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The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-14
DEMOCRATIC ECONOMY.

The quarrel between the "short-haired"
and the "swallow-taied" factions of Tam
many, has resulted in showing that there is
some good in Fitz John Porter, and that
the governing faction both Of Tammany
hall and of the New York city democracy
regard the public money as free and lawful
plumber. Some weeks ago, the board OF
public works reduced the wages oflaborers
employed on the public works of the city,
to one dollar and sixty cents per day of
eight hours, being at the rate of twenty
cents an hour. Tammany hall Immediate
ly took up arms and, after pitched battle
between the "short-hairs" and the "swal-
low-tails, the board of public works were
instructed to go back to the old prices of
labor, and the aldermen were called upon
to see that this order was carried into eff
feet. The ''short hairs" knew the source
of their power and were determined to
nurse it at the expense of the tax payers,
while the "swallow-tails," either because
they thought the horse that brought them
safely over didn't need nursing, or to make
a show of devotion to the public interests
knowing full well that they would be out
voted, split on the questionable former
denouncng the action of the board of pub
lie works, and the latter protesting against
any action, but the "short- hairs gained
the victory.
Following the action of Tammany, the
aldermen, at their last meeting, passed q
resolution denouncing the action of the
commissioners and demanding the restora
ton of the wages-and for this resolu.
ton both the "swallow tails and "shori
hairs" unanimously voted, so, we take it,
the feud IS healed. This action was taken
in face of the remonstrance of Fitz John
Porter, commissioner of public works, who
stated that reduction, such as had beer
made, had long been in contemplation, ant
had only been deferred in consequence Of
the severity of the winter. The old price
was in excess of that paid by private par
tics and, even with the reduction, was nov
larger than that paid by contrf ctors tina
laborcrs who worked only eight hours re
ceived a dollar and sixty cents per day
but that, if they desired, they could worl
ten or more hours, receiving twenty cent.
an hour therefor, netting them larger wage
than were paid elsewhere in the city. II,
further says that notwithstanding the re
duction "the applications for employment
"upon the public works from laborers
"and, indeed, from all classes of person
:" who have never heretofore worked a
day laborers, are by thousands in exces
"of any ability the city has to pay them.
Notwithstanding this statement, the Ne,
York city democracy, as represented i
the board of aldermen, demand that tn
pay of city laborers shall be restored to tn
old standard. These are the men VIII
pirate Of economy and reform, who tai
about the sacredness of the public funds
This is reformed Tammany." These ar
home rulers. Is comment necessary? Ho,
rapidly the public debt tcW be reduced
these men ever obtain control of the ger
eral government
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-14
New York Produce Market.

NEW YORK, june IL.
CoTTos.-The market is quoted quiet mid
FLoUR-The market is quoted without de-
cided change In prices and In moderate inquiry.
Receipts OF ll,OOO barrels. Sales OF a. 900 bbls
superne State and Western at 4b0a4.76; COM
mon TO choice extra state $5.0O@5.o0; common
TO choice extra western $5.OoCso.0o common to
choice r. IL. o. S5OOaT as
RYE FLouR.-The market is quoted steady
Sales 200 DblS. at 4.30(G5.50
wHEAT,-rhe market is quoted as being
ieaury Rccepts Of ics GOO bushes sales Of
10000 bu. at l.l2(al.l3 for No. 2 Chicago; l.i5&
l.lG for No. Milwaukee; 1.l9 "a l.2i for No.
/ spring; l.9s@l.32 for new winter red west
ern; 1890 "a for amber western l.32(al .35 for
white western.
RYE--The market is quoted as being nominal
Receipts none Sales none.
CoRs-Quoted shade iirmer and scarce. Re-
ceipts 1000 bushels Sales OF $4,000 bushels at
so@ SEC for steamer mixed western; s29soc.
BAKLEY.-The market is quoted as being
quiet and nominal. Receipts ooO bush. Sales
none.
Receipts OF $4,000 bushels. Sales OF $1,000
bu. at 7l@T2Hc for mixed western; 72@I0c
for white western.
PRovIsIoSs.-Pork market Is heavy. Sales
100 bbls. at $3.50 for new and for old mess.
BEgP.-Market is quiet.
CUT MEArs.-The market is quoted as quiet
for western; dry sailed shoulders held at SIC.
LARD.-Market IL quoted firm. Sales 100
terces at i24c for steam and for kettle rem
dered no quotations. -
BUTTER.-The market is quote at l4alT for
state and Pennsylvania; 20syTc for new do.
CHEEsE.-Cheese Is quoted ut b@i2c for
common 10 prime.
WmIsKY.-The whisky market is steady at
81 20 per gallon free.
Eods THE market is quoted steady at aoc
for state and Pennsylvania.
PETRoLEuM.-is quoted at 6,.c for crude +;
refined at l2yt.
LRATnER.--Market is quoted steady. Buenos
Ayres and Rio Grande light TO heavy weights
are quoted at 2IS20c.
CoAL.--Market Is quoted as flrm at so.259
O 30 for Anthracite per ton per cargo.
WOoL.-Market Is quoted as unchanged. Do
nestle fleece at 42@6Sc; unwashed ut 15S34c f;
pulled 30Gt0c.
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-14
BY TELEGRAPH.
Brief Telegrams,

Brief kilograms.
Arrived at Queenstown steamer Bothnia,
from New York.
At New York, on Saturday, the weather
was cloudy; wind east, and cold.
1t is stated that the new Atlantic cable
worked very successfully all day Saturday.
The Havana police have arrested six
persons in the act of preparing counterfeit
tax receipts and lottery tickets.
The body of female child was discov-
cred, Saturday morning, in the pond of
the Lawrence Mass common. Supposed
infanticide.
John Dougherty, boy residing in An
dover, Mass, was drowned in the Shaw
sheen river while swimming, Saturday,
just above the Abbott village mill pond.
The Alabama press association, accom-
PANIED by members of the state press, the
| mayor and some citizens, had drive
around the city of Oswego, N. Y, Satur-
day forenoon, and at l.20 p. m the south
ern editors took special car on the Rome,
Watertown Sc Ogdensburgh railroad for
st. Lawrence river, en- route to Montreal
Edward A. Mason, a highly respected
citizen of Georgetown, Mass, committed
suicide by hanging himself in his chamber,
Friday evening. Dependency is thought
to have been the cause. He was thirty-six
years of aye and leaves a wife and three
children. lie was member of the Grand
Army Of the Republic, Masons and Knights
of Pythias.
In the libel suit of w. d. Moore vs.. the
Pittsburgh Post, the jury, Saturday morn.
ing, returned verdict of $4,000 damages
for plaintiff. The cause of the suit was az
article published in the Post in February
1874, wherein MIR. Moore, then chairman
of the democratic county committee, was
accused of abandoning his trust as chair
man and being traitor to his party.
a resolution was passed by the Kansas
City board of trade, Friday, calling upor
the president to define his policy in regart
to the Indian treaties, and with refence t.
to the Sioux Indians, and a committee wa
appointed to memorialize congress, pro
testing against the blocking up of civiliza
ton by settling all the savages upon one o
the richest portions of the national do
mains.
The yacht Octavia, seized by the custom
house authorities proves to be the propert.
of an Englishman named cambridge, VIII,
isfttng her for trip to Aspinwal. Their
5 never has been Cuban on board of her
her sailing master is Yankee, and tn
; white-haircd Cuban, said to have been il
charge, proves to be an Irishnan iron
t Limerick. The British consul will deman
a her clearance papers if not previously fur
-, nshed by the custom house. 1t is yer
\ plain that the authorities have acted hasti
a under false information from Spanish
5 spies.
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-14

Bearing in mind the circulation as sworn
to-that of THE GLOBE, daily 1850, week
ly 2,286, and that of the Herald, daily
1888, weekly 2,500-rcad and comment
for yourself on the boastful words of the
Herald prospectus, published at the head
the year "Thc circulation of both
papers"-that is, of the daily and weekly
Herald-" is very large. each haUing double
the circulation Of any OTHER paper priated
SIN Rutland county," What beautiful
specimen of truth all the more beautiful
for being so rare, and thank heaven that
kind Of truth IS very rare in Vermont.
Remember the figures, and understand that
Rowell gives first those of the TIE GLOBE
and then those Of the Herald, and then
read this other gem of truth following the
Herald figures " THE daily has ocer t,oice
the circulation..cf any other daily, and tie
weekly ouer toice tie bona fde circulation
"cf any other ueekly printed in Rutland
county" 1t cost ten cents a word to get
this gem published in Rowel's Directory,
and we wonder not that Rowell made
them pay for tit is worth more than ten
cents word, although we give it the ben
eft of free insertion. We wish that we
had, to illustrate this gem, that graphic
statement of the personnel of the Herald
Association published, er cathedra, in the
Troy Times some weeks ago-taken to-
gcther, they would be good reading. We
were inclined to believe the affidavit, but
advertisers, in contrasting the sworn
statement and the ten cents word state
ment, can take stock in the affidavit or moi
as it may seem to them worthy or un
worthy of credence. Taking tile Herald
three statements and placing them side 6J
side, qolere does ii leare the question Of ue
racity' We pause for reply. Adver
,isers will please take notice of the .tact
and govern themselves accordingly
Which is the better medium of advertising
newspaper with a circulation of twenty
eight hundred and constantly increasing
or one that claims twenty-five hundred
whose statements are contradictory ant
lrreconciable, and, at the best, with no in
crease or prospect of increase?
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-14
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
New York Stock and Money Market.
LATRsT MONETARY.

NEW YORK. June IL.
The stock market opened strong and excited
on Saturday. Lake Shore was quite active and
advanced sharply with an early sale Of GOOD
shares at ON. other stocks shared the firm
ness and Union Pacific advanced to TX, with
but n light business. Tne buying movements
in the exchange was probably due entirely to
the report that the railroad war was probably
ended The bears were noticeably active in
covering their short contracts.
The shipments to Europe to-day amounted to
over three millions, OF which two and three
quarter millions was gold coin.
Gold opened at ile7s and afterwards sold at
ll6'4.
A London dispatch says that the Bank OF
England has reduced Its purchasing price OF
gold Il penny.
Sterling exchange advanced from sSsSlsl for
long and short London bills.
The following is the weekly bank statement {:
Loans, decrease, 1858 400; specie, increase,
sl53 900 legal tenders increase, 81, 100, 200 de-
posits, decrease, s255, 200 circulation, decrease,
| sl24, 200 reserve, increase, s2,4OI,0
The following are the closing quotations:
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-14

The Troy Press says we SHARPLY re-
buke" it, because it 'hinted" that Henry
Wilson had "record that could damage
him" and says "We do not dig up the
" old political vagaries of Mr.. Wilson, his
" Know-Nothing craze and the like. Let
" those things lie in peace within the crypt
" of the temple of charity But the later
Il" conduct of Mr.. Wilson condemns him.
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-14

TMPOUNDED.-T up on the Prem
l. ises OF Joel Ellis, in the village OF Rutland,
Tuesday evening, Four Calves and one steer,
which were driven 10 the Pound. OF which the
owner viii take notice and govern himself ac-
cordingiy. JOEL ELLIS.
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Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-02-18

started back few inches only part of
the incoming current will hit the fire,
the rest will go round it. In replace
put the larger sticks in rear and front, and
SO arrange the small stuff that the rising
current of air will be compelled to come
right through it. Arrange the larger
fuel to be ignited so that the first fire
will be drawn between pieces lying near
enough together to help warm each other.
Very often, when a fire is to be started
over wide CRATE in a stove or furnace,
1t is well to cover up part OF the CRATE
with HAT pieces of wood, or ashes, or
paper, so as to concentrate the draft of
air at the point where the fire is to be
started. As it increases the wood or
paper will be burned out, or the ashes
can be raked out. In broad bottom
furnace we often fill up one side, or all
around the outside, with ashes and Gin
ders during warm weather, so that in the
remaining portions there will be draft
enough TO keep upa small fire. BY noting
the philosophy of concentrating the draft
above referred to one can kindle fire
quickly and with a very little fine stuff.
Unreasoning help" often use large
basketful of kindlings, prepared with no
little labor, or peck of charcoal, to get
a hard-coal fire started BY showing
them the proper arrangement of fuel, a
small quantity of shavings or splinters,
with few larger pieces of wood or char
coal placed in compact mass, and SO
that the current of air will strike them,
will produce heat enough to ignite the
hard coal Immediately in contact, and
that will soon extend strong heat to
the whole surrounding mass. A slight
covering of fine ashes upon the surface
of the hard coal, except right over the
kindling point, viii greatly help starting
the fire. After the coal is well ignited
through at one point the ashes will drop
down, or can be easily stirred out from
below. We have often started up an al
most extinct coal fire by spreading few
fiat chips over the top, except just where
there was little fire left, as this con-
centrated the draft there and started it
into new vigor. These are small items,
some may think, but it is better to be the
philosopher" than the fool;" and
further, aside from the saving of fuel,
how much is often lost in the mornings
comfort, and in the days business, be-
cause "the fire wouldn't start this morn
ings"-Amertcan Agriculttrist.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-02-18
Trunies.

A NEW and successful enterprise In
agriculture is growing up in the south of
France. Large tracts of land which
have hitherto been comparatively worth
less for all purposes of cultivation are
now being planted with the variety Of
oak trees beneath which truftles are gen
orally found. 1t is expected that with
this treatment land which has lately been
sold at SO per acre will produce crop
of trutiies worth eco every year. The
experiment has been extensively tried in
the Department of Vancluse, where, in
the course of the last twenty years,
10000 acres that were absolutely UNI
productive have been devoted to the
culture of trutiles and are yielding rich
return. The cost of planting Is borne by
the different communes. On hilly ground
this does not exceed twenty francs per
acre; but on the low lands il is rather
more, though the crops are proportion
ately heavier. Acorns are planted on
the uplands, but saplings of five or six
years growth, placed in rows forty feet
apart, are found to answer best on the
plains. Vines are planted between the
trees, and after five or six years their
produce repays the cost of the whole
plantation and its culture. This expert
ment applied to tracts of land which
have been denuded Of forests accom-
plishes the double benefit Of increasing
the supply of trufiles and replacing the
woodlands, the want of which is much
felt
Truffies are subterranean fungi, often
growing ut the depth of foot or more
in the ground. Their presence Is de-
tected by dogs, which are trained TO hunt
them, or, in some parts OF France, by
pigs, which display facility for this sort
OF sport. They are dug with kind of
hoe or pick, and the stirring Of the soil
In gathering them seems to increase its
productivcness. They vary In size from
plum TO potato, and are of black
color and warty surface. The common
truffie (7uber cibarium) Is abundant in
the central and southern parts of Europe.
Other species are found In England and
in various portions of the Continent.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-02-18
GRANDMA'S KNITTING.
BIZ KATE ALLYN.


,Tis the quiet hour of twilight
Which follows the set Of sun,
When the toil-of the day Is over,
And the evening rest begun,
And the silence is broken only
By the ticking Of the clock;
While grandma sits by the fireside,
Knitting little sock.
The yarn flies over the needles
In stitches of white and gray;
But her fingers only are working,
For her mind is far away;
And . vision Of golden ringlets,
OF q snowy muslin frock,
Moistens the eyes Of grandma
As she knits the little sock.
oh, oft have those fingers fashioned
Finest garments of old
Oh, oft on that loving bosom
Have rested ringlets of gold!
For "grandma" then was MOTHER
And her own were the household lows:
And she held in her deep affection
The love of three darling boys.
Dear Charlie was lain meath the daisies.
When bis years but numbered two;
Fred fell In the battle at Vicksburg-
One of our soldiers in blue;
But the babe of darling Louie
In the cradle she loves to rock;
And tits for the second Charlie
She is knitting the little sock.
No wonder that grandma sits musing
While the shining needles fly;
No wonder the seam and the turning
Are marked with weary sigh
Her work will be rounded and finished
At the striking of the clock
And crowd of tender memories
Knit into the little sock
Youths Companion.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-02-18
A Good Joke on Safe-BlOwers.

The Cincinnati Commercial tells the
following:
The gopher. blowers" will give the
town of Harrison wide berth hereafter.
The experience of two Of their class a
few nights since will no doubt disgust
the whole fraternity of cracksmen" and
the town will be free from the depreda.
tons of thieves. 1t all came about ia
this way: Mr William Galloway has a
large Touring mill at Harrison. Since
the cold weather set in the mill, being
run by water.power, has been idle.
When the work ceased the proprietor
moved all his books and papers from the
safe In the mill Office TO more con
venient place in his residence. A few
nights since two safe. blowers entered the
mill for the purpose OF robbing the safe.
The door was drilled In the Usual way
and every preparation made for blast
with powder but by some means the
burglars, after working nearly all night,
were frightened off before completing
their operation.
The Joke about the whole matter is,
first, the safe was not locked and the
door could have been opened simply by
taking hold of the knob; and second,
only a few postage stamps would have
been the reward If the burglars had sue
ceeded in opening the safe.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-02-18
An Interesting "Reminiscences.

ANTHRACITE coal was discovered IN
Pennsylvania soon after the settlement
of the Wyoming Valley, but its first prac-
tical use was by Obediah Gose In his
blacksmith shop, in the year 1853. In
1891 Philip Ginter discovered anthracite
on the Lehigh. In 1893 Robert Morris,
of Philadelphia, formed company and
purchased 5000 acres Of the property on
which Ginter discovered the coal. The
coal company was called the "Lchigh
Coal Mine" This company opened the
mine and found the vein to be fifty feet
thick, and Of the very best quality Of
coal. The company made every effort to
secure demand for the coal, but with
out success, and, having become thor
oughly disguised with their speculation,
leased the 5000 acres of this mammoth
coal field TO Messrs. White & Hazard, of
Philadelphia, for twenty years, at an
annual rental OF one ear Of earn. Mefsrs
White IL Hazard tried TO use the coal in
the blast furnace in 1926, but failed the
furnaces chilled. In 1881 Nelson con-
ceived the idea Of the hot blast for saw
ing fuel, and in 1888 David Thoma
adopted the idea of the hot blast and
anthracite together. White & Hazard
had, previous to this, formed company
and bought the property. In 1880 David
Thomas made the use Of anthracite for
making pig metal success, by which
the twenty ears Of corn were transferred
into 500, 100000. And this Is the early
history of the great Lehigh coal mines Of
the present day.
remember well the banquet given by
Burd Patterson and Nicholas Biddle, at
Mount Carbon, in 1910, at which time
they paid William Lyman, proprietor of
the Pioneer furnace, r., 1000, the premium
they had offered for the first successful
use OF anthracite coal as fuel in the blast
furnace. But David Thomas was the
lion of the day; it was he who showed
them how to do it; and hale and hearty
to-day, as then, he stands a worthy rep
resentative of science Long may he
live, and peaceful be his death, and may
the memory of his deeds never be for
gotten by Pennsylvania. He is master
mechanic, and should be much pleased
to see the chair Of metallurgy in the Me-
chanics' High School of Pennsylvania
marked Thomas. Pittsburgh Tom
naercidl.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-02-18
kindIiDg Fires" Fools vs.. PhilOs0-
piers"

The trite old saying has II that ait
takes fool or philosopher to build a
fire we'll" How this adage originated,
or why II Is used, we cannot tell; per-
haps II means that fool blunders into
it and the other party does IL "philo-
sophically" Fire.hest Is produced--or
evolved, brought out, made sensible-by
a chemical combination, thet Is, by the
union of the oxygen of the air with the
carbon or coal Of the wood. These two
elements combine, producing carbonic
acid gas, which goes off into the air in
an invisible state, and the union Of the
two give out heat that was before latent
or insensible. Only one-fifth part of the
air is oxygen. The other four-fifths are
nitrogen, subsistence that does not unite
with the wood and therefore u does not
help send out heat. To make fire burn
faster we blow it, that Is, drive more
air upon it, and Of course more oxygen.
(The chemist sometimes makes an artifi-
cial atmosphere OF oxygen containing no
nitrogen. In this wood will burn In
tenseiy, and even a piece OF iron will
burn In it, To save blowing with our
lungs, or with bellows, we construct
chimneys or stove-pipes. Warm air Is
lighter than cold air and rises up just as
light substances rise in water. AS this
air rises in the combining pipe or Chin
ney, cold air rushes in 10 take its place
below--it Is thus drum IN instead of be-
ing blown in. This draft, bringing more
air and therefore more oxygen, makes the
fire burn faster.
In starting a fire the thing to be aimed
at is to make the air drawn in by the
upward draft concentrate just mliere The fire
ss still feeble. In stove or furnace put
the kindlings, and start the fire close by
the small opening, 50 that the inward
draft will and must strike right upon the
point where the fire 10 kindled. II 1t be
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-02-18

Hearts have windows. They should
be kept open at all times that the glad
sunshine of all that Is true and beauti-
fnl in this Lille may enter and abide
therein.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-02-18

A Troy woman sold her husband for
two cents.