Frostburg mining journal., 1880-12-11
GET your horses rough.shod.

GET your horses rough'shod.
HIGH wind and snow DUNG the
week.
ARE you going to try the new road
soon?
A REVIVAL is in progress in the
A. M. E. Church this town.
ALLEaANY county has lcst several
of her Oldest citizens recently.
THE aqueal of the dying rorker
has been heard in the land for the
past two weeks.
PAID CFr.-The teachers of the
public schools Of. this county were
paid off Saturday.
JUDGE BLACKS letter on first page
was placed by mistake under head of
Correspondence"
Don't fail to read all the new ad-
vertisements. B. Stern & Cos,
though in its usual place, is also new.
REIIGIous.-The Baptist State
Evangelist, Rev. ]. B. English, has
been conducting successful revival
meetings the past week in the Eng
lish Baptist Church, this place.
SOME of our friends labor under the
impression that we have a daily
"freeze-out" in our office, and they
seem eager to help us materially by
leaving the door open to catch the
cool breezes.
TEERE was received by the sale of
tickets for the benefit of W. S. Ed
wards, the victimized miner of Clear
field, 1925. The expenses were
$3.50, leaving total of $77.25 to
be sent to the beneficiary.
The prosecuting witness in case
before one of our magistrates recently
had lump over his eye as big as an
egg plant, which was caused by Jim
Webster throwing a lump Of coal at
him without the slightest provoca-
tion. "I don t see that there is a sin
gle mitigating circumstance" said
the magistrate. "Why, iedge, you
has overlooked one OBJ de mitigatinest
circumstances in de world. only
hit him wild a lump Of soft coal. Don't
yer call dat mitigatin', when l could
hab fotched him jest as easy wild
lump of hard coal ?"
A DOC WITH A BIoGRAPHY.-The
big bulldog familiarity known as cold
Tige" and belonging to Mr.. P. Payne,
of the Grand Central Hotel, died last
Wednesday morning from acute con-
Tige was given to Mr..
Payne about Il years ago by gen
gleman named Frank Ely, clerk in
the old Franklin Hotel, and wa1
considered one of the best fighting
"purps' in this section. He was
about Is years old, very large and
thicl:.set canine, and although per-
fectly harmless for year or so past
was still formidable looking enough
to keep strangers at distance. He
was buried in a snow-driit on the
Ecllhart fiat by sympathisinq friend.
Oh 'fige is dead-that good old purp,
He was terror to Il hungry "bum;"
He "chawcd up many n yaller dorg,"
And sent him to his canine home.
A TOUCHING DIALoGUE.-Tho fol-
lowing colloquy appears in the Oak
land Republican. The great want of
the country now is about a million OF
such children
Is IT HONEST ?-"Pa, what does the
editor of Tile hepublican live on?"
"Why, my child?"
Because [ heard you say yesterday you
hadn't paid him for near four years, and
you still take the paper"
"Well, my child, that's so, and suppose
that the editor lives on air and water. /
would not lie surprised il he hasn't en-.
ployed DIR. Tanner to demonstrate that
fact"
"Well, pa, do you think it honest to sub
scribe to the Republican and not pay for 1t 2"
mo, my child, it is rot honest, as well
as not carrying out that grand doctrine of
doing unto others as we would have them
do unto u.s. and my child. you have GER
tainly taught me a good lesson, and l will
send the amount due the editor by the
next mail"
PERSoNAL.-Robert Smith, form
er slave of the Frost family of this
town, returned on a visit q few days
since after an absence of % years. He