Frostburg mining journal., 1883-08-11

extending the railroad to the Frost
burg coal fields, and negatives the
proposition by showing that the com.
psnies will necessarily be obliged to
build road to Cumberland. The
writer going ON to explain the imprac-
ticability of building railroad be-
yond Cumberland, across the noun
tains to the Ohio, ngeniously discloses
a substitute plan which would cover
the whole project, to wit
A railroad from Wheeling eastward to
Brownsville and connection with stages
between the latter point and the railroad
at Cumberland.
In the mind of this ancient gentle
man Cumberland, like our modern
Duluth, was the centre of the Uni
verse, and all things, animate and in
animate, should be subordinsted to
her superior interests.
was amused at the following
quaint advertisement IN the Mary
land Gazette, of April 5, 1854:
Just Imported from Cork,
In the Saoso Peace, Capt. Pearson.
Now selling by the subscribers, at the
dock, in annapolis, parcel of Healthy
Servants, men and women. Among the
men are some tradesmen.
Samuel Galloway.
Stephen Steward.
From other adver tissments 1t ap.
pears that the word "snow" in above
indicated the kind of vessel, and was
not part of the name.
In the same paper appeared the
following:
Annapolis, April 5-We are informed
by Mr.. Michael Cresar, from Frederick
county, that on Monday, Goth March
George Dobson was shot and scalp'd in
sight OF Fort Bedford, and three Other
men are missing and supposed to be bilrd
or taken.
The files of this paper are full of
such advertisements as the following 4:
March 81, 1764-Runaway yesterday
from the subscriber in Prince Georges
county, convict servant man named
James Corrt, born in County of Kent,
England, is about feet inches high, "a
years of age, dark complexion, oval face,
his nose has cast to one side and one of
his FEET turns in more than tho other he
wears his own hair, which is short and Of
a dark brown, &C., &c A reward of
twenty shillings is offered for his appre-
hensIon.
Another offers three pounds reward
for "a Scotch Highland Lad"
Another offers reward for an
Irish servant man, who ran away, and
states, in his list Of qualifications,
that he is "a lying, taIkative fellow,
and much given to gambling"
Ten pounds reward is offered for a
runaway named David Wickenden, an
Englishman, who "is fond of liquor,
much given to chewing tobacco, and is
a notorious rogue"
Seven pounds is offered for the cap
ture of country born servant n'med
James Hurd, alias Barnett, "hAl on
when be went away, felt hat, Osna.
burgs shirt, a brown cloth jacket and
breeches, red under jacket, white
yarn stockings, old shoes, and an iron
collar, if not taken off. He has been
soldier in the Virginia and Penn
syfuania service, is great lyar and
very talkative."
The scene of war extended from
Winchester to Forts Cumberland,
Loudon, Bedford and Pitts-but the
accounts of Indian atrocities and the
movements of troops are mesgerly
set forth.
The volumes of newspapers alone
on file in this Library of Congress
would require good-sized building
to properly store them. and when it
is known that these are a feature sell
dom taken into consideration, not be.
ing seen in the library proper, the
great necessity which exists for the
erection Of new National Library
building outside the Capitol, can
readily be observed. ANON.
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