Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-19
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THE Government employs ten girls
to paste ana repair mutilated cur
rency.
A SCIENTIFIC" predicts that this
whole human race will eventually turn
into birds.
THERE were 1859 business failures
during 1872, with liabilities of over
1921, 900, 900.
The military establishment of Rhode
Island demands an annual appropria-
ton of $4,000
A GHOST story is attached to the sec
ond story of the official residence of the
Governor of Missouri.
PETROLEUM is beginning to take the
place of coal under the engine boilers
of the steamers on the Caspian.
A coLoRED North Carolinian, aged
SO, recently allied himself to a bride of
So, and mother-in-law of 115.
WILL S. HAYS is accounted the most
popular ballad writer among Americans;
1855, 900 of his II ballads have been
sold.
on March Is, his seventeenth birthday.
The celebration of the event has been
deferred until August Is.
SOME of the Spiritualists are exercised
upon the question whether Horace
Greeley was, or was not, of their faith.
Most of them say he was his most in
innate friends say he was not.
THE Boston Post says that the cost of
street widenings in that city, already de-
cided upon, is $1,078,000 and other
improvements in immediate contempla-
ton viii swell the sum to 2,S50,00
ONE of our large dry goods merchants
reports among the items of sales, last
week, twenty camel's hair shawls at
$4,000 each, five of which were disposed
of to one family.-New York Letter.
The commerce of Canada is rapidly
increasing. The total imports for 1872
amounted to $lO7, 100, 116, against
$50, 947, 4S2 for 1871. And the total ex-
ports for 1872 were 1882, 639, SOB, against
S74, 173, 618
A SPRINGFIELD brute put a cat on u
hot stove, and the judge said he could
not issue warrant for his arrest, as the
laws for the prevention of cruelty to an
imals does not include injuries done
dogs or cats
WHrrELAw REID, editor of the New
York Tribune, gets salary of $40, 900 a
year; Jennings has $4,000 ON the
Times !; Croly has 1000 on the World;
Hudson had $4,000 on the Hero1d,
and was retired on pension of $40, 900.
FLOWER seeds in immense quantities
are struggled in letter envelopes, and
some of them are worth $40 an ounce in
gold. AS these letters cannot be opened
| by custom-heuse officers, it is proposed
to hold them till called for and compel
the owner to openbefore them the Gus
toms authorities.
ACCORDING to the last statistics, the
aggregate number of failures during
1872 throughout the United States was
"a, 069, involving liabilities amounting
to 1921, 056,00 The failures in 1871
aggregate 1915, with liabilities amount
ing to $95, 252, 600, while for 1870 they
were 1851, with 1913, 242, 900 of liabili-
ties.
A SOUTHERN steamboat company hay
ing the fear of the Civil Rights bill be-
fore its eyes, and yet not wishing to adj
nit negroes to it's cabins, has closed the
latter, and refuses to take any but deck
passengers. The officers of the boat, of
course, can invite those of the deck pas
sengers whom they choose to share the
cabins with them.
MOTHERS living in hotels should have
care how they leave their babies around
loose. In Troy, the other day, the
washerwoman of a hotel gathered baby
in her bundle and carried it off in her
basket. When the mother came to look
around for her infant and found it not,
there was a scene. After diligent search
the landlord found it at the laundry,
and rescued it, unwashed and I'M
mangled.