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Frostburg mining journal., 1883-12-08

for even a fair report on this brancl
of the trade; the prices at which one
hears of coal being sold indicate that
there is decentralization in all the
branches of this trade. The same
feature seems 10 exist in the markets
of the interior as on The seaboard
competition for trade at the expense
Of price or probable profit. There is
every indication that the competition
will be equally as great next season
and if anything is to be done in the
way of securing Il more profitable
figure, the railroad companies must
take hold, and fix the matter up.
There is not such "a great amount OF
Bituminous coal available for the sea
board trade that the operators
should sQuander it, in the way they
are doing. The tonnage has grown
year by year, and the increase in the
past ten years, of the amount yearly
forwarded, is immense. How muct
has been laid by as sinking fund
for the time when there shall be
nothing but holes in the ground ?
Coal Trade .j0RlW0i.
Frostburg mining journal., 1883-12-08

4 Question Of SupeTioritU dc
not really desire TO bear hard upon oui
amiable Homecoming Reaiem, but we
must answer Nav, you wouldn't" to
the following address:
TO the FrostbuTg JOURNAL; We have never
had occasion to "double, " butif we had would
have sent to you for some old patent medicine
cuts, which would accomplish the same do
ception and be less easily discovered
Overlooking the unaccountable re-
Election upon any "patent" article and
speaking only Of "deception," here is
Il magnificent poser, delivered ycster-
day under the same auspices:
1nSmcr This.-Wc would like to know from
some of our exchanges the superiority of ste
rcotyc plates at home over 'patent outsides;' =
and the difference between miscellany chiscled
from Jules Vcrncs novels and set at home
and that appearing ON the ready prints
Practically none in either case ex-
cept in extent. But what overlaps ev-
erything else in this business is ''chis-
cling" an article, for instance, from the
New York Ledger, setting it up at home
and dumping it off on several millions
Of Homecoming advertisers and subscri-
bers as an editorial.
Frostburg mining journal., 1883-12-08
CORRESPONDENCE
NEWSPAPER EUPHUIsMs.
To the MINING JOURNAL.

To the MINING JOURNAL.
If Charles Lamb was "tired of the
sickly, cursed, canting, unmasculine
age" of literature in his day, how
much more cause have those who have
q regard for the English language
undefled to complain of the modern
newspaper rot" as Horace Greeley
was wont to term it! Such barbarisms
as "devouring element" for fire !;
'tonsorial artist for barber, and
entered" for buried, are III meas
ure excusable, for they are merely silly
and have not tendency to mislead
innocent readers.
Even the nom dc plumes usually at
tached to anonymous articles may be
allowed to pass. OF course we know
that "Many Voters" is generally a
drunken shoemaker. ''Justice' usual
ly advocates some gross injustice.
"Truth" in nine cases in ten upholds
some falsehood, and, "Vor Populf' is
frequently the voice of crank, with
whose ideas no one ever agrees.
What we do object to is the spirit Of
soft-soapedness that makes a news
paper say that "Mr. A. has accepted
position, &c.," when every one
knows that Mr.. A. has been seeking
the said situation for months, and it is
only after his earnest solicitations he
has been employed. Why say "Mr.
B. has serered his connection with the
firm of -" when the public knows
very well that Mr.. B. has been
bounced for unloading too many
schooners in business hours Why
say that "the vacancy caused by the
death of Mr.. C. will be difficult to FILL"
when we know there are forty ADLER,
better, smarter men than Mr.. c., who
would gladly accept the shoes left
vacant by the aforesaid Mr.. CO. If
newspapers will make an effort to say
what they mean-only that and
nothing more-these expressions would
be side-tracked along with 'dull thud,"
and "ushered into eternity" &c.
This is consummation most devoutly
to be wished. b.
Frostburg mining journal., 1883-12-08

DouBTFUL.-The Coal Trade Jour-
nal concludes its article this week
upon the bituminous coal trade with
the following remark:
Beyond question the land owner who
saves his coal will be in position to
show a good financial status, when
coal is worth something, and his neigh
bors who are now putting forth great
efforts for tonnage, have nothing left.
Generally speaking perhaps this
opinion is correct. In this region,
however, many people are ready to
debate it as holding good here. 1t
has been frequently said in our hear
ing that it is always better to keep
q mine going than let it lie idle.
A mine abandoned for time goes to
wreck far more rapidly than an un-
occupied house, and in time it is
questioned whether the owner will be
better off for saving coal with the
risk ofnever getting it out than seek
ing improbable tonnage. 1t looks
looks like tweedle-dee and tweedle-
dunn.
Frostburg mining journal., 1883-12-08
4ct;ce Enterp,ise.-Nassr. SboAo

dctSce Ehterpffse,-M essrS. Shaffer
& Mum, of this place and Mt. Savage,
have purchased of the Domestic Sew
ing Machine company of Pittsburg,
one hundred Light-Running Domestic
Sewing Machines, and a new wagon
from Mr.. S. NJ. Jones, the travelling
agent of the company. With an ar
ticle which they believe superior to all
others of the kind, they intend push
ing the business as it never has been
before.
Frostburg mining journal., 1883-12-08

A SIGNIFICANT EXPRESSION
Under the heading of 'Inter-State
Traffic President Arthur submits
the following in his message to Con-
gress:
While we cannot fail to recognize
the importance of the vast railway
systems of the country and their great
and beneficent influences upon the de-
velopment of our material wealth, we
should, on the other hand, remember
that no individual and no corporation
ought to be invested with absolute
power over the interest of any other
citizen or class of citizens. The right
of these railway corporations to Il fail
and profitable return upon their in
vestments, and to reasonable freedom
in their regulations, must be recog-
nized but it seems only just that. so
far as its constitutional authority will
permit, Congress should protect the
people at large in their interstate traffic
against acts of injustice which the
State governments are powerless to
prevent.
Slowly but surely the leaven of
political righteousness is working.
Beyond the mere application of the
paragraph to the subject immediate
ly in hand it might have broader
significance. Railway corporations
are not alone "invested with absolute
power over the interest of any other
citizen or class of citizens
Frostburg mining journal., 1883-12-08
THE SUN.
New y orl1,


A BOUT sixty million copies Of The Sun
~ have gone out of our establishment
during the past twelve months
If you were TO paste end TO end all the col
umns of all The S,tas printed and sold last
year you would get continuous strip OF in
tereSting information, common sense wiSdom
sound doctrine and sane wit long enough to
reach from Printing House square to the top
of Mount CopcrniCus in the moon, then back
to Printing House square, and then three
quarters of the way back 10 the moon again.
But The SW is written for the inhabitants
OF the earth this same strip of intelligence
would girdlc the globe twcntyseVen nr twcn-
ty-eight times.
If every buyer of Il copy of The StU during
the past year has spent only one hour over it,
and if his wife and his grandfather has spent
another hour, this newspaper i'll 1883 has at
forded the human race thirteen thousand
years of steady reading, night and day.
Ii is only by little calculations like these
that YOU can form any ideas of the circua-
ton of the most popular OF American news
papers, orot its influence on the opinions and
actions of American men and women.
Ihc Smt is and will continue 10 he, news
paper which tells the truth without icar OF
consequences, which gets at the facts no mat
ter how much the process costs, which pre-
sents the news of all the world without waste
OF words and in the most reliable shape
which is working with all its heart for tue
cause Of honest government and which
therefore believes that the Republican party
must 80, and must 20 in this coming year OF
our Lord, 1884.
If you know The Sut, you like it already,
and you will read it with accustomed dill
gencc and profit during what is sure to be the
most interesting year in its history. If you
do not know The San, il is high time to get
into the sunshine.
The several editions of The Smi are sent
by mail, postpaid, as follows:
D8{LY-31 cents Il month, IS q year; with
Sunday edition, Ss,
SUNDAY-Eight pages. This edition fur
nishes the current news of the world, spe-
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body, and literary reviews of new books Of
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copy free. Address
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DccS The SUH, \. y. City.
Frostburg mining journal., 1883-12-08

FareupH-The last meeting OF the
County Commissioners was held Tues
day. No business of particular impor-
tance was transacted. After adjourn
ment the Board, accompanied by Mr.. b.
A. Richmond, attorney; L. T. Dewitt,
clerk; d. p. Miller, deputy clerk j.
w. Shuck, ex-sheriff; Harry Button,
ex-deputy Sheriff, and Daniel Houck,
janitor, proceeded to the Hotel Elber.
on and partook of a collation. rendered
by Mr.. j. 7. Hager, proprietor.
Frostburg mining journal., 1883-12-08

THE Knights of Labor in Pittsbnrg
arecirculating petitionsto be present.
ed to Congress protesting against the
importation of foreign labor under
the contract system. The petitions
are being numerously signed.
Frostburg mining journal., 1883-12-08
Saturday Morning, December g, 1888.
THERE is Georges Creek in Fayette coun

THERE is Georges Creek in Fayette coun
ty Pennsylvania, and there is said to be elev
en- feet of coal beneath the land along this
creek it is on the line of the Southwest Penn
sylvania railroad. What sensation might
be created if this coal were mined and ship
ped to the markets now handling the Georges
Creek coal from Maryland Coal Trade
Journal.
But then you know we call ours
Cumberland coal" Frostburg Jour
NAL will please stand from under T.
Cumberland Ne,cS.
Yes, brother; but you wouldn't
own all the "right, title and interest
in the Fayette county fraud, which
would make a great difference if no
distinction.
Frostburg mining journal., 1883-12-08

:ido@ TareS-Tn the court of APP
peals Tuesday the case of the county
commissioners of Allegany county and
John j. Keller Is. Union Mining
company of Allegany county, was sub
mitted by William Brace and B. A.
Richmond for the appellant and ar
gued by Ferdinand Williams for the
appellee.
Frostburg mining journal., 1883-12-08
ADDITIONAL LOCAL.

Poetic-0ur bard furnishes q beauti
ful legend. 1t is constructed in poetic
style and we have embalmed it in
fadeless print rpon our first page.
Don't fail to read it.
Frostburg mining journal., 1883-12-08

The announcement that the Chi
nese admiral has warned foreigners in
Canton that war with France is inn
minent and that land and sea- forces
will be massed for the protection of
that city destroys the last lingering
hope of an appeal to anything but
the abitrament of the sword. The
results of such conflict are far
reaching, and the news this winter
from Europe and Asia will doubtless
be Of an unusually stirring character.
Frostburg mining journal., 1883-12-08

BABY ELEpHANT.--Barnum is
overjoyed with his acquisition-the
baby elephant and declares $780,
600 could not buy it. lie offers
S52, 900 for an insurance of the life
of the infant for 52 weeks. Surely,
if he knew the full value Of Pcran0
and ManaliR, he would do no such
foolish thing, as they are the most
successful protective medicines that
have ever been introduced to the
human family. No one can take
any disease while taking Peruaa be-
fore each meal, and keeping the
bowels regular with .Nanalj". Ask
your Druggist for the book on the
ellis OF Life
Frostburg mining journal., 1883-12-08

THE GREAT THING.-From me
you will not learn philosophy, but
how to philosophize not merly
thoughts, but how to think.-h0m.
Frostburg mining journal., 1883-12-08
GENERAL ITEMS.

THE strike of the freight handlers
at New Orleans has been ended
by arbitration.
Frostburg mining journal., 1883-12-08

FEMININE INFLUENCE The claim
that if women were allowed the ballot
only the best men would be selected
for office is a proposition which should
be received with many grains of al
lowance. If their Judgment is so
infallible it is strange they make so
many mistakes in selecting husbands.
San Francisco Examiner.
Frostburg mining journal., 1883-12-08

IT is gratifying TO be assured that
the prospects fer the completion of
the Nicaraguan canal are improy-
ing. All that is needed to fill every
patroit's cup of gratitude to overflow
ing is to receive similar glad tidings
of great JOY concerning the Maryland
and Delaware ship-canal.
Frostburg mining journal., 1883-12-08

How NEW JERSEY SERVES TRAMps.
"A dispatch from Trenton says:
''l'he Mercer county authorities to-
day began active operations against
tramps. Six tramps who had been
captured were disabled by having an
eighteen-pound iron ball attached to
their ankles by Il chain yard long.
They were then taken Gnt to q vacant
lot and set to digging post-holes.
After the holes are dug and fence is
around the lot, these tranps and as
many more as the police can get their
hands on will be chained together,
locked up in the inclosed lot and made
to break stones all day. Any who
refuse to work will be put into close
confinement ON bread water diet.
For two or three years the tramps
have been an intolerable nuisance in
this city and vicinity"
Frostburg mining journal., 1883-12-08

JOSH BILLINGs ON PIE.--Punkin
pi is the sass of M England. They
are vittles and drink, they are joy
on the half shell, they are glory
enough for one day, and are good
kold or warmed up. would like to
be boy again, just for sixty minutes,
and eat myself phull of the blessed
old mixture-Enny man who don't
love punkinpi wants watching cluse,
for he means tn du sumthing mean
the fust chance he can Git. Give me
all the punkin pi ! could eat when !
wuz Il boy, and didn't kare whether
school kept OF not. And now that !
ave grown up til manhood and hey
run tJr the Legislature, and am tho
roly married, there amt nothin han
kcr fur wuss, and can bury quicker,
than two-thirds uvagood, old-tashion
punkin pi, an inch and II half thick,
and well smelt up with ginger and
nutmeg.
Frostburg mining journal., 1883-12-08

At a meeting Tuesday evening, 18th inst, the
Frostburg Fire Department No. l. adopted
resolution of thanks to Mrs. NJ. NJ. Wilder
man for her kind tender Of a cake for the
coming fair The Department hopes the gen
crous people Of F'rostburg will not forget ttiS
organization when the fair comes on. All
such offers rs Mrs Wilderman will he CRATE
fully received and appreciated. Dec H-lt
Frostburg mining journal., 1883-12-08
Miscellaneous Advertisements.


A NY person who desires to study the
n GERMAN LANGUAGE and LITERA-
TCRE should apply either in writing or per-
son to REV. NJ. HERBERG, Frostburg, Md,
as this gentleman is willing to give private
leSsOns -" Tcrms moderate. LDec
Frostburg mining journal., 1883-12-08
Eastern Tiews of the Coal Trade.

Bituminous coal trade is as sluggish
as ever, and there is no inspiration
Frostburg mining journal., 1883-12-08

Lecture Mr.. G. L. Wellington, OF
Cumberland, will deliver lecture al
Paurs Opera House, Friday, Dec. II,
1888, for the benefit of st. Johns p. f.
Sunday School. His subject will be
"The Most Illustrious Monarch of Mod
em Times" Those who wish to enjoy
IA rare intellectual treat should hear
him
Frostburg mining journal., 1883-12-08
New advertisements.
Cards of Thanks.

TINE INDEPENDENT CORNET BAND
i returns thanks to all who contributed to
the success of the recent fair and festival, cs-
pecially the ladies who assisted the enterprise
so diligently and generously, Dec Sit
Frostburg mining journal., 1883-12-08

MVgyC WITHOUT A TEACHER {!
l1UDtU Soper's InstantaneousGuide
to Keys of Piano and Organ. Price 81. win
teach any person toplay 20 pieces of music in
one day. You couldn't learn it from n teach
er in q month for $50. Try it and be con-
vinced Sample copy will be mailed to any
address on rec ipt of % cents in stamps by
HE iRNE & CO., Publishers,
i. q. Box 1iS7, New York.
Frostburg mining journal., 1883-12-08

Dead'-Mrs. Martha Jones, colored,
Of this place, died Tuesday morning,
4th inst. AGED IS Years.
Frostburg mining journal., 1883-12-08
Miscellaneous advertisements.

n NV Esthetics, a designs.) Something
U DD good. Mailed ON receipt of 6 cents
in stamps HEARNt Il CO.,
r, O. Box l4S7, New York.
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INV RCES.-No publicity residents ofany STATE
II Desertion, Non-Support. Advice applica
tons for stamp. W. II. LEE, Atty, 239 B'way, y
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Maine Central RailrOad Co.

"HEREAS. a written application OF not les.
w than ~ enty stockholders. owning not les.
than one fifth of the whole amount OF capital stock
of the company paid ill., has been made to the di-ec
tors TO call special meeting of the stockholders Of
said company,
10 ii the stockholders will instruct the direc
tors to institute the necessary legal proceedings in
the name and behalf OF the Maine Central Railroad
Company, to prevent the execution of the proposed
lease Of he Eastern Railroad TO the Boston Il Maine
Railroad. give instructions to the directors re
latpg 10 said lease and to act upon any other mat
ter that may lawfully come before said meeting,
Notice is hereby given that a meeting OF the stock
holders of the Maine Central Railroad COMPANY will
be held at Granite Hall, in Augusta, Tuesday the
fourteepth day OF August, lss at ten O'Clock in
forenoon, to act upon the following articles to wit
Ito il the stockholders will instruct the di.
recors TO institute the necessary legal oceedines
in the name and behalf of the Maine Central Rail.
road Company TO prevent the execution of the pro
posed lease of the Eastern Raj DAD the Boston &
Maine Railroad give any instructions the direc.
tors relating to the said eas. and act upon apy
other matter that may lawfully come before said
meeting.
Also BY order of the Directors:
2-To see if the stockholders viii rafify lease of
the Eastern Maine Railroad entered into ty the di.
rectors behalf Of said Maine Central Railroad Com.
pany.
$40 If the stockholders will rafify lease OF
the Maine Shore Line Railroad from Brewer to sui
Ivan Bay or River, entered into behalf Of said
Maine Central Railroad Company.
BY order Of the Directors,
JOSIAH H. DRUMA0ND. Clerk.
Portland, July Is, lsss.
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HEART ~ 93l;:;2slIl3k&8
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HOW WATCHES ARE MADE.

1t will be apparent to any one, who will
examine SOLID GOLD WATCH, that aside
from the necessary thickness for engraving
and polishing, large proportion of the
precious metal used is needed only to stiffen
and hold the engraved portions in place and
supply the necessary solidity and strength
The surplus gold is actually needless so far
as utility and beauty are concerned. In
JAMES BOSS PATENT GOLD WATCH
CASES, this waste of precious metal is over
come, and the SAME soLIDITY AND STRENGTH
produced at from one third to one-half of the
usual cost of solid cases. This process is of
the most simple nature, as follows: plate
of nickle composition metal especially
adapted to the purpose, has two plates OF
SOLID GOLD soldered one on each side. The
three are then passed between polished steel
rollers, and the result is a strip of heavy
plated composition, from which the cases.
backs. centres, bezels, &c, are cut and
shaped by suitable dies and formers. The
gold in these cases is sufficiently thick to adj
nit of all kinds of chasing, engraving and
enamelling; the engraved cases have been
carried until worn perfectly smooth by time
and use without removing the gold
THIS is THE ONLY CASE MADE
WITH TWO PLATES OF SOLID GOLD
AND WARRANTED BY SPECIAL GER.
TIFICATE.
For sale by all Jewellers Ask for Illus
trated Catalogue and to see warrant.
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Notice of Foreclosure.

Whereas Andrew J. Thompson, by his mortgap.
deed, dated April 10TH l>so and recorded in kenIe
bee Registry of Deeds, book 3,9 pAge 81, convened
me- the undersigned certain parcel OF real estate
situated in Fayetie, in the county of kennebec ana
bounded as follows: Beginning the westerly side
of the road leading by Oliver Billings to WAYNE Al
the southeast corner of land now or formerly owned
by Joseph ii. Unders God; ihelee westerly by said
Underwoods line sixteen rods; thence southerly
parallel 10 said road twelve and hall rods thence
easteriy parallel said Underwood's line sixteen
rods to said road thence northeriy BY said road 10
the first mentioned bound and whereas the copdi.
fore, by OF the br@ach Of the condition ther
of. claim foreclosure OF said mortgage.
Dated at ..ivermore Falls, June 10th, 1850
LUCINA KENNEY
dlt&w3w2S By her ATTY L. H. Boothb7
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STATE OF MAINE.
Semi-Annual Statement of the
st, James MANGANESE Co.

Boston, July 1853.
The amount of assessmen actua ly paid in is None
The amount Of existing capital is, $4,000
The amount of debts due is, None
The amount of capital invested in leases of real
estate is represented by the capital stock above.
The aggregate value of the taxable property Of the
corporation fixed by assessors has not yet b. en-
rendered. W. X. oTOCkBRIDGE, Treas.
state of Massachusetts, Suffolk IS, Boston, July
1853.
Then p rsonally appeared the above named W. X.
Stockbridge, and made oath that the above state
ment by him signed is true. Before me,
W. NJ STOCkBRlDGE,
seal Notary Public.
49, jy3otlt
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CONSlMrrlVESca can be improved, and often
cured BY my recipe. Sent by mali Tor % John
H. Nc llvin, formerly Tax Collect or,Lewell. Mass
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TERMS FOR 1888, Including Postage

Single number of Blackwood, 30 cents single num-
Der of Review, rs cents
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KENNEBEC COUNT y In PROBATE Court,
augusta, the fourth Monday of JUN,
1883.
NJ s. MAYHEM, Administrator on the estate
W. Of Moses Cain, late of Mt Vernon in said
county, deceased. having presented his fret account
of administration OF said estate Tor allowance:
ORDERED, That notice thereofbe given three weeks
successfully, prior to the second Monday of August
next, in the kennebec journal, q newspaper printed
in that all persons interested may attend at
Court of Probate then to be holden at Augusta and
show cause, If any. why the same should not be
lowed.
EhERY O. BEAN Judge.
Attest ;-HOwARD OwKx. Register. 5v3os