Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1875-11-06
WHOLE NUMBER, 215.

A French priest has refused two mill
lions of francs bequeathed to him by his
brother because the brother had led
wicked life
Pittsburgh is again talking Of sending
refined oil to the Delaware through q pipe
200 miles long that will cost $50o,0O0
The first camp meetings in America
were held in 1867 hy two Baptist ministers.
the Rev Samuel III ,rris and the New.
james Reed. who preached in that part OF
Virginia between the Raprahannock and
james Rivers.
The story goes that young English ac-
tor named Walter Hastings volunteered 10
suffer ten years imprisonment for $4,000
offered him by lord. lie went IN st
twenty five, and came out locking like six
ty, but he got his money.
Mrs. Boomer, the woman who is chiefly
known to the world by the name she has
given to Il certain style of woman's dress,
the shady side of fifty, and-wears long
~l.iits
Nothing new about these puli-back skirts
after all, In the reign of Edward II.
Q30T-27), Il montish chronicle records that
the ladies "wore such straight clothes they
were constrained to have long foxes.
c1a. o., Ill -
No more stopping Of trains for mail.
There is Il Massachusetts invention that
says SO. 1T is simply box in the top Of
the mail car placed in such II position ~
to catch the bag from the crane while the
rra'n is at full speed. and to allow it to
slide down into the ear.
Chaines Jeanne dare and Jeanne d'Aro
belts are the latcG; fancy additions 10 the
feminine toilet. They encrcle the neck cs
wast at pleasure. suspend the vinai-
giette. fan, Swiss watch, chatelaine, or any
other article that lady may need when
shopping or visiting.
AT Aincennes, France, recently, during
the marriage ceremony, the BRIDES teeth
fell out, which so frightened tho bride.
groom, a WORTH tall tha. ho made tho
sign of tho cross, rushed off like
an arrow, aud has not since been
heard o.
The Atlanta HrruM reports that Gen.
Joseph f.. Johnston has been appointed
Commander-n-C Chief pf the army of the
Khcdivc of Egypt, with 100000 pay for
the fir year, and $4,000 year after
ward. Gen. Johnston is said to have ac-
2cp'ed this offer.
A child in Alabama, while playing nsag
It's house, was attacked by rooster.
knocked down and spurred several times
in the face before il could be rescued.
One stroke of the spur was found to have
entered the BRAIN and the child died after
three days Of great suffering.
The Greek Government, mindful Of the
services of Lord Byron to Greece, and de-
sirous Of seeing them commemorated, has
offered 10 supply whatever quantity Of
pentelic marble the Byron memorial COM
mttee may require for the monument free
of all cost, and that the expenses of it's
transit will he paid out of the Greek Ex-
chequcr A site on the Thames embank-
mcnt will be offered to the committee.
number of Cinnamon went into their
cemetery ut Antioch, Cal, to offer up burnt
sacrifice TO their gods. Theil burnt offer
ing assumed unexpected proportions, for
the grass taking fire, tile flames spread over
he whole hurying ground, consuming the
grave Enclosures, head boards, trees, and
shrubbery, the Celestials themselves escap-
ing only by an rrcvercnt flight
They have an imtator of Jesse Pomeroy
in San Francisco. He is but ten years Of
age, and has already developed disposi-
ton 10 torture young children and animals.
II" skinned dog alive, and inveiglng q
ciAid three years old into a barn, cut off its
right ear with bone and inflated nineteen
Other wounds upon it, He has been lodged
in the industrial School
a desperate villain, eight years Of age,
named Robert Gordon, has recently been
sentenced Ivy an English clergyman and
magistrate t. one month III prison and fve
years in II rcfQi matory, for the offence of
placing few pebbles on the track of tho
Midland Railway, with the purpose, to
quote lis own blood-cur,lling language, of
hearing them "go smudge" when the train
passed over them.
A chicken died III Auburn, Illinois. 1t
belonged to Mr.. Ney or Mr. Lochridge,
whose yards adjoined, but to which could
not he determined. They quarreled about
it, ana tossed the carcass back and forth
TO each other over the intervening fence.
Then Nry shot at Lnchridgc without hitting
him. Then Lochridge seized Il club and
chased Ney. In the fight that eusued the
revolver and the club were beth used free
ly, and Ncy was killed.
William a. Beach, the lawyer, has played
acven-up with the learned pig, Ben, at
Saratoga, and been beaten. He heard Of
the wonderfully y-trained brute, and went to
the show tent late at night, when his party
were the only visitors. Ben was aroused
from II sound sleep. !ahey eat for deal.