Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1898-05-12

Work upon the remodeling Of the Masonic
Building has commenced. The third story
will be raised and the front improved.
The now waning moon served during It's
fullness to very little purpose in this locality;
clouds obscured II every night and its ef.
fulgence was wasted.
They haye found fish that climbs trees.
The fish commissioners of our State should
stock our streams instanter; we'd rather
climb tree any time than to have to dive
into the water with pinch of salt to put on
their tails.
| FUNNY.-One of our Frederick contempt
raries reports "Lewistown" and IAN Anti.
Lcwistown" ticket at the recent town cleo.
tion. in Emmitsburg Fortunately, the Lew.
istown" ticket won, else Thurmont, being
midway, would likely have suffered the hor.
rors Of the battlefield of deadly civil war.
DID VERY WELL.-Despite the fact that
it rained on every one Of the three evenings
of Thursday, Friday and Saturday last, the
KafFee Katch was patronized wish enough
to net about ten dollars. The promoters de.
sire us to thank those who braved the
weather to aid them.
The Louisville Courier Journal is right
when it says, THAT President Mckinley will
make no mistake in commissioning veterans
Of the civil war who yet retain vigorous
faculties. There is far more danger that the
service will suffer frolS paying too much at.
tention to the immodest claims Of political
warriors.
The paragraphers will have more difficulty
in working up puns on Sampson and Schley
than they have had with Deweys name.
Some very witty quips have been framed;
they were all the more enjoyable from the
fact that Admiral Dewey was victorious.
Should Sampson meet with the unexpected,
a reverse, there will be some reference to
Dellah, we predict and if he wins, the jaw
bone of Blanco's mule will be calle1 upon to
do service for the jekers. AS for Schley, he
must do some very cleyer thing-executc
| oOIuC tHOIuuSuIy
then the paragraphers will I've happy.
DEATH OF WIN. II. MITCHELL.-On April
1lth, In Oxford, Ohio, William II. Mitchell
died from the effects of paraly,ic stroke.
lie was the son of Abel and Elizabeth
Mitchell, was born In Thistle. Baltimore
County, Md. April 25, 1s49. He had two
sisters, both of whom arc dead, and one
brother who is living in Washington state
His parents were natives of England; they
came to America in 1S41, being six weeks on
their journey The father died in September
1898 and is buried in Maryland, while the
mother, who died December, 1897, is buried
in the state of Washington where she had
gone to live with her son.
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THE ELECTRIC RAfLwAY.-Now that the
Frederick, Thurmont & Northern Electric
Railroad Company has been incorporated by
Act of Ass, mtly and a very efficient organ
ization of the incorporators affected, il is in
order to have the project fully placed before
the people of the section through which 1t is
proposed to build this road.
| In the first place, as to the objections to
the building Of the road. There are those
who, not altogether without reason, hold
this enterprise in disfavor. We say, not
altogether without reason, and, favorable as
we are to the building of this road, we agree
to say that there are interests, with which
this road will come Into conflict. There is
nothing different in this however from any
other known movement for pub &c good: it
is wholly beyond the realm of the possible to
institute any industrial or other movement
that will not be in detriment to some private
interest, each different in character and de-
gree and the proposed railroad will IN our
opinion be to the disadvantage of the ftWcst
possible interests in proportion to the mag
ni,ude of the undertaking aud to the bene
fits that will flow from it,
Further; the injury that it will do to most
o. the interests that will be affected by it will
be direct and apprecisbie. while these same
interests must. by the general benefit wrot
reap indirectly their share thereof and if the
road serves the several localities through
which they pass, to the extent predicted,
these indirect benefits should, and we believe
will, fully account for every dollar of damage
that may accrue to every individual interest
As one Of our citizens aptly put il;
I'm not favorable to the building of an
Electric railroad from Frederick to Emmis
burg via. Thurmont, but 1t wont do to stand
10 the way of public enterprise-hence am
not actively opposing it; in fact, not oppos-
ing it at all" That is the proper spirit,
and when such people take such position,
those to whom this road must largely bone
fit should manifest an interest that will rem
der efficient aid to those who have this I'm.
dertaklng on their hands No opportunity
should be lost that offers to press upon our
people the manifold benefits that will come
to them, 30 that the men who have deter
mined to carry this project through will find
themselves continually Ill friendly county;
that petty and serious obstacles may he re-
moved, not laid in their way: that a friendly
interest and not a feeling of opposition may
he developed along the line.