Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1895-11-21
LEWISTOWN LETTER.

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Rev. J. u Asper will hold communion ser.
vices at Utics church next Sunday morning.
Services on Thursday and Friday nights of
this week.
Miss Ida Hedges, who has been spending
some weeks In Frederick, paid visit to her
parents on Saturday and Sunday last.
Mr.. ]. P. Weller. who has been visiting
friends in Virginia, mas returned home.
1t is said that the new Dunkard church at
Mountandale will be dedicated in about two
weeks. There is some painting yet to b.
done.
The Jr. O. U. A. M. of Walkersyille pre-.
scented our public school with bible and
flag on Saturday Noy. 9th. The day was
beautiful one and the turnout was large.
The order and the school formed line ut
the schoolhouse headed by the Walkersville
band and marched through the town and
back to Mr.. J. p. Weller's Hall where the
services were opened with prayer and pre-
seutation address by Rev. Todd. The address
OF acceptance WAS delivered by T. NJ. Biser
of Frederick. Addresses were also given by
Mr. Reno s. Harp of Frederick and Rev. j.
u. Aspcr of Lcwistown all of which were
interesting and highly appreciated by
crowded and warm house. AT the close of
the services at the hall the line was re formed
and marched to the schoolhousc where new
pole was in readiness and the flag amid loud
cheers was swung high in the air. The
school then sung 1.-THE Star Spanglcd Ban.
ner" The music by the school was good
and was conducted by Prof. Biscr and Miss
Grace Hcnshuw, the teacher OF the school.
The Walkersvile band enlivened the occa-
sion with some of their choice music. ALI
were we'll pleased with the afternoons enter.
tanmcnt.
BLOOD CURDLING A1f you lack any facts
needed to convince you that the blood of
Frederlcktonians has been stagnated in the
veins by the cnrdllng process that scientists
everywhere recognize as being concomitant
with things horrible, then read the following
extracts from the Daily Ne,os of Monday, as
it rccounts the events Of the lynching.
"The voice of one of the men was heard
calling on all who meant business to hold up
their right hand and swear. Remember be
said, we come on an errand of death and we
bring death with u.s. Numerous pistol shots
were fired in the air here and there, and the
<,ft Ian H., n n
rose like the swell of the sea, ROW wild
outburst of human yells, and then subdued
moaning and wailing that filled the night
with unutterabe wierdness."
One here begins to experience "creeps,''
premonitory of that which is yet to come.
-Four times the clapper of the bell in the
belfrey hit the metal sides, then the rope
which Mrs. james Crum had pulled, broke
and its voice was STILL
Memorandum theSun correspondent AYERS
that but "three times the clapper etc"
Many IN the crowd fired pistols in the air.
But the men grew more orderly and sedate.'
That the men at the Frederick lynching
were "orderly' is not to be set down specially
to their credit; but that they were "sedate"
is quite another thing to be sedate while one
lynches is NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
"A locust tree, standing lcafless and ghostly
along the South fence, was the chosen spot.
The mob scaled the rails" Execrable taste!
Think of it; to speak Of an assembly OF Sc.
date men as mob" Here the sanguine'
GUS fluid begins to take upon Itself viscid
form and the aortic valve to labor distress
lngly at unusual work.
with stiffness everywhere, beneath the
stars that looked down from above, amid that
wierd and tragic scene, arose the words Of
the Lords praye Bowens repeated them at:
ter the speaker. Others joined their voices
in pronouncing the wonderful plea. At the
end preparations for the execution were be.
gun"
And here are we led by the suggestivity of
circumstances, to quote Fol give us our tres
passes as we forgive those who trespass
against u.s."
Then approaches the sub climax
"Upward, upward, upward. Two. three,
four, five, six feet he went, swinging to and
fro and the legs spasmodically kicking" In
the name of all that is wholesome and chaste
in society, why should a refined taste be thus
called upon to submit to the abhorrent?
The climax!
STARK and stiff from the ropes end hung
the victim of the mob's vengeance, gone to
his doom, and the court of Judge Lynch"
stood adjourned" Selah And the bu.l.lud
cur-r-r. died
Levity aside, why seize upon so revolving
a thing as lynching wherein to indulge a
taste for highly. colored descriptive? The
most prosaic statement of facts as ascertained
is the style best IN accord with the theme, but
to paint in the gaudy colors of hyperbole, a
scene 80 repellant is, forfooth, q misappreci-
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