Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-03-08
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LOUISIANA is so named in honor of
Louis XIV.
THE Cars birthday is to be specially
celebrated this year.
The late Gov. Geary was the first
Mayor of San Francisco.
MARCUS TULLIUs CICERO CLEMENS is
one of the Selectmen of Rome, Ga.
In playing Hamlet, Booth uses the
skull of Western horse thief named
Glover.
IT is suggested that Darwin, who has
just turned GA, is old enough to know
better.
The Carolinas were named in honor of
Charles l., and Georgia in honor of
George ii.
A BRITISH officer, who pretends that
his name is Burjoice B. Jove, is regis
tered at Chicago hotel. He is not
British officer" he is a printer
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, which was start
ed as training school for ministers,
now turns less than one-fifth of it's gradu-
ates into the theological profession.
MARY LOVE, of Tennessee, receives
1000 by act of Congress for services in
the war in carrying dispatches from Gen.
Grant to Gen. Burnside, in Knoxville,
through the rebel lines.
CHARLES FARNcIs ADAMS has accepted
the invitation of the Legislature of New
York to deliver an address on the occa-
sion of the memorial service by the State
in honor of the late William H. Seward.
The great fires in American cities
within year and a half have cost the
country $300,000,00O, which is more
than it has cost all Europe, save in war,
since the great fire of London, 200 years
ago.
NIAGARA FALLS, with water power of
1000, 900 cubic feet per minute, manu-
factures one operating stool for the use
of dentists, every day ; one spooler and
twister, for wooden and cotton mills
every week, and printing paper to supply
the weekly edition of paper.
A DISTINGUISHED clergyman in Boston
performed the marriage ceremony, and
the couple walked out without bestow
ing any fee. But the bride turned and
said eve are verv much obliged to
you, sir; and I hope one of these days
we shall be able to retaliate.'
A PROPOSITION is before the Massachu
sets Legislature looking toward the re-
peal of the constitutional amendment in
that State which prohibits the exercise
of the elective franchise to all who are
unable to read the Declaration of Inde-
pendence and the Constitution of the
Commonwealth.
THE Western Union Telegraph Com
pany contempletes soon discarding its
iron wires throughout the whole country
and substituting therefor No. 9 gal
yanized wire. A No. iron wire will be
retained between Omaha and Chicago,
passing through Davenport. This grand
change will involve an expense OF one
million dollars.
WHAT it costs to "run" Plymouth
Church, Brooklyn, year is shown in
the following figures: Henry Ward
Beecher, $4,000; Mr.. Halliday, assist
ant pastor, $1,000; Mr.. Weld, first sex
ton, $4,000; Mr.. Raynor, second sexton,
81 200; music, $4,000; insurance, $500;
current expenses, $1,000; Plymouth
library, $780, Total, $43, 900.
JOHN G.. WHITTIER, the Quaker-poet,
writes that "The hour is fast coming
when, under the indisputable teach
ings of science, men cannot trust
altogether to the letter of the law of God
as we find it in Holy Writ, but must
look more for guidance to the divine law
of his conscience, which is immutable,
and not subject to the speculations and
hypotheses of translators."