Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-09-05


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FrOstburg. Sept. 5. 1874.
READ our new advertisements in this
issue and govern yourselves accordingly
SOME space is given by our local con-
temporaries to the "pasteboard" clopcment
case.
The report that John Robinson has n
giraffe one hundred and fourteen feet high
is incorrect.
DrEp-At Borden Shaft, August 30th,
1874, an infant daugster of Nj. &. and
Maria l.. Ryan, aged 5 months.
THE STRIKE of the boatmcn has stopped
operations at those mines which ship by
canal, except the Borden, which maintains
its usual output.
PERsoNAL.-Philip Goodman, Esq, who
has been sojourning for some weeks pas: i'll
Frostburg, returned to his home In Phiia-
dclphia ON Thursday
THE SHow.-Carrington' Exhibition
held forth in this place Saturday last to
moderate audiences Take it altogether ii
is not much of a show
RELEASED Lukc Deany, who was
sometime since committed to Jail by Justice
Weis in default of bail, was released We'd
nesday by Justice Blocher, of Cumberland,
on $50 bail.
The Democrats in this Congressional
District have flung their banner to the
breeze and political discussions are now i'll
order. Anything to make business lively,
gentlemen.
IMPROVEMENT "A brick pavement has
been laid this week by James Biddington
& Son in front of McNeirs new building.
A good feature in connection is the stone
gutter in front.
THE Mems of Friday of last week makes
a telling thrust at Cumberland supremacy.
Witness the concluding heading of its re-
port of the Democratic Convention:
How the Wires were Pulled by Dis
tinguished Manipulation
THE dispa Itch from Shade Mills last week
was frard. III. c. cane in by the rear
route. He had tlanked Frostburg; saw the
show at Homecoming; concluded it wasn't
worth attendance here. and went home be-
fore the grand procession.
WORKMEN are framing and laying the
lower jois,s of Odd Fellows Hall, prepare
tory to covering up for the winter Early
in the spring it is expected to begin the
brick work so that the cdticc will Ger
tainly .e completed next year.
ABOUT as woc-bcgonc, povcrty-striclcn
and wrctchcd party as it has ever panied
us to look upon, passed through our town
Yesterday morning eastward. The troupe
consisted of two chidrcn-onc in arms
two women and three men. Two crow
mortgagcd horses and dilapidated wagon
constituted their visible property.
WRIT LIrYgAnY SOCIETY will meet this
Saturday evening i'll the lower story of
Odd Fellows Building at y O'Clock. The
ladies are cordially invited. The topic of
debate is the quess ion of Woman Sut-
frage." The weii-known ability and
IS la, will InllbtlnSS
render the occasion interesting and spicy.
DEATH.-Mrs. Anna Evans, wife of
George S. Evans, Esq, Of Uniontown, Pa,
formerly of Frostburg, died at the Mess
more House, in that town on the 22d ult.
aged scvcnty-four years. She was well,
known here as n most amiahlc Christian
lady-hcr character in all excellent respects
being fully and nobly sustained during
residence of forty years in this town,
ENQUIRER is mistaken when he bames
the County Commissioners for the"oondi
ton of the National Road in this county
To charge people toll on the way to
Church on Sunday" is bad enough on the
best road. To do so on any day for the
privilege of breaking down vehicles and
joltins people out of appetite is equally
bad But the Shame should be transferred
from the Commissioners to the Legislature
The letter has control of the roac but does
not take care of it,
real. ESTATE TRANSPORTS the
transfers of real estate the following deeds
we're filed fol record in the office of Theo
Human, ESQ., Clerk of the Circuit Court
during the week ending August 90:
James T. Brady and wife to Edward
Dooley; parcel of land known as lot No.
% situated on the Island at Jacksonville
$4,000.
Thomas G. McCulloh, executor of last
will and testament of Mary G. McCulloh,
Isabelle Kreitzburg and husband, to John
Robertson, part ola tract adjoining Frost
burg, called "The Hotel" containing one
and 0ne-half acres, $3.50.
George Wagner and wife to Adam
Grouse, lot No. 81 in McCulloh's addition
to Frostburg, fronting on Washington
street, $3.50.
A. B. Shaw 10 james Mackay, lot No
80 in Pekin, $500.