Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1875-06-26

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very much improved the appearance OF his
dwelling on Main street by painting and
pcnclling
! DEAru.-Mrs Occana Scdgwick, wife of
Col Thomas s Scdgwick, of the United
States engineer corps, died nj Washington
saturday last, 10Th inst.
WE are pleased TO learn that &r Robert
G. Paul, recently removed to Baltimore,
will shortly reside in our midst again. He
will occupy the house vacated by Rev. Mr..
/ May
Az alleged clopcmcnt in Homecoming has
raised a question of vcracty between the
Ne,rs and Press The one says it did occur
the other that it did net. That's the way
they scC-saw,
RECovEEy.-We are pleased to see Mr..
Meshack Frost, junior proprietor of the
/ Georges Creek Press, on the street again,
A severe illness of two months has enact
patrd him considerably.
WE are requested by Mr.. Thomas ).
Thomas to say that the advertisement OF
warning to creditors, published in this pa
! per last week, is recalled. All the differ
cnccs implied therein have been amicably
adjusted.
! THAT Bunker Hill contest one hundred
years ago must have been onc-sided
affair after all. Taking the statement of
all whose grandfather was in the Ameri-
can ranks" there must have been one hun
bred and several thousand colonists defend
ing the historic hill.
FIEE--A fire broke out at Meyersdale,
Pa, yesterday morning at two o'clock, de-
stroying five buildings before it could be-
subducd No further particulars.
LATEH-A dispatch to the .Nears says
Hartley & Johns store and the First Ma
tional Bank we've burned. The fire was
gotten under control at five o'clock.
PREACnING-At the English Baptist
church Sunday morning at 10 O'Clock by
the pastor, Rev J. T. Bradford. Subject
Baptism The public cordially invited to
attend.
English preaching at the Presbyterian
Church Sunday at Il o'clock Z. NJ. Sub
icct-"R Right of private Interpretation of
Scripture
At a special meeting Of the board of man
ayers of the Maryland Sunday School
Union held Tuesday afternoon for the pur-
pose of filing the vacancy occasioncd by
the resignation of Rev. H. \. Smeltz, State
superintendent, Eugene r. Smith was
unanimously elected to the office at year
" salary of s 500, this appointment to 90
into effect on the first day of january next.
The Allcgany members of the State Dem
ocratic Central Committee, Messrs, Spatcs,
| Weber and llarbaugh, have issued their
call for districtprimary meetings on the 10Th
/ of july, 1870, to select seven delegates to
represent each district in Il county convcn-
ton to be held in the city of Cumberland
on the 18th day OF July, 1919, the duty Of
/ which County Convention will be to APP
/ point delegates to cast the five votes to
/ which Allcgany county is entitled IN the
/ State Convention to be held in Baltimore,
July DIST, 1873.
The Republican primaries have not yet
been called,
/ \ New JUVENILE MAGAZINE.-ThC
first number of ride atrahe the New Maya
zinc for the Girls and Boys, is on our table,
AID Wide Awake it is thoroughly mod
crn from cover to cover. The literary and
| editorial departments are fine. Miss Ella
! Farman, the editor, is one of our rising
writer's, and her work upon this number
/ clearly indicates the possession of that var
| led talent ncedful to II conductor of chill
drcns magazine There are good times
ahead for the girls and boys whom she takes
riding on The Magic Carpet" George
Macdonald's Double Story" is begun in
the supplement.
The best of our American writer's have
promised contributions to the magazine, and
we cordially commend it to both old and
Young.
Price $500 per annum. ID. Lothrop "
Co., publishers, So and 40 Cornhill, Boston.
THE county road from New Hope to
Mount Savage is cone of the best in the
county SO we are crcdlbly informed.
| This is the result of the late change made
in accordance with the orders Of the Com
missioners, by which the numerous railroad
crossings of the old road are avoided. The
new route, besides easy grades, has sub
stantial and smooth surface, atfording
splendid drives for buggies etc. Our in
formant insists that all concerned in the es-
tablishmcnt of this road Commissioners,
engineers and builders, are entitled to great
credit for quite unusual feature of country
travel in this section
He regrets, however, his inability to re-
cord complimentary mention of the section
of road between the Frostburg depot and
New Hope-a link which deserves repair
certainly as much as any other, 1t is much
travelled, and has the advantage of being
short. A moderate portion of the recent APP
preparation would, doubtless, made it uni
| Gown, ,,.;+b tho ronI hppnw FRY il Mr.