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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1876-05-13

eve dreamed a dream the other night,
When all around was still,
Ofmatters generally in
This city on Il hill
Mr.. Editor Dreams are usually
badly connected and turn out, as
many say, contrariwise. This is and
is not true-a contradiction we will
not stop to explain, for our purpose is
to tell dream Of Frostburg.
Tired natures sweet restorer,"
Had dealt generously with us for sew
eral nights prior to the one celebrated
by this remarkable dream, and We re-
tired with more than our wonted quo
TIA Of reflections upon noted character
istics of Frostburg life and manners.
The ancient adage Of "a crowded
stomach and ugly dreams had not
oppressed us so much as that other
which teaches that 'dreams lend Wild
ness to our thoughts had unduly
mingled our waking and sleeping life
We slept, and dreamed amen. The
range of vision embraced the town
and penetrated It's secret haunts.
Roofs, floors and walls, were transpar-
ent as French plate and opened to the
gaze every phase Of luxury and mise
ry. The dwellings of the rich were
filled with all that tempt8 covetous-
ness, and not far off the poor were
graphing with problems growing out
OF diminishing supplies, waning credit
and a voorhees, future. In the one
the inmates reclinel lazily on cush-
Toned sofas, rocking not of care in the
other, the hard twin-fellow of poverty,
illness, tossed its victims on hard beds
Thus the weary monotony went on
OF the rich growing richer-the poor
poorer. More anon.
Elsewhere, behind gilded bars men
and women dispensed liquid poisons
to all classes and conditions. And
here and there old and young men
surrounded card and billiard tables
eagerly interested in the turn of a die
or the stroke of cue, and setting
down results to profit and loss. p"
strange to say, some of these were be-
traylng the dearest trusts committed
by Providence to their keeping
Verify, the habitations of the vicious
were crowded. On the other side
the churches were we'll filled with nj
Gus worshipers praying benedictions
upon poor humankind, albeit some
were labeled policy" We Judged
not lest we be Judged
On the streets the conditions were
similar to indoor affairs. Through the
gloom and in the smoke of contests
between rival monopolies we deserted
idleness and poverty walking perforce,
hand in hand, driving society into in
voluntary Generalization. The door
plate inscriptions seemed to publish
some moralities from pure but worn
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1876-05-13

WE are waiting for the reconcilia-
ton between the Press and Harry
Robinson. The issue is did the Press
publish lie, OF did Harry swear to
lie? Don't call hard names, boys,
but tell us which one of your trium-
virate has lied. If We are to believe
Harry the Press has lied |; if we must
believe the Press Harry has sworn to
lie. When we can understand
who Of these worthless has lied, we will
be able to show our own hand by
such proof as will make our affidavit
utterl y superhuous. Still, if the aft
davit is the zone thing needful, we
have it at hand. So, boys of the
eel-skin-reversible, the matter rests
with you-not by any means with us.
One Of you has lied and whether it be
Grove, or Frost, or Robinson, he
knows he has lied 1t is important to
each Of you to show that the other or
others are guilty. An honest confess
ion will take the kinks out of your
vari-colored story, and enlarge the
moral area of your tiny souls so that
we may be able to cover it with PIN s
point.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1876-05-13
THE bodies of three men have Just

THE bodies of three men have just
been found on the Black Hills road to
the north murdered by Indians. Ev-
cry train on the road has to fight the
Indians several hours. Several bands
of Sioux in northern Indiana have
formed confederation under Sitting
Bull and Cooked PEPPER, and have di-
vided up into bands to devastate the
Nebraska, Dakota and Wyoming from
tiers, Sitting Bull openly defes the
troops, and threatens to maintain a
bloody Indian war for years. They
have attacked other Indians at the
agencies for not joining them.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1876-05-13

THE Mining Rerieao, published at
Denver places the bullion product of
Colorado for 1875 at $6,284,O0O, as
follows Gold bullion, $2,5lO,000; sill
yer bullion, $2,8SS,O0O; ore shipped,
mostly silver, 81, 4l6,0O0; copper,
$4,000. Of the total Clear Creek is
credited with $2,l8l,0 900, and Gilpin
with $1,9S3,0O0. In addition, the
coal product for the past year is esti-
mated at 100000.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1876-05-13
General Items.

THE Philadelphia hackmen think
the Centennial is, by all odds, the
grandest exhibition of nations prog
ress ever made to an admiring world.
Nothing could exceed the whitening
look of scorn which one of them cast
the other day upon a hapless New
Yorker, who, after riding three squares
had the temerity to ask how much
change there was coming to him out
of FIVE dollar bill he had rendered
for his fare.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1876-05-13
JEREMIAH LIyESEO0D

MANUFACTURER OF
Buggies, Carriages & Spring Wagons,
nF every style and description also
- SulkieS. S9eiglas. Sheds. &c,
Salisbury, (north side of Ord streer ELK
LICK Post Office, Somerset Co., Pa. ian %
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1876-05-13
Virginia City, Nevada.

There are men here with incomes of
100000 per month, on the one hand,
and shivering wretches without far
| thing on the other. Here more sharp
ly than in any other American town,
are the two extremes of poverty and
wealth exemplifed yet the starving
wretch of to day may be the million
aire of to morrow.
The Comstock lode is the richest
mining region in America. Discover
ed in 1859, it has since yielded not less
than $280,OO0,O00, and this with very
imperfect machinery for the greater
part of the time.
The production of the precious met
ais west of the Missouri river in 1875
aggregated over $S0,00O,0O0, of which
Nevada produced $4O,000,000 The
production this year will reach not
less than $lOO,O00,000 There is
enough money in these rugged hills to
secure the resumption Of specie pay
ments in three years if the whole peo-
pie were bent on resuming, More
than $28O,0OO,O00 taken from these
mines in fifteen years, and more
than ($l,OOO,OOO,OOO) one billion left
yet, 1t is known absolutely that
there are $5OO,OOO,OOO more in the
lode.
Mr.. sEGEER, of Oswego county, n.
Y, is the proud possessor Of the pad
dle-wheel of Robert Fulton's first
steamboat, and We are glad to learn
that he has expressed his determine
ton to exhibit it at the Centennial ex~
position or it would come within less
than an inch and half of being no ex-
position at all. We may remark, in
this connection, that Mr.. Jedediah
Bullwraggle, of this city, has piece
of bark from tree that grew ON the
farm of an uncle whose grandfathers
brother-in-law started with Gen. jack
son to the battle of New Orleans, but
was detained by an attack of the chol-
era morbus, and he would send that
to the Centennial exposition If he
had any adequate assurance that he
would ever get it back again
A minister, while marrying a couple
OF his rustic pensioners, felt exceed
ingly Disconnected on his asking the
bridegroom if he were willing to take
the woman for his welded wife, by the
would-be Benedict scratching his head
and saying, GAY, I'm wullin, but Id
rather haze her sister"
A conspicuous trait in Dom Pedros
character is that he is no dead head"
He pays his own bills, speaks his own
mind and does as he pleases without
interfering with tbs rights, privileges
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1876-05-13

THERE is no change of special inter
est to note. Good work progresses
at Borden Shaft and Hoffman, but
elsewhere slack.
At Homecoming the prospect has
improved, several companies having
fair amount of work.
The general view seems to be that
the adjudication of the proposition to
set aside the railroad charter will settle
the troubles. The matter will come
before a special term of our Circuit
Court on the Goth inst.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1876-05-13
WESTERN MARYLAND
IRON WORKS.
II. G.. PAUL.

NJ MANUFACTURER of STEAM EN-.
w GlNES and BOILERS SAW and
GRlST MILL MACHINERY, IRON and
BRASS CASTINGS of every description.
Contracts made for HEATING BUILD
1NGS By STEAM
Repairing of all kinds promptly at
ted to.
Us" Works on c. & p Railroad, south
end of Tunnel, Frostburg, Md. July BLY,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1876-05-13
OGnCS, OutnS and ESOws9 ClOthipos

All cN'omlnade and arriving bsllies -
g. 8 ~ tONIEIlIOR IN THIS TO wv Oh NTOLr1y<,,n
and you will be 7 "0 concerned! Come
complete! -NAA'7''s"E WooOs.-au depart
irc ahoSs aha si"Ps In Custom nm
country! EVERY PAIR OF CUSTOM Worn eaEs' oho
hand r.rPeas ana Sicotsas, in ,to on,
hah 'N IN the county
os HmeeasWare Glassware. Garocer:es-Tbe ror ,n,
anu al the necsari
gaddenel
A ool snail than other
'oe agent for ARLINGTON COOK and HEATING STOVES
All OF these goods of purchase having been bouobt ~
oaSn III very large quantities during the and the ire
" many manufacturers and wholesale merchants which enables ma 70
sell he cheaper than other house the county for Cash
and one price to and all! ~ ""~~
AL parties who have been buying the Inauguration Of w
Cah system will bear testimony that they saving from IA - *
per cent over and above the old Credit system ~
" one VINO pays cash for his goods need help pay dishonest
customers debts under the old Pass Book system Ali men of
intellect will at realize such to be thief fact "
My competitors IN business find considerable fault with ma for ~
goods too cheap but am always have BEEN independent of any
he ana continue to sell cheaper than dare Inv Nv o
sha always be keep the best of goods and plenty them with best at
visiting store. o. 'i"0'oh " every on
Norso MARX WINELAND.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1876-05-13
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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1876-05-13
THE MINING JOURNAL
FROSTBURG, MD, MAY 10, 1876.

WE will publish next week COM
munication with regard to the condi-
ton of the old cemetery on the hill
1t will come from quarter well quail
flied to deliver heavy blows, and his
locker is well shotted with materials.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1876-05-13

The papers in the case of the State
Us. Consolidation Coal Company have
been received at the Clerks Office and
the case docketed for trial. Judge
Pearre has fixed Friday, May 26, as
the time for hearing the case. A spec
ial term of court will be called for the
purpose.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1876-05-13

A conspicuous trait in Dom Pedro
character is that he is no dead head. !"
He pays his own bills, speaks his own
mind and does as he pleases without
interfering with tbs rights, privileges
or business of anybody-a model as a
king, an example as a man.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1876-05-13

In Great Britain there are 100000
men employed in the coal mines below
the ground, and 100000 engaged
above ground. The coal mined each
year amonts to l2S, 100000 tons. On
an average 1000 men are killed
every year and 1000 wounded. In
the last half century $4,000 men have
been killed in the mines and some
100000 were wounded.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1876-05-13

IT is enough to give man forty
fits to attend examinations at public
school, there is such a melancholy
sternness in the manner Of proposing
the simplest questions, "Who made
the world in seven days." asked a
teacher, with grim death marked on
every lineament, and a poor little girl
blubbered out: II did, sir, but | won t
do it any more
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1876-05-13

BY LARGE MAJoRITY.-A few
days since a jury in Carroll county,
Ga, thought it would be good joke
to bring in this verdict: I'VE the jury
unanimously agree to disa gree"
They did so, and the judge replied =:
81, the judge, unanimously fine you S.
each,
A dispatch from Midland, Georgian
Bay, Ont, states that there is no truth
whatever in the report sent from that
place to a New York paper that Boss
Tweed wintered in that part of the
country. Noperson answering Tweed S
description is or ever has been there
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1876-05-13

A woman who went to a concert tc
hear Blind Tom play by ear, writes
that she was swindled, and wants Us
to expose the fraud. She says that
instead of playing by ear, he played
with his fingers, just like other perfor-
mers.-N01ylStown Herald,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1876-05-13

Yesterday, while Hugh Mclnery
was paying off his men, he offered one
of them some silver. Now, phwats
chat, | dunno Its silver; specie
payment, you know" "Och bad cess
till the bloody lead give me money
shure.'
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1876-05-13

Two sparks from London once came
upon a decent looking shepherd in
Argyleshire, and accosted him with,
You have very fine view here you
can see a great way "Yu aye, w
aye, ferry great way All! you
can see America here, I SUPPOSE
"Farrer than that How is that p
you jist wait tule the mists gang
ava, and you'll see the mune."
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1876-05-13

THE substitution of silver for frac-
tional currency may destroy the value
of the Centennial Commissioners re-
markable fifty cent stamp self-regis-
tering machine.
No-upon second thought, we fear
the Treasury may have all the
stamps and the old stockings all the
silver. But the result will be the
same.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1876-05-13

THE GENERAL CONFERENCE OF THE
AFRICAN METHODIST CHURCH OF THE
UNITED STATES met in Atlanta, Ga,
Monday. Six bishops and two hun
dred and fifty delegates were present,
The conference will be in session two
weeks.
SILVER cannot convey contagion. "
True enough. How can it when it
does not circulate
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1876-05-13
OUR CORRESPONDENCE.
A Dream that was not all a
Dream.

FRosTBURG, MAY 10, 1876.
ave dreamed dream the other night,
When all around was still,
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-01-11

In another part of this issue we print
communication from a personal friend OF
Mr.. Hall, which deals with the strictly
theatrical aspects of his recent dramatic
venture. 1t is urged that the result of Mr..
Halls short campaign should scarcely be
accepted as final in the judgment of
his merits and capabilities as an actor,
because he was not only deprived of the adj
vantages of an effective management, but
that he had to contend against so many dis
advantages in that direction that success was
made impossible. With the history of
events of this nature, as viewed from behind
the scenes, the public can be at any time but
little acquainted, and, therefore, can scarcely
take them into account in the formation
of critical judgments Even when they are
shown in exceptional cases they appear con-
sequently as though urged in mitigation of
adverse opinion, and we doubt if Mr.. Halls
enthusiastic friends deem his case so bad as
to need this defence. None of them can
suppose that it needs defence which would
tempt spiteful references to the sort of work.
men who find fault with their tools. In his
histrionic aspirations and experiences the
former Mayor has been treated kindly by
the press, and if it did not applaud him to
the echo this was because in the discharge
of duty it felt that its obligations to the
public were to be considered at least equally
with its good will to an old friend and this
very fact should give greater weight and
deeper value to the encouragement it ex-
tended. 1t will, we doubt not, be the gen.
eral verdict of the press that Mr.. Hall
has done well in Withdrawing from field
where such success as would satisfy his
own judgment can only be gained by labor
and patience that time will not permit him
to bestow. He exhibited an intellectual en-
terprise-a moral daring and energy-in
pushing his experiment in defiance of ad-
vice and that bit of spirit was admirable in
itself But the space that separates the
forum from the footlights is greater than the
enthusiastic dream. He who has grown up
in the forum had better fight it out on that
line through the number Of summers and
winters that may be requisite than to invite
the challenge of pitiful people in pastures
new = and If he encounters, or through an
undue sensibility fancies he encounters,
treatment difficult to endure, he must re-
member that all the sages agree that the
grandest triumph comes out of the hardest
fight. 1t is not case for pity to see capa-
BILE advocate driven back to the Bar But
there is one man to be pitied and the only
person on whom any calamity falls-the only
II
who Kissed him on his last night. That per-
son had an opportunity to exhibit the depth
of his meanness, and did it.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-01-11

or the mouth of the Mississippi, and the ext
gencies of the trade winds bring 1t within
the highway to the Mediterranean. But be-
sides these reasons of a climatic and geo.
graphical character, grave political argu-
ment is to be adduced in behalf OF Port
Royal as our principal naval station. Unlike
Brooklyn or Philadelphia, navy yard at
this point cannot be used to control elections.
A great abuse heretofore has been the use OF
our navy yards to carry doubtful States for
the party in power Port Royal can be freed
from any such abuses altogether From
every point of view this excellent harbor pre-
sents advantages which are possessed by no
other port on our coast for naval rendezvous,
and the Navy Departments showing great wis
dom in gathering our little feet at this point.
The possibility of war with Spain may have
suggested the determination of the depart
ment; but, whatever the result, SO far as
Spain is concerned, the idea is one which
ought not to be abandoned. Let us by all
means make Port Royal our leading naval
station.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-01-11

Inc widely and strongly expressed desire
OF the metropolitan public to hear Mile
Iltiens In those grand operate roles with
which her artistic reputation is inseparably
bound Is at last about to be gratifed Mr.
Strakosch has realized the soundness of the
advice given him by the HERALD at the very
outset the season, and the folly of neclectine
to comply with the wishes of his lib
eral patrons, the musical public of New York.
Mile Titiens, ere her visit to America. was
known to our opera goers as a great lyric
artistic, the last perhaps, of the noble school
of Malibran, Pasta and Grisi. Since her
first appearance in London, eighteen wears
ago, she has welded the sceptre in roles
such as Norma, Semiramide, Lucretia
Borgia, Leonora in "Fidelio," Medea, Donna
Anna and Valentine. and her reign
in Her Msjesty's Opera has never been dis
turbed even by younger and more seduc-
tive artists. The eagerness of the public.
therefore, to hear her in those roles, should
be encouraging to Mr.. Strakosch in this VEN
ture, and should induce him to surround
this gifted prima donna with q company
worthy of her. 1t is, perhaps, too late in tho
season to secure in Europe artists like Cam
panini, Cary and Maurel, as they and all
others of the same rank on the lyric stage arc
engaged; but there may be found some ca
pable singers, lesser luminaries, yet reliable
and attractive in all roles intrusted to them.
Success in an Italian opera season in New
York at this time would give the manager an
admirable opportunity to organize strong
combination of lyric forces during the Cen
tennial and reap a plentiful harvest We
shall await with interest and high expec-
fancy the first appearance of Mile Titions as
the Druidical priestess on the 18th inst
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-01-11
Who Was the Dynamit. Fiend

From the multiplicity of stories in circula-
ton concerning the identity of the dynamite
monster it is not surprising that respectable
parties have been spoken of as his relatives.
One such story, naming him as a family con-
nection of shipping firm in this city, we
have authority to deny. 1t is surprising to
note how suddenly the antecedents of man
become mixed who up to the time of the fail
ure of his terrible plot was received in the best
society of Europe. He was first described
as Thomas, an American, of Baltimore next
as Thomassen, native of Westphalia and
then as q connection of New York family,
probably of French origin, and certainly
from the Channel Islands. From the time of
Cagliostro it has been the experience
of society that men with money can
succeed in attaining social positions abroad
which they could never hope TO gain at home.
The glamour of wealth, real or reputed,
prevents the asking Of questions about ante
cedents which would not fail to be pro-
pounded to o shabby coat or an aged hat.
We have had our English Cords" French,
Italian and German 'counts" by the score,
who imposed themselves successfully on
credulous wealth here, only to fade into
gentlemens gentlemen, Wallets, couriers,
BARRIERS and younger sons of younger
brothers" The fat, jovial and generous
Vice President of the American Club of
Dresden will doubtless soon be relegated
to his proper origin We can well under
stand the Discrimination any family would
entertain to acknowledging him, and it is
not likely we shall have any claimants" in
his case; but we cannot see that the act of
such an exceptional monster should reflect
on the good name of any country which had
the misfortune to give him birth. We,
therefore, await with interest the publication
Of the German official inquiry.