Frostburg mining journal., 1883-08-25


FrOstburg, August 25. 1853.
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Coal sells at Tucson, A. T., for SIC
ton.
EXTENSIVE beds have been discov.
cred near the Magdalenss, N. NJ, on
the st. Augustine plains.
The shoe-lasters strike at st. Louis
ended Saturday by the manufacturers
acceding to the demands of the men.
THERE are about 300 men constant
ly employed in the Newcastle mine,
W. T., and 200 more employed on the
railroad in transporting the coal to
deep water.
The coal mines at San Pedro, N.
NJ, are producing Is carloads day
for shipment, and enough coal to sup
ply the twelve coke ovens at st. An
tonia.
The Lethbridge colliery in Man
itoba have made start in shipping
coal it is about five feet thick in the
mine, nearly level, and of hard
quality.
The San Francisco Bulletin pub
fishes letter brought by the ateam-
er st. Paul from Onalaska announce
ing large gold discoveries on the Yu-
kon river, Alaska.
WHEN I was young man l was al
ways in a hurry to hold the big end
of the log and do all the lifting; now
I am older, l seize hold of the small
end and do all the grunting,-Josh
Billings.
A MARRIAGE notice in tie Elmira
advertiser tops off in this way: "No
cards, no cake, no flowers, no presents
and nobodys business" What de-
lightful time we would all have il
this was only the rule.
AT the mines in Webb county,
Texas, sixteen miles north of Laredo,
on the Pecos & Rio Grande railway, a
shaft sunk 100 feet below former
workings shows a seam of coal 80
inches in thickness.
DURING the month of June, 1888,
the amount of coal taken from the
Newcastle mine, twenty miles distant
over the abovs road to Seattle, Wash
ington Territory, was $4,000 tons.
During the same month there W as
taken from the Renton mine about
700 tons.
The Clear6eld Republican illus
trstss the value Of advertising by tell
ing Of farmer needing additional
help who went to town and inserted
an advertisement for two boys.
When he returned that night he
found that his wife had presented
him with twins.
The amount of Carbon Hill, w. T.,
coal brought down from the mines
during June was ll,2l7 tons, of
which lO,850 tons were shipped from
that port. The work of taking ont coal
was suspended for a week in June,
while the new machinery for increas-
ing the output we're being put in.
On July 80 hostile Apaches made
an attack on the village of Nscori,
Sonora, where Lieut.. Morens is sta
toned with small picket of State
troops, killing FIVE of the guards.
They repelled two assaults made by
Lieut.. Morens and his command, and
then drove off large herds Of cattle.
WHEN stockholder in a company
assumes the position that in the set.
tlement Of a strike one condition shall
be that the operatives shall abandon
their labor organization he strikes a
blow at equal rights. The capitalists
wonld never renounce the right tc
combine for united action. If labor.
ers can te deprived of that right they
are not fremen.-Galveston News.
mo use talking
Royal Bitters take the cake fol
fighting Rheumatism.
I was all doubled up and tor.
ment TO myself and all my relatives
until | used the Royal Bitters.
Now am thinking of sending out
for Sullivan to work off my extra
muscle.
I am walking advertisement fol-