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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1884-08-16

bushels per acre. The quality of both
wheat and oats is good. The prospect
for corn compared with an average
year is 100 per cent. better.
EDWARDS COUNTY.
The best yield Of wheat reported
from the vicinity of Kinsley is SO
bushels, Of superior quality. The oats
is also very fine. Corn looks well and
promises so bushels per acre, which
certainly answers very well for sec
ton Of "The Great American Desert"
FORD COUNTY.
Reports from Speareville are to the
effect that grain is not all harvested
yet, the season being little later in
the Upper Arkansas Valley than in the
southern and central portions of the
State. The indications are, however,
that wheat will average 20 bushels
per acre, some fields running as high
as 40. Oats will yield from 40 to so
bushels. The corn is excellent, much
better than was ever known in the see
ton before.
One fact of peculiar interest in con-
nection with the present situation in
the Arkansas Valley is that a heavy
immigration is now pouring INTO the
extreme southern counties, about the
only section Of the State where there
Is any considerable amount of govern
ment land unoccupied.' There has
been an abundance of rain all through
that portion of the State this year, and
those who are settling there have con-
tidence in the country, and believe it
will raise corn as we'll as Sedgewick
county. There is certainly no doubt
that the rain belt is extending west
ward every year all along the frontier
of these western prairies, and the re-
suits Of settlement, cultivation of the
soil, tree planting, etc, seem to justify
the hope that every acre between the
Missouri river and the Rocky Noun
toins will yet BIO included in farms.
The most serious difficulty with which
the farmers Of southwestern Kansas
have had to deal has been the lack Of
farm labor and the machinery in har
vest time. 1t WIS very difficult in
some cases to save all the wheat on
this account.
Do not wait until next Spring to zee
the promised Land but go there af
ter seeding time. Write to W. J. c.
Kenyon, Passenger Agent, 1873 West
Baltimore street, Baltimore, Md, for
maps and descriptive pamphlets, and
rates of fare, which will be sent free.
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CAN'T AFFORD 1T.
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pianof' said Uncle Josh, laughing.
"Well, l will
But when the wedding-day was fixed,
and Will consulted Uncle Josh about
= house, he was informed that Mrs.
Stanten's wedding present from her
new uncle would be q neat brown
stone house fully furnished, including
the piano, with one room reserved for
Uncle Josh.
The sun Of prosperity shines upon
Will, but he says his business success,
his happy home and his freedom from
worldly perplexities, have all depend
cd upon the good sense of his wife, who
in all her expenditures, all charities,
first considers whether OF not she can
afford the outlay and while she is
large hearted, she is never ashamed to
exercise economy, if necessary, or to
decline an extravaganza.
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Maryland Finances.

The total debt of the State on Septem.
Der Both, last, was Sll ,269, S22.S9. Against
this the state holds productive assets and
sinking funds amounting to So, 99G, 153. 81
leaving the net debt at 81 ,273, 669.35. There
! are are Offsets against this, three times the
amount of the debt bul their value is indef,
mite. Three millions Of the debt has inst
been refunded at lower rate of interest, the
state saving by the exchange of bonds more
than 800, 900 annually, OF the residue 1885,,
355 mature in the next three years as follows;
Currency 6s, maturing in 1885, S52S, 355 /;
Deaf and Dumb Asylum 6s, maturing in 1885,
SlOO, 900, Maryland Hospital is, maturing in
1887, $3.50, 900; total 1885, 1855. To meetthis
there will be cash balance of $780, 600 and
$500, 600 due from the Reading Railroad $780,.
600 of which will shortly be paid in cash and
$3.50. 900 in debenture bonds. Thus the me-
cessities o; The state can be easily and fully
met. In addition, the State has 1856, 600 in
Baltimore & Ohio railroad bonds Theee, i
Is presumed will be carried to the sinking
funds of that part of the Deaf and Dumb
Asylum loan tSl2a,0Q0l which natures in
1889, and 70 that part Of the hasBital Joan
lSl35,0e0l WHICH piatqres in 1891; F9r the
treasury relief loan, $500, 00Q,) negotiated in
1873 and payable in 1893. the sinking fund
hos been kept up regularly,
III Is thought INV ~ F4,v iItil " tHS stefi=
ing debt will become due IN 1889, further
operations may be carried on under the act
of 1872 (which authorizes the loan. of six mil.
lions, by amending it and reducing the rate of
intes.-.s 70 3.65 per cent. currency. Indeed,
a bill to this eiseat, i is understood, has been
prepared and will be sent to The Legislature
for its action. Under the act of 1872 only
81, 2O6, 10 was borrowed, and the act
authorizes the borrowing of a sufficient amount
TO cover The Indebtedness falling due in 1889.
By exchanging Sly per cents for 3.65s the state
would save ANNUALLY more than S95, GOO in in.
terest, and this saying would enable the
treasury officials toliqHidate some debts falling
due IN 1890,
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Sherman's Outrage Mill.

Senator John Sherman may be termed
the Republican leader in Washington. He
is the only one in either house of congress
who is making an effort to get the Repub
lican nomination for President, and he, of
course, would rather frame the issues. Last
week Senator Sherman started Bloody
Shirt campaign by the introduction of pre-
ambles and resolutions on the Danville, Va,
riot and political disturbances in Copiah
county, Mississippi, the whereases recitinS
the alleged circumstances of these affairs
and the resolutions calling for an investi-
CATION The resolutions were called up on
Tuesday afternoon when Sherman ground
the outrage mill, assisted by Malone, who
misrepresents Virginia. By aprevious agree
ment among the Democratic members, they
did not provoke discussion. They agreed
that they would take no hand in reviying
sectionalism, and let the Republicans have
it ali to themselves. After Malone ended
his speech the Republicans were astounded
and chagrined that the Democrats did not
reply. The Senators on the Democratic
side ta,lcd for O vote, and the resolution to
investigate was passed by a strict party vote.
This revival of the bloody shirt business
shows the weakness of the Republican
party. That party is afraid to go before
the country upon its record and its pro-
fessed principles. 1t fears the revenue re-
form issue raised by the Democrats, a.id
knows that a tariff for protection can no
longer deceive the masses. The leaders
see no hope except in revivipg the past and
arrayiRg section against section, The North
being the more populous and powerful they
would try to solidify it against the South
as the only hope of success. Sherman, and
Edmunds too, for he delivered n sectional
speech last week on the resolution, tried to
draw from Southern members some EXPIRES
sion that woull help to make up sectional
campaign thunder, but they failed of their
object. With the South the war is over
and bitterness and animosity have died out.
Sectiopalism and the bloody shirt are things
of the past, and the pasty that attempts to
revive them will be swept into oblivion:
The Republican party must go.
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Gov. MeLane's Labor Bills.


Gov McLane's six bills to elevate and
protect workingmen have provoked consid
cradle discussion. They are designed to
fix the hours Of labor, other than in agri-
cultural pursuits, for day, the Governor
believing eight hours sufficient to protect
the health of those employed in factories,
manufacturing establishments and work
shops, by requiring ventilation, cleanliness
and freedom from effluvia from drains, &c;
to legalize the organization of workingmen
for protection; to prohibit the employment
of children under ten years of age in fac
tories or manufacturing establishments, and
to limit the hours of employment of child
rem under sixteen years and women, the
Governor, in his message accompanying
the bills, designating eight; and to collect
statistics and information by the Board of
Public Works concerning the various
branches of industry, and the needs thereof,
and the abuses which exist therein.
We can see no objection to any of these
measures. While eight hours seems a
short time for labor of the twenty four, the
Governor has left the hours blank, and the
Legislature can fill them in just as may
seem best, after hearing the views of work
ingmen, making days work eight, nine
or ten hours. The Governor believes eight
hours sufficient, arguing that when the
dinner hour is included and the time re-
quired in going to and returning from work,
ten or twelve hours will be consumed He
believes it necessary for the health and the
mental and moral elevation of workingmen
that they have more time for recreation
and mental improvement. While he would
regulate a days labor by statute, the bill
also allows men to contract to work any
hours they choose.
Statistics collected in Great Britain, the
Governor said, showed that thousands of
children were being physically ruined by
overwork, and so crippled and MANNED that
they were unable to work, and became
paupers. He does not want women and
children made slaves of, and he believes it
TO be to the interest of the whole commu-
nifty that they be protected, and that work
ingmcn be given more time for mental and
moral elevation.
These bills have been framed after the
English statutes. There these regulations,
the Governor claims. have worked benefit
to the employed and the employer, and
there can be no objection to trying them
here.
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Legislative Notes.

| Last Friday Mr.. Shriver obtained leave to
introduce bill to provide for the regulation
Of voluntary tribunals to adjust differences
and dispates between employers and employees
in the iron, steel, glass, textlle fabrics and
coal trades, and in the manufacture gf 4rtlf-
eial mannres and Of tin cans, and in the pre-
serving and canning of oysters, fruits, &C.,
and in the operation of the railroads and tele-
graph lines doing business in this state.
The Senate passed the following billsi-
House bill to empower the commissioners of
Carroll county to build bridge over Piney
Run, Freedom district; House bill to estab.
lish pnblic,cemetery at Westminster. These
bills now go to the Governor.
A bill to do away with the e|aase in the
divorce lawwhich prohibits re marrying CAUSED
considerable discussion in the House, and was
voted down. In the House Ar, Switzerland,
of Charles county, offered bill to alloy eal,
ored men to practice in the courts of Mary
land, and another bill was introduced to IN
crease the jurisdiction ofjustiees OF the peaes
to $500. A bill to repeal the Carroll county
law " GtA uoSs loI thc DloteCioH VI eHecp WIS
passed. .
The Senate adjourned from Friday until
Monday and the House until Tuesday. In the
Senate on Monday number af bills were adj
vanced, second reading being given 10 ,hc
bill to amend the law in regard to the ''con-
tinuances' If common law cases by allowing
the court to inquire ipi47 the truth and mater
iality of the testimony of absent Witnesses be-
fore granting the same.
In the Senate on Tuesday Mr.. Shriver in
troduced a bill repeating several sections of
article Sc of the Code of Public General Laws.
relative to the issuing of licenses to restaurant.
keepers throughout the state. Itprovides that
any person proposing to open restaurant must
have in his establishment dining room, with
tables and tableware, and an oyster and eating
bar, and pay annually license of SIPS. In
edition, the applicant for license must be
recommended by three respectable citizens of
his neighborhood 10 the clerk of the court by
whom tits issued. Failure 70 comply with these
requirements subjects the offender to penalty
of from $50 TO 5000, or Imprisonment in jail
for forty days, The bill was referred to the
finance committee. Mr.. shriyer ALSO intro
daeed Q bill to sanction bequest Of caEelips
v. shreeve to Centenary N. z. Church, West
minister.
In the House great number 81 bills were
introduced, some wise and some otherwise.
Both houses held short sessions on We'd
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-02-02
New England Free Thinkers.

The New England Free Thinkers AS
sociation began its session at Boston on the
9th of January. The Association was
organized with bylaws demanding the tax
alton of churches, the repeal of the judicial
oath and of all laws enforcing the observ-
ance of the Sabbath and of Christian NOR
atty; that the Bible should be removed
from the schools, etc The following Off
GERS were elected: President, Horace Sea-
yer; Vice President, Elizur Wright; Re
cording Secretary, George n. Hill; Cores.
ponding Secretary, William s. Bell; Treas
urer, John A. O'Malley
New England Free Thinkers! Free
Thinkers Only another name for the
most pronounced infdels These people
are OBJ, ccts of pity, given over to hardness
of heart and blindness of mind. New Eng,
land people are sm gene,'is. There are none
like them in all the world beside. In the
days of puritanism they were the very re-
verse of free thinkers. So strict and con-
tracted was their piety, that a man could
not kiss his wife on the Sabbath, without
offence to their tender consciencies. They
would chang IL cat on Monday for killing
o. II mouse on Sunday" and they burned
men and women at the stake, as wizards
and witches, for conscience sake. They
ba 'ked, as they su9l osed, in the very sun
light of truth, aud were Gods peculiar pco-
pie, while all who were not ftheir commu-
Mon we've Gndthena mdrdndthd, Among
the officers of this association may b. rec
ognized some old fossils of in6delity who
lag superhuous upon the stage, but who will
endeavor, as long as they do live, to keep
themselves in the remembrance of the rest
of mankind, if only through an unenyiable
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-02-02
Results of High Tariff.

The strikes and general arrangement Of
manufacturing business throughout the
country are but the legitimate outcome of
protective tariff laws. High tariffs Insure
large profits. Large profits multiply man
nfactories A multiplicity of manufactor-
les causes oyer-production. Over-produc-
ton necessitates reduction of expenses by
reducing wages, lessening the hours of labor
or of shutting down altogether. By reason
of protective tariffs, high wages are insured
to workmen, but the market for our manu-
features is limited to the United States
While wages are good, the stOppages every
year or reduction Of wages until surplus
stocks are consumed, reduces the annual
pay to about the same foreign workmen re-
ceive American ingenuity, skill aud in
dustry, backed by ample capital, can sue
cessfnlly compete in the markets of the
world Reduce the tariffs and enlarge the
market, and labor and capital will stop
Earring and labor will obtain ample returns,
while the millions not engaged in manufac-
turing viii be able to buy most articles at
one-third less. This country is running
under high pressure. Eyerythingi is high
wages, cost of living, rents, salaries, every
thing is high. 1t is an age of prohigacy
and extravaganza, and there must be a halt
or collapse. This high pressure is almost
exclusively due to high tariff, and revision
and gradual reduction is essential to the
general 6Haacial and industrial welfare
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-02-02
Malone win Not Resign.

By the formation of the United States
Senate it is designed TO be conservative
body, not subject to every wave of political
agitation. Senators are elected by state
legislatures for term of six years, and
one-third ofthe membership can be changed
every two years. When Senator is elect
ed hecannot be required to resign; but when
the Legislature of his state calls upon him
to do SO, and formally asserts that he is not
a true and faithful representative, no gen
tlcman of proper scnsibilitics can ignore
the request Senator Malone has just
been formally and deliberately requested to
resign by the Virginia Legislature. The
Legislature say to him that he does not
represent the sentiments or wishes Of his
constituents. 1t is not the same Legisla-
ture that elected him, but it is a new one
fresh from the people, and among its mem
bers are many who were members of the
one that did choose him and aided in his
elevation. In asking him to resign, Malone
knows that the request is not that of two
thirds of the members of each branch of
the Legislature merely. He knows that
in doing so, the Legislature has voiced the
sentiment of a very large majority of the
people of the state Yet, Malone will not
resign. He will not yet pass into that po-
litical oblivion that awaits him should he
return to his native state. He will hold on
until his term expires, and occupy his time
in drawing his annual salary of five thou
sand dollars and traducing his state. He
is mean, bitter, corrupt and grasping. Ed
ucated at the expense of his state, he re-
pays her by dishonoring and traducing her.
Upon the plea of establishing "a Jiryinia
highway, he defrauded the state out Of her
interest in railroads. By Ing in her
dishOnOr, he placed himselfA ~ bower and
wealth. Beingdishonored at&ome, he now
parades as martyr to a free ballot and fair
count, when it is notorious that as pollu-
ter of the ballot he stands preeminent among
the worst But the record is too long.
No such man as Malone will resign. He
knows nothing of such feelings as would
prompt heightened gentleman to yield to
the wishes of his constituents. He is an
able man but an accomplished rascally po-
litician.
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nesday. A petition from ninety-three citizens
of Garrett county against local option was
presented in the Senate. Mr.. Shriver OBJ
tanned leave to introduce bill to legalize
bequest of Mary Ann Webster to the NJ. P.
Church, Westminster. A favorable report
was made upon the local option bill for Gar
rett county. The House bill to repeal the
Carroll county sheep law was favorably re-
ported. The Senate bill allowing judges of
election to fill vacancies was ordered to be
engrossed. Eugene Humphrey was confirmed
as Fish Commissioner.
In the House petitions were presented from
Emmittsburg protesting against granting pow
ers TO increase taxation to the burgers and
commissioners of that town. The bill grant
ing this power was read the first time. The
Senate bill to incorporate the Westminster
cemetery company was passed to second a
reading.
In the Senate on Thursday bill was intro
duced to provide that all checks, bills of ex-
change or drafts appearing on their face to
have been drawn upon any bank, or upon any
banking association or individual banker,
which are on their face payable on any spec
fled day, or in any specified number of days
after the date or sight thereof, shall be deemed
due and payable on the day mentioned for
the payment of the same, without any days of
grace being allowed, and it shall not be neces-
sary to protest the same for non-acceptance.
The following bills were passed House bills
to repeal the law for the better protection of
sheep in Carroll county; to allow widows with
children $3.50, or without children $50, from
the personal estate of deceased husbands, to
be paid after the funeral expenses and costs
of administration, and not before, as is now
the case.
In the House the following bills were read
first time To authorize the Mayor and
Council of Union Bridge, Carroll county, to
issue bonds to reduce the present indebted
ness of the town and for the building of town
hall; to amend the charter of the Western
Maryland Tidewater Railroad Company, to
enlarge its powers and to authorize it to make
certain contracts with the Western Maryland
Railroad Company; to authorize the Western
Maryland Railroad Company to become the
lessee of railroads, to purchase them and to
acquire and hold shares ofthe capital stock,
and guarantee the bouds of such companies.
The Senate bill to amend the charter of the
Westminster Cemetery Company was passed.
This bill now goes to the Governor.
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Legislative Work.

Members of the Legislature receive five
dollars per day for the session, which is
limited to ninety days. For the first few
weeks both houses adjourn from Thursday
until Monday, from Friday until Tuesday,
and so on, there rarely ever being session
on Saturday the first month. Taxpayers
unfamiliar with Legislative work regard this
as useless. 1t is true legislators do not
exhaust themselves in work, but these ad-
tournaments are necessary. All bills are
referred to committees These committees
work during the recesses and consider and
digest the measures and report them favor
ably or unfavorably. Six can reach con-
clusion with greater facility than sixty, and
committee reports are generally accepted.
If bills were to be considered entirely in
open session the ninety days would pass
with but little accomplished This is true,
yet some people are not aware Of it, and
think our Legislators are idling their time
away and uselessly spending the public
money. The first two weeks of the session
of the Connecticut Legislature the Senate
had been in session just one hour and the
House less than three and a half hours.
What would our grumblers think of that ?