Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1884-07-05

$24,555.23 will certainly reach the
same destination, making, IN all,
$7O,5O2.23 that will undoubtedly go
to the city in return for its outlay OF
$4,000, or repayment Of the prin-
cipal and II per cent. over. We know
Of plan whereby debtor may OBJ
tain interest upon money he pays a
debt with, but of none other than the
Cumberland scheme with a rate over
6 per cent.
Mayor Hebb claimed too little when
he stated to the commissioners that
the city paid nearly one-third the
county taxes, and vastly too much
when he demanded on this account
$4,000 and got $4,000 for city roads
and streets.
This fact will become more en-
phatic when we come to look at the
road account itself.
Of the $19,951.23 levied for roads
$1O,364.25 has been or will be spent
IN the Cumberland collection district.
In other words, district paying q
fraction over one-third the levy for
roads gets back over one-half that
levy. Look at the tell-tale figures:
$1O,364.25 to one district which pays,
say $500, against $9,596.9s to three
districts that pay, say $13,45o! Con-
slider, too, that the roads Of the three
districts are constantly in worse con-
dition than those Of the district 80
literally treated.
Is there cause for wonder that COM
plants loud and deep thunder all
along the line? Yet this is the log
ical, natural sequence Of the annual
argument submitted by Cumberland.
Who is responsible for this gross
discrimination!
1t is quite idle to charge it to the
commissioners, who are notapt to sup
ply demands that are not laid before
them. The trouble lies at the doors
of the country people themselves,
who either do not study their rights
and wants, or do not make them
known.
Not 80 Cumberland. Ever on the
alert, the city people, united and con-
current in greed and presumption,
every year harvest the fleece and laugh
at the unresisting flock.
A QUESTION has been lately sprung
concerning the photography Of the
ancient proper noun, "Barrellville."
When consulted, the JOURNAL main
tanned that Barrelvilie was proper,
III consonance with tile antediluvian
distinction won by the city as an ex-
port point for the shipment of shin
giles, slaves, hoop-poles, barrels, and
other petit lumber to Havilsh, Assyr-
ia. and other foreign countries of that
age. All the merchandise named was
then dug ONT Of the ground at Well
lersbury. place named after old
Tonv's Adam. Distinct traces Of
kegs, barrels, hogsheads, and other
cylindrical fora are discoverable in
the immense carboniferous strata Of
that region. Outside Of geological
demonstratlons, however, 30 excellent
was the quality of Barrelville mer-
chandise that the fame of the city
spread through all lands and thrilled
all peoples. In aftertimes history re-
peated the rise of Barrelville IN the
upbuilding Of Cumberland. the pres
ent Carthage Of Allegsny county, in
fact, the alleged shipping point of'the
best known steam-raising fuel. And
now, wherever our commercial mis-
sionaries preach the semi-bituminous
gospel, there the name of "Cumber-
land" is spoken in memorial of the
good thing done in consenting to the
, baptism of our coal in her own sym
phonic and elliterative name. But
to return. The flood came along
shortly after the Flintstone caverns
were established, and in the upheaval
Barrelville lost position as a seaport
and became subsequently all inland
station on the Cumberland and Penn
sylvania railroad, and the proposed
junction Of that thoroughfare with
the Wellersburg trunk line. Long
research, pathological, geological and
historical, led us to believe In Barrel
vile, but recent Official letter, which
we have been permitted to consult,
informs us that the place is under
stood to have inherited its name from