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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1893-08-26
Perry Pointers.
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Ed. Meridional -
The rainy season seems to be at
an end aud we are now enjoying
beautiful cool sunshining weather.
Miss Mabel Lebrun, of New lbe-
ria will visit relatives and friends at
our burg this week.
Miss Iinnie Caldwell will be the
guest Of Miss Lizzie Mills this week.
The Misses Rosa and Regina
Becker will spend the week with
Miss Mamie Nngier, at their hospi-
table home in this village.
Our Sunday School has been
moved to the school house and yes
terday we had a good attendance of
children, and young ladies and gen.
tlemen, bat no officers came 70 Of
tend to the Sunday school. The
Superintendent and Assistant were
both absent. None of the officers
were present except the Secretary.
A good Sunday school would be ap.
preciated and we'll attended here II
we could only get the officers to at
teEd. Guess we will have 70 offer
a prize to the officers who will at
tend Sunday school hest.
Quite q number of our villagers
are attending DR.. r. p. Nelson's
free show at :Abbeville, and are en-
thusiastic over the excellent music
furnished.
A number of our people are on
the sick list, chills and fevers, bad
colds and neuralgia are prevailing.
August 81, '93 SUNFLowER.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1893-08-26

Assessor F. F.. Young Of Vermil.
ion parish was in Baton Rouge
Thursday on official business, the
nature of which was to deliver to
the State Auditor the assessment
rolls Of his parish for the current
year. DR.. Young is well posted
and exceedingly popular gentleman
and Vermilion's assessment under
his administration demonstrates the
fitness OF his appointment-the hg-
ures showing an increase of $600,OOO
over the total for 1892.-Baton
Rouge Advocate.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-06-24
Personal.

President Stern, of the First Nation
al Bank, attended the Commencement
Exercises at Lehigh University this
week to witness the graduation of his
son, George. He returned yesterday,
accompanied by his family, who have
been absent several weeks.
Misses Marguerite and Ada Hoe king,
of Johnstown, Pa, formerly of this
place, are guests of the family of
George H. Hooking.
Frank Baush, of Hagerstown, visit
ed this place this week.
E. d. Steuart of Elk Garden, spent
Sunday last here visiting old friends.
James Campbell, of Barton, was in
town Tuesday evening.
T. W. Gurley, of this place, and
Charles G. Holtshu, of Cumberland,
will sail on the steamship, "Darm
stadt," from Baltimore, July 5, for a
bicycle tour of Europe. During his
absence Mr.. Gurley will correspond
with the JOURNAL.
Mrs. A. F. Parker, now in Carthage,
Mo-, had the misfortune to scald her.
self from the knee down one day last
week. She was painfully hurt, but is
improving.
MISS Kate Beeler, of Baltimore,
we'll known here, is visiting the World S
Fair.
Walter Ravenscraft and wife, of
Ridgeway. Pa, are guests of Mrs.
Annie Haltzell.
William Stevens is at home from
Randolph Macon college.
Miss Alice Wood has returned from
a pleasant visit to her home in Penn
sylvania.
Miss Annie L. Wilson is visiting
friends in Franklin, w. Va.
Next Saturday John Brodbeck, of
Carlos, and Uriah Loar, of Loar-
town, will abdicate the mail-carrying
business respectively to Carlos and
Vale Summit. Dennis Jones, colored,
will relieve Brodbeck, and John Kirby
take Loar's job.
Frank X. Tiddy, of Paint Rock, N.
C., is visiting relatives here.
C. R. Shryer and wife, of Scranton,
Pa, are guests of j. H. Hitchins.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-06-24
Distinguished Visitors.

A considerable party of ladies and
gentlemen visited town Friday of last
week, whose personelle and purpose were
the topics of much speculation. They
walked over town and, returning,
stopped at Reichenbach's restaurant
and had dinner. Thence they repair
ed to the depot and were whlsked away
in a special car attached to the 12:47
p. m. train.
They turned out to be a party of
railroad officials and their families on
a tour of inspection to Cumberland,
but brought to Frostburg on pleasure
trip by the Cumberland and Pennsyl-
vania railroad company, whose guests
they were. Each and all were loud in
praise of the company's elegant hos
pitality, both on train and at Relchen-
bach's. The picturesque location and
surroundings of the town were also
lavishly admired.
The names of the visitors are:
E. H. Utley, General Agent Carnegie Steel
company, wife and daughter.
G. E. McCague, General Freight Agent
Carnegie Steel company. and wife.
c. E. E. Chllders, Joint Agent Central
Traffic Association in charge of Inspection of
Freight in Pittsburg district, and wife.
S. l.. Seymour, Division Freight Agent,
PENNSYLVANIA railroad and wife
H. J. Laurence General Agent l.. H. and
M. S. railroad, and wife.
J. P. Orr Division Freight Agent Pennsyl-
vania railroad company, wife and daughter.
w. L. Cromlish, General Freight Agent
Pittsburg and Western railroad and wife.
T. w. Galleher. Division Freight Agent,
Baltimore and Ohio railroad.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-06-24
SEMI-LOCAL NEWS.
ErcyitieS.

The richest man in Frederick county
threatens to run for Congress next
year. If he had few dollars more he
would wait and go to the Senate.
A pig pen is said to be the occasion
of complicated quarrel at Lonacon-
ing. Which shows that Homecoming
is not stuckup on subjects of quarrel
some interest. AS matter of fact,
however, the real parties to tackle
pig-pens in a life and death racket are
our town and county health boards.
1t nauseates a Cumberland man to
have a stranger ask where's your
courthouse
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-06-24
Bank News.

At a meeting of the Directors of the
First National, held few days ago,
R. R. Henderson, of Cumberland, was
elected a Director in place of A. J.
Wilson. MIR. Henderson is one of
the solid business men of the county,
successful financier, and in the
Directory will be an invariably con-
sentative and safe counselor. That
body could hardly haye made d SUI
perior selection
The safe of the Citizens National
Bank was unloaded in the banking
room Yesterday morning.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-06-24
Set on Fire by Lightning.

The Revolution, populist paper,
Charlotte, N. c., 18th inst, says:
Mr. A. T. Hamill, foreman of the Southern
Newspaper Union, College Street, who lives
one mile east of the city, lost his barn, horse
and buggy harness by fire Wednesday morn
ing. His barn was struck by lightning about
half past o'clock. Mr.. Hamill says he was
at his barn in time to get his horse out but
the horse seemed to be stunned and he could
do nothing with him. His loss is about $780,
Mr.. Hamill had no insurance.
The many people here who remem-
Der Cam will regret to learn of his
loss.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-06-24
President Epworth League.

An w-Cmstomer-Mr. Parker,
what is "Kumysgen
4. F. Parker-"Kumysgen" is prepare
ton of powdered milk. the casein of which
has been so modified by the process of manu-
facture as to make it the most easily dgested
food known.
Cmstomer-Is it easy to take?
4. r. Parker-It is very palatabe; anyone
will relish it, and it is so light and nutritious
that it will be retained in the stomach when
all other kinds of nourishment are rejected.
1t is enjoying an immense run at my Fount-
ain, people finding that luxury and an APP
petizer are very rarely combined in the same
cool, foamlng glass.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-06-24
Economical Hint,

1t would be well to be cautious about rum
ming up the expenses for light, especially
when there is an arc light on Main street al
ready that Council has given orders to ex-
tinguish.
Is it the one ordered to be put up
Opposite Devils alley" but which by
some hocus pocus got located nearly
feminist the Ledger Office?
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-06-24

Rev. T. c. Easson's subject to-mor-
row Sunday will be in the morning
'The Riches of Grace;" in the even
ing-"One Thing Lacking"
Mountain Lodge, No. 80, A. F. and
a. M, will attend the English Luther
an church in body to morrow (Sun-
day. morning. Lodge will meet IN
Masonic Temple not later than 10 a. NJ.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-06-24

loves to look through the "storied window,
richly Digit" finds here everything to en-
nance his Ioftiest spiritual aspirations And
when music paints to his ear the stirring, ex-
quiste complexities of metred rhythmical
ascription, host of impulses unite to usher
him into Shekina
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-06-24
Real EStata Sale

The Frost Homestead" advertised
by T. w. Frost, MORTGAGE, and
Clayton Purnell, attorney, was knock
ed down last Saturday to W. H. Duffy
for 81 300.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-06-24
LOCAL NEWS.


The new Directory of the Frostburg
Trotting Association elected the follow
ing officers Wednesday evening:
President-John Chambers.
Secretary-J. B. Williams.
Tredsurer-J. H. Hitchins.
The park is open for engagements.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-06-24

Don't forget the Children's Enter
tainment, consisting of tableaux, sing
ing and recitations, in Meats Opera
House, Tuesday, July 4, under the
auspices of the Epworth League.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-06-24
Married.

Tuesday evening, June 20. 1898, at
the parsonage of the German Lutheran
church. by Rev. R. w. Conrad, Mr..
Owen Logsdon and Miss Ottilia
Filsinger, both of Eckhart.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-06-24
Base Ball.


The racket at the Driving Park last
Saturday was one unworthy of the
people engaged init.
From what the JOURNAL learns
Frostburg should have played ball.
In fact, Frostburg should always
play ball, no matter if antagonized by
the New York Giants.
Frostburg doesn't need always to
win games. 1t wants to make the
town popular as base ball town.
If visiting clubs come here loaded
with professional ammunition, let
them come and give them the very
best game the town can put up. If
the town is beaten; the people can be
depended upon to understand and
appreciate the reason why.
But don't be inhospitable to visitors.
For thus Frostburg will be injured
as town in the estimation of visitors
and the people alienated from club
in whom they want to feel a just
pride.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-06-24
BreYitieS.


There is great diversity of opinion
concerning the chronology of the
Ledger editions. 1t is believed, how
ever, that the "last edition" is daily
afternoon anachronism, as diligent in
quiry has failed to discover reader
able to elicit a copy of the first, second,
third or fourth edition. In other
words, it is believed "the last lick is
hit fust."
1t would appear that beer picnic oc-
casions are not good times to have
local baseball meets.
Several fellows around here waiting
for the frost which brings down the
internal revenue perslmmons.
If "cleanliuess be next to godliness,"
then dizziness is next to godlessness.
How many heather, then, of the
fellowcraft degree are there in Frost
burg who have not cleaned up this
spring.
The date lines of dispatches from
Sang Run show quick transmission,
and if the figures don't lie, it would
seem they are the only things in the
Frostburg Ledger Office that don't.
Two baskets of fine cherries from
T. H. Paul this week. They were
good. By the way, has anybody heard
anything from L. C. Parker lately?
An individual looking like a tele-
graph pole with the cholera morbus
appeared in the Ledger again this week.
Mejams, doubtless, thinks each of his
'steen readers is ''laughing jackass."
j. B. Williams has recently erected
pretty iron fences for Mrs. Marion P.
Shaw and George Wehner.
The Frostburg bureau of the Cum
berland Times reports that 1.-The Their
mometer Tuesday registered ITO de-
grees about o'clock" The bureau
should take that thermometer to the
tireplug expert of the Ledger Office and
have its dingus turned the wrong way.
Prof. Donald Downie delivered his
illustrated lecture on "Ireland" to a
fair audience Monday evening. The
pictures were the best of the kind ever
shown here. A dance by Michael
Driscoll, of this place, and two Irish
songs by Peter Boyle were features of
the occasion.
Wylie, bicyclist, bound from New
York to Chicago, 1000 miles, in 10
days, passed through here Wednesday
ere yet "the lion had shaken the dew
drops from his mane," or the
Ledger had inhaled the golden breath
of the yaller dog in the sunlight of the
morning.
Towles has taken several fine views
of the M. E. Church exterior and in
terror for the Frostburg chapter of the
EI worth League. AS will be seen in
"New Business Locals" president
Hawke has them for sale.
1t is believed that Gen. McKaig
thinks his majority next year will not
be perceptibly diminished by the
absence of John Chambers as minister
plenipotentiary to the Court of the
Begun Of Mejam.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-06-24
ORDER NISI.

Thomas w. Frost Us. Nathan s. Frost.
No. 1910 Equity.
In the Circuit Court for Allegany county.
ORDERED, This Goth day of June, in the
~ year eighteen hundred and ninety three,
by the Circuit Court for Allegany county,
sitting in Equity, That the sale made and re-
ported in the above cause by Thomas w.
Frost, mortgage, be ratified and confirm
ed, unless cause to the contrary thereof be
shown on or before the Dist day of July,
1888; provided copy of this order be
published in some newspaper published in
Allegany county, once a week for three
successive weeks before the Dist day of
July, 1893.
The report states the amount of sale to be
$4,000. THEO. LUMAN,
Clerk.
True copy. Test: THEo. LUMAN, Clerk
lime ol-3t
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New Business Locals,

Large Photographs of the NJ. E. Church
can be had of the undersigned at the follow
ing prices:
Exterior and Interior. .................Sl.25
Observation-Disclosures. ......... rs
Interior. Observation-Disclosures. rs
J. H. HAWKE,
President Epworth League.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-06-24
Shorthand and TypeWritin9.

HAVING recently graduated at Phillips
IL College of Photography and Type
writing, of Bedford, Pa, will open a
Night School
at the corner of Broadway and Mechanic
streets. For further particulars inquire at
the office of L. J. PARKER, Magistrate.
June "a w. ID. PARKER.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-06-24
The Returns,

MeSSrS. Z ". beall, OF THIS place,
and Albion Coles, of Barton, met in
the JOURNAL Office Tuesday evening
and counted the Pittsburg Times
coupons that had been sent in. The
count resulted as follows:
Patrick U Rourke. .................... III
Miss Mary ]. Dando. Observation-Disclosures. 939
" Belle Ireland. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 5000
George NJ. Perdew .....................19 , 435
Total coupons ................. .....26, 495
The entire number was thereupon
awarded to Mr.. Perdew, and as he is
one of 20 eligibles allotted to Ohio,
West Virginia, West Pennsylvania
and Maryland, it is more than prob
able he will be able to make his
Worlds Fair trip free of all necessary
expense.
Meanwhile, all who have coupons in
large or small numbers will make his
success surer by handing them to him
on or before Wednesday next.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-06-24
New Advertisements.
Special Notice.
KELLEY INSTITUTE

KELLEY INSTITUTE,
IIagerstown, Nd, June II, 1893.
THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE, That j. U.
l. BRAGoNIER is not in the employ of the
Kelley Institute and all persons are warned
not to deal with him.
JAMES T. HARDIN,
June N-1t Manager
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-01-19

Is the shadow of tb earth ever seen
on the cosmic du3I"ns Of snpce' or do
eartbiv eman/ ions ever surround the
e "pa ny Efficient distance To receive
lpat ~ t<press of the earth's form AS
80 '',J Is thrown against it by the sun?
D,s6klyn man says that at the time
nsefle red sunsets several years ago he
IAw one evening a distinct arch of
shadow in the east, as if it were the
shadow OF the earth cast against some
lightly disseminated substance far
away Within the arch the sky was
dark blue; outside of it the colors were
paler and had pink tinge. Shadows
of mountains are occasionally seen on
the air to the eastward or westward at
sunset or sunrise, and why not the
shadow of the earth itself on some
thing outside of the airy envelope, or
even against the air? At the time of
the red sunset the atmosphere Of almost
the whole earth was charged with vol
canic dust from the great eruptions in
and near the island of Java. The APP
pearance Of the phantom globe in the
eastern sky was reported to the OBJ
servers at the naval observatory at
Washington, but they never acI<nowl-
edged the receipt Of the information -
n. Y. Sun
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-01-19
Center of the Un,ted states.

The exact situation of the geograph.
ical center of the United States is SUI
prise to anyone who has not given the
subject careful attention, says the De-
troit Free Press. The most eastern
point of the United States is Quoddy
Head, Me-; the western, Attoo island,
Alaska; the most northern, Point Ielr-
row, Alaska; the most southern, Key
West, Fla. The center of the quad
rangular figure formed by uniting these
four points is located at the crossing Of
So degrees north latitude and 10 de-
grees west longitude, about 42O miles
north of the northern line of Montana.
1t is also true of the United States as Of
Great Britain, that the sun never sets
on our territory, for when it is p IN.
on Attoo island, Alaska, it is 9:36 a. N.
Of the following day at Eastport, Me-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-01-19

and little bit of bronze work upon
which rests the alabaster, while there is
very small, symmetrical and handsome
equestrian figure on the top. This
clock attracts attention, and once upon
a time it captured the eye of some Wis
itor, who captured the clock and car
ried it away. 1t was recovered after a
time, and, with that exception, it has
been in the capitol since the ancient
history of our young republic. Nobody
knows now when it was purchased. 1t
is conceded to be one of the Oldest in
habitants.
The senate clock of to-day is plain
dat over the door of the main entrance
of the senate chamber. 1t is of blue
enamel, with golden stars, and is SO
located that the vice president can gaze
directly upon it, and every member can
see it by slightly turning their heads.
The official clock of the house of repre-
sentatives which - over the main en-.
trance of the house, directly opposite
the speaker is about four feet in height
and is deliberately ornamented with
scrolls and wreaths of bronze. Upon a
shield above the clock is perched a
spread eagle, while on either side
Of the clock is a bronze figure, one
representing farmer or pioneer, and
the other an American Indian. 1t is a
very handsome timepiece, but cannot
compare with the senate clock for
modest beauty and richness. The hands
of this clock are never turned back,
1t is only the senate clock which re.
ceives admonitions from Capt. Bassett
that it must not get too fast upor
certain occasions of national irnpor.
lance.
When everybody in the house of rep
resentatives wants to talk, and nobody
wants to listen, resolution is passed
limiting debate to five minutes for each
member. Under such circumstances
the speaker ignores the big clock with
its bronze figures and spread eagle lie
has little clock on his desk, which IS
also cared for by Mr.. Bates, and with
that chronometer he measures off the
time and calls the takers down at the
expiration of their allotted time.
SMITH ID. FRY.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-01-19

Der was abandoned as legislative
hall and given over to the supreme
court. do not know why the robed
justices discarded this clock. but they
did so, and now it stands opposite the
main entrance of the senate with its
white face apparently appealing for
admittance. The senators of to-day,
however, do not know the old clock
and they heedlessly pass it by. Yet
this old clock was good enough for the
statesmen of ante-bellum days.
Such men as Webster, Clay, Calhoun,
Hayne set their bull's-eye watches and
timed their speeches by it. With inex-
orable accuracy it measured off the
lives of these great men into minutes,
and one by one marked the hour of
their death. Its twelve-stroke for
years has struck out the term of one
administration and in the term of an
other Presidents and senators were
sworn in by it, and it possesses secrets
of state of which history is ignorant.
The man who sat by its side sixty years
ago, watched it and wound it, now,
grown to look like old Father Time, sits
and watches the new clock in the SEN
ate, while tbjs old friend stands in Q
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-01-19
"A /: W.
SENATE COCK.

hour of the morning has closed, the So
called morning hour" of the senate
and house begins.
When the ball drops at meridian on
the dome of the observatory, when the
whistles sound and the bells ring
throughout the city, and the workmen
everywhere begin to rattle their
dinner pals, the hands of the electric
clocks at the capitol spring straight to
the hour of twelve. picking up a
moment of lost time or dropping a
moment they have marked too soon.
Then the speakers gavel falls and it is
time for morning prayer. High noon is
the hour of hours in this marble temple
of law and order. All the capitol
clocks must mark that time punctually,
if no other hour in the day, and all the
bells must strike in unison. At noon
congress has its birth and at noon it
expires. 1t is only on extraordinary
occasions, like the present, when con-
gress is hardly its natural self. that it
meets from day to day at any other
hour. All committees, unless they
have received some special dispense
ton, cease to have power to act as
committees when the clock on the
mantel strikes twelve. Action taken
after that would have no binding force.
Therefore, the official clock, whose
statement as to the hour cannot be dis
puted, is on the mantel in each of the
scores of committee rooms.
The clock enters very largely into
legislative business. Besides starting
the house and senate on their daily
course and ending the powers of COM
mittees, it measures off the allotted
portions of time for bills whose fate de-
ponds upon the use of the moments to
its credit, and it cuts congressional elo.
quence into sections varying in length
from one minute to sixty.
The senate clock, the very one which
Capt. Bassett turned back on March 4,
1874, stands now in the senate corridor
in a corner where it seems lonely and
bashful. 1t deserves better treatment.
1t is an old-time wooden clock about
eight feet high and was evidently built
To last for all time. 1t is as substantial
in appearance as an oak or mahogany
table of We olden time 1t is large
enough for n man to stand inside of
without discomfort. 1t was built es-
pecially for the senate at considerable
cost and was used as the official clock
OF the senate until the old senate cham