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■irastliurg pining Conran!.
4. R. GROVE, t .
J. B. ODER, f Editors and Prop’rs.
I
FROSTBURG, NOVEMBER 4, 1871. ’
The Pageantry of Repnltllcs.
The numerous popular demonstra
tions which have everywhere been
made to the President, along the lines
ol his recent tours, both in the West
and in the Hast, innst have been
highly flattering to llis Kxccllency.
He will have done well if, after this
succession of ovations, he returns to
his duties without undue elation at
the possession of a position which
{commands the homage of an intelli
gent people—with his humility unim
paired, or his vanity uninspired.
It is not strange in absolute and
other monarchies, where the will of
the ruler is equivalent, or nearly so,
to law, and where property, and even
life, hangs upon the caprice of an
irresponsible sovereign, to sec tli t
parade of gorgeous obsequiousness
which must always greet the ap
proach of royalty.
llut in a land where every citizen
is a sovereign and the rulers are but
the servants of the people, it is mat
ter of serious question if such dem
onstrations are in consonance with
the spirit of our institutions; or
whether comparison of our own with
the practices of far less liberal gov
ernments, in this respect, is not fatal
to our consistency. They, naturally,
look up— we, so to speak, should look
down for those who serve us officially.
W ith them, the right to govern is a
heritage—a peculiar fortune at some
time or other having invested certain
families with the prerogatives, not
only of government, but of trans
mitting it with their blood. With us,
the privilege of serving is measured
by capability and merit. A premium
is thus offered to effort, which, being
open to all, enlists the ambition of
multitudes who, otherwise, would be
but political drones.
Put while merit will, in some way,
sooner or later, meet its reward, it
carries with it an idea of temperance
well befitting the manner of its be
stowal. The hero of battles, return
ing from the field of national triumph,
may appropriately be received with
the booming of cannon and rattle of
musketry. But he, "whose tearless
victories ledden no plain”-the scene
of whose bloodless triumphs is in
quietude of the Executive Chamber
—-he needs not the sound of artillery
to herald his coming, nor that of rev
elry to betoken a nation’s hospitali
ty. Entitled to the reverence which
his position presupposes he has hon
orably won, any ostentatious display
of attention and sycophantic adula
tion must be as distasteful as it cer
tainly should be unsought.
The whole tenor of our economy
forbids this fulsomcness—this ex
travagant laudation of men. It is
not confined to one party, but to all,
and what is worse, insinuates itself
into the church. The erection of a
fictitious aristocracy—a species of
that which has been latterly corrupt
ed into "shoddy”—is promoted and
encouraged, while that founded upon
merit and intellect is left to hide its
diminishing greatness in the shadow
of a power whose greatest wonder is
that a combination of accidents
should have effected a result so per
sonally grand. •
The American people, with Atlie
. nian aptitude, are always oil the
Hlert for fresh excitements. The
love of "toadyism,” on the other
hand, among our public men, makes
it an evil difficult to remedy. Put
as crimes often go undeveloped for
want of occasion, so let those who.
serve the people officially do as their
confessed masters have to do—stay
more at home. The opportunities
for sycophancy will at least be les
sened on the part of those who look
for official and other public excur
sions, as rowdies look for menageries.
Incidents of the Great Chicago
Itr.K.—Alfred L. Sewell, one of the
most widely known publishers or
Chicago, is collecting Incidents of
the Great Fire, to be published by
him, in book form, at the earliest
possible day. Mr. Sewell’s printing
establishment and business were
entirely destroyed, leaving him at
liberty to give his whole attention
for the present, to this book, which
will be one of thrilling interest.—
Mail to him now, at Chicago, the
price, fifty cents, and ho will scud
you a copy post paid, as soon as
ready.
Sir Walter Scott wrote:—"The
race of mankind would perish did we
ce.tse to help ench other. From tbo
time that the mother binds the
child’s head till the moment some
kind assistance wipes the dew of
death from the brow of the dying, we
cannot exist without mutual help.
All, therefore, that need, have a
right to ask it of their fellow-mortals
mid no ouo who has it in his power
to grant, can refuse without incurring
guilt”
The Methodists of Cincinnati have
resolved to contribute $30,000 to the
Methodists of Chicago.
I
Our Sew York Letter.
New Y'ouk City, Oct. 27,1871.
Editors Mining Journal:
Agreeably to promise, I write you a lrt
■ ter on various topics, from the ‘'Ring City,”
. i which is now at the boiling stage of cx
| citenient over the yacht races, in which
the |K>mpo\is anl over confident English
man lias had ali the starcli taken from his
sails; and tlie only consolation I can oiler
him is that the wind changes oftener on
this side of the Atlantic than it does at
“home.”
TARGET EXCURSIONS,
Compose! of the various political clubs of
tiie city, are every day holding their annu
al pow-wow. Tiieir modus ojterandi con
sists in “doffing” working costume, “don
ning” flic fiery red shirt, and then "dun
ning” the various “unfortunates” who
draw “small” salaries, to give them a prize
to lie shot for when they reach their happy
“hunting grounds.” At night when the
pleasure-seeker is at the various places of
amusement, when the business man is en- I
joying tiie social reunion, when the student j
is ransacking the labyrinths of learning, i
they return, and by their “Comanche” I
yells make night hideous, ns they step to
the tunc of “As Johnny comes marching I
home.”
“TIIE DYSPEPTIC CI,VB OF EAST PIETOWN”
Was the subject of a lecture I heard the j
other night. This was delivered for the i
benefit of the Chicago sufferers, and the |
lecturer, clearing his throat, byway of pro- |
face said: “That important official who i
is generally given up to ‘hardness of heart
and reprobacy of mind’ lias volunteered to
stick the posters gratis:” Then clearing
liis throat a second time, and “hawking
and hemming" equal to a Singer sewing
machine, said; “I will tell you how the
dyspeptic transacts business: Ist. lie calls
upon the Doctor and after narrating a long
catalogue of symptoms, winds up fty say
ing in ‘complimentary tones' I—O—li—l—
think you’re a humbug." Exit dyspeptic,
and calls on Dr. No. 2. He informs him
that he “really believes his ailment iseaused
hy’tngh liriny am! fast chewing." The I)r.
No. 2, scratching his knowing pate and
quizzically adjust big his “specks” pre
scribes for “my dear fellow” a poor man’s
plaster, and “ten Catawba pills to he taken
night and m irning, these to lie ‘ushered’
into Hie world by a powder of scam
mony, rhubarb nni jalap.” After tiiis
course was completed his faith was com
pletely shaken in tiie “medicine man.”
He then tries Dr. No. It, who says “it is not
dyspepsia but a‘catenation of diabolic in
firmities’ and that he will get Inffter if he
will only keep his mind from himself.”
This he resolves to do, and walking upon
the street lie notices with pleasure every
little object that chances to pass his way.
But alas, man’s resolves arc broken by him
self, cither directly' or indirectly, and so
it soon happened in his case, for a ‘grand
motherly’ old soul soon comes out of a
store and accosts him thusly; “Well now
do tel) me how you feel,” without waiting
for an answer, she says these encouraging
words, "why you look more worried and
yallower and still yallower. I say, if I
was you, I would go to sec tiie doctor.”
This upsets all, and lie breaks out in plain
tive toues —“How tedious and tasteless the
hours are spent, &c.” lie finds pastime in
asking his friends conundrums, which are
suggested in an impromptu manner, as the
different pains and aches strike him. Ist.
If a man ask you for hot hasli would you
give him the “cold shoulder?” This is a
poser. Then he asks, “Why is dyspepsia
like a land measure ?” “Because its a fur
lung time before it gets better.’, This
makes him smile and he says no ! no ! NO !
and a pain suddenly touching him, he ex
claims, “Because it’s an a re." Passing on,
his attention is suddenly called to a certain
place where lie not only hears but smells a
mice—no a goat—and lie says, this must
he the place where they make masons, I
believe I would like to be one, so in he
stalks and rapping at the door is admitted,
raising liis chapeau, and placing one hand
on his head and the other on his stomach,
(showing that lie can pat and rub at the
same time) says, “I am ready.” The clerk of
the establishment, who is a Deicherman,
says, "Mister, ish you ready, dcre isli der
goat, here ish der hot iurn, dere ish der bo
ker, say isli you reddv. You, doo, dree.”
Not liking so much celerity, he cries out,
“hold—hold—up—mister—l—l—feel weak
in tiie “stomachs,” I forgot to take my
“stomach hitters,” let me—me —go —and
making a dive, he causes a general scatter
atiou “ov de vree unt excepted masons”
and breaks for “home sweet home."
Believing this to be a true narrative of
suffering humanity, and apologizing for my
too long effusion, I will end by prescribing
for tiie “complainant,” go at once to the
Frostburg Mining Journal, insert a long,
windy advertisement, and my word it will
bring you so much custom that the healthy
exercise behind tiie counter, induced by
virtue of said “blow-out" will cure, radical
ly, your “diabolic infirmities," better known
as dyspepsia. Medicub.
English Opinion of American Ener
gy.—The London Times (10th ult.) con
cludes a review of the proliuble effects of
the Chicago lire upou British interests
with the following paragraph :
“In the midst of all the confusion and
loss, it is necessary to bear in mind the vig
or and elasticity with which the American
people meet and repair every adversity.
The consequences of the two fires, which
witiiin the past thirty-fiyc years, have de
vastated the business portions ol New
Y'ork were encountered witli a prompti
tude which soon effaced tiieir traces, and at
a later period, a like visitation at San
Francisco caused a still greater d velop
meut of indomitable energy. lienee it is
some satisfaction, in the midst of the pres
ent disaster, to predict that, whatever may
he its magnitude, there will lie nothing
more astonishing in connection with it
than the way in which the sufferers will
effect the work of restoration.”
Virginia Enterprise.—Tiie Rocking
ham Register says: “The youngest grand
father wc know of, or have heard of, in
this purt of the Valley, is A. W. May, of
Mount Crawford, Rockingham county,
who, although not yet quite thirty-seven
years of age, is the grandfather of two fine
boys. They are, however, it should be
mentioned, twins. Mr. May has a male
child less than one year old, who is, of
course, an uncle to these grand-children.
Going Down. —Marry a poor girl and
she will go up with you; a rich one and
she will go down with you.
f '
[From Saward’s Circular.]
Coal News.
\ Anthracite is taking the place of bitu
- minotiß coal for domest’c use in Clearfield
County, Pennsylvania,
’ | Bituminous coals are in fair request, this
1 interest of the trade having made oon
! tracts for tiieir production early, aud there
1 being hut little variation in the price, is
1 seldom heard of outside a certain circle,
i and yet they are steadily increasing the
| production and necessarily the radius of
j its consumption, tiie quotations at present
I arc,
George's Creek, $4 Mi at Georgetown or
Alexandria, $4 75 at Baltimore, $7 00 at
Hoboken.
Broad top, $4 80 at Philadelphia, sfi 30
at New Y'ork.
We are of opinion that the lull in the
market, which at one time wore a very
discouraging appearance, was caused sole
. ly by a desire on the part of certain par
ties to achieve a more rapid and exhorbit
! ant ratio of profit, than was compatible
I with the prevailing state of the market
j and tint bubble being expanded to its ul
| most, burst.
The following item lias lieen going the
j rounds and we give it for what it may he
' worth: “wc understand from very reliable
j information that an important coal discov
| ery lias lieen made, wnieh not only adds to
to the territory of this anthracite region,
j hut completely explodes the theory enter
| tamed for years, that no coal existed in the
I Lackawanna region beyond the mountain
ridges of tiie valley. A man living in Jef
ferson township commenced digging a
well. After descending a short distance
lie discovered signs of coal and immediate
ly set to work testing the matter by boring.
Within seventy-five feet of the surface he
came to coal, which proved to he a T j foot
vein. This property upon which this dis
covery was made, is located some four
miles from the Lackawanna river on the
eastern side of the Moosic Mountain, on
what our informant called Sparrow Mead
ow Run, which, from our knowledge of
that locality, must be in the neighborhood
of Cobh Pond or Moosic Lake.”— Oeranton
Democrat.
Coal of an excellent quality for steam
purposes lias been found in Borneo, which
is destined to play an important part in
connection witli the increase of the steam
merchant marine service of ail countries
trading with that part of the world. There
arc said to be 200,000,000 tons of workable
coal available, and it is furnished for equal
to $5 00 per ton delivered at the wharf
used by tiie ocean steamers, while tiie Eng
lish coals, of which this is proven to be
the equal, ranges from sll 50 to sl4 50 per
ton.
The Miner's Journal gives the total pro
duction this year, of all kinds of coal, to
tiie 14th inst., 13,463,516 tons, against 14,-
223,222 tons last year; to the same date
last season wc lmd produced 1,013,692 tons
over the year 1869.
The Engineering Journal makes the pro
duction of Anthracite to 14th inst., 11,065,-
030 tons, against 12,619,450 tons last year,
and Bituminous 2,942,241 tons this year,
against 2,324,013 tons last year.
The expenses on bituminous coal to the
Atlantic seaboard arc as follows:
West Virginia Gas Coal, to Baltimore,
$4 00 per 2,000 tbs.
George’s Creek, by C. &O. Canal, to
Georgetown, $1 91, to Alexandria, $2 03.
George’s Creek, by B. & O. R. R., to
Baltimore, $2 65 per 2,000 lbs. and four
cents per gross ton for use of cars.
Subscriptions to the Chicago Relief
Fund by firms and other parties engaged
in the Coal Trade in New Y'ork amount to
$11,208.
Broke Jail.—We mentioned, some time
since, the arrest of J. Harden, (formerly of
Frostburg,) in Mineral county, YV. Va., for
robbery of Trout’s store at Ridgevillc.
Harden was recently tried at New Creek
and was found guilty and sentenced to two
years and six months imprisonment.
There being no jail at the county seat in
Mineral county, Harden was guarded night
and day by men employed by the Sheriff.
A day or two since the prisoner eluded the
vigilauce of liis guard and made his escape,
crossing the river into Maryland, since
which time liis whereabouts have not been
discovered.— News.
Couldn’t Stand That.—A young gen
tleman, who had been paying liis “devours”
(ns Sirs. Partington would say,) to a young
lady some time, suddenly left her. We
asked him the reason, and he told us in the
following words:
"I had lieen witli her, you know, for a
good while, and noticed that she was ra
ther cool in her remarks, and hinted that
she would rather go home alone than have
me witli her, hut didn't mind that, you
know. Well one night when wc got to
the door, says she, ‘Mr. , I do not wish
your company any longer, and I’ll thank
you to keep in your place, and away from
me.’ That was a little too hard, atull sack
ed her that very night."
The largest single contract for railroad
• constructions ever made for work in the
United States was closed in New Y'ork on
Saturday by W. D. Maun, executive officer
of the Mobile and Northwestern Railroad
Company. The contract is for the entire
line from Mobile to Helena, Arkansas, 350
miles, to be Completed by December 31,1873,
to commence work at once and put 5,000
men on as rapidly as can be gathered. The
iron for a large section of the road is now
being made in Great Britain-
Pork Packing Begun.—The St. Louis
Republican, of the 23d inst., says “it is re
ported that packing for the season of 1871-2
lias lieen commenced in Peoria, 111., and
that four cents per Hi., gross is the price
paid for hogs. At this rate bacon* clear
sides, will cost, nearly 9 cents, if not quite—
an advance on current quotations.
Horace Greeley, in liis religious address at
Akron, Ohio, spoke of the Almighty as the
“author of all things." The Louisville
T-edger trusts that he did not design to in
volve his Maker in any responsibility for
• that book nbout farming.
Y'o*mg lady physicians are multiplying
throughout our country, and as a result, it
is said, the young men are becoming much
more sickly than they used to be in the
"good ufcl times.”
Florida’s State debt, with liabilities
-ml railroad endorsements, uui iiints to
t-H 590.000.
Tiie republican majority at the late elec
tion for Governor in lowa is 37,701.
Life.
Little pleasures,
i- Little pains,
j Little losses,
Little
Little trials,
h Little cares.
Little troubles.
Little snares,
I Little lovings
Rlent with strife,
Little battles
Make up life.
*" But how little
I Need we care
Little crosses
, Here to licnr.
If forever
We may rest,
Wit h the blest ones
) Ever blest.
Christian World,
Rood Writing.
Compared witli tlio largo amount
of matter that is printed in newspa
pers, the quantity of really pood
. work done in very small, indeed.
The best talent tut a newspaper sel
dom has time to writo at all, while
the "writing editors’’ produce so
much matter that little of it is above
the mediocre in quality. It is in
fact a matter of surpriso that the
standard is even as good as it is,
. when it is considered how much is
expected of a newspaper man. No
one thing a man can do for a liveli
hood is so wearing, so inexorable so
inadequately paid. Copy must be
reaily on time, or it is useless ; arti
cles on matters ef the hour must be
written at once, or be of no avail.
Fatigue and headache do notexcuse,
the paper must come out on time.
. Some amateurs think they produce,
and do sometimes produce a good
article, but they have had the time
for reflection, the opportunity for
revision, the choice of subjects, a
particular timo to write, conditions
which the professional journalist can
not hope for.
The only chance for improvement
in these things depends upon the
growing intelligence of the country,
which will demand more careful wri
ting, and such increased prosperity
in newspapers as will permit them a
larger staff.— Reporter,
Precautions In Visiting Infected Rooms.
When the great philanthropist, Howard,
wns asked what precautions he used to
preserve hunself from infection in the pris
ons, hospitals, and dungeons which he vis
! iteil, he responded with his pen ns follows:
| “I here answer once for all, that next to
i the free goodness and mercy of the Author
of my being, temperance and cleanliness are
my preservatives.
“Trusting in Divine Providence, and be
lieving myself in the way of duty, I visit
the most noxious cells; and while thus em
ployed, I fear no ceil.
“I never enter a hospital or prison before
breakfast; and
“In an offensive room I seldom draw my
breath deeply.’’
No better precautions than these need be
given. TKc answer of Howard should lie
indelibly impressed on every memory.—
, Home and Health.
John Buskin, in his own inimitable style,
" thus quaintly and beautifully dcscibes mar
riage in the leaf world, illustrating some
thing of the fresh simplicity, purity and
. happiness, which should ever characterize
. tlie union of heart with heart. He says,
f “all plants are composed essentially of two
• parts, the leaf and the root, one loving the
light, the other darkness; one liking to
be clean, the other dirty; one liking to
, grow for the most part up, the other for the
most part down; and each having faculties
, and purposes of its own. But the pure
■ one which loves the light has, above all
things, the purpdse of being married to an
, other leaf, and having child leaves and chil
dren's children of leaves, to make the earth
, fair forever. And when the leaves marry
, they put on wedding robes, and are more
glorious than Salomon in nil his glory, and
they have feasts of honey, and we call
' them flowers.”
r The following advertisement lately
. appeared in the columns of an English
. contemporary: “Matrimony.—Dwelling
on the romantic,banks of the river Dart
t and within easy access to the sublime
. heights of Dartmoor, a professional eler
t gvinan feels the solitude of a wifeless life,
, and seeks the sympathy and aid of a lady
, who is willing to take his name and the
, better half of his borne, and the whole of
, his heart, lie i,s not young but he is
. certainly nbt <Vfil, and the elasticity of
j hi* spirit** lOlilrt justify the assertion
that he is likely to hold Time at arm’s
length for many a year to come. Any
ady who possesses in her own right a
1 moderate ■inde'pendenre. etc.”
3 <: r~v ‘ r
) A Heavy Pay. Roll — It is cer
r tainly a gratifying evidence _of the
1 increase in jiqsiuess, to he able to
‘ state (hat opg Company alone—-the
Consolidation Coal Company, of Ma-
J ryland—paid out last week to its
_• employees in Allegany county citjJily
i fire thousand./Jol'ars for work done in
the month of. September alone.—
j News.
> There are 450,000 miles of tele
-1 graph wire in Europe, 180,000 in
. America, 14,000 in India, 10,000 in
r Australia and 30,000 of submarine
cable. Total, 084,000 miles to which
there are additions being made at the
I rate of 100,000 miles, per year.
George Q. Cannon, the Mormon
• leader, says if convictions continue
the Mormons will burn all they have
and make another exodus, as they
: did from Illinois.
, A Cincinnati widow advertised for
. "every Christian in the city” to send
her ten cents. She realized twenty
cents, indicating an unexpectedly
large number of Christians in that
city.
What age is most agreeable to a man
just started in business? Patron-age. 1
1 NEW YORK CLOTHING HOUSE !
o
IMMENSE INCREASE IN BUSINESS!
o
| FAIR DEALING! ONE ESTABLISHED PRICEt
J LARGE STOCK TO SELECT FROM, AND LOW PRICES TAKE TnE LEAD
i OVER all OTHERS! The CLOTHING DEPARTMENT is FULL and PRICES
are LOYY 1 Ask for the NEW YORK CLOTHING HOUSE, Main St., Frostburg.
Oct 21—lytSSO—f* B. STERN.
Frostburg Advertisements.
I n H. WALKER,
I UP AT THE POST OFFICE,
Erostbnrg, Maryland,
KEEPS Oil hand, and for sale, at rea
sonable prices:
CONFECTIONERIES,
TOBACCOS,
CIGARS.
COLLARS,
CUFFS,
KNVELOI’ES—aII stvles,
NOTE.
LETTER.
FOOLSCAP.
LEGAL CAP. and
BILL PAPER,
PISTOLS,
CARTRIDGES.
POCKET KNIVES,
POCKET BOOKS,
&i\, &>•., &e., &e.
He lias reeently added to his Stock a
nice lot of NEW STYLE
INITIAL PAPER AND ENVELOPES.
Also, several kinds of the great
Cash Prize Stationery Packaoes.
All persons wanting anything in his
line will do well to examine his Stock.
CS?' Subscriptions received, at Publish
ers’ prices, for all the leading Papers and
Magazines, published in the United
States. Oct 14—3m*
IMPORTANT
TO THE TOWN OF FROSTBURG!
AND to nil persons that have GROUND
WORK TO LET.
Messrs. M. SUTTON & SALMON
Will take, by contract, any Ground Work,
such as SINKING, DRIFTING anil
DITCHING.
tcS* Any one wishing work of this de
scription done, please address us, as above,
Box 22, Frostburg, Mil. Oct 21—3m*
Miscellaneous Advertisements.
J. COLLINS,
AT EC KII ART MINES,
HAS constantly on hand a Full Supply
of DRY GOODS. GROCERIES,
QUEENS WARE and PRODUCE.
His motto is to give value received for
all money spent with him.
CALL! SEEM BE CONVINCED 111
And don’t be carried away by fictitious
advertisements and hand-bills. n'J—3m
Cumberland Advertisements.
DENTISTRY.
NATURAL TEETH FILLED, REG
ULATED, EXTRACTED, POL
ISHED. &0.. in the best manner.
Artificial Teeth inserted on all the va
rious bases known to the Profession, at
DR. G. J. BEACIIVS
Steam Dental Establishment,
No. 104, Baltimore Street,
Oet 7—6m* Cimberland. Md.
SEWING MACHINES.
rpilE HOWE. SINGER. WHEELER
I & WILSON. GROVER & BAKER,
WILCOX & GIBBS. WEED, HOME
SHUTTLE. COMMON-SENSE, or any
otlicrkind of SEWING MACHINES, for
SALE, RENT, OR EXCHANGE.
Do you want to buy a Sewing Machine
of any kind, NEW OR OLD?
Do you want to rent a Sewing Machine
of any kind, NEW OK OLD?
Do von want to exchange a Sewing Ma
chine for any other kind, N EW OR OLD ?
IF YOU UO,
Go or send to the Sewing Machine Depot.
No. 88, Baltimore St., Cumberland, Md.
Wc are in tlie Sewing Machine business
exclusively, and give our customers a
thorough knowledge how to keep the
machines in order, as well as do all kinds
of Sewing on them. A good Machine
will he of little use to you if you do not
understand it well.
This is the only place between Balti
more and Wheeling where you can get
ail kinds of Sewing Machines Repaired
and adjusted with a certainty of having
it done right. It is nonsense to suppose
any man is a good hand to Repair Sew
ing Machines simply because lie is a
good MacliauUt, Watchmaker or Gun-
Slllitll.
A man may be a good Mechanic and
really know but little more about Sewing
Machines than a horse does about
preaching.
We are regularly and thoroughly edu
cated in our business and guarantee sat
isfaction. or no charge.
Not one person in twenty that wants
*.o get a Sewing Machine, knows any
•' more wliat kind of one will suit best for
the Sewing they have to do, than the
. man in the moon.
Don’t take anybody’s advice in buying
a sewing machine, unless they will war
rant and defend you in so doing.
We are constantly exchanging ma
chines with people who are losing from
ten to torty dollars, because they did not
get tlie right kind at first
Any cue who lias bought, or may here
after imy a sewing machine of us on our
adviee.and does not got the best.cun ex
change it with ns ami not lose a cent on
the machine we advised them to buy.
Tell us wliat kind of Sewing you want
a machine to do. and we will advise
which is best and furnish tlie niaeiiineox
trial, free of ciiAKtiK. and if it does not
suit, we will furnish you any other kind
you desire, and In either ease, will fur
nish tlie machine at as low a price, and
on as easy terms as you can get if any
wl ere.
IN REGARD TO TERMS,
I wish it distinctly understood that 1
will sell you any kind of sewing machine
in tlie market, or anything in the Hewing
Machine line, just as cheap, and on just
as easy terms, as any other person any
where.
W keep Needles for all Sewing Ma
chines, at Sc. each, or Too. per dozeli.-
Also. farts for repairing all uiacliines.-
ALo. Silk and l.inen Thread on Spool-..
for Carriage Trimmers. Shoemaker-. Sad
lers. Glove-Makers and Family Sew ing.
Also. Spool Cotton. Oil. Oil-Cans, Cas
tors. Tiickmarkers. Corders. Hinders, and
ail other sewing maehine attachment*.—
Also. Fringing Needles lor Fringing Silk
on tlie ditlereiit machine*.
J. F. MuKENNKY, Gcn’l Agt.,
136 West Fayette St., below Howard.
BALTIMORE. Ml)
Bhaki'ii Om. - n. 88 Uai.itmouk Street.
CUMBERLAND. MD.
O. E HUMPHREY,
i Oct 7 —lyh| Mwaagvr.
Fr s thing Advertisements.
VfcCUIiLOH HOUSE,
E. BROWN, Proprietor,
First Class Accommodations. Moder
ate Bates. First Rate Stabling,
til -ly Frostburg. Mn.
JMtOSTBURG HOTEL,
0. LYNCn, Proprietor,
Main St near Depot, FROST BURG, Md.
This well known House lias reeentlv
been renovated, repaired and retornishei],
and is now open lor the ueeonunodation
of llie pnhlie.
The liar is stocked with choice Wines.
Liquor* and .Sogars. Stablin'? and the
best attention to horses furnished, nl-ly
rjUNN EL HOUSE,
AI.BERT IIOT.LE, Rroprietor.
This Hotel is enlarged, and can now
give every accommodation to the public.
Dealer in tine Liquors, Ac. nl-ly.
NEW STORE.
No. 4!>.
Just received a large lot of HEATING
and COOKING STOVES. Also, the only
I place where the Ironsides Stove is sold ill
I Frostburg. Roofing and Spouting prompt-
Ily attended to. Also a large lot of Fruit
Cans on hand.
Sept 30-tf. F. JOHNSON.
E. WASMUTH,
BOOT & SHOE MAKER
Will do all work in his line with neat
ness and dispatch. Hy faithful attention to
; business he hopes to obtain a fair share of
public patronage.
Repairing done at shortest notice.
Call on him on Main Street, between
Lutheran and Methodist Churches, Frost
burg, Md. nl.-ly.
McNeill & wingert,
PK.AI.KRS IN
PURE DRUGS AND MEDICINES,
I)AINTS. OILS, VARNISHES. DY K-
Stufls. Window Glass. Putty. Perfu
mery. Fancy Toilet Articles, and every
thing found in a first-class Drug Store.
Prescriptions carefully compounded.
Main Socket, Frostburg, Mb.
Oet 7—tf
gAMUEL JEFFRIES,
Broadway, Frostburg, Md.
Keeps constantly on hand a large Stock '
of GROCERIES, QUEENSWARE, TIN
| WARE, GLASSWARE, HARDWARE,
CUTLERY, CANNED FRUITS, TO
BACCOS, CIGARS and CONFECTION
EUIES, —ail of which he sells at reasona
ble prices. Give him a call, vlnl-ihu*
J. JANDORF,
Frostburg, Mi>.,
Dealer in
CLOTHING, DRY GOODS, BOOTS,
SILOES, HATS & CAPS.
Groceries A Provisions, Watches and
Jewelry. Fancy Goods, Notions, Ac. —
Wholesale liquor dealer.
Agent, lor drafts and passages from and
to all parts of Europe. nl-ly.
FURNITURE HOUSE.
THE undersigned respectfully announ
ces to the citizens of Frostburg and
vicinity, that he is prepared to furnish
the public with
ALL KINDS OF FURNITURE,
AT REASONABLE PRICES.
To this business UNDERTAKING will
shortly be added. Call on
FRED. GROSS.
nl-ly Main Street.
TAILOR.
A. DEIIOLD,
BROADWAY. FROSTBURG, Mb.
NEW GOODS
JUST RECEIVED.
GENTLEMEN'S SUITS made to order
in the best Manner, and perfect Fit guar
anteed. A large force of first-class work
men employed.
Patronize home institutions! We prom
ise satisfaction in every particular.
nl-tf
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PROSPECTUS. ZZ
FROSTBURG
MINING JOURNAL.
AN INDEPENDENT PAPER,
DEVOTED TO LITERATURE,
MINING, COMMERCIAL,
AGRICULTURAL,
GENERAL
AND
LOCAL NEWS.
Tun above is the title of a twenty
eight column Weekly' Newspaper,
recently established in Frostburg,
Allegany county, Maryland.
We are aware that we havo entered
a crowded field—that the competition
for public favor, on the part of news
papers, is so notably extensive as to
make the establishment of additional
papers a matter of grave consider.!
tion. Especially so, when the nu
merous ami increasing demands of
journalism are so generally deserving
of support.
However, we accept this fact as
not prejudicial to the establishment
of our enterprise, for we hold that
every institution, having a laudable
object, legitimately conducted, Las a
moral right to live ; and the fact of
increasing journalistic candidates,
asking, and in all, but comparatively
a few cases, receiving popular sup
port, indicates the prevalence of a
healthy public sentiment with re
spect thereto. It is well known that
newspapers, io general, hy assuming
a prudent censorship of public man
ners and a proper custodianship of
public morals, become the best con
servators of the public peace and
the most effective promoters of thr
public welfare.
Recognizing in Frostburg a prom
ising location, amid a populous com
munity, and encouraged hy the coun
sel of some of its citizens, we have
been induced to attempt the supply
of a long-felt want— a home paper.
We design devoting our best abil
ities to making it emphatically a
Newspaper, St ictly avoiding poli
ties, except, probably, simple state
ments of facts from both parties, onr
efforts will, necessarily, bo directed
to tlie enhanC’ rnent of the general
welfare and the further development
of the immense resources of this rich
section. We shall particularly en
deavor to in ike the paper suited to
the wants of the community by giv
ing, as fully ns possible, the Local
News of Town and County. "
shall not. however, neglect to keep
our readers well informed upon the
leading topics of the day by publish
ing the most important Foreign, Na
tional and .State News.
In short, we are pledged to mi
party, attached lo no creed and eon
troled hy no faction, and by failhftihy
adhering to an independent position,
we hope to fiirni.-h a paper deserving
universal support.
TERMS of SUBSCRIPTION :
1 Copy, I year, In advance,
1 ** 0 mnu'lts, “
1 •> >( .. t< fit)
To p- rsons interesting themsel'i*
in onr f.ivnr, bv receiving and f't
warding subscriptions, we will mss*
ample remuneration.
rrovE & odrb,
Editors and Propri, t