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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-01-17
Heat and Disease.

During the relocating of the furnaces
of an iron establishment in England,
says the British journal of Science, the
men worked when the thermometer,
placed so as not to be influenced by the
radiation of heat from the open doors,
marked 120 degrees. In the Bessemer
pits, the men continue kind of labor,
requiring great muscular effort, at 140
degrees. In some of the operations of
glass making, the ordinary summer
working temperature is considerably
over 100, and the radiant heat to which
the workmen are subjected far exceeds
212 degrees. In Turkish bath, the
shampooers continue four or five hours
at IA time in a moist atmosphere at tenn
peratures ranging from los to 10 de,
grees. In enamel works, men labor
daily in a heat of over 300 degrees. Or
the Red sea steamers, the temperature
of the stoke-hole is 145 degrees. AnG
yet in none of these cases does any
special form or type of disease develop
itself.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-01-17
Tea.

The extent to which teas are adulter-
ated may be inferred from the fact that
out of twenty samples analysed in Lon
don, only one was found 1ree from
frauds. The leaves OF other plants are
largely used, and plumbago, iron hlings
and sand were found in it to give weight
to the tea. Altogether, the investiga-
ton revealed condition of things by
no means calculated to "whet the appe-
tite" for tea. 1t is an old saying that
if people would relish a meal, they must
keep away from the kitchen. So with
tea if people would enjoy its flavor
and stimulating effects, they must not
too closely scru.inizc the material which
it is cOmro ,ed of.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-01-17

One hundred and ten years ago there
was not single white man in Kentucky,
Ohio, Indiana, or Illinois. Then, what
is the most fiourishing part of America
was as little known as the country
around the mysterious mountains of the
moon. 1t was not until 1867 that Boone
left his home in North Carolina, to be-
come the first pioneer settler in Ken
lucky. The first pioneer of Ohio did not
settle until 20 years after. Canada be-
longed to France, and the population
did not exceed half million of people.
A hundred years ago the great Fred
erick of Prussia was performing those
great exploits which have made his
name immortal in military annals, and
with his little monarchy was
sustaining a single contest with Russia.
Austria and France, the three great
powers of Europe combined. Wash
ington was modest Virginia Colonel,
and the great events in the history of
the two worlds in which these great but
dissimilar men took leading parts were
then scarcely foreshadowed. A hundred
years ago the United States we're the
most loyal part of the British Empire,
and on the political horizon no speck
indicated the struggle which, within II
score of years thereafter, established
the great Republic of the world. A
hundred years ago there were but four
newspapers in America Steam engines
had not been imagined, railroads and
telegraphs had not entered into the re-
motest conception of men. When we
come to look back at it through the
vista of history, we find that to the CEN
tury just passed has been allotted more
important events in their bearing upon
the happiness of the world, than almost
any other which has elapsed since the
creation.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-01-17
NUMBER II.
THE NEW YEAR.

A gray old man toiled at the rope;
Loud rang the bell and clear;
The hour was midnight, and the tune,
The passing of the Year.
And. as he toiled, the old man sang,
And laughed beneath his breath;
He laughed and sang with glee and yet
He tolled a knell for death.
"Old man." said l. "this shameless nirth
Seems sadly ont of place
A solemn chant, dirge, or prayer
Would bear u better grace.
The Old Year dies weighed down with sin,
Weighed down with lives misspent;
Come, kneel you down with me and mourn !:
Come join i'll my lament"
"I mourn not for the past" said he
A new life begin.
10 not ring the Old Year out
ring the New Year in.
"Why do ye wish to mourn and grieye?
This hour is not for tears;
The star of Hope shines steadfast, pure,
Above the coming years.
al laugh and sing for very joy.
And not with shameless mirth;
Good sir, toll not for the dead
celebrate birth.
"Come, turn your back upon the past,
And bid your grief begone;
The night is dark, but then, good sir,
Joy cometh with the dawn
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-01-17
All Sorts.

SoyG of the seeds-Put me in my little
bed.
The rich mans blunders pass current
for wise maxims.
AMERICA imported ia lawyers and go
physicians last year.
PUNCH says the unfortunate mans
friends live long way off.
EVERY eight minutes, night and day,
one person dies, every five minutes one
is born, in the city of London.
STATISTICS show that of the foreigners
coming to this country last year 300, 900
were Catholics and 207 900 Protestants.
Mrs. LAW, of Vermont, called her
husband liar eight years ago, and he
has not spoken to her since, though re-
naming in the house.
KAISER WILLIAM could sit his horse
under shower of bullets, but when it
came to having an aching tooth drawn,
he took chloroform.
The standing army of the new Ger
man Empire is rather formidable ar
ray, comprising 625, 720 men, 56,250
horses, and SIC field guns.
Mrs. SAM CoLr, of Hartford, signs
every check and order for money used
by her revolver foundry, and takes a
walk through the establishment twice
week.
THERE are in the full House 293 MEN,
bers, deductlng nine vacancies. There
are now 2S3 members 100 straight-out
Republicans, SO Democrats, and 4 Lib
erals.
MIR. JTDFJsT does business in Cleve-
land. There is one advantage about
Mr.. Jtdfjsts name-you couldn't forge
it with anything short of Photographic
camera.
A SUNDERLAND (NIass.) farmer raises
thousand dollars worth of onions to
the acre, and doesn't belong to the
grange either. He thinks he is strong
enough without it.
The English mine 12O, 600, 600 tons of
coal a year. OF these, IS, 000, 900 go for
port 10000, 900 in smelling, forging,
coal-getting and the like, and only
100000 are used for domestic pur
poses.
FROM return just issued, it appears
that during the last twelve years En-
gland has expended sum equal to
$32, GAG, ,9S9 upon coast Notifications,
distributed for the most part at Ports
mouth, Plymouth, Portland, Pembroke,
Sheerness, Dover, Gravesend, Chatham
and Cork.
A SOCIETY has been formed in Bel
GUM for collecting all waste paper and
selling it for the benefit of the Pope.
The society has appealed to all the pos
SCISSORS of "bad books, such as the
works of Voltaire, Rousseau, Didcrot,
Volney, and other detestable authors, "
to hand them over as waste paper.
The foreign trade of Great Britain
has not been satisfactory to her mer-
chants this year so far. That nation
sold $50, 100000 less of cotton, linen,
silk and wooden fabrics, and had to buy
$50, ,QO0, 900 more of articles of food in
the first nine months of this year than
in the corresponding period last year.
The Bingham Canon railroad in Utah
cost only $141 per mile. The Salt Lake
Tribune says that it is the cheapest rail
road ever built in any country, ana
demonstrates the fact that the great
mineral resources of Utah can be de-
veloped i'll an extraordinarily short time
by reason of their ability to build rail
roads at cost but little above that of
an ordinary wagon road.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-01-17

SERpENTs OF THE YEAsT.-One of the
most remarkable illustrations of the
mysterious line that separates the
deadly and the wholesome in nature is
given in the English Medical Press,
which states that the poison of the
cobra, the most deadly of the East
India serpents, has been chemically an
nalyzed, with the following results ::
Carbon, 46 ; nitrogen, 13; oxygen, 6 :;
sulphur, "a and hydrogen, 10. This is
exactly the composition of beer yeast
The latter is used i'll manufacturing the
staff of life bread the former is SO
deadly in it's nature that, even when
taken from the snake and preserved,
and afterward injected under the skin
OF animals, it is Immediately fatal.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-01-17
The Decline of MethOdism.

A good deal has been said of late
about the decline. of Methodism, par
ticularly in New York. The North,Cest-
ern Christian AdUocate takes no stock
in these stories, and presents the fol-
lowing interesting table. The figures
stand for communicates
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-01-17

TIE oil springs of Canada appear to
have proved no better investment than
those of Pennsylvania. From the first
discovery of petroleum to the present
time-says the Toronto GioJe-the his
tory of its production and manufacture
has been marked with disaster to those
who embarked their fortunes in them.
That paper estimates the capital actually
destroyed nothing whatever left to
show for it-at no less than $5, 600, 900
alone. The present condition of Both
we'll, Petrolia, aud other places is hardly
less deplorable than that of Pithole
City, whose $4,000 inhabitants have
been reduced to twelve families.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-01-17

CUBA is little larger than Missis-
sippi, New York or Tennessee, and has
about the population of the last named
State, perhaps l ,333, 900, of whom 33, 900
are slaves. Cuba is go miles long, and
135 wide at the widest point.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-01-17

HANNAFoRD X THOMPSON, Subscrip-
ton Book Publishers, Chicago, have in
press an exhaustive History of the
FARMERS MOVEMENT, by Hon. j. Peri
am. Editor Western Rural, one of our
ablest and best known agricultural wri-
ters Its title is The GRoUNDswELL. 1t
will be the standard work on Oranges,
Clubs, ETC., and is certain to prove a
great ha Book Agents, and Farmers
especially, should read the publishers
advertisement. 1t is bound to SELL
THE London Times says that life is
lived so quickly in the United States
that man who has been five years in
public life is almost veteran.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-03-28
Mrs. Van Colts Meetings.

The wonderful success attending the la
bors of Mrs. Van Colts meetings in Ames
Church continues unabated. The large au
dience room is thronged every night Meet
ing is held every day at twelve o'clock. Up
to this time large number have been con-
verted and scores have been and are seek
ing Christ. Mrs. Van Cott is woman of
remarkable power, and is thoroughly in
spired for her work. The good influence of
the meetings is extending to other churches,
and we understand revival meetings have
begun elsewhere. To-day the noon meeting
will no doubt be largely attended, as our
public school teachers will be at liberty to
attend. We understand they are specially
invited. Tonight Mrs. Van Cott has a
meeting for men exclusively, in the main
room of the church, commencing at half
past seven, and there will be meeting ex-
clusively for ladies in the Sunday school
room.
Services will be held to morrow at the reg
ular hours, and during next week, day and
evening.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-03-28
AMUSENENTS,
st. Charles Theatre.

On the occasion of the benefit of the star,
Mr.. Francis Bangs, last night, the audience
showed marked Improvement in numbers
Previous to the drama Of LA Marseillaise. "
was gwen portion of the third and fourth
acts of Julius Caesar" in which Mr. Bangs
appeared as Mare Antony, in the assassina-
ton and Grafton scenes. He is such an
Afttony as New Orleans has never before
seen, and the glimpses of the character
given in the fragments of the tragedy last
night was real treat. The noble Romans
about him could not have been much worse
IN dress. appearance and manner than the
st. Charles company afforded. But the de-
sire was to see the star, and their short
comings were overlooked. Mr.. Bangs does
not alone rest on his ornamentatiop of
A,etOnys speeches, and the touches of fine
defamation he gives. He acts the charac-
ter. He seems to be what he represents.
He is the natural orator, and standing on
the pulpit in the market place, the noblest
Roman Of all about him, he sways the mob
to fury, or holds it under the spell of his
blunt elOquence. He seems to feel, too,
what AntOny should have felt, aud weeps
over CGsar's body. If this actor should
come to us under better circums tances, and
could have the support of good company,
he would play profitable engagement
here, which his present one has by no means
been. Mr.. Bangs will appear at the matinee
to-day and also this evening.
Baker and Farron commence an engage
ment at this theatre Sunday night.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-03-28
The General Howard Tn0uiry.

The readers Of the Chronicle will have
observed from perusal of the testimony
taken before the military court organized
to inquire into the charges preferred agains st
General o. o. Howard, that no fraud, cor
ruptlon or detalcation has been proven
against him in person. The court has, up
to Monday, been inquiring into his legal re-
sponsibillty for the acts and failures of his
subordinates. The accounting officers of
the treasury have testified that General
Howard's accounts for personal disburse.
ments have been fully settled and balanced
Bat it is still doubtful whether the law au-
thorizing the appointment of a comms-
sloner OF freedmen anG abandoned lands,
and requiring him to give bonds for the
sate-keeping and proper disbursement of
funds received by him or his subordinates,
does not make him officially responsible for
their acts as we'll as his ovI
The conrt may SO find. We do not know
that 1t WILL but if it should ii will furnish
no cause for the distrust of the Generals
personal integrity. No one calls in n6es-
ton the integrity Of General Spinner,
treasurer OF the United States, and yet he
Is held TO be pecuniarily 2 responsible for the
defalcations in his bureau bv subordinates,
because the law makes him go. But he can
not be made morally responsible for the
crimes whicn were committed bv others
without his knowledge. Hence the people
do not censure him. nor will they censure
General Howard if he should be found to
be pecuniarily responsible under the pro-
VISIONS OF law for losses Occasioned by the
neglect, oversight, mistakes or crimes of
several hundred subordinates, scattered
over ten or fifteen States of the Unon.-
WusHtngtOn Chronicle
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-03-28
School Matters.

yesterday the exercises at the Girls
High School were varied by recitations as
follows: Miss Jourdan recited !Rienzi's Ad-
dress to the Romans" Miss Durbridge rer-
dered Lady Clare;" Miss De Castro, ''The
Crippled Boy Miss Deadly, Passing
Away" and Miss NJ. E. Spearing, The
Polish Boy" Several members of the
school board were present and quite a num-
Der OF visitors, who congratulated Mrs.
Mcdonald, her assistants and pupils on the
fine condition and progress made in the
school.
Superintendent Brown and Boothby
yesterday visited the public schools in Car
rollton, lately annexed to the city and
coming within the jurisdiction of the city
school board. There are now three schools
in that portion of the city, one of which, a
normal school, it is proposed to continue as
a high school. The schools visited were
found to be in fair condition, though the
sehOolhouses are in need of immediate re-
pairs
Owing to some delay in settling the ac-
counts OF the sheriff with the treasurer of
the school board the teachers will not be
paid today, as was proposed. Next Satur-
day. however, the rolls for October will be
cashed, and there seems tc be 10 doubt but
payments will continue to be made twice
month thereafter, until all arrearages are
settled.
Since it has become known that a few
new appointments are to be made on the
school board on the first of the month, quite
a number of candidates have presented
themselves. Under the new school law the
directors will not have SO easy time of it
as they have had in the past. The new law
requires them to visit the schools regularly
every month, and it is clearly not the inten-
tion of the State board to elect any men,
bers who will fail in their duty. The State
board has a wide field from which to make
selections, and it is evident that volunteer
candidates will have no preference.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-03-28
COurt Items.

Something must have disagreed with the
digestion of the Bulletin yesterday In the
court column it comments on the effect of
the well known and deserved popularity OF
Judge Cullom in crowding his docket with
cases. On the editorial page appears an
article on Partisan Judges" which is
claimed to have been suggested by the de-
cision in the challenge to the array of jurors
in the case of Gettworth vs. Teutonia In
surance Company. We believe a second
reading of that decision will convince the
Bulletin that there is nothing in it to war.
rant such an article. We presume what the
Bulletin misnterprets is the reason assigned
in December. There is nothing in these
remarks of a partisan nature, but certainly
the reasons why such a list was then
made are to be considered in determining
whether it is sufficient under the law
to answer the present requirements.
1t Is true the suit was a petition
of white people against a corporation, and
negroes had nothing to do with the ques-
tiOn between them. But when the defend
ants counsel seek to make point under
the law which first admitted negroes to the
jury box, reference to them is neither in
opposite nor does it turn decision into
''harangue." Judge Cullom's opinion may
be erroneous, but that of the Bulletin is the
only adverse authority so far, and we rely
on the result of his study and
experience. We have, also, such faith in
the good sense Of the fedgling of Gravier
street as to believe, as we first suggested,
that abdominal and not cerebral excite |
ment produced the article.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-03-28
COURT RECORD.
FRIDAY, MARCH q, 1874.
United states Circuit Court.


Charles Case, receiver, etc, VS.. Ell. Chad
wIck-Verdict and judgment for plaintiff
Of $3OO0
Same VS.. j. S. .Wa!ton.-Verdict and iudg
ment tor plaintiff of $4,000.
Myra Clark Gaines VS.. city of New Or
leans.-On petition of Rhoda E. White, OF
New York, 1t is ordered that all money
paid the marshal on the execution against
the city be paid to the receiver of the court
to be retained subject to the order of the
court when claims against 1t had been
heard.
Superior District Court.
Henry Wesenback ct al. VS.. Sanitary Ex-
cavating Company.-Rule nisi issued, re-
turnable April 4.
David w. TaliaferrO vs. Herald Printing
Company.-Plaintitf, as transferree of other
employees, sues for an aggregate Of SAIL 60,
due by the members of the defendant COM
pany, viz: Joseph Hernandez, F. II.
Eatch. John c. Sinnott, Alexander Walker,
2. c. Hancock, George Wood, Thomas
Barnes and Christian Merle, for work done
from November 8 to December II, 1873, al
leging the corporators are liable individu-
ally and insolidO.
First District Court.
NFoRMATIONs FILED.
Assault, etc.-Sam Mitchell, Frank Hetch,
Mary Hughes, William Brown.
Lareeny-Frank Paul, Ellen Dee
NoLLE PRosEQUI ENTERED
Assault, etc.-C. A. Holm, John Hussey,
Charles Collins.
PLEADED NOT GUILTY.
Larceny-Ed. Brown, James Anderson.
vERDICTs.
State VS.. FRANCOIS Edmond, Jr-Assault
and battery. Guilty.
State VS.. Mrs. Henry Tete-Assault and
battery Not guilty.
State vs.. Salvador Acha-Larceny. Not
guilty.
second District Court.
Succession of Franciska Hesse opened.
Fifth District Court.
Robert Mcdowell VS.. Factors and Traders
Insurance Company.-Plaintitf, as agent,
insured premises of Mrs. H. p. Dickson, No
399 Magazine street, for $4,000, renewing
the policy yearly, and subsequently, as
claimed, increased it to $4,000, which were
totally destroyed by fire November "a, 1873.
An investigation before Justice Laresche
was held. and subsequently, by direction of
the president of the company, plaintiff ren-
dered an account of $3i, ,688 as the loss in
Cured, and defendant refused to pay any
portion of it.
K. 5. Dennee VS.. Franklin Insurance Com
pany.-Plaintitf's petition alleges balance
due of 1868 "a, and in a supplemental petit
ton asserts the insolvency OF the company;
that the only real property it possesses is
that assigned to it by plaintiff and Richard
Lloyd; that it is unable to pay its debts
and losses, which amount to $4,000; that
certain individuals have associated them
selves without paying for their stock, and
prays for an Injunction.
Rule nisi issued to show cause why the
defendants should not be prohibited from
selling their property or doing business.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-03-28
Cadets at Large,

The following is a list of naval cadets at
large appointed by the President:
John G. Quimby, of New York, son of
General Quimby, United States arm V; Spen-
Ger Fl. Blddle, Of Pennsylvania, a grandson
OF Commodore Biddle; James r. Hillyer, of
New York, son Of General Hillyer; George
A. 4; Preble, son of Captain George H.
Preble, United States navy; Percival Dray-
ton, son of the late Commodore Drayton.
United States navy; William j. Maxwell,
son OF Medical Director Maxwell, United
States navy; J. NJ. Cunningham, of Illinois;
William White. of the Soldiers Orphan
Home, Normal, Illinois; F. II. Duer. son of
Commodore Duer, United States navy; c..
Z. Fouke, OF Virginia, son of Colonel Fouke,
United States army