Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1885-09-05

got into an alteration Friday evening
of last week in this place. One of
them had his wrist slightly cut.
In the U. S. circuit court in the case
of the Merchants and Miners COM
pany against the Consolidation coal
company for damages by collision of
steamers Frostburg and Berkshire,
decree has been entered awarding the
Merchants and Miners company
$3S, 100 for damages to the Berkshire,
and SEQ, 273 for damages 70 her cargo,
in all $775,072.
A prospector for Garrett county sill
yer struck a nugget of solid iron near
Braddock's road the other day. 1t is
perfectly round, doubtless lost from a
caissou in 1859 over two inches in
diameter, and hard as base ball.
The potato bugs are about through
with harvest, and are engaged in pros
pecting for eligible sites for winter
quarters. Those residing in Frostburg
manifest a decided preference for the
under side of a rotting sidewalk.
The Philharmonic Society, of this
place, announce grand vocal and in
strumental concert at Odd Fellows
Opera H. use Wednesday evening, 23d
inst. Misses Maggie Gunter, Lizzie
Lewis, Mollie Farrady, Rhoda An
drew, and Messrs. Richard Harris,
leader; David L. Jones, organist, and
W. Scott Burton, Jacob Llewellyn and
William Hooking, all cultivated in
strumental and vocal performers, will
participate. Attend home talent de-
serves home encouragement.
A short time ago Mayor Wittig, &C.
companied by several Councilmen,
made an inspection tour of tho lanes
and alleys in town. The report re-
turned discloses q coalition anything
hut fragrant and healtbful. The trip
was lengthy and included thorough in
sight into the slaughter houses also.
Some of the evils have been remedied,
but not as eiIectua!ly as desired. In
time, however, the strong arm of the
town authority will be felt in this di-
rection.
The county school commissioners
have reduced the coming school
tr,T he H.
unavoidable. Schools will open on
the l4th inst,
Oar Eckhart correspondent smiles
upon US this week with his usual inter
es,ing budget.
a. A. Rogers has just completed
life like crayon portrait of Capt. Mel
son Beall, 1t could not have been bet
ter executed.
The Frostburg correspondence of
the Cosyier ana Easicw give blood-curd-
ling accounts of physical and Rolitisal
conditions here. So lurid are affairs
that II is hard to tell which is the worst
state of being--to have the ''Aux" or
be "Gorman man." The latter, how
ever, is to be wiped out, soon after
which, it is hoped, the other disease
will secure exterminating attention.
William Brace, trustee, sold at pub
lie auction last Saturday the John
Ware property, in McCulloh's ad-
dltion, to William McLuckie for $3.50.
The miners of the Potomac coal
company loaded 993 tons one day last
week at the mine at Barton.
In the Cralgen-H acknowledgements
case the question turns on the place of
Craigen's residence. There is no
doubt he is alive, but where does he
exist9 Does ne lie in Washington
where he clerks, or does his FAMILY
personate his breathing, moving and
being in Cumberland We do not feel
Extensively partisan in this matter, but
this question of residence is
ga way we long have sought,
And moulned because we found it not"
A New York gentleman, renewing
his subscription to the JOURNAL, writes
that ne f'lilEes the compact style with
which your coal statistics a.e made up.
The comparisons are also just what
people interested in the coal trade
want" Yet there are people, more
deeply interested, wig say nobody
reads the coal tables-nobody wants it
When it comes to discussion of the
trade, however, the New Yorker comes
out ahead.