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Frostburg Mining Journal. J. B. ODER & BRO., ELEVENTH YEAR.—NUMBER 4. FROSTBURG, ALLEGANY COUNTY, MARYLAND, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1881. WHOLE NUMBER, 524. Miscellaneous Advertisements. TO Baltimore, Washington and Richmond, VIA THE PENNSYLVANIA ROUTE At One-Half the Usual Rates. A SPLENDID opportunity will be of fered to witness the ceremonies of the Oriole Celebration in Baltimore, which takes place October 10th, 11th and 12th, and the Centennial Celebration at Yorktown, October liith to 21st, and also to visit the National Fair at Washington, October 11th to 14th, ns excursion tickets will bo told from all ticket stations on the line of the Pennsylvania railroad from October 7th to 15th inclusive, good to re turn for ten days, at one faro tor the round-trip, or good to return for 21 days at one and one-half faro (in one direction) for the round-trip. At Baltimore, during the Oriole Garni yal, there will be interesting and attrac tive features every day. On the 10th, Grand Parade of Police, Fire Department, Militia, Societies, &c., &c. Turning-on of the Gunpowder Water Works, which will be commemorated by the playing of beau tiful fountains, of unique and elaborate designs. October 11th, reception of the distinguished French guests of the nation at the City Hall. Qrand Oriole Pageant in the Evening. October 12th, Entertainment and Grand Ball to the French visitors at the Academy of Music. The programme for the CELEBRATION AT YORKTOWN, as announced by the committee, is as fol lows: Thursday, October 111.—The formal opening of the Moore House (the scene of the Capitulation) and the inauguration of the Celebration by an address, from the President of the Association, with a re union ot the descendants of officers and soldiers of the Revolution. Friday, October 14.—Addresses by the Hon. Carl Schurz, Frederick R. Con dert and Prof. Elie Charlicr. A Grand Bali in the pavilion. Saturday, October 15.—A Grand Na tional Regatta, with Yorktown Centennial Silver Prizes lo winning crews. Pyro technics! displays and illuminations. Sunday, October 10.—Religious Ser vices in the Grand Pavilion, conducted by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Keane, of the Catho lic Diocese of Virginia, assisted by His Grace Archbishop Gibbons, of Maryland, and in the afternoon by the Rev. John Hall, of New York. Holiday, October 17. —Anniversary of tho sending of a Flag of Truce by Lord Cornwallis, asking a cessation of hostili ties ; also, the anniversary ol the surren der of Gcreral Burgoyne at Saratoga ; meeting of Commercial, Financial and In dustrial Associations, Benevolent Organi zations, &c., with appropriate adresses by distinguished representative American cit izens. Tuctday, October 18.—Opening ad dress by the Chairman of the Congression al Commission and an address of welcome by His Excellency tho Governor of Vir ginia. The laying of the corner stone of the Centennial Monument, with appro priate ceremonies and addresses, by the Grand Lodge of Masons of Virginia and invited Masonic Orders of the United States. Wt'dncs lay, October 10. —An address from His Excellency, tho President of tho United States. An oration by tho Hon. Robert C. Winlhrop, of Massachusetts. A poem by James Barron Hope,of Virginia. An ode, written by Paul H. Hayne, of South Carolina, and rendered by a mam moth choir and chorus under tho direction of Prof. Charles L. Siegel, of Richmond. Thursday, October 20.—Grand Military Review, participated in by the citizen soldiery from all portions of the United States. irldrty, October 21. —A Grand Naval Review, paittclpaled in by all classes of vessels in the United Slates navy. Tliis general programme, as outlined will be so enlivened for cacli day's enter tainment by vocal and instrumental music and military displays, either of general parades and reviews or competitive drills, so as to assure attractiveness and novelty therein. The National Fair at Washington will embrace besides the usual exhibits of horses, cattle, sheep, swine and poultry, Trotting and Pacing Races, Competitive Military Exercises, And Bicycle and Chariot Races; and, as the competition is open to the world, it is anticipated that it will really be one of the grandest displays of the season. [Oct 1-tc. THE NEW BOOM H. B. Colborn &. Co. Have opened a first-class line of Summer CLOTHS, CASSI MERKB.TRICOS,WORSTEDS,SCOTCH CHEVIOTS and everything found in a FIRST-CLASS TAILORING ESTABLISHMENT. Wo don’t intend to be undersold nor will we allow anyone to get ahead o f us in tho STYLE OF CLOTHING we turn out. One of the proprietors is an experienced cutter and fitter and will fjlvu this department his personal supervision. Latest Styles of Clothing. The famous “One Mutton Cnl-a way” a specialty. Give us a call at once and get your or ders in early. H. B. COLBORN & 00., Paul’s Building, May 14-y Frostburg' Md. IFO R KE NT.' PAUL’S OPERA HOUSE STOREROOMS, —AMD— ROOMS on 2d floor,suitablcforOfflces- Apply to THOS. H. PAUL, Mar 11 Frostburg, Md. Seeking Rest.’ Oh, ye that faro amid those breathless places, | Spending your soul ’twixt factory and mart. Ye whoso quick eyes and pale and eager facee Reveal tho restless heart; What are ye seeking in your fevered labor, 1 That knows no pause through all the crowded week, | Each for himself and no man for his neighbor What is it that ye seek ? ' “Oh, some seek bread—no more—life’s mort subsistence, j And sumo seek wealth and ease, tho common quest; And some' seek fame, that hovers In the die ' tance; But all are seeking rest. “Oar temples throb, oar brains are turning, taming. Would God that what we strain at were pos i sensed; • j. Qod knows our souls are parch’d and sick with yearning; Qod knows we faint for rest.’ '■ He wont his way, a haggard shape and dreary, i Ilia hard face set toward the kindled west; 1 And, lo I voice: "Como nnto mo ye weary, And I will give yon rest 1” The Salt Supply, The quantity of salt produced , in the United States in tho census year 1880 is returned as 29,300,208 bushels, from - fourteen States and from the territory i of Utah; 4,831,120 of this is by solar evaporation. Of this latter, California produced 878,003 bushels from sea or bay water; Louisiana produced 312,000 (her total) from inland lakes or natural deposits; Michigan produced 153,500 from subterranean brines; Nevada pro duced 114,908 from inland lakes and 67,500 from subterranean brines; Utah produced 482,300 from in land lakes; New Pork produced 2,777,000 from subter ranean brines. Of the total produced by artificial beat, all from subterranean brines, Michigan led, with 12 272,385 bushels; New York was next, with 5,971,203, all by the kettle or pan pro cess; West Virginia was next, with 2,- 679.438, all by steam evaporation pro ; cess; next was Ohio, with 2,650,301, next Penusyluania, with 851,460. Tho salt industry employs 204 establish ments, haviug §8.225.740 capital, and 6,060 hands, and paying §1,256,113 wages. Tho value of the entire 29,- , 800,298 bushels of product is §4,817,- 636. Michigan stands at the head in point of number of establish m euts an . hands, wages paid and quantity pro -1 dncod; New York is next in all respects, ' and at tho head in capital employed. , Louisiana’s 312,000 bushels are rock salt i mined and ground. Tho number of es tablishments has decreased from 399 in 1860 to 261 in 1880, the decrease being ' nearly all in New York and Pennsyl vania; in New York the number has declined from 296 to sixty nine. In ■ Michigan it has increased from one to ‘ eighty-six, and in California from two to twenty-five. Capital employed has 1 decreased slightly in New York and has r enormously increased in others. The quantity of salt produced, however, lias increased from 12,717,198 in 1860 to 29,800,298 in 1880, the average for each establishment increasing from 31,873 tO 1 112, 872 bushels- Tho quantity of salt imported was 637,752,000 pounds in 1871, 929,373,000 in 1874, 867,087,000 - in 1876, 901,210,000 in 1877,860,589,000 in 1878, 906,615,000 in 1879, and 963,- 970,1)00 in 1880. Tho values have not always kept the sumo puco as the quan tities, tho 867,087,000 in 1876 being wortli §1,773,445, and tho 901,210,000 pounds in 1877 being worth §1,659,521. Tho value of our exports of this com modity were but §6,613in 1880, andthe maximum dt.ring the decade was only §47,115, in 1871. Life in Switzerland. A series of fatalities, accidents,‘and crimes has occurred in Switzerland during the summer. Since the earth quake of July 21, and the storm which inflicted losses estimated at two million dollars, seven men have been drowned in the Lake of tbo Four Cantons by tho overturning of a boat; a peasant of the neighborhood has drowned his lunatio brother in the same lake; three German tourists have lost their lives by a boat accident on Lake Constance; three young ladies, while bathing in the Aar, were swept away by the current and drowned; a young man has been | drowned in the Lake of Bienne, and several deaths Lave boon caused by lightning, sunstroke and the falling of trees. During a storm a colossal statue of Helvetia, which had been erected to do honor to the Federal rifle meeting at . Fribourg, was blown down, and one member of the reception committee was killed. On the same day tho mur dered body of a young woman was found in a public park, and there is no clew to the criminal. A few days earlier a number of criminal lunatics, who Lad been confined in a prison in Unter- Walden, were allowed to go out for a walk, when they all took to flight and ' are still at largo. As some ol them have committed murders, the people of the district are in a sta Se of great alarm and go armed. Ajsr UN DEPENDENT PAPER. A Terrible Disease. A letter from Naples, Italy, says; It is abont 150 years since the pellagra made its appearance in Enrope, first in Spain, afterward in France and Italy, and later in Greece and other countries. In Italy the scourge has assumed vast proportions. In the province ol Ber gamo alone, in tho year 1878, at least 20,000 persons, it is calculated, ware afflicted with the terible epidemic, almost ton per cent, of tho agricultural population o that province. Tho effect of tho malady is a complete degradation of tho physical and intellectual powers. The greater part of tho victims cither die in lunatic asylums and hospitals or commit suicide, leaving the seeds of tho malady (a sad heritage) to their children. This is a terrible picture, and Signor Alborghetti, a member of the provin cial commission of Bergamo, from whoso report, lately published, I gather the above particulars, advocates tho most urgent and stringent measures on tho part of tho government to arrest tho ravages of the disease. As it has been incontestably proved that tbo pellagra made its appearance and increased with tho increased cultivation of maize, that— whatever tho difference of soil, climate, race, social regulations, manners and customs —those places are only infected where the food of tho agricultural population consists chiefly in maize flour in the shape of polenta or bread, and that even those already affected with tho malady are speedily cured if their diet be varied with meat, vegeta bles, etc. Signor Alborghetti advo cates a radical reform in the food of the agricultural laborers. He proposes that economical kitchens, superintended by provincial commissions and regulated according to the size of the different parishes and the number of persona afflicted with the disease, should be established, and that tho medical officers of tho parishes, at the first sign of the pellagra invading a hitherto uutonohod district, should have the power to give tickets to the agricultural laborers enabling them to partake of the benefits of such economical kitchens. This, he says, is tho best, most rapid and efficient way to put an end to the epi demic. A Duel to the Death. J. T. Carpenter, a Choctaw chief, and Colonel Price, a prominent citizen, be come involved in a quarrel at Pino Creek Indian agency. Parties who wore pres ent at a “gathering” say that the first they knew of the quarrel the chief and Colonel Price were standing a short distance from tho crowd, when tho chief exclaimed: “ Your blood can alone pay for this I’* “My blood is yours when you are man enough to take it,” exclaimed the Colonel, stepping back, and assuming a threatening attitude. “ Not now,” said the] chief, when the crowd rushed to the scene. “ A brave man docs not shed blood in the face of a mob. Meet me on this spot to-morrow morning.” “At what time ?’’ “When the sun shines through the top of that tree,” pointing to a tall oak; “ stand here, and when the sun reaches the top, when the shade falls at your feet, look around and you will see me.” The two men separated, and tho spec tators wondered why two of the most talented men of tho nation had quar reled, but no ono dared investigate, lest bo bo considered an intruder. On tho following morning a large crowd gathered to witness a contest which every ono knew must terminate fatally. The Colonel arrived, stepped upon tho exact spot whore he had stood tho previous day, and looked at the sun. Ho looked, again, and then looked down. Again he looked at the sun, and then surveyed the field. Tho chief was seen advancing. When within a distance ol thirty feet of the Colonel ho stopped and drew a revolver. The Colonel drew his pistol and straightened himself like a man that suddenly experienced a feel ing of pride. Not a word was spoken. Tho two men raised their weapons. They fired almost simultaneously. The chief reeled. Ag.ain they fired. The Colonel fell dead. The crowd rushed forward. The chief fell to the ground fatally wounded. Tho Colonel’s bullet had entered his breast. Blood flowed from his mouth. The Colonel was shol through the heart. —Little Hock (Ark.) Gazette, Wonderful Ame Hosts, More wonderful than the amethyst containing a drop of water owned in Atlanta, Ga., writes a correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, at Webster City, lowa, is an amethyst owned by Pro fessor J. Alden Smith, of Boulder, Col., which contain mercury. In a position af rest, ho says, the mercury gathers in a small cavity at one end ot tho frag ment, but on changing tho position of the stone the mercury slowly trickles through a succession of cavities and channels to tho opposite extremity, gathering in alittle globule; while more wonderful than tho crystal mentioned is being in Philadelphia, and contain ing a drop of water, is one owned by the correspondent, containing a drop of water in which floats a small fragment of carbon. The True Tele of Wiliam Tell. A Western humorist gives whet he cells the true tele of William Tell in the following style; William Tell ran a hay ranch near Bergalen about 680 years ago. Tell had lived in the mountains all his life, and shot chamois and chipmunks with a cross-gun till ho was a bad man to stir up. At that time Switzerland was run principally by a lot of carpet-baggers from Austria, and Tell got down on them about the year 1307. It seems that Tell wanted the government contract to furnish hay at 815 a ton for the year 1306, and Geaaler, who was controlling the patronage of Switzerland, let tho contract to an Austrian who had a big lot of condemned hay further up tho gulch. One day Gesslor put his plug hat upon a telegraph pole, and issued order 236, regular series, to the effect that every snoozer who passed down the toll road should bow to it. Gesslor happened to be in behind the bush when Tell went by, and he no ticed (hat Bill said, “ Shoot the hat,” and didn’t salute it, so he told his men to gather Mr. Tell in and put him in the refrigerator, Gessler told him that if ho would shoot a crab apple from the head of his 'only son, at two hundred yards with a cross-gun, ho would give him bis liberty. Tell consented, and knocked the apple higher than Gilroy’s kite. Old Gesslor, however, noticed another arrow sticking in William’s gir dle, and he asked what kind of a flow ery break that was. Tell told him that if he had killed tho kid instead of burst ing the apple he intended to drill a hole through the stomach of Mr. Gessler. This made Gessler mad again, and he look Tell on a picnic up the river in irons. Tell jumped off when ho got a good chance, and cut across a bond in tho river, and when the picnic party came down he shot Gessler dealer than a mackerel. nren Fodder all ihr Year. Mr. O. B. Potter, of New York, writes ns follows to tho American Cultivator; I liavo practiced this system for three years, have applied it to common fod der com, red clover, pearl millet, West India millet or Guinea corn, green rye, green oats and mixed grasses in which clover predominated with entire success in every case. The last year I preserved about 100 tons, and during the summer I have put down about 200 tons, and have added sorghum and sugar cane to the varieties of fodder I have before preserved. I have never lost any fod der thus preserved, but during the whole experiment it has been perfectly preserved and bettor than when fed fresh and green from the field. As the first fermentation is passed in the pro cess the food thus preserved has no tendency either to scour or bloat the animals fed. It is eaten up eagerly and clean, leaf and stalk, and stock thus fed exhibits the highest condition of health and thrift. For milch cows, to which I have mainly fed it, it sur passes any other food I have ever tried. It increases the quantity of milk much beyond dry food, and the quality is bet tor than that produced from the same fodder when fed fresh and green from the field. The process in its results upon groan fodder is not unlike that by which sauerkraut is made. So much is this fodder improved and so com pletely is all waste of fodder prevented by this process that I think all who try it with proper facilities will find it more profitable than the present method of soiling, with the crops already men tioned fresh cut from the field. In ad dition to the fact that the foodor thus preserved has no tendency to scour or bloat cattle, another important advan tage is gained by this process. Recipe*. Pumpkin Pie. — Out the pumpkin into as thin slices as possible, and in stewing it the less water you use the better; stir so that it shall not bum; when cooked and tender stir in two pinches of salt; mash thoroughly, and then strain through a sieve; while hot add a tablospoonful of butter; for every measured quart of stewed pumpkin add a quart of warm milk and four eggs, beating yolks and whites separately; sweeten with white sugar and cinnamon and nutmeg to taste, and a saltspoon of ground ginger. Before putting your pumpkin in your pies it should be scalding hot. Pickled Onions.— Peel the onions and let them lie in strong salt and water nine days, changing the water each day; then put them into jars and pour fresh salt and water on them, this time boil ing hot; when it is cold take them out and put them on a hair sieve to drain, after which put them in wide-mouthed bottles and pour over them vinegar prepared in the following manner: Take vinegar and boil it with a blade of mace, some salt and gingor in it; when cool pour over the onions. Lemon Pudding.— Put in a basin one quarter pound of flour, same of sugar, same of bread-crumbs and chopped suet, the juice of one good-sized lemon, and the peel grated, two eggs, and enough milk to make it the consistency of porridge; boil in a basin for one hour; servo with or without sauce. PDHGENT PARAGRAPHS. " This is brief and to the point,” as the man remarked when be got up off a took. The bald man swoop, his hand on high, With wild ferocious irj . Bnt when that hand comes down—thd*fly— Well, that fly isn’t thro. There are six different ways of getting into a hammock, and only one way to roll out. .Seems as if things ought to bo evened up a little.— Detroit Fret Prett. • It is a little singular although no less true, that one small but well constructed fly will do more toward breaking up a man's afternoon nap than tho out-door racket of a full brass band. * Ice is very difficult stuff to handle. It takes an ice-man sometimes half an hour to got a ten-pound chunk into the refrigerator at the house whore there is a good-looking cook. If you grasp a rattlesnake firmly about the neck he cannot hurt you, says a Western paper. To bo perfectly safe it would bo well to let tho hired man do the grasping. —Hartford Times. Two thousand doctors propose to meet together and discuss medical sub jects I Tho benefits that will result from this cannot be estimated. While tho doctors are in convention everybody will got well. —Boston Globe. An enthusiast writes, “ Music is divine." It is very evident that he never lived next door to a one-eyed man with a second-hand accordoon, and three small boys with unkempt looks and a jew’s-harp apiece. Great minds will differ, you know. PEARLS OF THOUGHT. People’s intentions can only be de cided by their conduct. There is only one thing that is more terrible than to say a mean thing, and that is to done. An angry man who suppresses his pas sion thinks worse than when he speaks; an angry man that will chide speaks worse than he thinks. The hard, harsh world neither sees, nor tries to see men’s hearts; but wherever there is an opportunity ol evil, supposes that evil exists. There are men who no more grasp the truth they seem to hold than a spar row grasps the message passing through the electric wire on which it perches. Buskin says that the noblest building made with hands for spiritual ends must lack the perfection of grace and beauty, unless lit from the lamp of sacrifice. Let no one ever repudiate an honest effort, nor ever ask to have tho truth veiled behind ambiguous sentences of honeyed words, however hideous she may seem to those who know her not. To achieve the greatest results, the man must die to himself, must cease to exist in his own thoughts. Not until he has done this, does ho begin to do aught that is great, or to bo really great. When a man discovers that the world is made up of disagreeable, quarrelsome people, it is time to look at himsoli through the big end of a spy-glass to see if he can’t find a fault or two at home. Long-Lived People. Betsey Trontham, of Tennessee, died in 1884, aged 154 years. The following particulars of this individual aro given in the National Gazette, from an account dated Murfreesborough, Tenn., Febru ary 22, 1834: She was bom in Germany, and emigrated to the British colonies in America at the time when the first set tlement was made in North Carolina in the year 1710. At the ago of 120 years her eyesight became almost extinct, bnt during the last twenty years of her life she possessed the power of vision as perfectly as at the age of twenty years. For many years previous to her death aho was unable to work, and is said to have required great attention in her friends to prevent the temperature in her body from falling so low as not to sustain animal life. At the time of her death she had entirely lost the senses of taste and hearing. For twenty years before her death she was unable to dis tinguish tho difference between tho taste of sugar and vinegar. At the age of sixty-fire she bore her only child, who is now living, and promises to reach an uncommonly advanced age. Solomon Nabit, of Laurens county, N. 0., died in 1820, aged 143 years. Nabit was a native of England, where he lived until ho was nineteen years ol ago. He then came to this country, and resided in the State of Maryland till about fifty-five years before his death, when he removed to South Carolina, where he passed tho rest of his life. He never lost his teeth or his sight, and a few days before bis death he joined a hunting party and actually killed a deer. Mr. Neilson, one of the oldest mem oers of the English press, who recently died in London, was for nearly fifty years on the staff of the London Times, for which journal he wrote the account of the queen’s coronation and reported the first speech which Mr. Disraeli evei made at a public dinner. PARK. HARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. Nolohn nad Han a aha*. Last year, an a test of a frequent practice among growers of melonfl and squashes, I pinched the ends of the long main shoots of the melons, sqnoshos and cucumbers, and left some io ran at their own will. One sqnash qdsnt sent out a single stem, reaching more than forty feet, bnt it did not bear one fruit. A/iothoj plant was pinched until it formed a compact mass of intor -1 mingling side-shoots and main branches eight feet square, and it boro sixteen squashes. The present year a plant of mu -k melon thus pinched in covers the space allotted to it and it has set twenty-three fruit, the most of which, of course, has been pinched off. The pinching causes many lateral branches, and those produce the female or fertile blossoms, while the main vines produce only male blossoms. The difference in the yield of an acre of melons by this pinching may easily amount to one hundred barrels. —New York Sun, TVonafholil Hint*. Sago is a delicious addition to soup; use it in place of rice or barley. The best duster with which to clean carved furniture is a new paint brush; you can remove absolutely all the dust with it. Try it. Always stand a wet umbrella with the handle down ; one trial will convince yon of the rapidity with which it will drain, and your umbrella will last longel if dried quickly. If yon object to bread made of Indian meal and graham on account of iti coarse grain and consequent crumbling, sift the graham. The usual proportion to use is one-third of graham and two thirds of meal. Bicarbonate of soda can always b< used in place of saleratus, and it is better because it is less likely to be im pure. It can be found at any drug store. When mixed with sour milk it forms lactate of soda, a salt whoso acid is the natural acid of the stomach. Oonseqnsntly the bread made of graham and corn-meal with sour milk and soda is wholesome. —New York Eveniny Post, Boses. Although the roses, like many other highly-respectable modern families cannot claim for themselves any remark able antiquity—their tribe is only known, with certainty, to date back some three or four millions of years, to the tertiary period of geology—they have yet in many respects one of the most interesting and instructive histories among all the annals of English plants. In a com paratively short space of time they have managed to assume the most varied forms; and their numerous transforma tions are well attested for us by the great diversity of their existing repre, sentatives. Some of them have pro duced extremely beautiful and showy flowers, as is the case with the cultivated roses of our gardens, ns well as with the dog-roses, the sweetbriers, the black thorn and the meadow-sweet of our hedges, our copses and our open fields. Others have developed edible fruits, like the pear, the apple, the apricot the peach, the nectarine, the cherry, the strawberry, the raspberry and the plum, while yet others, again, which are less serviceable to lordly man, supply the woodland birds or oven the village children with blackberries, dewberries, cloudberries, hips, hawes, sloes, crab apples and rowenberries. Moreover, the various members of the rose family exhibit almost every variety of size and habit, from the creeping silver-weed which covers our roadsides or the tiny -alchemilla which peeps out from the crannies of our walls, through the herb like meadow-sweet, the scrambling briers, the shrubby hawthorn and the bushy bird-cherry, to the tailor and more arborescent foa s of the apple tree, the pear tree and the mountain ash.— Belgravia. "When George Washington died ho left to his sisters-in-law, Hanuah and Mildred Washington, and to his friends, Eleanor Stuart, Hannah Washington, of Fairfield, and Elizabeth Washing ton, of Hayfleld, each a mourning ring valued at 8100. The last gift of Tom Moore’s mother to him was her wedding ring. The fisherman’s ring used by the pope to seal paper brief is a steel ring made in the fashion of a Roman signet, and during the ceremonies attendant ou the pope’s death the figure of St. Peter upon the ring is destroyed with a file; and thereupon all the authority and acts of the late pope pass to the college of cardinals. Then when a new pope is consecrated the renewed fisherman’s ring is presented to him. It was James 1., of England, who sent a diamond ring to Robert deoil, Earl of Salisbury, on recovery of the latter from a danger ous illness, with the sentiment: That the favor and affection ho bore him was and ever should be, as the form and matter of the ring, endless, pure and perfect.” Such incidents os these are crowded over the pages of history, and illustrate the significance of finger rings. The total membership of the Mora vian church in America at the close of the last year was 1&491. Proprietors. NEXT WEEK, Brilliant Additions to tbs R*- maekablkProobamice fo thrßal timore Obiolb.— Baltimore's pro gramme for the Oriole will it would ap pear be limited only to the matter of the number of hours embraced within the three days and nights from October 10th to 12th inclusive. There is to be a peculiarly novel end etriking water dieplay commemorative of the inauguration of the new water works. The fountains will be of remarkable dimensions and the proceedings throughout will be of the most inter esting character. Next in order will be the grand parade of military, fire and civic organizations, and which will be a most brilliant sight. The reception to the French visitors will be a notable event and of euoh a description ae to fire the patriotic heart and awake again the old en thusiasm of a hundred years ago. Among the Frenchmen will be the immediate dependent's of Lafayette, DeGrasse, Deßanoa, and other great Generals, who at Yorktown rendered such glorious assistance to the Ameri can cause. The distinguished French will be the guests of the city of Balti more during the entire three days ( and the hospitalities in their honor will be such as long to be remembered. Tuesday there is to be a grand concert by the famous Gilmore Band of New York, the place selected being the beautiful Monument Square where thousands can hear and where there will be no disturbing sounds. This matchless organisation numbers sixty five of the first musicians of New York and the concert, which will be of be tween two and three hours duration, will embrace the choicest compositions of famous composers. Of the gorgeous Oriole pageant at night too mnoh cannot be anticipated, as it will go far beyond the expectation of the most sanguine. The brilliant moving spectacle will reach upwards of three miles in length and the subject illus trated in the exquisitely beautiful tableaux will call forth the greatest interest and incite the most enthusi astic admiration. Baltimore’s first Mardi Gras will certainly prove os promised, unparalleled in the country. Wednesday there is to be an exhibition of outdoor sports such as are rarely combined in a single day’s pleasure. There will be running, walking and jumping matches, wrestling bouts, gymnastic exercises, byciclc races, throwing of weights, in short every thing of an athletic character. Early in the evening there is to be a remark ably fine exhibition of fireworks, American and Japanese manufacturers viewing with each other in wonderful and startling effects. Then comes the glorious carnival and ball, and the streets of the city will be thronged with gay maskers. The very low figure of one-half the nenal fare on the Baltimore and Ohio is all that can be asked in the way of low rates, and every care will be taken to insure comfortable accommodationsand quiok time. Mountain Lake Park. —The promoters of the enterprise for estab lishing a religious summer resort, called Mountain Lake Park, in the Maryland mountains, on the line of the Baltimore and Ohio Road, near Deer Park, are pushing ahead to set the project on its feet. Wheeling and West Virginia Methodists have large ly taken part so far, but it is intended to make the association national. Rev. J. B. YanMeter, editor of the Baltimore Methodist is one of the members, and it is said another Mary land Methodist is to be added. The grounds, it is stated, are being rapid ly put into shape, and a large number oi lots have been sold. An inde pendent company has been formed for the purpose of erecting a hotel. The company will have a capital of $25,000, and will erect an elegant hotel. A cheaper restaurant will also be put up at once, and there is a probability that more than the one hotel will be built.—Baltimore Sun. Praise from High Authority.— Frank Gh. de Rialp, Singing Master of Her Majesty's Opera Company eays: Mendelssohn Piano 00., New York; Gentlemen— Having occasion to try your Pianos, I consider it my duty to acknowledge their rich quality of sound and, at the same time, the softness by which every nuance of expression can be performed. I consider them a perfect in strument, and specially invaluable ton singer. Wishing you a good success, I sm, gentlemen. Very truly yours, Frank Oh. dr Rialp Singing Master of Bor Majesty’s Opera Company.