Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-06-21
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ernmcnt aid to the extent of 5000, ,00O,-
600.
PEACE COMMISSIONER MEAcHAM, who
was shot with Candy, will never recover
his sight.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has eight hundred and eleven locomo-
tives on the road.
ST. LOUIS is to have new paper, to
be called the Tribune, and to start with
a capital of 100000.
The Bank of England covers five
acres of ground, employs five hundred
clerks, and has capital of 800, 600, 900.
BISMARCK thinks that Spain and Italy
will, in less than fifteen years, be eaten
mp by other powers and lose their
identity.
AN English member of Parliament,
who has been unaccountably missing for
some time, is said to be leader among
the Carlists.
PHILADELPHIA manufactures 81 ,000,-
600 worth of carpets per annum, more
than the rest of the United States and
Great Britain combined.
SENATOR FENToN revived old memories
the other day by ride on raft down
the Allegheny river, where he was
lumberman twenty years ago.
The oldest furnace in the country is
that standing in Chester county, Penn,
which was successfully worked for 135
years, ending with 1868, and since then
has been waiting for purchaser.
IT is asserted that the body of n negro
woman, who was burned in Virginia
few days ago, was entirely consumed,
even to the bones, but that the heart
remained intact, and was scarcely char
red at all.
A PAIR of mocking birds, which have
built their nest in honeysuckle vine
near dwelling house in Wilmington,
N. c., recently put a cat ingloriously to
flight by attacking her boldly when she
came too near their home
ROBERT ATWOOD, the Louisville, Ky,
forgcr, plead guilty to ten indictments
for illicit penmanship, and was sentenced
to twenty years imprisonment on each.
Further charges will be preferred when
he has served his two century term.
ARIo PARDEE, of Llzerne county, Pa,
was quite poor in 1888. He is now worth
about $40, 100000, as also is the Hon.
Asa Packer, who forty years ago arrived
at Mauch Chunk with hand-saw and a
Jack plane as the sum total of his world.
ly possessions.
A LETTER from the Fiji Islands states
that the mountain savages killed fami-
ly of whites named Burns, and some
Polynesian laborers, altogether sixteen
whites. whose bodies were found horri-
bly, mutilated. Some of the bottles were
carried away for a cannibal feast.
PAREPA sang a Greek song at Cairo,
recently. There was to be concert in
half a dozen languages, and the Greek
basso fell sick, and Madame Parepa,
though knowing nothing of the language,
mastered it sufficiently in twelve hours
to give the song so well that the public
"nearly went mad over her..
PROF. TYNDALL comes it strong when
he illustrates the value of a single pota-
to by supposing that all the other pota-
toes were destroyed. The one would
contain the germ for stocking the whole
world. Its compounded product in ten
years would equal $40, 600, ,OO0, 600, in val
lie worth more than all London and New
York.
A RAT ran up the interior of an ele-
plants trunk in Paris. The elephant
made frantic efforts to relieve himself of
his unwclcome visitor, but in vain.
Suddenly he paused and seemed to re-
fleet; then he went to his basin, filled
his trunk with water, and amid the great
excitement of the lookers-on, elected
VIC Wuttl anu UHc ttilloIluiiatc ipV "iuii
one sublime effort.
Noah WEBSTER used to spread his ia
vorite ideas of the spelling reform by
travelling about from printing Office to
printing Office and handing printed slips
containing the word "theater,' - "center, "
etc, to persuade people to spell MS he
did. This was before the ravenous de-
mand of the great American people for
dictionaries furnished him with a more
effective propaganda than a peripatetic
one.
A COMPANY of one hundred men is be-
ing organized in st. Louis to locate and
survey an immense estate of rich agri-
cultural and mineral lands in Arizona,
and lay off a city on the Gila river on
the line of the Great Southern railway,
which will be the depot for all Northern
and Southern Arizona, and the Mexican
s. /. es of Sonora and Sinaloa. The ex-
pc ion will set out about the first of
Ju4.'.
A COSTLY CoRPs.-A military writer
points out that France during the war
lost 100000, while of the 25O,OOO Paris
National Guard only 224 were killed
these men fell at Montretout, which NJ.
Saint Genest calls the Austerlitz OF