Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-06-08
Current Items.

Current Items.
The newest style of cut glas, goblets
are almost a perfect oval.
THERE are 265 ladies in the Treasury
Department and l03in the Department
of the Interior.
A BROTHER of Brigham Young works
on farm in Pierson township, Vigo
county, Ind. He hasn't even one
wife.
Mr. FREDERICK JONES, of Versailles.
Missouri, expects to 90 down to pos
terity on the back of his iour-year old
mule, which makes a practice Of killing
and eating sheep.
JOSEPH MAILo was knocked down by
Maris street, New Orleans, lately, and
has since died Of the injuries received.
Gov HOFFMAN has vetoed the second
New York city charter.
THE Arkansas Supreme Court has de.
cided that all orders of courts issued in
regard to administrations by the Con-
federate courts are void.
The city of Rock Island and the
Davenport and Rock Island Ferry
Company are having a war over the
place of landing the ferry in Rock
Island.
A COMMITTEE of New York merchants
have presented petition to the Gov
ernment for carrying the Cuban mails
to the United States, and establishing
a regular weekly line. The offer is
likely to be accepted.
The crew of the American steamer
Monticello, which was wrecked off the
coast of Newfoundland, were taken off
by the French brig Louise, and with
her passengers, thirty in number. landed
at st. Pierre, and have since reached
Sidney.
JUDGE THREAD, of New Orleans, rem
dered decision, lately, restoring the
contiscated property of the late j, hn
Slidell to the heirs of the deceased
MENINGITIS is prevailing to an alarm
ing extent in Dallas county, Alabama
and the mortality is frightful.
THE occupation of panel-thieving in
New York begins to be attended with
some peril. emma Susan Burns, q
comely looking proprietress of an estab-
hshment OF that character, has Just
been sent up for two years and half
THOMAS SHARP, a young resident of
Princeton, ind, was badly and perhaps
fatally burned by entering an oil cellar
with lighted lamp; the lamp setting
fire to the gas emitted by the oil stored
therein.
JNo. DAVIS seta spring gun to catch
Chinese thieves who robbed his henery
on the San Bruno road, near San Fran
cisco. He entered the place, forgetting
it was there, and received the charge
in his head and was fatally injured.
The gold placer diggings at Brigham
canon yield as high as forty cents to the
pan. The common average is $40 TO
$l5 per day to the hand.
FAMILIES in Edinburgh desiring pets
for the children had a rare opportunity
afforded them recently, at the sale Of
WombwelPs menagerie, when a supe
rior article of wolf went for $3.50.
GEORGE WILDER, of bingham, Mass,
shot himself on Sunday. He served
through the war, and probably COM
mitted suicide because he was sick and
had to depend on his mother for sup
port.
TnE entire amount Of capital invested
in menagerle property in the United
States, including the animals and the
apparatus and material requisite for
their transportation and exhibition, is
estimated at over two millions of
dollars.
A sTlNGY New Yorker only allows his
wife to spend $4,000 year for dress.
Of course, she is obliged to wear a dress
ing gown half the time, in order to
save money to buy decent evening
dress.
INFORMATION received as to the result
OF the investigation Of the murder of
the two men at a stage station in Ara
zona. and the stealing of the horses,
which was charged on the Tonto-
Apaches, has developed the fact that
within ten days Of the murder the
stolen horses were discovered in pos
session OF two Mexicans, two hundred
miles from the scene of the murder, and
in an opposite direction from the Tonto
reservation. Both the Mexicans were
promptly executed
THE decay of Massachusetts noun
tain towns is illustrated by some recent
sales of real estate in the once flourish
ing village of Sandisfcld A farm of
thirty five acres, with good house and
barns, and an abundant supply of water,
in close proximity to the churches and
stores Tor what remain of them ,
brought $3.50; and a house in good re-
pair, with the adjacent garden plot,
situated in the center of the village,
was sold for 500.
ANengineer on the Chicago, Alton
and st. Louis railroad has been testing
"spark catcher" which catches the
sparks from the smoke-stack of the
locomotive, and deposits them in a
box. The box is emptied at the end OF
the route. 1t seems to give satisfaction.
The ship st. Paul, from New York
struck on the Brandy ledges, in Nova
Scotia, on Saturday morning, in fog,
and was injured so badly that she had
to be beached at Little Harbor. The
ship is total loss. The cargo may
possibly be saved.
EXasperating.
After long years of persistent perse.
cution, the editor of the Indianapolis
El,en;n1 ,Io7Iro1I thuc oivac want ~ HI.