Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-05-31
BOZEMAN, NJ. T.. THURSDAY, MAY 81. 1877.
Other Places.

Other Places.
! Forty thousand persons are at preseI
imprisoned in Turkey tor debt due II
Government.
Millions of rats are pestering the farm
ers in Mclean Co., III. The ground
houses, fences, etc, are full of them.
The Black Sea is 700 miles long, and i,
greatest breadth is 400 miles. 1t cover
a surface of $50, 600. 900 square miles,:
The Landlord and Tenant bill, ces'gne
for the protection of lessons, has passe
the Illinois House of Representatives.
A bill has paased the Illinois Legisla
|ture authorizing railroad conductors t
stop trains and put Off anybody playin:
cards for money, or using obscene Ian
guagc.
New York bas s. 900 Indians on reserva
tions. all that remain of the great Easter,
uibes. There IS very little of I.o whel
high, jack, and the game have been takcr
by the whites.
1t is estimated that the peach crop thi
year will be the largest that has ever beer
known and will reach about Is, ,0OO, 900 o.
go, ,G00, 600 baskets. The experiment o
shipping them to Europe will lie tric(
again, and it is thought with success.
The debt of Great Britain was reduced
during the five years of the Gladstone
ministry, $500, ,O0G, 600, and during til,
three years of the present ministry so,
600, ,0CO; total IN eight years $27O, 700, 600
In the same time the debt of the United
States was reduced $435, ,O0O, 900.
The monster bell in the cathedral a
Cologne, called William the Taciturn,'
because it has never been heard, has jus
been made to sound. On Easter Day thu
military commander sen: to the belfry 6(
OF the strongest artillerymen Of the gar
rison, who succeeded in putting the enor
nous mass OF metal in movement, an,
tolled the bell for about 20 minutes.
West Virginia has the largest and mos,
valuable body of timber of any State II
the Union. Prof Fontaire estimates tha
the area still covered by forests is between
5000, GOO and 10000, 900 acres, and thai
the value of the surplus exportab!e tint e,
is fully $75,00O.OO as it stands in the
forests. The oak, walnut, cherry. ash
poplar, maple, elm, sycamore and locust
attain size there not surpassed on til,
American Continent.
Several valuable Indian relics were
discovered within the limits of Auburn
n. ! ;, last week, embracing stone axes
and hammers, arrow heads, and fragment.
of pottery. The latter are cmbelishet
with different styles of simple ornamental
ton, and are almost identical in fashion
with the specimens OF pottery now manu-
fac.ured and used in Utah and CO!orad,
by the partially civiliz d Indians living
there.
Sixty years ago there was not Catho
lie church in Brooklyn; now there are 45
Sixty years ago what few Catholics there
were in that city were compelled TO cross
to St. Peters church, in Barclay street
New York. to attend divine services. Tht
first Catholic service held in Brooklyn wa
a mass celebrated at the house Of William
Purcell, northeast corner of York ant
Gold streets. The first church, st. James
Was dedicated August 70, 1929
An zee machine in Dallas, Texas, Jus
completed by T. J.. Rankin, produces ic
cakes thirty feet long and six feet wide
weighing from 10000 to $4,000 pounc
each. They are formed by FIRE, Eing fin
rain or spray after the manner Of al iciclt
When the operation is completed, tn
bottom and sides of the cake are thawe
loose from the inclined plane, and til
cake slides out upon platform, where
is cut into chunks SIX feet square. Fou
cakes a day are frozen. The works co;
$50, 900.
At Russian hotel you are obliged
stipu!ate for bed-linen, pillows, blanket
and towels, or else You pay extra ft
them, as the landlord assumes that yo
carry these articles with you. This hs
been the custom of the country from tim
limmemorial, and has produced anon
lcerlain Russians curious kind of fastid
ousness they strongly dislike usin
sheets, blankets and towels which are !
certain sense public property, just as W
should object to putting on clothes whic
have already been worn by other peepl.
The hills of three southern counties
california, Los Angeles, Santa Barbar,
and San Boneyenture, are covered wit
wild aud eager men boring for oil and /,
eating claims. The oil furor of 1856
repeated, but there is this difference:
1856 they did not know where paying O
was; now they do. They find an abun(
ahce of light green and heavy black OF
and Prof. 0illlmen's prophecies are con
hrmed. The total prOduct is not yet yer
large, but California now expects to sup
ply the whole Pacific iD q very shOl
time, and also the markets of Easter
Asia.
Dried Eggs.
| A large establishment has been opene
in st. Louis for drying eggs, 1t is in fu
operation. and hundreds of thousands o
dozens are going INTO its Unsuitable maw
The eggs are carefully ''csndled' b
hand-that is. examined by light, to a
certain whether they are good Or not-an
are then thrown into an Immense rec+p
tacle, where they are broken by centri
fugal operation, the white and yolk beip
separated from the shell very much 9
liquid honey is separated from the CONT