year to
permit of the luxury of fountain and they
determined to remove it, They offered 1t as
GIFT to the Western Maryland railroad If
they would accept of 1t and remove 1t. This
the company promptly did and offered it to
Thurmont. 1t was brought to this point
and unloaded and is now awaiting disposal.
We do not know whether it will be put up
. at the railroad station or whether the propo.
sition to pay simply the cost of removal will
be accepted by the people of the town for
disposal as they may determine. Should the
latter be done, it will grace some public
point in Thurmont We are told that a
proposition is about to be made concerning
ut, that will be popular and commendable.