Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-01-07

club two volumes of the Senate Select
Committees Report on inter State
Commerce, and four volumes of the
Senate Select COMMITTEES Report on
Labor and Capital.
Calendars innumerable, but the
dandy comes from Arthur Shriver &
Co., of Cumberland, the well known
and popular job printers. The firm
is entitled to the JOURNALS warmest
acknowledgements, however, for far
more expressive souvenir of the fes-
tive era of the year-one which, well
used, will tell nightly on our future.
Charles F. Mayer. president of the
Consolidation coal company, has sub
scribed for the London Illustrated
Graphic for the year 1888 to be sent to
the reading room Of the Frostburg
literary and recreation club.
The intelligence received last Satur-
day that the wages of drivers had been
advanced from $l.65 to $l.S5 per day
was gladly received by that deserving
class'.of our workingman.
A beautiful editorial touching retro
spect and prospect is crowded out and
over into next week.
Read all the new advertisements and
all Mr.. Lambert's new business locals.
The Albany Dental Association is
the largest organization of the kind in
the world. Every city OF note in this
country is represented in it, and
although it has been six months since
DR.. H. G. Wilson has associated him
self with it, he has been fortunate, not
only proving his capacity to this re.
gion, but made himself known through
out the principal cities as master of
the highest art in dental surgery-gold-
filling. DIR. Wilson will likely dis
continue erelOng the work of an all
round dentist (Which he is in every
sense of the word,) and practice his
specially only-gold-flling.
More from the Old Soldier.
JOURNAL has letter from the Lum-
berton CO., soldier, from whom several
quotations were given a few weeks
ago concerning his experience at
Clarysville hospital during the war.
Under date of Dec 10, 1887, he adds:
] got your paper all right.
My comrade and had not been long in
the washhouse at Clarysville with the wash
ladies when my comrade told the commander
of the post that | had been selected from the
company and drilled to help perform military
duty in the ceremony of burying soldiers
with the honors of war. Whenever, there
fore. there was a soldier to bury was called
from the washhouse to aid in performing
that duty. l remember one terribly cold day
in April, 1862, | was out on that duty and
my fingers got so awful cold after the first
voley that l could not get my gun loaded be-
fore the sergeant called for the second volley,
and had to wait for the third. don't think
we got all the shots fired over that man.
| fired my gun over good many new
graves right across the railroad from the
washhouse in the edge of the woods not very
far from the track. Will somebody tell me il
any account was ever taken of those graves?
My comrade in the washhouse was low
slim, man middle.aged, dark complexion and
black-hared. After we rejoined our regiment
he was killed in one of the battles which fol.
lowed. l think we rejoined our regiment in
July. We fought the battle of Bull Run
August 30. When the first volley was fired
on the first day of that battle my file-leader
was shot, the man on each side of me fell
our orderly went down, our colonel fell from
his horse with a bullet through his head
and you better bet thought the tug of wal
had come the last time for me. If thought
of my little Irish woman and the washhOust
at Clarysyille once l did a thousand times
before got out of that scrape.
know my little girl did great many hard
days washing at Clarysville for the govern
ment, and was afraid she would pine away
and Gle after she found her young soldier
boy was gone. / fear she has, for don't heal
anything from her. At any rate l hope she
is happy.
! Will you print this in your paper, please
| l thank you and Mr.. Walker for YOU
trouble until you are better paid.
Yours truly, -
Reiigio"s.-The holiday visit home