The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-02-05

Some Little Jottings About Peo-
pie and Things.

the sixteenth.
Eight inch ice on the creeks and the
Potomac frozen.
Mrs. George Jones has been in Fred
erick during the past week.
The Antietam Cement Mill has been
sold to Washington parties.
Washington is beginning already to
get on Inauguration day look.
A project to lay off a new town near
Cumberland is being discussed.
The Burmeister entertainment was a
great musical and social success.
Yesterday, one month, Cleveland
will step out, and Mckinley in.
Whole families are bed-ridden with
the grip in Clark county, Virginia.
Such blizzard, such as now eddy.
1t was impossible to face the elements
on last Thursday.
Rev. Father o. Rourke, Rector of the
Novitiate, of this city, is confined to
his room with an attack of grippe.
Think of the pins, needles and hair
pins alone that will be needed to make
the Bradley Martin ball success.
A movement against divorce is being
actively taken up by the clergymen of
the Episcopal Churches in New York.
Queen Victoria, in return for the
gifts brought her by Ii Hung Chang,
is going to send him jeweled minia-
ture of herself.
The 7.45 train on the Pennsylvania
Railroad gets you to Baltimore at 1920.
A straight road and interesting seem
cry. and always on time.
Maria G. Paret, wife of Bishop w.
A. Paret, of the Episcopal Diocese of
Maryland, died at her home ITO Mad
ison avenue, Baltimore, on Monday
last.
The building lately occupied by Null
link and Kemp has been fitted up as
a waiting room for the electric car pas
sengers.
The amount of charity that has been
dispensed in the large cities and even
in the small ones, shows the sympathy
that is felt for the unemployed as well
as for the poor.
Cornelius Vanderbilt has rented a
house in Washington, and will occupy
it at once. He will Drng his corps of
servants with him and number of
fine traps and teams.
The Bradley Martin ball is proving
q boon to the dress makers, the hair
dressers, the dry goods merchants, the
jewellers, the butcher, the baker and
the candlestick maker.
The great contlagrstion in Philadel-
phia last week caused great loss of
property. If it had been later in the
day the loss of life would, without
doubt, have been appalling.
Young Leroy Anderson. charged
with counterfeiting and being an ac-
complete to counterfeiters, was re-
Gently released from Jail in Washing
ton City on ST. 900 bail, and is now in
Frederick.
John Wanamaker, it is rumored.
will build a hundred thousand dollar
church, as a Thanksgiving offering for
his fortunate escape from the coufia-
grafton that threatened his Philadel-
phia store.
The "Rider and Driver" says that
from their advertising columns. and
reports received, they feel assured that
the business in the horse world this
spring will be better than for four or
five years.
Why does not the energetic and gen.
erous Mr.. Long start soup house
again? We believe he would receive
good support from those who wish to
a h,.f ho. nf xyn
ability TO plan and carry out.
Work will begin at once on the new
passenger station of the B. & o. near
the entrance of the Belt Line tunnel in
Baltimore; the contract has been CIV
en- out, and the Improvements will cost
in the neighborhood Of 100000.
Oh the snow, the brown and black
snow,
Filling the houses above and below,
Into the cracks and into the corners.
We in the country felt we were gorn-
ers. A MOUNTAINEER.
The city stores are filled with all the
dainty organdies and embroideries that
speak OF the approach of spring, but
the maid and matron give passing
glance and a word of admiration and
pass on, wrapping their furs more
closely around them.
The family of Mr.. Joshua Main have
the sympathy Of the community in
the trying ordeal they passed through
at the burial of Mr.. Man. The tnOw
drifts were great, and the wind so
fierce, that it required great efforts to
complete the ceremony.
Unlike most proprietary medicines,
the fornul@ of DR.. J. G. Ayers Sar-
saparilla, aud other preparations, are
cheerfully sent to any physician who
applies for them. Hence The special
favor accorded these well known stand
ard remedies by tine Worlds Fair com
missioners.
Corbett seems to be the favorite in
the betting on his big match with Fitz-
simmons. The odds now are 10 to in
favor of Corbett. The great fight will
in all probability take place in Ne
vada, as the Governor of that State
has recently signed bill legalizing
prize fighting.
Don't forget to feed the partridges
these cold days. They cannot scratch
for food when the ground is frozen or
snow lying several inches on the fields
and woodland. The supply of these
game birds is fast dying out in the
county, and every farmer should try
and locate flock and keep it through
the winter.
DIR. Bernard G. Steiner, of Baltimore,
recently delivered lecture on "Wes-
tern Maryland in the War of the Rev
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