Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-04-27
NUMBER 81.
Current Items.

ORPHEUs c.. KERR has gone into the
commission business at Newark, N. j.
SIX of the foreign diplomats at Wash
ington are married to American wives.
SEVEN artesian wells are now running
in the town of Lura, Faribault county,
Mimi
A WIND grist-mill. to cost $4,000, is
to be erected at st. Charles, Mimi, this
season.
THE scavenger of Fort Wayne, who
is worth $50,O00. lives on the food which
he finds in slop-barrels.
THE japanese embassy has preserved
in huge scrap book every obtainable
item published in regard to it's mem
hers.
FAR1BAULT county, Mimi, has two
pensioners of 1Sl2-both likely to draw
pay for their patriotic services for some
years to come.
A GANG of horse-thieves is operating
in the vicinity of Tiskilwa, ILL.,, and q
vigilance committee has been organized
to exterminate them.
THERE are but two or three hundred
Indians left among the everglades OF
Florida. and they kill themselves as fast
as possible with whisky.
A GENTLEMAN who recently left New
York for Havana, invested some thou
sands in Erie stock, and on Monday
telegraphed an order for its sale, at a
net profit of $25,0OO.
THE Wells (Minn.) atlas says that
Colonel Thompsons steam pillow will be
set at work plowing as soon as the frost
is out of the ground. 1t is believed
that it will prove successful.
A SYSTEM of gong signals, operated
by telegraph, has been adopted at the
Keokuk Gowa) bridge, by which the
latter can be cleared of teams at the
approach of railroad trains.
On Thursday afternoon, a diver
named George Seaman was suttocated
while working on sunken steamer IN
the North river near New York, by the
bursting of the fresh air pipe.
MISS LORETTA MANN, once renowned
in Kalamazoo as lightning compositor,
has graduated from the leading medical
college in Philadelphia, and returned
to Michigan to practice her profession.
A DOCTOR of medicine at Bath, Eng
land, has just had legacy of $4,000
and comfortable house left him by
lady who was only known to him by
his once offering her a seat in his car
riage.
In Wilmington, Del, some
an old man, who was very fed
helped across crowded street,
youth of twenty. A month afterIS
the old man died, and as an expressi
of gratitude, he left the youth 100000"
]. C. OWENS, proprietor of the Bran
son house, at st. Joseph, Mo, an old
and respected citizen, committed suicide
on Wednesday afternoon, by shooting
himself through the head with pistol.
Financial embarrassment is the alleged
cause.
A PETITION has been presented to
Congress for the relief of the venerable
Joseph Ruthel ford, of Macoupin coun-
ty, ILL.,, who was in the war of 1872, and
who furnished nine sons and four sons
in-law to the Union armies in the war
of the rebellion.
IT is understood in railway circles that
Thomas A. Scott is the best-salaried
man in the United States. He is either
the official head or executive officer of
several great corporations, and his ag-
gregate pay from tn ose is said to amount
to $l50,000 per annum.
FIVE years ago a gentleman bought
few acres of land in East Cleveland,
Just beyond the present city limits, pay
ing for it $1,000 A few days since he
sold it for S70,O0O and, in three hours
after the sale had been consummated,
the purchasers disposed of it again for
$4,000.
THE head of a family in Omaha earns
$50 per month by his labor, two boys
earn S. per week, and two girls earn $6
more. Two girls beg enough to support
the whole family and four boarders be-
sides, thus leaving the money earned as
u fund to clothe them and pay for the
house and lot lately purchased.
About Saving.
There is, perhaps, no one in this
world more to be pitied than the poor
rich man-the man who has got into
the habit of saving until he saves from
sheer deli ght in seeing his wealth in
crease. and of counting every dollar OF
expenditure as though its loss was
something that could never be repaired.
Yet it is the duty of every poor man to
save something. The possession of a
few dollars often makes all the differ
cnce between happiness and misery,
I
and no man, especially man with
IL family dependent upon him, can be
truly independent unless he has few
dollars reserved for the time OF need.
While extreme carefulness as to the
expenditure of money will make rich
man poor, u wise economy will almost
us certainly make poor man rich, or
ut least make him to considerable
extent independent of the caprices of
employers and of the common vcissi
tudes of lite. Nothing is more impor-
gant to the poor man than the habit of
saving something: his little hoard will
soon begin to grow at a rate which will
surprise and crafty him. Every work
ingman ought to have an account in
some savings bank, and should add to
it every week during which he has full
employment, even if the addition is but
dollar at time. If he does this he
will soon find the dollars growing into
tens, and these tens into hundreds, and
IN little time will be in the possession
of sum which is constantly yielding