Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-09-29
WHOLE NUMBER. SS5.

B"erft'eS.--A y great many Gambler
land people in town last Sunday,
brought by the special train run to ac-
commodate visitors to the Baptist
Union meetings.
Editorial on schools goes over 10
naXt week.
Some unknown partisan of the Pre-
bIbltlon persuasion sends the JOURNAL.
an envelope full of polit. docs.
Frostburg is pretty quiet now, but
those inbreaks Of business activity on
Saturday night, 10Th inst, made hard
ware stocks feel nervous for a few
days. What the operators want is
chance to make a futile outbreak from
the penltcntiary.
Be sure to look at the Williams
Marble Works "busincss local"
Heading malleth Il full man." saith
Bacon but nobody has been "run in"
by the police in Frostburg for read
ing to the brim.
John Gels purchased Wednesday at
mortgagce's sale the property occupi-
ed by james Aspinall us saloon and
residence. The latter will occupy
fully in a few days the house about to
he vacated by J. C. Wilson, furniture
dealer. Mr.. y. proposes to go into the
hotel Of N,-1, a.
week.
Somebody whitfield Zeller's fine bar
Der pole with knife a few nights ago,
and now Gus. VIM. is mad enough to
offer $50 to learn who did it. The
JOURNAL does not know what he means
to do with the culprit when he finds
him, but If Gus. does not fly to the law,
the whittlers' friends and physicians
are hereby advised that they may be
compelled to sit up nights soon with
patient who will have a knot on his
head bigger than the Frostburg fund
for the benefit of the yellow fever
sufferers.
Dedh ora P"fest-Rev. Elias Ber-
nard Mckenzie, pastor of St. Ed
wards Catholic church, Calverton.
Baltimore, while walking on a verau-
da III front of Eis residence early Sat
urday evening last reading his office,
fell lnsensible from an apoplectic
stroke. a gentleman passing at the
| time went to his aid, and with tke as
slstance of nelghbors carried the cler.
| gyman into the house. He remai ned
unconscious until he died Monday af-
ternoon. He was 45 years of age and
d native of Somerset county, Pa, his
birthplace being near Pocahontas.
lie came from family well known
here as original Catholics from the
| Highlands Of Scotland. Deceased be-
| gan his studies with the Redemptorist
| Fathers IN Baltimore, with the inten-
ton of one day Identifying himself
with them. After several years he left
the Order and became a student in St.
Mary's Seminary, Baltimore, where
he was ordained about IL years ago.
| He had served with great ac-
| ceptability number of parishes. HIS
| health had been precarous for some
time, inducing last year a trip South,
| from which he returned in Nav.
The B0"d Picnic.-The attendance
| last Saturday at the German Arion
band picnic WAS not up to the aver
age, though the enjoyment of those
! present was not abated thereby. Be-
sides the home band there were four
| musical organizations from abroad,
| The forenoon procession was made up
| as below
l. Cumberland city band.
.. Order of Red Men.
3. Barton band
Order of Knights of the Golden Eagle.
.. Mt. Savage band.
! 6. Frostburg Fire Department.
I Aron band
5. Advertising wagon of Hansell a. Will
| liams-hardwarc, etc.
8. Advertising wagon of John Chambers
oysters etc
The two last were credtablc dis
plays.
a" Ofd P"per.-lsaac Bear, now in
New York, son of Hartz Bear, of this
place, has sent home a copy of the
Boston Gazettc, dated Monday, March
II, l770. 1t is filled with articles and
reports of town meetings all concern
ing British oppression. The murder
OF four youths by the soldiery, then
quartrred in Boston, takes up four of
ITS broad columns, and on account of
which the paper is in mourning. The
sheet is in IA fair state of preservation.
A Prominent Citi=en HI.-John J.
Keller, of thus place, was taken i'll
quite suddenly Saturday night. He
had been asleep, and. awakiny found