Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1882-08-26

" buS COIL Ill IhetOi hiho' hio
charge has taken definite shape in the
reports given out in this weeks issue
of New York Coal:
The Astor mine, of the Consolidation
company, at Pompey Smash, was fired on
the 18th, and party of men from Eek
hart Ind n fracas with some of the strikers,
shooting being freely INDUCED in. There
is no doubt now that the fire was OF in
cendiary origin.
Again
Now, unfortunately tor the men, who
have alienated the sympathy of all law
abiding citizens in the country, they have
taken violent steps, and have become In.
cendiaiies On the 10th, they fired 300
feet of the main gallery of the Astor mine,
and, few days later, assai,ed a party who
had come to check the fire.
The incendiary charge cannot be
proven even circumstantially. Short
ly after the introduction of new labor
at Eckhart the Astor entrances have
been clcrely guarded by police. We
are credibly informed also that this
mine is otherwise accessible only
through Hoffman, also guarded, and
Ocean, choked with water. No out
side parties could reach the interior
| without the connivance Of the police.
If this proposition be admissible, the
charge of incen1iarism should be
equally divided between the COM
pany's enemies" and the selected,
paid, trusted, armed guardians of its
mine openings. The Roman soldiery
at the tomb of the Lord Jesus were
bribed to say that "His diciples came
by night and stole Him away
while We slept" but tho police
do not and cannot plead similar der
ELECTION. So that, having made their
mines "bull-proof and pig-tight," it
is too late to charge incendiarism.
Now, as to the fracas." No "party
who had come to check the fire." has
been "assailsd." Five Eckhart men
went over last Sunday afternoon to sec
the fire. While there they gave some
offence which resulted in an alterca.
ton CT pistol firing, in which nobody
was hurt.
We do not understand company
ethics sufficiently to determine the OBJ
ject of such publications as are sampled
above. The miners have no interest
and could have none in destroying
the source of their own livelihood ;
nor is it at all likely they selected the
party of five out of hundreds of simi-
lar visitors to the burning mine last
Sunday as target Of special ami
mostly.
ABOUT BEEF.-The Baltimore
Herald suggests
The high price of beef in our markets is
still maintained, and ii would seem that
the cattle dealers and butchers were con-
spring against the consumers. Now, il
the consumers would only copspIre against
the butchers and cattle dealers, by eating
vegetables and fruit, which are much more
wholesome than beef, they will find them
selves benefited in health and pocket by
the change.
That is very good, but here is a
better one from the Keyser Echo:
The papers in our large cities are all
talking the present high prices for beef,
and the inferior quality of all in the mar
ket They say that Western cattle cannot
compal with those reared in Maryland,
West Virginia and other Southern States.
More attention to the production
of this vital article of consumption,
both az to quantity and quail ty, is
the one thing needful. We have all
around US teenilg resources for such
culture-why not avail ourselves of
them
"a BURNING MINE. An item
under this heading in yesterday 8
Homecoming Revteao charges Mr.
Thomas Brown with starting the
Spruce Hill fire, now developed in
Asior mine. This is worse than the
authorship of "Eckhart."
INTERESTING News FROM GEORGIA.
MIR. d. Kea's mule climbed an oak, with
his buggy, and fell out at the top.-Dublin
GA Post.
That beats me.-Eh Perkins.
Me, too.-Stanley Fletcher.
The papers talk of the miners ode
claring the strike off" No such
thing. How could they? This was
companies strike.
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