Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1877-04-21
THE MINING JOURNAL.
FRosTBURG, MD, APRIL 81, 1877.


Indictment in all the numerous matters
of tasteful composition and general
Office work, was unanimously accept
ed as decisive. He was then one of
the foremost of progressive "foremen
and "job printers" in the State, and
q chaste and fluent writer. No paper
ever enjoyed his services without be-
ing made soundsr and better and
handsomsr. These are few of our
pleasant memories of Joseph K. Smith
of Harrisonburg, Va. We are pleas
ed to have them recalled by the COM
plimentary solicitations of many of
his people to represent his county in
the next House Of Delegates. Our
word for it, he will make an honest,
capable and efficient representative.
CANAL MATTERs-Large Meeting.
AN assembly of eight hundred res
idents of Cumberland met in the
Academy of Music Tuesday evening
President German and Director Ham
i'll of the canal, Hons. William Walsh,
Lloyd Lowndes, jr., II. W, Hoffman
and F. l. McKais, addressed the peo-
pie. The speeches evinced a deter
mination to "hold" the business of the
canal if coal has to be carried for
next to nothing.
Maryland craftsmanship is thus put
to the work of locking the stable af-
ter the horse is gone" The Balti-
more and Ohio railroad having come
into virtual possession Of two-thirds OF
our coal property, supplements its
monopoly thus acquired with a move
ment, through the Consolidation Coal
Company, which means to destroy the
canal and absorb the entire carrying
trade. As a mill of the gods it
"grinds slowly, but grinds exceeding
fine" True to a policy which never
deviates from self-aggrandizement, it
proceeds slowly and surely to the ira
ditional work of breaking down COM
peting lines, spoliation of rival rights
and expressing the people with oner-
Gus freight charges. Its steps toward
the capture of this region have been
marked by catlike patience and per-
severance it has won it has secured
its prey. We have already felt an
earnest of it's intentions in the bold
ness with which it grappled and throt-
tied and settled the wages difference.
The canal is next assailed with fine
prospect that it too will share the usual
fate. The next point of attack is plain,
and will be felt about year hence.
And so on until-well, unless arrested
by the people and kept in bounds
there is no forecasting the depth OF
its encroachments upon popular rights.
EDITORIAL CoMPLIMENTs.-E S.
Zeveley, an eccentric newspaper pro-
jector, with printing Office on wheels,
now fourishes in the modern city of
Cairo, West Va. One of his recent
editorial efforts comprised the task of
figuring out some resemblance be-
tween Cumberland and Wheeling.
The premise is laid down with some
emphasis that both are important
points on tho B. & O." So far this
calls to mind that we once advocated
Cumberland as rival Of Wheeling for
the location Of the state capital of
West Virginia, and for reasons better
implied than expressed. But we We're
wholly unaware Of the singular idea-
tlty Which, 1t how seems, eii'ectna!Ey
fraternises Cumberland and Wheeling.
or We should not have proposed a
subject for contention. In laying this
matter fully before the people of
Cairo, Y. est Va, brother Zevely pre-
cipitstes stately encomium upon our
neighbor and friend Of the Cumber-
land Mus. 1t is seen that besides
his assiredly genial and gentleman
ly character, be owns the blood Of he
roes and statesmen, and that the say
age descendants of Tecumseh owe
nothing good to this branch of the
johnson family, The point which
surprises US most, however, is that
upon these happy grounds almost
alone Cumberland and Wheeling
should be so nearly alike:
Cumberland and Wheeling are two i'm
portant points on the B. & O. with many
smilarities, not the least noticeable of
which is the fact that each has prominent
editor named johnson" OF these this
item discourseth. These two Messrs.
johnson, the one editor of the Cumberland
Daily Meas and the other of the Wheel