Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-03-01

ute. Fay your subscription to the
JOURNAL year in advance and thus
make yourself solid fora good obit-
uary notice.
The ground in some sections of
Maryland is alive with 17-year locusts.
They don't infict any particular dam
age, but they make almost as much
noise as the disappointed ex-waterway
people.
Mr.. Cunningham denies that he
voted wrong, but is disposed to admit
that he will get third term.
A DESERVING While the
Legislature is appropriating money for
various State purposes the Maryland
Agricultural College should not be
overlooked.
This is one of our most important
and meritorious institutions. Its
functions and operations affect and
| develop the most vital of all industries
agriculture. Its tuition raises that
industry above the primitive methods
yet current in many parts of the coun-
try, and endows it as study to which
the sciences may be applied, and a
pursuit which intelligent, systematic
practice makes beautiful and remuner-
ative.
The College is hampered by debt
of about $13,500, which the State
should pay at once.
1t deserves more-a liberal appropri-
alton annually to enlarge and perfect
its utility and efficiency.
We hope our delegation will Coop
crate with the Colleges best friends in
the Legislature.
Canal Ne'cs'-Judge Alvey's de-
cislon brought the steal up standing,
and it is awaiting its turn in the
Senate.
Last Friday evening the boatmen
and citizens of Sharpsburg burned ir
effigy Gov. jackson, and Washington
county delegates Moses Whitson and
j. N. Harp for favoring the canal
steal bill.
Several letters from people in Will
Transport and Sharpsburg have been
received here in which the writer's re-
joice over the. interest taken in pre-
serving the canal. The people down
there are glad, because their welfare
was promoted by our action here.
Intelligence from Westernport goes
to the effect that public sentiment and
feeling were ably misrepresented by
the railroad delegation that went to
Annapolis.
At Cumberland the German gang, it
is said, did not let the boatmen know
that anybody was going to Annapolis,
or it is likely the gang would have been
confronted there with Il waterway
crowd from the same moral and re-
ligious precincts.
chase of the Chesapeake and Ohio
canal by the incipient Cumberland and
Washington railroad company many
many valuable pieces of property
would have been lost to the owners OF
the canal, and given to few men
that the general public is not aware of
Some of them are listed, as derived by
the JOURNAL from an authentic
source:
l, At Oldtown-Several acres of bottom
land, improved with buildings.
3, Above dam No. 6-Quite large tract o
land Improved also
5, Above and below Hancock-Severa
tracts with valuable buildings.
4, At Cherry Run-"Four Locks" BERN
side Quite a little village on canal property
5, Above and below Williamsport, on the
level-Good land and dwellings, all under
cultivation.
6, At dams Nos and 5-Land an6
houses on both sides of the canal on canal
property.
I, Near Observation-Disclosures and store
on canal property. There are stores at every
lock on the canal.l
s, Above Harper's Ferry, along mile leve
Quite group of houses and lands.
8, Near Harper's Ferry, Sandy Hook ant
Weaverton-Several houses on canal lands
put up by private parties.
10. All along the line of the canal through
Montgomery county there are strips of lane
improved with dwellings.
Altogether there are 70 stores with neces
sary outbuildings along the line.
All the above lands and improvements g
into the canal-railroad lease without any con
sideration.
The Round Top Cement Works above
Hancock, owned by Bridges q Henderson
also a sumach mill at Hancock, and larg,
grist mill-all on canal property.
Through the town of Hancock quite ;
large number of houses are on canal lands
also one grist-mill, below -Four Locks, known
as 'Charies's MILL" and another below Dan
No. 5-also "Charles's Mir'-both owned by
brothers.
AT Williamsport the coal wharves of Steify
& Fndlay and Cushwa's coal yard, and i
large chair factory are ON canal grounds.
And Judge Alvey says all this
property is to be held by the cana
company .foreoer to carry out the dis
tinct and Interchangeable purposes of a
great public highway