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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-09-21
GENERAL NEWS.
Over the Way in Allegany,

Our esteemed contemporary. the
MINING JOURNAL of Frostburg, again
calls attention to matter that seems
to us a great blunder on the part of
the legislators of Maryland. to say the
least.
From what we gather it seems that
the election expenses for the munic1
pality of Cumberland are all paid out
of the funds in the hands, or at the
disposal Of the County Commissioners
of Allegany county.
What interest, or what responsibility
have the people of that county in the
municipal affairs of the city of Cum
6erland Why should the people of
Frostburg, Homecoming, and Western
port (the only other incorporated towns
III the county, be made to bea, their
own election expenses Gin itself right
of course) and yet Cumberland be al
lowed to enjoy the boon of having her
bill footed by the county?
1t would seem to us that self pride
alone would induce the latter city to
recede from such a method, even if
the injustice did not sufficiently i'm
press itself upon the minds of the
people there. This latter reason
ought, of course, be the all-moving
impulse that would dictate a change.
However, we adhere to the opinion
we expressed some two years or more
ago when we had occasion to discuss
Cumberland city in regard to her
county connections. We then ad-
vanced the idea that the only proper
solution of the whole difficulty was in
making the city of Cumberland a dis
tinct political division of the State.
such as Baltimore city is, having no
connection or tie whatever with ALE.
gany county, and dependent entirely
upon herself for her development and
progress. We believe, too, that it
would be for the benefit of Cumber-
land, as it would undoubtedly be for
the remainder Of the county. Enlarge
her boundaries, of course. and throw
her and her people on their resources.
They would soon realize their chances
and improve wonderfully; and at the
same time some opportunity would be
given to other parts of Allegany
county to develop chance sadly need
ed.--Piedmont CIV. Va.) Herald.
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CORRESPONDENTS.
Atlanta Exposition.

ATLANTA, Ga, Sept 10, 1895
To the MINING JOURNAL.
The most important event of the
current year to this country, and
especially to the South, and still more
especially to the city of Atlanta and
the State of Georgia. is the Cotton
States and International Exposition
which was formally opened at Atlanta,
Ga, yesterday and will be closed on
the 3lst day of December.
That a Southern city of about | 10 900
population should have the enterprise
and public spirit, not to say the
temerity, to undertake, almost single
handed, an enterprise so wide in its
scope, so mammoth in its proportions
and requiring such 2 vast outlay of
money as to richly entitle it to the
designation of ''International," in the
face of universal commercial de-
preston and financial panic, and that
Atlanta, Ga, which was left but little
more than Il heap of ashes and smoul-
dering ruins, with its population of
10000 scattered and homeless by Sher-
mans army, when it took up its
famous "March to the Sea-" should be
that city, it is not surprising that the
first suggestions Of such an enterprise
were received with general misgiving
and that even the Southern States and
cities counseled against it. and were
slow to come to the assistance of a
sister city in an undertaking which at
such time was regarded as hazardous
IN the extreme and too mammoth to
u 10 1
A visit to Piedmont Park, however.
about two miles north of the center of
Atlanta, will dispe! every doubt of the
realization of a degree of success sur
passing the most sanguine expecta-
tons of the projectors of the Cotton
States and International Exposition.
From the roof garden of the new
and modern "Aragon Hotel" which
occupies tie highest hill in this hill
city, magnificent panoramic view of
the city and its surroundings IS afford
ed. All around you, spread over hills
and valleys, just sufficiently pro-
nounced to afford pleasing variety to
the topography, is the compact, we'll
built, hustling Chicago of the South,
Gate City of the South, Atlanta, with
its wealth of well-pavcd streets and
avenues, laid out apparently regard
less OF rule or plan, which Join the
macadamlzed roads that lead through
the picturesque suburbs to the rich
farming lands beyond.
There Is an appearance of solidity,
grandeur and beauty in her public
buildings, her hundred churches, her
SemlnarleS, colleges, numerous nublic
school houses, her Henry Grady
Hospital, her stores and private houses,
suggestive of abundant building ma
terlal near by, and looking away to
the east. fourteen miles across the foot
hills. the famous Stone Mountain
looms up, solid mountain of granite,
where immense quarries are operated
now, but where, thirty one years ago.
grlm-visaged war held sway and
thousands were slain, and their blood
trlckled over the rugged, granite sides
OF Stone Mountain.
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In looking over these lovely hills
and valleys, clad in the gladness of
Southern verdure and Welding
abundantly to the hand of the happy
husbandman, it is difficult to realize
and that the soil was literally soaked
with fraternal blood.
In such an undertaking the question
OF transportation is one of natural
prominence, and any person in anywise
interested in this exposition, every
person proposing to become an eX-
hlbltor or visitor has doubtless pro-
pounded the inquiry, whether the
Southern railroads are equal TO the
emergency of handling the enormous
travel and traffic to and from Atlanta
during the period of the exposition.
This, question, of course, has long
since been answered to their satisfac-
ton by the Committee on Transporter
ton OF the Atlanta Fair; but for the
benefit of many who acquired their
knowledge of the railroads of the
South during a period of ten or fifteen
years succeeding the close of the war,
perhaps it will be well to say that no
comparison can be drawn between the
miserable apologies for railroads in
the South during that period, with the
really splendid roadbeds and equip
ment of the present.
Atlanta is essentially railroad city
and great railroad centre, having
railroads, and good ones, radiating to
every part of the country. But with
out considering any of the others,
there IS one system fully capable of
handling expeditiously. comfortably
and satisfactorily, all the travel and
traffic to and from the exposition from
any and every direction, and that is
the great combination operated by a
single management, with Headquarters
at Washington, d. c., under the name
of the Southern railway.
One Of its lines has its northern ter
minus at Washington and over it is
operated a fast through service in con
nection with the Pennsylvania railroad
from New York, through Philadelphia,
Baltimore, Washington and Atlanta to
all parts of the south and southwest,
including New Orleans and points in
Florida, and which makes the run
from New Y ork to Atlanta in a hours
Not only so. but its connections in
other directions enable it to give the
same tirst-class service to passengers
from the west and northwest.
SO important is this great railroad
system to the success of the exposition
and so hearty has been its interest in
the undertaking and its co operation
with the managers of the exposition,
that it has been accorded exceptional
privileges and will be the only road
having tracks in Piedmont Park,
which will enable it 10 land passengers
from any direction, without change of
cars, either in the Park or in the Union
depot in Atlanta, as they may prefer.
The Southern Railway has always
manifested the most generous interest
IN every enterprise or effort to promote
the welfare of the South, and will
make most interesting exhibit in a
handsome building which it has
erected in the fair grounds, consisting
OF specimens Of the mineral and other
products of the South and illustrative
OF the marvellous Improvement in rail
road construction, operation and
architecture in this country. T.E.C.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-09-21
PERSONAL.


Julius Jandorf, of New York, came
in on the late train Saturday evening,
18th inst, surprising his friends. He
looks like ull-grown Gothamite.
Horace Beall and daughter, Miss
Mary, of Charlestown, w. Va, are
guests Of his mother, Mrs. Richard
Beall.
Lawrence B. Koch, of Reading, Pa,
visiting his mother for several weeks,
returned to that city few days ago.
Frank Tiddy, of this place, has
taken clerical position in railroad
employment at Piedmont, W. Va,
where he formerly lived. He is fine
book-keeper.
Miss Mabel Hohing, of Homecoming,
visiting Miss Mary Price, returned
home Tuesday.
Miss Lizzie Graham. of Allegheny
city, Pa, is guest of Miss Berdie
Shearer.
George E. Pearce was in Phila-
delphia last week buying holiday
goods for his company. When he
came back he said to the JOURNAL
"you can rely on my assortment as be-
ing the finest that will come to this
town."
Mrs. E. J. Crane, of New York city,
is visiting the family of DR.. Griffith.
She is an aunt of Mrs. G.
Mrs. A. j. Mason and two children,
of Friendsville, Md, and Miss Annie
Mason, of Pittsburg, Pa, are guests
of Mrs. Sarah M. Mason.
Fred. Teller, brother of Gus. VIM.
Zeller, has been appointed assistant
inspector of machinery by the Mayor
of Chicago. He won the place on his
merits, and "they do say" Fred. is
destined to go higher. He is a native
of Frostburg.
Miss Annie Donnelly, of Cumber-
land. is among Frostburg friends.
Miss Matte Hitchins has returned
from lengthy visit to st. Paul, Mimi
R. Mason Hill, associated with
Harry Bear, at Elk Garden, w. Va,
spent Wednesday with his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Hill.
Mrs. John Bachman and little son,
of Cumberland, are guests of Mrs.
Vincent Raley.
George Ort and family removed to
Pittsburg, Pa, this week.
Miss Bertha Dumick, OF Baltimore,
arrived Tuesday evening to please
the fashionable tastes of Mrs. P.
O'Rourke's many millinery customers.
jackson T. Hart, of this place, has
declined the populistic nomination for
Sheriff,
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BreVitIes,

The statue of Homecoming man re-
Jecting nomination for the House of
Delegates should be placed alongside
of that of Ajax defying the lightning.
The JOURNAL understands that the
two busiest men in Allegany county
last Saturday evening were Messrs. j.
Semmes Devecmon, populisf nominee
for States attorney, and James
Bannatyne, prohibition nominee for
same office. The former left his law
books and scurried around to get folks
to go on the ticket, while the latter
forgot his ticket in his earnest quest
for the series which begins with Black
stones Commentaries.
Somebody offered a House of Dele
gate nomination to Homecoming man
the other day, but his wife declined it.
A Ba!rellvile lady attempted to give
a "high tea" the other day, but the
cook burnt the fried cabbage and got
too much salt in the mashed potatoes.
The affair was disappointment to the
hospitable hostess and more or less in
vidious comment was INDUCED by the
guests.
If any high school determines to in
troduce a puzzle department the JOUR
NAL submits this to the pupils
reconcile the high school law with
the judicial construction of the law.
Remember-it is the construction and
not the law that so-called high schools
are working under.
Some philologist-Erudite r. John
son perhaps-has discovered that the
names, Bismarck and Mark Twain, are
literal synonyms. This being true,
why can't the JOURNAL get credit for
finding out that the pranomina, Henry
Columbian and Josephus Joker are
journalistic condolences
An Ellerslie woman threw a stone
the other day, hit a man with it, and
there was talk of arresting her. But
the absence of intention to hit can
easily be proven by the law governing
the direction of projectiles in the hands
Of females.
All great men have their eccen-
tricities. For instance, Titus A.
Brick, when walking to or from Iona
coming always takes the road, while
Col. Whoop Koffcutter, of Bulygany,
prefers to count the ties. Both abso-
lutely refuse to ride on the trucks of
passenger cars.
The Mt. Savage Social and Scientific
club has been organized. The treas
urer carries the key and the secretary
a corkscrew.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-09-21
Didn't Gamble.

Il once run for Highway Commits
sioner," observed Deacon Irouside,
land the other man and | got exactly
the same vote"
GLOW did you settle it p asked Elder
Keepalong.
"He offered to decide the matter by
tossing up a copper cent, but | said
that was gambling and | wouldn't
gamble if | never got an Office in the
world. So we pulled straws for it and
| got the right one. There's little
trick at pullin' straws." added the
good deacon, with twinkle in his eve,
that everybody doesn't know. Pm
generally pretty lucky at pullin'
straws.n
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-09-21

a few days ago a Frostburg gentle
man was up the National Pike, be-
yond Grantsville. In his intercourse
with the people he found II poet-one
of Natures own unfettered bards the
genius loci of Keyser's Ridge. The
poet complained, however, of a pre-
vailing want of appreciation by his
county papers of native poetry, and
the JOURNALS friend craved a sample
for the great paper. The one obtained
was the last, but not by any means the
least of several bushels of MSS. The
reader will observe that the author is
not cabined by the arbitrary rules of
metre, nor cribbed by the hardly less
imperious diet0 of perfect rhyme, nor
confined to the consistency which tense
sometimes almost unreasonably i'm
poses upon verse. Indeed, the pastor
al printed below shows that the poet
goes less on imagination than facts.
1t subordinates the beautiful to the
true and shows care more for
pathetic incident than for flowing
rhythm. Itis addressed ITO Our Dog,
Towser:n
Old Towsers sick-with pain is sore
A few more days and all will be DER.
The dog was kind; to friends was good;
~ g Il
Intelligent, watchful and very kind
His equal was very hard to find
In hunting he took great delight
But cat or sheep he would not bite
But the grounding, or coon, or the little
mink
He would stop their breath as quick as wink
When i'll the woods he took great delight
The pheasants or squirrels to put to flight.
But when at home was content to stay
And watch the folks that pass this way;
When drawing near he would raise an alarm
Through summers heat or winters storm
The poor dog is getting weak
He needs not your voice when you speak;
But with pain is racked; he breatheth low,
And very soon his life will go.
And lower still he seems to sink
Still drawing closer to the brink;
The huttering heart we should not MOURN
The poor old dog is dead and gone.
Alas he's dead-from pain he is free,
And we'll dig him grave meath the apple
tree,
Where he'll be safe from friend or foe,
And it will be the same with me and YOU.
H. LATHAM,
keyser, Garrett Co., Md.
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The Best PaDerS,

j. H. Atkinson, of this place, gaug-
ing whlskey somewhere up in Garrett
county, certifes that the Cumberland
Times is 1.-THE best paper in Maryland"
We know this to be true, because
we saw it in the Times.
The confusion thus created is
brought about by similar testimonial
sometime ago concerning the Mdepen-
dent, sent that paper by J. Semmes
Devecmon.
And now, with two newspapers in
Homecoming, claiming the same thing
for themselves without testimonials,
the situation is interesting if not be-
wildering.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-09-21
SENII-LOCAL NEWS.
Political.

Mr.. Lowndes is Swinging round
the circle" to fairs and county, seats,
shaking hands and, reports say, max
ing a good impression. He has an
immense job on hand, however, if it
be expected of him to go wherever
called. Maryland is a small State,
sighted on the map, but when she
stands up to be counted by one man
''she's whopper.n
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-09-21
Excursion Rates to Atlanta.

On account of the Atlanta EXPOSE
ton, the B. & o. r. r. Co. will sell
excursion tickets at greatly reduced
rates. Season tickers will be sold
every day until December 10Th, good
returning until January 9TH, 1896.
Twenty day tickets will be sold every
day until December 10th, good re-
turning for twenty days from date of
sale. The rates from Cumberland
will be $3l.90 for season and $23. 40 for
twenty-day tickets. Correspondingly
low rates from other points on the line.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-09-21
Political.

Political.
The Peoples party of the county
met in Cumberland Saturday, l4th
inst, and nominated the following
ticket:
States Attormey-J. S. Devecmon.
House Of Delegates-John Barber, Vale
Summit; B. w. Detfenbaugh, Frostburg
Frank Farbeck, Cumberland John T.
Logsdon, Barton; Patrick Monahan, Frost
burg.
County ommissioners-Samuel Dixon,
Westernport; George E. Robinett, Flint
stone; Ernest Hartman, Cumberland.
SherB-Jackson Hart, Frostburg.
J"dges Of the O,phanS' Cort-Wm. Jen-
kins, Frostburg; Thomas Sidey, Cumber-
land; ID. H. Lear, Cumberland.
County S,nyeyor-Wm. Armstrong, Frost
burg.
County Treasurer-Oscar Hadra Cumber-
land.
No judicial nomination was made,
but a resolution was unanimously
adopted reciting that the office of
judge was u non-political one, and the
populists of Alegany county heartily
Endorsed Ferdinand Williams for that
position in the event of bis nomination
by the democratic party.
A set of resolutions endorsing the
national platform of the peoples
party and favoring the Inauguration
OF the slngle-tax idea was adopted.
Not only so-the convention resoluted
in favor of two weeks pay, including
compensation for time spent by miners
in providing for their own safety by
popping; of payment by the short,
instead of long ton of checkweigh
men; of railroad fare drawbacks of
an itemized contingent fund public
printing to the lowest bidder of max
ing the possession of a railroad pass
by public officer criminal offense :
of making masters liable for damages
occasioned by the negligence of co
employees, and of considerable
modification OF the law so as to make
the so called masters answerable for
involuntary negligence.
The convention prohibited county
floating debt; the contingent fund ex-
ceeding one per cent. of the total levy,
and condemned the use of the State
militia in putting down the use of the
club.
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A Succession.

E'sey business house in this torn should
o'on space in this paper for adcatising the
peculiar ercellencies Of the house and its
merchandise.
Ind eceiy such space sh0uld hare an edit0,'
IN tile house Of its osoner, one Of whose
dnties Il sh0uldbe to keep that space aLine.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-09-21
BreyitieS.

Messrs. Hurst and Lowndes ran
against each other at Timonium,
Baltimore, the other day, it is said,
and the mutual greeting was apparent
ly cordial. Notwithstanding which,
while both are in favor of reform, they
are certainly not IN favor of each
other,
A revival of enterprise at Keyser is
betokened by the account given by a
drummer of a protracted and exciting
dog fight which took place there ea,ly
this week.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-09-21
No More Negative Adieus.

Capt. T. F. McCardell, editor of the
Cumberland Neecs, has been appointed
a member of the Board of School
Trustees of that city.
The captain is very positive char
acter-a terse yea and nay authority.
1t is safe to assume, therefore, that
all the Boards future farewell billet
do~r to retiring teachers will be either
framed or burned.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-09-21
4 Suggestion.

f"6er-What do you think of that pro-
posed amendment to the State Constitution
Barher-Which one?
Farker-It provides that every law enacted
hereafter must state distinctly whether it is
intended to be enforced or not.-Puck
And provision prohibiting judges
from misinterpreting plain laws would
be equally good.
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Should be Repairel.

The Cumberland Neaos is about five
months older than the JOURNAL.
The latter completes its oath year with
this issue. But, according to the
Nee'S' count on its own face for years
back, it will not round up its 9th
year until next April. The Ne,os'
antobiographical calendar needs re-
adjustment and needs it badly.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-09-21
PROSPECTUS,

With this issue the JOURNAL CON-
pletes its 9th year. Now, as for many
years past, it easily occupies the fore
most place in territory populous
with bright papers.
If good Providence continues life,
health and strength, it will one year
hence appear in silver edition
modelled for the editor who will in
l92l celebrate appl opriately it's golden
age.
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Great Scheme.

The JOURNAL has some papers from
Scranton, Pa, showing how Goal
Mining" may be Taught by Mail
A system of education that beats
high school, and a capital arrange
ment, even at 40 cents ton!
The new miner will take the place
OF the new woman and do his work at
home.
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DGnagOGuGry.

The democratic party left J. Semmes
Devecmon and the republican party
abandoned David J. Lewis.
So these gentlemen testify concern
ing their political orphanage.
And now they are ''cuddled up to-
gether" in little populist bed, gar
nished by single tax spreads and dec
GRATED by Knights of Labor trimmings.
After they had resoluted about
acknowledgment above the earth and
plops under the earth-so far as the
JOURNAL can see they resolved not
a word about free books for miners
children nor free silver for miners
pay. They touched nearly every
darling of Il sumptuary Legislative i'm
agination but these and free schools.
That is, if we forget that they said not
a word even about the "Star Spanged
Banner" No, moron the other hand,
about the perils of mulatto rule.
But our two heroes easily take the
palm for achievement-that of throw
ing out the most inferior cosmopolitan
drag-net of tin de steele politics. Intend
ed to catch all kinds of suckers, it really
ropes IN only the IMMERSION local
purposes, perhaps.
For instance. they aim to catch the
printers by piece of bait which,
among Knights of Labor, would be
regarded as encouraging the most
rank blackleggery. The miner must
be paid 40 cents, perhaps so, every
two weeks, but the printer is to be
squeezed by competitive pressure to a
price so low that, when his bill is dis
counted, what is left will feel in his
pocket as intangible us a lost Pleiad.
Why not divide the work among
printers, as it is among miners, at
uniform living price?
Especially-why not show miners
that, while clamorous for more wages
and privileges, they are every year
voting down similar rights for other
workers
Men now and then go through this
region whining about being victim
ized' because prioate corporations will
not for some reason re employ them.
When election day comes, however.
they march to the polls and deny the
right of other workers to fair share
OF work to be paid for from the public
funds.
There is even newspaper IN this
region that admits by silence that it
has no right to public advertising that
has to be done under its nose. 1t
tacitly confesses that its own editor
has no right to see in his own paper
an advertisement of proposal that
may be of more moral concern to HIM
than to any other citizen of his town.
And he will probably go to the polls
this fall and vote for "a continuance
of the same great blessing"
To such people "the concern of one"
is of no interest to anybody"
even to myself"