Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1885-12-05

DTeCttteS'-lne BORDEN mining COM
pany closed Monday their shipments
by canal for this season.
R. M. Dyer, formerly of this place,
lost his all-about $1,000, in the
American hotel (Cumberland) fire last
Saturday. This makes the third time
he has been burned out within the last
eight months, first on Water street,
this place; second at Weston, w. Va,
and third in Cumberland last Satur-
day.
1t is reliably stated that at recent
meeting of the presidents of the coal
companies operating in this region
the hours of labor were reduced to 10
hours per day, this to continue the
year round.
C. W. Dooley, brakeman, killed on
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad near
Martinsburg, W. Va, Monday, was a
nephew of the wife of County Com
missioner Barrett, of Mt. Savage.
Little bureau had double-barreled gun,
And he loads it full with shot;
He fires it off in this cold cold, dreary world,
Just where the birds are not.
The most sociable people in Frost
| burg do not now know their nearest
neighbors when they pass each other
aft err p. m.
A grand skating carnival at Shaffer's
hall next Thursday evening.
Frostburg has taken a step back
ward toward the dark ages. Old, rusty
lanterns, long time ago abandoned,
have been ished up from dusty recesses
of household debris and made to do duty
again.
Tho JOURNAL has received from l..
H. Eldridge, editor of the Emporia
(Fla.) Gazette, a sprig of Florida mistle-
toe, for Christmas kissing purposes"
We have suspended it over the spot
where the bureaus meet.
"On the best authority" says the
Manufacturer and Builder, sit is be-
lieved that the first water works in the
United States were planned and con-
structed by John Christopher Christ
enssen, at Bethlehem, Pa, in 1902"
And we know by whom, when and
where the last were not built.
Ever and anon some scribe at Cres-
aptown, replying to one of our bureaus,
reviles this region by calling it Cum
berland." We have squeezed the
viscera out of that fraud long ago,
and the newspaper writer now so far
behind the age of letters on that sub
ject should have the dingus which
works his intellect set to reverse
motion.
One never fairly appreciates the
value OF health till sickness overtakes
him. So with light. Accustomed to
illuminated streets the old town does
not seem to be Frostbnrg any more.
Dives wanted water; so did we. Now.
dear city fathers, relent, and give us
the gas and complete again the sum OF
our joy.
A bureau used pen most audacious-
Writing for papers overmuch spacious,
And when it looked wise
You could tell by its eyes
That the people all thought good gracious"
The miners of the Meyersdale region
have given notice Of a demand for 80
cents ton on and after january l,
1856. While they were at it, they
might have asked for 36.
Slippery streets.
Did anybody smell p. G. on Broad
way several nights last week9 In
Difference to the ladies we will say
that p. C. means peculiar cat. Strange
what things are protesting against the
gasless lamps. Later.-Perhaps this is
the cat that the bureau wants "brung"
in.
"D'Louva " of Frostburg, writes a
letter severely criticising one of our
county contemporaries, the publica-
ton of which, for peaceable purposes,
we deem it best to postpone indefinite
ly. The matters referred to are
doubtless offensive to many people,
but time and growing sense are CO.
ordinate healers. In due course we
trust they will effect their perfect
work. Meanwhile we will preserve
"De Iowa" for use in the event of
the patient getting worse.
Mrs. Blasse sent the JOURNAL this
week treat Of very fine oysters. The
feast was goodly one, as any lover of
oysters may imagine. Hence, for us
and our house
Let Boston blue-bloods boast Of beans,
And Yankees of their pumpkins,
And English Hodge his pork and green's
There only rustic pumpkins.
The food beloved beyond them all,
In palace, hut and closter
| Ut might have caused poor Adams falD
Is just-the luscious OYSTER
! Samuel 7. Logsdon will open to-day
fresh meat store in room adjoining
W. H. Evans store on Bowery. Said
to be a long-felt want IN q populous
!