Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-06-25
CUMBERLAND, June 81, 1881.

CUMBERLAND, June 81, 1881.
To the MINING JOURNAL:
A very neat card appeared in the
News this morning concerning the
candidacy of Mr.. L. 7. Dewitt as the
republican nominee for Sheriff. 1t
seems the strength that gentleman
developed in his run four years ago
is being strongly urged BY his friends
as a reason why he should be put in
the field again. I do not know a
filter man for the place, and Frost
burg, the bulwark of republicanism,
has not had a sheriff since the days Of
Mr.. Thomas G. McCulloh. tits early
in the canvass, but he seems to be the
leading man now. Cumberland will
vie with Fiostburg to roll up his
majority.
l SUPPOSE all teachers will grace
fully acquieste in the reduction of
their salaries, but | do not see any
reason Why the levy should rot be
made large enorgh to enab e the
schools to run ten motifs in the year
without this raid upon the teachers,
who are already undergrad. I'll ey
have sufficiently been hacked at. One
week has been added TO each term for
which they gel no increased ccmpen-
sation, while they are also comp elled
to pay from their own pockets all
ianitor bills. We owe these exploits
OF profound fnanciering principally
to one DR.. G. B. Fundenberg. ! shall
let that go, however, for the simple
reason that we owe him only graft.
tude Tor the obligation he has laid us
under by his departure.
Your esteemed contemporary, the
Times, has come out in a new dress of
type, with broader columns and tip
top head. 1t was characteristic
of it's editor that nothing has been
said of these changes in the Times.
Mr.. Taylor is a modest man, who is
content TO let his work speak for
itself
/ hear few names mentioned in
connection with the nomination for
Register this fall. 1t is understood g,
Ibelieve, that Mr.. Rhind will he a
candidate for reelection. | see no
reason why there should be any fall
ling off in the phenomenal vote he
received in the Georges Creek region
before, nor any cause fer his losing
ground here. There is said 10 be
atill-hunt going en-, however, in this
matter, and in the near future ! may
be able TO give you some interesting
develoT ments.
What an 'envialle place Frostburg
most be these torrid days, when one
could wish with Sidrey Smith to shed
flesh for awhile and sit down in ones
bones. Tie air here has been like
Whit Of Hades from the mouth Of
Dutch oven. ] took an excursion up
the river the other day in a skiff.
We had to bail her out going up, but
coming back she was water-tight
we had larded go, she won't need any
more oakum and pitch. The beer
saloons profit thereby, and cool lager
is quaied adj htatum, while snatches
CT Bacchanalian revelry float street.
ward over the tianecms. Name est
6ib:',dum is the watchword of the
hour. ] envy the pIethoric purse
that can take its owner to the sea-
shore in this tempest Of an evil time
SLOW aweet it is at AYES to catch the
landwaId breeze
AsW ing with good tobacco in hammock
meath the trees,
With negro lass 10 fan you, while you
listen to the rear
OF The breakers On he bar side that never
reach the shore"
The flock in certain fold here in
town have lately been brought from
straying into forbidden pastures by
the prompt application Of the shep-
herds crook. TO drop metaphor, it
is understood to be against the creed
and practices Of the Methodist Church
to allow it's membership to attend
theatres. Some of the brethren in
several Ct the Methodist churches
have occasionally attended perform
ances at the Academy of Music-Pin-
afore for instance-and the upshot
has been that there las been a num-
Der of Withdrawals. The first ex-
citement in the matter has long since
passed, but every now and then I'VE
hear by the distant random guns that
the foe is suddenly firing" and an
other branch drops from Zion stately
tree. For my humble part---Lord,
how humble you will say side
with the clergy. I believe in pure
and indebted religion, none Of your