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

Mrs. ELIzAnEIu CARROLL, of War.
ren, Ind, claims to have Eeen born in
PENNSYLVANIA in 177i. Her husband
YVES a sold or in the war of 1872.
There is good reason to think that Mrs.
Carroll IS really ID years old, al
though SIC is as active as most women
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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-03-03

lie new railway under the Thames
Is rapidly approaching completion. 1t
will tap number of congcsted thor
"iI9h ares, and though on y three miles
II length, will be of immense service
to the population of ondon. 1t ex-
tends from near the north end of Lon
,ion bridge to Clapham Common.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-03-03

NATURAL gas rates at MeadviIle have
been advanced to point SO high that
a number of consumers are using coal
oualp
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-03-03

JAMES PATTERSON, who died recently
at Oakland, Cal, was the man who
gave Garfield his first employment as
driver on The canal.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-03-03

DOSION paper recently printed
nearly a page cf short letters from
noted persons all over the country in
reply to circular sent out containing
the following queries:
J. What, in your opinion, is the rca son for the
Srent lntclest i'll pugilism AMI pu&iists tlkcn
by the Amci IAN and English people?
=. What is tbs moral effect o. it upon or
young men!
=; Do ,vol ink that boxing is proper part
of the phys cal tranin Of young mon2 Ii not
Whns would you substitute for it?
Nearly all the replies are condem-
nator; OF pr ze-fighting, but DR.. Ham
mond and some others say the practice
affords useful examples of manly cour-
age, skill, endurance, and fort.t de
under physical suffering. The replies
to the first and second questions made
interesting reading, and show wide
variance of opinion. Condensed, some
of them are rs follows: Rev. Robert
Collyer: "Your first question mis-
leads. You should have said the great
interest in pugilists and pugilism taken
by some people in Englan and Amer
lea, and the answer to that would
be: Because sub peop'e nourish
brutal instincts like those of the old
Romans, overla;d by a thin veneer OF
civiIity, and the molern pugilist takes
the place to them of the ancient glali-
ato"." George William Curtis: 81
suppose that the savage is not yet
wholly worked out of the blood.
Rev. Minot }. Savage: because there
is so much human nature in the
American and English people. VIVA,
is there that all mel have always loved
quite so much as contest, and the ez
element of seeing which would win ?"
Historian James Parton: "The recent
revival of interest in prizc-fghts may
be a reaction against overculture in
special directions, which tends to
etieminacy and the diminution of the
human animal. We have one Emer-
son, and possibly that necessitates one
CulllN al, IL WIS IIlucISOI
himself who said that the first conli-
ton cf a successful life is to be a good
animal" DIR. William \. Hammond:
81 am of the opinion that the great in
terest in pugilsm and pugilists taken
by the American and English people is
Inherent, and is due to the hereditary
Transmission from ancestors who al!
ways within the historic period have
taken pie sure in rough sports and
personal combats. Josiah Quincy:
The survival in them of ancestral saw
agery." Bill Nye: 81 believe the in
tercst in pugilism here and in England
to be largely due to the fact that
neither of us has had a full blown war
Fer some time, and l consider the indi-
cations to be hopeful. Some day arbi-
tration and puglism will take the place
of grim-visaged war;"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-03-03
NOt0riety.

yet, crazy for notoriety. have noticed,
however, that when IL person gets to
hankerlng" after fame, he will do
most anything to get it.
I axe the case of the fellow who went
oYcr the Ma ara Falls in a barrel, and
of the other cuss, who, thirsty for fame,
Jumped from the Brooklyn Bridge.
They both yearned to see their names
in print, to b. talked about, and so
they took their YES IN their hands and
Il Il succeed in achieving a little brief
distinction. This brought them a short
season of engagements in the leading
dime museums over the country. and
that over, they have gone back to the
obscurity from which they formerly
emerged, and there they are very likely
to remain.
You will observe, too, George, that
there is a distinction between fame and
notorictj. Jesse James was notorious,
George Washington famous. | suppose
some people have such exalted Opin-
ions of themselves, together with an
unconI uering love of applause, that
there are no risks they would not take
simply for the sake of obtaining little
notorlety. | suppose, too, that a bur-
glar who 10 counted one of the boldest
and most successful robbers in the coun-
try takcsa sort of professional pride in
his notoriety, and doesn't stop to con
slider the disgrace which is inseparable
from his well-known reputation. SO,
George, don't get ambit Gus to be
known and heard of by all men, but go
right along in your own neighborhood,
and if You can succeed in becoming
we'll known there-known for your
sterling integrity and genuine goodness
of heart-you will have accomplished
all that any reasonable man ought to
ask. Yours for sense,
UNCLE SAM.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-03-03

The day OF payment Is always nearer
the day OF promise than it seems,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-03-03
Railroad Schedules, tic.
Cumberland Il PENNSYLVANIA Railroad.

All trains on the schedule stop ut Hay street
station, Cumberland. =. H. BURWEIL,
General superintendent
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-03-03

TIE earnestness of life is the only
passport 10 the satisfaction Of life.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-03-03
A MAN Of NERVE.

HIS nerve wa weak-a orGyman said,
Whom cry 5 puul NO II annoy
He cumo for st out de- o him III I'd -
I he shrieks of tho whis.lins buoy.
The mountain air is bet .er for mo-
must Lee this dizzy wLirl
He is settled now, away If III the sea,
But ho Arr G II wllStlln girl.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-03-03

DE PEYsTER they have been con-
yersing on art topics: Are you fond Of
majolica, Mrs. Paryenu?" Mrs. Par
venu Cwho has made several bad mis-
takes since her entrance into society,
and is on her guard: "Well - r-
that depends entirely on how it is
cooked"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-03-03

"YEs," said Miss Filter, Il am from
q family of scholars. Why, my grand
father, even as far back as lbs tine,
was thorough in Greek, Lat N, Hebrew
md many other CT the anc ent Ian
euages." Did he understand VIOLA.
puk?" some one asked. "Oh, perfectly.
Some of his trInslations from that pro-
historic tongue are really charming. -
lrkduSdtC TrdU Ter.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-03-03

A BosToN paper recently printed
nearly a page Of short letters from
noted persons all over the country in
reply to a circular sent out containing
the following queries:
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-03-03

Disadvantages, Cholly is--er
-chawming fellah, but is 50 awfully
defawme3, y'know. Wiilie-Poor fell
lahl What's the matter with him?
Gus - Why - er - aw-- y'know, his
mouth is 80 awfully smaller he
cawn't get his lips over the -cr-hca
of his cane.-Ly.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-04-14
Mary onsen of Scots.

Mary landed at Leith on the 18th of
August, 1861; she was married to her
cousin, Henry Stuart lord Darnley), on
the 29th of July, 1865. During these
years her life, though uneventful, was not
unhappy. Holyrood was the headquarters
of the court. and the sombre old pile,
which had more than once been gutted by
the "auld enemy" put on somethsng of
summer brightness during her stay. Mary
had the easy manners Of her race; she
cared little for ceremony or ceremonial
state had she been man she would have
sought adventure, like her father riding
out through any part of the realm, him
alone, unknown that he was King" She
dined with the wealthier citizens; for the
poorest she had ready smile and a
pleasant word The Reformers COM
planned that she was addicted to dancing
cher common speech in secret was, she
saw nothing in Scotland but gravite
which she could not agree WE'LL with,
for she was brought up in ioyousitie-
termed she dancing and other things
thereto belonging" and there were fire.
quent sports and masks among the courtiers
and the ladies Of the Court, after the some
what ponderous fashions of the time. Yet
graver matters were not neglected-she
read Livy "daily" with Buchanan, she sat
In council with her mobiles, the ENJOYS of
foreign Princes were duly welcomed and
Hospitality entertained. She did not, how
ever, believe, care much for Holyrood;
the palace lay low among its marshes and
the turbulent Calvin;sm of the capital was
a constant menace to Catholic Queen. 1t
was at Falkland and St. Andrews that she
felt most at home She loved the hardy
outdoor life with hawk and hound. Dur
ing the four years preceding her marriage,
passing, as l have said elsewhere, whole
days in the saddle, she had ridden through
every part of her kingdom except the wild
and inaccessible district between the Cro-
marty and the Pentland Firths.-Black-
irooPs lndqaziae
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-04-14
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
The House..

WAsHINGTos, April 13th.-In the House
this morning, the Clerk proceeded to read
the Journal of The legislative day of
Wednesday, the 4th of April The Journal
consists OF 81 manuscript pages, exclusive
of roll-calls.
The Clerk proceeded TO read skeleton
outline of the Journal. The reading con-
sumed exactly one hour.
A large number of executive documents
which had accumulated upon the Speak
er's table during the deadlock were laid
before the House and appropriately re-
ferred
Blount of Georgia. from the Committee
on Postofiees and Post Roads, reported
the postoffice appropriation BILL 1t was re-
ferred to the Committee of the Whole.
Peel of Arkansas presented conference
report on the bill to ratify the agreement
with Gros Ventres, Piegan, Blood, Blackfeet
and River Greek Indians, in Montana, and
il was agreed to. Also, conference report
upon the bill dividing the great Sioux res
ervatlon In smaller separate reservations
The remainder of the day was spent in
Committee of the Whole in the discussion
OF the bill for the payment of the claim of
5000 tor the occupation of certain prop
'erty in Memphis by United States troops in
1864. II was opposed by Grosvenor of
Ohio Thomas of Wisconsin and Brewer of
Michigan, and advocated by Richardson of
Tennessee.
Allen of Michigan said the Democratic
side had settled two things-that they
would not allow the loyal States to receive
back their share Of the direct tax, and that
the Southern States should not be required
to pay their share. He would. therefore.
suggest that all claims of the character of
the one pending should he pus NJ as set
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-04-14
Rananas in ,,aIifnrnia.

Under this title, S. H Gerrish of this
city writes to the Rural Press, as follows
Your note OF April 7th is at hand, with the
article from the Woodland ifdi1, headed
"A Curiosity" The article is more of
curiosity" than the bananas growing in
California to sny person who has devoted
any attention TO this subject. There were
banana plants-not trees, il is not a tree
growing in this State as early as 1870. |
had them IN Sacramento experimenting
with them at that time to get a variety
suited TO the climate, as there are as many
varieties as Of any other fruit. | hoped to
succeed, and have done SO, having raised
ripe bananas in Sacramento city without
any more protection from the inclemencies
OF the weather than an orehardists would
bestow on pear or peach trae, for three
successive years past. The banana was
planted in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara
and they raised fruit there for have seen
the fruit myself buJ the plants Look and
do better here. for we have less wind IN The
warm season and warmer nights
had one variety twenty feet high with
fruit on last seas s3n-ihree buuches in one
hill in my front yard. Ny choicest and
best variety, suppose had as many as six
or eight, the favor finer than any imported
bananas. 1t, however, A ID. Porter, of
Woodland, has raised bunch of bananas
this season (Which, of course, would have
to grow during our late phenomenally cold
winter, without any protection, he has an
acquisiion-a variety to be sought for The
last winter, for the first time IN years,
frosted mine to within i've feet of the
ground, and | do not expect bananas before
next September. However, | had the
pleasure of a ripe bunch taken OFF just be-
fore the great freeze
in raising fruiting trees or plants to
demonstrate the capabilities of the climate,
not the shadow of protection should be
given them, for it is then that the conserva-
tory culture comes in play, and plants can
be raised that way in the coldest climates.
The editor of the Mail could have avoided
the great mistake he has made on this SUBJ
lect If he had been more Observing for q
hill of banana plants has been growing
and ripening its fruits in the grounds of
the Southern Pacific Company. not two
minutes walk from the depot, planted and
raised under my supervision for the late
General Master Mechanic, A J Stevens.
These plants are curiosity TO Eastern peo-
pie, and grow as finely as in any tropical
country. They were, of course, set back
this late winter, but are sprouting out
again. Many Of the Sacramento gardens
have bananas also. They are greatly ad-
mired for their foliage. and have ceased to
be curiosity here in Sacramento.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-04-14
a BEsrIAL CROWD.
The instantaneous Photographer and
Nude-Crazed Girls

NEW HAVEN. April 18th Another
United States official is in trouble over his
partiality to young women. This time it
is Sergeant John H. Sherman, the Signal
Officer here. He is an expert photographer,
and wanted to obtain pictures of girls semi
nude and in ballet costumes. He had a
particular friend in Mrs. Roland who
scraped an acquaintance with several girls,
who are all we'll connected, and enticed
them to her room. Here she showed them
indecent photographs, which she declared
were all lady friends of hers who had had
themselves taken that way by lady oper-
ator, just for q lark. She then said she
had the same costumes in her possession
for the purpose of taking care of them.
She showed them to her visitors and then
proposed, Just for fun, that they array
themselves in the same way. Several of
the girls laughingly agreed, and when the
changes were co Apleted they stood before
a mirror to look at themselves. At this
moment Sherman, who was in an adiOin-
ing room, took instantaneous photographs
of them with detective camera. He was
seen by one Of the girls, who gave the
alarm.
The young ladies hurriedly dressed and
went home, telling their parents. The
police were notified and compelled Sher-
man to give up the negatives. He and
Mrs. Rolard will be prosecuted. He de-
clines to make any statement or defense.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-04-14
a SENATE SCENE.
Voorhees, Makes Violent Attack on
Hoar in Debate.

voorhees, Makes IA Violent Attack on
Hoar in Debate.
Copyright, 1888, by De California associated Press
WASHINGTON, April 13th.-In the debate
in the executive session of the Senate over
the nomination of J. L. Rathbone to be
CoDsul-General at Paris, there were some
interesting incidents. The fight against the
confirmation was led by Senator Morgan of
Alabama, and it was most vigorous, al
though the opposition was feeble in point
of numbers. Senator VOORHEES,, who stood
manfully by the Alabama Senator, was
taken to task by Hoar of Massachusetts,
who reflected severely on the effort made
by those who knew they were in a losing
cause, and that the occasion was of trifiiug
consequence.
Mr.. VOORHEES, turned to him in his most
dramatic style, and said: Yes, that is a
fitting rebuke to come from you. We all
remember how you fought the confirma-
ton of that eminent man lying at the point
of death, when you knew he was the
choice of large majority of this Senate
How you narrowed and undermined and
peered into and sneaked about stabbing
him when you could get the chance"
This allusion TO the unchivalric and un-
generous tactics resorted to by the Massa-
chusetts Senator to defeat Mr.. Conkling's
nomination for Associate Justice of the Su-
preme Court produced a profound sensa-
tion, and Mr.. Hoar was so overcome that
he was speechless.
When President Arthur sent 10 the Sem
ate the nomination of Conkling, Mr.. Hoar
unsuccessfully resorted to all expedients he
could devise to defeat him, because wears
before Mr.. C0nkling with other Senators
had not favored the elevation of his
brother, E. lockwood Hoar, to the Su-
preme Bench, place for which he was
eminently untitled.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-04-14
TELgGRAPHIC RaEYrrlEs.

The prosecution closed its case yesterday
in the Woolsteen murder case at Los An
geles.
A family at Richmond, Ind, partook of
home-cured ham and became afflicted with
trichinosis, and one died.
DIR. Sketehley, of Los Angeles, has finally
purchased a place near Red Bluff for an
ostrich farm, paying $50 900 therefor.
Two dwellings were burned at Florida
IN. 7 }, on Thursday night Mrs. Bird and
her babe, who occupied one of them, per
ished.
An effort is being made to induce Jack
Dempsey to fight Mccoy ten rounds with
two-ounce gloves, in the near future, for
81 600 side.
Seven blocks of ground have been pur-
chased ct Portland, Or, on which buildings
will be erected in tune for the Mechanics
Fair, this fall.
The Indians at Siletz Reservation. w. T.
have become so incensed at the Indian
Agent at that place that they have run him
off the reservation.
The Pacific Mail steamship Newport is
detained in quarantine at New York, sew
eral cases OF smallpox having been dis
covered among the passengers.
1t is now stated that Bismarck promised
the Gar some time ago that the marriage
of Prince Alexander and Princess Victoria
should not take place SO long as his advice
was accepted.
Robert Van BIunt was hanged at War
saw, New York, yesterday morning for the
murder of bis sweetheart's hall brother,
Arill Roy. He was a member of the Sal
walton Army.
The jury in the Brushingham case at
Chicago has disagreed. The defendant was
pastor of the Ada-street Methodist Church,
and was charged by Eva Parker one of his
flock, with illegitimate parentage.
Nels Olsen Holong was hanged az Furgus
Falls, Minnesota yesterday for the murder
last May of his employers daughter, a
young girl OF sixteen, whom it is thought
he ravished before committing the deed.
Secretary Whitney is laid up from the
effects of injuries received by fall from
his horse while on a paper-hunt 1t is
hinted that the Secretary pays more atten-
ton TO society affairs than to his official
duties.
Vice-President Oakes, of the Northern
Pacific, says that the sale of 5000 acres of
timber land in Washington Territory,
within thirty miles of Tacoma, has been
consummated and the papers will be signed
to morrow.
AT Louisville, Kentucky, Lee McElroy.
colored youth, fifteen years old, stole the
three-year-old child OF Robert Hoskins
while the child was playing. He was
found hiding with the child. He said
that he intended to hold the child for ran
SOM
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-04-14
TURF TOPICS.
How Some California Horses Stand in the
Betting.

How Some California Horses Stand in the
Betting.
LOUISVILLE, April l3ih.-California is
beginning TO loom up IS prominent factor
in the Kentucky Derby, and as it is money
that talks one is not disposeGse dispute its
right to its position in ante-pos calcula-
tons regarding the great racing events.
The newest candidate for public favor is
Prince Charlie, a Californi;s-bred colt,
which started at 40 to 1, b1tfshIch is now
hard to obtain at 5 to l.
His stable companion, Wonderland, had
already been backed down to 10 to /, but
not penny Of this money came from the
horses stable, and very little even from
California at all. Prince Charities backer,
however, comes from Santa Anita straight
as a crow can fly. At first there was some
inquiry as to the odds and the amount of
the standing of the local books This infor-
nation having been transmitted to the
coast instructions were given to bet to the
limit and the following is the result:
In the first book there was entered
$4,000 TO 5000. In another $4,000 to $500.
These were followed subsequently by one
of So 900 to $500, and another of 81 500 to
$500. A well-known book-maker on the
Pacific Slope, who evidently wanted 70 ease
his heavy book, lied in San Francisco
against Prince Charlie, and said that moth
ing was known of the colts condition out
side of what was furnished by his hackers.
The odds started at $50 to 81, and steadily
dropped to $5 10 81, where they now stand.
Wonderland remains at $40 to 81, despite
one bet of 81, 500 to $3.50 and another of
ST. 900 to 800. The Lion and Window are
co-favorites with Prince Charlie at S. to 81.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-04-14
Serfcultural.

The Ladies Silk Culture Society held
their monthly meeting Thursday, April
9Th, at the rooms of the State Board of
Horticulture. w. G.. W. Hartford, mana
ger of the Silk Culture Station at Pied
mont, reported as follows:
" beg to state that the month of jan
uary was mainly devoted to clearing more
ground for the plow, which work was con-
tinued, with but few Interruptions, I'D TO
February 10th. The exact area ef the
newiy-cleared land ! have not yet deter
mined, but need not tell you that it en-
larges the boundaries OF the cultivated land
to a very considerable extent. Mr.. Gray
commenced plowing and cutivating on the
18th, and finished the entire piece on the
21st of February. With the exception of q
small patch of ground on the rocky point
above the nursery the entire field is planted
with trees and cuttings. This would also
have been set with trees had time per-
mitted. During odd intervals a couple Of
small patches have been cleared at the
house and devoted chiefly to mulberry
trees"
There are now planted on the premises
at Piedmont Ii ,721 mulberry trees and cut
tings, representing the following varieties:
Nagasaki, 4,321; Lhoo, 93, and 715 un-
known varieties from Japan. Mrs III. B.
Williams presented 2,085 of unknown va
rieties, and there are ], 1888 Rosea, 454 Alba
and 2, 120 Multicaulis mulberry trees, from
which the society intend to experiment in
order to determine the best kinds to plant
in California
The President stated 10 the meeting that
abou: 1000 youDg trees had been distrib-
uted to applicants. and that there will be
seed or young worms at the disposal of the
society for those who may desire to obtain
them.
The Ladies Society is entirely distinct
from the State Board OF Silk Culture The
Piedmont station is supported by a 5000
appropriation by the Legislature, and the
monthly expenditure is something over
$400.-Rural Press.