Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1885-12-26
WHOLE NO. 742.

and expedient to permit them to burn
all night. 1t would make up somewhat
for time lost last month, and also il
Illuminate the belated back street mans
way home from a visit to hospitable
front street neighbor.
Citizen" would seem to remark
| When Music, heavenly maid, was young,
1t nowhere doth appear
That she inspired the Arion band at night
And made existence drcar.
F. Minke, an old citizen of Cumber-
| land. is dead.
Horace E. Robinson, of Springfield,
Ohio, assisted by eight little girls and
an equal number of little boys, built a
neat little church of wood, representing
Christ and the Twelve Apostles, at the
Reformed Church Monday evening
Messrs. 7. G.. McCulloh, w. R. Viii.
son and Robert Shriver have been re
appointed School Commissioners.
Say, young man, do not get drunk
before the next issue of these "Brev-
ities," nor any other issue. If you do,
however, do not get "offensively"
drunk, or our police dignitaries, just
now specially on the qui cioe, will run
you in. We knew a man once who
was caught just in this way. With all
our fellow citizens, he enjoyed in court
the inalienable and oft exercised priv
ilieges of pleading guilty and being let
down easy. But he had also the right
to call for trial by jury, with all the
expensive frills and trimmings known
to the law. He chose the latter, from
which it may be safely inferred that
he was not regular bum with ex-
perience, hut man who stopped over
occasionally, and felt that he had Il
perfect right to do so. AT the end of
the investigation by a jury of his peers
they decided that he had been drunk
within the meaning of the statute.
The judge imposed q fine of S., which
lowered aloft upon an expense bill of
$14.95, with a two-story, bay-window
addition in the shape of IL lawyer fee,
the exact dimensions of which were
not given, but were supposed to be
about $5XS. The victim appealed to a
higher court, and now the sheriff and
lawyer have suit on hand to get TIE
same court to decide which owns the
traverser's farm, including the undis-
covered minerals. Do not, therefore,
monkey with liquor when it is red in
the cup, but if you do. just walk into
court and ask the justice to size up
the lowest holiday cash price.
C. M. Mckenzie will be appointed
postmaster at Brady's this county, oice
r. y. Bunce, removed.
The Annapolis correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun says:
An Annapolitan, who recently located in
Western Maryland, with hopes of building
up an oyster business in the mining regions
of Allegany, has returned home disguised
with his venture, and satisfied in his own
mind that the Western Maryland, particular
ly miners, are not partial to the oyster as an
article of diet Some of the miners, he said,
declared to him that they had never before
laid eyes on an oyster.
This statement hardly tallies with
our observation. A good many oys-
ters, such as they are, come to this re-,
gion. The practice, however, of send
ing us the city refuse at the same prices
and freights that good oysters can be
bought for is not conducive to an en-
larged and enlarging trade. ''The
Western Maryland people, are quite
as fond of good oysters as other folks
are. Moreover, they know them
when they see them, but they are not
accustomed to such goods. Perhaps
that is what ''some miners" meant
when they informed the Annapolitan
"that they had never laid eyes on an
oyster"
"Peck's Bad Boy" owing to an ac-
cident, failed to appear Tuesday
evening. He will be here on the
evening of Christmas day, sure.
The JOURNAL acknowledges three
handsome Christmas gifts.
Remember the prizes that are to be
won at Wineland's and Hartmans.
William Cole, colored, of Borden
Shaft, was sent to the House of cor
rection Friday of last week by Justice
Atkinson for vagrancy and disorderly
conduct.
The eastern wall of Bowery street
bridge was blown by the wind into the
railroad cut Monday night, just before
the special train passed. Fortunately
it was discovered in time to stop the
train before reaching it.
Christmas finds no ice bridge this
year. Perhaps Christmas will build
one before the week expires.
JOOII HOPpEoDOMOEM