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The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-07-05

Bg CHURCH COMMITTEES TAKE
NOTICE.-GAS FIXTURES and CHANDE
LIERS, REBRONZED and REPAIRED-made
to look as good as new-by
DANIEL ODONNELL,
ap Sim SIS Broad Street.
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RATES OF ADvERTTsISs.

ONE DOLLAR per square of eight line.
solid nonpareil.
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Gss,sing State go,lrnaL
TERMS

DAILY-s8 per year; six months, ss three
months, SI.5O; one month, 80 cents.
Wi-WEEKLY-S2.5O per year; SIX
months Sl..5; three months, 10 cents
WEEKLY-Si.5O per year sN mohths' 20
zen s. .r,,,>,., y, ,,,,n~,.x
WEEKLY and SEMI -WEthLf JoufNAL
ulabs at ertreateig ioto rates
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Bggn DOLLAR SAVINGS BANK.
OFFICE CORNER MAIN AND I4rH SITS,
No. 400.
DEPOSITS OF ONE DOLLAR OR MORE
received, upon which liberal interest will be
allowed.
Save your money and get interest Do not
keep it idle; interest counts while you Sleep
JOHN L. BOSSIEUX, President
THOMAS S. ARMISTEAD, Cashier.
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SPECIAL RATES made at counter, or b,
contract. with regular patrons.
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There were numerous cases of suu-stroke
yesterday, especially among the military,
during the morning parade.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-07-05
Ns@CITY FIRE INSURANCE
COMPANY, OF RICHMOND, VA

COMPANY, OF RICHMOND, VA.
OFFICE, No. ll13 MAIN STREET.
Under the clearinghouse of Lancaster a 90.
AUTHORIZED CAPITAL ...."......"$2OO,O 900
ASSEIS.... .................... .-.."..... 100000
DIRECTORS Peter w. Grubbs, Clement r.
Barksdaie, Charles T. Davis, William M Ar
cher, William II. Palmer, l.. b. Tatum, s. II.
Hawes, 7. William Pemberton, D. S, Wool
bridge, F, 7. Glasgow, r. L. D. Walford, John
Tyler, Isaac II. Carrington, James Dunlop, w,
r. Quarles, Anthony Bargamln, w. IT, Lucke,
Bailey Davis, Frank d. Hill, F. B. Watkins
Lewis d. Crenshaw, George w. Gary, Samuel
Freedley, William H. Powers
This home company is now ready to issue its
policy against Loss OR DAMAGE BY FIRE
ON BUILDINGS, MERCHANDISE, HOUSE,
HOLD FURNITURE and other insurable pro.
perty, and solicits patronage.
ASA SNYDER, President
f. b. MEADE. Secretary.
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neas% HOUSES, LOTS AND FARMS
SOLD, LEASED OR RENTED.
BONDS, STOCKS AND MORTGAGES
BOUGHT AND SOLD ON COMMiS-
SION
sH LOANS NEGOTIATED ON REAL ES-
TATE AND OTHER COLLATERAL
SECURITY.
&H REAL ESTATE AND COMMERCIAL
PAPER NEGOTIATED.
RICHARDSON 4 co,
Real Estate Agents Brokers and
my 1--3m Auctioneers. Ill3 Main Street
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nG- 100000.

Hes ip0O,OOO.
Win be distributed this year to the subscri
6ers for the AMERICAN WORKING PEO-
FILE. large quarto, l6 page Monthly, costing
but 81 per year. 1t gives a premium to every
subscriber, varying from 25 cents in value up to
w, 80, $40, 800. 800, 5000, and $500 in Green
backs, besides Watches, Sewing Machines
Parlor Organs and numerous other premiums
OF value. Send for specimen and circulars to
F.ga - CAPRON & CO.,
NH 6-Sm Pittsburg. Pa.
g@~ MRS. JOHN p. BALLARD
WISHES TO TAKE BoARDERS FOR THE
SPRING, SUMMER AND FALL MONTHS.
Gan accommodate two sman families The
house is new one, pleasantly located n miles
frmo the city, and the accommodation train OH
the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac
railroad stops at the place daily at sA o'clock a.
M; returning, leaves Richmond at O'Clock, p.
IN. Address JOHN p. BALLARD,
apll-tf Richmond, Va,
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so ACRES OF LAND IN CHARLES OF
... COUNTY, NEAR NANCE'S SHOP.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-11-22
NUMDRR 8.


[Those who contemplate writing for the press
would do well to read the following rhymes care
fully, and carry out the advice to the very letter
BY so doing, they would save editors world o
trouble and anxiety of mind, and themselves dis
ppointment:l
Write upon pages of single size,
Cross all your T's and neatly dot your rs:
On one side only let your lines be seen;
Both sides filed up announce Verdant Green.
Correct, yes, re-correct, all that you write,
And let your idk be black, your paper white;
For spongy foolscap of muddy blue
Betrays n mind of the same dismal hue.
Punctuate carefully, for on this
Nothing proclaims the practiced writer more.
Then send it of, and, lest it merit lack,
Inclose the postage stamps to send it back;
But first pay all the postage on it, too,
For editors look black ON six cents DUE"
And murmur, as they run the effusion DER,
"A shabby fellow and n wretched borc.n a4-,-..-
Yet ere it goes, take of copy clean;
Poets should own copying machine.
Little they know the time that's spent, and caro-
In hunting verses vanished-who knows where?
Bear this in mind, observe it to the end,
And you shall make the editor your friend.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-11-22
ABOUT THE OYSTER.

In a conversation with prominent
oyster packer, says the Baltimore Amcr-
ican, some curious and interesting feat
ures of the oyster trade were related.
As is we'll known, the habits of this
bivalve are an entire mystery; what it
eats and how it lives are questions not
yet understood. The spawn of the
oyster floats around with the action of
the waves or tide, and adheres to what
ever it may come into contact with.
Oysters taken from rocky bed are of
superior quality; those taken from a
soft bottom are comparatively poor in
quality. Thousands of "poor inno-
cent" oysters die annually from resting
on a soft bottom, fact which should
arouse the sympathies of all tender
hearted people.
The weight of the oyster, as it grad
ually natures, sinks it beneath the sur
face; and as soon as it is covered with
ol:..-e..t .--sl, Il dioo. Many peOple
suppose that the oyster really eats, and
kind-hearted people, buying oysters in
the shell, sometimes throw corn-meal
over them, thinking to feed them. The
peculiar noise emanating from them
has been supposed to be produced by
feeding. All shell-fsh at times have
their shells open, and when touched
will instantly close them. The noise
thus produced has been mistaken for
mastication, when, in reality, it is
fright.
Most of the Baltimore dealers in raw
oysters during the summer months
transact their business at Fair Haven,
Conn, whittier large beds of Baltimore
oysters have been transplanted. The
beds are so arranged that, on the reced-
ing of the salt water tide, fresh water
from small stream covers the oysters;
it is said that this fattens oysters better
than any other method. Orders are re-
ceived for the article in question during
the summer months, and they are taken
from the beds and shipped with the
greatest possible dispatch, and many
eat them with apparent relish, notwith-
standing the warmth of the season.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-11-22
ABOUT BOLTINT.

Henry Ward Beecher's paper, the
Christian Union, has manly article on
the duty, no less than the right, to
"bolt." 1t shows that bolt was the
foundation of every reform the world
has known. Nothing save organization
is SO venerable or respectable as bolt.
ing. History, both sacred and profane,
teens with the recital of it. Noah was
bolter from the unanimous beliefs OF
his time. Much faith and courage he
needed, too, to Withstand official scorn,
popular ridicule, the sneer of good So
ciety, and the cold shoulder of the
fashionable world. which thought his
airs of superior virtue the merest con-
ceit. The majority in Sodom wholly
disagreed with Lot. More than once
Moses was in a minority of one, the
whole people being united in the opinion
that he was stiff necked fellow who
might better 60 with the party. Every
one of the early Christians was bolter.
The Christian Church itself, not to speak
it profanely, was bolt from the Judaic
synagogue. That of Constantine was a
bolt from the Pagan established faith.
The Reformation bolted the Romish
platform and candidates. The Puritan
revival bolted the regular organization
of the English Church. The Declara-
ton of Independence was the most dar-
ing and apparently hopeless bolt of
modern times. Washington, Franklin,
and all their fellow-rebels simply as
serted the right of private judgment in
politics as opposed to an inherited ira
dition of loyalty to sacred majesty.
Garrison and Phillips asserted the right
of private judgment as opposed to an
inherited tradition of loyalty to sacred
Constitution. The feeble bolt of dozen
eccentrics forty years ago is become the
enormous Republican organization of
to-day. In the nature of things, a sue
cessful party becomes in time corrupt
party. For every soldier of fortune is
bound to train under the victorious
banner, while honest men will not use
that vigilance which alone can keep these
bummers from electing themselves Off
GERS, that they may divide the spoils.
There comes q day, therefore, when
those same honest men, having refused
to bolt nomination or scratch ticket,
are sorrowfully forced to bolt the party
instead. But when that day has really
dawned is a question which must be
referred to private Judgment.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-11-22
ARTETIE.S

WHY is ladder like prize-fght?
Because it is made up of rounds.
AN Ohio editor publishes marriages
under the head of Attachment No
tices."
THAT the coming winter will be one of
severe cold is indicated by the thinness
of hair on new blacking brushes.
WHILE witnessing game of base ball
out West boy was struck on the back
of his head, the bawl coming out of his
mouth.
THERE was room with eight corners.
In each corner sat a cat; before each cat
sat seven other cats !; and on each cats
tail sat cat How many cats in all I?
THE man who has nothing to boast
of but his illustrious ancestry is like a
potato-the only good belonging to him
is underground. Sir Thomas OUerbu1y.
A MERCHANT who has Sunday school
class asked, "What is solitude ?' and
was visibly disturbed when miserable
boy answered, "The store that don't
advertise"
A MAN out West brags that all tho
furniture and flooring of his house is
made of live oak, but his wife who does
the hard work of the house, says it's
nothing but scrub oak.
THE fall" season begins when til
sidewalks are covered with ice. 1t has
been known to set in, however, in orange
and banana time. The "spring" season
comes when the streets are sloppy and
muddy.
A DANBuRY boy bought and took
home n copy of story paper. His
father took it from him and burned it.
He said that the contents were nothing
but lies, and that the influence of such
journal was extremely pernicious.
Then he put his hands in his pockets
where were potato and horse chest
nut, preventatives of rheumatism, and
went down street. Danb,try Ncacs.
Ii you are told to do thing,
| And mean to do it really,
Never let it be by halves,
Do it fully. freely
Do not make poor excuse
| Waiting, weak, unsteady;
All obedience worth the name
Must be prompt and ready.
When father calls, though pleasant be
The play you pursuing
| Do not say, "Ill come when
| Have finished what Pm doing"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-11-22
now LONE PINE WAS "RUN" BY
GEORGE WATSON.

Lone Pine is a town in California. 1t
can't be much of a town, but appears to
be too big to be run by one man.
George Watson had to leave it months
ago on account of some numbering he
had done there. He made tour of the
mines under another name and came
back to Lone Pine with a reinforced
opinion of his ability to stay there,
and some money in his pockets-the
fruit of his wandering and thieving
operations among the miners. He was
in the habit of killing Or robbing man
whenever he took fancy to such
amusement, and, having been quite sue
cessful in these enterprises, he came
back to Lone Pine with his arms and
ammunition, and announced his inten-
ton to "run" the town. His first act
of government was to beat and nearly
kill an inofiensivc English-speaking In
dian, because he was an Indian. The
same evening, pistol in hand. he turned
all the occupants out of saloon, and,
standing in the door, announced that he
was able to whip any man in the crowd,
and that if some one did not take him
up and fight him instantly, he would be
under the necessity of shooting some
body. Just then he got gun-shot
through the heart, and the Coroner was
unable to find out who did it. That
is the way George Watson run" Lone
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-11-22
GRANDPA THEIRS BARN.

o ! don't you remember our grandfathers barn,
Where our cousins and we went to play;
How we climbed on the beams and the scafold sc
high,
Or turnbled at will on the hay.
How We sat in ON the bundles of straw,
And riddles and witch stories told;
And the sunshine i'll through the cracks i'll the
south,
And turned all the dust into gold?
How we played hide and seek in each Granny ant
nook,
Wherever a child could be slowed;
And we made us a coach of hogshead of rye,
And on it to "Boston" rode?
And then kept store and sold barley and oats
And corn by the bushel bin
And straw for our sisters to braid into hats,
And fax for our mothers to spin?
Then we played VIC were bddies, and cackled and
crowed,
Till grandmother, in bastc came to see
II the weasels were killing the old specklcd hen,
Or whatever the matter might be;
How she patted heads when she saw her his
take,
And called us her sweet "chickcns dear"
While tear dimmed her eyes the picture re-
called
The scenes of her vanished years.
How we teetered and swung, and played moetin'
and school,
And Indian, soldier and bear;
While up on the rafters the swallows kept house,
Or sailed through the soft summer air;
How we longed to peep into their curious nests,
But they were too far overhead,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-11-22

OFFICIAL returns to the Bureau of Sta
tistics at Washington show that dur
ing the quarter ending Sept. 80, 1873,
there arrived at New York 6S, ,5SS emil
grants, of whom 3S.6l3 were males and
29,976 females. There died during the
voyage 40 males and 80 females. Total
arrivals from England, 15,399; Ireland,
ID, 100; Scotland, 2,791; Wales, 257
Germany, 24,3s1 Austria, 926; Sweden,
2,139; Norway, 2,O24; Denmark, 591
France, 1,740; Switzerland, $40; Spain,
90; Italy, 1,029 Holland, s51 Prus-
sia, 1,2os Holland, 5s1 Hungary, 31s
born at sea, 90.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-11-22
A NEW TRIAL GRANTED.

Old Ginguzzle was the terror of the
junior bar. Any of us would as lief
have faced the master we believed him
to serve, as encounter cold Gin, as
we called him, in the trial of a case.
There wasn't quibble he wasn't up
to, nor a trick he wouldn't stoop to.
Then his manner of treating youthful
opponent-supercilious is no name for
tit was like administering a spanking
in open court. 1t was no use appealing
to the Judge. Old Gin bullied him as
much as he did the lest of us. 1t was
only the jury he took pains to be polite
to, and how he did bamboozle them
Old Gin rode the circuit; and the
deuce of it was, you could never tell
when he would be rung in on you.
Your case might be called for trial !; you
might rise to open, counting on square
fight with one for whom you felt your
self fully a match, when, at the last
moment, Old Gin, just retained on the
other side, would haul up his chair,
and begin to stare you out of counte-
nance.
had pet case-it was suit for
slander-and Pope Fallowbrain. not a
legal giant, but the youthful author of
much unpublished poetry, was en-
ployed to conduct the defense. l was
confident of brilliant victory--if only
Old Gin kept his fingers ont of the pie.
thought htonce ofsecuring him on my side
but 1 knew he would take all the credit
to himself, and 1 had no wish to be
shorn of my laurels.
When my case was reached, much to
my relief, Old Gin was not on hand. it
was early in the term, and residing in
another county, he had not made his APP
pearance yet.
1 announced myself ready but, much
to my disgust, Mr.. Fallowbrain asked
for days postponement. His client
he said, had lately employed Mr.. Gin
guzzle, who was expected that evening
and the defense would be ready to go OF
tomorrow.
Iprotested against the delay, and in
sisted that the unexplained absence o
one counsel, when another was presen
especially one as competent as N,
learned friend--was no ground for al
journing trial. -. he
The judge knew L was Ei"{iin to say
was too much afrai'a rumpus the old
so. lie km raise when he came, if the
fe4'was forced on in his absence. The
trial, accordingly, was set down for the
following day, then to go on peremp-
torily.
L left the courtroom much chagrined.
l think l. could have heard with COM
posure of an accident to the train Old
Gin was coming on, il nothing worse
had happened than breaking the old
sinners neck.
Tt was in this frame of mind that !
met my friend Sam. Pokefun, the best
fellow at the bar, only a little too much
inclined to practically joke.
Iexplained the situation to Sam.
III Old Gin could be put out of the
way for day, it would be all right,
would it 2" he asked.
"Of course it would" I answered.
"Thejudge knows the case should have
gone on to-day, and has ordered it to
proceed tomorrow peremptorily."
81 have an idea," said Sam and he
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-11-22

We have already called attention to
the fact that the supply of grain fur
nished by Russia and the United States
is no more than is sufficient for the ne
cessities of home consumption and to
meet the demand of the English and
European markets. 1t is now known
that the Russian grain crop has this
year been an almost total failure. Iu-
deed, it is asserted that, SO far from
being ableto export grain, Russia ill =
this year find it necessary to import it
in large quantities. The civilized world
will, therefore, be dependent for its ce-
reals almost entirely upon this country.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-11-22

affidavit, minutely setting forth the cir
cumstances of the conspiracy of which
he had been the victim-the body of the
snake, in bottle of spirits, being at
tached as an exhibit.
The motion was granted, and when
the case came on the next time, didn't
] catch it?
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-11-22

A DANBURY man who heard that
Minnesota man had become insane from
the use of tobacco, swore off from the
practice, but on learning that several
thousand people were insane who had
not used the weed, returned to the habit
with alacrity. Dan6ury Ne,0s.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-11-22
KEEP WARM.

Many fatal case of dysentery is
caused by the want of woolen under
shirt, or an extra blanket at night. The
sudden changes of temperature which
occur at this season of the year arc very
trying to the constitution. People with
weak lungs quickly feel the effects of
them. Frequently the thermometer falls
many degrees within few hours. Not
only the feeble, but robust and strong
persons. suffer from such great variations
of temperature. When the weather
grows cold rapidly, the pores of the skin
are esuddenly closed, and the result is fire.
quently bad cold, which may hold on
all winter and terminate in consumption
OF fatal attack of dysentery, or that
dreadful disease, typhoid fever.
There are many ready-made coffins at
the cabinet shops and undertakers-
little, short, tiny coffins-which are
going to be filled up soon by children
some of them as sweet and beautiful as
anybody's, as your own; and just think
of it, these children might be left in
their bright homes if only warm shoes
and stockings which keep little feet dry,
and warm clothes and woolen blankets
were more plenty.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-11-22
HEENAN AND SA lERS.

The recent death of the noted pugi-
list, John G. Heenan, recalls to mind
the international prize-fight between
him and Tom Sayers, the English
hampton, which created an immense
excitement at the time, both in this
country and England.
Heenan embarked for England with a
host of friends and hackers Jan. 4,
1860. The articles had been signed
Dec. Is, 1859. Further arrangements
were made, and March II both were in
active training. Sayers was undis-
turbed, but Heenan was forced to move
from place to place, and once arrested,
it is said, at the instigation of his op-
ponent's hackers. The great fight came
off at Farnsborough Tuesday, April II,
1860. A special train of thirty. six cars
ran ont from London, laden with pas
sengers to Nowhere and back" as the
place was kept profound secret. Yet
around the ring were hundred peers,
a Cabinet Minister, members of Con-
gress and Parliament, and in the sport
ing world everything that was or had
been distinguished. The men stripped
in the ring, the American 6 feet Q.
inches in height, his fighting weight 1875
pounds, his skin fair and clear, every
vein clearly defined, in his twenty-sixth
year; the British champion, 5 feet 81
inches high, weighing 154 pounds, but
with skin toughened and Drowned
by long exposure, and eleven years
older than his competitor. With the
fight all are familiar. How for two
hours and twenty minutes, through
forty three rounds. the men stood, till
Heenan was blind and Sayers' endur-
ance was well-nigh gone; how the last
fought for thirty rounds, while Hee-
mans blows fell on broken arm, and
sprang lightly up from twenty-one clear
knock-downs; how Heenan stood to his
work when daylight was gone and his
face bleeding mass of pulp-cheated
of his victory at last by cut ropes and an
impatient crowd that surged within the
ring and covered Sayers from the blows
that had brought him to the ground in
each of the last dozen rounds. All this
was the talk and the disappointment of
two nations. The excitement in New
York can scarcely be exaggerated when
the news reached there ten days later.
Every daily rushed out an extra, and a
single sporting sheet sold 800, 900 copies
in few hours. The referees decision
decided the fight draw, ordered each
to keep his money, and gave the con-
testants fac simile belts.
Both of the contestants in this most
memorable of all bruising matches-a
match over the ultimate issue of which
the people of two great nations were for
time in quiver of nervous suspense
that could hardly have been more pain
full had the contest been between the
martial hosts of the two countries for
military supremacy-now sleep in their
graves. Both, it is said, died of con-
sumption-a thorough refutation of the
claim that high muscular development
is conducive to longevity.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-11-22

SIXTEEN dollars is as low as fashiona-
BILE New York ladies go on poodles
wardrobes.