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The Fourth.

soliciting committee appointed to raise
Necessary for the celebration two weeks
|leSt Monday will set out to-day and
Re care to give each All opportunity OF
appropriate expression to the patriotic
Iona liable to be felt about this time.
Pmmittee Of arrangements will meet
ening to agree upon details concerning
f procession, engagement of orators,
ment of bands, etc. Both brass
the Walkerville and Butte, are to be
Everything promises a brilliant
ftion.
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)LL.Y, ALIAS PIERCE, CONVICTED
MURDER IN FIRST DEGREE.
Jack, Alias Williams. and Pete
(mson Plead Guilty t. Horse steal

Butte MINER:
Jury in the Connolly-Pierce murder
tust in. The jury found a verdict of
br in the first degree" The prisoner
BY much affected on the rendition of
|dict. He trembled like an aspen leaf
Opped his head on the finding of the
H was a just verdict--one fully war
and demanded by the evidence.
morning, the 10Th, Williams, alias
Pack, and Pete Adamson appeared in
hdpieaded guilty to the charge Of horse
Butte mail leaves in a few minutes, so
haste and rapid chirography.
MACK, June 10. j. r, W.
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Look Out fer Them.

Ut 2 o'clock yesterday morning n of
ght-iingered gentry forced open the
OF the lodging house Of the Butte
rant and went through the pockets OF
Palrs Of pants, but only got a little sill
bis trouble. In his haste he overlook
III of g~reenbacks in the vest Of one Of
gers. The thief barely missed getting
a bullet, so that he needn't want to
The experiment.
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TICKNoR.-In Helena, June Il, 1880, to Mr.. and
Mrs. Geo. Ticknor, a daughter.
DURNEN.-At the Spokane House, Lewis and
Clarke county, M. T., June IL, 1880, to Mr..
and Mrs. Edward P. Durneu. a daughter.
WEAVER Near Central Park, ana, June
6, 1880, to Mr.. and Mrs. J. b. Weaver, twin
daughters.
SEDNAS.-AtJuRction, Madison county, NJ. T.,
June IS, 1880, to Mr.. and Mrs. Hon. Oscar A
Sedmau, a son.
SAUNDERS On Madison valley, Madison Co.
NJ, T.. June Is, $50, TO Mr.. and Mrs. James
W. Saunders son.
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DIED.

L
wEAvER.-Near Central Park, NJ. r.. June 6.
1850, infant daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Il.
Weaver.
G~ILMoRE.-On upper West Gallatin, June IA,
1880, . son Of Mr.. and Hrs. W. +. Gilmore.
aged I years
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NdARFrED

MCGnF-FosTER-At " atson. Beaverhead Co.
N. T., June Q, 1880, by Hon. Sim. Estes. j p.
Mr.. Patrick MCGEE and Miss Agnes Foster,
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WHOLE NUMBER, 4S1.

The second question is--"What Of.
feet will it have upon our coal trader
In the first place there is twenty cents
per ton saved on freights; also the
cost of running the coal down the In
cline planes and keeping the same In
repair, which is quite an item. All
this will have the effect of lsssenin8
the cost of production, thus enabling
our operators to meet the sharp COM
petition that they have to encounter
in the markets, and through these
means give the trade a stimulus that
it has never had since it has been
brought into competition with rival
producers. As tho quality OF our
coal cannot be discounted. We may
look for an activity in the trade that
it has not enjoyed for years past.
There can be no doubt, looking at it
in a business point of view, it will
reduce the cost of producing coal in
the Georges Greek Valley, as it set
ties the matter of incline planes and
tram-roads, and the company that
does not avail themselves of this new
order of things will be alta disadvsn-
tage in the market. They will bs
bound by circumstances that they
| cannot control to avail themselves OF
the benefits afforded by the growing
improvsm snts Of the age. 1t will be
folly for them to "kick against the
| pricks.
The parties returned home home
ward arriving at Cumberland about 6
o'clock p. M, highly satisfied with
the road.
Let the band plsyl Hurrah for the
Georges Creek and Cumberland Rail-
road SPECTATOR.
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THE NEW RdILR0AD-A GRAND
REVOLU9ION PREDICTED.
DEcEMBER 4, 1880.

DECEMBER 4, 1880.
Mr.. Editor After ten years of
surveys and re,surveys of another
outlet to our coal field, the enterprise
is at length accomplished. A car of
ccal was shipped over the Georges
Creek & Cumberland Railroad on the
first inst. from the jackson mine, be-
longing to the American Coal Com
pany, to James A. M'llhollsnd, Esq,
the general manager of the road.
At last the Georges Greek coal region
has seen the day of its salvation, and
the end is not yet. The weeping
Jeremiahs who prophesied that there
would never be ton of coal shipped
over this road may as well hang their
harps upon the willows and dry their
tears by Babels stream.
Taking into consideration the diff
culties that have been surmounted in
connection with the typographical To-
cation Of this road, the gentlemen in
charge of this department deserves
credit for the skillful manner in which
they have performed their duties.
But the moving spirits of the under
taking were Mr.. Henry Loveridge,
president of the road and also of the
Maryland Coal Company, anu Mr..
Gardner P. Lloyd, president of the
American Coal Company also treasu-
rer Of the new G.. @. & G. railroad
company. The companies these gem
tlemen represent own very large
tracts of land underlaid with our big
vein, and in which their stockholders
have invested large sums of money.
For years past they have received 10
dividends from these investments,
owing to the high rates charged them
by the transportation companies, COM
bined with the low price of coal in the
Eastern markets, caused by the strong
competition from the other soft coal
fields. Under these circumstances
one of two things had to be done,
viz: Either sacrifice their property,
and take what ever the transportation
companies would be pleased to give
them for it, or build a new outlet
which would give them connection
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Correspondence,
A CARD FROM The INSPECTOR.
DECEMBER 9th, 1880.


Mr.. Editor Allow me through
the columns of the JOURNAL to call the
attention of the miners of this coal
field to matter in which they have
an interest.
| have commenced my annual re-
port to His Excellency, the Governor
OF the State of Mary yiand, as required
by law and my own attention having
been called to a certain section of the
law by several of the officials of the
coal companies, asking me to notice
it in my report. To all of them |
have replied-"That they, being only
one party interested in the matter,
I would not do so before I consulted
the miners, the other party in inter-
est.
1t is for this purpose that respect
fully ask the miners to name time
and place when and where l can meet
a delegation of the representative
men from amongst them, for the pur-
pose of having an interchange of views
upon the subject referred to.
Hoping this request will be re-
ceived and acted upon with the same
spirit that prompted me in making it,
and that they will give it early at
tention, and then give me notice
through any channel they may think
proper. I remain respectfully
THOMAS BROWN,
Inspector Of Mines.
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JUDGE BLACK ON RAILROADS.
YORK, Pa, Nov. 10, 1880.

YORK, Pa, Nov. 10, 1880.
Gentlemen You propose a move
ment in favor of some legal regulation
which will compel railway companies
to perform their duties to the public
on proper terms.
I will answer your questions as di-
rectly as possible, but without OBJ
serving the order in which you put
them.
You desire above all things TO be
just The legally invested rights of
railway companies, like other rights
of property are sacred, and no
violation Of them comes within the
scope of your design.
A public highway Cannot be pri-
vate property, and railroad laid out
and built by the authority of the
State for the purpose of commerce is
as much a public highway as a turn
pike road, canal, or navigable river.
The corporations who have got into
the habit Of calling themselves the
owners Of the railroads have no pro-
prietary right, title or claim to the
roads themselves, but mere franch-
ise annexed to and exercisable there
on. They are the agents of the State
for the performance of public duty.
If the franchise be forfeited or surren-
dered, or if it expire by efllux of time,
the State takes possession of the road
and runs it herself, or employs a new
agent. The company cannot keep the
road any more than an outgoing col
lector Of a port can appropriate to
himself the custom house where he
did his official work.
The State, having need for pub
lie highway at particular place,
makes a contract with a corporation
to open and put it in condition to be
used, and by way of reimbursing the
builders and operators, she authorizes
tax upon those who travel or carry
merchandise over it.
But this tax must be reasonable,
just, uniform, prescribed and fixed,
SO that every citizen may know be-
forehaud exactly how much he must
pay, and so that when he pays or ten
ders the proper amount, he will ac-
quire an absolute and perfect right to
the use Of the road. The railroads
being public property in which all
the people have equal rights and
the companies that run them
being public agents, it is absurd
to say that the State las no right to
regulate or control them in the per-
formance of their functions by such
laws as will prevent partially, plum
der and extortion. This is a power
Of which no free State can disarm it.
self by any act of its judicial, legis-
lative or executive officers.
But aIe not the franchises property
in which the company has a vested
right Yes The privilege oftakiing a
certain fixed, prescribed, uniform rea-
sonable rate of toll from all persons
alike, according to the use they make
of the read, is power that the State
may beatow upon any person, natural
or artificial.
The conclusions that ell the rail
road corporations in the country may
be constitutionally restrained to rea.
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THE DoNE OF THE CAPITAL.-The
dome of the capital at Washington is
the most ambitious structure in Amer
lea. 1t is 1916 feet higher than the
Washington monument in Baltimore,
6s feet higher than Bunker Hill mon
ument, and % feet higher than the
Trinity tower in New York. 1t il
the only considerable dome Of iron
in the world. 1t is a vast hollow
sphere of iron, weighing 8, 900, 100000
pounds. How much is that? About
1000 tons, or a weight of about TO-
600 full grown persons, or equal to a
thousand coal cars, which holding four
tons each, would reach two miles and
half. Directly over your head is q
figure in bronze, America" weigh.
ing l4,9S5 pounds. The pressure of
the iron dome upon its pier and pill
lars is l2,447 pounds to the square
foot. st. Peter presses nearly 10000
pounds more to the square foot, and
st. Gensvievs at Paris II, 900 pounds
more. 1t would require, to crush the
supporters of our dome, a pressure Of
557, ,270 pounds to the square foot.
The cost was 100000. The now
wings cost $6,5Oo000. The architect
has plan for rebuilding the old CEN
tral part of the capital and enlarging
the park, which will cost about 3d.
100000.
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J. AILEGANY COUNTY, SATURDAY, DECEMBER H. $780,


the poor, and the prosperity of the
rich, all cry aloud for some system of
management which will compel them
to do the duties they owe to the pub
lie faithfully, at rates reasonable,
fixed, uniform and equal, without ex-
tortion, without wanton changes,
without determination.
l maintain that all the States have
a clear and indefeasible right to pro-
tect their people against such wrongs,
and to exercise the power as sacred
duty. When that duty is properly
performed the internal trade of each
State will cease to be enslaved and
crippled as it is now. But the COM
merce between the States will still be
open to inequalities and liable to op-
preston and plunder by transporta-
tion companies, unless the national
legislature does something to save it.
Congress has power "to regulate COM
merce between the States" "
Is it not strictly within the scope
of that authority when it makes a
law forbidding carriers through the
State to injure, impede or destroy the
general trade of the country by ex-
travagant and discriminating charges
If that be not regulation of inter-
State commerce, what would be?
The power being conceded, an effect
ual mode of righting the wrongs now
complained of can easily be devised.
Doubtless you are right in the be-
lief that public opinion will be in
favor of your movement. Rejecting
men cannot deny its justice. But
the influence of these great corpora
tions can hardly be calculated. They
have methods of defense and offense
which make them almost invincible.
You have referred to portions of their
history which proved this. Some of
the State governments are literally
subjugated by them now. 1t will re-
quire strong organization and much
labor to reduce them. Undisciplined
militia in the open field make poor
fight against regulars entrenched.
What are corEstalks against cannon ?
Such is truth against money. You
ask what | think Of regulating these
affairs by the agency Of commission.
ers. In England I believe that plan
has been a complete success in CAL
ifornia I understand it is dead fail
ure.
This paper is much longer than l
intended to make it, and, as an an
swer to your questions, it is less cat
egorical than it ought to be. But
you must take it as it is, and believe
me your obedient servant,
]. S. BLACK.
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Miscellaneous Advertisements.
s'Our Exhaler''
WILL DIsINFECT OR PERFUME A
w sick room, or whole house, in ten

WILL DISINFECT OR PERFUME A
w sick room, or whole house, in ten
minutes.
Immediate relief and speedy cure OF As
thma, Catarrh, Bronchitis, DlphtheTa,
Whooping Cough, Group and scarlet
Fever
Twenty-tour to forty,eight hours tU3 OF eH-
halation cures the worst case OF Whoop-
ing Cough. Persons suffering with Asth-
ma, Catarrh, Consumption, &c, using
"OuR ExnA1En" will experience such re-
lief that they can sleep quietly all night.
DiDhtIieria is infectious, and may
be communicated directly or indirectly
The poison clings with great tenacity to
furniture, clothing, rooms and houses. 1t
may be conveyed by infected articles used
such as napkins, towels, &c, or directly
in the act of oughing, splitting, kissing or
sneezing Our Exhaling Liquid constant
ly vaporized in the room of patient with
ID tely destroy the
gem of contagion.
COUGHS AND COLDS.
"OUR EXHALING LIQUID" evaporlzed in
the sleeping room, relieves any cough or
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NoTE-Time here given is Phiadel-
phia time, which is five minutes faster than
Baltimore time.
Entire trans run through to Hunting
don. Through cars between HUNTINGTON
and Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore,
Washington and Pittsburg.
All Cumberland and Pennsylvania
trains stop at Hay street Station.
For Authorization, timetables, rates of
fare, Sc, call on PETER Noon, Agent,
corner Baltimore and Liberty streets,
or EVERETT MAREAN, at the station, Cum
be:land, or address THos. Il. WATT, Pas.
sengcr Agent Western District, Pittsburg,
Pa. i. p. FARM ER,
General Passenger Agent.
FRANK THOMSON,
Noy27 General Manager.
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A NEW book is called "The Art Of
Speaking" 1t is an art the Ameri.
can people should cultivate. 1t is
so now that at a public gathering Of
two hundred persons not mere than
one hundred and ninety-sevsn of
them would be able to speak if uns1.
pectedly called upon to make
speech. More speaking is what this
country wants.
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SAN FRANCISCO is not the only
place that has coal famine. Atlan-
ia, Ca, and all our Western lake
ports are complaining. Several fac
tories in Atlanta have been compelled
to stop, owing to an insufficient sup
ply of coal, while it is stated that
there is scarcely enough even for
household purposes. The cause of
this famine is scarcity of cars.
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PREPARATORY to sixteen years
steady run the idle furnaces in Ess.
tern Pennsylvania are being repaired
to go into operation. So says Pitts
burgh daily. Every indication points
to an unprecedented prosperity in the
iron and steel trades for some time to
come.
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To KEEP your throat clear and free
from Inflammation get five cents worth
of chloride Of potash and dissolve in
a pint of water, then gargle three
times day,
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TIE Boston Post is trying to revive
old customs. 1t says: "A hundred
years ago, when you called on a girl
she kissed you good-by." There is
nothing like having a good memory.
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The enormous amount of money
living idle in the banks of both this
country and Canada, makes it almost
certain that there will be a great
"boom" in mining early in the spring.
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No. s runs direct to Chicago; No. 2 di-
rect to Cincinnati and st. Louis, and No.
10 to all three cities.
Nos. 6, II, and 10 daily except Sun
days; all other trains daily.
N9y 81 IF. LEGGE Agent.
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COUGHS AND COLDS.
REASO ONS WHY
hOUR EXHALING FLUID
AEHeViatqs and Cures
Certain Diseases

Oo1'Ual1l lClSSdSCS
TITS WELL KNOWN BY MICRO
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called bacteria these are OF the lowest
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The class of diseases in which these
little living germs are playing their death
lypart are: SCARLET FEVER, ASTH-
MA, CATARRu; WH00PING COUGH,
DIPHTHERIA, GROUP, HAY FEVER
and all other kindred diseases.
TO restore health and preserve life these
little pests must be destroyed, and this is
what we claim for "OUR EXHALING
FLUID" to do. Hence its great curative
powers. j. RUHL, M. ID.
Frostburg, Md,
For sale by Druggists and Dealers.
Price of Exhalcr complete with "Our
Exhaling Liquid" $500. Nov q
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PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD,
(BEDFORD DIVISI0N.)

nN and after Monday, Nov. 10Th, 1880,
W Passenger Trains will leave and arrive
at Station on Hay street, Cumberland,
daily, except Sunday, as follows:
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BALTIMORE & ONO RAILROAD.
NN and after Nov. IA, 1880, trains will
" arrive and depart as iollows
CUMBERLAND.
, 1880-06-23
PERSONALS.

"A lifelong De,nocnt wants our opits.
lon Ut Mr., I1ldpu. Tl.orp hnye beeM sfea'
many worse mon than Ar. Ti1lcn hung.
"Mtriam 1lcCarthy"-You vcrscs ent!'
tlod My Heart Ii snd In springtilno" h"fo' W.
regret to stntp, been received. Don't bo Woes
rIed. however, Miriam. IA long as your H'es
keeps n!1 right III 7pringt!lne you will EVt nlo"s
well enough.
Thu practice Of naming trotting' Horses
nrtur public ,ucn ia decidedly EcprctH1sspp.o'' w.
Nothing can bo more painful to a nun VIII tns
welfare Of this country ut hcArt than to rca.
thAt "uet. Guri|eld won't to u tan8le-foot 1teaa
ut the nsst turn, while llonis Kcatt,ey ana has2
Anderson canu aloilx on tho outside and ttnas1o"
hcad.ana.hoad unAes tho whip In a:s1a."
Sonto people never lose theIr nerve I,!o
other otcnlug young .nan. whilc visiting tne
laughter Of QUO Ut tho ttsst fnmtffcs IN tno West
silu as you COMO III frota thQ rAcc-trNck. acS'
dettaliy sut down upon the lovely creat"roa ~"
hut, which hnA 'beua carclosly Lott III cua.'
Sho Ut once informed hlna Vt tho disaster pun
without rising, 10 asked tho girl II she ke" VIZ
ho wus like tue hero OF ono of 1cnnyson's 'nns1
sho did not, sIld sery truthfully said So "l !1s
cuusc," sntL tiu, "'l an, eIttiNg nn tho s1Sn.
Enry.'" She smllcl sal, swsot s1rllv. ala s.",
hu wis 80 funny It would not bo sa!o ~ ~, j.,
hlu Ia tho houso Thuy will Lot be saaEs'eo -
tho fall
, 1880-06-23

THE Irish 1Iotnc-Ii.,.ers lnve determined
to cttl on O. Donuell to tlcsst fr,n, further sell
aatlo,lal questioning rs to Minister Lacu,lr, Us
his Attit,1lu might be interpreted as committing
Thorn to nutagonis,n to the Frcnc!, Republic, asl
the ,!pbato thar would certainly cnstio OF tho
question would talso up mitch Ut tho tEtnc Of tho
Iluusc, which tho lung Rulers thiuk should ho
occupied III tho discussion OF asnci!orntiys meas
urcs for ireland. Ol}ouurIl will scarcely yield,
ne ho dearly loves notorlety, nnd wants I'd posc
US iii Ultrnuntatlo III orsler to VIII tho applause
Of tho French Cicr!cIi purity. The I1ouIc-tiulers
have also resolved to nbsta1n frp,l Interference
in tho nrallaugh runttcr. They say 1t Is purely
IN English mattcr. und can tlavo no CONCERN for
thclu.
, 1880-06-23

VALLANDr0irAM passed. through the
Union lines to hts M.ituttfca III tho B>uth Just ut
the point whero dcu. Ourlietl WAS stationed.
Tho Inst worls Ut tho Ohio traitor before loav-
Ing brought out neat repartee from Garfield.
valland,gham, on his appearance In tho 'morn-
lug, With IN atfcctatlon OF unconccrn And light
slu,lrtoluess whtu!a ho could not hAve felt, III o
mock herckc yeln exclaimed, quoting from
"itonioo nnd Juliot"s
NghtE cArdles arn burnt ont, md tocund day
Hstsilda llIltuu IN lilo lllstY n.oAntuln tops.
11cro ho hcaitatod. when uarauld quickly but
quietly finished tho speech:
must bo Gune and live. Or stay and ao.
Vallundlxhnm caught tho hidden meaning OF
tho citation, and hiushed,
, 1880-06-23
FOR THE BENEFIT OF IOWA REPuB-
- LTHANE.

70 fhs Editor a The ChItdoo 7s1bNne-
DEs MONIES. 1n.. Juno lS-Pletlso rcpM!I!eh
o., ha nomination, for tho bcnetLt nf luwn lie
rnblicnsH. @. W. BALDWIN.
'Wo h,lvc sccn nothing on thu subject that
seemed authentic lntcr thnn tho following uts-
pmtchcst but tiloy aro sufficient:
Srtetat Dtspnteh to The Chtedoo Tribune.
QALEsA, ILL.,, Juno H.-The nomination Uf dnr-
el mud Arthur Is we'll rGcuived hy tho ItcIHts'-
news, re,narsch To tho largo crowd surrounding
hitl. "ucnt'encia, the CoHrentiai las t!amtndset
iuctt ,et'n4 uH ean s1'}Hmrt. at' trrtiiet thetr
t!IE,st N.cfr." This afternoon tho x-PrGsdrnt
xent 1ru,1 cnnp,stslatory telegram Il. Mr. Ctr
Fettt.
uALEHA. ~, Juno e.-uen. urnnt Is hiqh!b
inis Il tt* o,c up'. lr'teh al members of The party
cd, eDt1ita8u Mtftc.