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Year: 1876

Oakland and Deer Park can boast
of their new and elegant hotels Cum
berland is proud of the Queen City,
and why should not Frostburg have
one to brag about?


The article in last weeks JOURNAL,
written from here last August by a
correspondent of the Baltimore San,
refers to apublic meeting then recent
ly held in the interest of proposed
new hotel. This reference rAfreshes
our memory with the fact that at that
time new hotel stock was booming !;
that all the efforts of either bulls
or "bears" could not get it below par,
and we were laboring under kind of
hallucination that by the present time
trip to the depot upon the arrival
of any train would afford US the ex-
quisits pleasure of hearing amid the
general jargon of Grand Central T.
"Hurrah for HayesT' "NcCulloh
Houss" ETC., the bugle tones of a
portiy porter as he sang out loud and
clear


Ladies and gentleman, this way
for the United States
Year: 1876

The above scene represents a train of
of Cumberland and Piedmont palace cars
laden with summer visitors passing by
without knowing our hotel is built
Likewise tramp in the foreground But
by close optical application the hotel may
be discerned with the naked eye in the d s.
tance, just under the snow-capped Savages.


The idea of summer hotel in our
town is not ono of recent dat. by any
means. For years it has been tossed
and cufed around like bss. ball in
match by the storeb box loafers as they,
with mathematical precision, have ar
ranged their seats in bass lin.s and
ansles, and have followed the margin
Of shade ON either side of the street
to avoid the efulgent rays of a sum
mer Gun.


With the annual approach of the
heated term the advantages of such
hotel are ably and thoroughly dis
cussed, and the conclusion reached
that such building is essential to the
future welfare of the town; that the
annual influx Of visitors is proof posi-
tive that it will pay and that it must
certainly be erected by ne1t summer.


But summers have come and sum-
mers have gone, and the only reas1n
We can assign why such hotel, with
its towering walls and architectural
beauty, has not long ago adorned our
principal throughfare is the lack of
the whsrewithal to set the thing
aqoin'. Stock companies, industrial
enterprise and foreign capital have
been canvasssd and laid aside as i'm
practicable.


One of our local politicians whose
identity might be determined by a
prominent forehead and eagle eye,
cleaning out diamond like from be-
meath the rim of many and varied
styles of beaver and silk, has raised
his voice in behalf of the cause and
brought into play all tn, arguments
which the ingenuity of a gifted intel
lect could devise to further the object,
but ell the enthusiasm has thus far
been in vain.


The public meeting held at Odd
Fellows Opera House last August
created the impression that the mat
ter would then assume definite shape,
but our faith in public meetings for
building hotels was always decidedly
weak. We think if Frostburg is to
be noted for anything it should be for
raising petitions and holding public
meetings. With little canvassing a
petition can be gotten up to hang a
man and the chances are the victims
own signature would appear among
the rest. 1t is because people gener-
Year: 1876

Reu. 4. K. Potter, Springfield, Mass.


1t ought to be remembered that
printing a newspaper is a business,
not undertaken primarily as an ele-
ment of reform in the community
though it is refreshing now to see how
all the journals on both sides of the
political house are mad for reform
awful mad, hot. A paper means bust
ness; it is published as livelihood
for profit, in hard cash. We have no
right to demand that these papers
take up our interests, advocate our
plans and moral works, any more
than we have a right to demand such
a thing of any other business, or Of
any department of the government as
the office for instance. A paper
must furnish what its readers demand,
or any considerable number of them,
for it has all sorts of people for sub
scribers and buyers. Just as it is easy
to be benevolent with other people S
money, so it is easy for us to say to
the editor of our paper, "You must
not give place to such an article, ;
when its exclusion might cost him
hundreds of dollars, and its insertion
our subscription.
Year: 1876

Within the last ten years the progress
of discovery in every department Of knoWl-
edge has made a new work OF reference an
imperative want.


The movement of political affairs has
kept pace with the discoveries of science
and their fruitful application to the indus
trial and useful arts ana the convenience
and retinemrn of social life Great wars
and consequent revolutions have occurred,
involving national changes of peculiar mo-
ment. The civil war of our own country,
which was at its height when the last vol
ume of the old work appeared, has happily
been ended, and a new course of CONNER
cial and industrial activity has been com
menceG. Large accessions to our
Year: 1876

DE-. BEARD states that from an an
alysis of the lives of 4 thousand rep
ressntative men in all the great
branches of the human family, he
made the discovery that the golden
decade was between 40 and so; the
brazen between 20 and 80; the iron
between so and CO. The superiority
of youth and middle life over old age
in original work appears all the great
er when we consider the fact that all
the positions of honor and prestige
profe.sorships and public stations
are in the hands of the old. Reputa-
ton, like money and position, is main
ly confined to the old. Men are not
widely known until long after they
have done the work that gives them
their fame. Portraits of great men
are dslusions; statues are lies They
are taken when men become famous,
which, on the average, is at least
twenty five years after they did the
work which gave them their fame.
Original work requires enthusiasm.
1fall the original work done BY men
under forty-fve were annihilatsd, they
would be reduced to barbarism. Men
are at their best at the time when en-
thusiasm and experience are almost
evenly balanced. This period, on the
average, is from 39 to 40. After this
the law is that experience increases
but enthusiasm decreases.
Year: 1876

Selected with great care at the recent
wholesale Fall Openings, respectfully in
vites the inspection and patronage of the
public Her new storeroom is elegantly
fitted, light and comfortable, and, with her
ripe experience in the trade, she believes
she can still accommodate the wishes of all


Sept 23
Year: 1876

ally are so oblglng OF late that they
sign everything of the kind presented
without examing the contents.
1t is no trouble in Frostburg to get
up public meeting. With the aid of
a few handbills stating the object and
twenty -four hours notice, the largest
hall can be well filed, but as gener-
al thing their results may be summed
up thus The meeting is held. the sub
jsct discussed the meeting adjourns,
and the matter is consigned to obliv-
| ion.


For proof of this we refer to the
past. Immediately after the fire of
February, 1874, public meeting was
held in Porters Hall for the purpose
of taking some action by which better
fire protection could be secured. The
hall was filled, talk was cheap and
many speakers, full to the taroat with
logic and arguments, from the rostrum
relieved themselves of an unusual
amount of "chin music on the dss-
tructiveness of fires in general and
that one in particular. But the meet
ing adjourned; fire protection first
fell to a discount, and then died
natural death.


A few months later the fire fend
again held high carnival in our midst
without water, hooks or ladders to cr-
rest its course; nothing could be done
but remove what was removable and
let the remainder burn.


At the hotel meeting in August e
committee was appointed to view sites,
obtain prices and report at subse-
quent meeting This committee dis
charged its duty faithfully. They
peramulated Frostburg and invssti
gated the various sites as close y as .
constable, armed with . warrant,
would search for horss-thief.
If the hotel could be erected,
AS easily as site selected,
Then we would willingly engage
Parlors on the ninth floor
And with the aid of balloon
Ascend to our room


And view the beauteous landscape DER.
At the second public meeting the
committee made report of the cost
of the various sites and Immediately
the work of canvassing for subscrip-
tion to stock was commenced.


But, alas for human hopes! From
that time the hotel fever which had
been raging at about l4O0 Fahren-
heit began to cool and was finally
swamped and forgotten amid the
general excitement of the Presiden-
tial canvass and the anxiety of our
citizens to ascertain who is to be our
next Postmaster.


The new hotel is thing of the
past. Let US soon call another public
meeting and appoint the bailitf GEM
mittee of one to inscribe on conspic-
uous lamp-post with fearful eyes the
following epitaph:
In memory


of our new


hotel whose pros


poets for completion


during the centennial year


were at one time bright, but
terminated as abruptly as the road over
which lonely traveller once pursue d
his winding way, first presenting


the appearance of macadamized


pike, but soon merged into "a


corduroy, then dwindled


to a bride path and fin


ally ended by run


ming up hick-


cry tree.
Year: 1876

In preparing the present edition for the
press, it has accordingly been the aim of
the editors to bring down the information
to the latest possible dates and to furnish
an accurate account of the most recent DIS
coveries in science, Of every flesh produc-
ton in literature, and of the newest inycn-
tons in the practical arts, as well as to give
succinct and original record Of the prog
reSs of
Year: 1876

The work has been begun after long and
careful preliminary labor, and with the
most ample resources for carrying it on to
q successful termination.


None OF the original stereotype plates
have been used, but every page has been
Year: 1876

ONE GooD EFFEoT.-The decline in Til
den's prospects has had at least one good
result in quoting the conduct of some of
his partisans. Yesterday, it was not safe for
Republicans even to cheer for Hayes. Two
or three were set upon for that or some
thing similar, and badly beaten, one near
this Office in the centre Of the city. To-day,
the roaming bands of yelling roughs are
quite orderly and moderate in their beha-
vior, when they venture out at all.
Year: 1876

CROWDS FOR THE CENTENNIAL.-A large
number Of Wilmingtonans are now paying
their anal visit to the Centennial EXPOSE
doh, in consequence Of which the trains
this morning were filed to their utmost
capacity. A large number are going up TO-
night to see the great display of fire works.
Year: 1876




In conformity to the proclamation of the Presi-
dent OF the United Sates and by the advice of the
Executive Council, 1 do hereby appoint
Thursday, the Thirtieth day of November,


Instant,


AS a day of PUBLIC THANKSGIVING AND PRAISE to
Almighty God, and recommend to the people of
this State the employment Of the day thus set apart
in Offering the grateful Acknowledgements due to Him
for the well being of country our State ana our
homes during the year that has passed, and in pre-
ferring petitions for the continuance of His low
ing kindness towards us.


The custom of our fathers endears to us the hold
ing of family festivals upon that day beautiful
and appropriate feature its observance. If amid
the gladness of happy reunions Of parents and chill =
dren and children's children round a common
hearthstone, gratitude for the good that we and
ours enjoy, shall extend thoughts to the great
family which embraces us ALL shall awaken in our
hearts fresh sentiments of love and goodwill to-
wards our fellow-men, and strengthen our deter
mnation to support the institutions and aid the in
fuences which tend to benefit them, and to lessen
human wretchedness and suffering, then will the day
of our Thanksgiving be most blessed.
Given at the Council Chamber, at Augusta, this third
day OF November, in the year of our Lord one
Independence of the United States of America, the
one hundredth first. SELDOM CONNOR.
BY the Governor.


S. j. CHADBOURNE, Secretary of State.
Year: 1876

We do not read anonymous letters and commune
cations. The name and address Of the writer are In
all cases Indispensable net necessarily tor publication
but as guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
uications that are not used.
Year: 1876

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate countersigned by Stanley T.
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials of every person claiming represent our
Inn
Year: 1876

on which pair of Stockings will be finished inside
of fifteen minutes, has been presented to the Fair


and will be exhibited in operation every afternoon
and evening. An Agent will be present to give
information and establish agencies throughout the
Year: 1876

This is very light diet, and conforms both


with the requirements of q light pocket


book aud light constitution. Physicians


warn people against excessive eating and ex-


cessive drinking upon occasions of this


kind, and the Dairy just meets such injunc-
tions from the medical men. But as have


previously stated, the first impulse with


some seems 10 be TO I'LL their stomachs until


strength is nearly exhausted, and then they


parade In the sun excellent subjects for sun


stroke, and the numerous Ills that the ex-
cessive heat brings on. The physicians all


state that over half of the cases on the
grounds demanding their attention, have


been from overloaded stomachs. With
such as these the feeding of the mind
amounts to nothing, 1t is 10 "the fair round
belly' happiness that they delight.


There seems to be an encouraging in-
crease of visitors daily, and this gives cause
for pleasant anticipations of the future, 90
far as they relate to the financial success of
the exhibition. The reduction of admis-
sions upon large bodies of excursionists and
children, will do considerable, together
with the issuance Of season tickets. This
is something that many express surprise at,
not having been done before. The manag-
ers are getting down to hard business prin-
ciples and will soon make all edges cut.
When this Is done then there will be pros
pect of the Centennial emerging from un-
certainties with whole timbeys.


People who come here, strange as 1t may
seem, almost always 60 away dis
appointed. Not that the show ID
a failure. But because It is SO large that
even were they to remain q week they
would not find opportunity even IN that
space of tine to see everything. A gentle
man told me yesterday, he is one of the in
side patrol. that he has been here since the
opening day, and that his duties requirs
hiE to be in every building, and notwith-
standing he looks at everything he sees, he
fuds something fresh every day. So thatit
Is impossible for person to 90 away with
out having missed something. As one Of
the Japanese remarked to friend Of
mine not long since, "Heapee show,
too muchee show, no geiee lokee at allee,"
and he must have been high in rank among
his people for his breast was covered with
royal insignia. No one who expects to do
the Centennial thoroughly should devote
less than two weeks to It. There is 80 mnch
to see that It cannot be disposed of in the
most sighting way In less time. Every
body is welcome and those in attendance do
not tire of answering questions. It is even
said that the pictures of Washington dis.
tributed around smile approvingly upon the
throngs who gaze upon them daily as the
Father Of this country done up in oil.


''' DAVIES.
Year: 1876

The yacht "Delaware" returned to this
city, yesterday afternoon, from cruise
down the bay Of about a weeks duration.
The party are all looking we'll, and report
the trip as being delightful one in every
respect.
Year: 1876

THE HAMBURG RIoT-LETTER FROM GENE
RAJ. NJ. C. BUTLER.-General M. c. Butler,
who is charged with having led the whites
in their attack upon the negroes at Ham
burg, 5. g., has written letter to tue
Charleston Journal Of Commerce defending
his course on that occasion, and concluding
as follows:


"I invite judicial investigation, and am
prepared to submit to the arbitrament Of
the law; and such is the feeling, as far as
have been able to learn, Of every white man
who is in any degree connected with the
affair. The white men Of this country have
some rights which the negroes are bound to
respect. They have no other feeling for
them than Kindness and pity-kindness
for their loyalty to our families during the
war, and pity that they will permit them
selves to be made the tools OF bad, mischiev-
Gus, designing white men and mulattoes.
So long rs they obey the laws every honor
able man OF the country will feel bound TO
protect and encourage them in happiness
and prosperity"
Year: 1876

RUSAwAY.-The vicinity Of Ninth and
Bank streets was very much excited last
evening by the running away OF a wild
mule attached to market cart. He had left
his moorings at the Second market, and was
pursuing his wild career at such a rate, and
creating such a racket, that everybody
thought the great storm had eliminated in
an earthquake. He was brought to stand
in front Of Rueger's saloon by Messrs.
Frank Johnston and Charles II. Brown, two
Theban heroes. The shaft Of the cart ran
into the column in front of the saloon and
shattered it considerably. This, added to
considerable damage to the cart and bad
cut in the side of the mule, were the only
bad results Of this mulish freak.
Year: 1876

A LUNATIC AT LARGE.-Quite an excite
ment was created yesterday afternoon by
the appearance Of lunatic on Franklin
street near Fourteenth. He was armed with
sharp knife, with which he swore to kill
himself. His father got out warrant for
his arrest, and he was taken, after some
difficulty, near the Fourteenth-Street bridge
Just as he was going to throw himself into
the dock His name is Brooks, and he is
the son of David B. Brooks.
Year: 1876

Street in Bad Condition.-Seventh
street just beyond where the grading has
stopped is in q very bad condition, the
street for one OF two squares being covered
with water from the recent rains. A team
Of horses came very near being drowned at
this place yesterday.
Year: 1876

Mr.. Robert W. Drewry, who was injured
at Seabrook's warehouse, was suffering very
much yesterday, though the extent Of his
wounds cannot yet be ascertained. They
consist of severe bruise OF the right leg, it
having been caught between two OF the
girders with the weight OF the roof piled on
them. He had also a severe cut on the top
of his head about an inch and quarter
long. His leg seems in paralyzed condi-
ton, but it is hoped that this is merely tenn
Dorary.
Year: 1876

s@- The work on the City sur
veys is progressing with con-
siderable rapidity. When the
grade is fairly established, we
believe the contracts will be let
to grade the streets. If so, there
will be quite a demand for labor
ers when the days get longer
and the weather better.
Year: 1876

IS A number of gentlemen
of town, by invitation Of Mr.
Bow, the livery stable keeper,
who gave them the use of his
horses, went down to Bell Town
yesterday to see the new bark
entine Capt. Bryant's ways at
that place. They inform us
the barkentine is nearly all tim
bered up and will soon be ready
for planking. They kindly fur
nished us with her dimensions,
but as We have published them
once we will not reproduce
them.
Year: 1876

The papers alluded to were in
possession of the Clerk at the
time mentioned and he had in
advertently failed to deliver
them to the Grand Jury, which
was the cause of the order tax
en- by the Prosecuting Attorney.
The omission was Immediately
supplied and Rush was tried and
convicted.
Year: 1876

Gen. Grant is reported to have said, in reply
to a question whether he was pushing Mr.


Conkling, that he did not mean to favor any
Republican, candidate for the nomination,
"either by word, deed or intmation," as against
any other Republican candidate. OF course the
President has the same right to his personal
preferences that any other citizen has, and if
he really believes that Mr.. Conklng is the best
man for the White House it may not be easy
to convince him that he ought not to say so.
But we know by experience what the
"favorr of the Administration means in
a case of this kind. There are perhaps
eighty thousand ofice-holders who depend
upon the President for their places; there are
at least eighty thousand other citizens who
depend upon the Office holders there are un-
numbered multitudes of office-seekers watch
ing for the faintest indication Of the wishes of
Year: 1876

ocratic candidate would have any serious
meaning to the people. ,,.


Not to nominate him at st. Louis would DO
to start off with the confession that all ''e
talk by party leaders and party presses apou'
Reform is hollow and insincere. No platform
nIanlr nor resolution, nor anything else the
Convention could invent or say or do, could
make good such a mistake or atone 1or
sucb n laundering attempt at deception
The sentiment of his own State IN MS
favor will undoubtedly find expression
in the Convention at Utica on wednesday.
Tboro sbould be no hesitation about making
that expression clear positive, and unmlstak-
able. The Democratic party cannot afford 10
make the coming canvass upon the issue OF
Reform after defeating the nomination OF
Samuel j. Tilden in the st. Louis Convention
for he is the only man they have to give 1t
any meaning. The party in this State know
it. They ought to say so at Utica, without
mincing matters.
Year: 1876

Mr.. Blaine's speech in the House denying
the story that he had received $64, 900 ir9m
the Union Pacific Railroad Company is straigh'-
forward and lucid. He is fortunate In peins
able to bring to bear some very direct 'es.i-
monv. especially as it is not always easy 1or
even an innocent man TO prove negative IL
would be difficult now to conceive OF evidence
70 overthrow the testimony which the officers
of the Company give that there has been DO
such transaction, either direct or indirect WIN
Mr.. Blaine. That story being dlsposeu oi,
other rumors have to be met in dlferent
woy. because they are less definite. Mr.. Blame
relates the history of his investment OF a
smaller sum of money in the purchase OF bondS
of the Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad
speculation which proved unfortunate. lie
thinks that this furnished the basis ont OF
which gossip has grown. If his statements OF
facts he accented there will be little or nothing
left to support the scandal in any of Its pres
ent FORMS
Year: 1876

Davenport from the Secret Service fund.- takes hay
to consider how he shall answer the question. 1t
does not seem to us to have been very becoming
inquiry but since the Committee saw fit to put it
we fail to understand why Mr.. Akerman should hesi-
tate to reply. There is no confidential relation
between the President and his Attorney-General
such as that which exists between client and counsel
Their official intercourse is part of the public bust
ness and as such is open to question by properly
constituted committee of Congress. After sleeping
on the matter, Mr.. Akerman has probably arrived
at that conclusion himself.
Year: 1876

The speech of Senator Jones of Nevada, urg-
ing that silver should be made legal tender
in certain proportions to gold, will attract at
tention by its display of eruditlon upon the
subject Whatever may be thought of the
financial theories of the Senator, this speech,
so far as delivered, is very far superior tc the
usual flood of Congress wisdom on such sub
iects
Year: 1876

The Committee appointed to investigate the
Real Estate Pool have found some other dirty
water. The story of Mrs. Boggs'S sharing
with Major Clements in the profits of a pen
sion Office which the Major held through her
influence with the President, Is so much like
the Orvil Grant scandals that it bears the ap-
pearance of verify. But that the President
was fully acquainted with all parts OF this dis
reputable little arrangement, is not at all prob
able.