Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1889-03-09


of their respective fathers. it was as
ccrtaned that one was over 2l year
older than the other.
That is all there was in it.
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THE regular monthly meeting of the
Mayor and Council of Frostburg will
be held Monday evening next.
The JOURNAL knows that the attcn-
tion of that body has only to bc call
ed to the request that it appoint Suita-
bic representatives of itself and the
town i'll the coming general conven-
ton.
Let the Mayor and each Council
man, therefore, fix III his own mind at
oHce upon the proper men, so that all
will be ready for debate when the mat
ter comes up Monday evening.
The average price of silver during the past
year was about ~ cents. At this price the
bullion value of the silver contained in the
silver dollar was .726. At the highest price
of silver during the year the bullion value of
the silver dollar was .755, and at the lowest
price 7O5.-C Cumberland NcwS.
Yet there was not a laboring man in
this county that knew or felt that his
silver dollar was worth less than the
rich mans gold dollar.
This gives rise to the reflection that
the silver dollar is essentially the poor
mans dollar
And 1t has not vet occurred to those
influences which were so redhot to ad-
nit the Dakotas, Montana and Wash
ington to the Union that their action
places eight new senators III Congress
whose prime home interest will com
pei them to work INCREASINGLY for free,
unlimited silver coinage.
1t is probable therefore, the silver
dollar has not seen its best days.
THE JOURNAL heard a county com
missioner say not long ago that the
most important care and best work of
the county should be expended on the
roads. Hence. he is one Of those pco-
pie who beiievc that the law providing
for a general road supervisor should
be made effective by further lcgisla-
ton.
That done, let our friend, or his sue
cessor make another Step-take about
s., 900 OF the vountv's road money and
buy a portable stcam~po>y"! stone
breaker, and start in on system Of
road-paving with broken limestone
In frw years we will have perma-
ncntly good roads, and the saving sub
sequently obtained in reduced appro-
priations will reimburse the county
for the cost of half dozen stone
cruSherS.
1t takes limestone to make road
used. and the rrusher will furnish it
faster and far cheaper than by the
usual snail-lke and costly method of
breaking by hand.
THE rumor is abroad that Mr.. Cor
mans word was out among his hench
men that all his constituent appolntees
would be confirmed.
If so. those who trusted in his pow
cr will have to repair to the so-called
democratic altar and pledge to their
god their faith anew.
But ii 1noks like . poor return the
republicans made to Mr.. Horman for
his 'masterly inactivity" last summer
and fall.
1t is believed by many people that
next to AIr, Quay the republican par
ty is most indebted to air, Gorman-
not excepting the famous blocks-of-
five Dudley. He sulked at the St.
Louis convention sulked afterward
would not be chairman of his favorite
committee, and yielded a nominal
support to the ticket. And after all
was over, he "kncw of district in
which one thousand democrats voted
the republican ticket" Il district,
doubtless, that he has kept republican
nearly ever siacr he became the dem
ocratic party of MARYLAND set,
strange to say, that district appeared
to reflect by its suffrage his view of
the issue at stake rather than the
hundred and fifty odd which voted
straight tariff reform.
But there are surface Indications
showing that Mr.. Quay, Mr.. Cameron,
and perhaps another republican head
light were willing to confirm demo
cratic and so-called democratic nomi-
nations willing to help Mr., German
make himself still more unpopular
than he is-who were willing to en-
dorsr his centralized, unrepresenta-
tive and despotie idea of confirming
appointees who had very Few, if any,
home endorsements.
With Quay and Cameron favoring
Mr.. Golman in order to hasten his lie
struction, and Mr.. Edmumds opposing
him with the same purpose, the ms
and outs of the Frostburg contest for
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