Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1895-02-28
1CoMMUNIcATED.1

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Eylers No., Feb. 1897,
In reply to the article which appeared IL
TIE CLARION, January 18th stating:
"That juryman from this districe stood
night after night at certain point In Fred
erick City. determined to zee the man who
lit the electric light but in spite Of all BIZ
vigilance, he meyer saw him light the blame
thing"
Now In the first place let me say that THU
10 an utter falsehood. for meyer stood GU,
watching for an absurdity of this kind. There
! 10 nothing in the statement, absolutely moth
ing.
JuRYHAN.
THE amusing feature of the above will b'
best appreciated when we explain that thu
writer 10 altogether mistaken In bis belle
that 1t was to him that the item quoted. re-
ferred: how he came to understand that he
was the juryman in question We do moi
know.-ED. CLARIoN.1
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lNDUsTRIAL STATIsTICs.-Mr. A. B. How.
ard, Jr., chief OF the Bureau OF Industrial
Statistics of Maryland, has sent out his third
annual report of the Bureau for 1895. The
report Is neatly bound in book form and
contains 1876 pages, The report treats on
manufactures, agriculture, mortgages, per-
sonal property values, sweat shops, the un'
employed and strikes" Tie total number
of farms In Frederick county, according TO
the report, is 1922 number Of acres 887 ,70d
improved acres. 297S46; unimproved, Co.
866; valuation of land, fences and buildings,
$l7,7l2,960 value Of farm implements and
machinery, $854.9e0; live stock on farms,
81, 1O5, 1870 estimated value of farm products,
q, 481, $50; cost offertilizer, SIT $40. Mum.
Der of horses On farms in Frederick county,
II, no; mules, 44S. Neat cattle on farms ::
working ox"n 20; milk cows, 10, l76 other
cattle, 1853 swine on farms, Al ,o02 sheep,
not Including spring lambs, on farms, $500 ;
fleeces shorn, 6.0ee, pounds Of wool, 81, Al.
gallons Of milk on farms, only, 8,703, 436 ;
pounds Of butter, on fa' ms, only, 1871, ~ !;
chickens, 404.847; turkeys. 1905 ; geese.
8,29S; ducks, 9,403; dozens If eggs, 1,142,
"a, Cereal productions, for 1850 bushels
Of barley, 5,4Ss; buck wheat, 5l4 bushels ;
Iudian corn, l,990.4s9 bushels; eats. 1913
bushels; rye. IS. lG8 b. shells; wheat, 1927,
424 bushels; pounds of tobacco. 1905 ;
Irish potatoes, l46,o4S bushels sweet pota.
toes, 1889 bushels apples, 1880; peaches,
l550s; pears, 3 sls.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS county 10 now
taking Its turn in the humiliating experr nee
of peculatiug officials at bay before tho law.
Mr. Tolias Main, who nearly one year ago
was chosen Keeper of Montevue by the Board
Of Charities and Correction. mas made public
. statement that makes 1t appear that he was
really chosen first by the Board Of County
Commissioners ('hr.e members thereof. .
majority by which body the members of the
Board Of Charities an / Correction are chosen,
ard then he was lief, to find men who would
agree to vote for him for Keeper of Montevue
In return for beirg made a member Of the
Board Of e. and G. For this favor, Mr.. Main
says he paid three hundred dollars one hun.
dred dollars each to Messrs Morrison. House
and Delauder of the Board of County Com.
missi0ners. This bombshell was exploded
Wy Mr.. Main only after he was defeated at
an election by the Board of G. and c. for
Keeper Of Montevue for the coming year.
The grand jury was sitting at the time Mr..
Mains statement was made public; nothing
50 matchmaking arerning county officials
IS this could possibly be ignored by this body
and during Friday, Saturday, Monda, and
Tuesday the grand jury was at work upon it
and from the time given to it and the char.
acter ola number of the men known TO US
that are members of that jury, we are bound
to believe that thev Lave served the ends of
justice courageously, intelligently and with
out bias, a. enlightened by the evidence at
tainable
The indictment OF Aessrs Morrison, Hons
and DelaLder of the Board Of County Com.
mission rs and Ar T,brs II in for bribery,
the Comnssi' ners for accepting, Mr.. Main
for giving is the cut' ONE Of those delibera,
lions by the Grand Jury and every right
minded mon will regret 10 learn that such
dishonor has came upon these men. It is
probable that the trial Of these cases will be
4 ,'urlng the term of court now sitting it
will likely be one of the most sensational
cases that has been Lefore our court during
two decades.
ANrsoNETRoPIA.-lsa term applied tocases
which very frequently occurs, where the two
eyes vary in their refraction,
The defect is usually ngenita), but it may
be acquired. as in aphakia or loss Of accom-.
modations in one eye. Every possible variety
may exist have noticed many odd vsrie.
ties, one eye may be hypermetropic the 9th
er astigmatic, and then again both may be
myopic or sstigmatic or hypermetropic, bu
one much more so than the other, in fac
every possible variety may exist.
Eminent writer's say: "As the eye whose
reiractlon in the more defective still co.op-
crates In blnocular vision, sight is improved
thereby, and especially is the full corrcctio
useful in cases of myopia with divergent
strabismus, the increased stimulus to bino.
GUAR vision being sometimes sufficient to
proven, squint.
When the difference in the refraction Of
one eye is much greater than the other, tie