Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-06-11
MINING JOURNAL.
j. d. ODER, Editor.
FROSTBURG, MD, JUNE II, 1881.

gard to PARTY, have signed petition
to President Garfield for the retention
of Hon. John L. Thomas as Collector
of the Port OF Baltimore. Such an
endorsement should outweigh great
deal of political work. Besides, Mr..
Thomas, in personal merit and official
probity, cannot be surpassed by any
one named to succeed him. He ought
to be retained.
AMENDE.-The JOURNAL sincerely
regrets that its item last week touch
ing the "colonel" abuse gave any &C.
casion whatever for the personal ref
erences to it's editor which appeared
in the Cumberland News of Monday.
The high esteem in which brother
johnson is held in this Sanctuna forbids
the inference that he was alluded to
directly or remotely. In truth, no
particular gentleman was thought of.
For aught We know to the contrary,
brother Johnson's spurs have besn
fairly won; certainly we had no oc-
casion and no right to refer to him
as one of large class of notables,
real and unreal, which furnishes ev-
erywhere an object of facetious rail
lery. If we had, the item would
have been sufficiently explicit to war
rant his attention.
"SAMsoHIAN Fo1LY."-While Gov.
Hamilton is engaged making war
upon his party the stalwart republic
can student of the King James YER
sion turns gleefully to the 29th and
30th verse CT the 10th chapter of
Judges and reads:
And Samson took hold of the two mid
die pillars upon which the house stood,
and on which it was borne up, of the one
with his right hand, and of the other with
his lett.
And Samson said, Let me die with the
Philistines. And he bowed himself with
all his might; and the house fell upon the
hosts, and upon all the people that were
therein. So the dead which he slew at his
death were more than they which he slew
in his life.
1t will be narrowing recollection,
however, wien the e. r. S. reflects that
the democratic party never dies.
Long altor Wn. T. Samson Hamilton
is gathered to his "continenlals, the
traveller from New Zealand, while
sitting on tie crumbling bricks Of
"Snyder's corner, sketching the ruins
of Paul's Opera House, will be ap-
preached by little, old, red-nosed
man with a handful of primary cleo
ton tickets bearing portrait of Gen.
Hancock, and after being gently
nudged in the ribs will be winked at
and requested to come over and give
old George Judkins little lift for
county surveyor on the regular ticket.
The Baltimore papers of Monday
contain brief, though comprehen-
sive, statement of the administration
of the sinking fund proviso of the
Constitution for the liquidation OF
State debts from Comptroller Heating
and Treasurer Compton. 1t is the
alleged diversion of State revenues
from this fund to other purposes which
compoaes probably the most serious
charge which Gov. Hamilton lays at
the door Of the people who have hon
ored him with his high position.
Upon this point specific exhibits are
made, and the blame, if any, is To-
Gated in certain Acts of the Legisla-
lures of 1864 and 1872, consisting of
republicans and democrats, who passed
them with unanimity almost COM
plete. The debt contracted prior to
1910 seems to be we'll Offset in the
shape of valuable productive assets.
Not 80 apparently, with these Of
1864 and 1868, with regard to which
the paper says:
The defense loans of 1884 and 1868 were
created to pay debts contracted for the
public defense. Debts contracted for this
purpose were not within the limitations
of article 3, section 90, of the constl tuition
of 1861, nor of article 8, section 33, of the
constitution of 1864, nor of article g. Sec
ton 81, of the constitution of 1867; and
were not required to be provided for in
the manner pointed out by article 8. Sec
ton "a, the constitution of 1867.
Cow Hamilton and Comptroller
Heating are lawyers of ability, but
between them just now there is
marked disagreement CT judgment
as to the construction of the proviso