Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-08-07
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missioners Monday Andrew Patrick,
road supervisor, District No. s, ten
dered his resignation, and J. S. James
son was appointed in his place.
Prof. A. z. Hartman and wife, Of
Baltimore, are the guests of Mrs. H's
father, Judge j. D. Armstrong.
a. W. Tennart, of Daniel Miller &
Co., was in town Wednesday. Mr.. T.
Is one Of the most popular of Balti-
more's numerous army of travelling
statesmen.
Miss Ida Z. Rigger, of Baltimore,
niece of eXMayor Wittig, is spending
her school vacation with that gentle
man.
Miss Nellie Faulkner, formerly of
this place, now Of Grass Valley, Cali
tornia, writes pleasantly of her new
home to q lady friend here. She
writes also that "the JOURNAL comes
weekly to remind her of sweet home
and ;friends.'
D. W. Sloan, OF Cumberland, was in
town Thursday help.ng somebody out
of legal trouble.
Tax collector Casey, of Mt. Savage,
was taken quite i'll here Tuesday.
Rev. R. f. Bishop called On the
JOURNAL yesterday. He has resided
several months in Philadelphia under
medical treatment for throat disease.
Breritics, The contract for furnish
ing the Western Maryland railroad
company with coal has been awarded
to Messrs. Steffey & Findlay and
Victor Cushwa, shippers Of Consolida-
ton coal company's coal at Williams
port, Md,
The Cumberland Times has found a
wizard Who 'can cast ont the duo
decimo editions Of Beclzebub,r etc.,
and do many other psychological
featS, the telling of which, the Times
says, would i'll book You are
an alehemist, said Shakespeare: make
gold" But the Cumberland magician
doubtless disdains the impossible so
long as there are disciples Of Chicago
platforms to transmute into goldbugs.
The author Of the serial articles APP
pearing in the Queen City Co&rier,
signed ''Calliope," is not Shadwood
Mynoky, as any critical reader will see
at a glance. Mr.. Mynoky is not
grand aggregation of the liar and
blackguard.
George +. Wheeler, Inspector, De-
partmcnt OF Maryland, G. A. r., re-
ports to the Department Encampment
among other items, that there was ex-
pended for charity during 1885
$l,43S.S3, as against $953.42 in 1884,
an increase Of 81 per cent" In the
same report we observe that the stand
ing of Thoburn Post, No. 81, of this
place, compares very favorably with
that Of the 3S other Posts in this State.
Somebody having reported 81 plums
on Il single twig, 81 inches long, of a
tree in the Engligh Lutheran parson-
age grounds, Alexander Tennant, of
Borden mine, comes along with
prong each digit Of which is 3 inches
long, containing 40 plums,
The County Commissioners will
meet Monday, September 6.
About | o'clock Monday morning
belated traveller, leaving town in q
buggy, ran into the stone pile on
Main Street in front of Jandorf's, and
had u big time getting his horse and
rig right side up. People sleeping
near by We're awakened by the dialect
of man persuading his horse to get
up and perambulatc. The language
was of a Cumberland mar who wanted
to get home p. d. q.
President James Kane, of the Frost
burg gaslight company, is introducing
Il new gas jet Of extraordinary il
Illuminating power.
Reports reliably pro ard con of frost
Wednesday morning have so confused
these "Brevities' that we submit them
to the whole house without any
recon mendation.
The word, "calliope," appears but
twice in this issue-that ia Difference
to the feelings of several respectable
members Of the fire company. In
mentioning this matter it Is proper
the JOURNAL should refer to the old
adage about ''black sheep IN every
tlock,' and to admit that perhaps it
was not sufficiently careful to draw
the line between the white sheep and
coiored mutton.
The democratic congressional con-
convention for this district will be held
in Hagerstown, Wednesday, Septem-
Der %.
Thomas Hill informs the JOURNAL
that Mrs. Shearer obtained her pension
by special act of Congress after her
Cumberland attorney had failed in the
regular way. So far as local credit
goes he believes he is entitled to all
that the last and successful assistance