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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-02-19
. JUST HOW 1T rs.

HE DETAILS OF THE PREPARA-
TIoNs FOR TRANSPORTATION TO THE
INAUaURATIoN-How the Baltimore
and Ohio wiU Rouide.-The Balti-
more and Ohio Company has wisely
concluded to make its round trip
tickets for the Inauguration good
going from the first to the third in
elusive, and returning up to and in
Guiding the last train on the evening
of the seventh. The rates will be
placed at low figure, and people
holding them will secure every adj
vantage of the fast train schedule.
The noted daisy Train" which leaves
Louisville in the evening, reaches
Washington the next day at noon,
seven hours ahead of fastest trains on
other lines. The Baltimore and Ohio
has the only direct line from Cincin-
natl and the West to Washington, all
other lines being forced to take cir
cuitous routes in order to get into
Washington. This as a matter of
course requires extra time and extra
hours of travel, which are not COM
pensated for in any lower rates what
avar oft har az fo railroad foro nv
sleeping car accommodations. Mat
tiers as regards the progl anime of in
auguration proceedings are being
pushed forward with great deal of
energy, and as there is no end of
money to carry out the elaborate pro-
gramme arranged, there is little or no
room for any disappointment.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-02-19
A N UISANCE.

Mr.. Editor Permit stranger to
call your respectful attention to the
disorderly conduct Of a crowd of boys
that assemble around and in the
postofice. 1t is an outrage that men
and women in town like yours can
not approach the postofice during the
changing of the mails without being
jostled about by the "tussling" Of
the boys. I favor enjoyment for
young people, but surely it does not
require an argument to prove that to
make sporting room of the postoffice
is an infringement Of the rights of the
people that ought to be dealt with
with vigor and frmness.
Is. 70 AN OCCASIONAL VISITOR.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-02-19

live forever, glorious in its conquests
and monuments
And now, my fellow-miners in the
Maryland mines, let your watchword
be onward; your steps be steady; watch
well the footholds; let your object be
to glorify God by aiding humanity to
rise from the degradation to which the
laboring men, and especially the min
ers, to place their feet upon a solid
rock of just principles and universal
brotherhood; and may your noble
deeds strike terror into the hearts Of
the oppressor until he shall be COM
PEELED 10 do justice. May God hast.
EN- that happy day is my earnest wish
and prayer. I remain yours,
A MINER.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-02-19
DIVIDING AGAINST THElNSEL YES

MEYERsDALE, PA, Feb. IA, 1881.
Mr.. Editor With your permission
I will make few remarks in regard
to this region. The great question
brought before the working people by
these tyrants and oppressors of labor,
with the blacklegs combined, is-can
there be any way invented whereby
the honest toiler can be driven from
this region? Every plan has been
tried but one, and that is-down with
the wages We will kill them with
hard work or starve them out for
want of food Now, yon will see by
the following plan, which started in
operation to-day, that it will work
we'll in driving all honest men to look
elsewhere for labor, and will also be
the ruin of the poor blackleg.
The Floghill mine started last
Monday at SO cents per ton, with
three able-bodied men, and one got
his discharge before dinner time be-
cause he said something that was not
gospel. But as the company's de-
mands for coal were not great, they
had all the men that were needed with
prospect of increasing tie number,
as few more were put on through
the week. This action of the Flog-
hill firm and their men has been a
most terrible blow to big-car Tom
and his blackleg crew; they began to
swell with rage and swear that they
will have vengeance.
To-day Thomas A. Williams mine,
at Salisbury, started at 40 cents per
ton or 80 cents per car. You see by
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-02-19
GENERAL ITEMS.

HURRAH FOR BLACK Judge Jere
Black refused to act as counsel for D.
R. Jones, hut wrote letter in which
he reviews the principles in the case,
meantime putting in some strong
points for the miners, and closing
with the blunt remark that if the
prosecuting attorney had been gen.
tleman he would not have allowed
the case to come up for trial. He
says the time once was when in Eng
land and America it was perfectly
lawful for operators to meet and fix
the price of digging, but criminal for
the miners to meet and say whether
or not they considered that price just,
but that time is gone.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-02-19
A HOPEFUL COMPLIMENT.

FRosTBURG, Nd, Feb. IA, 1881.
Mr.. Editor The Browning Liter
airy Society, composed of the stu dents
of FrostburS Institute, gave one Of
their monthly entertainments at their
school-room last Friday evening. We
are glad to record the fact that the
performers of the evening discharged
the various duties assigned them in a
manner that entities them to the
highest compliments that we can
award. Our expectations are that as
month succeeds month they may one
and all brilliantly improve on the
past. We doubt not that there are
talents among the performers that
may come day shine in the world of
fame, even as the beauty of the Insti-
tute sparkles amid the glory of Frost
burg. W.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-02-19
OUR CORRESPONDENCE.
A CARD.


10 the Miners Of Allegany and Gar.
ret Counties: III - q
Ihave received of late number Of
anonymous comm uni atoms calling
my attention to some supposed viola
ton of the mining law. Now let me
inform every miner in the above
named counties that no attention will
be paid to such. If the authors OF
them have not confidence enough in
me to give me their names they
ought not to expect ne to place con-
fdence in communication of such a
nature, for I do assure them that
Jack considers himself as good as his
master. THOMAS Brown,
Inspector of Mines.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-02-19

of their labor in direct violation of
the law, and I hold myself RESPONSE
BILE for this assertion.
/ have written to the owners twice
concerning this matter. I was in
formed. to-day by the superintendent
that he had been advised by them
that they are getting new scale made
to order. THOMAS Brown,
~. Inspector Of Mines.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-02-19
THE PEN rs NIGH7IER THAN
THE SWORD"

OUR OWN POET, coLUMN-PERUsER, rs
Bold miner, turn pale
When you read this tale
To all you Knights of Labor;
IT'S ola pen
In backlog den,
Mightier than the sabre.
II is no joke
A single stroke
VIII cut all through the region
A single thrust,
And dust to dust
To all your knightly legion.
But then, o men,
That mighty pen,
With hilt so red and CORY,
Through ink like glass
Will show its brass,
And shine with blackleg glory.
o, Captain" mine,
Why don't you "Shine"
AS brilliantly and brightly
AS that bold quill,
Which'll cut and kill
"Horganizations" knightly.
Ensanguined soul,
AS black as coal,
With pen fiercer than sabre
You'll surely come
From your dark tomb
To haunt your Frostburg neighbor.
Frostburg, Md.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-02-19

THERE were sales last week of $3.50
shares of Consolidation stock at 39@42t
$500 shares of Maryland at 2e@33i
10,55O shares of New Central at 2s@S5f
The above extract from quotations
of stock sales exhibits the high esti'
nation in which our coal securities
are held in market. Their undoubt-
ed value is more and more attracting
the substantial interest of investors
With the completion of the new rail.
road, the widening of the canal, and
the building Of the ship-canal, there
is no earthly reason why our product
should not distance the soft Goals Of
the country and our securities rank
with the foremost.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-02-19

In conclusion, I find large num-
Der of the props that are delivered to
the miners too small to stand up TO
support the top coal.
Yours Respectfully,
THOMAS BROWN.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-02-19
Notice..

SHALL resume business at nv old
l. stand on Nam street, Frostburg, at an
early day, or rs soon as my domestic diff
culties are settled. Hoping to have con-
tinuance of the patronage of may friends,
Feb 12-3t JOHN r. SHARP,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-02-19

IF miners association were ircor-
porated there would be exactly as
much conspiracy in an effort to raise
wages as in a similar movement by
the companies to reduce. This prop
osition is founded upon the last judi
cial opinion touching this subject.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-02-19
A Card.

T TAKE this opportunity of thanking
l. my friendsand nefghbors for the many
kindnesses extended to my wife during
her recent illness, and will always feel nm.
der many lasting obligations to them.
JOHN r. SHARP.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-02-19

u, ~. Jones, secretary, etcn was con-
Guided Monday with verdict Of
guilty.
Jones was charged by the Waverly
coal company with conspiracy in in
ducing miners of the company to
usteike.
After a muddy definition of econ
spiracy" it is stated in Judge Hunters
charge that "circumstantial evidence
must be able to convince jury" If
he had said the jury must be able 10
convict upon circumstantial evidence,
the necessity of the case would have
been more ineligible andin harmony
with the verdict that the Waverly
and all similar companies in like stu
ations must be able to Securei
But more significant passage &C.
ours in drawing the line between the
powers of "a miner" and ian associa-
ton" of miners, as follows:
Any miner, according to common law,
might demand incr eased wages, but an
association co uld not make such demand
legally.
Which apparently narrows very
broad principle down to very fine
point. The force of it is-coal-d iggsrs
have no business to act collectively.
That each miner should act for him
self, though in concert with all the
other miners in such cases, is the
quickest temporal escape from this
beautiful difficulty. 1t would be the
same in effect, though not in nomen-
clature.
Company loyalists entertain an i'm
mense dislike of associations" among
miners. Here in our own region they
assume high contempt of anonymous
notes, signed Executive Committee
and have never deigned reply to
one of these otherwise courteous
missives. Hence, they are grateful
for the adoption and perpetuation Of
the signature. 1t provides a little
hole for them to crawl into unani-
mously to talk pompously about
etiquette !
Judge Hunter says:
An association could not legally make
demand for increased wages.
Suppose, however, the association
is legal" that is, incorporated-or-
ganized with the laudable object Of
advancing the interests of working
men and their families, lin lieu Of the
Pennsylvania plan of pauperizing
them, all Of which usually depends
upon good wages, etc., how thenP
But if the matter of wages is "le-
gally" unapproachable by IAN associa-
tion" of miners who want an increase,
ought it to be illegally" approachabls
to IAN association" of capitalists when
they want decrease Should not
each stakeholder ALEC be required to
visit each miner and demand the re-
duction desired An unwieldy pro-
cess, it is confessed, but no more so
than Judge Hunters construction of
law imposes upon the miners.
The conclusion is-the conspiracy
laws Of Pennsylvania are evidently
not cruel enough, or not administered
with due rigor otherwise, the people
might earlier rid themselves of the
odium of a self-impcsed oppression.
The verdict appears to endorse
some remarks in these columns last
week upon Pennsylvania justice to
workingmen.
WIZ 1aarn there 10 a disnoeition nm
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-02-19

ZONE swallow doesn't make a sum-
mer," and one failure doesn't make a
disaster. Aaa there's no more reason
to fsay/shat labor organizations viii
be 2latroyed by the issue at Green's
burg, Pa, than that the punishment
will extinguish the Jones family.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-02-19

BETWEEN clocks Wegman's is far
superior to Hendley's, but the Cum.
berland boys don't value our excel
lences. "You's Frostburg fellers
wants everythingl" Same thing in
lunatic asylum locations.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-02-19

SHOULD any labor organization in
this latitude conclude to incorporate,
it should be remembered that incor-
poration is not all that is essential to
place them upon an equality with the
companies. In a legal sense it may
fill the bill, but in moral and bust
ness way they must place the reins Of
managementin the keepingoftheir best
level. headed men-men who do not
become inflated by little prominence
and view themselves as the organiza-
ticn instead Of the people whom they
serve. Mr.. Jones evident exaggera-
ton of his prerogatives, at Greensburg,
destroyed the cause of his constituents
and earned some punishment for him
self. He was too great man en-
tirely-.accordin to hiso statement.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-02-19

IT Is feared Mr.. D. r. Jones assum-
ed too much on the witness-stand. If
he is a monarch in the society he rep
resents as secretary, the force and ex-
tent of his power should have been
kept as far in the background as pos
sible. 1t is within the range Of prob
ability, therefore, that Mr.. Jones in
discretion from first to last has
brought upon himself the most of his
present trouble.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-02-19

THERE appears to be close study of
lessons Just now, and the force of ex-
ample, was never scrutinized with
more research, especiallysthe policies
which have led to success.
The appeal for semi-monthly pay
ments has opened the door for an
Investigation of myself" The COM
panies, while making pretext of the
irresponsible character of the appeal,
are hoping it will become responsible
to the extent of a strike therefor.
But they must by all means get the
miners where the miners got them
last fall-in the wrong. Then there
will be easy sailing.
On the other hand, the miners are
learning from the systematic uniform.
ity of col porate conduct just how all
laboring elements should be combined
into an intelligent and vigorous ad-
ministration Of its purposes and inter
ests. The wonder is-they have been
so long learning that "in unity there is
strength, but they are picking up
scraps of corroborating information
from their adversaries here and there,
along the way, and pretty soon they
will "know the lesson by heart"
Meanwhile, friends, in your treat
ment of the matter now on hand, act
exactly as though you expected no
reply from the companies. So far
they have evidently entertained no
idea of recognizing your requests for
aemi-monthly payments of wages, and
the presumption is-they will follow
this line of diacourtesy. To be "fore-
warned is to be- forearmed )" to be
forearmed is to be "wise as serpents
and harmless as doves"
JoNRs was the official representative of
q labor union and his cause was made
that of his union, and the accused, his
f,;erde and his counsel proclaimed that
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-02-19

IT may turn out that organizations
which are incorporated cannot con-
spirs, and that only those which are
not can be loaded with the odium and
punishment of conspiracy. If, how
ever, one corporation should hinder
another's employees from work-that
would probably be regarded in a
illegal" way as an unneighborly pro-
ceeding, perhaps worse. At any rate
it would seem that labor organizations
might proftably become Incorporated.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-02-19

We learn there is disposition on
the part of some of the coal managers
to taboo" certain miners, suspected
of playing an influential part in labor
movements in this region. We have
heard of no instance, however, where
management has lately discharged
or refused employment to any one on
the account named; hence, we are
slow to credit the companies with
contemplating step SO impolitic, so
subversive Of corporate dignity and
provocative of resentment. By this
time they should have learned that
ostracism does not pay a cent more
profit than revenge. If they haze
learned this lesson, it is time they had
stopped reciting it backwards. I'm
til they do give it out properly they
will be the fomenters Of their own
labor affections.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-02-19


JoNRs was the official representative of
q labor union, and his cause was made
that of his union, and the accused, his
friends, and his counsel proclaimed that
the issue was squarely Joined between
capital and labor, and one or the other
must so to the wall.
The above extract comes from a
newspaper report of the trial. If it
be true that the defence assumed the
attitude described, they bounded at
once to the height of folly. The trial
turned upon the questionable Mr..
Jones conspire with certain employ
ees of the Waverly coal company to
hinder other employees from working
on given terms2 The jury found that
he did, and that this action, tested by
the laws of Pennsylvania, was con-
spiracy. So that it was case alto
gether of the Waverly company
against Mr.. Jones; no more nor less.
Since writing the above we clip the
following from an exchange, purport-
ingto be the views of Judge Mellon,
who prosecuted Jones:
There was no question between capital
and labor; or at least there was nothing OF
the kind in question on the trial. The
facts were not much in controversy; in
decd, instead of being conflict between
labor an6 capital, it was o conflict between
labor and those who seek to profit by as
suming to be its protectors. The Miners
Union, so called, is myth, without con-
stitution, bylaws or rules, or other off,
GERS, so far as was developed, than Mr.
Jones himself. So the question of wheth-
er the Miners Union is a legal organiza-
ton did not arise,
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-11
The Country to Come Away From.

The Freundschafs and Handles BeSiehun-
gen, published in Stuttgart, Germany, in its
issue Of February 18th, says that during the
year 1850 the emigrants who left the province
of Wirtemberg for the United States took with
them Is, 600, 900 marks, equal to about S., $780,
600. 1t deplores this loss of capital, but adj
mits thatit is trifIng consideration compared
with the still greater loss resulting from
the general stagnation of business
and consequent extending and intensifying
poverty which that country has been suffer-
ing for the past five years, and to which the
constant and increasing immigration is due.
It does not venture to estimate the sum of
money required to be contributed every year
for the relief of the poor in that province,
which is constantly increasing, adventures to
state that the private benefactions in Stutt-
CART city alone will exceed 10000 marks,
and to this is to be added
the immense sums required annually as con-
tributions for the support of the army and to
pay the pension list. Altogether the picture
is most dreary and discouraging, and no pros
pect of relief is discernible. The middle class
es, whether agriculturists or artisans, can, ap-
parently, only hope to escape being reduced to
abject poverty by emigrating to other and
more fortunate countries, and this necessity
seems to be fully realized even by those who
are most strongly attached to the fatherland.
Hence, greatly increased immigration is pre-
;iictpd
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KILLED INSTANTLY.

John Thill, of Banholzer's Brewery, by a
Block of Ice Weighing Four Hundred
Pounds, Falling About twenty-five
Feet Directly Upon Him, Crushing His
Head.
A terrible accident occurred at Banholzer's
brewery yesterday afternoon, resulting in the
almost instant death of young man named
John Thill, who was ushered hence without q
note of warning. At the time of the accident
the unfortunate young man was engaged IN
packing ice, huge block of which descehueu
and crushed his head into pulp.
The accident occurred about ESQ O'Clock
and was caused rs follows: AT that nour
young Thill, man named Joseph Dahaker
and third party were engaged in packing Ice
in a shaft adjoining the brewery. The shaft
is forty feet deep with an opening at the top
about eight feet in circumference. AT the
bottom of the shaft extending back on either
side, are receptac1es for receiving the ice.
The receptacles and shaft are filled up, and
exhausted during the summer. The Ice is
lowered into the Shaft, by. means of tongs and a
windlass.
At the time of the accident Danaker and a
companion were engaged in lowering the ice
and Thrill was storing it away at the bottom of
the shaft At the top of the shaft were four
or five wagon loads of ice, the blocks averag-
ing about 400 pounds in weight each.
The men had just attached block of ice to
the clamps, and were about to lower it when
Thill cried out for them to stop. They
rested for a moment, when he said that
all was right, when they proceeded
to lower the block. 1t was supposed, of
course, that while the process of lowering the
ice was was in progress the man at the bottom
would step to one side clear of the shaft.
When the cake of ice had been lowered about
half way down the shaft it slipped from the
clamps and went whirling down with crash.
Unfortunately Thill CHANGED to be standing IN
the center of the shaft at the bottom: The
monster cake of ice struck him before he had
time to think and he was killed instantly. AS
before stated his head was crushed to pulp.
A platform was lowered, and the remains
were conveyed to the grain house OF the
brewery, where they were shortly afterwards
inspected by Coroner Davenport and reporter
for the GLOBE. The deceased was fine speci-
man of physical manhood, "a years OF age,
and unmarried. He has been in the employ OF
Mr.. Banholzer for several seasons. The latter
states that he had warned the deceased to take
special precautions to avoid danger.
After viewing the remains the coroner de-
cided that it would not be necessary to hold
an inquest
The family of the deceased reside at Will
liam's ferry, short distance up the river, and
his mother and father called at the brewery a
short time after the accident. Their grief was
terrible to witness. The remains were con-
veyed to the residence of his parents, who are
we'll known and extensive farmers near the
ferry. The deceased was a very estimable
young man, having enjoyed good reputation
for industry and sobriety.
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FIVE CENTS LINE
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IN advertising medium, and also to aid the
unemployed, we will publish for twenty-five
cents, Q three-line advertisement, Of situa-
lions Wanted and Situations Offered, and con-
tinus the advertisement until the object sought
for is accomplished. For twenty-five cents,
the man out Of work can advertise for situa-
ton until he finds one.
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rer line each insertion.
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TWO of the finest improved farms in Mime
i sofa for sale, one containing 730 acres
particulars apply to A. K Barnum, No. "a East
Third, st. Paul, MINI. 69-75
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Hop Bitters, which are advertised in our col
umns, are a sure cure for ague, billiousness
and kidney complaints. Those who use them
say they cannot be too highly recommended.
Those afflicted should give them fair trial,
and will become thereby enthusiastic in the
praise of their curative qualities.-Portland
Argus.