Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1884-04-12

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ments. Such respect them without notice.
To others they are here given as rules for the
guidance of all who desire to take the JOURNAL.
The Tsude.-Reports of gradually
improving work flow in. Be patient,
boys; plants of slow growth are the
hardest.
Relf0ious.-On account of unad-
voidable interferences the Service of
Song will not be held in the Presbyter-
ian Church next Sunday evening as
was anticipated, but will be postponed
until some time later.
The stck.-Mr. J. S. Metzger has q
child very low with diphtheria.
Moses, little son of Mr.. John j.
Keller, is reported sick with diphtheria
at Ellerslie. DIR. J. NJ. Porter went to
see him yesterday afternoon.
Temperance Convention To-Day.-
A mass convention of advocates of
Temperance Reform will meet in Paul's
Opera House, this place, this morning
at 10 o'clock. We understand it is not
called in the interest of any one method
Of work, but for full and free dis
cussion. Prominent speakers will ad-
dress the Convention and as there will
be large and representative gathering
the deliberations will no doubt greatly
affect the future of the movement. A
cheap fare special train will run from
Cumberland. Five delegates to the
meeting::of the State Alliance at Balti-
more, April Is, 16 and II, will be
elected.
Old Soldiers Fatr.-There will be
meeting Of ladies at the fair room
Tuesday evening next to arrange and
trim the hall. All who can assist will
be welcomed.
All having articles to contribute to
the Fair will find members of the COM
mittee at the hall Thursday evening
next to receive them. 1t is very de-
sirable the contributions should be
sent in time to have everything prop
erly arranged by not later than Friday
afternoon.
There will be new features every
evening.
The committee is hard at work de-
vising schemes for an entertainment
which they believe will surpass in
novelty and interest anything of the
kind ever held in Frosthurg.
Vest Vi,gintu Anthracite Coal
We have before referred to the open
ing made in the Meadow Branch coal
field by our townsman, Mr.. G. Berke-
bile, superintendent. Further progress
in his work has enabled Mr.. Berkebile
to add something to the certainties of
quality and extent of deposit as had
been claimed by those interested. In
u recent official report to Mr.. John F.
Ehlen, president of the company, Mr..
Berkebile writes:
After sinking shaft of about 46 feet in
depth we struck the outcrop of a vein of coal,
and then drove drift in south by west d.
rection extending some seventy feet, when a
coal seam of ten feet was fully opened up as
measured by myself, and that it is as regular
in appearance as a coal vein can be, thus
proving beyond all doubt that the deposit is
of size and extent amply sufficient fo1
profitable mining. The quality of the cos,
as ascertained by practical tests of burning in
stoves. open CRATES, etc, is all that can be de-
sired, of which latter fact can send you fifty
testimonials of those who have used it, being
in this respect fully equal if not superior to
the best grades Of Lykens Valley anthracite
of Pennsylvania, which in burning it greatly
resembles, as well as in its intrinsic excel
lence, ours, however, making no clinkers,
which the Pennsylvania will do.
Canal A1airs-A public meetiu.
was held in Cumberland Tuesday even
ing for the purpose of inaugural
ing a movement looking to reductio,
of canal tolls. r. H. Gordon wa
CHOSEN chairman auu ~. L :. Mlller Sec
rotary. From remarks made it ap.
pears that at existing tolls the canal
cannot compete with railway freight
rates. Remarks were made by Messrs.
John Chambers, W. E. Griffith, Arthur
Dawson, R. H. Gordon, Frederick
Mertens, Patrick Mills and Hon Lloyd
Lowndes. The result of the meeting
was the appointment of the following
committee to lay the matter before -
meeting of the canal board, appointed
for last Thursday, as follows:
r. II. Gordon, chairman; John T.. Dixon.
Samuel J. Edwards, Robert r. Henderson,
William A. Withers Arthur Dawson Hervy
Laney, William E. Griffith, Samuel Some,
born, Henry J. Johnson, T. B. Taylor, John
H. Gaitrell, Christian Weaver, Martin Kinscll.
Benjamin F. Price, Charles Murray, Patricl
Carroll, Frederick Mertens ST., William
Young, George Hoskins, Samuel Vaughn.
The committee comprises eleven
business men, five boatmen, two boat