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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1879-09-27

the beginning, because, no matter
what outside interests are at stake,
they are not involved in dispute.
But if they are, is it more incumbent
upon the miners to take care of such
interests than the companies ? If
the public press and every citizen"
are to be consulted as to the peril
any differences throw upon local
business interests, why not use some
of "thsir voice and influence" upon
the companies also?-especially
when they owe US more for their Gre
alton and life than the miners do?
How plausible the pretext that the
miners, by not receding from the
stand they have taken, are bringing
general and domestic distress to the
regionl How very many people are
fooled by the insidious falsehood !
Why not gay sometimes that the COM
panies are doing tho self-same thing?
Are they not unyielding2 Indeed
are taey not so with pompous indit-
ference even to the fact that request
for advance has been made, and
with royal contempt of consequences :?
AS an humble part of the public
press and as a citizen" the JOURNAL
deplores the companies strike as
much az any one. With vivid fore
sight of inevitable suffering it essayed
to blame the employers for ignoring
the gravity Of the situation-for as
Stunning dignities, proprieties and ct
iquette, enemies alike to the occasion
and issue, instead of fair, generous,
couciliatory spirit toward their men
for deeming the latter deaf to reas-
on, insensible to justice and unworthy
Of attention. We have heard moth
ing to change that conviction, nor
can we tolerate the notion that the
logical results of their policy are
chargeable to the men. If it is the
loss of trade, for instance, so hard to
recover it is urged, then the compan-
les have inflicted that loss alike upon
themselves, the men und the region.
Hence, if our Cumberland friend
will turn the enginery of the press
and the voice of every citizen upon
the original agencies as we have in
dicated, he may accomplish good in a
quarter where his virtuous sugges.
items are BADLY needed.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1879-09-27
Concerning Veal.
CUMBERLAND, Sept. %, 1879.

CUMBERLAND, Sept. %, 1879.
Editor Journal "A fellow citizen
said to me the other day,
"Arrowpoint, have seen your
sign. manual proSteri9i on several
donkeys and | recognize the hand
writing. [ can't understand though
why you make such outrageous as
saults on our worthy School Board. "
"Have you boarded at the same no.
tel with me for year past, was my
rel ly, "and not observed how fond 1
am of calues' brains ?"
Did it ever occur to you that the
School Examiner is paid just $500
mere than is right? The School
Board has added an additions. week
y each school term, required the
eachers to pay the janitor out of
their own pockets and squeezed and
pinched them so that if you happen
to see man particularly lack-lustre-
eyed, notably wo-begone-and- heaven
forsaken-l looking, with a sheepish,
slouchy general maka-ur-set that
man down as a school teacher. No
ofencs meant. And while the School
Board has thus squeezed them l ob,
serve that the Examiner still gets
his $500, and their own per diem re-
mains intact.
The next board (when the head
quarters of the present incumbents
have been thoroughly scrubbed out,
repapered and deodorized) will have
to reduce the Examiners salary as a
first step otretorm. This discIimina-
ton between the examiners salary
and the teachers pay is simply out
raseous l know one teacher, gen.
tleman Of superior intelligence and
experience, who gets but the paltry
sum cf $85 term of eleven weeks.
think some mistake the nature Of
the recent fights with the School
Board at Homecoming and Mt. Savage
1t was not tie affront upon Messrs
Bell and Mckay that made the affair
so odious. 1t was that the School,
Beard deliberately spat upon Mepub-
tic face of those two towns.
| This is not question of individu
ais; it is a question of brazen out,
rage perpetrated upon two populou'
communities. That is the gravauex
Of the atfair-all tue rest is but
leather and Prunella." And, there
fore, when Lonaconing says thai
Judge Douglas mist take DR.. Fund
enberg's place in the board, why it il
nothing more than simple justice that
she should be listened to. Greene OF
Douglas, it DOESN'T natter to me
which; am working for cause, not
for individuals. ARRoWPoINT.
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positive injury, especially in the low
er numbers, unless the judgment be
perverted by considerations other than
the good CT the schools. l pass over
the fact of the Secretary, ]. W. S.
Cochrane, coming from Frostburg, and
going to the Office Of the School Board
on the Lords day with book agent,
a novice in the business. (poor fell
low y and exposing the bid of COM
petitor to said agent. l will also pass
over the scandalous developments
which were brought to the surface
during thu embroll, and the effort to
expel one member from the Board be-
cause of his endeavors to detect
fraud. pass over these disgraceful
matters, and only undertake to show
in this article that the Board of
County School Commissioners is in
competent to transact the business re-
quired of it, lacking the first princi-
pies Of fair dealing in managing a
public trust.
| called upon a gentleman in this
city who had been a member Of the
School Board for several years, and
asked him how the School Board used
to deal with this book question. He
replied
We managed it, sir, in such way that
theie could be no fraud and no favoritism
Circulars were sent To the publishers in
New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and
Cincinnati, notifying them that bids would
be received up to y certain day and hour.
| The agents were there on the day ap.
pointed; bids were handed in while the
Board was in session and received up till
~ o'clock, and put into the hands Of the
| President, who locked them up in his
drawer. At the appointed time the bids
were brought forth, opened by the PIesi-
den. and handed to the Secretary to be
read. No chance for fraud or tavoritism
sir, none, sir
Reader, make the contrast for your
self.
Is it not shameful in the extreme
that men holding a public trust should
practice falsehood and deceit in do
ing business connected with that trust
will give more at an early day
The half is not told yet. AL1QUIs.
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BUTTONSI

A very large line of Ivory, Silk,
Cashmere, Pearl, Silvered, Gilt, Steel
and Fancy Buttons at extremely low
prices
A few thousand lace Ties at 5, 8, 10,
IL, Is, 20 and Is cents-very
handsomel
Ladies Lisle Thread and Berlin
Gloves, in all colors, at 10, 12a
and Is cents.
Our Kid Gloves in black and all
shades are very cheap!
An endless variety of Edgings, VAL
enciennes, Bretonne & Tarchau
Laces, Embroidery and Insert
ings, from 2 cents yard up to
the finest goods at the lowest
prices.
We would call your especial attention
to our large stock of Silk Fringes,
from 20 cents up.
Another lot of the Is, 40, so and CO.
cent Corsets-great bargains
A few thousand Japan Fans at 2
cents apiece.
Clark's 0. N. T. Spool Cotton only Al
cents.
Tremendous reduction in Ribbons |
Come look at the prices and
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1879-09-27

A WRITER in the Cumberland Neaus
OF Monday is oppressed with the fol.
lowing idea:
1t seems TO mo that the voice and influ-
encc of the public press and of every citi.
zen OF the region should be used to intiu-
ence the miners to accept the offers of the
colnpsnles at the reasonable prices which
unde stand they are ready to give.
Now that is queer notion, 10 be
sure. AS if the public press and
every citizen" had moro influence
with TIE miners or irtersat in the
production of coal than the miners
employers. 1t really seems that the
miners telong to somebody anyhow
If the companies cannot manage them,
then it is evident they ought tc, even
If they have to call in TIE aid Of tho
"public press and every either" to
enable them to do it.
But what right have they to this
aid, having deliberately ignored every
opportunity to place their case before
the men? Have they not forfeited
every claim upon outside sympathy
and influence? If the Lord heirs
those only who help themselves, what
business has the public press and
every citizen" to interfere
= True, the latter feel the cessation OF
work very sorely, but do the miners
live and work here for the especial
support and maintenance of the pub
lie press and every citizen ?" If they
do, then "honors" ought to be "easy."
If the public press and every citi
zen" have any discretion in the mat
ter the courtesy and grace of reciproc-
ity should rather prompt them to sus-
tain the miners.
But we do not admit that they ex-
lat and labor here for any other than
their own welfare. If they choose to
combine and act in concert to pro-
mote this they have undoubted right
to do so. If they thus entertain the
idea that they are inadequately paid
and demand an advance, is it literally
any body's business but their own and
the companies? We answer, decided
ly, no. We have held this view from
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1879-09-27

AaB1rRAr1oN.-A correspondent
elsewhere assumes that employers
and employees are "honesSS" in tho
stand each has taken, but he proposes
a test which will develop which has
most of what has bsen called "the
best policy" This gives the dispute
a new turn, though we have been do
ing our best to get the companies to
show up their integrity in order to
prevent the perils and distresses Of
a deadlock. A little matter of Ell
quette, however, stood in the way,
and the whole business, integrity and
all, went to the bad. If Public In
terest' wishes to recover any damaged
virtues from the debris of companies
strike. we hope no harm will come to
any immaculate notions Of epistolary
propriety now lying three feet deep
On tho countenance of every other
coal Official one meets. Some poet
said that others might frame the
laws of country, but give him the
songs to write, etc. In like manner,
The best grip Of an Allegany coal op-
orator is when be has occasion to de-
cline noticing a printed OF written re-
quest for advanced wages.
On this account a great amount OF
care must be exercised in the artitra-
ton movement. The slightest unpar-
llamsntary step will be fatal; and i;
is always out of order for miners to
ask for anything.
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A Political Suggestion.

CUMBERLAND, Nd, Sept. "a, 1879.
Mr.. Editor We would respect
fully suggest to the votors of Allega
ny county, the following named gen
tlemen as we'll qualified to represent
this county in the next House of Del
egates, and ask of the County Demo
cratic Convention consideration OF
their claims, ETC., viz: Messrs. Geo.
W. Sheetz, of Westernport Patrick
Carroll, of Homecoming; J. B. Oder, of
Frostburg, and ]. Forsythe Harrison,
of Cumberland. DISTRICT No. ii.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1879-09-27

The total absence of violence and
disorder Of any kind during the COM
panies' strike is matter for warm COM
mendation. The compani s are ill at
ease in the attitude they have taken,
and We want the miners to keep them
in the wrong. The conduct Of the
latter has been and is unexc 81 ton
able-just as it ought to be, and, we
trust, viii! continue to be. We love
to defend good behavior, because it is
easy to do. It's tough job to justi-
fy bad conduct.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1879-09-27
SILKS! SILKS u!

A very large assortment of Silks in
b!ai k and colors in all shades-yery
low
Table Linens at %, %, 40 and As
cents-a great bargain
Turkey-red Table Linen, best goods,
only 90 cents.
Atwood Table Covers at all prices.
Heavy Twilled Toweling at 6 cents.
Lace Window Curtains, white honey
comb Bed Spreads, Napkins,
Damask Towels, at the very low
est prices
A large variety Of Kentucky Jeans,
Cottonades, Linens and Csssi-
meres-very cheapl
Our Black Alpacas have been reduc.
ed fully Is per cent Look at
the prices and snilel
Double-width Black ALPACA, at l33
Is, l8, 20, %, q, so, SO, IS, a7a
and SO cents-great bargains
$500 yards Lace Bunting in all col.
ors only Is cents, worth Is cents,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1879-09-27

VIZ have letter from "Diogen es, -
Cumberland, arraigning the School
Board for certain alleged misdoings,
and denouncing it therefor quite Sc
verely. "Diogenes" gives his real
name as guarantee, but it is covered
by tub still too "danss" for US to
take the risk of publishing his griev-
ances. W. do not know Mr..
nor are we so far acquainted with any
one who enjoys social communion
with him. As thst immortal philoso-
phsr ~. N" would observe-when
"Diogenss" lifts his veil We may put
on the pressure.
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More of the Polypody Family
CUMBERLAND, Sept. "a, 1879.

M'. Editor In your issue of last
Saturday the communication O
"Jacobus Magnus" on the Polypodies
Of Allegany county was extensively
read and well understood. Every
body personified the parties without
difficulty, because, in the language OF
Jacobus, "by their acts ye shall know
them" 1t is a clever piece of com
position, satirical, pointed and true
to T.
But the most pungent, terso, and
sensible article I have read for many
a day, was your editorial on "The
Autocracy of the County School
Board" That article should be
printed in letters of gold, and copy
hung on the walls of our court house,
he legislative halls at Annapolis, and
he room of the State Board of Edu-
;ation.
Personal spite and disregard to
the popular will are not the only
shortcomings which disqualify that
delectabIe Board. Let US look at its
doings from business standpoint.
One of the first business acts these
men were called upon to deal with was
the selection Of books for use in the
public schools and making the con-
tract for the supply Of the same
Agents, of the publishers Of school
books, knowing OF the expiration Of
the former contract, began to visit
members of the Board about June,
1878. The meeting Of the Board was
expected to be in July; the precise
tine of meeting was mysteriously hid
rom some of the book agents. For
what purpose the Secretary may tell.
One thing We do know, it was not for
the public good, as was afterwal DIS
elected.
The Secretary, about ten days be-
fore the Board met to tax. up the
book business, wrote q book agent:
The Board has decided to make no
change of books.
That letter is not destroyed. An
other agent for house, whose books
were in use, called upon the Presi-
dent Of the Board few days before
the Board met. The President told
him:
You may go home and rest easy; your
books will not be disturbed.
That agent soreported to his house
but you may guess their chagrin whcL
they learned few days alterward
that four Of their books were thrown
out. That agent is yet living and
can be produced. To another agent
on the morning of the meeting, the
President, Secretary and d Commits
sioner, each separately told him:
The Board has decided to make no
change.
That agent is likewise in the land
of the living. In that very session
that Eoard made several changes.
| pass over the stupidity of select
ing a first reader from one series; a
second, third and fourth reader from
another, and fifth and sixth reader
from still another series. Everybody
knows that every series has qualities
peculiar to itself, and that the books
n a series are so gotten up as to fol-
ow each other in order, and not with
l view to be mixed up with another
series, and cannot be done without
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Business Locals

For rs cents will send q package
Piznple Lotion that will remove all
| Pmpcs from the face. Recipes for Red
Blue, Green and Black Ink. Also, recipe
for best Backing. l.. B. MOORE,
Sept Cots Front Royal, Va
Cur Radical Cure for Asthma
specific tor incipent Consumption. Elk
if Of Life and Anti Cough Balls 4in. Sold by
Druggists.
ORR OVERALL SJITs-Pants and Jack,
ct for So c; the best Goods out; all sizes at
iIitchlns Bros.
Stewards Grape Tonic gives strength.
NEW DRESS GOODS at Hitchns Bros;
also beautiful Lawns--all fashionable.
Tobacco.
Stewards Healing Pow der cures all open
sores ON horses.
A fine article of Family Flour at Hitch
ms Bros. at $6.25. 1t will pay to buy it,
Consumption ured.-An old
physician, retired from practice, having
mad placed i'll his hands by an East India
missionlry the formula of Il simple vegcta-
Die remedy for the speedy and permanent
cure for Consumption, Bronchitis, Catarrh
Asthma, and all Throat and Lung Alice
tions, also Il positive and radical cure fol-
Nervous Debility and all Nervous Com
plants, after having tested Its wonderful
curative powers in thousands of cases, has
Iclt it his duty to make it known to his SUI
Irring fellows. Actuated by this motive
and Il desire to relieve human suffering,
vii send free of charge to all who desire it,
his recipe, with full directions for prepar
ing and using, in German French or Eng
ish. Sent by mail by addressing with
stamp, naming tins paper, W. w. SHERAR,
l49 Powers Block, Rochester, N. Y.
Nov 16-eoW6m
Stewards Aperient Pills for Headache.
Little girls particularly ought TO go to
ultchins Bros. for cheap Fans, Collarettes
and Ties.
Stewards Medicines sold by JOHN J.
KELLER, Frostburg, Nd.
LADIES can buy splendid Silk Clocks
Balbriggan Hose at Hitchins. Bros for %
cents apiece.
An Astonishing Fact.-A large
proportion OF the American people are to-
lay dying from the effects of Dyspepsia or
iisordered liver. The result OF these dis
eases upon the masses of intelligent and
valuable people is most alarming, making
life actually burden instead of pleasant
existence of enjoyment and usefulness as
it ought to be. There is no good reason
Tor this, if you will only throw aside pre-
judce and 5kepticism, take the advice OF
Druggists and your friends, and try one
bottle of Green's August Flower. Your
speedy relief is certain. Millions of bot
ties OF this medicine have been given away
to try its virtues, W til satisfactory results
in every case. You can buy sample bot
tie for ten cents to try. Three doses will
relieve the worst case. Positively sold by
all Druggists on the Western Continent
Hitchins Bros. are selling large lot OF
Childrens Shoes at job prices, owing to
sizes being broken.
LADIES LACE Tor GLOVES, Super Lisle,
frame made gauze Lisle, 4 Buttons; all
quantities in latest fashion at Hitchins
Bros.
WHITE PIQUEs at Hitchins Bros, actu-
lilly cheaper than b cached Muslins; limit
ed quantity only, and market strong
Colored iiambargs and Cash's Colored
Trimmings to suit.
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ty victory, he stands with an unim-
peachable record.
Again, say, in order that we may
succeed, we must have nominated
good men, and in the selection, let
the name of Henry Haneksmp be
placed upon the ticket for the sher-
iffalty. DEMOCRAT.
Homecoming, Nd, Sept. %, 1879.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1879-09-27

THE FRosTBURs JOURNAL has COM
menced its ninth year, and is a prosperous
and we'll conducted weekly. We wish
brother Oder many years of continued
success-CuMberland Daily Tines.
Thank you.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1879-09-27

THE Cumberland Times heads an
editorial 1.-THE Miners Strike" Mis-
take. The miners requested an ad-
vance of ten cents per ton. The
companies declined to allow it.
Hence it is the Companies Strike.
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OUR CORRESPONDENCE.
Nomination.
CUMBERLAND, Sept. Is, 1875

CUMBERLAND, Sept. Is, 1879.
Ar. Editor :-Messrs. Henry Lee
Fevre, of this city; Nelson Beall, OF
Frosthurg and A. ]. Clark, of Iona
coming; are strongly spoken of in con-
nection with our next Commissioners
ticket. Send them along, we will
give them a large vote in Cumber-
land. SICLOPS.
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E EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL,
: Alexandria, Virginia.

NU"f AI"XahurIa, Virginia.
Inc Ais. year opens Wednesday, Sept
"A, 1879. Fits bo' s for college OF business
Terms red ced. Five resident teachers,
and liberal provision in all respects for the
Improvement and comfort of pupils. Ele-
yatet and beautiful loo ton. Extensive
grounds, including an amp,e Skating pond
and covered Gymnasium. For Catalogue
address tic PRINCIPAL,
L. NJ. BLACKBOARD, NJ. A.,
Sept 6 Alexandria, Va.
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B. STERN e. co,
WE HAVE THE STOCK TO SELECT FROM. AND
w we pledge ourselves to sell you goods for LFSS
MONEY than anybody else in the business

3 cases of the very best Calico, Al and
5 cents.
Bleached and brown Muslin, A., S, 6,
81, 7, 7! and cents-a great
bargain
"a, 81, 8-4, 1914 bleached and brown
Muslins, at such log prices that
all competition is defeIl
All styles of Ginghams and Chiyicts,
at very low pricesl
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GREAT SLAUGHTER OF
CLOT III I N G.!

The largest, finest and most select
stock of Men and Boys Clothing ever
seen in Frostburg, and at prices that
defy all existing competition.
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S-7- "A YEAR and expenses to
" I agents, Outfit free Address
Z. o. VlCkERY, Augusta, Maine.
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THE MINING JOURNAL.
]. r. ODER, EDITOR.

FROsTBURG, ND, SEPT. 81, 1879.
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CASHMERES.

In Cashmeres we have the largest
variety of colors, prices and qualities.
Double-fold Cashmeres at Is cents.
Yard-wide Cashmere at IS cents.
Yard-wide Cashmere, very fine at 374
cents and up to the best goods
for the lowest price.
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DIR ESS GOODS

comprises allthe novelties of the day,
and will be sold at such low figures
that all will be astonishea. Glance
at the bargains that can't be compe-
ted with.
5000 yards striped, plaid and figured
Dress Goods, at 7, s and 10 cents.
5000 yards Dress Goods, newest ef-
tects, latest styles and hardsoal-
est shades from III cents upl
5000 yards Alpacas in all shades at
l3t cents-very cheapl
Percalines in all colors at 81 cents.
Yard-wide Grass Linen at 81 cents,
Our figured Lawns, fiques and Per-
calls, must be seen to be admired,
at 8 cents.
A very large assortment of white,
plain Muslins, Nainsooks, Jaco-
nets, Cambrics and Victoria
Lawns, very cheap cheap !
cheap!ll
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For rs cents | will send package
PiZnple Lotion that will remove all
Pimplcs from the face. Recipes for Red
Blue, Green and Black Ink. Also, recipe
for best Backing. l.. b. MOORE,
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