Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-08-10
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whose object is to aid disch ,rged con
victs.
CALIFORNIA contains proportionately
a larger foreign population than any
other State in the Union. The last cen
sus shows 336, 1898 natives and 300 SSG
to'eign born.
AN Indian f last was held recently at
Santa Ysabel, Gal. over 1000 Indians
and MeXicans were present, besides q
large number of Americans. The enter
tainments consisted ofbull fights, Indian
dances, etc.
Our whist-player remarks, apropos of
the Alabama rub, that there was alto
gether too much shuthing before we
began to deal World.
A FLORIDA correspondent of the Sa-
vannah Republican says that the Indians
in the everglades refuse to free their
slaves, and swear that Sheridan will
have to "ride the tail off every. horse in
the army before they give up q single
niger"
The Missouri Republican announces
that it will shortly abandon the blanket
sheet form, and adopt the quarto sheet
form of the principal New York dailes.
A LITTLE child in Shiocton, Wis, ran
in to her mother the other day and
begged her to come out and see big
cat on the fence" The "big cat" was
a big bear.
THERE was snow.storm at Hamilton,
New, on the 29th of June, and stand
ing water was covered With thin coat.
ing of ice.
THEY have a flower in Alameda, Cal,
called " Aaron's cup which measures
= feet iuches from the butt end OF the
flower to the tip of the cup.
NIAGARA FALLS have been stormed by
bridal parties of late, and their Romeo
and Juliet exhibitions in public have
disguised bachelors and driven old
maids almost crazy.
A KANSAS paper, calling attention to
an effort which is to be made to get four
Pullman cars to carry the editors Of that
State to New York and return, observes
that "the pen is mightier than the
sword" but "cheek" is mightier than
the pen.
LOST articles in the Boston Coliseum
were restored by the police, as follows:
81; parasols, l5S; opera
glasses, 10; shawls, Is; fans, 80; breast
pins, ,: bundles, 10; pocket books, 4;
handkerchiets, "a gloves, lSpairs wells,
7 valises, 4 shopping bags, 4; water.
proof cloaks, 10; rings, ,; gentlemen's
coats, 4 hats, 10.
A NEW plan of dealing is being intro
duced into the retail grocery trade of
England to induce cash payments for
and also to make new custom
ers, which is said to be decided sue
cess. 1t is styled the bonus system for
cash payments for groceries," and con-
sists in allowing bonus of two and a
half per cent, payable at the end of
each six months, on all purchases made
during that time. Here is hint to
some of our own enterprising merchants
"reminiscences of Ancient Days in
South Carolina.
Baltimore Letter to New York Sun.
Louis Il. Wigtall, a native of South
Carolina, and long a Senator from Texas,
is practicing law in this city. He is a
man of great originally, apion,b, quaint
ness, and force of talk. 1t is very enter
tanning to hear Wigfall discuss Southern
things. The old man loves to revive
the earlier scenes of his life, when he
lived in the Edgeheld district of South
Carolina and made his great contention
with the powerful family of the Brookses.
The Brooks family had great numbers
of negroes and broad acres, and were a
sort of hereditary office keepers in the
Edgetield district. They despised Cal
houn, not for his opinions, but because
he could command the attention of the
without wealth such as theirs
Wigfall being the henchman of Calhoun
in Edgetield, the elder Brooks said : me
mean things about him, at which Wig
fall sent him notice that he meant to
post him at the Court House door, and
would spend three hours in defending
the posting. In the Southern style,
therefore, Wigfall denounced old
a small arsenal, for somebody to knock
a chip off his shoulder, taking his liquor
in the meantime, as he had been doing
for the greater part of his days. In due
time along came couple of nephews Of
old Brooks to tear down the bill when
there was an instant explosion of per-
cussion caps, and one Brooks was killed
and another badly wounded. This led
to a challenge to Louis Wigfall from
Preston S. Brooks (the future castigator
of Chas. Sumner), son OF the old man,
and they met, and at the first fire both
were slightly wounded and at the second
fire both dangerously wounded. Before
Preston S. Brooks died he acknowledged
the injustice Of his family toward Wig
fall, and sent a nephew of the latter to
the Naval Academy.
Professional Beggars.
One of these rascals recently arrest d
at Newburyport, Mass, had on his per
son letter to his wife, from which it
that he had cleared, above all
expenses, $3.50 by one days work"
in that town of $4,000 people. Every
scheme of systematic bsnevolen.e de-
signed to transform drones into workers
finds its worst foe in that criminal care
lessness which pays such premiums on
idleness, and women are most to blame
for encouraging this kind of vice, as it is
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