Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-07-26
CFRRkNT ITEMS.

JOAQUIN MILLER wears his trowsers
outside his boots.
WESTON has come to the surface again
this time at Utica.
| PERSIA is nine times the size of En-
gland.
New ENGLAND nail makers have stop
ped their works for a rise in prices.
AN asparagus gourmand says it is
healthy, Il tonic, and cathartic. Medi-
cal men will take notice.
HELMBoLD, the buchu man, is re-
trieving his fortunes by shipping pota-
toes from Berlin to London.
DELMARRE, the owner of Boiard, the
winner of the " Grand Prix de Paris, :"
won over l,OOO,0O0 francs on the race.
The Directors of the proposed Hud-
son river bridge, at Fort Clinton, have
secured II loan of $S,000,O00, and will
Immediately commence work.
CHARLES O'CoNoR asked mulatto
boy, who was n witness in the Walworth
case, " Did he give you cross look ?"
To which the lad replied, "Not half so
cross us you do now."
A MAN in Philadelphia first inspected
all the vacant slabs at the Morguc, and
then coolly walked to the dock and
jumped to IL watery death. He had the
slab he preferred.
A NEGRO GIRL in South Carolina ate a
poisoned crow, was thrown into convul-
sions, fell into the fire, was badly burn
ed, had a leg amputated in consequence,
and is now convalescent.
JAMES McDuFFE, of Bradford, Vt,
whose death took place recently, at the
age of 73, had been from :" time memo
rial the village sexton, and had dug
], 900 graves while holding that position
JOSEPH PERRY, the perjurcd witness
i'll the Jumel case, aged 81, has been
sentenced to four years in the pcniten-
tiary. He was offered $1OO, 600 for false
swearing, but received only $500.
OF the forty-nlne persons who have
died i'll Philadelphia within six months,
having lived to or beyond the age of 80
years, thirteen were men and thirty-six
women. Three of the latter lived to
be over 100.
JEFFERSON DAVIS was in st. Louis re-
Gently, and received many calls at the
Planters House. He had not been III
st. Louis since 1885, in which year he
resigned from the army, married
daughter Of Gen. Zach. Taylor, and set
tied ON a Mississippi plantation.
A BALTIMORE clergyman writes to Il
friend concerning the frequency of fires
i'll B ston as follows "In the rapid
whirl of events, the motion of the uni
verse becoming accelerated, the hub is
evidently ovcrheated by friction hence
the numerous confagrations.
GREAT BRITAIN and her dependencies
are by far the largest dealers with the
Flowery Kingdom. The entire foreign
trade of China, exports and imports, in
1871, IS valued at $3.50, 100000. Of this
Great Britain and her colonies accounted
for $19S, 600, 900, or eight-ninths of the
whole amount, while the United States
account for but little over Sis, 200, 900,
or about ne-half the value of the Chinese
trade with British India
The "block system" of working rail
ways, by which trains are kept apart
upon the same line of rails by certain
and invariable interval of space, instead
of by an uncertain and variable interval
of time, finds favor i'll England on lines
having heavy traffic. 1t is used on rail
ways having an aggregate length of 1000
miles, and, it is claimed, prevents rail
road accidents, of which fifty-six per
cent. are the result of collisions.
THE Russian Government declares the
women students who have recently been
attending the Swiss universities in con-
siderable numbers are politicians, revo-
lutionists, radicals, and inclined to free
love, and that after the first of January,
1874, such women will not be admitted
on their return to Russia to any exami-
nation, educational establishment, or APP
pointment of any kind under the control
of the Government.
BETWEEN the courts and the Legisla-
ture, Stokes neck is in little danger of
the halter. The New York Legislature,
ut it's last session, amended the criminal
law of the State SO as to make proof of
deliberate intent to murder necessary
to conviction for murder in the first
degree. This change in the definition
makes it practically impossible, i'll the
opinion of New York criminal lawyers,
to get hanging verdict against Stokes,
and the effect will be the same ON most
of the other murderers now awaiting
trial in that State.
SOME time ago, Mrs. Avery ID. Put
nam, the widow of the man murdered by
Foster III New York, and commonly
known as the car-hook murder, obtained
IL verdict of IS, 900 from the Seventh
Avenue Street-Railway Company for
damages sustained in the death of her
husband. The case was appealed to the
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