Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-05-04

A BEEr.sUGAR factory at Freeport, Ill.,,
expects to pay out 100000 for beets this
season. The factory is POO by 500 feet
in size, and two stories high.
The indianapolis Commercial says a
poor man who owns potato patch in
the suburbs of that city cannot lie down
at night without danger Of getting up
rich in the morning.
A HORSE, sleigh, and driver were pre-
cipitatcd from bridge into ravine
fifty feet deep, at Kilbourn, Wis, last
week The horse was instantly killed,
but the man escaped unharmed.
A CALIFoRNIAN, who has raised figs
for the past ten years, says that the
white Smyrna fig can be grown and
cured as well in that State as in Smyrna
or any of the countries on the Mediter
ranean.
DR.. DAMRoscH, the newly-a ointed
editor of the New York Nus Isitomg,
is unfortunate. A suburban paper
copies his first article with the sigma
ture changed (by a slight typographical
error) to DambOsch.
A NEW style of watch is in the shape
of beetle, thickly studded with pre-
cious stones. One side of the wing
opens with spring and discloses n
watch dial, and the other side has a
small place for miniature.
The Whitehall and Rouse's Point
Company has been organized to con-
struct a road from Whitehall to Rouse's
Point, distance of l23 miles, to run
along the west shore of Lake Champlain.
The capital stock is S4,000,0OO.
A COLUMBUS Is. C.) dispatch says that
a riot took place there on Thursday
evening, the provocation being the
firing of pistol shot into Republican
procession in celebration of the Mayor
alty victory. Troops had to suppress
the mob.
A Keokuk, Iowa, woman lost her
thimble last November, and on Palm
Sunday found it in her stocking. She
would not have found it then had she
not mistaken the day, and under the
impression it was Easter, made her an
nual change of hose.
A MoNsrRosITY in the shape of a pig
came into the world last week on Mr..
Jenkyn's farm, near Jenkynville, Wis.
The pig has eight legs, four ears, one
eye-socket with three eyeballs in it, and
from the forehead protrudes a proboscis
something like the trunk of an ele-
phant.
VICE PRESIDENT Colfax has received a
letter from some demcnted individual
suggesting meeting of all the high
officials of the Government at the Cap
itol to discuss the Alabama claims, and
adjust the trouble by arranging a mar
riage between the said individual and
Queen Victoria.
DURING a quarrel at a party i'll Ches-
ter H., on the night Of the ID, Harry
Hildr,h fired ball at Daningbrink,
the landlord of the hotel where the
dance was being held. The shot struck
a young man named Alexander Dixon,
an unotfending bystander, who was in
stantly killed.
Two brothers named Walker, aged six
and eight years respectively, were
drowned at Westbrook, Me-, on Satur-
day afternoon. They were playing on the
ice, when the elder ventured too near
the edge and broke in. The other en-
ueaVOTeu 10 IeSCut Hilll, DioAo A'', SehN'
both were drowned.
A LADY in Maysville, KY, has in her
hot-house tree loaded with ripe
oranges and covered with bloom.
Among other rare plants she has lemons,
bananas, tania, Japan plums, palmetto,
pampas grass, etc, all Of which are
growing as luxuriantly as they do in
their native climate.
The destruction Of cattle by the
drouth in western Texas seems to have
demoralized the farm laborers of that
section. They refuse to work on the
farms, but are found roaming over the
country in squads, searching for car
cases to skin. 1t is said that the stencil
is so great in the vicinity of watering,
places that but few can stand it, and
fear exists that sickness will follow.