Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1895-12-19

When she had Children, she gave them Castor1a.
Our Christmas Gift
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MIR e. II. Miller has been appointed post
master at Logs this county. vice C. W. 10y,
resigned.
After Saturday next, the 2ist, the daylight
will lenethen slowly for q week, more rapidly
afterwards.
Mr., w. H. Damuth OF D j, who has been Al
Of pneumonia during the past month Is now
convalescent.
RAFFLINe.-Six wild turkeys, weighing
80 pounds spiece, will be ratified off at the
Club House, NJ. F. Policy, proprietor, on
Christmas Day.
Mr.. John A. Dents sale will take place on
Saturday, 2lst inst. Reference TO advertise
ment and bills will show that many valuable
articles will be offered.
The new dwellings of MIR. F. L. Wisotzkey
and Mr.. I. W. 10y are now about ready for
occupancy. The first of the year will likely
find them both tenanted
A Thurmont girl wrote to her best fellow
concerning festival: Don't phale to be
thar" And he replied "There's no such
word as phale; I'll be thar"
The Carroll Record has just come out
enlarged and improved. 1t is an excellently
conducted newspaper and Is receiving the
support 1t deserves and that renders possible
such improvement
Preparation for Christmas exercises now
monopolizes the attention of our Sunday
Schools. As usual there will be elaborate
exercises in some and interesting programs
In all the schools
WBDDED.-Lieut Geo. F. Landers, U. s.
A., son of Mr. John Landers of Thurmont
and Miss Jean Streeter Of junction City,
Kan, were united in matrimony yesterday
"wednesday at the home of the bride.
WILL CONTINUE The prices bid at Mr..
Chas L. Stokes public sale of harness, etc,
on Saturday last, did not warrant him in
offering his goods. He therefore has them
still on hand and will remain in business
here.
The citizens of Union Bridge will be glad
to know that the Town Council and the
Western Maryland Telephone Co. have come
to an agreement, and that the work of erect.
ing poles in the streets of the town will soon
begin.-Carrou Ne,os.
Joseph Wolf near Fairplay, stuffed sau
sage so long that one end was carried to the
kitchen above and fried while the balance Of
the sausage was being stuffed in the basement
below. -Hagerstown Globe.
land with such awful stories the Globe
stuffs its rea6ers.-ED.1
A. D. Long and Benz, g. LIE Fever of Will
Transport, have purchased number of Bel
gian rabbits in order to propagate the breed
in that locality. They will buy some farm
land near Williamsport and 60 into rabbit
farming on an EXTENSIVE scale. These Belgian
animals are slightly larger than the domestic
rabbit and are said to be better eating
Chronicle.
QUEER FIsHTNG.-A m edcal man in Lit
tlestown, Pa, well known to many Of our
readers had occasion lately to use his wheel.
barrow, but owing to the unwarranted intru.
sion of q ferocious nanny SWINE, he was
compelled to fish 1t up on the ROOF of an
adjoining building and now whenever the
denizens OF that district wish to hear it done
rythmically, scientifically and by note, it is
only necessary to call across the street, please
loan me your wheebarrow.'
Our neighbors of Carroll are enjoying the
novelty of winter campaign. They 60 to
political meetings, of which there has been
large number this week, in sleighs. The
election will be held on Saturday; it will be
to elect successor to Hon. p j. Bennett,
State Senator, deceased. DR.. Herring of
Westminster and DR.. Weaver of Uniontown
are the democratic and republican candidates,
respectively. The friends of each claim to
feel sure of success.
The last story Stevenson wrote, and the
one on which he was still engaged when
death overlook him, he called "a tragedy of
the Great North Road" The first install
ment appears in the Christmas number of
the Cosmopolitan. James Lane Allen begins
his new novel, Butterflies" which promises
TO be among the best works of that author.
"Ouida," with one Other inimtable character
sketches, Sarah Grand and Zangwill with
Stevenson, make the fiction a strong and
and almost incomprehensible feature of
ten cent magazine. Nor is the illustration
OF the Cosmopolitan behind the fiction. A
long array of rtists, no less personages than
Alfred Parsons, the famous French llustra-
tor, Rossi, Alice Barber Stephens, Reginald
Machell, r. B. A., B West Clinedinst, F. o.
Small, F. G. Atwood, Eric Pape, Jose Ca
brinety, r G. w. Bunny, Dan Beard, and
and G H. Boughton, A. r. A., contribute
original illustrations.