Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1884-08-02

! tulo" us oul VI water II uty OF TWO, VI
until it can be repaired.
! The mails for Homecoming have been
brought up to Frostburg and trans
ported hence on horseback.
Newspaper recitals afford no proper
conception of the ruin wrought by the
food Nothing less than a view of its
track will furnish an adequate idea of
its ravages.
We hear it stated as Sup't Burwell's
opinion that the C. & P. railroad can
not be fully repaired for two months.
Brertttes.--Mrs. Robert McCulloh,
un aged lady of Westernport, Md,
fell and fractured her thigh, on Fri
day evening of last week, and as she
has been an invalid for some time,
fears are entertained for her recovery.
Somebody in Frostburg gave Col.
William Flunckcl hootf. of Garrett.
bottle of amber liquor this week, and
that eminent gentleman writes so
car' acknowledgment Of the compli-
ment for insertion in the JoURN-U-AL
as below. This course on our part is of
course unusual, but the literary merit
of Col. F's letter Of acceptance claims
indulgence: e. kindly presented us
flask of roasting-ear syrup, vintage OF
1884, which he assured us was distilled
amid the hills of Garrett, mingling
with its aroma the perfume Of the
glade grass and the taste of the myriad
blossoms of that land Of sunshine. its
amber fluid holding in its clasp sur
cease from sorrow and tonic as en-
livening and as bracing as the breezes
of the north, a liquid pure as the
mountain rivulet, which we have laid
away, to be uncorked only when -
shall come unto his own again.
The passionate of the German Luth
eran church is again vacant, Rev. NJ.
Herberg having resigned and gone to
take charge of church in Tamaqua,
Pennsylvania.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. H. Evans, of this
place. gave at their residence Tuesday
evening very enjoyable party. A
number of persons We're present.
among them the Frostburg Hand-Beli
Ringers.
The reporter who represented great
loss of life and property at Frostbure"
to his city paper, ought to be fined for
absence unless he can show up a
reasonable excuse>
James Macdonald advertises bust
ness which will doubtless attract extern
sive patronage.
Our correspondence on first and Sec
ond pages contains pointed and inter-
esting matter. Mr.. Clawsky is quaint
and humorous; Mrs. Petty furnishes
a pleasing glimpse of life in the South
or historical reasons sc. c." cogently
protests against changing the name of
Dams Rock, and "Suggestion' advo-
Gates cisterns as q Interpretation expe-
dient.
Several large parties of Frostburg
people visited Dams Rock this week.
The Homecoming Reoie,r is able doubt
less to mature a fair idea Of newspaper
life in Venice. If on Tuesday editors
and employees did not pass to and from
work in swan-shaped gondolas, it was
from no lack of liquid thoroughfares.
Or if they were not forced to write ed
itorials and set type in II floating pal
ace, we join them i'll thanking fortune
that there was deficiency of fluid
compulsion.
The collection of corporate taxes by
Collector Williams for 1915 UP to
yesterday amounted to s., $50.
Owing to high water in the Potomac
the completion of canal repairs near
dam No. 1 will be delayed until the
middle of next week.
The Baltimore Sun contains an ac-
count furnished by Benjamin w.
Bradshaw at Ocean, of desperate en-
counter said to have taken place Sat
urday evening of last week between
Col. Bigelow, of Baltimore, and a party
of tramp hIghwaymen, who attacked
him while on his way from Ocean to
Homecoming. The Colonel routed his
assalants.
The City Council recently awarded
to John Meyers, of Bowery street, a
contract to furnish 400 perches of
broken limestone at $l.S7 cents per
perch. There were three other pro-
posals-$1.S7, $l.90 and 1926.
A baseball catcher and cigar
drummer exchangd satchels here on
the 4th. When the b. b. C. found a
pile of for IS instead of his uniform,
and the c. d. an eye-cage instead of
cigars, there was a mutual attempt at
trying to endeavor to make an effort to
recall the events of tho late but dim
| past.