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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-12-16
Foreign Notes.

A woman at Breslau has been SEN
fenced to four years imprisonment, for
sending three young ladies to the
United States, under the false pretext
of securing positions as governesses in
good families for them.
A beautiful piece of Roman mosaic
pavement has been recently found at d
depth of twelve feet under carpen-
ter's shop in Cordova, SPAN. Only a
portion of it has been laid bare, but so
far as exposed it consists of four female
figures, supposed to represent the sea-
sons. Each bit of mosaic is less than a
quarter of an inch square, and consists
of marbles of almost every shade of
color. The work is of beautiful finish,
and in an excellent state of preserva-
ton.
A sign of the times-One of the dra-
matte censors of Paris recently con.
demned play because it made threats
at the Emperor. "But," argued the
author, "the Emperor is dethroned.
He may come back,' was the censor's
reply, and his judgment had to stand.
A very fine specimen of the rough
diamond, as found at the Cape of Good
Hope, was recently offered at ,jewelry
sale in London. The stone weighed
over % carats, and appeared to give
every promise Of becoming, under the
cutters hand fine brilliant. 1t was
knocked down, after sharp competi-
ton, at $3.50.
The Government of the Bey of Tunis
is probably the most brutal in the world.
The attention of the Turkish Govern
ment-to which the Bey is subject-has
recently been drawn to affairs in Tunis,
and it has ordered the Bey to abolish
corporal punishment in his dominions.
In his rescript to the Bey, the Grand
Vizier says, "This practice is brutal and
cruel, and it has been carried to excess
in Tunis."
An enterprising Birmingham ENG
land) firm which purchased for ga
mere song a great quantity of the
French arms taken by the Prussians in
the late war, has already sold back to
the French Government chassepots to
the value of 100000.
A guild of ladies is proposed in Eng
land, under the leadership of Miss Har-
rison Swange, Dorsetshire, to promote
modesty Of dress, to do away with ex-
travagance, and substitute the neatness
and sobriety suitable to Christian
women.
The Queen of Holland recently went
in state to the Vatican, where the Pope
conversed with her for nearly two hours.
After presenting her suite to the Holy
Father, the Queen visited Cardinal
Antonelli. At the Vatican they attach
great importance to this visit of Pro-
testant princess to the head of the
Catholic Church.
The King of Italy is in treaty with
the Duke Grazioli for the purchase of
his magnificent villa Castel Porziano, a
short distance from Ostia, on the shore
of the Mediterranean. The Duke wants
100000 francs for it, and the King has
offered 4,5OO,O0O. 1t is believed that it
will be bought for about 5000, 900 in the
end. Castel Porziano is a place admir-
ably fitted for field sports.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-12-16
A Dog Story from the club!


Mr.. Edward Watts, a well known citi-
zen residing at No. % Harvard street,
tells very remarkable story about a
pair of English bull terriers that he
owns and prizes very highly. He says,
and Officer Coombs of the Fourth Sta
ton vouches for the truth of the story,
that one day last week he had occasion
TO 20 from his house to Portland street,
good mile, for the purpose of paying
small bill. Arriving at Portland
street with the dogs, he met the man
he wished to see on the sidewalk, and
there paid the bill, at the time drop
ping $50 bill on the curb stone, though
he knew nothing about it till his arrival
home, some two hours afterward. and
after calling at several places on his
way home. Finding this $50 bill gone,
he took his dogs and started back,
calling at the places he visited on his
way home. On reaching Sudbury street
he called his dog Jess, showed him a
$50 bill, looked about as if hunting for
it, and told the dog to smell it out"
The dog then started off with his nose
to the ground in front of his master,
and pushing round into Portland street,
where they had been before, and where
the bill was paid, he stopped, poked
about the dirt with his nose and in a
few minutes ran up to his master with
the lost 500 bill in his mouth. That
looks like very tough story, but if
truthful men are to be believed then is
this story true.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-12-16
VOLUME l.
Chicago.

BY'J. C. WHITTIER.
Men said at vespers: All is well!
In one wild night the city fell:
Fell shrines of prayer and marts of grain
Before the fiery hurricane.
On threescore spires had sunset shone,
Where CHASTITY sunrise looked on none;
Men clasped each others hands and said:
The City OF the West is dead
The fends Of fire from street to street,
Turned, powerlcss. to the binding glare,
The dumb defiance of despair.
That signaled round that sea of fire;
swift words Of cheer. warm heart -throbs
came:
In tears of pity died the flannel
From East. from West, from South, and
North
The messages of hope shot forth.
And. underneath the severing wave
The world, full handed. reached to save
Fair seemed the old but farer still
Ihenew the dreary void shall fill.
With dearer homes than those o'erthrown.
For love shall lay each cornerstone.
Rise, stricken city from thee throw
The ashen sackcloth of thy woe;
And build, as Thebes to Amphion's strain,
10 songs OF cheer thy walls again!
How shriveled, in thy hot distress,
The primal sin of selfshness
How instant rose, to take thy part,
Tho angel in the human heart!
All not in vain the flames that tossed
Above thy dreadful holocaust;
The Christ again has preached through thee
The gospel of humanity!
Then lift once more thy towers Oh high,
And fret with spires the Western sky,
To tell that God is yet with us,
And love is still miraculous
Atlantic for December.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-12-16
Current Items.

PERSONS at Red Oak, Iowa, are buying
corn at Is cents per bushel to use as
fuel, being cheaper than coal.
THE latest agony among fashionable
New York youth is to wear small
thermometer on the side of the hat.
THE water in Lake Huron is lower
than at any time before within the
remembrance of the oldest inhabitant.
Two hundred and odd Nashvillians
use their teeth to gnash villanous
opium. No, we forget; they use the
gum.
JUDGE in Iowa attempted to settle
the disputed ownership of calf Solo
mon fashion, by depositing the animal
midway between the residences Of the
contesting parties, and noting the direc-
ton it took. The alf,who was not posted
in the Scriptures, cooked his tail and
bounded over the fence, and was in
the next township before the counsel
had time to move an arrest of judg-
ment.
The Houston County (Minn.) Democrat
confirms the statement that man at
Spring Grove, in that county, is turning
into stone. His name is Harmon Sill
verson. He is completely petrified in
all his limbs and body-the only excep-
ton being portion of his mouth,
throat, and eyes. He has good appe-
tite, eats, and prays day and night for
the Lord to deliver him from this terri
BILE aff1iction. He is perfectly helpless.
The process of petrifaction commenced
some time last spring in his feet and
knees, since which time it has gradually
increased,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-12-16
A Dissatisfied Bachelor.

A correspondent of the Cincinnati
Gazette has some odious things to say in
favor of what he chooses to call "Men's
Rights" 81 am," he says, "a bachelor,
81 years of age, in sound health, and in
receipt of salary of $1,000 per year,
and, therefore, a good match for any
woman, no matter who she may be; yet
| remain unmarried from principle, and
will remain single until the laws are SO
altered as to make me master of my
own home. ! am the owner of real
estate acquired by my own labor. | do
not mean to allow any woman to con-
troll me in the disposal of that property
simply because she should happen to be
my wife. She would have done moth
ing toward earning that property, and,
therefore, have no moral right in its
sale. Any law giving her dover third
is simply fraud on me, the more so as
the law does not give me any dover
thi.I in her property. And then the
ceremony nowadays, called marriage,
does not give me a wife it merely gives
me a woman who can leave me when
ever she pleases. l cannot keep her
against her wishes. She may 60 back
to her father or elsewhere, and / can't
compel her to come back but should l
leave her for any reason she can have
me arrested and compel me to support
her. Such a thing is one-sided and un-
fair. A woman held by such loose tie
is not, in my opinion, wife in the holy
way decent man has shrined in his
thoughts. The laws have degraded her
into a concubine.f
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-12-16

A SEWAGE scheme has been adopted
by the corporation of Birmingham, Eng
land, to exclude injurious matter from
the sewers, and to purify the sewage by
filtration upon an area of nine hundred
acres of land. The cost of the scheme
is estimated at Sl,500,O00.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-12-16
Transforming White Man into q
Negro.

That the skin of the Ethiopian is
tolerably secure from change has ever
been an undisputed fact, yet according
to the most recent revelations of science
such is the case no longer. A San
Francisco doctor has discovered pro-
cess by which a white man can be
transformed into a negro, which is GER
tainly no less remarkable than that the
African should be converted into a
white man. The surgical operation,
that has become SO common since its
recent discovery, of transplanting
portion of skin from some other part of
the body, or even from some other per.
son, to an ulcer, for the purpose of start
ing new growth of cuticle, was per-
formed upon the arm of a white man
of 25 wears, and ruddy complexion,
the borrowed cuticle having been taken
from the arm of full blooded negro.
The experiment was success, so far as
the ulcer was concerned, but to the
horror of the victim the black skin is
spreading rapidly, and the pleasing
probability is that he will soon become
negro. OF course a corresponding
operation on q negro might go far to-
ward making him what our Southern
friends call Caucasian"
THE mystery of the frozen well' at
Brandon, in which water remains fro,
zen during the hot months of the sum-
mer, has never been satisfactorily ex-
planned. 1t was supposed that the
freezing was due to the dissolution of
some material in the water, or to elec-
tricity, but it is found, by chemical an
alysis, that the water holds nothing in
solution which would account for its
temperature, and the electric needle
fails to show any current of electricity.
the opinion is that the ice in summer
is caused by the freezing of the gravel
bed during the previous winters, and
that the cold gets fastened in, in some
incomprehensible manner, and the ice
just stays through the summer.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-12-16

SAGINAW co 'dNry, Mich, rather Prides
itself on COZ. pulent infants. Ihe lates,
arrival IN that line kicks the beam al
10 pou nds, and when he inquiries 1oi
the pAregoric during the lone watches
OF me night, he can be heard with grea'
1.,istinctness ten blocks.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-12-16
NUMBER 12.
Culex in Carminc.
BY II. T. STANTON

BY II. t, STANTON.
When so.,e migratory clouds.
Broke upon the leaty shrouds,
Where the insects lay in crowds;
And melancholy rain.
On the sounding window pane.
Beat its funeral refrain;
Through crevice in the sash.
Where the spatter and the dash,
Made his purpose very rash,
A mosquito. lean and thin.
From the drowning and the din,
Undertook to futter in
And a crazy shutters swing.
Made the hanging blossoms fling.
Such a flood upon his wing.
That he rather fell than fiew.
And was fairly driven through.
By the gusty wind that blew.
Twas the chamber of maid.
Who. her perfectness displayed
In measure disarrayed;
For taper in the gloom.
of the curt.ined. quiet room.
Showed woman in her bloom
And the mellow light was shed.
On her bosom and her head,
In the splendor of her bed.
In golden current there,
Ran her undulating hair.
From the polished shoulder bare.
Splendid type Of angel sleep!
Fairer than the pillows heap.
Lying there in silence deep
Who will blame him while he dips.
From the vintage of her lips,
Redder wine than Bacchus sipsY
Less mpassionea things of earth.
Seeing such. would know their worth.
Feel it in fever birth.
Any statue. wanting life.
Nearing lips so passion rife,
Soon would wake to pulsing strife.
So the glad mosquito sank
Joyous on the fruity tank.
And to utter fullness drank.
Better far the cruel rain,
Thrumming on the window pane,
Fell upon his wing again
Better far the shutter, swing.
Caught his cousin crying wing,
Neyermore to let it sing.
Better he had known drouth
In the marshes of the South.
Than the nectar of her mouth.
Early morning, fair and sweet,
Found him helpless on sheet
CLASSY eye and icy feet.
Butterfly and humble bee.
For the coroner's decree,
Early came the corpse to see
Laid him out upon the feor,
Scanned his body DER and DER
AS it never was before.
After consultation slow,
Pro and con. and so and so,
There they let the insects know:
" This mosquito, lying dead.
By the female in that bed,
Pizened was with carmine red u
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-12-16

The colored people in GAINESVILLE, Ga,
regulate their timepieces by wooden
watch used as jewelers. sign.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-12-16
$l09,9l7,477.24

Balance. $3.50, ,904, ,349. 30
[NorE-The above includes transfers between ap-
propriations and repayments.
On June 30 the number of national
banks that had deposited securities of
the United States with this office pre-
liminary to their organization was 1898.
The number of new banks organized
during the last tiscar year was l4l. The
total number of banks on June 80,
1871, was 1880.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-12-16

A LADY editor in Wisconsin advertises
in her own paper for a husband. She
says he must be printer and possess
means sufficient to buy a new press.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-12-16

A CHINESE drama, now running in
San Francisco, has been in progress one
hundred and sixty-four years in China,
and twelve years in this country, and
has only got to the middle of the sec
ond act. A little is played every
night.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-12-16
Darwinian RetrOgreSsiOn.

A New Zealand correspondent OF the
San Francisco Alta is responsible for
the following story:
However strange Mr.. Darwin's theory
that man is descended from mon
key--may seem to be to many, the fol-
lowing particulars in the early history
of one of the present members OF Par
lament for New Zealand are related IN
all sober earnestness in Southern papers.
Mr.. BIS early life was spent in the wilds
of South Africa. When a mere infant
he was one day laid peacefully at rest
at the door of his woodland home. His
worthy parent, near the cabin, shot the
offspring of large monkey, at which
the feelings of the atfectionate mamma
were of course much wounded. She
was, however, driven away by the ap-
preaching hunter, and, in passing the
cabin door, noticed and stole the future
New Zealand legislator. The loss was
not discovered for nearly an hour after
ward, and then all efforts to find the
robber proved unavailing. Three
months after this period a hunting
party came across family of monkeys
in the wilderness, and there, in the
arms of the careful, although untutored,
wet-nurse, was the long-lost child, who
chatted and .ibbered in the most ap-
proved monkey fashion, apparently
fully equal to the exigencies of the
situation. Could there be any more
convincing evidence than this, of the
affinity of our race, and those hardy
denizens of the woods
IT is seldom that any one wants a
dead mans shoes, but those of the mur-
derer Wilson are now preserved at the
Hartford police headquarters. They
are the same he wore when captured
after the Brown Thomson robbery, and
in the soles of which he concealed the
knife with which he murdered Warden
Willard. They are also the shoes which
were stuffed full of hash and exhibited
in the court, and in which he finally
walked to the gallows.
A CHINESE drama, now running in
San Francisco, has been in progress one
hundred and sixty-four years in China,
and twelve years in this country, and
| L.. .x1,, uof 10 tho rni6,l1a of the Sac-
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-12-16
Balance in the Treasury at
the close of the fiscal year

Total expenditures for
the fiscal year.............
Worcester daily spy., 1871-07-17
RuiIrond Waters,

JE FFERsoN, MADISON AND INDIANAPOLIS.
LOUISVILLE, KY, July 16.-The injunction
suit of the Jefferson, Madison and indianapolis
railroad TO eniOn the Ohio and Mississippi rail-
road from building its track across their land TO
Indiana, which was TO have been tried at
Charleston, Ind, has been postponed twenty
days, pending negotiations for amicable ar
rangements.
MISSOURI PACIFIC.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, July 16.-rhe county collec-
tor has levied on twenty locomotives and large
amount of other property belonging to the
Missouri Pacific railroad, for non-payment of
tax amounting to about half million. None
OF the property was removed, and the collector
allowed the locomotives to be used as usual.
This road claims exemption from taxation by
virtue of the provisions in its charter, and now
has case pending in the supreme court to set
tie the question Of the North Missouri railroad
company, whose property was levied on yester-
day. 1t is understood they have agreed to pay
a portion of the taxes assessed ON them, in
order to secure the release of their proper ty, so
that they can deliver it TO the purchasers of the
road next month, provided it is sold.
IRON MOUNTAIN.
The locomotives of the Iron Mountain rail-
road seized Friday, have been released without
bonds. This road also claims exemption from
taxation under the provisions of its charter, and
has never paid tax. About two years ago the
question Of its liability to be taxed was mOoted
and referred TO the attorney general of the state
who advised against the proposition, and the
attempt was abandoned. The seizure was
merely revival of that question by the new
officials. The matter will now 90 before court
and be settled. The dispute in no wise involves
the ability of any of the above roads to pay the
taxes, only their liability The operation of
the roads has not been disturbed
DELAWARE, LAGKAwANNA AND WESTERN.
WASHINGTON, July 16.-Mr. Cooke is ex-
pected here in few days, when he may make
some proposition in the case Of the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western railroad company,
penalty for their failure to pay the tax assessed
on the coupons of the last five months of 1870
within the time prescribed by law. Mr.. Bout
well decided that in all cases such penalty
should be remittcd in the collection of taxes as
sessed under the instructions of special order
No. 100.
Worcester daily spy., 1871-07-17
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agate type, time IS cts each subsequent insertion 50
cts.i week t2Isi weeks 800; month $500; year
tso-and the proportiOnally for any numbtr
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line Obituary notices. resolutions &C. IS cents per line
Legal advertisements siOO per square for Hrst inser
tIOn; each subsequent insertion 50 cents
Special positions: In the paper and special styles of
display will be charged extra rates Cuts and dcublc
column advertisements allowed only to limited extent,
and double rates charged for the whole space occupied
In WEEKLY sPI-First insertion sl.O0 per square
each subsequent insertion 80 cents; months 500; one
year $500.
Worcester daily spy., 1871-07-17
Fire Record.

AT NEW YORK-PROBABLE LOSS OF LIFE.
NEW YORK, July 16-At nine O'Clock yester
day morning a fire broke out in the basement
of the four story brown stone house No. 7S1
Sixth avenue. The fire, it is reported, was
caused by the carelessness of John Dugan
workman, who was engaged in cleaning some
clothing near a lighted gas jet, by which a
quantity of Denzine which he was using became
ignited. The flames were speedily extinguished
and the total damage to stock does not exceed
5000. Afterward, while the fremen were en-
gagged in removing quantity of lumber froI,
the cellar under the sidewalk, barrel which
had formerly contained benzine, and in which q
large amount of gas had been generated, ex-
ploded with terrible report, severely burning
thirteen men. Among the sufferers are John A,
Ripple, Joseph Creadle, and Oliver Hawkins, of
engine company No. %, together with the fore
man, Alexander Mcneil. Fireman John
Fisher, of hook and ladder, company No. 2,
was also dangerously injured, and will, it is
feared, die. James j. Hurley, James Clair,
Edward Virallette, and Assistant Foreman Nc
Farland, of hook and ladder company No. 4,
were badly burned. Assistant Engineer Sulli-
van was also slightly burned. He had but lust
recovered from injuries sustained at another
fire. John Dugan, who was the cause of the
calamity was badly burned by the blazing oil
about the head, arms aud face; all his hair
having been singed off.
AT KING, cASADA-Loss $4,000.
KING, Canada, July 16.-W. & X. Henry's
mill and stables, together with $4,000 worth of
lumber and 200 cords of hard wood, were burned
here, Saturday. Loss $780, 900. The fire was
caused by sparks from an engine on the North
ern railroad
IN THE wooDs-CRoPs DESTROYED.
Extensive fires are raging in the neighborhood
of Sutton, destroying standing crops, etc. Much
anxiety is felt, owing 10 the prevailing high
winds and the dryuess of the weather.
AT NEwBURG, N. Y.-LOss S100, 900.
NEwRITRG ,IuIv IA I'll Riulpr q N cow
mill aud lumber yard, with two large tenement
houses, were destroyed by fire last night.
Twenty families were made houseless, and one
hundred men thrown out of employment Loss
100000; partially insured.
AT BELLEFoETE, PA.,-Loss $4,000.
BELLEFoNTE, July t6.-Nine stables, one res
idence, the post office, six stores and two law
offices in this place, were burned last night
Loss $4,000.
AT ST. LoUIs-Loss $4,000.
F ST. LOUIS, July 16.-Nathan Keller & Co.'s
clothing store was damaged $4,000 by fire this
morning Fully insured.
Worcester daily spy., 1871-07-17
weather Record,

WASHINGTON, July 49, P. NJ.
SYNoPsIs.-No important change is reported
in the Pacific or Rocky mountain stations since
Saturday evening. The barometer has very
generally fallen from the Mississippi to the At
iantic and the temperature is generally higher
in the interior and on the Atlantic coast, but is
lower on the lakes. Fresh southwesterly winds
prevail on the Atlantic coast, and pleasant
weather was very generally reported, Sunday
morning, from Lake Ontario to Missouri, and
eastward to the Atlantic, with threatening
weather on Lake Michigan; but, this afternoon,
a severe storm has prevailed in New York city,
and rain has very generally fallen from Lake
Erie to the Ohio river and TO Illinois.
PRoBABILITIEs.-lt is probable that the
storm at New York will extend TO but short
distance, but that generally cloudy and rainy
weather will extend tonight over the middle
Atlantic Cloudy weather will probably prevail
in the Atlantic aud southern states. North
westerly winds are probable for the upper lakes.