The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1883-10-06

ing, s82 495, 240i silver certificates cut
standing, s94, 400, gal; certificates Of de-
pesit outstanding. sl1 ,9I5. 900; refund
ing certificates, 1892 $50; legal tenders
outstanding, s946, 6sl ,Olo; fractional
currency outstanding, 5000 9O6i cash
available Oct. LIST, Sl5S, SAG 006.
RUSSIA, as food-producing country, |
must become the principal rival of the
United States. The Russians are the
great European landowners. The con.
ditiou of Russia is similar to that of tie
United States in the vastness of its land
ed area ns compared with its population,
but dissimilar in respect of the facility
Of transportation from its remoter parts
to its European frontier. The nearness
of Russia to European markets is coun-
terbalanced by the advantages of our
railroad service, which enable us to
market the wheat grown in distant Da-
kota at margin Of profit. But more
and more as her facilities of transporta-
ton are increased Russia will become
our formidable rival in the trade in
breadstuffs, provisions and petroleum.
AFTER the Tewksbury revelations it
was highly proper that Massachusetts
should undergo q moral publication
The good work has commenced. The
Boston people are to have a course Of
lectures, and, like all new brooms, they
intend 10 sweep clean this time. A
Methodist and Baptist minister found
lault with the introduction of an opera
during the lecture course. They declared
in their sermons that whosoever looked
upon the opera must go to perdition for
ever ald ever. The secretary refused TO
cancel the opera arrangements, so that
during the coming winter, along with
their culture, pork and beans, and inter-
ts;ing Governor, the Boston people may
enjoy all the delight of bitter theological
controversy.
ALrINzo, the reigning King of Spain,
is about as useless humbug as ever
wasted good hair oil or the lining of a
golden crown. The gentle Bismarck
however has found use for him. He is
to be made the cause of row with
France. The Franco -Prussiau war O
1901 was caused by Spanish intrigue
In that case the scape goat was q HoL en-.
zollern; in the present instance he is =
Bourbon. But when Bismarck wants Il
row any stick is good enough to beat &
dog with. The French populsce ha,
broken out into wild disorder because
whipper-snapper Alphobzo has accepted
the honorary colonelcy Of Uhlan regi
ment. The Spanish King has had tC
leave Paris before his visit was half com
pleted and the Spanish Ambassador is tt
be recalled to Madrid. If this does no
look like row in Europe then-the SUI
will appear occasionally.
} The business liabilities in this couu
ty, daring the past nine months, hav
, almost doubled those of the correspond
ing time last year, and the failures hav
r been in the usual proportion. The figure
of the failures of the third quarter O
1888, just compiled by II. G.. Dunn
| o., show great increase in the numbe
: of mercantile disasters as compared witt
! last year. The number of failures in tn
quarter inst closed is 1903, with liabili
5 ties of $50, 900, 900, while for the sam
e quarter OF 1882 they were only 1900, will
r liabilities of $4,000 coo. For the frs
Y nine months OF 1883 the failures -eporte,
numbered GAO, as against 1897 in th
). ,ame peri ID of last year. The liabilitie
q for the FIRST nine months of the presen
6 year are Sis 900, 600, as against $50
q 600 900 for 1882. In the Dominion c
Canada the failures for the nine month
a of 1883 nre over 1000 in number, a
!. against 537 in 1882. The liabilities j
a Canada for the first nine months of th
present year ere IL, 900 600. as againl
S., 900, 900 in the same time last year,
VI
s. disadvantage of geographical size bV
N makes up for it in spiritual qualit.
of Dublin, the capital city, is the natl,
b. place of John Jameson, the benefactor
Is his race. His dlstilleIy contains Il
D. two largest mash tuns in the world, eal
capable of holding 100000 gallons.
oil L., 4. 80
n watts. each with a capacity OF over l27, OF
,o gallons, land as We peered into them
be- said visitor, 1--WE could almost FAM
no that we were looking down into respe
II table-sized theatre" There is goo
- deal of water knocking about Ireland
. one form or other and the very best or
"a grows IN Dublin. The scientific peop
have shown that the stout aud wbisk
of that city are superior to other simil
!" products bee use the Dublin water
1t- greater power of dissolviug vegeiNl
nt matters aud of retaining vegetable aron
u' t an that of any other city in Che
la' Britain. Hesiod, the great Greek po
ell said that Water was the best of
OIL things" but that old gentleman ne,
tx tasted it when mixed with Jameso
ne whiskey.
1s,
mn WHAT MCCLURE Knows ABOUT Far
ING. Colonel A. X. Mcclure, the a
elitor-in-chief of the Philadelphia Tn
e'- lectured on Friday to the farmers at
ie Ok ora Fair on the pregnant sui jet
i'u agriculture. Following are few OF
n"' words of wisdom uttered by the lectur
III We must have reform in the raising
It" b .ets. Hitherto Philadelphia has ran
81" too many, aud of an Inferior kind. Fl
ry' bushels Of corn to the acre is better IL
~" ten dollars day in the Legislature.
VI you value your integrity aud your ma
en' independence, don't have anything to
are with roosters. Harrisburg raises enou
tA' for the entire Commonwealth, and Il
bly, are a bad lot all the way through. Dc
ent subsoil 1t will ruin your farms. Oh,