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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-01-24
VOLUME I'LL.
THE OLD MAN GOES TO THE FAIR.

I'm very dusty and tired wife. I've just come home
from the fair;
So give me my pipe and tobacco. ana II smoke III
my easy chair; go
It's tiresome work PLAIN for feeble ola men Ike
me:
to see.
Our tairs a runnin down; they are not like the
fairs of old,
Where you took the prizes tor bread, and butter as
yellow gold;
There hundreds of uscrul things that were well
Now dozens Of racin' horses aud hundreds of bet
tin men.
can tell;
But somehow it seems to me like the downward
road to h l., we'll
l may he little harsh, but I'm speakin the simple
truth,
For bettin' racin' and drnkm are the foes of
noble youth.
We shall come to a nation of gamblers, if matters
keep on this way;
Why, what do you think? youngstcr accused me
of bettin' to-day;
When Tlaid my hand on the head-that hadn't seen
ten years yet
And called him fine little fellow-he answered me
back, "you bet.
"Tut, tut little man. said ], " that thing have
never done:
Come. stand by grandra's knee; let me reason with
You, my SON..
He Strengthened up his clothes aud said with look
queer,
Al didn't come here for preachn old man walk off
your ear ~
We never heard talk like that when you and were
young;
My father aud mother-bless 'emput a bride upon
my tongue.
I'm old, and I'm gettin' blind, but difference can
see,
'Twixt the boys of eighteen hundred and eighteen
aeventv-three.
How is it about the girls! They too, from the path
have strayed;
didn't see one shown the butter her own hands
had made;
They stood in their pony phetons with womans
ease and grace,
And shouted AS loud as any when favorite a
race.
All eyes were watchn the track the race was every
mans theme;
And said to myself, Is this fair, or is it only
dream?r
saw bout dozen boys ookin' round at the sheep
and swine,
Aud the frosts of seventy winters had svered their
heads like mine.
Why on airth don't they change the name, when TIE
wrong name it has got?
No longer call ii fair, but agricultural trot
The won't be takin' things for sensible folks to
With nobody to see em but crippled old men like
me-
There, take my pipe and tobacco. III sleep in my
easy chair;
It's tresome work talkin' about degenerate fair
You needn't disturb me, wife, till the bells of the
evening chime,
For may go back i'll my dreams to the fairs of the
Olden time.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-01-24

lSt. Louis Globes Interview with Ann Eliza Youngt
How large is his little family circle?
He had nineteen wives until / left,
and forty-tive children.
How does he support them all j.?
Well, the most of them support them
selves. Brigham compels them to do
it. For instance, he only allows enough
to each one to purchase the bare neces-
saries of life-calico dresses Women
i'll Utah have the same pride and am
bition about their personal appearance
that they have anywhere else. If they
want anything better, they are compelled
to take in boarders or do sewing, or
something of that sort. That is the way
he treats all of them but the favorite,
Amelia Fulsom. She dresses in silk
and satin, eats at the same table with
him, and does nothing all day. The
rest eat in the same dining groom, and
they are compelled to look on. Fulsom
can do anything she likes with him.
1t would be interes ing to know which
of the nineteen wives was able to cap
ture Brigham, and maintain an ascend
ency over him. How is she able to
manage him?
By her temper; she has an awful
temper, and she can scold him into
anything.
Is she good looking No, she is ugly
and over 40 years old. They say l am
jealous, but that is not the case.
Well, then, do her charms lie in
her intellect? No, I amt jealous of
her a bit. She is the reverse of refined
indeed, she is the coarsest and most
vulgar of all the wives of Mr.. Young.
Her reputation is bad-that is, it was
bad until she married Brigham. don't
like to repeat what is said of her all
over Salt Lake. She rules him by her
strong will and bad temper.
How does he manage the rest of his
wives?
He keeps them at distance, and no
familiarity is allowed from them. They
don't dare to speak to him except now
and then when he is extra good-natured
Brigham has been a good deal of llirt
in his day. There is no excuse for his
meanness toward his wives, because he
is enormously wealthy.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-01-24
Humorous.

BLIND Tom is in New York.
A BLACKSMITH is always striking for
wages.
MEN of means are often the meaflest
of men.
MEN dream of courtship, but in we'd
lock wake.
JONES got trusted for that hat, and he
now feels a consciousness OF being in
debt cover head and ears.
SEVERAL Irishmen were disputing one
day upon their own best points, when
one said i'll an aggressive manner,
Faith, and I'm brick" "And, in
dade," said another, "Pm a brick
layer" and felled the first speaker to
the ground.
Chow NOW ?" a friend said to Jones,
finding him looking unusually cheerful
and sprightly, notwithstanding the fact
that he had been up pretty nearly all
night. "You don't seem to be affected
by the crisis" And Jones merely re-
marked, "No such thing; it's boy
AN Illinois man got up before dawn,
lately, to see the sun rise, and was shot
by the exasperated owner of a melon
patch next door. In May last he made
similar effort, and was bitten on the
heel by strange dog. He thinks of
hiring boy to do the early rising for
his family.
SMITH says he doesn't know much
about music, but if it t'sa great thing for
man who has spent thousands of dollars
on his voice, and has studied for years
to sing high-chest G, he thinks his ket-
tie at home can beat it, for every even
ing, with CHEEKY voice, it sings away up
to high-chest tea. And it's only a dol
lar kettle, too.
A QUEER mistake was made by
young lady in Indiana who sought to
demolish an unfaithful lover by publish
ing some verses addressed to him, in
which, after prophesying her immed-
late dissolution, she said: "Come,
gaze upon my dust, false one y but the
compositor spelled dust with "b,"
and the young man went to see her the
next evening.
MASTER CovILLEN received n prize
Friday afternoon for composition on
Reverence, and further distinguished
himself in the evening, on the occasion
of the pastors visit, by shutting the
tails of the dominie's coat in the parlor
door and impelling him to leave them
there by introducing pin in his chair.
The pastor returned home with cloud
on his brow, and one of Coville's coats
on his back, leaving Master Coville ex-
ecuting hornpipe in the woodshed,
under the auspices of his father
Danbtuy Nc,OS.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-01-24
How the Ashantees Fight.


The enemy lay in wait in the middle
of what they call here bush, but which
should be more appropriately called a
Jungle it is so dense in some places
that one wonders at first sight how
naked people have the temerity to risk
their bodies in what must necessarily
punish their unprotected cuticles most
puinfully. This jungle probably cov-
ers many hundred acres, literally chok
ing the earth with its density and luxu-
rance. 1t admits every kind of
shrub, plant, and flower into close
companionship, where they intermin6le
each others luxurious stalks, where
they twist and twinc in each others
long, slender arms about one another,
and defy the utmost power of the sun to
penetrate the leafy tangle they have
reared 10 and Is feet above the dark
earth This is the "bush" into which
the Aslantee warriors creep in ON all
fours and lie in wait in the gloomy RE
cesses for the enemy. 1t was in such a
locality as this that Sir Garnet found
the Ashantees, and where he suffered
such losses in his staff and officers. Un-
tit the sonorous sounds of Danish mus
kerry awoke the echoes few of the En-
glish suspected the foe so near. Until
they themselves betrayed their presence
the English might have searched in
vain for the hidden enemy.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-01-24
The Corn Yield.

The New York Produce Exchange
Weekly says:
The corn crop last year, as per esti-
mates of the Agricultural Department,
was l 200, 600, 600 bu, and the Novem-
ber report of 1873 makes the aggregate
crop this year s7s,OOO,OOo bu., or
222, 600, 900 bu. less than last year. The
one-half of this crop is in the CONNER
cial or hog packing States, or, say,
439, 100000 bu. in quantity but, con-
sidering the quality, a deduction from
this of one-sixth is made, making it
equal to 366, 600, 600 bu. of the quality
of the crop of 1872. There is consid
erable old corn in the country, perhaps
enough to make an average annual sup
ply. The crop in the aforementioned
years, in all the States, has been as fol-
lows:
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-01-24

The Dubuque Hos'aid says that a
gentleman of that city lately ordered a
cutter from Portland, Maine, which ar
rived in due time. The freight on the
cutter from Portland to Chicago was
81 10 from Chicago to Dubuque it was
$5 35. The distance from Portland to
Chicago is 100 miles the diatance
from Chicago to Dubuque is 200 miles.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-01-24

The Mates" i'll the United States
Navy, who are obliged to pay for their
own mess, purchase uniforms, and keep
up their position as becomes American
officers, out of salary of 300 . year,
have petitioned Congress for an increase
to 81 SIll Gentlemen, it can't be done.
There are lot of fellows in Washing
ton, now famishing on $4,000 a year
AMI travelling expenses, who are ahead
of you. We must retrench. ch.-Pifsb"rgh
COn1znercioi.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-01-24
Railway Observation-Disclosures Suit
for Damages IN England.

The question of whether railway com
panies are bound to keepth time set down
in their time tables was raised before
Mr. Whigham in the County Court at
Aylesbury recently. The plaintiff was
MIR. William Adams, cattle dealer, and
the defendants We're the London and
Northwestern Railroad Company, rs the
proprietors of the branch line between
Aylesbury and Cheddington. 1t was
shown that on the Goth of October the
plaintiff took ticket at Aylesbury for
Luton, where he ought to have arrived
at 9:2S n. m., in time for Luton market,
at which he was to dispose of some
beasts. The train by which he was
travelling from Aylesbury to the main
line was delayed nearly an hour, owing
to the engine being short of steam. The
consequence was he missed the train at
Cheddington, and did not arrive at
Luton till 1l:3O a. M, by which time
the market was over. He now claimed
10 shillings damages per head of his
beasts thirty in number-which he did
not get sold for nine days. The want of
steam, it appeared, arose from the fire.
box of the engine having been choked,
the fireman having Welsh coal that day,
Il variety to which he was not accus-
toned 1t was pleaded for the defense
that the company were eXonerated from
liability by the statement on their time
tables that they would not be RESPONSE
BILE for delay. His honor held, however,
that the choking of the tire-box was not
a circumstance over which the companys
servants had no control, and he there
fore gave decree for the plaintiff for
40s. in respect for the loss of his time
through having found no market for his
cattle at Luton. daily NctOs.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-01-24


The prospect for prices in the spring
is good, because there is really large
proportion of the crop of 1873 that is
not fit to market, and the available sur
plus is probably not large enough to
press heavily on the market. A larger
demand than usual is expected from
New England this winter, as that sec
ton forbore to lay in supplies till tempt
ed to do so by the low prices induced by
the panic of September.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-01-24
Live Stock Trade of Chicago.

The receipts of cattle, hogs, and
sheep at the Union Stock Yards, Chica-
go, since 1865 (the yards were opened
Dec. 81 1861 have been as follows:
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-01-24
An Heiress in Iowa.

davenport Cor. Chicago Times
Something like two years ago young
woman named Kate Stewart was wait
ing-room girl at the Ackley House, in
this city. When she was a child she
came here from Pennsylvania, with two
aunts, who took up their residence in
Toronto, Clinton county, leaving her
father and step-mother in the Keystone
State. She lived with these aunts until
she came to Davenport. Miss Kate
used to remark to her acquaintance that
she should be IL rich woman some day
The remark was credited to a vivid
imagination but the clerk, William p.
Quayle, fell i'll love with her, and she
became Mrs. Quayle. After their mar
riage they remained in Davenport,
where the husband was still employed
at the Ackley A few months since
they moved to Leclaire, from which
place Mrs. Quayle, four weeks ago,
went to Pennsylvania to visit her rela-
tives. A few days ago the husband re-
ceived letter from his wife, requesting
his immediate presence. She and her
two brothers had been adjudged right
full heirs of an immense estate in Ire
land-she didn't know how much, but
lawyers in Ireland had written it was
valued at over 81, 600, 900. 1t had been
in chancery for long years. 1t would
have been her mothers had she lived !;
but the mother being dead, the mothers
near relatives had been endeavoring to
get possession of it, but had failed.
Copies of the record establishing the
claim of the rightful heirs had been re-
ceived by their father in Pennsylvania,
and the presence of the heirs was want
ed in Ireland, and they were getting
ready to go,
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1874-07-10
The Comet.

This luminous little fiery substance, volcano
like, is throwing out bespangled tail nearly
perpendicular and is nightly watched with in
creasing interest. II can now be seen very
plainly after o'clock. On Wednesday night, to
the naked eye, its tail appeared to be about 8
feet long. This is called Coggia's Comet hav-
ing been discovered by him, and in all the his
tory of comets it is thought this will be the
most wonderful that has ever bafiied the skill
of astronomers scared kings, priests and the
superstitious, for comets have always been look
ed upon in past ages with suspicion and dread,
as warning from an angered Deity to the in
habltants ofearth Of coming distress in the
shape of famine pestilence, war and bloodshed.
But this absurd idea has gradually decreased
as enlightened science and reason ADVANCES
This comet, it is said will be nearest the earth
on the evening of August the Sd, and will be
PAS times as bright as when first discovered
Prof Swift's re-dscoyery of this erratio wan
derer, can put scientific minds to calculating.
Our old women have already commenced and
are predicting that this sign and wonder in the
heavens is true indication of the downfall of
Radical Government and that the problem of
"Ciyil Rights" will be solved in the shedding
Of human gore The religious enthusiasm
aroused by the trembling and shaking of Ball
Mountain, it is thought will be comparabIy in
significant to the excitement that will seize the
hearts of the ignorant and superstitious about
August. II "old Kinnebrew" is about here
then, he can swing on to the comets tail and go
right on TO heaven
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1874-07-10
Peaches at Moclatchy & Reynolds.
Governor Smith

Left the city by the siY o'clock train last
eyenlng for MariAsta, whese he will take pri-
vate conveyance and pass over the projected
railroad from that point into North Georgia.
He will pass through Cherokee, Pickeus and
Gilmer counties, and return in few days
This is part of the State, we understand,
WHICH the Governor bias meyer Yizited and as
he has been very mgch confined of late by Of
fetal duties, he has sought by this trip to COM
bine business and recreation.
We are glad to note that the friends of this
Railroad do not propose to call upon the State
for aid. Their exemplary policy lie to begin,
sustain and finish tie sn.erPrise solely By pri-
vaEe subscription. Constitstss9n.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1874-07-10
HE RISES TO EXPLAIN.
What He Did and what He Didn't Do.

ATLANTA, GA, July l. 1874.
ED. JoURDAL:--I have Just been shown an
article in your paper giving supposed outline
of speeches made at public meeting in La
Porte, Ind, by "Col." D. N. Woolley (you
mean Doctor WoolIey-Colonel is no where
compared with Doctor,) and myself Part of
it ] fully endorse, the balance is slightly, extra
strong, and not according to facts. That Dr..
Wooley "hsld the vast audience spell bounds
is true--indeed his eloquence and forcible points
held every one that was setting down just q
inches above their seats and the heads Of those
whose hats we're offlooked like the backs of
porcupiuas. 1t was wrong to say she propos.
I'd to give them Collins Opium Antidote," q
grant that they needed a soothing dose) but he
did say he could cure with it any bad habits
they or their children were troubled with (and
Judge could, for it is certainly "sure poppy
You also were decidedly wrong in saying II
was humorous over the bloody chasm with
port wine and claret." l, neither do they,
never indulge in anything stronger. than whis-
key. Nor did say one one word about the
Northwestern Life In. Co., q confess it was
an oversight am at loss to account for my
forgetfulness). 1t is true, after closed "that
all took look at the heavens" for it looked
very much as iiit would soon rain. As to the
general "jining of hands" that is also mis-
take-the President simply shook my hand and
presented me with June flower and his com
piments.
While thank you for your mirthfu and
good natured notice, permit me to say felt the
position and did not loose the OPP
to place the South, its people, the
soil, the climate and its great advantages, &C.,
before them, nor did forget to plainly tell them
that felt confident had it not been for the ras-
cally acts and conduct of many Northern men
who settled all over the South since the war
that there would have been better feeling ex-
listing between the sections
Respectfully yours,
w. II. WHITE.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1874-07-10
An Abusive Epistle.

1t is nice to be an editor, especially when
yop receive invitations to weddings, pic-nics,
sOciables, and entertainments, and have new
hats nice eatables and other Ell ceteras, lavish.
ed in complimentary profusion upon you by
appreciated friends. But, dear reader, do not
think that this constitutes the sum and total Of
journalistic existence, for rest assured every
sweet has its bitter, every rose iis thorn, and
the poor editor is not without his share oflife's
troubles. In trying to serve the public ae-
ceptably, he is often the worst abused man In
the community and makes enemies when he
least thinks of it.
Thie week ws received an anonymous note,
through the post Office, signed "EplscopaIian,"
written in feminine hand, and purporting to
be from a lady ~, in which Eye locap was
numerically abused, in style Of language pc
cularly original and without model
Last week, at the request Of highly esteem-
ed citizen. gentleman and EpiscQpagsan, we
published III article on Church Music" This
article was eepiea from an Episcopal paper, at
the request Of member Of st. James Epsco-
cal Church, and was, therefore, as all sensible
people will agree, not intended as personal
fling at anybody or any particular Church, but
simply jp..sgira fOF pleasant humori and the
friend wIa asked its publication, leaked at it
in that light and knew it wouldn't be objection
able or disrasteful to the right-thinking menu
bers of his own Church-and it Is not.
u, f1s;a ,Jai;oofo .oc..oJ
elegant epistlp bad been reader Of her own
Church h.ero'urs ape would pot have fallen
into susb FRET apd fupe. and would not
have SO readily been given to lay the sin Of zig
noranee4 a. the door Of othsrs. II she had
been comprehensive reader, the preface of the
article would have been sufficient explanation
to ex0nefute u from its authorship. We
never saw the article in question until it was
brought to our office, we had 10 feeling 10 the
matter, g end enIg publ.sheait 70 accommodate
the request Of ibs brother Of the sane dsuomina.
ton az thai Of the "Episoopalian, and thought
that il Ii was considered good enough TO appear
in religious journal of the Episcopal denomi-
nation that It would not elicit complaint
from the members of that Church If we repro
dueed il in compliance with ths ssausat, pgt we
hare GALES tews upon our head tie anathemas
aud Hlaledieiiou. Of ons Of the same faith and
order without having deserved it. We have
100 many friends in that church 70 think 81
wouudiug shrir fvslipes hs ;;ser or ridieuls, for
| We are strong b-Iieyrrin the uatione copsti-
tutiorsl doctrine. thai i = Inc indppatabe right
/ os 4 people 70 worship God according to the
dictates Of their own conscienees." But in this
matter we think We have been more sinned
against than sinuing.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1874-07-10
A cowARDLY ACT.
A Man Shoots His wife-He is Arrest
ed and Lodged in Jail.

Roswell, our usually quiet little neighbor,
was thrown into fever of excitement on the
Sd inst, produced by jealous husband at
tempting to assassinate his wife.
c. w. Fraser, son of Rev. Simon Fraser,
about six months ago. married his brothers
widow, who had just returned from Texas,
where her former husband died, leaving her
several thousand dollars. After the marriage,
c. w. Fraser more than once threatened the
life of Mrs. Emily Fraser, his wife, for reasons
jealous mind could only conjure up when tren-
zied with suspicion. The marriage of course
was an unhappy one. Mrs. Fraser is repre-
scented to us to be quite a lady in every respect
and all who know her disbelieve the reasons
that prompted the husband to waylay and
shoot his wife. The deed occurred on the Sd
inst, between 10and III O'Clock, A. NJ. Mrs.
Fraser was returning from Mr.. Otwell's store,
in company with another lady, when the clear
report of a gun was heard, the black smoke
was seen curling above the bushes ON the side of
the road, and the scream of II am shot~ from
Mrs. F., startled and summoned crowd to the
scene, The ambushed, would-bs assassin
used shot gun, loaded with squirrel shot, and
his aim was true, but result not fatal, for upon
examination twas discovered that while thir-
ty-two shot had passed through her dress, only
two had taken effect, and they in the posterior
part of the thigh. DIR. Anderson, brother-in-
law ofthe lady, unsuccessfully, attempted to
extract the shot, but we hope-the wound will
not prove serious.
The said C. w. Frazer was arrested and had
a preliminary trial before J. 7. Tally, j. p,
and Esquire Powers, and was held to bail in
the sum of $4,000, and failing to give the
required security, he was brought to this place
on last Saturday and lodged In Jail TO await
trial at the next term of Cobb Superior Court,
His brother, James o. Fraser, was also arrest
ed as accessory to the attempted murder, hav-
ing loaned the gun that was used, but for want
of sufficient evidence and owing to deficiency
in the warrant, he was discharged from custo-
dy.