Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-03-17

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Brerities.-J. B. Carson, of this
place, an attoche of the House of Dele
gates sends the JOURNAL ii copy each
of the Seventh Biennial Report of
the State Board of HEALTH" and
Second Biennial Report of the
Bureau Of Industrial Statistics"
When the Original New Orleans
Minstrels were in Pittsburg the
Leader said they We're "entertain-
ing large audiences nightly with
songs, and the usual minstrel bill
of fare. These people are quite
clever, and give a performance that
ought to please those who have taste
for minstrrlsy.' They will appear at
Ravenscraft's Opera House this even
ing. George J. Conner sells the re-
served seat tickets at lis stationery
store.
The largest weekly production of
coal ever made IN this region IN the
""uth "t March was shipped during
the six days ending March ION. last
over G9.000 tons. fro>iburg is par
ncularIy Interested i'll the fact that over
22.0OO tons of this amount was sent out
10y the Consolidation coal colupany-its
largest weekly output ever made at
this season.
Mrs. Mary Hartman is remodeling
the front Of her residence preparatory
to removing her shoe store thereto.
Our esteemed townsmau, James
Welsh, is the happy father of leap
year son, born Wednesday. February
%, 1888. His name will be Albert,
and his birthday will come but once in
every four years.
Observe the advertisement announce
ing the corporate election for April 2.
Madame Fry administered a deserv-
ed rebuke Tuesday evening to the
gentlemen who manifest their appro-
baton of an entertainment by ear.
splitting whistles and stamping. A
cecent clapping of hands is all she de-
sired more than that is an uncivilized
demonstration.
Did any reader, far from the land
of his birth and the home of his youth,
ever return to look upon the scenes of
earl ly life +? Did he ever feel the warm
pressure of numberless friendly hand
grasps and greetings seemingly inspir-
ed by popular feeling that his career
abroad has shed no discredit upon the
soil which gave him and his boyhood
contemporaries common nativity? If
so, that reader appreciates the tender
genius which presides over these lines,
written in brief memorial of visit to
Front Royal and Linden, Va, last
week.
William Angwin, son of Benjamin
Angwin, formerly of this place, now
of Warrior, Alabama, proprietor of a
store in that place, was called upon
by man ut the store Saturday night,
March 3, for tobacco. AS Young An.
gwin started to get it the man struck
him on the head with blacksmiths
hammer aud robbed the store. Sew
eral arrests have been made. The
young man lies in a critical condition.
One Of the worst billiards that ever
struck this country at this season paid
us call last Monday and staid until
the oldest inhabitant began to lecture
on the past, and the younger people
said they were tired. Bat
But when the winter cold is over. and we
gambol in the clover,
Or escape the shining sunlight in some cool
ard shady spot;
When the snOw-dritts have departed and the
birds sing, happy hearted,
Then we'll kick around and grumbe that
the weather is so hot.
John Chambers mules made an ac-
tive canvass Of the town Thursday,
manitestiug an opposition to the West
rrn Maryland railroad proposal at once
Intense and uuauimOuS