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The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-11-19
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.

tATxsr MONETARY.
NEW YORK. Nov IS.
Treasury disbursements to-day amount to
f452,00o.
Customs receipts to-day amounted to $685.
900.
II. A. Currier & Co., importers Of liquors and
cigars, assigned to-day.
Money loaned to-day at sk@4 per cent,
closed easy at d.
Sterling exchange is quoted nrmer at 4s4H
and 4ss.
Gold opened at max, and closed at li4X. The
highest and lowest rates OF the day.
Clearings at the Gold Exchange to-day, S2t,-
100000
Prime mercantile paper is quoted at e@s per
cent.
State bonds quiet and nominal.
Railroad bonds are quoted as being strong
and higher.
Governments are quoted as closing strong at
opening prices.
the stock market as a rule was strong and
higher, improvement ranging from h@iXc.
subsequently there was reaction OF n to Il
per cent from the highest point. Pacific Mail
rose to 4oN and afterwards fell of to ssx
Michigan Central declined to 64X, but advanced
to ei1s and still later receded to Gag. Erie ad-
vanced to 1873 and later declined to lax, Other
changes were slight. At the second call the
market was generally steady The market was
flrm9r at the close with recovery OF A@X
from the afternoon decline.
The transactions In stocks to-day aggregated
l4S,2OO shares. The principal dealings were as
follows
Erie, 30, 900, Lake Shore, $4,000; Pacific Mail,
$4,000; Ohios, $1,000; Western Union, 10000.
Gold closed at 1l4ss@l14A.
Money closed at BOA.
Government bonds are quoted as dull but
strong.
State bonds quiet nominal
Stocks closed active and steady.
The following are the closing quotations
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-09-16
Net at all AmiabIe.

The clam, says writer, has foot
which he protrudes and uses like spade
to shovel up the sand when he would re-
tire out of sight, and beneath the sand
he lives in peace, coming out only at
night to bask in the moonlight, to behold
the wonders of the sea and gaze at the
starry sky spread out above him in all
its splendor. Walking on the shore on
bright moonlight night one may see
thousands of these beautiful and highly
organized beings forming themselves
into communities and hopping gayly
about, emitting their peculiar cry, which
is not unlike that of the katydid. Their
locomotion is performed by opening and
shutting their shells with great rapidity
and force, some of the larger ones being
able to Jump several inches at a time in
this way. Men who have closely OBJ.
served their habits for years say that al
times they are not so amicable as might
be supposed by the superficial observer,
and that they engage in terrific combats
when the whole shore will resound witt
their savage growls and maddened yell'
as they rush upon each other and en-
deavor, by inserting the edge OF then
shells into each other, to pry them open
The dying cries of the victims may bt
heard even above the noise of the surf
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-09-16
Living Now and Then,

In published letter Rev. DR.. Lewis
says: 1t would help me very much to a
right understanding of matters and
duties, in their peculiar aspects, in our
rural alcongregations, if the members there
of would take cognizance of the change
in the style and cost of living that has
taken place among us in the last quarter
or half of a century. A minister who
was called to church before the war on
salary of eight hundred dollars, after a
few years copied a few pages from his
passbook of 1860, and compared them
with his store book, in say 1868, and to
the surprise of those to whom it was
shown the prices of things had more than
doubled, often quadrupled. Yet neither
he, nor any other minister can show
salary that has been doubled on ante-war
days, unless there has been some new
accession of business activities to the
place. And if we go backward to the
dayo the Bellamys and the Huntingtons
of our villages, when pastor gloried in
salary of five or six hundred dollars,
the change is still more to the disadvan-
tage of the minister. Then, with meats
at four to eight cents per pound, wood
one dollar and fifty to two dollars per
cord (but ofttimes given in woodspell,
wherein one pastor once received in a
competition with another pastors flock,
ninety loads, enough for two years, sup
Ply, butter nine pence, oats shilling
or less, and so great certainty of re-
ceiving some donation at every visit that
some clergymen always carried their
saddle-bags openly, and all were pretty
sure to have bag somewhere-when II
gord horse could be bought for fifty or
sixty dollars and kept at trihing cost,
and when the demand for dress, furni-
ture, education, etc., were on proper
tionably small scale, it is no marvel that
minister could live on five hundred
dollars, educate his sons at college with
out any aid from an education society,
own house and have money in the
bank yea, the wonder is what he could
have done with all his money.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-09-16

Dom Piatt, who is in London, says
that at the Langham Hotel Chicago
colonel got into discussion about sharp
shooting. The colonel said: "TH
wager ten pounds to fifty can hit the
center of that clock at the first shot with
my revolver" The offer was taken, and
shot from a navy revolver by the
American, aimed at the face of the huge
clock in the hall, brought down the
hands and very nearly the whole clock
with it, OF course the unexpected ex-
plosion, followed, or rather accom-
panied, with crash, created the widest
excitement. Tia rooms were emptied
of their living contents into the hall,
while from the streets hurried crowds.
Among them the rumor spread that all
the Americans in the Langham were
butchering each other with revolvers.
The colonel was promptly paid his fifty
pounds, and as promptly paid for the
repair of the clock. And whoever dis
credits this story may go to London and
see the clock; for, Dom Piatt adds :
"Now, in any other civilized country
known to the undersigned, this gentle
man, so ready with his pistol, would
have been arrested and punished. Not
SO here. The proprietor of the Lang
ham kept the shattered dial on exhibi-
tion, and the marksman was generally
spoken of as right good fellow, and re
markable clever with the revolver"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-09-16
Didn't Like the Taste.

Fresh Congress water !" cried a lad
in the Rensselaer, and Saratoga morning
train as he opened car door. "Here,
here, boy, come here and gi' me some
water !" yelled out an old backwoods-
man. The boy poured out tumbler of
the sparkling beverage, and the thirsty
man, lifting it to his mouth, gulped two
swallows, and then with an expression of
the utmost disgust, turned to the window
and spit copiously out upon the high
way. Meanwhile the lad looked Won
deringly on. "What in thunder kind of
salt water is that 2" cried the old man.
"Do yer want to pizen me9 Go long
and rinse yer pail out, ye little rascal
ye should know better'n to make sport
of an old man like me-" The boy tried
to explain, and demanded five cents for
his water, but his wrathful customer
would listen to nothing, and raising his
cudgel, babe the boy "clear out, to the
amusement of the passengers. What
the old gent said when he got to the
springs and drank like the rest of the
people there, deponent sayeth not.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-09-16
A New Lamp.

A new English lamp for lighting and
heating is constructed in such manner
that the oil reservoir and cone plate can
be slid into and out of position, the cone
plate being formed to fit the body of
the lamp, and in this way shutting off
air communication between the upper
and lower sides, except through the
cone. The top of the lamp stove is
formed of two plates, in the lower one
of which is fixed short metal tube,
while in the upper one is formed hole
to serve as a seat for kettle or other ar
ticle, and at one side is fixed chimney.
Space is left between the two top plates
to allow the heat and products of COM
bustion to circulate around the kettle,
and openings are formed in the sides of
the lamp to admit air freely to the under
side of the cone plate, and to enable the
wick to be regulated without disturbing
any part of the lamp. This seems to be
decided improvement upon the plan of
construction usually characterizing de-
vices of this sort.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-09-16
THE TURKISH PROVINCES.
What Caused the Dimcuities There-A
Cruel Taxation.

Cruel Taxation.
The insurrection in the Turkish
provinces has excited no little interest in
this country, and the following details
of the cause of the troubles is well worth
the reading: In the year 1872 some
particulars regarding the population,
revenues and conditions of Bosnia were
collected by her majesty's consul at
Bosnia Serai, ane may be worth recapi-
tulating at the present time. The
Herzegovina, or simply Herzegovina, is
a Sandiak-say county-in the Bosnian
province of European Turkey, and at
the date of Consul Holmes report it had
male population computed at about
$4,000, of which $500 were Mussul-
mans, %, 500 Orthodox Greek Christians
and 5000 Catholics. The male popula
ton of the entire province was compu-
ted at 542, 900, nearly half being Mus
sulmans, and Mr.. Holmes from this
reckons the entire population at l, 279,-
296. The natural resources of Bosnia
are considerable. Some of its districts
are famous for its plums, it grows fair
tobacco, and Herzegovina is a good corn
country, considering its physical con-
fguration. But the land Bis heavily
overburdened, and the people have suf-
fered from several causes tending to
make their yoke more than ever unbear.
able. One of the chief of these has been
a cattle plague which has been allowed
for many years to run it's course unheed-
ed by the indolent Turkish officials.
This has not merely denuded the country
of cattle, but it has shut it in to its own
resources, Austria having, from motives
of self-preservation, prohibited their ex-
port. Whenever severer imposts come
upon people suffering in this way they,
of course, aggravate the trouble, and the
taxation of Bosnia hasreached that point,
as in so many unfortunate Turkish prov
inces, where it forces the people down
towards primitive savagery. The chan
nels of trade get dried up. Nothing can
stand against the all pervading demands
of the tax farmer and the monopolist or
the unscrupulous exactions of the Off
cial. Without any compensating ad-
vantages, all is scraped up that the peo-
pie can give, short of driving them to
want. In 1872 the taxes, exclusive of
the customs duties, which never come
into the local treasury at all, yielcd
f427, 1872 including these duties, about
100000. Last year the revenue, again
without the customs, the amount OF
which could not be ascertained, was
e59S, ,S14, so that in two years the prov.
incial income had been increased by
about G169, 900, while trade was languish-
ing on all hands. During the same
period the local outlay had only increased
5000, SO that the money went to
swell the imperial exactions. No doubt
we hvae here key to one cause of the
discomfort which has grown so formida
bic, and if the population has reached
that state of desperate conviction wher
they esteem it wiser and cheaper to fight
and die than go on paying taxes, they
are not unlikely to carry things far.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-09-16
Large and Small Farms,

Twelve of the States have farms that
average less than 125 acres in extent,
which in some States even runs up near
ly to an average of 500 acres. These
twelve States give the following as the
average size of their farms: Maine, SO
acres ; New Hampshire, 122 acres Mas
sachusetts, 103 acres; Rhode Island, "a
acres /; Connecticut, 50 acres New York,
103 acres New Jersey, 9S acres Penn
sylvania, 103 acres Indiana, 112 acres
Ohio, Ill acres Michigan, 101 acres
Wisconsin, ia acres.
While the total value of the farms in
the United States is put down at So, 262,
803, 1861, the value in the above small
farm States foots up So, 407, 587, 178, OF
nearly three-ifths of the total-and this,
too, while the area of these States is less
than one-tenth of the area of the whole
country. No more conclusive exhibit OF
the practical superiority of the small,
farm system could be given than this.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-09-16
The Best Disinfectauts.

There are three powerful disiufectants:
carbolic acid, but its smell is objectiona-
BILE, chlorine and permanganate of pot.
ash; these last two are quite expensive.
These disinfectants act by combining
with deleterious substances and render
ing them harmless, while antiseptics
prevent and arrest the decomposition of
animal substances. The most common
and available disinfectant and deodor-
izer is copperas, crude copperas, sold by
druggists at few cents pound, under
the name of sulphate of iron; one pound
to two gallons of water, to be used as
often as necessary to render all odors i'm,
perceptible, acting at the same time as
an antiseptic, deodorizer and disinfect-
ant; and if instantly thrown over what
passes from the body in cholera, is one
of the cheapest and best means known
for preventing its communication to 9th
ers. The only perfect disinfectant, how
ever, is habitual cleanliness and thorough
ventilation; next to that is dry heat OF
two hundred and fifty degrees.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-09-16
Hawking in Afghanistan.

A correspondent in Afghanistan relates
the following: 1 went out hawking with
officers one day, and we had some very
fine sport, following the birds on horse
back, and being much amused by large
black vulture-a pirate bird-which
once or twice made its appearance just
when the falcon had hunted down its
prey, and proceeded to act on the princi-
of sic UoS non UO6iS, which appears to
be one of the fundamental characteris-
tics of organic life. Apart from its
cruelty (Which need not be expatiated
on, seeing that all action we know of
involves cruelty the action of the falcon
was very beautiful, as it steadily pur-
sued its prey, a species of crane, / think,
and, swooping down upon it, struck it
again and again ON the base of the skull,
sending out small cloud of feathers at
every stroke, until the brain was laid
open and the bird succumbed."
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-09-16
Not the Cheese.

The attractive odor of sweet linn
burger cheese was recently the cause OF
the arrest of lady and the seizure OF
her trunk while upon q journey to the
West. The railroad officials had noticed
the overpowering scent which escaped
from the lady's trunk, and the horrible
suspicion that it must surely contain 0
dead child took such complete possession
of their minds that they procured the
arrest of the owner of the trunk. The
trunk was searched. Some of the search
ers tainted from the effects of the odol
and the seeming certainty of tragic
affair. A suspicious bundle was found
and cautiously unwrapped, when the
limburger cheese was exposed. 1t was
then that the lady explained that she was
on journey to visit relative in the
West to whom a limburger" was al
unknown luxury.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-09-16
ImnOrtant to Travellers,

% Persons visiting New York or leaving by the
cars from Grand Central Depot, will cave an
noysnce and expense of carriage hire and bag
gage expresssge by stopping at Grand Union
Hotel, opposite Grand Central Depot Over
$50 elegantly furnished rooms and fitted up at
p cost of S9G0,u00. European plan. Guests
can live more luxuriouely for less money at the
Grand Union that at any other first-cass house
in New York. Stages and street cars pass the
doors for all parts of the city. See that the
hotel you enter is the Grand Union Hotel
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-09-16
Good News from Washington City.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE,

DEPARTMENT OF STATE, 7
WASHINGTON, August 29d, 1875.
WILSON SEWING MACHINE COMPANY Cleveland
Ohio:
There have been received at this department
a MEDAL and DIPLOMA awarded to WILSON SEW
ING MACHINE COMPANY, as an exhibitor at the
Universal Exposition, held at Vienna in 1873.
will thank you to inform me what DISPOSE
ton you desire to have made Of them. The
department will deliver them to such agent as
you may suggest, or to Adams Express Com.
pany, addressed as you may indicate, upon the
return to the department OF the inclosed re.
ceipt duly signed. When the same are deliv-
cred in either way, the responsibility Of the
department will terminate
Your obedient servant
W. HUNTER Acting Secretary.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-09-16

The great virtue of this medicine is that rpens the
matter and throws it of the system, purifes the
blood, and thus effects cure.
ScHEScK's SEA WEED TONIC FOR THE CURE OF
DYSPEPSIA INDIGESTION. ETC.
The Tonic produces healthy action of the stomach
creating appetite, forming chyle, and curing the
most obstinate cases of Indigestion.
SCHENCK's MANDRAKE PILLS, FOR THE CURE OF
LIVER COMPLAINT, ETC.
These Pills Alternative, and produce healthy
action of the liver without the least danger, they
free from caomel and yet ecacous in restoring
q heslthy action of the liver.
These remedies are certain cure for Consumption,
the Pulnnpic Syrup ripcns the matter and pulifes
the blood. Tine Mandrake Pills act upon the liver,
create hs althy bile, and remove all diseases of the
liver. often cluse of Consumption The Sea Weed
Tonic gives tone ard strength to the stomach makes
good diges ion and enables the organs TO form good
blood aud thus creates healthy circulation of healthy
blood. Tho combined action of these medicines, as
thus explained will every of Consumption it
taken In time and the of the medicines persevered
In.
DR.. Schenck is professional at his principal Office,
corner Sixth and Arch Streets, Philadelphia every
Monday where all letters for advice must be addressed
Schencks medicines for sale by all Druggists.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-09-16

Send for q free specimen copy of the
splendid mammoth double-sheet San Francisco
WEEKLY CHRONICLE, an able, spicy and fearless
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a valuable agricultural department specially
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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-09-16

The most astonishing cure of chronic
Giarrhea We ever heard of is that of VIM Clark,
Frankfort Mills, Waldo Co., Maine. The facts
are attested by Ezra Troat, Upton Treat and
NJ. A. Merrill, either of whom might be ad-
dressed for particulars. Mr.. Clark was cured
by Jolnson's Anodyne Linimem Com.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-09-16

Hon. Joseph Farewell, mayor of Rock
land, Me-, Isaac NJ Bragg, Esq, Bangor, and
Messrs. Pope Bros, Ma ;hias, Me-, lumber
merchants fully indorsed the Sheridan's CdU-
AIRY Condition Po1cders, and have given the
proprietors liberty to use their names in rec
1mmending them.-Conl.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-09-16

Dobbins' Electric Soap, (made by
Cragin & Co., Philadelphia, Pa.) being
perfectly pure, requires less than COM
mon soap. Hence its economy is ap-
parent. Ask your grocer to get it.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-09-16

9n all specifics, when so many worthless medi-
cines are advertised for the cure of various
diseases; but which, when tried, are found
wanting. We have yet to learn, however, OF
the first failure of Dir. Histdr's BdISdm Of
Wild Cherry to cure coughs, colds, and pull
monary disease. Fifty cents and one dollar a
bottle, large bottles much the cheaper Com.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-09-16

The White mountain hay-fever con-
vention concluded that the disease is in
durable.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-09-16

A CONsUMPTIVE CURED. - When death was
hourly expected from Consumption, all remedies
having failed accident led to discovery whereby DR.
II. JAMES cured his only child with preparation OF
Cdnnabs Idied. He gives recipe free receipt OF
two stamps 10 pay expenses There is not a single
symptom of Consumption that It does not dissipate-
Night Sweats Irritation of the Nerves, Difficult Expec
toration, Sharp Pains in the Lungs, Nausea at the
Stomach Inaction of the Bowels. and Wasting of the
Muscles. Address CRADDOCK & CO., 1882 Race
Street, Philadelphia. Pa, giving name of this
SCHENCK'S PULMONIC SYRUP, FOR
THE CURE OF CONSUMPTION,
COIEHS AND COLDS.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-09-16
To Keep Files from Horses.

To prevent horses being teased by
flies, boil three handfuls of black walnut
leaves in three quarts of water; sponge
the horses with this solution before TAX
ing them out of the stable in the morn
ing, wetting the ears, neck, and flank.
This has long been done by New Jersey
farmersas preventive against flies upon
horses
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-09-16
Housekeeping Hints.

HARD TIMES Plum PUDD1NG.-Qual-
ter of pound of fine-chopped suet, the
same of grated bread crumbs, currants,
raisins and flour. Add two tablespoon
fuls of molasses and half pint of milk;
all of which must be well mixed to-
gether, and boiled in mould for three
and half hours. Serve with sauce.
APPLE JELLY.-Cht your apples in
quarters (do not pare or core them), dip
each quarter into clear water, and pu4
them into a jar to cook in the oven until
quite tender; then strain the Juice as
usual, and boil with pound of sugar to
pint of the juice. The most delicious
jelly will be the result, with the full,
pure flavor of theapple heightened by the
cores having been left in, and not spoiled
by the Objectionable addition of lemon
peel and juice.
CURING HAMs.-A good receipt is to
rub the hams with fine salt and sugar
and lay in dry place. After five OF six
days rub again, putting ON some new
salt, as the old becomes dry and does not
penetrate. AT the end of eight or nine
days apply the salt again. Use sugar
only at the first rubbing. Keep the salt
on them until the shank looks white and
the skin draws down tight; when this is
the appearance the hams are ready to
smoke.
LONDON BRowN.-For six pounds of
yarn or cloth take one and quarter
pounds of camwood, two pounds quer-
citron bark, one pound logwood, four
ounces copperas. Boil the camwood,
quercitron aud logwood for an hour; add
the copperas; put in the yarn and stir
briskly for half an hour at boiling heat.
Rinse in cold water.
A PERMANENT BLUE.-Boil the cloth
in brass kettle an hour, in a solution
containing five parts of alum and three
parts of tartar for every thirty-two parts
of cloth. 1t is then to be thrown into
warm water, previously mixed with a
greater or less proportion of chemic
blue, according to the shade the cloth
is intended to receive, in the desired
color.
No
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-09-16
E'HEAVYYOKES' g

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World" has just begun in the BOstOn weekly
Globe. Get the whole story by sending 80 cts. for
that live page story and newspaper. for months
postage free. THE GLOBE PUB Co., Boston.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-09-16
AND SEE

These Rich Prairies Near million for sale
the Sioux City and St Paul r. r. and the McGregor
and Missouri River r. r. Several large tracts for
Colonies. Come send committees 10 examine Every
one who sees the land likes it. Apply TO
DAVIDSON ~ CALKINS,
Sibley, OscrGla Co, Iowa.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-09-16
$500 SHOT GUN,

double barrel gun bar front action locks; warranted gen
.ne twist barrels and good shooter on NO sttr Win
SIS Can be sent O. o. D. with prty
Dege examine paying BILL Bend Stamp for circular
nOHIII, aON. Our Deaert, 25s Main 81, Cneinnhu "