Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1876-04-15

struck" It was the companies.
The devil owes US a debt and he pays it
of in assaults through the Georges Creek
Press.
"A SUBSCRIBER" cautions us against
copying items, especially if not in En-
glish." Hesays the letter * is not in the
Welsh alphabet"
The Adeganiam says Judge Buchanan
recently stated before the School Board
that 1.-THE AAegaaian was the best paper in
Cumberland" Go slow, ledge.
THE Neps says Randall, the "evangel-
ist," is holding forth at Somerset, Pennsyl-
vania, to quite large crowds" When the
"large crowds" get through renouncing the
devil they will be ready to renounce Randall
RRsUMrTIoN.-The troubles of the week
ended in a happy adjustment Thursday
evening. The Consolidation Coal Com
pany recalled Tuesdays order of reduction
and babe its men go to work yesterday
morning at the old price-65 cents per ton.
Upon this announcement the entire COM
munity were aglow with rejoicing. Mi
ners, merchants and tradesmen, became in
fused with new life, and business prospects
sprang from depression into the brightest
promise. inasmuch as the resumption at the
old rate is established for the season.
Those companies on the creek will now
nnd it impossible to maintain the reduction
with the great odds against them. So the
action OF the Consolidation Coal Company
settles the question for the year.
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DURING our career in Frostburg we have
never sustained greater hardship than
tnat which forces us to expose private bus
mess transactions to refute the misrepre-
sensations Of those who, for some malicious
reason, thus seek to injure us. Indeed, so
uniformly courteous and kind have the peo-
pie OF Allegany been to us, we are thoroug-
~ unused to different treatment. To this
rule, however, notable exception has been
SHOWN in the management of the Georges
creek Press from its miserable inception to
This stage Of its mean existence. We NAV
ma II In order to refer briefly to its career
farther on ; what we desire to do now is to
show how much its testimony as truthful
chronicler of the news" is worth.
1t has thrice asserted that the power
press in our office belongs to Rev. Mr..
Huhi; there is no mistake about this, as its
readers know. We have taken pains on
the other hand to claim the machine as our
own. The issue being thus sharply drawn,
we have secured the following from Mr..
Huhl, the only party beside ourselves who
ought to know all about the matter:
FRosTBURG, Md, APRIL 10, 1876,
This certifies that the sale of the power
press, now in the office of the FRosTBURG
MINING JOURNAL, to Messrs. j. B. Oder &
Bro, proprietors of that paper, is a bona
lSde transaction, and that the statement
heretofore made editorially by Mr.. j. B.
oder Is correct in every particular.
j. RUHL.
Now, we are willing to leave it to those
who take any interest in this quarrel to saw
who has lied. And when Judgment is made
upon this point, we are moreover willing
they shall answer the inquiry whether a
paper that has lied about the ownership of
our press is not likely to lie about ANYTHING
else belonging to our business
The Press charges the editor of this paper
with being the author ola communication
IN our own paper last week rejecting upon
the manner of its publication. This charge
Is utterly false. If the Press don't believe
1t we can provide another certificate. More
even than this, we can publish a commune
cation now on hand specially devoted to its
management, compared with which the eff
fusion last week was the essence of compl;,
ment, and do SO over the writer's own name
"a name, too, that the Press wcaklnt
tackle for forty of its Chicago or Cincinnati
editions. We repeat tive can estahlisp
these facts as easily as we Asve settled the
dispute over the printing machine.
And after all this, those who care abu,.
II may Judge Ct she sonndness aad trutbful
ness Of the Hess statement about orr "c,r.
and the stereotype plates" Our
subscription books are open and win belle
the one and our admission will suhs,,nt;,a
the other We do Use 'stcreotynesn ,or.
pr less every issue Last week We used ono
column this week three This IN ,tte, ;s <,
good, however, that on seyera', occasions
previous to its pa,eus threa-ouarter nlan
'he Press RECALLED It's readers by pubI;shinv
several columns-after q. Iaa y,sd them
And it owed this wre.ca.el privilege to our
,Qmmiseration. 49,.
However uliior,anate the JOURNAL in iss
lew changes. il has never been compelled So
test every available ruse as substitute fo,,
editosiaf qualifications. 1t did not, in the
outset, vaunt itself as an an-home publica-
ton and then pass with flourish into "tbe
largest weekly in the county" 1t never
had an experience which compelled !, to
make u plan once derided subsequently a
subject for egotism. ltnever congratulated
itself over its ability to stultfy the promises
OF its colour de rose days. 1t never priled
itself upon gulping down its maiden casti-