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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-06-07
CURRENT ITEMS.

CURRENT ITEMS.
AMEs left 81, 900, 600 after all his re-
verses.
BISMARCK guzzles half keg of beer
every day.
A 41O-PoUND bear was killed recently
in the wilds of Victory, VT
TWENTY men are to be hanged in
Georgia within two months.
THE Rev. Henry ID. Moore, Congrc,
gationalist clergyman of Cincinnati, has
been forced by his elders to resign be-
cause he is a Free Mason.
ST.. PATRIcKs Cathedral on Fifth ave-
nue., New York, which was commenced
in 1858, is only about half finished. 1t
will be, when completed, the largest
and most expensive church editice in the
country.
THE tunnel of the Baltimore and Po-
tomac Railway at Baltimore was recently
finished. 1t was commenced in 1871, is
7,4S0 feet long, and required in its con-
struction Is, 900, 600 brick. Except the
Hoosac it is the largest in the United
States.
Mr.. JOHN BULLOCK, of Bristol, II. l.,
who will be 104 years old in June next,
had an attack of pneumonia recently,
and when convalcsccnt remarked to one
of his sons: "That was Il severe at
tack if I'd been an old man | guess it
would have fetched me.
A YOUNG woman, while eating a stew,
in Middlctown, Conn, the other even
ing, complained that one of the oysters
was full of bones, and careful, if not at
tractive, examination showed that it con-
tanned fortytive pearls, varying in size
from pea to n pins head.
BAILEY, the Danbury Ncws man, y
is getting ont book, which will be
published by Shepard & Gicl, of Bos-
ton. 1t will be called Life in Dan
bury" and will contain many of the
best things he has written in the Nc,cS,
together with some fresh sketches.
Mrs. STOWE thinks, "with suitable
instructions, alligators may yet be seen
in the Legislature. They certainly
would not be more grasping and vora-
-cious than many i'll the situation ; and
there is fine openncss about then
manner of doing business that is pre-
possessing"
A NORTH CAROLINA doctor, recently
deceased, bequcathed to another ply
stefan, who was his intimate friend, his
skeleton, to be set up where it would
most frequently remind the living of tho
dead, and do some good in furthcrina
the cause of science. The bequcst was
declined, and the body was buried ell
tire.
THE executors of the late Thaddeus
Stevens have recently erected fence OF
brown sandstone around the lot IL
Shreiner's Cemetery, Lancaster. where
lie his remains. The grave is marked
by a massive monument of granite and
planted with flowers, of which Mr.
Stevens was very fond, and it yearly at
tracts many interested visitors.
CONFIRMED topers may like to know
that they can detect fusel oil in whisky
or brandy by putting few pieces O
permanganate of potash in long tes
tube containingthe liquid, slowly shak
ing it. If the spirit contains to pc,
cent of fusel oil, a perceptibly igh
yellow color soon appears.
OREGON is beginning to loom up into
considerable prominence as an exporte
of agricultural products. From Octo
Der /, 1872, to March 10, 1873, twent,
vessels laden with wheat were dis
patched from Portland, carrying, in til,
aggregate, $4,000 centals, valued a
$4,000.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-06-07

Stories of domestic animals becoming
pets of military regiments, and follow
ing them on parade or on the march, are
common. The French are particularly
fond of these comrades, as illustrated
by the Zouaves during the Crimean war,
each of whom marched into action with
cat upon his knapsack, but the latest
thing in military pets comes to us in the
story of Cochin China rooster belong
ing to the Twenty-third Regiment of
French Artillery. This military rooster
has seen service. He passed through
the whole of the Rhine campaign, and
was carried to Augsburg as prisoner of
war. At Metz the soldiers eat their
horses, but spared the bird. At the
battle of Gravelotte he sat upon the
shoulder of his master, and was so used
to the sound of shot and shell that he
trusted it with the coolest Indifference
His master was killed, but he soon
perched upon another, and he still re-
tains his rank in the military service of
his country.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-06-07

WHAT funny fellows are those city
editors of the Davenport Democrat and
Dcs Moines Register. Quoth he of the
Dcmocrot: "The city editor of the
Register followed the first street sprink-
Ter three squares to tell him that his tub
was ii leaking" To which he of the
Register responds in this happy vein :
"The city editor of the Democrat was
never known to travel two feet for
water he don't use it. Every spring he
leases the alluvial deposits under his
eyes to a country gardener, and scrapes
his checks in the fall to get material for
covering a ten acre crop of cabbage.
Whenever he drinks water he puts a
sufety valve in his nose to keep the
steam from blowing the top of his head
off, The Democrat man hasn't been
heard from since.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-06-07
PRE- VENTING DECAY OF SIZING LES

PREVENTING DECAY OF SHINGLES.
Take potash kettle or large tub and
put into it one barrel of wood ashes I've,
five pounds of alum, and as much salt
as will dissolve in the mixture. Make
the liquor quite warm, and put us many
shingles in it as can be conveniently
wetted at once. Stir them up with Il
fork, and when well soaked take them
out and put in more, renewing the liquor
as necessary. Then lay the shingles in
the usual manner. After they are laid,
take the liquor that is left, put lime
enough in it to make the whitcwash, and
if any coloring is desirable add ochre,
Spanish brown, lamp-black, etc, and
apply to the roof with brush or an old
broom. This wash may be renewed
from time to time. Salt and I've are ex-
cellent personalities of wood. 1t is
well known that leach tubs, troughs and
other articles used in the manufacture
of potash never rot. They become satu-
rated with alkali, turn yellowish inside
and remain impervious to the weather.
-SciCnfifc Amcrican.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-06-07
AN OLD MANS WALK.

Contrary to my original intention to
make easy progress the first week or ten
days of my journey, was constrained
to do otherwise, and my first day made
thirty-six miles in twelve hours second,
thirty-tive in twelve hours third, nine
teen in seven hours, delaying nearly half
the day to lecture in the evening at Cor
Wallis; fourth day, forty-six miles in
sixteen hours. Fifty days remained
over for business at Eugene City, where
/ was weighed, and found loss of four
pounds, bringing the scales down at one
hundred and forty-nine and one-halt
pounds only. At this point 1 increased
my supply of food and changed my
mode of eating, which before had been
crackers of pure, unbolted wheat tloul
and water only Graham crackers) dry
with some stewed fruit as could get it
to the crackers broken up and soaked
soft in boiling hot water, by which
means l was enabled to eat more, Will,
the fluid supplied the waste by sweating
which was copious. Thus, then,
maintained about the average point o
one hundred and fifty pounds, pre-
sumo, as that was my weight ON arriving
at Yreka, after walking between three
hundred and seventy and eighty miles
Forty eight hours after arriving at Sal
Francisco, in the same dress i'll which
was weighed i'll Portland thirty-si
hours before starting, | weighed on
hundred and tifty-onc pounds, differ
cncc of only two and onehalf pounds
after "footing" more than eight hur
bred miles.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-06-07
Ants Nests in Gardens,

F. M. G., in Nature, says: CT have
found a very effectual remedy for the
annoyance of ants nesting in the garden
paths and borders. A strong solution
of carboic acid and water poured into
the holes kills all the ants it touches,
and the survivors Immediately take
themselves off. Care must be taken in
its use, as it destroys animal and vege.
table, as well as insect life.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-06-07

"BY hook or crook" has, up to this
time, been regarded as embodying all
the possible certainties OF success in
any given undertaking. The phrase will
have to be partly changed now, after the
Apache peace pow-wow. The way to
succeed with warlike tribes and treach-
erous redskins will hereafter be "by
Crook only.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-06-07
UOU MIRRLES IRE Nj DE.

The chief place of the manufacture
of marblcs-those little pieces of stone
which contribute so largely to the en-
ioymcnt of Young America lis ut
Oberstcin, on the Maize, in Germany,
where there are large agate mills and
quarries, the refuse of which is care
fully turned to good paying account, by
being made into small balls employed
by experts to knuckle with, and are
mostly sent TO the American market.
The substance used in Saxony is hard
calcareous stone, which is first broken
into blocks, nearly square, by blows
with hammer. These are thrown by
the one hundred or two hundred into a
small sort of mill, which is formed of a
flat, stationary slab of stone, with a
number of concentric burrows upon its
face. A block of oak or other hard
wood, of the same diamctric size, is
placed over the stones and partially
resting upon them. The small block OF
wood is kept revolving while the water
flows upon the stone slab. In about
| fifteen minutes the stones are turned to
spheres, and then, being fit for sale, are
henceforth called marbles. One estab-
lishment, containing only three Of these
mills, will turn out fully sixty thousand
marbles in each week. Agates are made
into marbles at Oberstein by first chip
ping the piece neatly round with ham
mer, handled by skillful workman, and
then wearing down the edges upon the
surface of large grindstone.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-06-07

The On FIELDS COMPARATIVELY EX-
IIAUsTLEss. 1t appears that the first oil
field around Titusvillc is again coming
into prominence. Territory that was
long since abandoned and thought to be
worthless promises to become rs prolific
us any in the whole OIL region. Several
wells recently put down in this territory
flowed from 100 to 800 barrels per day,
and promise to maintain IL yield equal
to if not larger than those in the Butler
district.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-06-07
Best and Oldest Family Medic

Best and Oldest Family Medicime.-S,n-
ford's Liuer Inuigorator-a purely Vegetable ca
tartic and TOnic-for Dyspepsia, Constipation, De-
blity, Sick Headache, Bilious Attacks. and all
arrangements of Liver, Stomach and Bowels. Ask
your Druggist for it. BeirGre Of limitations.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-06-07

A LADY 96 years old, in New Hamp-
shire, is suffering from whooping-cough
and teething mt the same time.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-06-07

USE PRUssINGs CELEBRATED CIDER VINEGAR
Warranted to keep pickles. Take no other.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-06-07

SEE in another column the ADVERTISE
mcnt headed 81 wiz Hep Any Man.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-06-07

KEEP BLOOD PURE by using DIR. Jayncs
malignant elements, which, if left to Themselves
will dcNclnn into scriOns dsenscs
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-06-07

Mrs. CARL ScHURz has fallen heir to
$1,000 by the death of an uncle in
Germany.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-06-07

TIE PUREsT AND SWEETEST Cop LIVER
Or. is Hazard IL Caswell's, made on the sea
Shore from fresh, selected lvers of the Cod
only by CAswELI, HAZARD d Co., Now York.
1t is absolutely pure and street. Patients who
have once taken it prefer it to all others.
Physicians have decided it superior to all other
oils in market-[Com.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-06-07
Knots on Plum Trees,

A correspondent of the American In
stitute Farmers Club says that for re-
moving knots from plum trees he takes
paint brush, dips it in spirits of tur-
pentine, and thoroughly saturates the
knot: being careful not to touch the
tree except the diseased parts. The
turpentine kills the excresence, and the
tree puts on healthy branches below it.
He burns all branches of diseased trees
removed in pruning.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-06-07

it some time, when you will be surprised
to find that the grease has been entirely
absorbed by the paste, which can then
be rubbed off
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-06-07

now IT'S DONE, or the secret 0ut; Out II
t1VentriIoa SIN learned in 5 days. This GREAT
SECRET and 100 others. Gamblers Tricks, Carci-
ology. also HOW to HUNT, TRAP aad FISH al u
for IS cts. Address D. c. CUTLER, Carthage, III.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-06-07

Con. VAN ZANDT, who read the poem
at the reunion of the Army of the Po-
tomac, made happy hit in describing
Gen. b. +. Butler as one who Gear
omcd on Big Bethel and pocketed him
self"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-06-07

WORKING GLASS; MALE or EsMAtE ESQ
able employment, at home, day evening; no capi-
tai requred; full instructions and valuable package
of goods sent free by mail. Address, with six-ceht
return stamp, NJ. YOUNG Co. Ii Cortlandt-st., NY.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-06-07

from the celebrated fisheries at Aalcsund Norway.
pronounced by physicians the most delicate, efficient
Cod Liver Oil In the world.
1t is easily taken, tolerated by the weakest som-
acls digesfs readily becomes rancid. and Is al
most entirely free from tho usual disagrceabe char
actcristcs of Cod Liver Oil.
For every of Cod Liver Oil Mr. WILSON'S dlscov.
cry is of the greatest value
For the safe internal administration Of Carbohc
Acid Mr.. wilson's method of combining 1t with Cod
Liver OIL is absolutely necessary.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-06-07

To Remove Grease Spots.
very easily done by applying stiff
Y wrong side of the material
Then hang it up and leave
The Portland daily press., 1873-01-21
Battle with the NIodoe Ius;.us

| SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 20.-A despatcb fror,
arrived from the heaquarters of Gen. Wbeoe
ton, commanding the troops in the action
against the Modoc Indians A severe battle
was fought on last Friday by the troops under
command of Gen. Wheaton, consisting of on
regulars two companies of Oregon volunteers,
twenty-five California rifemen under Captain
Fairfield and a few Keamoth Indians, making
altogether about 400 men. The battle took
place near the eastern shore of Fule lake. 1t
appears that on Thursday, Capt. Bernard
went around the north end of the lake to the
east side and tothe east of Capt. Jacks posi-
ton. He was 10 advance against Capt. Jack
from the east and Gen: Wheaton from the
Southwest, the force of the latter to be under
cover of the fire of the howitzers. On Thurs
day night such dense fog enveloped the coun-
try that they could not see forty yards. The
two forces were then about twelve miles apart,
though to communicate with each other 1t was
necessary to 60 to much greaterdistance. On
Friday morning. Capt. Bernard opened tlie pat-
tie against CART. Jack, who had about two
hundred warriors concealed among the rocks
along line of two miles in length. General
~ M;nIatoI heard the firing ard had no aiterha,
i've put TO move to the aid of Capt. Bernard
Mitnout the ire of the howitzers. The troops
iought an unseen foe from eight in the morn
ing 10 dark under terrific fire, during which
scarcely one Indian was seen The loss TO the
troops was 40 killed and wounded. The loss of
the Modocs Is unknown. The troops were
finally obliged to retreat to their camps. Ber
nard's forces bore the brunt of the battle and
suffered terribly. All the cavalry tonight on
foot. Among the killed are Frank Trimble and
j. r. Brown of Oregon, and G. w. Roberts
was MORALLY wounded. Capt. Perry of the
regulars and Lieut.. Kyle were slightly wound
ed. The movement is called forced recon-
noissance. Capt. Jacks position. the leaders
say they will take, but 1000 men will be requr-
ed to dislodge him from the lava beds. The
troops for the present will only try to prevent
the Modocs from raiding on the settlements and
will wait for reinforcements.
The Portland daily press., 1873-01-21

zoe in Gold Molasses dull New Orleans at 65 g IS
Naval Stores-Spirits Turpentne quet at 631 q SIC
Rosn steady at s5 for strained Petroleum Is quiet
crude 81 a SIC; refined at 2lle. Taiow is quiet at
Freights to Liverpool moro active; Cotton per
steam 5le g 81; per sail S-l5d; Gram per steam "a
CHICAGO, Jan. 2o.-Flour in good demand at full
bi gSs Spring extra 90 q 90. Wheat active and
casb o No Spring nominal; No 2 Spring 25s
s e idr at co. steady; No. Mixed so cash
at 251s reect rejected at 27lc. Oats steady; No
at ssc Baqle 22e Rye is firm and and
irregular No Fan at c ac' Ne SgseF aaa
ON spot; II 90 "a a II 40 for Narcb ma at II %
ar 20 On spot nS g q 60 for March Meats srs IN IN
3sc; do short rib middes boxed 81; Green H SOLD at
pound averages 7Jc Dressed Hogs in fair dem, io
and frm for light at 60 and dull for heavy az ~
q 45. Whiskey is dull at Sc
Receipts-5,O00 bbs -four, $4,000 bush wheat "a
900 bush corn 200 bush oats, 5000 bush rye Ii 900
Shipments-s 900 bbls -four, 1000 bush wheat. . 600
bush corn $4,000 bush oats 00O0 bush rye O1 bush
barley.
CrNcINNATI Jan. 2O.--Proyisions opened active and
higher and closed quiet and steady. Pork at II 10 a.
1900: Lard-steam at q q SIC, and closed quiet at
ders d clear rib sides S clear Rb de Ge
offerings light; shoulders ste; clear rib sides IT. clear
TIC Green Meats steady; sales OF shoulders 80 a 81
Hogs firm at 20 a. ass; mostly 4 % a. IS; re-
ceipts $500 head. whskey-buyers and sellers apart
at SS a SOC.
TOLEDO, Jan. 20.-Four in fair demand and firm.
Wheat active and higher; No White tfichigan 65;
Amber Michigan on spot and 71 Jan 81 q J. '2 Feb
No 2 Amber Illinois 10; No. Red on spot SO q
20; Jan 20; Feb 72I. Corn is steady; high Mix
ed 371e; for May 49, Jun Acc; low Mixed SIC. Oats
a shade higher; Mop at 32c.
Receipts-60oO bush wheat, 10000 bush corn, 5000
bush oats, 5000 bbls flour.
Shhipments-soO0 bush wheat, 5000 bush corn, 1000
wIaat Jan 2o-Flour is quiet and unchanged.
W nn aG,Ve and higher extra at 90; No White
at 423c: Oats in good demand ut &c - f'N'
Recepts--8000 bush wheat
Shipments-1400 bush wheat
CHARLESTON, Jan. 90 Cotton dull and easy: Midi
ding uplands 19c. 10y 'ii"
SAvANNAu, Jan. 20. Cotton nominal; Midllinr
uplands at 19ic. ''s
MOBILE. Jan 20.-Cotton quiet and easy; Mddlinp
upands 1910.
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 29.-Cotton tiscve and easier;
Middlng uplands 1899.
The Portland daily press., 1873-01-21
MASSACHUSETTS,.
Missionary Services.

Boston, Jan. 28-Farewell missionary SER
vices were held to-day at Broomfeld street
Methodist church, pending the. departure OF
Rev. VIM. Butler and wife for Missionary
Fork in Mexico. Bishop Simpson, Rev. DIR.
Clark and Rev. F. Upham took part in the ex-
ercises, which were numerously attended.
Complaints Against Insurance Compan IA
les.
The Legislative committees to-day gave hear
ings on the beer and insurance questions. On
the latter subject, detailed statements were
given of trouble and delay in getting a settle
ment of losses.
by the fire November 9th, testified that the
merchants of Boston had been treated unfairly
by insurance companies outside of the State.
He had made out his statement of losses and
the adjusters approved of them on behalf OF the
board of underwriters, on the 10Th of Novem-
Der, and notices were given to the companies.
About the last of December the agents of the
Market Co., and Hope Co., of New York, were
sent to examine over again the books and justi-
fy the proofs of losses. This had the effect to
postpone the day of payment to the sixty days
beyond that time. He said the adjusters in
such case offer to pay the losses at a discount
of 10 per cent. a shave, which weak concerns
sometimes are compelled to submit to. He be
lieved a simple form or policy should be pre-
scribed to the insurance companies of Massa
chusetts by law, special contracts be drawn il
writing and then proof of losses should be adj
justed within thirty days. Edward Atkinson
Ezra Farnsworth, and Others, related similar
experience.
The Portland daily press., 1873-01-21
BY TELEGRAPH.
AUGUSTA MATTERS.
lSnecial to the Press.l

AUGUSTA, Jan. 20 1873
Industrial school for Girls.
The Board of Trustees of the Industrial
School for Girls, met at the Governors room
this afternoon at four O'Clock. A quorum was
present. including Mayor Kingsbury and Hon.
f. r. French, Secretary. Tomorrow the Board
will go to Hallowell to examine the site for the
school offered there by a charitable lady,
amounting.to $4,000, as announced about ten
days since in the PRESS. There is no doubt
but what this offer will he accepted, when, if
the State will appropriate $4,000 the school will
be put into immediate operation.
school Supervision.
There was quite little display of oratory
when Mr. Dirgley's bill for school supervision
came UP, i'm which Messrs. Matthews OF Hamp-
den, Bisbec of Bueksport, Corthell of Calais
and Adams Of Arson, participated. Wednes-
day is assigned for its further consideration,
when there viii be the first set debate of the
session. The only objections to the bill thus
far expressed is that the districts are too large
and the pay, $1,000 and travelling expenses, too
large-as though an efficient man could be Sc
cured for less sum-. There are none here who
can draw the ''avenging sword,' but the occa-
sion will bring out some orator who will pro-
nounce ''distrct" as though it was spelled with
two very long 'es'' in the first syllable. He
will think that $1500 is too much.
Eft Cetcra.
The attendance in both branches was very
light to-day. Tomorrow the busy week will
begin.
The latest candidate here spoken of in con-
nection with the Republican candidacy for
Governor, is Mayor Kingsbury
1t is stated that the Dexter county scheme
will be abandoned until next session, though
there is no indication of the fact.
The attempt to change the shire town of
Somerset county again, win be abortive
1t is stated that several well-known asricul-
tural men will be here this week te make an eff
fort to have the Legislature abolish the Boord
of Agriculture The number will inclnde sew
cral members of the Board