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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-10-28

Shipments of coal from the mines of
in long tons
For week ending Oct. 81, 1893. ..... 1882
year to same date. ,345, S42
Increase compared with last year,. 2S7, 1888
The latest news from the markets is
CLEANED as follows:
The Eastern soft coal trade is suffering lust
now from a lack of coastwise vessels at the
shipping ports, which, as we have previously
stated in this column, were detained by
adverse winds. and accumulated in a great
fleet on this side of the Cape. These vessels
have now reached the discharging ports, at
which there is great demand for empty cars
Owing to this cars have been loaded and are
on the way to ultimate destination, leaying
the dschargng ports bare of cars. This will
handicap consignees, and will cause great
amount of dspurrage on vessels. 1t will also
| have the still worse effect at this time of de-
| laying great number of these vessels in re-
turning to the loading ports, and it will affect
the soft coal trade considerably by not giving
facilities for removing the coal from the lower
| ports. On account of the lack of vessels at
shipping ports there is great quantity of
coal in cars standing there now. To such an
extent has this gone that the railroads have
put an embargo on further shipments from
many of the coal companies. The lower
ports have suffered from the winds and
storms to a much greater extent than the
New York harbor shipping ports, where the
lows to and from New York discharging
| ing and Mining Jouymal.
The bituminous market is in very I'M
satisfactory condition, business, is about as
| quiet as we have ever known it. About the
only movement is on old orders.-Coal Trade
| JonWdi.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-10-28
WhOOp-ce {.

The latest news from New England
this morning indicates that the whole
manufacturing interest has gone
raving mad with insane activity TO
get to work in "swift answer to the
certainty of silver purchase repeal"
eAdd to this the fact that Allegany
county is standing solidly by the same
interests and supporting their demand
for free coal, it is no wonder that
spindles and shuttles have gone crazy
with hilarious industry aud that labor
leaps galumptiously from the iubilant
hills.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-10-28
IicligiOIiS.

In the Ministerial convention at
Glyndon, Md, Rev. James p. Wilson,
formerly of Frostburg, said in connec-
ton with church benevolences that
1.-The minister ought to lead and him.
self give" Mr. Wilson," says the
Baltimore Sun
is a descendant of the Stewart family con-
nected with the Annapolis tea party. His
grandmother was cousin of Peggy Stewart,
for whom the burned ship was named.
Religious work in the State was dis
cussed in the Maryland Baptist con-
yentlon, in connection with which
Mr.. John Williams, of Ocean church, ALE
gany county, advised the delegates to come
up to Allegany, where there was pure air and
no mosquitoes. He said there was a large
field, but very little Baptist seed sown there.
His church was called Ocean because it was
located amid oceans Of coal and sin. He
could tell how to undermine coal, as he had
been miner for tifty-three years, but couldn't
tell how to undermine sin.
Another paragraph concerning him
is as follows:
A pleasing incident of the afternoon session
was the singing of a hymn by Mr.. John
Williams, Of Allegany county. He is &
veteran Welsh coal miner and rendered
effectively verse of his own selection-firs
in English and then in Welsh.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-10-28
Boom at EIIntStOne.

mo Name" writes to the Cumber
land NetcS from Fintstone under date
of Oct 81:
We care very little whether the Senate
takes vote on the silver bill or not. The
western towns of this county are proud of
their coal mines, Cumberland boasts of its
manufactures and hundred thousand
dollar court house, &c, but Flintstone is
getting there too Mrs, Henry A. Elbn gave
birth this morning to triplets. one boy and
two girls, total weight, twenty two pounds.
DIR. A. P. Twigg says they are very pretty
and all doing well. | don't know which is
the proudest, Henry or the doctor. Our town
is not as large as some Others in the county,
but they can't keep us down.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-10-28
Still Kissing the Hands that Smite Us

The Baltimore SIN says:
There is a rumor on the rounds that
the present duty Of 70 cents per ton may
be abolished altogether. Representatives
and Senators interested in this tariff, it is
stated, have expressed willingness to accept
reduction to 40 cents per ton. 1t is not prob
able that the ways and means committee
will take any definite action on the coal tariff
until the interested Senators and Representa-
tives shall have been consulted
There isnothing very definite in that
statement.
But if worse or the worst comes, it
will show that New England interests
still have the call on governmental
favor.
And that Allegany county, strange
to say, is standing openly square and
avowedly fat-footed by those same
New England interests.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-10-28
OrDhaUS' Court

AT Tuesdays session this week.
Conrad ERODE, guardian to Philip Brode,
settled his first and final account.
Daniel J. Betz, administrator c. t. a, of
Thomas Mcneil, deceased settled his sixth
and final account.
Clayton PurnelI, executor of Thomas G.
McCulloh, filed report of sale of the real
estate of said deceased.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-10-28
Maybe-Maybe Not.

On Thursday Mr.. Wilson, chairman
of the Ways and Means committee
declined to state what action had been
determined upon on coal While there are
rumors that it will be upon the free list, there
are rumors Just as well founded that a sub
stantial duty will be placed upon it,
That is pretty even anyhow.
But suppose coal remains undisturb-
ed, will not tariff reformers catch
bliXen just the same9
And will not miners still walk to the
polls by scores and endorse and re en-
phasize New England's demand for
free coal ?
Will they not still travel on plat
form and record boiled down to this p
Away Trombone industries first; our own
last.
Men who obtain any degree Of pro-
lection in spite of such suicidal con-
duet are Ear luckier than they deserve.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-10-28
4 Western FrOstburg.

Our city lighted by electricity,
supplied with water by a splendid
system of water works, and protect
from fire by a fire company com.
posed of stalwart young men, will
take its place among the progressive
and important cities of the State
Pleasant Hill (Mo.) G02ette.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-10-28
Boomerang.

The local editor of the Cumberland
Neps, quoting last week the statement
that "the wheat supply of the country
had decreased that week some nine
millions of dollars" said the ''loss was
directly due to fear of tariff tinker
ing" or words to that effect.
1t depends now whether the Neos
was accepting the statement as the
farmers or miners friend.
For if the farmers lost nine millions,
the miners and other so-called PRO
tected' industrlals, must have made
nine millions in the consequent saving
in the cost of bread.
From which it would appear that
''the fear Of tariff tinkering' was
worth in one week to this region alone
about three thousand dollars.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-10-28
Wanted to bod ge

Gilt Edge-There comes Windy West,
let's go down this alley.
Eser S,cel-Why ? do you owe him
anything?
Gilt Edge-No, but he has been to the
Worlds Fair and wants to tell every
body all about it.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-10-28
They Can't Agree

The industrial and commercial
houses at Buenos Ayres think il is due
to the threatened decline in the pre-
MUM on gold.
In the business centres of the United
States they fear that a premium on
gold is threatened.
But in provincial places, like Cum
berland, they believe it all comes from
the probability that the foreigner will
have to pay us less taxes.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-10-28
Denominations to be Wished.

The converted man who returned his
pension because his new views on morality
would not permit HIM to enjoy the profits of
fraud, offers an example which, ifimitated,
would greatly lower the expenses Of the
CONGRATULATIONS NerS.
And almost fill the land with the
very age and body of practical religion.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-10-28
Struck Water.

An artesan well at Crisfeld, this
State, LOGO feet deep, develops Il
spontaneous howof 20 gallons a minute.
This is one of two wells, and a chron-
icle down there says sit is now con-
clusively proved that IA well can be
driven anywhere in this section with
satisfactory results"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-10-28
Translate Loyalty.

The Cumberland Lndepen,1ent finds
fault with the Ne,cs for advising Its
readers to steer clear of Eastern shore
dispensations.
The Nracs, however, is quite con-
sistent.
1t knows that the Allegany wheel
barrow is headed toward New England.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-10-28
inheritance of a Comma.

Cards are out for the marriage of
Jennie Mckee, to Samuel Mitchell
October 25.-Cove Kansas) Gazette.
If we We're a sweet girl thing, we'd
hate like the mischief to marry a man
by the name Of Samuel Mitchell Octo-
Der 25.-Hay City (Kansas) Sentinel.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-10-28
The LabOrer is Worthy of His Hire

The Laborer is Worthy of His Hire.
Noah Allen, who was the friend of the
miners during the strike in Kansas and who
carried subscription paper for the relief of
suffering miners, now claims $500 of the
relief fund for his services.-Coal Trade
J0ulWal.
Mr.. Aliens claim is correct.
He walked and talked-swung his
legs and churned the Kings English
with his jaws until his own sufferings
reached the 5000 limit.
He has a chance to make stake out
of charity and his Office of walking
delegate expressly entities HIM to 1t.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-10-28
GENERAL ITEMS
Two Il Kind.

The princely and the pauper com
munist are apparently far apart, but
really they are very near together
They both adopt as a rule of conduct
the sentiment of the Well-known coup
let, which declares
That he should take who has the power,
And he should keep who can.
-ReliriOnS Ue3ulI
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-10-28
Married.

At the residence of the bride
Wednesday, October %, 1893, by Rev.
R. NJ. Stricken, Mr.. Benjamin Yates
and Miss Alice B. Richardson, both of
Ocean.
At the Ocean Baptist church
Wednesday, October %, 1898, by Rev.
r. NJ. Stricken, Mr.. John Seamon and
Miss Elizabeth A. Wellings, both of
this county.
At the residence of Mr.. William
Welllpgs, Ocean. Md, Wednesday,
October %, 1898, by Rev. r. NJ.
Stricken, Mr.. William Yates and Miss
Laura B. Edwards, both of this county.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-10-28
COUNTY NEWS.
A Present Duty.
Subscribe for the JOURNAL.
Died.

At his home, Vale Summit, Sunday,
October %, 1898, Mr.. Anthony Kelly,
at an advanced age. Funeral at st
Michaers church, Frostburg, Tuesday
morning.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-10-28
Journalistic.

George V. Hobart is the tactotum OF
the Sunday Times, Cumberland. Heis
a humorous writer of fine ability, a
newspaper man Of experience and at
short range one of the best fellows in
the guild.
The Homecoming Star was seven
years old Thursday. 1t takes occasion
to say it is still growing, and the
JOURNAL hopes it will be able to con.
tinue enjoying the same great blessing
The Star is one Of the county's most
readable papers.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-10-28

"Oh, be less beautiful or be less brief,
Thou tragic splendor strange and full of fear
In vain her pageant shall the summer rear?
At thy mute signal, leaf by golden leaf,
Crumbles the gorgeous year"
William WatSOn
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-10-28
Personal.

The Cumberland Neecs says that the
death of Marshal MacMahon of France
recalls the fact that there are descen-
dants Of the famous Irish family from
which he sprang residing in Allegany
county. There is excellent authority
for the statement that Mr.. Philip Mac
Mahon, at present superintendent of
Ocean mine of the Consolidation coal
company, is lineal descendant of the
family Of Mac Mahons, to which the
Duke of Magenta belonged.
Miss Lillian Porter, of Piedmont, w.
Va, is visiting her sister, Mrs. John
Little, AT Midlothian.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-10-28
--LATEST NEWS.

Jack Brown is still wondering.
And so is Ike Newton Tross.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-10-28
The Advantages Against Us

We notice steamer "Lucania" of the
Cunard Line, has broken all previous records
on her last voyage by the use of Pocahontas
coal. This coal must possess some remark
able properties for the generation of steam,
as nearly all records that have been broken
lately have been done by the use of Poca-
hontas coal.-Coal Trade Jonvnal.
And still we are taught here that
quality does not count,
But it does, and selling in Boston,
for instance, at 10 cents a ton less than
Georges Creek, quality counts twice
against us.
Now, suppose the high protectionists
had not three years ago voted down
the stipulation that protection should
be available only to those entitled to
it, Pocahontas would have to pay
actually 80 cents fol digging coal--a
point in our favor.
Then, with our nearer proximity to
the seaboard, we would have the two
points, instead of neither.
And still we are specially protected
in az American tin horn
The Law Sometimes a Bad Tutor.
The public school system seems to
be an acknowledged failure in West
Virginia.
A brutal teacher at Clarksburg, try
ing to kill fish 10y wholesale, had al arm
blown off by dynamite and sustained
other injuries which may prove NOR
tai. If he lives he will have to be
prosecuted for dyaamiting, a serious
otfense out there.
Near Parkersburg the beast in charge
of a school licked white pupil until
he was blue scholar, and now the
beast will have to let the law come in
and inform his pupils that discipline is
brutality, and rebellion against bru-
tality is the highest scholastic virtue.
The beasts side of the case has not
been heard, but no matter how strong
the provocation which may have driven
him to some excess, there is evidently
enough Mandy PANTY sympathy fol
juvenile deviltry out there to dethrone
him and destroy the morale of his
| school.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-19
Look Out for Your Liver.

Ire liver is a hard-wof.;ed organ
and generally it does its work well
1t 1T the largest gland in the body.
and is mainly concerned with the
functions of digestion and nutrition
though 1T has other important du-
ties. So varied and complex is its
work that most people think they
are safe and justified in ascribinp a
majority ofthe minor ills from which
they suffer to disordered liver. In
this way it is a much maligned or
gan, and 1t is wholly innocent. Ac-
tual disease Of the liver is a serious
matter, but it is comparatively infre-
Quent, and never exists alone.
In this paper we are only consider.
ing those functional arrangements
which are popularity supposed to be
the cause, and to explain the in
dednable sensations which we ex-
perience when we get out Of sorts.
II we do not feel happy, if we worry
and grumble, if we are torpid, if the
day seem dreary and long, If the
weather is bad, ii things go awry, it
is always the liver which is at fault.
1t is generally sluggish" and many
and divers are the popular medical
ments to stimulate it to the satisfac-
tory discharge of its duties.
A very common cause of a touch of
the liver is over eating "a vice more
general than, and almost as repre-
hensible as. Over-drinkirg). We eat
generally out of dill proportion to our
work or to our needs, and take in
sufficient exercise. by means of which
our tissue changes become indolent
and incomplete. Deleterious products
become stored up in our system, and
we make the liver the scapegoat.
Another cause is over-drinking, ac-
tual disease following the frequent
congestion of the liver due to over
indulgence in alcohol The occupa-
ton may be Of too sedentary char
acter, and may predispose to liver
arrangement. But even admitting
that in a large number of cases a
trivial irregularity in function can
be proved against the liver, there is
a large number Of other causes which
produce apparently the same symp-
toms. -Cassell's Family Magazine.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-19
What DO You Resemble.

PhysiognomistS tell us that the hui
man face always resembles that of
some animal. George Eliot was
blessed with an equine expression on
her cOuntenance.
Dickens head and face were often
likened to that OF a fine dog. In En-
gland and America, where dogs and
horses are more thought OF and better
cared for than in other civilized coun-
tries, we find more men whose faces
are strikingly canine and equine in
expression.
Among successful men we often see
the piercing eyes and long, bent nose
OF an eagle. This eagle profile, so
seldom found in men of commonplace
talents, is much admired by physiog-
nomists, but physiognomists condemn
the eagles face when a woman bears
it.
The vast majority of men and wo.
men Of our race resemble Sheep and
this accounts for the stupidity and
susceptibility of the average man and
women. But those who think. OF
have been told that they look like a
horse or dog. must remember that
there are "balky' horses and some
very shabby and miserable dogs
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-19
a THREAD OF SONG.

It was only broken chord of song
That sang itself the livelonS day
Over and over in my heart,
And always the same sweet way
Always beginning low and soft,
Like u tenderly spoken. Love. good night!'
AMI ending in glad and Joyous strains,
Like a morning psalm when tho world Is
bright.
And the hours OF the day were woven in
By the mystic thread of the haunting song,
That. somewhere out Of the vanished past.
Sent forth its witchery clear and strong;
Eomethn akin to the song Of birds
When the sky is flushed with the coming
dawn.
Yet sad as the thoughtful hour which comes
When the last red light Of day II done.
Beautiful echo that drifted back
From the far off shore of long ago.
Over the wide and rugged waste.
Where never the winds OF gladness blow,
Bringing the odor OF wildwood flowers
The laughing song of the mountain r'll
The green glad fields where the cowsl1ps grow
And the CLEAN of waters calm and still.
Sitting alone in the twilight still,
Whose mantle covers the earth with gray,
Nv heart is touched and my eyes grow dim,
As the glow of the sunset fades away.
And | feel the presence OF the unseen guests
That out of the shndowy regions throns
And know they have crossed from the farther
shore
On the slender thread Of the sweet old song.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-19
A SaGaciOus Dog.

There is a prominent business man
in Washington, says the Post, who is
somewhat Of dog fancier, and takes
pride in pair of English settlers that
have held prominent place in sew
eral bench shows in the country.
Some months ago one of them de-
velOped an incipient case of oph-
thalmia and was taken to an Oculist
for treatment just as naturally as
would have been any other member
of the family. The treatment, which
consisted of drops to be put in the
patients eye, proved quite successful
and relieved the trouble for time,
but after awhile it came on again,
and second expedition was planned
to the doctors. Film Flam seemed
to know where he was going, for on
entering the square where the oculist
had his Office he raced ahead of his
master and got up the steps where he
had been but once before, and on the
door being opened bolted straight for
the treatment room, instead of wait
ing his turn downstairs, as two leg
ged patients learn to do, to their
sorrow and impatence. This time
the treatment was d zinc solution
that was very severe and brought the
water in streams from the patients
eyes, but he took it with his nose in
the air, never wincing, and the only
sign of feeling he made was to hold
out one paw pathetically for his
masters hand.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-19
When Royalty Travels IncOgnito.


1t is in consequence of the minuta
of etiquette that sovereigns are said
to travel incognito when they pay prl-
vate visits to other States By so do
ing they avoid the pompous recep-
tions, the firing of guns, etc, to which
they would .have to submit if they
journeyed under their proper titles.
Queen Victoria goes to the continent
as the Duchess of Lancaster. 1t
makes an enormous difference to
equerries and ladies-in-waitinga and
maids of honor whether they are
travelling with a Duchess or a Queen.
The Queen must not be addressed I'M
less she speaks first, and persons may
not speak to each other in her pres
ence. Nobody can sit down in the
Queens presence without bsing re-
quested to do so, and in the open air
men must not come nearer than three
PAGES from her person. She does not
address tradesmen, but the eouerries
repeat her questions to the tradesman
and repeat his replies to her, as if he
were three miles instead OF three
PAGES distant from her. All these
rules are relaxed when she travels as
Duchess Then the attendants be.
have as they would in the presence of
any other lady. New York World.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-19
REFORMED BY A SURGEON.
A Homicidal Scott Who: Had, a Splinter
Taken from His Brain.

Taken from His Brain.
A patient in Glasgow hospital had
received an injury which had resulted
in melanchOlia, says writer in Har-
per's Magazine. Though formerly a
happy husband and father he now re-
peatedly contemplated the murder Of
his wife, and children. There were
no phenomena connected with motion
in any part of the body bv which the
injury could be located. but it was
discovered by that careful. close in.
vestigation for which this surgeon is
so we'll known that Immediately after
the accident for two weeks he had
suffered from what is called "psych-
ical blindness" or 'mind blindness"
that is to say, his physical sight was
not at all affected, but his mind was
not able to interpret what he saw. l
presume he was a staunch Scotch
Presbyterian. He knew that, as was
customary, his new testament was
lying by his side, but when he looked
at it he was utterly unable to recog-
nize it. While, however, his mental
sight was thus affected, his sense Of
touch was perfect, and when he passed
his hand over the smooth leather
cover of his well-known book and felt
the deep-indented letters on the back
he recognized it as his familiar friend;
but when he opened it, the printed
words were unknown symbols to him.
This gave to DR.. MacEwan the key
to the injury. He located on the out
side of the skull this N-shaped convo-
luton known as the angular cyrus,
and found on removing a button of
bone, that portion of the inner
layer Of the bone had become de-
tached and was pressing on the brain,
one corner of it being imbedded in
the brain substance. The button OF
bone was removed from the brain,
and after removing the splinter, was
replaced in its proper position. Tho
man got well, and, although still ex'
citable, lost entirely his homicidal
tendencies and returned to work.