Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1880-04-17

| temporal CONCERN VI every udH. ~
real estate at last shares in the gen.
eral enhancement, and hero all bust
ness activity ends. Starting with la
boris needs, work terminates some
where in the qualification Of those
needs, and the highest type of that
qualification consists in a "roof oil
ones own rearing and fruits Of ones
own tillage." If this is a sentiment it
is a profitable one, for it touches the
keynote of all valuations--real estate.
By this test we know the rest. So
that those who have bought and re-
GREETED may take heart again, and
those who wish to buy may do SO as.
suredly. The times are suspicious
it will be our fault if we do not reap
tbs full advantages they bring.
PERSONAL---VERY.. P. L. Harrison,
left on Tuesday for Baltimore, as a
representative of Mountain Spring
Lodge, I. @. G. T. of this place, to the
State Temperance Alliance, which
meets in that city on the 18th and
10th insts.
William Paul, son of R. 9. Paul,
Esq, left for Newark, Ohio, Tuesday.
William Hartman and Myer Bear,
of Baltimore, are stopping with
friends in Frostburg.
We are glad to note the issue of a
marriage license to Mr.. Thomas Rowe
and Miss Elizabeth McLuckie.
John L. Thomas, Esq, formerly of
this place, and Miss Mollie Brant, of
Cumberland, were married Thursday
and left for Columbus, Ohio, their fu-
ture home.
Miss Ella Paul reached home We'd
nesday from visits to friends in the
cities of Baltimore, Philadelphia and
New York. She has been absent
several months.
J. Henry Bantz, Esq, of Loudoun
county, Virginia, is stopping in Frost
burg with Rev. P. L. Harrison. He
is brother of Mrs. Harrison.
w. S. Ravenscraft, Esq, of Mid
dleburn, West Va, is at home to see
his parents and friends.
CURIosITrEs.-Mr. James Barnard,
of Eckhart, received from his son, J.
E. Barnard, of Spring City, Nevada, a
piece of bark which he dug out of a
silver mine far beneath the surface.
1t is six inches long, four and-a-half
broad, three and-a-half thick, and
weighs only seven and-a-quarter
ounces. 1t is not known what tree it
belongs to, and is not near 30 large as
when first taken out, being carefully
trimmed down to shapely form. 1t
looks something like a red brick or
loaf of ginger bread, How it got SO
far beneath the surface how long it
has been there, and by what process
of nature it has been so wonderfully
preserved, are questions for biologists.
Master William Standish, of this
place, presented to us a miniature cr-
ange which grew inside another very
large one. 1t is perfectly shaped and
the rhind partially formed.
An egg was shown us by one of our
citizens, which, after breaking the
outside shell, was found to contain
another perfect egg with hard shell.
REPAIRS AT AN OLD OPENING
The Consolidation Coal Company
Superintendent, James B. Thomas
Esq, has number of hands employ
ed at the opening, on the plane and
at the dump of the Allegany, mine,
making preparations for an early re-
sumption of mining at that point, af-
ter a suspension of ten or twelve
years. The company hopes to begin
getting out coal about the first of
May. A. large body of coal is thus
made available and the employment
of an increased number of miners will
be another happy result of the under
taking.
REoovERING.-Isaac Crump, sup
posed last week to have been fatally
injured in Hoffman mines, is rapidly
recovering.
Robert Scott, Esq, also reported as
seriously i'll with pneumonia, is con-
valescent.
The strike on the canal is virtually
ended