Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1910-06-11
Thirty Years Ago.

Forthe week with next
in 1880 the paragraphs below comprise
in part items OF occurrence then new !:
The taxable basis in Alleganv for 1880 was
nearly Is million dollars rate for State and
county "a cents.
Conrad Snyder sold to William r. Percy
the fine property on south east corner OF
Union street and Broadway for $4,000 cash.
Tuesday morning, June 10, 1880, in St.
Mlchaels Catholic Church, Miss Lena Nc
Caughan, daughter of John McCaughan, OF
this place was married to Mr.. Thomas De-
laney, of Borden Shaft, by Rev. V. F.
Schmitt.
Saturday, June 5, 1880, Miss Marian Percy,
youngest daughter of Douglas Percy, of
this place, was married to Mr.. Charles w.
Shaw, superintendent of the Hampshire and
Baltimore Coal Company, Piedmont, w.
Va, by Rev. p. l.. Harrison.
Edward Dufty's residence was burglarized
Monday night. June IA, and 81 stolen; DR..
C. H. Getzendanner's residence was entered
next night, but the doctor fired three shots
at the intruder and the latter left without
getting anything. and Friday. June Is,
George Stewart colored, was sent to Jail for
stealing chickens from Conrad Iinkan.
Town Council returned vote of thanks to
the County Commissioners for a liberal APP
preparation for county roads within the cor
porate limits
Towns assessable basis for 1880 s95s, $50.
Tax rate was 10 cents on 800.
Levi b. Porter, Henry Wagner and John
y HoSken were the assessors finding $40 lSt
worth of new and hitherto unassessed
property.
Charles Saurbaugh was elected night
policeman on the 2lth ballot.
James Casserly. aged 80 years, died Thurs.
day, June Il, 1880
Two weddings orr dit.
g. w. McCulloh opened a new store in
Paurs Opera House.
Rev. l.. t. Waterman, presiding elder
could not fill his Sunday June 2W appoint.
ment in the NJ. E. Churc owing to illness
Rev Durbin g. Miller, of IShepherdstown
w. Va, was announced 10 preach at Borden
Shaft, and Rev. Thomas Wood at Eckhart
A heavy rain MONDAY night, June a.
swelled Georges Creek and the p otOmac con.
siderabl y-the latter to within three feet of
the highest water-mark known.
Returns to town noted of j. Semmes DE.
vecmon from Baltimore; W. y. McCulloh
from Chicago Joe H. Hitchins, Allen J
Mason and John T. Ravenscroft from Dick.
inson Seminary, WiIliamsport, Pa.
Nv. S. Ravenscraft, of NewbGrg, w. Va
is in town. What for?'
The first shipment of coal from this region
ever sent to Philadelphia for trans-shipment
was sent out during the week of June 1875
1880.
Talahassan Williams, miner was severely
hurt in Borden mine Thursday, June H.
1880.
Sunday, June 10, 1880, Mrs. Julia Barnard
wife of Fuller Barnard, of this place, died
aged "a years.
The death of Mrs. Alice Johnson, wife OF
Col. Henry J. Johnson. editor of the Cum
berland NeWs and a war m personal friend OF
the editor hereof, Occasioned the following
obituary comment by the JOURNAL:
Mrs. johnson was lady of rare accomplish
ments and innumerable virtues. An ornament
tothe social circle in which she moved, she was
also the friend of the poor, among whom her
death is tea ally depored.
But NOR han relative, friend, or beneficiary
of her te Ider miniStratOnS, will her bereaVed
cOnsort realize the full measure of the stroke
which has fallen. A few short months ago she
an angel walked and sat by his side. Naught
therefore, is left to him now but to cherish the
memory of her image in its beauty and beatifC
in its grace. Yet more than this, perhaps-tt
believe that her pure spirit, vestured anew
still fingers along the ocean-edge of time, and
that cOnnubial ties-the melted filaments OF
heavenly fibre, permit her to stay not far from
where the pale waters beat-waters upon
whose surf rocks every frai human bark.
With her, on the other hand. the mystic sails
have been furled the epochal period of trans
latiOn is past. To her it is tireless waiting
now-to see in the restitution of all things tho
restoration of every sacred tie, the plenitudt
of renewed and perpetual communion, and the
rewards of every pure love-.
To that climacteric hour time and nature are
approaching. To her supernal home everyone
she loved on earth, ii they be true as she would
have them be, are going-a home whence NJ
husband shall be far behind on earth, and ne
parent tottering thither-where, when these
and all are there, Heaven shall bring its com
pany to rejoice with her. And they shall walk
and sit together again.