Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-04-24
despotsm in Garrett county, in Oakland last
Wednesday evening.

| deSpotSln III Garrett county, in Oakland last
| Wednesday evening
Notes by the Way.-Thc Beech Creek
PoCahontas, Broadtop and Chesapeake and
OHIO coal regions are away ahead of last
years production to this period Georges
Creek and CIeariied away behind.
The Coal Trade JoulWdi says:
Soft coal of all kinds is finding its way
into this market, and there does not seem to
be any dearth of coal only the variety is mix
ed and coal is offered to which the average
buyer is unused. At Amboy one can see
of Pennsylvania soft Goals We heard of
some Meyersdale coal selling at S4.30 at New
York last week.
In another connection the same paper con-
tends:
1t is the cheap coal that takes the trade
every time, and prices have been forced to a
very. low range by the most eager COM
petition
Again:
Foreign coal arriving here for use in
foreign vessels, does not get into the customs
returns; at least we should judge So
How about that for use in native vessels?
Which reminds us-is it not long time
Secretary Manning is taking to answer Mr..
McComas inteTogatories?
Pocahontas put out "a, pa tons last week,
more than double the usual quota
Anthracite production is forging ahead at a
lively pace this year. The record to the 10th
inst. show an increase of 165l, IFS tons over
the corresponding period of last year
Meanwhile bituminous shipments eastward
have fallen off 302, 460 tons, due to suspensions
on account of wage differences.
"SoCialistc movements in
England and the United States" which opens
the May number of Frank Ieslies Popular
Nonthty, is Il most timely and wel.written
article. 1t reviews all the ideal schemes put
forward to bring about state where all shall
have equal enjoyment with the least possible
labor where there shall be no wealth, no
crime. The article on Poetic Dancing"
discourses of the ballet and its royal founder,
King Louis XIV. William Elliot Griftis
takes 4 stroll through old Yeddo, and inter
ests us in old japanese life. "The Fruit
Ships at New York. will surprise many who
have little idea of the enormous value and
variety of foreign fruits that are brought
to this one port, which in this respect has no
rival on earth. "The American Goldsmith"
by Walter Edgar McCann, brings the reader
to know and appreciate the most enduring
ofAmerican poems, "The Old Oal;en Bucket"
''Weimar on-theIlm,' tells very entertain
ingly Of the city associated with Goethe
Schiller Herder, Wicand and Lizst. Mr.
Holder treats of the electricians of the Sea"
the various kinds of fish to which nature has
given electricity as a defense and power
"'rhe Etna of the Antilles" describes our
nearest volcano, as 'Stonehenge and the
Druids' recalls the long past. The stories by
Florence Marryat, Charles L. Hidreth, w.
II. Watt, Elnor Brooke and others, are all
capital, and the minor articles full of interest
Anniversaries occur frequently among the
OIL friends on our exchange list hence, the
JOURNAL, solidly attached to all, sometimes
overlooks one inadvertently. But there is an
interest felt in the locality and environment
Of the Luray (Va.) courier more than passing,
and we take pride as we'll as pleasure in re-
cording its advent this week to the twentieth
year as creditabe alike to the merit of the
paper and the intelligence of its large c1iente1e
Brevities.-Aboutt this time look out for
the usual Easter storm.
Work ON the new city building has been
resumed.
The latest weather prophet predicts winds
and irosts about tomorrow and next day.
From an orthodox standpoint it is not often
that "winds and frosts'' travel in company
One indictment under the new minor liquor
law.
If you would preserve health without the
pains Of repentance, keep on your hannels
awhile yet.
1t is good thing we have no street rail
ways, or we would have to walk, sure.
The pavements at upper end of Frosts'
avenue are thoroughly "broke up.' The
tlagstones and curbstones are lying and
standing in all attitudes except the right
ruSted out by artesian water.
After all, perhaps arbitration is only salts
factory when it arbitrates.
The scarcity of local items this week may
be illustrated by the small numbers of Cum
berland miners standing around the mouths
of the Cumberland mines in Cumberland
talking about the probable duration of the
suspension of Cumberland work in the Cum
berland coal region.
Considerable determination to unearth the
theft of the mining bill is manifested.
A vote to throw off the yoke Of local option
in Garrett county will be taken next Tuesday,
9th inst. Meanwhile excitement runs high,
and the battle is waged with all the heat and
force that apparently even odds bring out.
Not the least entertaining feature Of the con-
test is IL joint stumping tour of the county by
DR.. Il. H. Bartlett, of Garrett, against, and
w. NJ, Price, of this county, for local option.
Both are singe-cats, and they do say the at
mosphere becomes so hazy with fur at times
that the audience cannot tell till the clouds
roll by which is Bartlett and which Price.
Situation unchanged.
The discovery of Luray caverns around here
is rapidly growing into another confirmation
OF the doctrine Of over-production.
Reliable reports have reached these "Brev-
ities' that the merry month of May will
bring Il matrimonial boom.
This is the last paragraph 'made up" this
week-to record the fact that we have over
looked publication of the Grand Jury Report
Hard Work.-Very many people have