Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-11-13
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thirteen summers, has been sentenced TO
two years imprisonment in Michigan
Jail for horse stealing.
Dakota people do not see any good
reason why the Milwaukee railroad
should charge only 3 cents a mile in the
States all about and in Dakota
William Tough. in Walsh county,
Oak, seems to be rightly named. He is
reported to have decamped recently
With a Mrs Sanderson and her two small
sons, taking seven head of horses and a
wagon and harness they did not own. A
reward of 500 is offered for them.
There are two so-called black districts,
one in South carolina, represented in
Congress y Robert Smalls, the famous
negro pilot of Fort Sumter memory: the
other in North Carolina. Hnresented by
James f. O'IIara, a bright. wcl-educated
mulatto, native of New York City.
Several weeks ago Mrs. Query, Of
Sumter county. Ga, dreamed that her
husband, long dead. had appeared to
her ard said ''Rhoda, l have not
come for you now, but in four weeks
from tonight | will come for you" En-
actly four weeks from that night Mrs.
Query fell i'll, and 1t is said that the
chances of her recovery are very slight.
1t is reported that in the 81 hours pre-
ceding the rain the past week the Red
river fell II inches, and aftervard rose
about a foot. The scientists say the rise
was not due to rain. but that the stream
always falls before rain ald resumes
afterward. The philosophy of this is
not stated, nor whether it applies to all
streams.
The Marquis de Morest. the Dakota
ranchman, and his wife have been down
the Little Missouri some time hunting
and having fine sport. At last.accounts
they had killed six mountain sheep, two
elk and several antelope, and black and
white tailed deer, and were about tack
ling big black bear The madame is
an expert shot.
There is pretty good evidence that
MIS-. Celia Monroe, coiorad woman
who died in Kansas City q few days ago,
was 1875 years old. She was the mother
of 16 children, the four youngest of
whom are living at the ages of "A, 63,
IS and so wears. Her second husband
died so years ago. A week before she
died she was around the house sweep
ing.
Quails are almost unknown in Dakota,
and some of the gun clubs are trying to
intro luce them. The Kimbal Graphic
notes as q remarkable freak that eight
of the little birds alighted on the sides
walk in the business part of the city
recently. They were evidently bewi d.
cred strangers to the country, or the
street was one of those noted some
times, where the merchants do not adj
vertiSe.
William II. Dennis left Buffalo II
weeks ago in a clinker boat 10 feet 6
inches over all, a feet 10 inches beam,
and carrying an 11-yard sail. His com
panions were brace of pointers His
trip was by way of Lake Erie, the Mia
mi canal, the Ohio and Mississippi riv-
ers, the Gulf of Mexico. Atlantic ocean.
Hudson river and Erie canal back 10
Buffalo. He arrived at Memphis On
Thursday. His expenses at that time
la! only been 81.
The number of bound volumes of doc
Uments for the private use of the mem
bcrs of the House of Representatives for
the past session of Congress is IA, 900.
This exceeds by half the number bound
for the Folty>eighth Congress. The vol
umes were mostly ibound in expensive
material, half Turkey being the most
popular, and the estimated cost is about
s25, 900. The members either give the
works to favorites among their constitu-
ents or keep them for their own private
libraries. A prominent official of Con-
gress, speaking of it. SAYS; 1T is pure
demagogy. would call it steal but
cover of the law
One of the most curious statistical
records recently compiled is that of DR..
Sal2mann. of Essling in Wurtemberg
lie found, on going over the ancient
records of Essling, that in the sixteenth
century the average duration of life
among the physicians was 36.5 years:
in the seventeenth, 45.S; in the eigh>
teenth, ass, while at the present time
the physicians of Wurtemberg reaches
the very favorable average of 56.7 years.
1t would appear that this very great in.
crease in longevity was due to the dis
appearance OF the rest and the great
diminution in the number of typhus ep-
demics. The black death, or black
pest of t c fourteenth century, deci~
mated the practitioners of that epoch.
Guy de Chaulac suffered from it twice
and recovered; Chalin dc Vinario sue
cumbed.
Mr.. Arthur shurtleff, Parker. Dakota, writes
that he suffered for two years with lame
knee which was entirely cured by the use of
st. Jacobs Oil He considers it most WON
derful remedy. 1t conquers pain.
Jay Gould is said to have a superstition or
fear that he will some day be killed i'll IN
elevator.
Mr.. L. D. Ninson, Cashier d. & ]. r. r, has
:ricd and endorses Red star Cough Cure.
Deputy Mayor Berlin sent Mike Harring>
ton TO the wo k house for b days.
General j. H. Van Aliens estate proves to
have the value OF 81, $50, 600.
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