Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1879-05-03

The Garrett County Herald ran
short of italics last week and inserted
seven kilodaxtarmetres of Latin
prose in Roman verse.
The Baltimore Bulletin should
reach us every morning after date of
issue. 1t usually does-with the
wrapper torn and a string tied around
to support its broken back. For this,
however, we do not care 80 much
but if cur railroad mail pirate, who
ever he may be, would permit the
paper to reach us F. .ay morning in
some shape we would feel in some sort
a beneficiary of his kind consi Iteration
His present arrangement deprivss us
of good thing when we most need it
The FIRST PENs1oN.-Mrs. Deli
lah Anderson, living at Allegheny
mines, near this place, mother Of
James H. Anderson, private Company
G, I'd Reg, P. Il. B., Md. Vols, kill
ed during the war, has received
$1409.O7 pension dues to this month,
and an award Of 50 per month here
after during life. This is the first
payment in this section under the
late Pension Act of Congress, and
probably the largest ever received
by any one in the county. 1t reaches
a case also both deserving and needy
We have received the thirteenth
Annual Report of the State Board Of
Education" from M. A. Newell, Sec
rotary. Containing 40S pages it EN-
braces full details of the operations
of every public school in the State
for tae year ending Sept. 80, 1878
L be remarks and suggestions of Prof.
Ne,, veil, drawn from a necessarily
close scrutiny of the system, seem
eminen, ly wise. We regret that the
lateness It the hour afford US NO
more time fcr a more extended notice
of this report.
The "tenth annual report of the
MARYLAND Pr;so ner.,' Aid Association
is also at hand, allowing contributions
amounting to So, e88.17, and the dis
tribution of the same to the moral
benefit of the States prisoners.
MEETING OF THE, SCHOOL Board
Appointments of 7rustees.-A meeting
of the school board was held Wednes-
day, all the members presen. except
DR.. Getzendanner. The truste es OF
the various county schools We're ,sp-
pointed to serve for the couing yeal :,
among them the following:
District No. 11.-school No /, Frost
burg, John L. Porter, Rev. J. Ruh and
W. H. Evans No. 2, Borden mines, @. A.
Greene, William Staples, s. L. Dennson;
Nos Allegany mines, appointments not
made; No. 4, Midlothian, ] ohm O. Winter,
William Close, William Conrad; No. 5,
Borden Shaft, George Bennett, Geo. Robb,
John McCaughan ; No. 6, colored schools,
Frostburg, William Jackson, VIM. Redrick
and G. q. Johnson.
District No. l2-School No. /, Eckhart,
James Cunning, ST., U. Steineman and ".
Parker; No. 2, Hoffman Hollow and Pom
pey Smash, James Sloan, J. B. Thomas,
Enoch Pritchard; No. 3, P. Mcmahon, W.
Martin, j. Tibbetts; No. 4, Loarville, Elijah
Loar, Nathan Loar, Jonathan Radcliffe.
The Coal TRADE-The shipments
from the mines of the Georges Creek
coal region for the week ending
April &C. 1879, were $1,000 tons, and
for the year to that date, $50, l2l tons,
an increase of "a, 2O8 tons as compared
with the corresponding period of 1873.
The shipments to the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad during the week were
1853 tons, for the year, 267,5l5
tons, an increase of 1O,199 tons as
as compared With 1878. The ship
ments to the Chesapeake and Ohio
canal were, for the week, l5,848 tons;
for the year, 62,O02 tons, an increase
of 38,9O8 tons as compared with last
year. The shipments to the Penn
sylvania railroad vera 1882 tons; for
the year 50,604 tons, an increase of
24,7Ol tons as compared with last
year.
The heaviest coal shipper last week
was the Consolidation company, send
ing out lO,469 tons the New Central
came next with 1914. The heaviest
shipper of the year has been the Con-
solldatlon company, ll6,llO tons; the
New Central second, 74,9O2 tons, the
American third, 26.O59 tons, none of
the other companies sending out over
$4,000 tons.