Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1876-01-08
THE MINING JOURNAL.
FROSTBURG, MD, JAN. 8, 1876.


ing Of "makii,g something out of nothing"
it SAYS
WI siiaI pause and sec how long il will |
take i, 10 make n new county oct OF three !
hundred square miles when the consttu-
ton requires four hundred as minimum.
Rather tough job, to he sure. But we
had rather undertake it than TO look after
the authenticity Of the He1nLds figures.
Where did you find the "threc hundred %
We zane
We are ridicuIrd for advocating the
principle that n hnniority Of the citizens and
tax payers of n county alone lave the
right 10 locate their county seat.
Not at ALL We ridiculc your idea of UNI
settling settled question by process I'M
known in the ethics Of pop"lar suffrage.
Will the JOURNAL please refer us 10
single precedent where Il question of this
kind has been permanently settled in any
other WY?
"Questons of this kind" have no 'prccc-
DENTS" at least we have never heard of
one permanently settled" The genius of
the thing is "pcrmancn." unscttlement.
The HcraM is too unhappy to do us jus
tice. 1t exposes our Inconsistency" by is
plating certain passages from their coInec-
tons and contrasting them with others
Topped of in the same way. 1t is evident
such unfair parallels come from the eX-
tremity to which it has been reduced by its
false position on the county seat question.
1t can do much better work ON a far higher
basis by encouraging and assisting the
new county measure.
THE NEW COUNTY MOVEMENT, Unlike
the Herald, the Garrett County Gazette
hooks favorably upon the New County
movement and goes so far as to promise
any assistance in its power"
-- The movement that originated two years
ago in that portion of Allcgany county lying
along Georges Creek, instead of beng
crushed out by tho defeat of the project in
the last Legislature, has doomed up again
in respectable form, and those tavoring
the movement are making strenuous efforts
to carry the matter through the Legislature
this winter The arguments used for new
county arc numerous and calculated to car
~ great weight with them. We heartily
trust that they may be successful, and will
give to the advocates of the movement any
assistance in our power, provided they do
not ask us to cedc too much of our terrific
nv or our people and reduce Garrett coun-
~ below its constitutional requirements.
The Gazette need fear no great loss of ter
itory. Garrett county, if we mistake not, is
credited with an area of GAO square miles,
vet we have the best reasons for asserting
that it possesses really nearer eight hundred
square miles, or enough to make two coun-
ties of itself had it the required population
If there is trouble at all about the matter, it
is to getthe requisite territory which you
can afford to lose, with the fewest people,
whom you cannot afford to lose Our in
tercsts in county seat and new county mat
tiers dovetail nicely, and, with judicious and
earnest appeals to the Legislature they pre-
sent more merit than all the re-submission
plans the Herald can devise in the next de-
cade. Let the Gazette help us, then-and
the Herald too.
TIE recent fires at Moscow and Pied
mont, ascribcd, as they are, to mcendiary
s1olism lurking in our midst. Every prac-
ticablc means for the detection and punish
mcnt of the miscreants who perpctrate
these deeds should he used. The public
safety demands it to such degree that it
seems not out of place for the proper au-
thorities to take large, active interest in
the matter, without leaving it altogether to
private individuals
In the case of Piedmont particularly we
have another instance of the chronic habit
of our coal region towns depending upon
the Cumberland Fire Department for aid.
Every repetition of this call upon Cumber-
land makes the failure to provide for our
own wants in this vital regard more shame
full
In Frostburg, happily, (thanks to our
Water Company and municipal authori
ties y very effective provision las been
made for outbreaks of fire. This has been
done without noise OF parade, and so far
s,as been done well-so well we trust we
may not again have occasion to trouble
Cumberland.
TIE Grafton Sentinel groups several
quotations from exchanges under the head
ing of Experience Meeting" 1t will be
seen there is "cry from Macedonia
f. Randall, the Evangelist, will lecture
on Thursday evening next. at Temperance
Hall, giving his experience in Virginia
Jail, where he was confined three years, for
the crime of forgery. Mr.. Randall desires