Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-10-25
CURRENT ITEMS.
.GE SAND is 20 years old.

CCRREAI L ITEMS.
GEORGE SAND is 20 years old.
VANDERBILT won't be interviewed
FANS are to be larger than ever this
winter.
NOBODY but farmers should water
their stock.
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY loses S16,O 900
by the panic.
JEFF. DAVIS has been seriously i'll at
Louisville, lately.
ANNA DICKINSON receives this season
S400 for each of her lectures.
CHARLES O'CoNoR positively rejects
all offers to enter the lecture-feld
The Italian residents of Philadelphia
are statuing Columbus.
Boston received million and half
bushels of grain during September.
The salary of the Lord Mayor of Lon
don is to be fixed hereafter at clio, 900.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS has resumed
his seat in the Easy Chair" of Har-
per's Magasine.
A. 7. STEWART is coming back in
October, and instead of finding health
he has lost what he had.
The American Family Bible Publish-
ing Co.. Chicago and Cincinnati sell frst-class
books, employ tirst-class agents. and give
first-class terms. Book agents. make a note
of this.
A BRONZE statue of John Howard
Payne, author of I" Home, Sweet Home, :"
has been unvailed in Prospect Park,
Brooklyn.
The Government of British India in
tends to spend some $4,000 sterling
within the next five years on State rail
ways and canals of irrigation.
THERE are in Chicago 400 billiard
tables, which earn an average of $12 a
day each, or 81, 800 day, Or $2S, $$2S 0oG a
week, or about 81, ,5oO,O 900 year.
CHICAGO has $500 saloons, the aver
age daily receipts of which are not less
than $50 each, or a weekly expenditure
of $125, ,000-about Sc, 10000 year.
One of the Rothschilds has turned
defaulter and Observation-Disclosures Fried
rich, head of the Vienna house of the
family-and great many poor people
have lost their all.
AN immediate contrast in the English
Probate Office: John Stuart Mill,
philosopher, died worth 1900; Ben
jamin Grigsby, potato merchant, of
Shoreditch, died worth G320,00O.
In most provinces of India production
has become so excessive that the fruits
of it have in some instances to be thrown
away-wheat, for instances, is poured
out and burned to empty the granaries.
Down in Louisiana Cesarism is
practical question. They have Cesar
ruling over them. His real name is
Antoine, and he is the Lieutenant Gov
ernor and running the machine in Kel-
logg's absence. Caesar is laack man.
In paying the last portion of the in
demnity to Germany, France has COM
pleted the raising in three years of rather
more than one thousand million dollars,
on which she has to pay on the average
six per cent, which will be tribute to
Germany of $50, ,OOO,O 600 year.
The Treasury Department is now
paying persons who were employed in
taking the United States census in the
Southern States in 1860, just previous
to the breaking out of the rebellion,
and who were deprived of their money
on that account.
Four members of the Lower House
of Congress have died since March
Messrs. James Brooks, of New York !;
William Whiting, of Massachusetts );
Wilder D. Foster, of Michigan, and
Joseph G. Wilson, of Oregon. Another
member, Mr.. Ambrose r. Wright, Of
Georgia, has died since his election.