Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-07-23
WE have had delightful weather


this week.
DON'T allow your children to play
with toy pistols.
BROADWAY has become fashion
able promenade.
THE next national holiday is
Thanksgiving Day.
The lew from the Standish Man
sion is the finest in toan.
FRosTBURG cannot Toast boot
black or a regular newsboy.
ABOUT half.a.d dozen gypsey tribes
have visited this eection since March
THE ditch beyond the depot is a
popular swimming pace with the
boys.
The mines throughout The region
are doing about the usual amoant OF
work.
CUMBERLAND citizens a:e enjoy
ing evening excursions Oh the canal
aud Potomac.
The colorel folks have started a
camp-meetins in Everstine's Grove
near Cumberland.
The centre OF Frost avenue has
been treated to several inches of lime
stone. When it becomes compact and
solid this avenue will become a pop
ular drive.
LARGE crowds of visitors mounted
Dams Rock last Sunday One Of
them nearly swcre he could see Rich
mond with telescope, Go talk to
the "mai ines" young man.
Our Ocean correspondent com
p aims that several patrons do not re-
ceive the JOURNAL. The matter was
tested last week. The fault does not
lie here. P. M. at Ocean, take notice.
BADLY HURT.-Owing TO. a dis
charge of two cross-bars in Ocean
mine, Thursday afternoon, fall Of
slate occurred painfully injuring Mr.
John Hart, miner, of this town, and
employed at Ocean.
IF the City Council would invest
about fifty dollars in street sprink,
Ter to lay the dust it would save oul
merchants hundreds Of dollars, who
lose that much annually by the dust
settling on their goods and spelling
them.
EARLY morning walks are Just the
thing for summer visitors. BY day.
break numbers can be seen vending
their way to different parts of the
town, overlooking the valleys, and
watching old Sci raise his luminous
face above the mountain peaks.
TIE comet has become nearly invisi-
Bile and astronom ers tell us it will moi
re-appear until the year 2l56. We
don't propose to watch for it that
year as we will be busy taking
subscriptions for the JOURNAL, and
watching the Cumberland Times ar
ticles Oh the proposed Insane Asylum
RESPECTFULLY DECLINED. = We
csnnol publish "Eaie's" poem, "The
Whitened SNOW" it is too much for
us to handle, besides we always i'm
agined the beautiful" could not be
whitcned. We never heard of "fish-
in in the brook" while the snow was
piled two feet deep on the ground.
Give us a poem on "Crucossion. :
THE vim with which Charles Sui
Ivan is executing his duties is au
earnest and an example of our ideal
policeman. He appears to have grit
and judgment suited 10 all emergen-
ciea. AZ a guardian of the corpora
tion's dignity, a preserves OF the
peace and indicator OF law he is so
far q success.
The CROSSING DENoUEMENT-A
Coup d'.Etat Arerted.-It was well
understood last Sunday that the eros
sing would 90 in Monday. 1t was
we'll known that the people were in
sympathy with the new road, and it
was determined TO take advantage OF
their favor to carry out the law in the
case.
The B. s. 0. authorities iorestalled
the programme Sunday night, how
ever, by ordering the crossing to be
put in, which was commenced and
completed Monday.
The correction at Polk street fol-
lowed and was finished Thursday af-
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