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Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-08-19

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~ gy&<fg RAILROAD.
WINTER ARRANGEMENT.
ON and after TUESDAY, october 1st, lsT2 Passen-
ger aud Freight TRIMS will, until turther houce'ruh
as folio vs.: (Suudays exreptedl
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-26
UNCLE SAM AS A BUILDER.

UNCLE SAM is engaged just now in
erecting some pretty fine structures,
some forty Government buildings being
in process of construction in different
parts of the country. The finest and
costliest of these is probably the New
York Custom House, which was COM
menced in the fall of 1869. It will be a
most solid and substantial edifce, no
materials but granite, iron and glass en-
tering into it's construction. The floors
are of brick arches, springing from iron
beams, SO that this must prove as nearly
a fire proof building as it is possible for
human foresight to make it. Up to
the present time 2SO,OOO cubic feet of
granite have been used in the construc-
ton, 10000 yards of concrete, $1,000
barrels of cement, 5000, 900 bricks, and
$4,000 pounds of iron. The cost so
far has been $3,5O0,0OO.
Next to the New York building, the
Chicago Custom House is probably the
finest editice which the Government
is now rearing. The latter will be quite
as solid and enduring structure as that
in New York, and will be f more orna-
mental, and in every respect prettier
building in an architectural point of
view
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-26
RESULT OF AN ACCIDENT.

More novelties are the result of acct
dent than is generally supposed. The
origin of bluetinted paper came about
by mere slip of the hand. William
East, an English paper-maker, once
upon time set his men to work and
went away on business. While the men
were at dinner Mrs. East accidentally
let blue-bag fall into one of the watts of
pulp. Alarmed at the occurrence she
determined to say nothing about it.
Great was the establishment of the work.
men when they saw the peculiar color of
the paper, and great the anger of Mr..
East when he returned and found whole
vat of pulp had been spoiled. After CIV
ing the paper warehouseroom for four
years, Mr.. East sent it up to his agent
in London to seld /" for what it would
fetch" "For what it would fetch p
said the agent, misunderstanding the
meaning well, it certainly is a novelty,
but he must not expect too much" So
he sold the whole at considerable adj
vance upon the market price, and wrote
to the mills for as much more as he
could get The surprise of Mr.. East
may be imagined. He FASTENED to tell
his wife, who found courage to confess
her share of the fortunate accident, and
to claim reward, which she received in
the shape of new cloak. Mr.. East
kept his secret, and for short time sup
piled the market with the novel tint,
until the demand far exceeded the sup
ply, and other makers, discovering the
means used, competed with him.-Ne,0
York Tablet.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-26
SPICE.

A labor strike is said to be impending.
The carpenters say they don't get enough
to pay their board,
Shoemakers, that it takes their awl to
keep them at work, and their sole de-
pendence is often in their last job.
Painters complain that they have be-
come literally hue-ers of wood.
Upholsterers complain that hangings
have gone out of fashion.
Boiler.makers aver that Congress has
kept the country in hot water to such a
degree that they have no chance.
Blacksmiths complain that all the
forging is done in Wall street, and there
is no chance.
Tailors say they mean to give their
customers fits.
The matters have kept ahead.
The ga.-htters will 60 in for light
work.
Printers say they are tired, and can't
"set up" any longer-that's what's the
matter.
Bakers say they knead more, and
don't like to see so many rich loafers.
Butchers complain of being asked to
work at killing prices.
Candle makers urge that wicked work
ought to be well paid for.
Wheelwrights say that all the spokes-
men i'll Congress voted more pay before
retiring, and they expect to do as well as
their felloes.
The paper-makers say their business
is such that it brings them to rags.
And, finally, the plumbers propose to
have their customers do the work, and
charge double price for experimenting
it themselves. Each superintendent will
have three tenders, one to fill his pipe,
another to hold his hat, and third to
act as substitute when he goes out
"to see man. "-BOston Bulletin.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-26
A LESSON FROM ONE ADVERTISE
MENT.


AS illustrating the enormous army of
idlers in Philadelphia, it is stated that
simple advertisement of three lines iii d
recent issue of the Ledgcr for clerk in
q railroad office was answered by nine
hundred and eighty:fpe applicants for
the place. This occurrence leads the
Ledger to offer timely bit of advice to
parents on the prevalent folly of bring
ing up their boys to the genteel occupa-
tions, and sending them out ID the world
without any other trade or occupation
by which they can earn an honest liveli-
hood. There is no social error more
prevalent, and few that are more lament
able, than that of the fond, indulgent
mothers aud shoft-sighted fathers who
allow, and even encourage, their boys to
grow up in total Ignorance of any other
business than that which they may ac-
quire in the counting house or the sales
room. "All such parents or guardians
can see from the number of applications
for one clerkship sent to one advertiser
in one day fair Indication Of the NUM-
Der of clerks, or persons who desire to
! be clerks, who IRE vainly seeking en-
ployment in that capacity. There is a
fearful excess of young men, and indeed
of men of mature age, who desire to go
into offices or stores to write, or to edo
anything" as some of them express it.
When such persons get out of employ
ment they generally have long and weary
waits.-month after month and year after
year-before they can get other places,
for the reason indicated in the above
fgures-there are thousand persons at
hand to fill any Que vacancy that occurs.
No one should bring up boy SO that
his only or chief qualification for useful
employment in his manhood is his fit
ness to act as clerk, book-keeper, or at
tendant in an office or store. Nine
times out of ten the boys and men SO
brought up lead lives of disappointment
and penury." Every large city swarms
with young men seeking employment as
book-keepers, clerks, and other so-called
"penteel" occupations.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-26

The English anti-slavery expedition
to Zanzibar, under Sir Bartle Frere, has
failed. There we're two lions squatted
detiantly in Sir Bartle's path. One
scents to lave been the treaty of 1916,
between England and the Sultan of zan-
zibar, by which the slave trade ~as per-
mitted within certain limits. The other
was the Koran. which acknowledges and
allows slavery. Had the treaty of 1915
been the only obstacle in the way of a
new treaty, the Sultan would have
probably yielded. But the Koran To
the true believer its presents are sacred;
and there is the revenue from the
present system. England must try
again and elsewhere. The South Sea
islanders are Kidnapped every day, I'M.
der the sanction of that pure Govern.
ment. By all means, let her send Sil
Bartle Frere ON mission, then, to the
South Sea Islands.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-26
Nevcr Too Late to Mend.


When the stomach is In q state Of chronic rebel
lion against every kind Of food, and the attending
physician with solemn and portentsus gravity
declares that such cases Of confirmed dyspepsia
defy all rem edies, do not put faith in his pse dirt
Indigestion of this obstinate character may be in.
durable by his prescriptions but 1t is not therefore
All irremovable fixture in the system. The fact is
that the great vegetable invgorant and corrective,
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, is radically curing
cases Of this seemingly desperate nature every
day. Indeed 1t is in those malignant phases Of
dyspepsia which no ordinary medicine can control
that its remedial properties are most wonderfully
manifested. We say to the ng-suffering martyr.
whose stomach is a source Of perpetual torment tc
him, that by the persistent and daily use Of this
glorious tonic, he not only restore the digest
i've organs to their full vigor, but can keep them
In good working order through life. If there is
constipation, the gentle aperient operation OF the
Bitters will remove all distractions and keep the
bowels in a regular and healthy condition. The
grand Characteristic of this vitalizng and purify
ing vegetable preparation is that 1t acts bene-
fcially upon every organ, controlling the Hver,
reinforcing the nerves, toning the coats of the
stomach promoting q healthy habit Of body, re-
Heving the blood of all impurities, clearing the
brain and reviving the spirits.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-26
HA VANA, THE PARADISE OF SMOK-
Frs

HA |ANA, THE PARADISE or SMOh-
ERS.
Everybody smokes, old and young,
male and female; in all places, the par
lor and ladies' dining-room. Tobacco
in some shape, ready to be lighted, if
only for few whiffs, is ever at hand.
The colored boy who carried our trunk
to the room had a cigarette over each
ear, as clerk would carry pen or pen
Gil. The silver Candida now sits near
me with it's burning coal to light the
cigar. l think there must be something
in the atmosphere or manner of living
which gives one an appetite for smoke
Certain it is baud inerperitus loqoo',
that one can keep up continual fire,
lighting the new by the old, from morn
ing till night. The time of day has
nothing to do with this appetite. Truly
has Providence made Havana the para
disc of smokers; not only by giving the
fragrant weed, but climate which wooes
to an open-air life, balmy nights, and n
dreamy life, which is rounded and tint
ed, and crowned and haloed by the blue
wreaths of "fuma de tobaccos. GORE
spondence Jersey city Eueni'ag Journal.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-26
A MITCH NEEDED REFORM

A movement is on foot in the East for
the organization of company, or series
of companies, with heavy capital, to
manufacture sewing machines at cheap
er rate than the majority of the present
sewing machine companies charge. The
patents which protect and sustain these
sewing machine monopolies will shortly
expire. The machines, whose manufac-
ture has enriched dozen or more colos-
sal companies, though sold for $50 to
1926, cost less than $15 to $3.50 each.
When their patents expire, should they
fail through corrupt means to get them
extended-for it is only by corrupt means
that their shameful monopolies can be
continued-good sewing machines can be
bought for 1875 to $50.
There promises to be an important
collapse in the price of other kinls of
machinery as well. Farmers are just
opening their eyes to the fact that they
are, and have been for years, paying
outrageously extortionate prices for their
agricultural machinery. The railroad
war has brought out correspondent,
who has been investigating the actual
cost of certain farming implements, and
comparing that with the prices paid by
the farmers. The result is as follows.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-26

A LITTLE girl recently died in an Ar
kansas town of what was believed to be
cerebro-spinal meningitis, or spotted
fever. The local physician, doubling
the cause of her death, obtained per-
mission to make a 2oost-naortem examin-
alton, which disclosed the fact that the
little girls stomach was loaded with
boiled cabbage, which had worked itself
into one hard, solid mass, distending the
stomach, and causing death, the victim
dying in commissions. The doctor says
that many of the deaths credited to this
cerebro-spinal disease have nothing
to do with it, and are entirely distinct
from it.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-26

SoRIBNER's for April contains an inter
esting article entitled An Hour among
the Greenbacks," being brief account
of the way of counting money, detect
ing counterfeit notes, ETC., in the Treas
ury at Washington, in which some mar
vslous things are told. For example !:
of one young woman who has on fire.
quent occasions counted $4,000 notes in
five and half hours, which is at the
rate of over 5000 notes an hour, or $50
minute. To have an idea of this
wonderful feat, the writer remarks, one
has only to undertake to tap his finger
on the the table for an hour at the rate
twice or thrice second.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-26
To Color Black.

For a full dress, take two ounces of
extract of logwood and the same of blue
vitriol; dissolve the vitriol in sufficient
soft water to cover the goods; put them
in wet in suds, simmer two hours, then
wash in three suds. Throw away the
vitriol water and wash the Kettle. Make
the dye with the extract in plenty of
water put in the goods and let them
simmer two hours longer, stirring very
often to prevent spotting. Rinse well in
cold water, and wash clean in suds.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-26

Who will say, after reading this little
story, which comes to us all the way
from the Granite Hills, that the clumsy
toad is the most stolid creature in the
world? "Some time ago New-Hamp-
shire farmer discovered a large toad
near his beehive, actively at work catch
ing and devouring bees. With that
wonderful forbearance and kindness of
heart characteristic of all New Hamp-
shire farmers, he tenderly picked up
that frog and carried him half mile
away from the hive. The next morning
that identical frog was back again at the
old stand, actively at work as before.
He again took him up, carried him
long mile away, and dropped him. But
in twenty-four hours he was back again,
reducing the number of bees as success
fully as ever"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-26
Fine BullOcks.

The New England Farmer says: w.
H. Cheever & Co., of the North Attic
boro (Mass.) market, have recently
slaughtered pair of oxen that weighed,
after being off feed twenty-four hours
and walking two miles, 5,52s pounds.
The dressed weight of one was 1897
pounds, and of the other 1865 pounds.
They were fed by Josiah Richards, of
North Attleboro. At the Attleboro fair,
one year ago last fall, a working team of
twelve oxen was exhibited by Richards
& Bros, which averaged about $500
pounds per pair-the heaviest weighing
400 pounds.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-26
the farmers. The result is as follows:

This gives profit of $497 on 5000
worth of machinery. Is it strange, then,
that our agricultural population are
chatting under the extortions they are
compelled to undergo, and have deter
mined to foster and sustain manufacto-
ries in their own midst, which will sup
ply them with what they need at a reas-
enable price? The wonder is that they
have not walked up years ago and shook
off this terrible incubus of extortion that
has SO long oppressed them.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-26

The New York Herald of Sunday, the
9th inst, consisted of 100 columns of
matter, of which rs columns were adver-
tisements. The Chicago Tribune of the
same date con insisted of 112 columns, of
which so columns were filed with ad-
Yertisements.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-26

DIR. A. JOHNSON, one of the most sue
cessful practitioners of his time, invented
what is now called .johnson's Anodyne Lini-
ment. The great success of this article in the
cure of Bronchitis and all diseases of throat
and lungs will make the name of johnson not
less favorably, if less widely, known than that
of Louis Napoleo1. Il Com.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-26

We have been asked of what use are
drains four feet in depth in impervious
clay, and why would not surface drains
answer better? To which we reply that
"impervious" means relative and not
a positive quality of the clay. No clay,
or at least none that we meet in agricul-
ture, is really impervious. To become
so it must be subjected to process of
grinding which renders it plastic. Some
geological clays are met with that have
probably undergone some such process,
and they alone are really impervious. A
clay subsoil, when examined, will be
found to be filled with small pores or
veins, through which the water finds
channels of escape, and the deeper the
drain is placed the larger number of
these veins will be cut, and the more
perfect will be the drainage. No one
need be afraid of draining the most i'm
pervious clay that can be met with, at a
depth of four feet from the surface.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-26
How to Wash Flannels,

Two things are to be noted: First, the
soap must contain no resin, as this hard
ems the tibers of the wool second, the
weter should be boiling hot, or as near
that temperature as possible. If wash
ing machine is used, there need be no
difficulty on this latter point. Fill the
washer with boiling suds, pass the fan
nels through it, wiring them out, scald
in bluing water, wiring again, and hang
out to dry without delay.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-26

TIE PUREsr AND SWEETEST CoD-LIvER
OIL is Hazard & Caswell's, made on the sea
shore, from fresh, selected livers, of the Cod
only, by CAswELL, HAZARD q Co, New 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 ICON,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-26

The public are hereby assured through
the columns of this paper that Parsons Pur-
gatiue Pills contain no injurious principle, but
that they may be administered to children and
the most weak aud shattered constitutions in
small doses, with great certainty of success.
-ICom.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-26

keep it before the people" and on
the table till dyspeptics are no more.
One quart of new milk, half a cup of
new yeast, and half cup of molasses,
or one pint of bread sponge, with milk
and molasses. Stir in Graham meal
until stiff, let rise, and bake three-quar-
tiers of an hour; never mold as for fine
-four bread. When the meal is coarse,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-26

A CoUGH, Cold, or Sore Throat re-
quires immediate attention, as neglect often
times results in some incurable Lung Disease.
"Bromn's Bronchial Troches" will almost in
variably give relief.-[Com.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-26
Unpleasant Odor of Precipitation.

This source of annoyance, which is
often difficult to treat, may be removed
as follows: Mix tablespoonful of the
compound spirits of ammonia with
small basin of water. By washing the
arms, arm-pits and hands with this solu
ton, the skin will be left clean and sweet.
The wash is cheap and harmless, and is
much preferable to the perfumes and
unguents which disguise but do not re-
ieve the trouble.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-26

Best and Oldest Family Medicine.-San-
tOrd's Liver Huigorator-a purely Vegetable Ca
thartic and Tonc-for Dyspepsia, Constipation, De-
bilty, Sick Headache, Bilious Attacks, and all de
rangements Liver, Stomach and Bowels. ASH
your Drugg st for it, Betrdre OF limitations.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-26

IT Is ALTOGETHER WRONG to trife with o Bad
Cough or Cold when the risk is great and REM
edy so sure prompt and thorough as DR.. Jayne's
Expectorsnt can be readily found.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-26

IF you have Chills and Fever, or any form Of
Fever and Ague, take Shallenberger's Antidote
and save q Doctors bill Every druggist has it.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-26

IT will require 20,000,000 visitors
to the Vienna Exposition to make it
pay.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-26

A REMARKABLE INVENTION. OF
the most important improvements ever
perfected in musical instruments has
lately been introduced by Geo. Woods
& Co., in their improved Parlor Organs.
1t consists of piano of exquisite quality
of tone which will never require tuning.
The instrument was lately introduced at
a musical soiree in Baltimore, and re-
ceived the cordial applause and indorse-
ment of the many eminent professionals
present. Boston Journal.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-26
FASTEh YOUR WINDOWS
SOLDIERS BOUNTY.

Soldiers enlisted between May 4th and August
6th 1851 for three years, and never received houn-
ty, can now obtain 1t; also those who failed to
apply for the additional bounty. Address, with
stamp, B. j. BROWN CO., Pittsburgh, Pa.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-26

as is best for pudding, stirring in cup
of shorts or fine flour will make it less
harsh.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-26

If Mr.. John Hopkins, of Baltimore,
does not take up his future abode in
that world where it is popularity sup
posed all good souls migrate to, it will
be because good and charitable deeds on
this mundane sphere are of no avail in
accomplishing such desirable end.
His munifcence outranks that OF all
those noble spirits who have contributed
SO largely to the endowment of our
numerous public institutions and excel
lent charities. His benefactions, pres
ent and prospective, reach the enormous
sum of nearly five millions of dollars.
A university with scholarships for the
poor he has already taken steps to Or
ganize by the appointment of trustees,
by the gift of his Clifton estate OF four
hundred acres, and by setting apart in
his will for this object his entire interest
in the Baltimore and Ohio railroad.
Still more recently-only last month in
fact-he conveyed to other trustees two
million dollars, with which to erect and
maintain hospital in the city of Balti-
more for the INDECENT sick of the city
and its environs without regard to sex,
age, or COLOR" training-school for
nurses in connection with it-these two
institutions to form part of the medi-
cal school of the future university; and
IN the country an orphans home with
accommodations for three or four hun
dred colored children, and due provision
for their maintenance and education.
These deeds speak for themselves, but it
should be added that Mr.. Hopkins In
structions are, like his intentions, OF the
most liberal character, and that he and
every one of his trustees are Southern
men by birth and lifelong residence.