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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-07-17
OHIO COAL.
Points From the Report of the State
Inspector of Mines

Inspector of Mines.
The Inspector starts out by saying that
the record of improvement in the mines Of
the State during the past year has kept pace
with that of the preceding year, notwith-
standing the adverse condition of the trade
The reports say that during the year &c
mines have been worked out or abandoned,
and % Few mines have been opened in the
State. The year closes, says the Inspector,
44 mines, each employing II or more men !,
md 214 small mines, the latter being in the
counties of the Muskingum, C1lumbiana and
Lawrence. Muskingum has the largest num-
Der o. mines, but Perry employs the most
men. To this your correspondent can safely
add that when the Black Diamond Railroad
and the Columbus AMI Southeastern are COM
pleted and drive through the vast coal fields
Of Bush creek, Muskingum county will be-
come the banner coal county of Ohio.
According to this report there are 1874
miners employed in the % coal producing
counties in the State, and the average time
made by each miner during the year was
POI days, an increase of two days over 1884
The mines that employed 10 men and up
ward produced astonnage Of 1916, 179 and of
This amount 6,635,O29 was lump and 1,lsl, $50
was nut.
The whole number Of deaths in mines for
the year is placed at 81 and the accidents at
q, being an increase Of deaths and II ecci>
dents over that of 1881. The Inspector thinks
that nearly all of these were the result of
carelessnes, and could have been avoided.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-07-17
The Grant Family.

A relative of the Grant family is authority
for the statement that the married life OF
Nellie Grant Sartoris is far more humiliatine
and unpleasant than has heretofore been
made public. She lives with her husbands
father in the north of England, where she is
treated like poor relation. She AMI her
children have two rooms. Her husband, it is
said, has not contributed to her support for
years, and is now racing about Engl and
spending the meagre allowance received
from his father. The story continues that
for two years before General Grants death
money was regularly sent to Nellie, and
when he became impoverished his greatest
regret was that he could not assist Nellie
The members of the Grant family who still
contribute to the support of Mrs. Sartoris
have long urged her to return to America,
bur Mrs. Sartoris will not listen TO the propo-
sitioa, and protests that she will break with
her family if these opportunities continue
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-07-17
OVER NIAGARA.
Foolhardy Feat of a Philadelphia
Cooper.

Carlisle d. Graham, young cooper livini
on South Twentieth street, Philadelphia
successfully rode through the whirl.
pool rapids of Niagara river in a barrel
| For the past two months he has been in Buf
| falo building his barrel and making prepa'
rations for the ride. He built the barrel him
| self in which he took his ride.
Wh,n everything was ready Graham got
into the barrel and closed the man. hole ut thu
top. At this point of the river the curren
is very slight. A small boat towed the casb
out into the river to a point where the cur.
rent would catch it, and whence Graham
was started on what might havs turned out
to be his trip to eternity. The towing pro
ces took only fsw minutes, and then the
stream caught the cask and star ed it toward
the whirlpool.
At first il moved slowly down, then faster
and faster, until the mai current rushed II
with its full force. The cask bounded uI
and down over the great waves and severa
times turned complete somersault, but the
wider portion remained uppermost, although
it turned around like top. The cask kept
pretty we'll in the center of the river until il
reached the whirlpool when it struck side
current and was clrriel rapidly through
reaching the waters beyon in safety. From
here the journey was comparatively quiet
The cask was picked up at Lewiston, about
miles below the starting point. AMI Graham
craw.ed out of the barrel with only a slight
bruise on his arm. He rem ,rkei, When
struck the eddes it was one continued round
of jerks, but am not hurt Bit
The cask is seven feet long, thirty-three
inches in diameter at the widest portion,
twenty-three inches at the top and eighteen
inches at the b tom. 1t is b)u I'd arou nd
with iron hoops which weigh $50 pounds
The ballast which was attached t, the cask
to kept in position, weighs 2i1 pounds.
Graham will probably repeat the trip. He
says he will yet go over Horse Shoe Falls.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-07-17
BASE BALL

THERE Is a boom in baseball in The South.
JERSEY CrY's coloreI pitche~s' doing fine
work
THE Detroits have lost fcw gamc5 on their
own grounds
THERE are ZOE players under contract in
the South IN LeagIe
You've HsSprBoE, the Pittsburg pitcher,
Is making fine record
TIE Virginia Ia seha'l Association has been
admit TO the Nation agreement
PITrsBURG is the first Association club 20
! tie whitewashed twice in succession this sea-
son.
ORoUREE, Arson and Conner are running
a great race to lead the League in tbs bat
ting.
SMITH and De ksr, tn, now ba.tery Of thc
Detroits, wero purchasel from ths Macon
GA Club.
THE Association pit hers still hold their
own in batting OF the first ten batters fivc
are pitchers
Il the League it is q close race between
Detroit Chicago and New York for tho
championship.
BROWNING, the le, batsman OF the
Ameri an Asso iation, hs been suspended
indefinitely for ba1 playing.
RADBoURS, of Bo tor, is rapidly gaining
his old form. In the last II gamer only Us
hits have been made OIL his delivery.
THERE is a growing demand for National
League of umpireS Until this is brought
about umpires will always he in hot water.
THE Atlantas have TO their credit nearly
225 stolen bases for the present season This
is more than any other club in thu country
has
Ing ems and kan>as Cltys, have played two
of the longest and best games OF the League
series.
LATHAM has made more runs for the st.
Louis Club this season from base HIS than
any other player in the American Asso ia
ton.
OF the leading Southern teams threat
lant1, Nashville and Memphis have the ad-
vantage of finishing at home with Il teen
straight games.
HINES, of Washington, aud Rowe and
the Lea yue who have battel for a total Of
ten i'll one game.
THE New Yorks won nine OF the twelve
games which they playel on their Ia / west
ern tour, tn 'ir defeats being one in Chicago
and two in Detroit
PirCEE SroIG, of the YALE GLIB, struck
out mn ty-threc in nine gam S, an average
of over ten to a gam. He is to remain in
college two years longer.
JUST think of it, a left fielder to put out
ten men in on, game. That's what Jones, OF
he Cincinnati $, did in st. Louis recently.
We are under TIL impression, says SEo ting
LtJe, that this has never been equa!e1 in
professional base ball
TIE Boston Courier strongly insists that
there is no second baseman who can com
pare with BIrdoc,i in allroun play. Til re
are players who make less errors but for
accuracy AMI plays that require quicknes;,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-07-17
NEWS NOTES.

IN Montana alone there are s 900 different
registered cattle brands.
THIS years wheat croo is the heaviest
ever harvested in California
A TOTAL of 100000 gallons of milk was
sold in Chicago last year, for about $500
00).
THERE are sixty thou all volum IS in the
Boston State Library, and not one novel
among them.
TIE question of using bloodhounds to pur-
sue the Apaches is being discussed by the
Arizona press.
VARIOUS countries of South America are
to unit in an exhibition of their products
at Berlin i'll September.
FOR the ast ten years tn, increase of the
Mormon population in the United States has
been about }5 per centun.
COLORADO offers a premium of 50 per 100
for every line of trees maintained along
bitches fences and highways
A PROPOSITION meeting with favor in the
Republic of Mexico calls for the establ. h.
ment OF savings bank for soldiers.
THE total number of dwelling houses in
Boston is IS, $685. of which 3n, POS are of wood,
1909 brick, 291 stone and the balance of
miXel materials
SENATOR MITCHELL, Of Oregon says that
Portland is one of the wealthieSt cities in the
lionaires and large number of men who are
worth over h alf million.
Or the $50 pris oners in the penitentiary on
Blackwells Island, New York City, only
three refuse to go to church These are Herr
Most, the So 'ialist, an his companions,
Braunschweig AMI Schenck.
CANNING clans at Islip, Long Island, N.
Y, is an established Industry. Between 300
and 500 bushels of clans are used daily at a
first cost of seveaty-fve cents buShel Clan
juice is bottled and sold by druggists as a
| cure for dyspepsia.
A SCOTCH colley belonging to Christian
Tomling, of Louisville, KY, has adopted a
brood of little hi kens which have lost their
| mother. At night the dog guards them in
his kennel, and by day he s.ratche, up food
for them. He also shares his meals with his
adopted family.
RArTLESNAXE JIM, of Wooster, Ohio, says
that the only rel abe cure for the bite of a
rattlesnale is turpent ne. He says that a
bottle of turpentine held over the bitten
SPOT, the un corkpd mouth down, will draw
out the poison, which can be seen as it enters
the turp ,ntine i'll a sort OF blue flame. AL
though he has never been bitten, he has
tried this cure on his dogs always with
success.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-07-17
THE TRADE CONDITION.
Summary of Reports from the Lead.
ing Cities of the Country,

Tne Intervention Of what amounted prac-
|, tcllly to double holiday at this dull period
OF midsummer tended to specially reduce
the total volume OF merchandise distributed
during the week. Yet some trade features
reported are encouraging The bank clear,
'ngs Mt twenty-n'ns cites this week aggre-
iate ss37. is3 Ais-five days only,-against
sN6S,5iO,20T one week ago, and as compared
with $T6l, SSS ,036 the second week
IN July, 1SS5-six diys,-a favor.
able exhibit. There is conspicuous
ibsence OF labor troubles throughout the
nntry, and leidins textile and metal in
ius'ries nrs busily employed. Mercantile
objections have notably improved at nearly
all distributing centers. Tbs demand for
funis is active at New Orleans and Boston,
where money has been tight and interest
rates higher, and is increasing at Philadel-
phia aud St l. Iuis The supply exceeds the
demand at Cl'cigo and X ,nsas City. But
the visible signs OF the rep )rtei improvement
aie found In the hardening tendency in grain,
pork, lard, wool, cotton, brown and bleached
cottons AMI print cloths. Iron and steel
are firm, and, while not higher, are not like,
" to grow lower. In fact, there is some gain
IN the tone Of the market.
Higher prices for wheat were based largely
1n reported damage to the spring. wheat crop
from drouth. Chicago operators magnified
tie damage, and with others unduly advanced
quot atoms. Sales TO reil.zs profits, after
gain Of nearly &c per bushel backed by the
f,cts OF needed rains on Thursday, caused
reaction. No. ? red closed a. New York at
CSC, against sjsstc week ago. Heavy re-
auctions in stocks Of wheat here and
abroad t65, 100000 bushels wheat and
Hour in the Uuited Kingdom and
United States since January IL, and less
favorable crops prospect abroad, helps the
advance, Corn sympathzed. Oats ar,
higher on poor crop prospects. Pork and
lard have lost some Of their advance on spec.
ulative sales, under cover Of the advance in
grain. Raw cotton is 4 higher on better de
msnd and unfavorable crop reports in the
South Atlantic States Wool remains firm
at previous advances, and manufacture are
buying more freely. Higher prices for new
makes Of brown and bleached shirtings and
sheetings and for print cloths characteriz
the firm tone and confidence shown in the
dry goods trade.
The unfavorible wheat~crop reports, with
the continued war Of rates among the granger
roads and a jud;cious manipulation of both
by interested PARTIES, checked the advance in
railway shares on the New York Stock Elk,
change. The declines, asiie from a few
stocks, were not marked, and the market
gives evidence of being held well in hand by
he ciques. Bonds continue firm, particu-
arly Governments. Call loans are 2IS to
81 per cent and exchange is weaker
Reports from Montgomery county, N Y,
show that the h ,p crep in that county will
be almost a total fail ure. Many growers say
that it will not pay to pick the vines They
are confident that good hops will command
o. cents mr. mora
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-07-17
Destruction of Wheat

Prof. Dodge, the statistician Of the Agri
cultural Department, says concerning tn,
various estimates made from his last rep or
on the wheat crop, that though tho averag
OF condition Of spring wheat on the first day
OF July was %, it fell to Sc at the tims o
harvest, which is only three points higher
than the present condition, and represents
loss Of less than 8 100000 bushels as com
pared with the result of last years harvest
The damage occurred last year in the las
two weeks of July and later. There is grea
risk of further damage during July am
August, but that already reported mean,
only loss of G.o0O 900 bushels in spring
wheat and 5.0OO,O0J in winter wheat, or
total loss OF ITO 0,OOo in wheat during tn,
month of June.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-07-17
PERSONAL

EX-SENATOR WINDOW is lecturng in the
west on the "Relations of Capital anG
Labor"
The Pre- ident will probably 60 to New
England in the fall. His wife wants to see
the Berkshire Hills.
TO one who saw her recently the Empress
Eugenle had cheerful LOOK, though clad
In raiments of the deepe black.
MONTGOMERY BLAIR, son of Montgomery,
and G. B. M Clellan, son of Lite Mac :"
are Princeton graduates this year.
PROFESSOR PRocToR, the astronomer. is
Dack IN the country. He thinks he will now
take up his permanent abode in St. joseph.
Mo.
REPRESENTATIVE SYMEs, of Colorado
has such heavy voice that he is known
among the Indians of his district as Talking
Thunder
ALTHOUGH DR.. Alonzo Clark, of New
York, is eighty years of age he is still strong
and active and is the consulting physician
for four hospitals.
SINCE Oscar Wilde's marriage his dress has
steadily become less striking, while his wife
has taae1 to wearing robes of an outlandisll
if not ridiculous kind
FOR singing three songs and Joining in a
duet in recent entertainment given at Lord
Rothschild's London palace, Nine. Patti re-
celved fee of $500.
IN single British regiment assigned to
the Soudan l06 men have died within the
last month. Pc thence and not the bullets
OF the enemy decimate the ranks.
THE Oldest man in Congress is John T.
Wait, of Illinois. He is seventy-seven years
old, and after filling five full terms he is
again candidate for reelection
The Barring Brothers, London bankers,
are nearly as rich and as powerful as tbs
Rothschitds. 1t is u half American house
and keeps $50, 600, 900 ready for instantane-
Gus use."
MRS EZEKIEL WEBSTER, the widow of
Daniel Webster's brother, VIII, dropped dead
while making an argument in the Concord
Court House in 1929, is still alive and quite
vigorous both in mind and body She was
present at the recent dedication ceremonies
pf the Webster statue at Concord.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-07-17
BloOdshed i'm Belfast

Serious rioting broke out between Catho-
lies and Protestants Many stones we're
thrown and revolvers were freely used. The
military WIS called out to restore order,
Many persons were injured and sent to hos
pitfalls.
An Orange lodge in Coal Island, small
village in county Tyrone, four miles from
Dungannon, was attacked by number of
men belonging to the National League. The
attacking party was armed with rifles, and
kept up a fire for two hours on the lodge, the
p lice being powerless to interfere. Armed
moonlighters attacked and Sc ured possession
of two houses in Fresmodut and Kanturx, in
county Cork. Then they entered ani severe>
ly beat the inmates
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-07-17
English Elections.

The last hope of the Gladstonans, the vote
in the countless has failed. The Eoglish
counties are going Unionist. The counties of
Warwick, Hereford, Derby, Denbghs and
Shropshire, in which centers the agricultural
vote, have returned Conservatives. Scot
land continues Gladstonian Numerous
county polls have not yet been taken, bu j.;
is impossible to reverse the defeat of the
Government. The Unicnists are confident of
an ultimate strength of $40 against 30O The
Conservatives are certain that, with a m
pact phalanx of 800 members, Lord Salisbury
will form Purely Conservative ministry.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-07-17
Forest Fires in Wisconsin.

Specials from the interior report that fores'
tires are raging at several points. Nine mile
rom Fon Du Lac, large force of men nav.
oeen fighting the timber blaze with buckets
An extensive fire is raging in the timhe
groves west of Monroe, near JorJsn. Tn
heat has been SO int 1se that unless rain in
ervenes, it is feared there will be extensiv
md destructive forest fires in the northeI
)art of the State.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-07-17
CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE.

MoNDAY-The Senate to-day passed til
House bill granting pensions to veterans O
the Mexican War, The bill, as passed; di
reefs the Secretary of the Interior to plac
on the pension roll the names of the surviv
ing officers and enlisted men Including ma
rines, enlisted men and volunteersl who
beng duly enlisted, actually served with tn
army or navy of the United States in Mex
leo, or on the coasts or frontier thereof: O,
those who were actually gagged in a battle
In said war and where honorably dischar GEE
land their widows]. provided that such
widows have not remarked, and provided
that every such officer, enlisted man OF
widow who is, or may become, GO years OF
age or who is or may become subj ct to aly
disability or dependency equivalent to some
cause recognized by the pension laws as a
suffi ,ient reason for the allowance of a pen>
sion, shall be entitled to the benefits of the
acs kept where such disability or depen.
dency was Incurred in aiding or abstting the
late rebellion). The pensions are to be s. a
month, payable only after the passage of the
act Tie law i, not to apply to persons al
ready receiving pensions at or over that rate
and where persons entitled under this lay)
are already receiving pensions less than IS
month, the persion shall only be for the diff.
ference up to S.
TUEsDAY-The Senate resumed the con-
slderation Of the River and Harbor bill.
Onmotion OF Mr.. Conger, provision was
inserted authorizing the Secretary of War
to establish harbor~lines in places where they
have not been established, and also to estab-
lish lines within in which deposits of material
may be made, without injury to navigation
The bill being completed as in committee
of the Whole was reported to the Senate
without acting on the amendments, the Sen.
ate at midnight adjourned,
HOUSE.
TUEsDAY.-The House to-day passed sew
eral bills reported from the committee on
ways and means, and then took up the Nor
rison surplus resolutions. There was no OPP
position to the bills called up, which were to
amend the revised statutes with regard to the
manufacture of tobacco and taxes thereon;
to provide for the appointment Of inspectors
of tobacco and cigars; relating to the imme-
diate transportation of dutiable goods both
the Randall and Hewitt bills, and one res
pealing the commission now allowed to Col,
lectors Of internal revenue for taxes collected
on distilled spirits.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-07-17
Exports of Brea0stuffs.

The total value of the exports of domestic
breadstuffs during the month of Jnne, 1856,
and during the six and twelve months ended
June 80, 1886, as compared with similar ex-
ports during the corresponding periods of the
preceding year, were as follows: June, 1856,
sl3, 7O9.993' June, 1885, s9,O24,5 3j; six
months ended June 80, 1886. So, $3.50 dol
lars; same period in 1855, rs, ISL, o24; twelve
months ended June 80, 1886, ~, SOC. s79:
same period in 1885, 1853, 1881.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-07-17
HOUSE.
SOUTHERN GROWTH,
What Has Been Done in q Business
Way in Six Months.

What Has Been Done in a Business
Way in Six Months.
In semi-annual report of the industrial
growth of the South, published by the Balti-
more Manufacturers Record, it is shown
that there has been great Industrial activity
in that section since January 1, 1886. The
list of new enterprises organized since then
includes thirty ice factories, forty foundries
and machine shops, one Bessemer steel rail
mill, eight miscellaneous iron works, three
stove foundries fifteen gas works, seventeen
electric light companies, seven agricultural
implement factories seventy mining and
quarrying enterprises, eleven carriage and
wagon factories, eight cotton mills, eighteen
furniture factories, fifteen water works,
twenty-nine tobacco factories, forty-eight
flour mills, 2lS lumber mills.
The amount of capital and capital stock
represented by the list of new enterprises.
the enlargement of old plants and the re-
building of mills after being burned, for the
first six months of 1885, was as follows.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-07-17
WIGGINS' LATEST,
The Canadian Weather Sharp Prog
nOsticatcs a Great Storm,

The Canadian Weather Sharp Prog
nosticatcs Great Storm.
Prof. E. Stone Virgins the weather
prophet, insists that the great storm be pre-
dicted for this fall will be on hand. He saw
he does not anticipate any further great
change in the weather until fall. 'Septem>
ber,' he says, will open cold aud stormy, pre-
monitory to my great storm commencing on
the afternoon of September 90, and the great
war of the elements will come as sure as the
sun is in the heavens. 1t will be storm of
unparalleled violenc,, and after sweeping
across the Atlantic and traversing the coun.
try will exhaust its energies upon the rugged
front off.r-d by the Rocky Mountains.
Fishermen in the maritime provinces and in
Newfoundland have not been slow to appre.
ciate my predictions and have already re,
ceived intelligence from many that thew
have made arrangements to be in port on the
date Of the destructive Storm
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-07-17

For the six months ended June 30, 1856, the
Commercial Bulletin, of New York, gives
figures showing that the number of fires in
the United Sta'es and CANDIDA where the loss
reported had been $4,000 and upwaI DIS nuns
bered 500 and the aggregate estimated loss
s53,9OO,OOO. Compared with the same period
of last year, an increase of 3, 10000 is shown.
At this rate the destruction OF property by
fire this year will foot up to more than SlO7,,
100000
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-07-17
immense Cloud of Grassbonners

Persons in from the west report that Sun,
Jay afternoon an immense cloud of grass
hoppers settled down on wheat field in the
vicinity of Sanborn, on the Northern Pacific
railway some % miles west of Fargo, and
IN very short time cleared off fifty acres of
every vestige of greenness Several other
nelds In that neighborhood were also par,
TALLY swept. About sunset the hoppers rose
and flew southeast.