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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-12-03
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any druggist tries to sell you his own cough
medicine. remember he does ii because he
makes more morey on it. Insist on having
Xemp's Bslsam for the throat and lungs.
for there is no cough remedy SO pure and
none so quick to break up : cold. For
Influenza, soreness Of the throas and tick
ling irritation with constant cough Kemp's
Bsssm is an immediate cure Large bot
ties SOC. ard 81. At all druggists
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-12-03
MAINE GOSSIP.

Cape Elizabeth market gardeners are get
ting eleven dollars per ton for ihs If cabbsges.
The prompt and successful action of Mr..
Marrns A. Hanna of Portland, by winch
lite Berry Mills WIS rescued from drown
ing one Jay recently. has been grste fully
recognized by the bows parents By making
Mr. Hanna the recipient Of valuable testi-
monial consisting of severa! rare pieces of
OLD Eugi n china and silver tableware The
worli j., not selfish world Is it. sni there
is some gratitude left in mems hearts, after
all. isn't there:
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-12-03
MRS. ]. A. GETCHELI

Is now prepared 70 do dress making and cutting at
short notice. All work WAR amfed
dscsdiws lso. State ST., AugEs.a.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-12-03

Holiday Rocds-Harriran Bros.
Piano fuutng-J II. Dinsmore.
Emplo; ment wanted
Want. d-Second hand furniture.
Diamonds-n X. Woodward.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-12-03
5000 REWARD.

FOR the ARREST AND CONyIC.
TION OF ANY PERSON FOUND srsAI.
ING THE KENXEBEC JOURNAL
FROM SUBSCRIBERS DoORwAYs
Or PREMISES.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-12-03

Children Cry for Pitchers Castoria.
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-12-03

Oh, this treacherous thin ice of the first
few cold nights Why cannot parents keep
their children tied to the bed posts till the
ice is safe?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-12-03

The people Of Thomaston will hold in
perpetual remembernnce the name AMI
memory of Samuel VISITS.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-12-03

The rev Sac5 and Bilieford lire Glory
contains T4aS names. and IN the list the
nsBle of Smith occurs enc hundred sad
eleven times. The longest family name is
Higginhottom, AID the shortest full name
In the directory contains oalS seven letters.
Il is that of Ira c. Doe.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-12-03

The fist church bali to wake The echoes
Of the priueval stiiiness around Gaiifoid
village has ist been placed in position 10
the Methodist belfry. 1t weighs 500
pounds, ard was used Sunday for the frs;
time.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-12-03

The Croker slate qus'ry At Brownville is
running full blast sui is fast assuming an
extremely business like appearance. The
old quarry dse cling houses are all repaired
and psinted up xih families living i, nearly
all of them. Ftom twenty-tiT to fry men
will be employed there durirg the winter.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-12-03

Hon. H. NJ. Restn IN a corrsunies ion in
the Aachias Republican says the irs.ae
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-12-03

Now we would like little snow to 90
with our ce,d weather.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-12-03
SouIH CHINA.

Everyone residing in this vicinity is
much interestedin the proposed extension
of the railroad from the National Home to
this place, and grsat things are expected of
fe
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-08-16
The Erratic Census.

The Staunton (Va) Vindicator says
the population of that city in 1850 was
6,664 in 1890 6,794. 1t continues
The small increase of 100 put down for
Staunton shows the census to be incomplete
These facts go to confirm this: The books of
the Commissioner of the Revenue show that
the capitation tax in 1880 was l ,l62, and in
1890 was $50. Giving the usual five to each
poll the population in 1880 was $50, and in
1890 rs 1915, or say 5000 in round numbers.
In 1850 the vote of Staunton was 470, and in
1880. 1170 which is another proof Jur
suburbs contain fully two thousand addition.
al residents. The city council should at
once have census taken by some authorized
person.
Had the census of Frostburg ever
been properly taken we could furnish
a corresponding comparison. But in
1880 the enumerators mixed the town
and country, and in 1890 we lose by a
similar lack of separation.
However, it is consoling to learn
that the Cumberland Times has some
more capital to invest in its "laugh-
ing-stock."
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-08-16
Too Late to Hold Its Nose.

An unfair advantage seems to have
been taken of the Homecoming Star.
A newspaper, not an organ, init
mates that during its employment with
the Star IAN episode or two" occurred
which, told now, would eventuate in
the Star quitting up it's shutters" and
driving it into hiding.
1t would seem that the time to hit
an employer for wrong-doing is when
the offencei is fresh, and that in this case
the time to strike the iron is past.
Moreover, this is one of the aggra-
vations to which all employers must
submit. AS long as they bask under
the sunshine of an employees smile
everything is lovely. But let the
golden tie be ENTHUSIASTICALLY let
the employee become in some sort a
competitor, and all the weaknesses of
the former employer, all the infrm-
tiles of his business management and
all his trade secrets depend for con-
tinued privacy upon the immature dis
erection of a tyro.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-08-16
No West Virginia in This.

The last report of the canal receivers
Messrs. Winship and Cushwa, is con
elusive of the fact that the receivers
for the State of Maryland fell into a
gross, we will not say criminal error.
when they reported the canal as I'M
worthy of restoration.
Messrs. Winship and Cushwa sus.
tain their convictions by figures which
cannot be controverted and assurances
which cannot be impeached.
1t is to be hoped by every patriotic
Marylandcr that the Court, which
has the fate of the canal in its
keeping, will now put it beyond
the reach of piracy. If it must be sole
for railroad purposes, let no so-callec
Cumberland and Washington railroad
company enjoy the slightest advant
age.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-08-16
Lost Motion.

The Frostburg Ledger made another
speech last week against the growler.
That is, it quoted remarks from an
obscure contemporary on the Eastun
Sho to that effect.
The growler, however, is a big grain
of the salt which keeps the earth from
going wholly to the bad. He is the
parent, guardian, trustee and con-
servator of humanity, and those who
rail at him remind the JOURNAL of a
little dog that comes out of yard in
the town of Homecoming, four miles
south of the Pekin postoffice, regular
ly every day and banks at the pass
enger train.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-08-16
A Charge Which Sweeps Uni

"A CnarSe WI men sweeps OnJuStly.
G. s. Griffith, president of the
Maryland Prisoners Aid Association,
is credited with the following remark :
This (Allegany) county is good feeder for
the penitentiary and House Of Correction.
AS whole perhaps so.
But the Georges Creek coal region
is as far from being ga good feeder"
of the institutions named as any other
section of the State of equal popula-
ton, and the records will bear us out.
Socially inclined as our people are,
and much as they like to mingle in
picnic, excursion and other public oc-
casions, there is little or no friction.
The highest crime is of very rare oc
renee and burglary is almost I'M
known.
So that our county-seat, with po-
lice and constabulary force nearly or
quite equal to all the rest of the coun-
ty, must be for the most part respon-
sible for remark Mr.. Griffith should
not have made at all.
But as he has made it, it is proper
to add that the Georges Creek coal re-
gion pays the freight.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-08-16
Be Still. Busted Heart {!

MANS inhumanity to man makes count
less thousands mourn" says Burns. We see
it on every side. Poor miners suing at the
doors of legislature that tiredamp and fall
ing mountains of coal may be reduced to a
minimum, that their hard toll may be re-
Quilted by an honest count ofthe product they
risk their lives to produce; but the soulless
company-the marrowless corporation, says
mo! let no such humanitarian laws pass
Like the prisoner in the pumping machine,
let them work all the harder to keep their
heads above water let us trade a little longer
on the labOrers actual necessities and force
him to pump pump, pump"
These narrowing pictures are gen
orally painted by miners who dig and
shovel coal without soiling their
fingers.
1t is the same class that on Bonded
knee and upifted brow go "suing at
the doors of legislature
But the true miners, getting 80 cents
IL ton, have no time to paint" or
''sue." They gain more time in setting
their own props than have the legis-
lature do it, and more profit in work
ing till they get tired than have the
legislature limit their earnings to an
eight-hour effort.
Fact is, speaking for Maryland, the
real miners are not "poor."
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-08-16
ExpOSitiOn OfIaw,

In his argument before Judge AL.
vey Tuesday S. 7. Wallis, the great
lawyer, stated the situation with great
succinctness and beauty. We append
a few samples of his courtly rhetoric
Nothing has brought the canal company
into court except It's desire to sell.
1t has no interest whatever III the proceeds
of sale.
The reports OF the receivers of this court and
the receivers appointed by the District court
are Numerically opposite.
Both sets of receivers say that there is
much property lying outside Of the canal
and the District court has ordered its receiv-
ers to ascertain what property belongs to the
canal company.
To sell the property to advantage every
one should know what his rights are.
If this court decides upon the priority OF
liens there may be appeals, but the court is
not sitting to prevent appeals.
The canal company can haye nothing tc
say on the power of sale.
1t accepted the mortgage, spent the money
and brings nothing into court except its post
mortem enthusiasm to sell the canal
We contend that there should be an in
ventory of the property before the sale is
made, and the property not properly belong
ing to the canal could be sold separately.
| cannot see how becree can be passed tc
the interest of all parties unless the courts OF
both territories concur.
1t would not do to sell the work by piece
meal.
"Post-mortena enthusiasm is good.
The gentlemen who have been
largely instrumental in bringing on
the sickness and death of the patient
instead of indulging a mourning OF
penitential mood, accept the sad event
as legacy with bonanza in it.
And so it is.
But the proposed legatees are toe
few and too alien.
Besides, the beneficiares who muir
der the testator are generally held as
having in special manner vitiatec
their claim.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-08-16
GENERAL NEWS.
Canal News.

Messrs Winship and Cushwa, canal
receivers for the District of Columbia,
have completed report in which they
hold with great force that the canal.
restored, will pay. They submit an
estimate of the cost of repair of the
canal or waterway for business,
aggregating $l60,955. This estimate
is made by a civil engineer who has
travelled the entire line of the canal
and made the measurements. He has
had many years experience IN canal
repairs and construction, and states
that the estimates are of the most
liberal character.
He further declares to the receivers
that the repairs ought to he made with
in the amounts estimated ON the sever
al sections and the receivers say that
they have been assured by contractors
and others that they are willing to con
tract for the work on the basis of the
estimates made.
To acquire the full equipment of
tools, Scows and other facilities for the
future maintenance of the canal after
repair and to repair and replace certain
lock. gates and woodwork not included
IN the engineers estimate, and for
other emergencies, it is calculated that
1t will be necessary to eXpend 500 ,095
additional. This would make the esti-
mate for total expenditure OF about
$500, 200 for putting the canal in con-
dition for business operations and
transportation from Cumberland to
the outlet through Rock creek into the
Potomac river at Georgetown, which
the receivers are convinced will be
enough to cover all contingent and
probable expenditures.
In the event of these repairs being
made the receivers have investigated
the probable cost of operation per
anuum, and submit statement of the
costs for q season of canal navigation
for managers, employees, lumber,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-08-16
Chance for Future Gratitude.

The people are devoutly engaged in
thanking the Council for taking about
$71.17 out of their pockets to fence
the old graveyard, belonging now to
only preferred class of highly es-
teemed citizens.
When Allegany cemetery is full,
where lots are now selling at the rate
of about $1,000 an acre, the owners
will no doubt be glad to hand that
institution over to the corporation fol
safe-keeping on the same terms.
And, as usual, we will overflow with
gratitude for the chance to pay more
taxes.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-08-16
materials, incidental and so forth

materials, incidental and so forth
aggregating $50, 1000
Attention is specially called by
the receivers to the letter of the
Presidents of several of the coal
companies regarding the business of
the canal. as they regard it as being
one of the most remarkal and liberia
propositions ever made a Transports
tion line as an inducement for the
resumption of business ever known to
have come from responsible parties.
The receivers insist that it inSures to
the canal company for a term of wears
the basis of large and profitable
business which, with its other sources
of revenue. places the operation of the
canal in the judgement of the receivers
for long period beyond all question
of failure. In the event of the repair
and operation of the canal it is be-
leved that the offer will be carried out
in good faith by the parties.
The letter is signed bv Charles F.
Mayer, president Consolidation coal
company; J. J. Alexander, president
Georges Creek coal and iron company ::
ii. Crawford Black, president Barton
and Georges Creek Valley ccal COM
pany, and Shaw Brothers, for Big Vein
coal company. 1t is addressed to
Messrs. Baker, Bridges and johnson,
receivers of the canal company, at
Hagerstown, and is as follows:
In response to your inquiry as to what vol
ume of business and for what period the fol-
lowing companies propose to ship coal to tide
and local trade over the Chesapeake and Ohio
canal, in the event of the restoration of the
same, we have the pleasure of replying as fol-
lows; The quantity of coal for shipment dur
ing period OF four seasons from the opening
of the canal to tide and local trade to be at
the rate of 100000 tons per season. to be
divided about as follows: The Consolidation
coal company, 100000 the Barton and
Georges Creek Valley coal company, $4,000 !;
total, 10000.
The letter then discusses charges
and tolls, boat freight and allowance
of privileges, should there be any
interruption of reorganization. The
receivers express the opinion that with
this other business and incomes the
revenues of the canal will be about
$4,000 yearly, and are confident that
the canal can be profitably operated.
In further support of their position
they submit a lengthy estimate of
grOSS revenues.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-08-16
Picnic for MCCOmaS.

The nomination by reclamation of
l.. E. McComas next Thursday at Oak
land for reelection to Congress is
foregone.
He is the strongest man his party
can put in the field.
1t is to be doubted whether there is
democrat in the district of any
strength or ability who is willing to
stand up against him.
With Mckaig as an antagonist, he
will enjoy the softest ofhis many politi-
cal snaps.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-08-16
About the Rochester Lamp.

What a raft of law suits any new
and successful invention always
brings. The private letters of James
Watt, the inventor of the steam en-
CINE, to his partner Bolton and other
friends, over one hundred years ago,
are filled with accounts of infringe
ments and patent law suits; Prof
Morse, the telegraph inventor, was
burdened with the same; Whitney, the
cotton-g gin inventor, was so overs
whelmed with lawyers fees and law
expenses, that he finally had to depend
upon State donations and gratuitles to
save himself from the direst poverty;
Elias Howe and Singer, the sewing
machine inventors, nearly persisted in
the intricacies, delays and expenses
of the law, and only the immense
royalties on sales of machines saved
them; Mccormick, the reaper man,
passed through the same experience,
and his estate Is now being eaten up
by llquldatlng arrangements damages
and expenses; Edison rarely has less
than a million or two at stake in law
suits, and his lawyers fees alone would
keep comfortable Il hundred families
VIC III 'oi. I'eP''o.io any Shotise
ialr ar. brake nave l"rfllsheo millions Tor
lawyers ana we near now OF patent
amp the hochester' which Is
binary inventions. This lamp COM
pany kept Roscoe Conkllng and Ben
jamin Thurston, the distinguished
patent expert, uhoer pay r0r several
years. ana Ii mas no" several law hrms
p es G, 'he BUSINESS whefe they leIt
o. mas N. Ml1cheli, present u ,.
Commissioner 10 s1 OF La'eh's, was also %, IN
Tue employ Oh the company. The
preSluent ol lHlS company is Mf. ClaS.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-08-16
Part of America Re-DiscOyered.

Some newspapers report that Messrs
Quay and German, of the U. S. Senate
laid their heads together Tuesday to
effect an arrangement whereby the
election bill and other business might
go over until next session.
If a popular suspicion, limited some
what in circulation, be well founded
this is not the first time the great
ringsters have held close communion
Ithas been limited that Kings county
New York, was discovered by Mr.
Quay looking through Mr.. Germans
eyeglasses.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-08-16
Two Curiosities Abroad.

There is said to be scheme on deck
among the Knights of Labor to ap-
point two walking delegates to attend
all the political conventions this year.
They will be known in the deep re-
cesses of the Order as "spotters," who
will report before election so as the
Order can instruct its members how
not to vote for any man who says he
is peoples man, and not the tool of
a class, especially a bastard labor
class.
One is woman with short hair !;
the other is man with long curls.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-08-16
JTnintinidatCd,

The Homecoming Star Of Thursday
gives the anti-organ two columns of
delicious matter.
1t punctures the pretensions of our
lately imported regulator so thorough
ly that it will be a week or two before
people in 'the growing end of town.
will again venture to set their clocks
by the Frostburg Ledger.
The Stars course toward the insinu-
ations rejecting upon its integrity is
manly. 1t challenges exposure and in
effect says
CLAW on. MacDuff ~
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-08-16
Yours Truly.

In private letter James. A. Cunningham,
now at Washington, D., c., states that he is
working on the'census reports tabulating.
His hours are from p. M. to IL a. m. and on
Saturday from to 10 p. m.-Lonaconing Re
UieW.
Perhaps sold sojer" will find that
little discrepancy between Frostburg
and Homecoming.
If so, "sojer," please move the
prop to the other side of the heading.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-08-16
MINING JOURNAL
FROsTBURG, MD, AUGUST 16. 1890.
Par Mobile FratruIn.

Our readers nave observed Wnat q
boom Mr. German has started for him
self. Long protectionist, he found
at last that he was not in the demo-
cratic swim, and a bold dash across
the chasm between high and low
tariff, burning the bridges behind
him, has landed him among and rang
ed him with the most prominent
tariff reformers,
1t was step reluctantly taken, no
doubt, for Mr.. Germans personal in
terests need strong protectorate.
But it was that or extinction as a dem
ocratic personality.
People who have noticed Mr..
Blaine's break on reciprocity, rose
which smells of free trade under ex-
tempore nomenclature, may have fail
ed to observe that the lightning of
tariff reform struck both him and Mr..
German at about the same time.
They have forgotten, too, as fact
precedent that the interests of these
two men, which, after all, nearly al
ways make politicians whatever they
really are, are wrapped up in large
West Virginia possessions. With
them is Elkins, a German republican;
Davis, Harrison democrat, and so
on. The whole lot, in fact, represent
in full the very irony of partisan
propinquity.
Hence, the republican party of this
State, this Congressional district
notably, and this county particularly,
has a friend in Mr.. German. He lives
high in political power through an
astute scheme of negative democracy.
Tariff reformer or not, he is no enemy
of his own power, which he holds with
republican connivance at headquarters
in return for a policy which makes
this district republican dead sure.
The Homecoming Recie,o, in times
past for instance, has been much
chagrined at the idea of MINDLESS
county furnishings farmer for mine in
spector. And miners have ridiculed
an anomaly apparently so unique.
But, dear paper and people, do you
not understand that that very fact
will win McComas perhaps a hundred
votes this fall ? Do you not yet under
stand that in the higher regions of po-
litical diplomacy the chief game Of the
sports is to set before the unthinking,
unsuspicious, honest people, bats for
lure and traps for popular scarce
In democratic politics in this district
all that Mr.. German cares for-abso-
lutely all-is that his machine shall
control. Under system of minority
rule this is easy to maintain.
The republicans have the same sys-
TEN, because as long as the democratic
method plays into their hands so nice
ly they have no occasion to inaugurate
reform which will bring better men
to the front.
So, gentle republicans, think kindly
and speak respectfully of Mr.. Cor
man.
And ring democrats, asteroids and
satellites discovered and undisco YER
ed, do not be severe on Mr.. Blaine.
To both-the lines of your chiefs
are running parallel. In Maine, for
instance, German is Blaine man,
and in Maryland, the very logic of
RECIPROCITY" makes Blaine German
man.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-08-16
Should Indulge in Billet Doux

The strikes of the Knights of Labor
on railroad or two in New York are
virtually over, and the ringleaders
are on the run to get under cover.
AS usual, it was some other fellow
who started the rumpus.
But the railroad companies should
send the whole batch of accusers their
reservations,