Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1897-11-11

HEAVY WINDe.-Wlth the clearing OF the
weather on Tuesday came the severest wind
storm that we have had for year. 1t was
not of hurricane force however In this
section and little damage was done.
C.E. RALLY.-A District Rally of the G.
E Societies of Creagerstown, Emmitsburg,
Graceham and Thurmont will be held In
Creagerstown this Thursday evening. An
interesting program has been prepared.
Thus 1T rs.-Wc are expected to know it
all; We shall make public in these columns
all that we know, elsewise there is Blue
Jeems Henry to liquidate. when we
do tell it, It is apology, fight or run.-Ohl
this job covers life Of lingering on beds of
unexpectedly Heliogabian becomes the
tastes the rustic journalist.
STOLE SHoRs.-During Wednesday night
thieves gained entrance to Mr.. M. Frank
Rowe's shoe store, and carried away eight
pairs Of shoes. They were generous enough
to take the shoes out of the boxes and leave
the boxes on the floor in the store. Tho
thieves entered the store through window
at the rear of the building, by pricing open
the shutters. They first bored two holes in
q panel of the door, after which they aban.
doncd their efforts to enter by way OF the
door, and opened window shutter as above
stated. The thieves left behind brace and
bit, and large chisel. There is no clue TO
the guilty parties. The brace, bit and chisel
were taken from the coach shop of Messrs.
Dukehart and Chrismcr.
A CHARMING INTERCHANGEABLE
Royal Troupers gave our people on Monday
Tuesday and Wednesday evenings in tho
Town Hall, the most for their money and
the best that has been this way in many
years. 1t is not only a high.class show in
point of excellence in the several parts, but
1t is clean and wholesome.
~Deltino, the contortionist 10 veritable
india rubber man with every joint universal;
his bending Is truly marvellous. and Is not
confined to one or two ancient tricks in this
line, but il in nearly every respect as novel
as it is wonderful.
Mr.. TOdt as an equillbrlst on the slack
wire does some difficult balancing and his
work on the trapcze is only to be compared
with the very best; he performs. bona .fde, the
act OF standing on his head on the unstable
bar of a swinging trapezc, besides number
of startling acts Of the accomplished acralist.
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harmony out Of every instrument that he
takes hold Of and real harmony at that.
Miss Hansey Deltino entertains most &C.
ceptably with her well trained voice; she
sings well and without affectation.
The knife and tomahawk throwing Of Nj.
Deltino, literally hedging Miss Dcltino about
with the gittering steel, is calculated to
make ones flesh creep.
Besides the above specalties, the entire
company appears in several of the most
laughable farces; in these Is nothing coarse
or Objectionable, but they are irresstably
funny. Dcltino, in burnt cork, far excels
anything that has ever appeared before q
Thurmont audience; it was worth twice the
price Of admission to see him as "the tailor"
on Tuesday night.
AS we have said, there is not AMI obiec'
tionablc feature in the entire program, the
work Of every one is exceptionally fine, the
price is as low as it can be, ten cents, and
they should be able to ill our Town Hall
from wall to wall.
Coop RoAps-We publish in this issue
the draft of a law that it is proposed shall
be enacted at the coming legislature.-We
sincerely trust that every newspaper in the
State will give it space that it may be read
by the entire people and far enough In
advance of the meeting of the General As
sembly for the constituents of the several
members of that body to get q clear idea Of
the magnitude Of the assinnity therein en-
bodied.
If survey of road made the road, then
there might be claim made for sense and
reason to erect $1,000 Office of State Sur.
veyor Of Public Roads. "A survey, intelli'
gently made. saves money. but it takes
money TO build the road and while some
roads are injudicously located, as n rule they
are not and the work is done by those who
nre wholly Informed rs to the necessities in
the case, local people, while the State
Engineer would be able do little save possibly
to give q scientifically executed profile of
his survey and draw his salary.
If thcsc people will devise a law whereby
= solid macadam may be laid upon q mud
bottom at cost that will not bankrupt the
counties, the matter of engineering may
safely be left to local talent. We fear that
they will not succeed in circumventing the
possibility of hollow between two hills,
neither will they induce water to run
of of a dead level, nor. again, prevent the
compromising of the article, mud, out of the
parts clay and other earths and water.
We may be lacking in up.to dateness in
this matter; there may be great gobs of horse
sense in the proposition and we are unn.
formed as to its merlts-and wholly unlu.
formed as to its merit we are-but, non con.
stat, we may favor 1t aud will, just as soon
as there appears sterling and sufficient evil
dence IN its favor; as it is we haYe none
before US.
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