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Churches.

Salem Ref0rmed-Rev J Ruhl, pastor
divine services on Sunday at 10 30 NJ in
the German language, at p m in the En-
glish language; Sunday School at 2 p M
German and English; Pray r-meeting reg
ular, Wednesday, at 7 p m German and
English Ladies Prayer Monday,
at Z p N German and English Young
peoples Hour of Prayer and Praise every
Friday evening at O'Clock in the English
language.
Echiart Baptist Church. Rev VIM p
Fortney, pastor-Services every second
and third Sundays at 1890 o'clock u m,
and 7:30 p N. Sunday school at , p m
every Sunday. Prayer meeting every
Wednesday evening at 7:3O.
st. Michaels Remain Catholic-Main
street, Rev Y + Schmitt, pastor; Divine
services on Sunday; Low Mass at 8 m
high Mass and Preaching at 1880 IN
Sunday school at 3 p m; Vespors and Ben
cdictiou at 4 pm.
Welsh ConSrcgatiOna!-Bowery street,
Key L Thomas, pastor; Sunday services
at 10 m and p m; Sunday School at 2 p
m; Prayer Meeting every Monday evening
and Glass Meeting every Thursday evening
NJ. Il. Church--(colored) Oak street; no
pastor; Prayer Meeting every Wednesday
evening.
Primitive ethOdiSt-Foresters Hall;
Rev Nj Harvey, Pastor; preaching every
Sunday morning at 1890 a IN and evening
at $50 p IN. Public invited to attend.
Presbyterian-Re John Thomas, pastor;
services every Sunday at 1880 IN and Z 90
pm. Services in English. Sunday School
at p m; Prayer Meeting every Monday
evening.
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Excellent for Ladies, Weakly Persons
and the Aged.
MOUNT pRQ1sPEcT VINEYARDS,
NEW JERSEY.
NEW JERSEY.
SPEER'S PORT GRAPE VINE.
s7O.gr z ears S2s6!

This justly celebrated native Wine is
made from the juice of the Oporto Grape
raised in this country. Its Invaluable
Tonic anl STRENGTHENING Properties
are unsurpassed BY any other native Wine
Being iIiepurc Juice 81 the grape, prodHced
under Mr. SpcCr's own personal auprrvis-
ion, lis purity and gcnuineness are guaran-
icoI. Tie youngest child may Inrtahc OF
It's generous qualities, and the weakest in
valid use it to advantage. 1t is particulars
Iy bCnci,cis! to the aged and dcbiii,atel
and suited to the various ailments that af.
iiict the Wealicrscy. 1t is, in every respect,
: Wine to be Hasie:3 $sD.
INyAL.IDs USE gPEEE's PORT GRAPE WINE.
FEMALES USE sPELR's PORT GRAPE WINE.
WEEK. rEEsoSs FIND DENEFrr FROM ITS USE.
Spccr'a Wines IN Hospitals are preferred
to other Wines.
Sold by Druggists generally, who also
sell Speers Standard Wine Bitlers. Trade
supplied by all Wholesale dealers. See that
the signature OF Alfred Spccr, Passaic, n.
J.. is over The cork of each bottle.
ALFRED SPEER,
Mt. Prospect Vineyards, New Jersey.
Office: No 81 Warren ST., New York.
FoR SALE BY MCNEIL & MCCULLon,
July l4-y FrostbuIg, Md.
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Observation-Disclosures.
FROSTBURG

FROSTBURG:
MNihery-Mrs Eliza Gross.
Photographs-A A Rogers.
General acknowledgements Clary.
Dry Goods, Notions, Clothing, Groceries, etc
Marx Wincland.
tothing-B Stern
Drugs-McNeill & bIcCulloh.
Itrnjture-Gross &. Nickel, o Jarrett
& Bro
Har6,oare--H & + c Beall
E00tS and iSh0eS-William Thomas,
Hartman.
isaddIes md Haraess-C r ITartzell & Co.
Iaiatjng and Paper Uangiag-James II
Hawke.
Machinist, Engines--R @ Paul, Thomas
II Paul
Witches and Jenelry-D Betz.
LtQaOrs-Otto Frey b Stern
Sap Fdct0ry-George Hin.
Fire Insaraace-J S Metzger, John 3
McCulloh.
CUMBERLAND.
Dyer and .Scourcr-Donald Paisley.
City HOtel-J. Newcomer, proprietor.
W0rbte Dealor-Isaac b Millner.
Att0rneys--J Seiss, d w Sloan, Hugh
ey Brace & Richmond
Ptan0S-J p Wiesel.
BALTIMORE.
ANan Line-A Schumacher & Co
WHEELING.
iSoap-Edward Reid
WASHINGTON, N. j.:
Pianos and O,yans-Daniel F Beatty
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sT3| For further information see adye
tisements elsewhere. Wien caking upon, 81
,Ortting to advertisers, sag you sac the adror-
HseUaeHt IN this D0Der
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COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.

The regular sessions of the County Com
missioners commence on the first Monday
in January, April, June, July and October.
ComneisSjonerS-W Y McCulloh, Pres
ident; J. G, Cookery, A. c. Greene, F. NJ
Grnmlich, ST, james Wilson.
Cierk-F. NJ Gramlich, Jr.
County Ifeasur6r-Robert Sirivcr.
County .Snrcey0r-John Schaidt.
CoIlectors Of !State and Couaty TdreS-
First Collection District, ORLEANS, Oldtown
and Flintslone) Joseph b. Stottlemeyer.-
Second Collection District CLOS. rs and IS
Cumberland VIM. Hall. Third Collec-
ton District, (DIt Savage and Frostburg,
James d. Armstrong. Fourth Collection
District, Qonaconmg and Westenport)
Patrick Mullen.
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Post Office Register.

For Delivery of Mails-63O m to p M
Sale Of Money Orders and Registering Let
ters-7 a m to 8 IN g9y- Office closed ON
Sundays.
Mail betw'n Frostburg, Closes Due
Cumberland and all
points east and west 6 40 am 44S q IA
Mail betw'n Frostburg,
Piedmont and ali
points east and west 345 p m 73o M
Mail betw'n Frostburg
and GrantsviAe 7.30 am 660p M
@. II. WALLER Postmaster.
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GROSS & IT 7 OK EL,
Baskets, Collins, etc.

Gross & Nickel, Frostburg, are day or
night
Ready to provide for the last said rite
OF death which comes unfailingly to all
Strong or weak, rich or poor, and short OF
Superb Baskets and Collins claim their
care.
IS ever the best you'll always find there.
now, this sad duty we ali must confess
is best done where it's special business.
Careful and complete are their facilities,
EAnOwn and acknowledged their abilities.
Each thing we need they re ready to supply
a.iying-our turniture--or, if we die,
Undertaking our burial, they'll promptly
pay
Soed!ul attention TO all our friends say.
depending on this they will be the choice
Executors 10 make the mourners rejoice.
asegardiny both the dead and those who
i've
E'hey chccrtulIy accord all they can give,
and TO their desires do ever attend
sAnowing themselves as the mourners' true
friend.
Even amid sorrow great joys they impart--
kseal and lrue-to the sad, desolatc heart,
SSatlGCr as nearer the friend with whom
We part.
Saucil rs we love life, yet still we must die,
ANA the mystery of the next TO try.
snthis sad time on, friends may do t;trworse
EegloctinS to employ the nice, fine llcarsc
specially devised to show lawful pride
40 al! the friends of the one who has
died.
.T!'rCgtogzrg, Md.
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DIRECTORY
COUNTY,.
The Courts.
CIRCUIT COURT.


The regular terms of the Circuit Court
for Allegany county commence {: First
Monday in January: second Monday in
April first Monday in October.
The six regular equity or chanccry terms
commence First Monday Of January !;
third Monday of February second Mon
day of April; second Monday of June
second Monday of August; second Mon
day Of October.
OFFICERS
Chief Judge-Hon. r. II. Alvey.
Ass0c5ates-IIons. William Motter, Geo.
A. Pearrc.
Clork-Thcodore Human.
tate's Attorhey-A Hunter Boyd
herit-John G Bauer
Auditor-Maurice A. Healey.
Co1aDstssjOners-John b Fay, r W Nc
Michael, G r Porter
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SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS.
DR.. C. b. Fundenberg, President,
Dr.. G. x. Getzandanner, Frostburg.
j. II. Wilson, Cumberland.
j. W. $. Cochrane, Secretary, Cumberland
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ORPHANS COURT.

The Orphans Court of Allegany county
holds its sessions on Tuesday Of each week
OFFICERS.
Chief Judgc-John Coulehan.
AsS0c{atey-C Slack, Robert Bruce.
Regaster Of WWS-John Rhind.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-11-06

ladies are always to be recognized in
stantly by the eminently appropriate
nature of their dress, and the bewitch-
ing manner in which it is worn. Ange-
lima Simpkins, from London or Glasgow
must feel just the least bit vexed when
she sits under the trying glare of the
electro light in these richly tapestried
and deliberately carpeted rooms, with
ceilings as finely painted as those of the
Louvre or Luxembourg, as she sees the
toilettes Of her American cousins. And
perhaps she feels like making the spite
full remark which / heard an English
girl make in the Continental Hotel par
lor the other evening: d" Oh, papa dear,
let's not dine at the table d'hote, there
are so many Americans in there, you
know" So papa agreed, and they went
out to the restaurant where, I dare say,
they found even more Americans, than
they would have met at the regular
table. The ladies complain good deal
of the electric light, saying that it is
so trying to the complexion. Now
and then one sees q pretty woman
huddled away in a corner where the
odious light cannot reach her, and
smiling at the thought that she appears
to better advantage than her less fortu-
nate sisters do. 80 .#f E.. ,5.f,-.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-11-06

horse behaved best under these cir
cumstances. The horses were trained
in the way that had always been favor
lite with the Spanish people, to make
any number of dancing movements In
imitation of progress, while in reality
they do not 60 forward at all. / think
they are trained to this by having
weights tied to their legs. 10
Each man did not simply ride his
horse, but was in the habit of living
with it and upon it. and was conse-
quently in perfect rapport. Each one
of these put in force every art known
to him to exhibit the spirit and the
beauties Of his horse. AS they passed
down the one street of the town the
correct thing was for people from the
side to advance and throw fire-crackers
in mass under the horses feet; the fir
ing of pistols was Of course; no end of
little screams, laughter, voices in every
varying intonation, couplets sung to the
air which was being played, and taken
up with shouts of laughter; the chorus
by every one who took the local al
lusions. With all this the musicians
played with as much steadiness and
animation as though seated on plat
form instead of the saddle 'H''.
The third day feel myself incompe
tent to describe. They had their field
sports for that day on the large open
green just by my perch in the ham
mock. And here the evolutions in a
small space-the rush with which they
would go, as though shot from a bow,
across the plain; the bringing up all
standing without any Stacking Of the
speed, leaving them motionless as an
English horse-guard on duty; the con-
tinuous whirls in small circle, winding
nearer AMI nearer in toward the central
point, until it seemed as though man
and horse must fall from sheer dizzi-
ness; the mounting Of a vicious, scream
ing young horse, which would spring
like cat into the air, with all its legs
stiffened out, and its back bowed, max
ing one jump this way, another that
until it would seem as though every
thing would dislocate in it's rider-were
part of the exhibition which perfectly
fascinated me.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-11-06
The Champion.

"The LATEST duffer I ever Seed" re-
marked Jim Blodgers, '"were man
that the boys used to call Old Laydown.
They couldn't find out his fust name,
cause he were too lazy to recollect it.
He b'longed to the same sekr't society
as me and we paid him, $40 a week
sick benefits. for three weeks. Said he
hurt his leg Found afterwards by the
doctor and dozen 'eye-witnesses that
he injured his shins by walkin' up agin
a cobweb. Fact. Lazy? You bet he
were easy ssgoin'. One afternoon he
tainted in the street. and were brought
home to bed. We weren't to be catched
this time on benefits. Said he had
tainted from loss of blood Doctor ex-
amined him and found mosquito bite
under his leftiear Fact You bet ne
took thinks comfortably. He used to
lure small boy in warm, weather, to
hold his straw for him while he suck
ed his sherry cobbler. u. Axed me one
day if there weren't some cheap way of
workins toothbrush by machinery.
Said he wished he could eat without
workin' his jaws-'feared they'd wear
out too soon. Fact Well, 1 don't
mind if | do" ..,. .Ft Ele F.T
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-11-06
Startling if True.

"There is a conspicuous inexact-
ness" about English journals state
ments regarding this country simply
petrifying to the American mind. The
following extract from the London
Court Journal will be wildly interesting
to readers in this vicinity: Among the
American celebrities at the exposition
is Mrs. Rose Eytings, well-known as a
clever poetess in the States. She has
appeared several times in opera with
great success under the stage name Of
McCollouge, and is widely known as the
authoress of the at one time popular
abolition novel called Uncle Tom, Cab
man. She is extremely well connected,
being half sister to the late esteemed
Mr.. Fremont, celebrated in connec-
ton with the discovery Of San Fran
cisco, and who was put to death by the
notorious Mormon, Beecher Young,
during the Kearney labor riots at
Louisiana, near Quebec. rs. F. POST.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-11-06

n ENGLAND, no doubt, possesses the
champion jack-of-all trades in the per-
son Of one who styles himself Professor
Purlinger and lives near Chichester.
He advertises himself as contractor,
inventor, fisherman, builder, carpenter,
joiner. sawyer, undertaken, turner,
cooper, painter, glazier, sign-painter,
woodenpumpmaker, paper-hanger, bell
hanger, boat-builder, lclock-cleaner,
locksmith. umbrella-repairer, china and
glass .mender, netknitter, wire-worker,
grocer: baker, farmer, taxidermist,
copying clerk, writer, accountant,
surveyor, engineer, land-measurer, bank
agent, .,Vesry clerk, assistant overseer,
CLERK to the Selsay Sparrow Club, clerk
to the Selsay police, assessor and col
lector Of land tax and property and in
come tax, collector of church and high
way rates. r, This astonishing person
has also served at sea in four quarters
of the world as seaman, steward, sail
maker, cook, mate and navigator.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-11-06

How Some Miners Think They are Fore
'NF"} '' Warmed Of Death.
Virginia (Nev. } Chronicle.

~ Virginia New Chronicle
There are wonderful things to be
studied in the vast laboratory where
nature has stored her treasures The
men who toll In the caverns of the
ground and tread the endless windings
of the drifts have their presentimnets of
coming calamity, and at times feel the
touch Of death in the, very air. A
Chronicle reporter was talking with an
old miner a few days ago Who implicitly
believed that no death ever took place
in the mines without warming of some
kind. 2q" You ,isee." he said, "death,
never comes of a sudden upon the men
In the mines. -, You reporters write up
accidents and tell how something gave
way or fell quick and killed somebody.
Now, this amt SO. There's always some
warning. When | see my lantern be
gin toburn low down and blue | know
that there is danger ahead If it keeps
on for few days and then begins to
waver and flicker, I'll watch it close to
see where it points Now. you may set
me up, for fool, but what I'm tellin' is
the gospel truth. When the flame
leans over las if twas being work ed by
a blow-pipe) and points to a man, death
has marked him. Some years ago Bill
Hendricks was killed in the Savage, the
flame Of my lantern pointed right to
him for over an hour, and when he
moved the flame would turn, just as if
Bill was a loadstone and the fame was
a mariners needle. L knew he was
gone, and told him to be careful about
the blast. Well, he got through that
all right, and got on the cage AS we
went up the candle kept acting strange
ly, and at times the flame would stretch
| out long and thin towards Bill. At
length it gave sudden flicker, and Bill
reeled to one side and was caught in
the timbers. heard his dreadful cry
as he disappeared down the shaft, and
while he was bounding from side to side,
dashing out his brains ant scattering
his flesh down to the bottom, my light
went out. / never lit that lantern
again. 1t hangs up in my cabin now
and it always will. There's more in a
candle-fame than people think. I'd
rather see a cooked revolver pointed at
me than a candle-hame; a revolver
som etimes misses, but a candle-fame is
sure to kill when it starts towards a
man. | must start for my shift now.
Don't give my name to anybody. There
are some who would laugh at me-"
The man here picked up his bucket
and walked.away. There are plenty of
miners en- the Comstock who have, just
such superstitions. Some believe that
bad and good luck come in streaks, just
as quartz and porphyry. For three
years past there had been no accident
in the North Consolidated Virginia until
a few days ago. when Champion had
his thigh crushed. The miners said at
once that a bad streak had been struck,
and more accidents might be expected.
Yesterday two more men We're injured
by falling thirty feet into the stump.
This was caused by the breaking of a
two-inch plank that seemed able to bear
a dozen men, 3" go ag| 'a7.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-11-06

A Husband Asserting that his Wife was
I I'll. Buried Alive.
New York World


Mrs. Walter Dixon, of Patterson, n.
j., died last Friday morning and her
body was placed ON ice. Yesterday,
while the preparations for the funeral
we're going on, her husband, who was
mourning over the body, suddenly be-
gan to embrace it and joyfully declared
that his wife was not dead, that her
hand, which he had been pressing, was
still warm. The face of the corpse was
soft and of roseate tinge, and the two
sons OF the woman, sharing their fathers
belief, at once embraced the body with
every expression Of joy. The physi-
clans however, who were at once sum
moned, decided that the woman was
dead beyond all question, declaring
that having been placed in ice for forty
eight hours would have killed her if
she had not been dead before. 1t re-
CURED, however, much persuasion on
the part of the friends present before
Mr.. Dixon and his two sons would con-
sent to. have the ceremonies proceed.
Mrs. Dixon, it appeared, had expressed
fear of being buried alive, and had
exacted promise from her husband
not to bury her body until he was en-
tirely certain that she was dead. At
the grave he demanded to see the body,
and the coffin was opened. After feel
ing of her hand and face he at last con-
sented to the burial, but as he turned
from the coffin he fell to the ground in
sensible. The body was buried and Mr..
Dixon was removed to his home. He
is still of the opinion, however, that his
wife was buried alive.
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SHOT FROM A CANNON.
Miss Geraldine Stands in a Mortar. and
is Thrown Thirty Feet in the Air.
New York Sun


The aquarium is again open, after a
brief suspension Of performances, with
new attractions. Evolutions pleasant
to look upon, and tricks suggesting
painstaking drill are performed by
Mons. Oscars troupe of American
thoroughbred horses. An excellent
double-trapeze act is done by Miss Ger
aldine and Mons. Leopold, after which
is introduced the sensation of the per-
formance-the shooting of the young
woman out of a lannon's mouth. Thus
is given literal exemplification of what
it is to be "tired out" The cannon
seems to be made OF wood and is
mounted after the manner ola mortar.
1t stands at the front Of the stage, point
ing at angle of about thirty-fve or forty
degrees, between the upturned faces
of the spectators and the rafters over
head -...
% At the close of her trapeze act Miss
Geraldine comes down the rope head
foremost by twining one leg around it
aud with her disengaged toe describing
an Archimedian spiral. She is then as
sisted to the raised muzzle of the can
non, into the bore of which she slips,
feet first, lying on her back. Her
head and neck are just visible when
the gun is charged. Then she gives the
word, the report Of the cannon is heard
and she flies toward the spectators, 60
ing some twenty-five or thirty feet in a
straight line before she drops to the
net spread to catch her. When she
again steps upon the stage and smiles
her acknowledgment of the applause,
her bright garments are not at all black
ened by powder-a fact which is doubt
less due to the interior mechanism of
the cannon This act and the perfor-
nance by the trained horses are to be
the attractions at the aquarium for a
season. ..,t ar. .1TG. 10 r.
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An Early.Day California Wedding.

During the time [ was in San Jose,
says Jesse Benton Fremont, IN Harper's
Magazine, [ saw in perfection the good
riding Of the country. From my ham
mock, swung under the open gallery OF
the house where we were fortunate
enough to. have a&room, heard and
saw the festivities of California we'd
ding. These lasted three days. 1t was
a wedding among the vaqueros, and at
tended, therefore by good riders. The
brides house was not much Of a build
ing, but extensive temporary shelter
had been put up for -dining-rooms, COW
cred over with green boughs-a ranaada.
But the point of rivalry among the
guests was more in riding than in dane
ing, though after riding all day they
would dance all night; and all day and
all night that one air was repeated by
violins, guitars aid voices until the
drOne Of it got into the air and made as
much part of it as does the Whir of
1ocusts in the autumn months. The
first day. the procession started for the
church where the marriage, was to take
place-to- 60 down and along the Ala
media, a beautiful, double avenue of
willows three miles in length, planted
by the early fathers. The first day was
to 60 to the church for the marriage
ceremonies; the second to take out the
bride for q general posear through the
town: and the third a series of contests
and rivalries in the feats of horseman-
ship. There were about 500 horses;
the riders were more. In many cases
they had with them a woman mounted
on the horse; the woman sat on the
mans saddle, while behind her, with
his arms around her waist, and holding
the reins sat the man-just the reverse
of our country habit. They advanced
IN regular order, eight abreast, the nau-
sicians, also on horseback, playing their
vlollns and guitars as calmly as though
they had a floor under them. The
bride sat-alone on her horse, under an
arch of flowers and ribbons, which was
carried by groomsman on either side,
the ends of the arch resting on their
saddles, and on either sides of them
her bridesmaids: the bridegroom, oman
exceptionally fine horse, surrounded
by his friends; and then the rest of the
company, most of the men riding
singly, but many riding as have de-
scribed, with a girl on the saddle-a
bright glittering mass of ribbons, flow
ers, bright beads, gold lace; the women
in satin dresses and slippers, the men
in the dress of the time in California,
which is exactly like that which we see
in Spanish pictures-short velvet Jackets
covered with braid and gold embroidery,
the velvet trousers open over full white
drawers, while a string of balls down
the seam singled even more than do
the bangles of ladies in church. 6 ss<s .
+ The starting point was almost facing
my place of observation. They would
form in, great order and quiet, the
hossesg knowing the order of the pro
ceedings evidently as well as their
masters, and the siepal for starting was
THE exploding Of 'ffiree-carackers by the
| hu1fdred boxes under the feet of the
horses; What with the sparks and
noise, it looked as if the whole thing
had gone up like the end of panto-
mine.
1t was point of honor to show which
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one retaliated with vigor. Ribbons
and bonnets disappeared at the first
brush; locks of hair, scraps of clothing
and some bits of skin followed. The fate
of the Kilkenny cats might have result
ed, if three stout policemen had not
rushed to the spot and restored peace.
Scarcely less romantic than the fight
was the conduct of the gay young Off
Ger who had been the innocent cause of
it, for when told of the encounter, all
for the love of him, he REPLIED" It's
lucky they took to ciawing each other,
instead of me-"