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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-08-10
A MartiniUue Tragedy.

During the month of May, family of
ten persons was murdered on the Island
of Martinique in most cruel manner
The name of the family was Fougier,
and consisted of the father, four sons,
a daughter-in-law and four grand-chil
dren. A patrolman saw three men
leaving the house and making off in a
boat. He procured assistance, launched
boat and overlook them. After hard
struggle they were overpowered and
handcutied. The murdered family had
inherited 100000 francs from relatives
in Bordeaux, France. The assassins
were Louis Berthemy, an heir under the
will and two desperadoes who had ac-
companied him from France. Berthemy
had contested in the French courts the
will Of John Berthemy, by which large
fortune had been left to Marie Berthe
my, the wife OF John Fougier, and the
courts, after a tedious litigation, had
decided in her favor. John Fougier
had refused in France to consent to any
compromise. and it is supposed that
Berthemy plotted the massacre of the
entire family in order to obtain posses
sion of the property. The alleged mur-
derers have been sent to France for
trial
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-08-10
A Myth cal $500, 900, 900 Estate.

For some years past, an individual
nam. d Jlsirl Lawrence, residing in Lew
is county, n. Y, has been disposing Of
bond pH,aile whenever he should come
into lo esslon of a $500, 100000 estate,
situated near Manchester, England, Of
whicl. he claimed to be the lawful heir.
The estate he called the Lawrence
Townl'y estate, and Lawrence claimed
to be- the descendant of one Mary
Townley, in whom the title to the estate
was at one time vested. The bonds
were sold at very small percentage
IS for a 1000 bond, the price being af
terward raised to $40, and finally to
$50 per $1,000. A lawyer of Buffalo
took the case in hand about year and
Il half age, and found that Lawrence
has no claim to the English property,
which is now in possession of the right
full owner. The bonds, Of which large
number are atloat, turn out to have been
dearly purchased; and the owners can
console themselves with the reflection
that they are only suffering the disap-
pointment reserved for all those who
banker after mythical estates across
the water, instead of investing their
funds and their energy in live Ameri-
can enterprises.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-08-10
PhiIadelphla style.

An editorial in the New York Irib-
eoe states that one of the largest mer
chants in Philadelphia, man eminent
in all benevolent enterprises and Young
Mems Associations, refuses to pay more
than three dollars per week to his as
sistant book-keepers, asserting that he
turns away applications daily who would
be glad to take that price, and that
any boy who for the sake of gentility
prefers to starve keeping books when
he could earn five times the amount, as
iourneyman mechanic, is a fool"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-08-10
VOLUME |.


ny OLIVER WESDEII. HOLMES.
At least two Fahrenhcits blew up.
And killed two children small
And one barometer shot dead
A tutor with his ball.
Now all day long the locust sang
Among the leahcss trees
Three new hotels warped inside out.
The pumps could only whceZe;
And ripe old wine. that twenty years
Had cobwebbed DER in vain.
Came spouting through the rotten corkS.
Like July's best champagne!
The Worcester locomotive did
Their trip in half an hour:
The Lowell cars ran forty miles
Before they checked the power;
And birthstone soon became drug
And locOfocos fell.
All asked for ice, but everywhere
Saltreter was to sell.
Plump men of mornings ordered tights.
But. ere the srorching moons.
Their candle molds had grown as loose
AS Cossack pantaloons!
The dogs ran mad men could not try
If water they would choose;
A horse fell dead-he only left
Four red hot rusty shoes
And all about the warehouse steps
Were angry men in droves,
Crashing and splintering through the doors.
70 mash the patent stoves!
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-08-10
PrOprietors.
NUMBER 46.
Sword anu Flow.
From the German of Woltgang Muller


From the German of Woltgang Muller.
There once was n Count. so I've heard it said
who felt that his end drew near:
And he called his sons before his bed
TO part them his goods and gear.
lie called for his plow. be called for his sword.
That gallant. good and brave;
They brought him both at their fathers word
And thus he his blessings gave:
- My first-born son. my pride and might.
Do thou my sword retain:
My castle on the lordly height,
And all my broad domain.
On thee. my well loved younger boy
My plow here besow
A peaceful life shalt thou enjoy.
In the quiet vale below"
Contented sank the sire to rest,
Now all was given away:
The sons held true his last behcst,
Fen on their dying day.
Now tell us what came of the steel of flame,
Of the castle and its knight
And tell us what came of the vale so tame,
And the humble peasant wight ?"
ask not of me what the end may be!
Ask of the country round
The castle is dust. the sword is rust
The height is but desert ground.
But the vale spreads wide in the golden prid Q
Of the autumn sunlight now;
1t teens and it ripens far and wide
And the honor ahides with the plow.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-08-10
International Prison Congress-.

The English mails report the first
days sitting of the international
Prison Congress in London. All the
European Governments, with the ex-
ception of Portugal, were represented
on the opening day. America, both
North and South, was also well repre-
sented. Earl Carnavon, in the opening
speech, welcomed the delegates, but
expressed the regrets that the British
Government, when applied to, refused
to aid financially the scheme of reform
contaminated
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-08-10
Professional Beggars.

One of these rascals recently arrest d
at Newburyport, Mass, had on his per
son a letter to his wife, from which it
appeared that he had cleared, above all
expenses, $3.50 by one days work"
in that town of $4,000 people. Every
scheme of systematic benevolen.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
womankind who generally believe each
new and old lie of each new and old
beggar, and who enable the tribe to
lead their lives of disgracetul sloth. The
Newburyport fact is but one of ten
thousand like examples.
PRoF. AGAssIz was recently '-udered
public reception by the Intendente of
Santiago, Chill, which, owing to the
state of his health, he was obliged to
decline. The Professor found two of
his college mates of forty years ago in
the University of that city, one OF
whom, DIR. Doneyki, gave to Prof.
Agassiz duplicates of his entire collec-
ton of fossils, by far the most complete
and valuable collection in South Amer
lea, which he has been thirty. five years
in collecting, SO that Prot. Agassiz's
museum will have the mo, complet te
collection of South American fossils
! ever made.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-08-10
Sir William Harvey.

It is at length proposed in England to
raise a monument to one of her great
est cele brities-Harvey-who discov,
cred the circulation of the blood. VIM.
Harvey was born in Folkestone, Kent.
an English watering place, on the lst
of April, 1878, and ded in London,
June 3, 1857. 1t was in 1919, while he
was discharging the duties of physician
at st. Bartholomew Hospital, Lon
don, that the discovery with which his
name is associated is supposed to have
been made by him. 1t was not, how
ever, until 1923 that he published his
work on the subject, and which he dedi-
ca ed to Charles the First
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-08-10

A BROADWAY dandy, whose clothes
were as fragrant of musk, cologne, and
other perfumes as though they had been
dipped in tank of extracts, was ex-
hibiting himself on the steps of one of
our hotels, when Yankee from the
country came out and stood beside him,
to his great annoyance. He showed his
disgust in many ways; and finally tiled
to raise laugh at the Yankees ex-
pense. The Yankee took no otfense,
but sad to him, " say, you; shall tell
you how 10 take the smell out of them
ERE clothes? There's no use of carrying
that ere smell around You jist bury
them ere clothes about foot in the
sand, and in a week they'll be as sweet
rs mine" Our dandy has not since been
visible to the naked eye.--Neao York
Letter
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-08-10
Personal.

A SINGLE chandelier, in the residence
of w. G. Fargo, at Buffalo, cost $2,4OO
Miss LlzzlE HENNs, of Wisconsin, is
now ID years of age, and carries head
on her shoulders which is forty eight
inches in circumference.
The famous Dr. Mary Walker, ESQ,
spent her youthful days in manufactur,
ing compound cathartic pills in Breck.
inridge county, Ky.
The veteran financial editor, par er-
sellence, in the United States is Mr..
Sailer, Of the Philadelphia Ledger. He
has written the money articles of that
journal for a period Of thirty-two years
and over.
STANLEY says Dr. Livingstone is hale
and hearty, and has an enormous appe
tite that never fails him. He is nearly
60 years old, but does not look to be
as or 50. He is heshy and stout, and
weighs $50 pounds.
THE $4,000 prizein the Omaha Mercy
Hospital scheme was drawn by man
named j. b. Geggie, OF the firm OF
Leffingwell & Co., st. Louis. He has
received the money in currency, amount
ing to $4,000, the prize being in gold.
The New York World objects to the
erection of statue to Elias Howe, Jr.,
the inventor of the sewing machine
needle, in Central Park, because the
friends and heirs of other inventors will
be asking similar commemoration for
them, and room will have to be made
for the Feed statue, and the Hemmer
statue, and the Lock Stitch statue, and
the Treadle statue.
The health of Mrs. Horace Greeley
has become so much enteebled that it
is .ta,e he cannot survive the coming
autumn. She has been suffering for
years with pulmonary troubles, and,
though her recent sojourn abroad was
supposed to have materially benefited
her health, she has been dc clining of
late so rapidly that her physicians are
unable to give her any hope.
Two VETERANS of 1912, residents of
Vallejo, came to San Francisco by special
invitation to take part in the celebra-
ton of the Fourth. They put up at the
Occidental Hotel, as directed, but by
shabby oversight they were forgotten
and left there all day. They returned
without very exalted opinion of the
breeding of the San Franciscans.
SUNSET Cox was robbed at the Carroll
ton House, Baltimore, last week, of
valuable gold watch and chain, cher
ished present, and $3.50 i'll money.
EDITH O'GoRMAN, the escaped nun,
and Prof. Aubrey" the he nun, her
husband, demonstrated their escaping
abilities at San Francisco the other day,
taking a precipitate departure and leav-
ing considerable unfinished business at
the Police Court.
Hon. ANDREW STEWART, of Pennsyl-
vania, is the enly surviving member of
the Seventeenth Congress.
GILMORE, of Jubilee fame, is to be pre-
sented with gold baton.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-08-10
Louis NapOleOn's Son.

The Imperial Prince goes every morn
ing to Kings College school in the
Strand. The college is in the hands of
the Church party, but is affiliated with
the London University. The boys at
the school are quite of the middle class.
The prince has a tutor, and one of his
schoolfellows was anxious to convince
ME the other day that this was the rea-
son the young Frenchman was fire.
quently better prepared than the rest.
In these large day schools the boys see
little Of each other out of school hours.
When the studies for the day are over
the lads are off to their homes-north,
south, east and west; so the young
prince has not any special acquaint-
ance. Probably they will get him into
their cricket club and initiate him into
athletics. In that case some of us who
have young friends at school will soon
hear how he acquits himself. No hu-
man beings judge more exclusively by
merits than school boys.-Lo',don Letter.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-08-10

The Omaha Bee doesn't mean any
thing personal. hut opines that if the
Omaha Postmaster would resign, "many
persons would feel less anxious about
their money letters"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-06-20
. garm aud atunsehula.
How to Fight the Colorado Bug

How to Fight the Colorado Bug.
In all. sections where potatoes are not
grown in large quantities, and where
the Colorado potato bug has not vet
made its appearance, we believe that
successful battle can abe waged against
| Ii by the following plan If you have
reason to expect that the insect will
soon make its appearance on your
premises watch carefully for the ma
tured bugs and for their yellow eggs
(which theyalay on the under side of
the leaf Attend this early in the sea-
son as soon as your potato plants begin
to come up out Of the ground. When
they frst make their appearance you
will usually find 4 single bug or a pair
of bugs; sometimes, perhaps, as many
as two or three pairs. But when only
these few stragglers are to be found, a
great many deposits" of the yellow
eggs will be fop1d. These being de-
|stroyed in "toto" as far as possible, and
what few bugs are found being destroy
ed also, you have, to a very large ex-
tent, the enemy under your heel. Still,
will all your watchfulness and care,
some eggs (and perhaps some bugs) will
escape. Consequently, after while, a
potato plant here and there viii be
f6und being preyed upon by the partly
grown larvae. The patch must therer
fore be gone over again as often as every.
two or three days and you must care
fully destroy all the voracious eaters
that are seen. By proceeding in this
way we have, ourselt, this season waged
a successful warfare against them with
little or no labor, Although they made
their first appearance with us this
spring, we are satisfied that we shall
grow as fine crop Of potatoes as ever.
q We expect to have more trouble in
sighting them next season; still, by pur-
suing the. same course, we expect to-
conquer in like manner as this year.
The great error most people commit
is that they wait to see the potato vtaesI
being eaten By the larUde, before they be-
come aroused and commence fighting
them. Consequently so many collec
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#sisrtIlautuas.
.IButIer and his Dog.

From tie Phfiadelphfa Sunday Times.1
A correspondent sends US the follow,
ing aneedote of Ben. Butler, which he
says has never appeared IN print, but
as it illustrates the characteristics of the
man, it is too good to be lost.iaiila q
Ben-Butler was a down-east lawyer
before;he got tpbe a Major General and
a representative Of his district in Con-
gress. Like all lawyers, Ben had a
hard pull of it at the ssart, and perhaps
the sharpness and acumen for which he
is SO universally celebrated, were ac-
quired at this early period of his life,
when he was striving for a practice,
and the odds were brains or starvation.
One day, while sitting in his office
there entered long-legged gaunt
hatchet-faced specimen Of the genus
Yankee, who looked sharp enough to
make his meals on pins and needles,
and whothus aeco5ted the future Con-
gresham. ,s.-....... ,..-..... :.
''Mr Lawyer, am going into a little
law business, and as you seem like a
right pluclzy sort of chap, thought 1
might as well give the job to you.n
"All figft,o says the lawyer, s'you
can't trust your case in better hands. /"
"WelI, then, I Ishad,a ham hanging in
an outshed, and neighdor's dog came
along and ate i. What would you
do"
Why. Prosecute the owner of the
dog, Of course. Make the fellow pay
xEUt,, ~ = 4, +,1Ij NJ. r .- ,, -:
the Yankee, with slysmiIe beginning
to work around the corners of his eyes
and mouth. But you see--I don't
know as it makes any difference the
dog was yourn." Is 4 .ss5.,.ss IS
Butler opened his eyes little at this
onslaught, but he wasn't, going to be
taken aback in that manner, even by a
brother Yankee. ~ ei5Ft ef
"Whatdo you value your ham at ?"
asked Butler, drawing out his wallet.
Well, l guess five dollars will be
letting you of cheap" said the Yankee,
''for it was an all fired good ham"
Without entering word of protest,
Butler paid the money, and then said !:
There is your damage for the ham.
Now fork oyer ten dollars.7, 3cslij
"What for ?'' inquired the Yankee,
in his turn, astonished.
''Fer my legal adviee,v said. Butler.
sYoQ idon't suppose can work with
out lee, do you ?'' 5ssa ss.
Mr.. Yankee was bit, so drawing a
face as long as his legs, heslowly count
ed out the money, aud inwardly vowed
he would bring no more law business
before the youthful but razor-like dis
penser Of Coke and Blackstone.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-06-20
Q H A l. L IL N G. e |

We defy all other al ents 70 produce Sewing
NEW REMINGTON EMPIRE DROP FEED.
Send for samples of work, circulars, &c.
CARSON BROS, Western Ggents,
No. 40 Sixth St., Pittsburgh, Pa.
8A-Agents Wanted, ma5lm
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-06-20

Journalism in Austria, does not, ap-
pear to be conducted ona very exalted
plane. The most. influential journals
published in Vienna are owned by
banks and devoted to their Interests
These institutions do not fconfine their
business to banking operations, as
undersigned in This country, but their
undertakings are ofthe most manifold
kind in all branches Of industry and
commerce.
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2ostrv.
BRET HARToS LATEST PRO
DUCITON.
MISS BLANcHE's ROSE


AID you are the poet. and so you want
something--whas is tia theme or fancy2
Something or other the muse won't grant
In your old poetical necromancy.
Why, one halfofyou poets-you can't deny
Don't know the muse when you chance to meet
her.
But sit in your attics and nope and sigh;
For 6aiaeanf goddess to drop from the sky
When flesh ana blood may bestanding by !
Quite at your service should you but greet her,
What II told you my own romance2
Women are poets IL you so take them,
One third poet-the rest what chance
Of man and marriage may choose 70 maize
them.
Give me ten minutes before you go
Here at the window, Wen sit together
Watching the currents that ebb and flow
Watching the world as it drifts below,
Up the hot avenues dnsty glow.
Isn't it pleasant, this bright June weather.
Well, it was after the war broke out,
And was school girl, fresh from Paris.
Papa had contracts, and roamed about
And I-did nothing-fsr was an heiress;
Picked some lint, now think. Perhaps
Knitted some Stockings dozen nearly,
Havelocks made for the soldiers caps, +
stood st the fair-tables and peddled traps 4
Quite at profit. The shoulder straps
Though was pretty. All, than you, really?
stlli' Ii was stupid aauatas-tati
fnose We're 'ne SOUNDS Oh tnaI DaV1le summer
Iili 'ne e@r'h seemed a parehihen' round l, Aiiu
nat, assatsr - r ~ ~ = - = - 4tfffs
And-evefy foot tap OF drummer; III
And Gay by day down the avenue went = =
Cavalry. fnfantry. ali together sl.;a Ls I,
Till NV pitying angel. one day went ,,..,ttf i
Nv fatein the shape of a regiment asea. boz
That halted just as the day was spent ~
Here at our door. ip.tl1e briyht lime weather.
- - -
2 None OF your oanoy warriors tney'
Men nom tne Mest' ppt Ynere Know not;
Hagnard and tam 4 e. worn and gray
with negsra n soon, orilace or .Dow-knot;
ana opened tne Eanoow, ana leaning
Ifelt in their presence the free woods blowing
! did not tfrea,o thew might tbinl, me fair
But 7 had sotne.t,azzers that oightf u INV hair
Aud here in INV i,osorra,s a rad rose gloxv,ro Il
~ Ssal-l IL
Ana lookea rom the vanoow along the line
Dusty ana alrly grim and solemn,
TIL an eye like payonet Hash met mine
And dark aaee grew from the darkeninl
column
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TIN cheers ans, sho,,,szs-s h,,v,,s, al, ,,.,o,te,
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Ard 800 ,r,,, 4.sS, -
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WQen drew Dack QulcKlY-Llorec came q cleel
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-06-20
CURES DIsEAsEsWM
THROAT; LUNGS, S,LIYERG BLOOD

In the wonderful medicine to which the afflicted
are above pointed for relief the discoyerer believes
he has combined In harmony more of Natures most
sovereign curative properties, which God has inat
than were ever before combined In one medicipe'
The evidence Of this fact is found IN the great variety
of most obstinate diseases which Il has been found
to conquer. In the cure of Bronchitis, severe
Coughs, and the early stages Of Consump-
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est Coughs It strengthens the system and purifies
the blood. Byits great and thorough blood puri-
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worst ScrOful In to common Blotchs Pfmple
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las, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Scaly or
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II you feel dull drowsy debilitated, have sallow
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Pushes, low spirits, and gloomy forebodings irregu
lar appetite, and tongue coated, you are suffering
from Torpid Liver or "BtltOusness.o
In many cases OF silver Complainto only
part OF these syntoms are experienced. As rene:
dy for all such cases Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical
leaving tbs liver strengthened and healthy For the
cure OF Habitual Constipation OF the Bow
els II is never falling remedy, and those who have
used u for this purpose are loud In Its praise. ~
The proprietor offers 81 900 reward for medicine
that w equal II for the cure Of all tho diseases for
which II is recommended. .f'-f
R. v. Pierce. NJ. D.. Sole Proprietor at his Chemical
Laboratory. 133 Seneca Street Buffalo, N. y
Send your address for O pamphlet. hd. w.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-06-20

best quarter acre o. potatoes ...........
best managed farm... -. 30 10
Ground and produce to be measured by dis
parties, and a written statement fur
nished the Committee setting forth all facts
relative to the raising. of said crop.
Glass Observation-Disclosures.
will be given cards by the Secretary; and will
be examined by competent judges, and if mark
ed meritorious by them, will be entitled to
such premiums as may be awarded by the
board after the Fair. - st..4sf sI as
I. 3NEfSWANGER, Pres't.
: J. G. PRATT, Sec'y. a.fr iae
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tions of eggs have hatched out that the
enemy is already upon you in "thou-
sands" and stems Of thousands" To
fight them when they have attained
such numbers is very different thing
than to fight them when they are kept
downg o'that there are only 'sdezens'
and thundredsn present.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-06-20
best JENNY

best Jack. ...--...--.-5 best Jenny 5
Glass F.-Attractive Features in Fast
Driving.
First Day.
Hurdle Race ace......... SIS SO
q Ten Entries Eight Hurdles. Eight to fill
Double Teams, Trotters ......... $50 S15
Second Day.
Pacing premium, SS5. 1st so, ID $2o. Sd SO
= Open TO all Horses or Mares.
Fancy Premium $50. Confined to horses of
Belmont County, and that have never been ex-
hibited on public track before. LIST $50, I'd
$40, Sd So.
Third Day.
Sweepstakes Premium. Trotting $500. Open
to all. 1st p. 800. I'd S65, Sd $50.
Pacing Prem. sS5. 1st $50, I'd $40, Sd 50.
Entrance Fee &c per cent.