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ORDER OF RATIFICATION.
IN ST MARY'S COUNTY ORPHANS
COURT, Msy IS, 1872.
Peter u. Mattingley
Mary Ida Ms,iingley
4 others.

nRDERED. this 18th day Of Nav.
u 1872. tat the Report Of 10. +.
Morgan. Trustee. filed in this causc,
b. ratified aud cor firned, unless cause he
shown Z" the contrary, on or before the TIL
dav Of june nex'. provided, copy OF ,hi-
order be inserted in the s.. Nlary's Bca-
con, NJ least once week for three .uc-
ccssive weeks, bcfore the 7th day Of Jsnc
next. . |
Thr report states the amount Of sale%
to be $500 ''. s.ss dr.
A j SPALDING. C. j.,
J. II. CANTER. A. j., -r.
Y. II TIpPETT. A J.
May l6. fS72-3w.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1872-05-16

TOBACCO PLiNTERS.-Cset the Excel
sior" Guano, manufactured by J. J. Turner l.
Co.. II you wish 10 grow large crops. loo pounds
OF It is equal to 200 TO 300 rounds Of any o;hsr
fersilizer.-Aay 0, lss?-5t.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1872-05-16

TOBACCO PLAyTERS-Do no. jeopar-
dire your crops this year by using rrtried fer
tilizers. The Excelsior" manufactured hy J.
J. Turner L Co. has been used successfully the
past thirteen years, and a 10 the test--Nay 9th,
ls12-5s.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1872-05-16

PLANTERS OF r0R.iccO-oae han
drea pounds u Excelsior" Haaaafaessrei by
J. J. Tdrnef 4 Co, Is quai to 30 10 3cs podnds
% say oiher itrssiser essred Tor hat crop
My %, ssss 81.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1872-05-16
MARRIED.

On the s,h inst, by the Rev. Father DcWo,f,
SIMON p. TENNlSSUNt TO Miss MARY Z. R'S.
Sell.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1872-05-16
CO.NFIRL 7TTO.N NOTICE..
Lorenzo d. Bond
& wife
ygnatius W. Mattins,sy
Peter II. Msinng.ey
& othen. .4 .

In the Circuit Court for 81. Mary . county,
.. sit.ing ~ Court OF Equity.
No sss Z
ORDERED, this 18th ia, Of May. 1871
~ that the .epor. Of J. Parrsn CAGE.
Trustee in this cstse, he rstifed and
confirmed unless cause to the contrary be
shown on or before the end Mnnday OF June
nest !; provided copy Of this .sder b. p b.
hshsd IN the ia. Aary's Beacon. once a
week Tor three successive weeks prior %
the said 2ni Monday Of June
The report states tkst the land sola br
$Soe. @
JNo A CANA.IEk, Clf.
Trueeopy-Tnt: lFa b .gss
JN0 ACANALfER CT.
Nag l6. ls.2-s~. 80. a.t-r. te-
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MONTGOMERY BLAIa.--The annexed let
ter from Hon. Montgomery Blair is fur
nished for publication and will be rc:.,'
With interest in political circles
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EXECUTORS NOTICE.
o.pssss cSsrs - s. Esry's csss.y, ss:l
ia, IL 1874.
nrrEEgn BY THI c0rrr. Tia, Ia, NJ
" kev asd u, g tsiar~e, Exscassrs Of
H. G. g. KEY.
late II Saint N,rv's cenn,v. Mariana A..
esassa. give the notice reguir~d by law 20 N.
deerssrAs ervaisors 20 eRhiisis their e,a;1s 81
TIA, tse same Re ruh'ished once Q week f,r 40
Successive weeks in ,hs st. xar.'s Esacos.
Test:
JAMS TN RA.xy,
Register Wills for 81 Nary's eeua,v.
NOTICE.
In pursuance Of the above order. we hs,-A.
give notice that We havc obtained from IL ~
phans' Court ofSt Mays county, NsrvfssS
letters sestsnlt u,a.y on the personal estate 81
u. q. =. KEY, late OF said county. Seee.s-S
All persona having claimsagains, tbs said ae-
ceased srehcssby assihedg 70 erAikn the ssss.
wifh the proper vouchers attached thereto "a
The sasscrieers. ss ar before The issA Cav ef
Nov, 1879, they will other Use by lac 10 exe,u
ded from ,se BENEFITS Of the said estate. All
persoas indebted 10 the deceased are rvour,,ed
to make iasnasSists pay ssea, to the saesersesr,.
JOS. IL KsY,
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MAJ 10. ls!:-sw.
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~ 30. r. 70 FELL I CO.. - Psrk Rsss
" E<s r.ri.. E.

SK. PETrEyCHL + CO., II Psrk Rs-,
Nrsr Fort
Are the sole agents for the 81. Kary's Besrea
in that city, ard are authorized TO centras
for inserting advertisements for ~ al esr Low
esi cash rates. Advertisers In tha, city are re-
ques;ed to.eass their fAvOrs si,h either Of DE
above house,. @i
let ~, 1870. ~
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1872-05-16

il bat iissie has As~e de1e. noe rricn q tosN
kinds are frra. The exports foe The eeek we're
i.eo3 hhds.. 3ss hhds. Leaf asA do. STEMS sor
BrsRea, 90 kkas. Coz Rsssss1an. aaA - da-
fs< wca iaAi9. wssssssFsse~0&ags 49,
leue viss -
Mnsyiaaa- foeeA, esnafS 3 30
-" sosed cossuea, s-oo0 $50
-" good Do. s.ssa s.N
i" middnng, e-naEA 49,
faney, iSeoka -. 90
" upper eouasry, T.ooA g %
:" ground leaves. ae~, e.ce@ ow
GUAyo.-For Peruvian Guano the agents
prices for lots Of So tons or more are SsI So
for chincaa Island, and SEQ for Gnanape per
ton. gold, and No. : Of each kind 10 per ton
less. also gold. For Phosfhases and manu-
faciurcd FERTILIZERS $50 per ton IL the general
Price. The Southern demand for Fertilizers,
which has been considerably better this year
than last. Is pretty much over for the season.
but thre is . pretty aesive business dong Just
now with the near trade.
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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-08-31
The Late Mexican President.

benlto Juarez may safely be said to
nave been the greatest full blood Indian
statesman whom the continent has pro.
duced since the time of it's discovery NV
the Europeans. And history NAV nos
sibly rank him among the foremoet
e'''csmen oil his age and continent, of
"la'eV9r race, such as Bolivar, Paez,
ana Lincoln. With the latter, Juarez
shared the year of birth, and like him
ne was poor in his early life, selrre,
nant, sell taught, free from bigotry and
intoierance, firm, and shrewd. Like
nm ne first rose in his State (Oaiaca),
than in the republic, until he reached
the highest dignity and like him he
oieu suddenly, at q moment when a.
protracted revolutionary struggle
against his rule was about to expire
what the higher distinctive features of
MS character and long Presidential
career have been; whether. in his
struggles with Miramon (lS5S-ls6O1.
against the French invasion and Mayi,,
lii''an le6l-lS61), and finally with the
supporters of Portirio Diaz (lS6S-lS72)
which involved more than one usur,
Pation, the execution of the IMPERIAL
Pretender, and numerous acts of I'm
IN ugated rigor-he was always or
emery led by purely patriotic motives,
or more or less also by selfish, dcspotic
ana cruel lnclinations, it is probably
TOO early to decide. His death is anna
rentiy great blow to Mexico, which
Will hardly find in another man his en-.
ergy, ability, and power of command
ana Mexico needs strong hand,
"hether pure or not. Momentarily.
however, 1T may contribute to the puri.
hcatlon of the country. The old ran
cors will be soothed, Poriirio Diaz and
MS fellow-refuGees may return, and, a
general amnesty may bring about an.
other cessation of hostiiities-for :,
time.-The Nation.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-08-31
The Life of the English Golfers.

A coal-pit, viewed from the earth $
surface, has not very imposing APP
pearance. IL is simply Il round hole,
about twice the size of an ordinary
table, and straddling over it is Il sort of
gailows, wire rope, as thick as ones
wrist, hanging down over a wheel and
lost in the depths below. BY and.b by
the action is reversed, a Clinking Is
heard in the adjoining engine shed,
and up comes the tub Ia square box
holding 300 weight filled with coal.
/ viewed the coarse, strong tub with
appreciation, making sure that us soon
as 1t was cmptied we should all get into
it; but in ths | was disappointed. 1t
was not i'll the tub, but standing on the
grating on which the tub had stood,
that we had to descend; on the naked
grating, with nothing to "hold on" to
but a cross chain overhead. But the
pit was only 600 feet deep, and the coal
smoke that arose from the enormous
mine furnace below was not unbearable
by the time it had benumbed ones
senses bit. Six hundred feet down,
and halt mile this way or that, under
low-arcned roofs, from which depended
frequent tleeces of fungus, snow white,
and looking like lambs wool, and max
ing the black floor and the black walls
lit by feeble tallow dips stuck there in
dabs of clay, blacker than ever. We
all carried tallow dips stuck in balls OF
clay, and in Indian file followed the
Buttoy" and his foreman through the
turnings and wlndings that led to the
chambers from which coal was being
hewn. Chambers are rs wide rs an or
binary street, and as high us the three.
storied houses; and on every side, when
ever the dingy light of the rednosed
dip was shifted, was revealed Il human
creature, naked to the waist and blacller
than any sweep, and with weapon in
his hand that in the uncertain light
looked like tomahawk, grinning at
you, making a dash with his weapon
apparently in the direction of your
vIsage, but which alights harmlessly on
the face OF the coal wall. Heavers,
packers, tubbels, fillers-these are ali
men, and hard as the work is they
earn good wages. They don't dislike
the labor, and they are jolly enough
all except the boys. 1t was these boys
that so perpetually haunted my coal
SHUTTLE when ! returned from Stafford
shire. 1t is villainously cruel to serve
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-08-31
Artificial SWarminw.

Mtcheil's plan is to take frame of
brood from the center of eight strong
colonies, and to place them, with the in
adhering bees, into an empty hive on
the stand where you wish it to remain
The bees, finding so many strangers,
will be perfectly confused, and not in
clincd to fight, us one would suppose,
and in two or three days will 20 to
work as though nothing had happened.
This may be continued as long as the
honey season lasts. An empty frame
will have to be put in the place of the
frames taken out Of tho old hive, and
if there is an empty space in the new
hive it should be file with empty
frames, or what is preferable. frames
containing empty comb. Care should
be taken not to take out the old queen
with any of the frames that are re-
moved 1t will be much better if you
have a queen to put in with the new
colony, as it will gave them a great deal
of time Western Agricuhwia
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-08-31

cred waistcoat, black satin small clothes,
white silk stockings, and red morocco
slippers. The Judges of the Supreme
Court of Massachusetts,, as late ms l773,
wore robes of scarlet faced with black
velvet; and in summer black silk
gowns; gentlemen wore coats of every
variety of color, generally the cape and
collar of velvet of different color from
the coat. In 1850 Gen. Washington ar
rived in New York from Mount Yer
non, to assume the duties of the Presi-
dcncy. He was dressed in n full suit of
Virginia homespun. On his visit to
New England he wore the old CONT
mental uniform, except on the Sabbath,
when he appeared in black. John
Adams, when Vice President, wore n
sword, and walked about the streets
with his hat under his arm. At his
levees in Philadelphia, President Wash
ington was clad in black velvet, his
hair powdered and gathered behind in
a silk bag; yellow gloves; knee and
shoe buckles; he held in his hand a
cooked hat ornamonted with cock
| ade, fringed about an inch deep with
black feathers a long sword III a white
scabbard, with a polished steel hill
hung at his hip Irovelier.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-08-31
CirCumStantial Evidence.

The London Globe publishes II stat.
ment which in an illustration of the
danger relying upon circumstantial evil
dence, even when it approaches posi-
tlveness.
gentleman went to the British mu-
scum with an order to have case open
ca containing some valuable medals for
his inspection. He examined partic-
ular medal, which was supposed to be
UNIQUE, restored it to the tray, and after
talking some time with the custodian,
was about to leave, when the latter dis.
covered that the medal was missing. 1t
was searched for everywhere, and could
noI De found, when it was suggested
mat the pockets of the visitors Should
DC searched. To this he objected.
ana policeman was sent for. How.
ever before he arrived, the medal was
found to have slipped between the tray
and the bottom of the case. When
asked why he refused to be searched
the supposed culprit produced medal
from his pocket, the exact counterpart
OF that which was in the case, and re-.
marked that his object had been TO
verify the authenticity of his own,
which, being identical, with the missing
one, and discovered in his pockets
would have at once convicted him NJ
the theft. VI
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-08-31
About New York Reporters.

A corresponding the Chicago Trid
me writes from Gotham concerning
the much-abused fraternity OF ncwspa-
per +, porters:
70 be compelled to read the daily
papers is sufficient to drive to dlstrac-
ton any one who chances to have Il bias
i'll favor OF pure or correct English.
The Tribune and the EUenuy 1 oSt have
long had an ndGr ereWy0t0otuS, and their
local matters are done tolerably but
other papers delight in sentences which
would craze Il grammarian, and force Il
rhetoric to suicide.
am often asked why the leading
journals here are so poorly written IN
their minor departments. The answer is
that they won't or ut least they don't,
pay enough to secure other reporters
than those expected to show talent and
training below, instead OF above Their
waists. The best salaries for reporters
are from so to S23,--in Il very few IN
stances, Stopper week and 1t is SIM
ply impossible to get the right kind OF
men here at that rate. 1T is Il prevalent
notion that in New York geniuses and
rare scholars are constantly roaming
about Printing House Square, hungry
emaciated and half clad. This may be
true; but in all the years of my fire.
quenting that quarter, have found the
geniuses and scholars usually employed
at good prices us the market goes.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-08-31

the poor little chaps so. The matter
stands this way: The newer is the man
whose business it is to "break IN at
the foot of a coal wall. He hes on his
side or on his stomach, and he breaks
in with pick right along for length
say of twenty feet, gap that IS Two
feet or less in height. He pecks his
way into the rock until he has burrowed
sixteen or eighteen feet. Naturally, IN
the process OF peckins he makes great
deal of " slack " or small, and the boy
in question Is called the 50 slack boy"
Regarded as Il boy, as a human creature,
he is sack indeed. He is more like a
large-sizcd monkey. Ailtour is his per
petual posture, and he wears leather
girdle about his waist from which an
iron chain depends, the other end OF 1t
being attached to an iron cart. The
slack boy has an iron shovel rs well,
and the business of his wretched lille Is
to crawl III at the hole the newer makes
to till his cart with chips and dust, and
then crawl out again with the load, al
| ways on his hands and knees, and Will
| his poor limbs hung about with few rags
Of which nakeuness might be ashamed
| -LOn1On ,SOcietV.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-08-31
The "ROds of COrti'--WOnderS OF the
Human Ear

:" You would play upon mc-you
would seem to know my stops you
would sound me from my lowest note
TO the top of my compass When
Shakespeare put those words into the
mouth of Hamlet, did the poet know
that he was stating an anatomical fact
that the auditory apparatus OF man Is
an instrument OF most exquisite musl-
cal complexity, compared to which the
finest harp of Erard seems but n clumsy
failure? For some time past it has been
known that the human ear contained "A
series of minute bodies, called the
rods of Corti,' from the name of their
discoverer : but Dr. Pritchard, in a paper
lately read before the Royal Society, has
east new light on these curious append
n es, and given us fresh reasons to ad-
mirc the wonderful arrangements OF
life. When n sound is communicated
Ivy air waves to the ear. first the auricle
catches it up and transmits it to the
drum, which passes it by harmonious
vibration through the middle to the in
tcrnal portion Of the organ. Here it is
appreciated merely as sound, its di-
rection and volume being also recorded ;
but to distinguish Il e note of the sound,
it is passed into the Coz hler, a spira
! canal from the axis of which proceeds
tiny plate of bone; this in turn gives
out two membranes, and between these
lie the "rods OF Corti." Looked al
from above, they resemble a double row
of piano-iorte hammers but the outer
rods as they wind up the spiral axis in
crease i'll length more rapidly than The
inner, whereas the latter augment il
number, so that near the apex the outer
rods are twice as long rs the inner
while to $500 outer it is computed thai
there are 500 inner ones. Under this
delicate end perfect sounding board are
clustered nerves and nerve cells, which
serve to bear the impression of any vi
brating rod or rods to the brain, anC
with so vast key board it is plain tina
not merely semi.tones, but tenths anC
even tiftieths of tones, must be recog
nized by the consummate recording ap
paratus. 1t is upon the lami,sa spin
ais, then, or tiny plate of bone befor
mentioned, that the sound is thrown il
order to decide its note, and howeve
fine or faint, that sound discovers som
one of the perfectly attuned rods whic
will leap into vibration in concert wit
the impulse, and send II melodic or han
monte telegram to the sensorum.-L0,
dom Tsicgraph
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-08-31
An Honest Canine.

An instance of rare honesty, and
showing how Il dog may desire to pay
his board bill, recently occurred in
Pittsburgh, Mass. A lady saw q dog
frequently about her house picking up
odd bits which had been thrown out
and one day she called him in and fed
hun. The next day he came back, and
laid an egg on the floor, when he was
again fed. The following he brought
his egg to pay for his dinner, and on
the fourth day he brought the old hen
herself, who it seems had failed to fur
nish the required egg
In winery at Windsor Castle there is
a vine, bearing grapes of the Black
Hambro' variety, said to be the largest
in Europe. 1t was planted in l76S.
When eau donkey be spelled with
one letter? When it's U.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-08-31
A Big Lift for Liberty,

The Auburn IN. W 1dvcrtiscr gives
an account of a big lift made for liberty
by convict at the State Prison. He
was confined in an upper cell, next to
the roof, which is composed of slabs Of
heavy stone, covered by solid groutng
and masonry two feet thick. Having
resolved to raise this roof, he extempor-
lied two .jack-screws Of great power.
Being employed in the axle shop he
procured such tools as would answer
his purpose. The large nuts used on
the ends of the axles of express wagons
served his purpose admirably. All
things being ready on Sunday morning
last he commenced the work of raising
the roof He had raised a clad of stone
and the superintendent mass of grout
ing six inches, when he was discovered
and an end put to further operations.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-08-31
The Poor Man and his Home,

If ever household affections and loves
are graceful things, they are graceful IN
the poor. The ties that bind the
wealthy and the proud to home may be
forged ON earth, but those which link
the poor man to his humble hearth are
OF the truer metal and bear the stamp
of Heaven. The man of high descent
may love the halls and lands of his in
herltance as part OF himself; us
trophies of his birth and power; his
assoc atlons of pride and wealth and
triumph the poor mans attachment
to the tenement he holds, which
strangers have held before, and may to-
morrow occupy again, has a worthler
root, stuck deep into II purer soil. His
household gods are of flesh and blood,
with no alloy of silver, gold, or
precious stone. He has no property
but in the affections OF his own heart;
and when they endear bare walls and
floors, despite of rags and toll and
scanty fare, that man has his love of
home from Gol, and his rude hut be-
comes Il solemn place.
Oh ! if those who rule the destinies
of nations would but remember this
if they would think how hard it is for
the very poor to have engendered i'll
their hearts that love of home from
which all domestic virtues spring, when
they live in dense and squalid masses
where social decency is lost, or rather
never found-if they would but turn
aside from the wide thoroughtares and
great houses, and strive to improve tn,
wretched dwellings in by-ways where
only Poverty may walk,-many low
roofs would point more truly to the
sky than the Hottest steeple that now
rears proudly up from the midst of
guilt, and crime and horrible disease,
to mock them by its contrast. In hol-
low voices from workhouse, hospital.
and jail, this truth has been preached
from day to day, and has been pro.
claimed for years. 1t is no light mat,
tcr-no cutlery from the working vulgar
no mean question of the peoples
health and comforts that may be whis-
tied down on Wednesday nights. In
the love of home, the love OF country
has its rise; and who are the truer
patriots, or better in time Of need
those who venerate the land, owning its
wood, and stream, and earth, and all
that they produce or those that love
their country, boastlng not foot OF
ground in all its wide domain p Charles
Dickens
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-08-31

A DELIGHTFUL SURPRIsE.-L whose
who have resolved to try HAGAN's MAGNOLIA BALM as
a remedy have no idea of the welcome surprise they
will receive from their mirrors after few appca-
tons of that heathful purifier of the peXion. II
at all excitable they will scream with rapture on be
holding the change: whether the blcmish it is de-
sired to remove be salowness, blOtches. pimples.
frcckles rouehness, unnatural pallor it is
bound to disappear under the tome OPERATION OF TINS
wonderful agent. To say that the hlcnish disap-
pears does not however. convey any idea of the eff
feet produced by this celebrated heautIfcr. The I'M
slightly tiuge whether diffuscd the whole coun-
tenance or in spots patches, is replaced 10y uni
form, pcarly bloom, to which no description can d"
iustiCe,-I Com.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-08-31

The cultivated fields in Soudan are
not very large, and the agriculture is
rude; but, even then, they are not often
fully gathered, for the armies of mon.
keys and fleets of birds. To protect his
crop, the dusky husbandman has re-
course to singular system. lie sets
up, in the center of his domain, two or
three stout posts, on which sort of
platform is made, with a roof of
branches and leaves above. From these
posts, to trees and poles on the edge of
the field, run series of cords, with
bells, bits Of metal, rags, and other OBJ,
jects to tlutter or sound. A Waterman
climbs to the elevated seat, and perched
there like spider in its cell, he shakes
these cords from time TO time, and by
their noise and motion, keeps Off the
clouds of predatory birds, which, in
spite of all, sometimes swoop down on
the harvest