Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-05-31


Fred's answer was a shower of kisses.
How did | come? In n coal car.
There was train of them just behind.
1t wasn't the pleasantest ride i'll the
world, but it brought me quicker to You
poor, little frightened bride ~
And as I met the glance of those low
ing eyes, l nestled closer to his heart,
and felt, in spite of Aunt Tabby's ex-
pcctations, | was at home again.
4 .SLANDERER BROUGHT TO GRIEF.
Perhaps the meanest act a man can be
guilty of is to wilfully and maliciously
tarnish the fair fame of a woman from
whom he has received real or fancied
slight. There is cowardly atrocity in
the insidious whisper-the vindictive
notwithstanding nothing, yetleav-
ing the worst to be surmised. Some
years since such matters were taken cog
nzance of by the code of honor, andthe
cowarlly culprit, unless he escaped be
yond the seas, was made the target of
the family pistol, or his body became
the sheath for the courtly rapier. In
the present mattcr-of-fact days a new
order of things exists. The coward and
slandcrcr is still found in every COM
munity, but he seldom pays the extreme
penalty for his crime. They have one,
it seems, in the village of Kingwood,
Huntcrdon county, n. j., quiet little
hamlet, where everybody knows every
other body" Every good man and
woman in the land will rejoice to know
! that he has met IA merited chastisement
ut the hands of one of the victims of his
| foul tongue. The New York Times
thus relates how it was done: In the
town of Kingwood lives Miss King.
II appears that this young woman had
in some manner shghtcd or offended an
acquaintance named William Heath.
Smarting under his fancied wrongs, he
goes about that little village of King
wood, and by whispers, hints, and cum
| ming inucndocs, succeeded in setting the
gossips chattering, and the result was
| that Miss King found herself avoided, and
was made painfully conscious that she
was an object Of suspicion to her friends
and acquaintances. The matter was
I traced to the slandcrcr, and on Sunday
last Miss King, accompanied by her
father and brother, proceeded to the
residence of this Heath with view to
settle the affair He was found in his
garden. Miss King, who had provided
/ herself with 'a certain instrument
which greatly helps a serious argu-
mcut a good cowhidc- advanced
toward Heath. and, having given him a
bit If her mind, let him have the hide.
She lashed him across the face, head,
and body and whipped the coward into
his house. The father and brother
stood by and allowed the girl To admin
lister To this dcfamcr of woman Sc
we're and wcll-merited chastisement. The
lesson will doubtless have its proper
effect. not only on Heath, but others
who, like him, seek To dcfame the fair
name of respectable woman.
WOMEN AND THE CENTENNIAL CEL-
EBEI TfON.
The women of Philadelphia have
formed an association for the purpose of
introducing the feminine element into
IN" management and development of the
Centennial Celebration i'll that city.
Their plan, as we understand it, is that
the women of Philadelphia shall take
81, 0OO, 600 worth of stock, and then ap-
peal to their sisters through the coun-
try to come up to the work with the same
good will and energy. To effect this
they have appointed committees and
sub-committics. who are thoroughly can
yassing the City of Brotherly Love,
through every street and alley, i'll order
that the women Of wealth and women
who gain their living by their own hand
work may stand together in this under
taking" Women desirous of inaugur-
ating similar associations throughout
the country can receive full information
10y addressing Mrs. T.. u. Gillespie,
President of Womam's Centennial Exec
utiyc Committee, No. 90i Walnut
street, Philadelphia.
Ir is announced on the authority of
the Lit,rarg H'orid that Mr.. +. Bret
Hartc, poet and author. is about to bid
long farewell to the United States and
take mp his permanent residence in Lon
don, where hc thinks he will bc more
Justly appreciated and more fairly treat
ed than hc finds himself tO be at home.
At the same time il is stated that his re-
ceipts for literary work during the last
two years have amounted To $50. coo. II
this he true, Mr. Hartc surely cannot
complain that his countrymen are I'M
appreciatiye. II Is pretty evident that
this gentleman places higher estimate
upon his abilities and higher value
upon his literary productions than any
body else. II he goes among the Brit
ishcrs with the expectation Of earning
more than $40, ,O0O year by his pen he
is undoubtedly nourishing dclusiye
hope. II will probably cause him some
rain when ne awakes to the realization