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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1884-02-06

A New PROCESS FOR MELTING IRoN.-
1t is claimed that $4,000 has been spenr
at Ficonderoga in arranging for melting
iron by a new prt cess devised by French
inventor. The iron instead of being
mel ed and run off into pigs, is heated tc
What is called sponge heat, and all
impurities are then extracted, leaving the
rehned product so soft that it may be cut
with a knife. The originator has not
made public ye, any of his plans. A fur
mace has been built in the old forge build
ing of the Horizon iron company al
Tlconderoga, and will not 60 into blast
till next week. The ore that will be used
will be from the Vineyard mine, in the
town of Tconderoga. 1t is the first
furnace of the kind ever erected in this
country. j. r Gibney of New York is
associated with Mr.. Durand.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1884-02-06

Three weeks ago last Sunday, i. S:
Richards of West Concord, whose head
had been for a long time strained up
on silos, worked his team all day. lie
didn't mean TO be a bad man and violate
the Sabbath as he proved by bis course
on Monday, when he washed up, changed
his clothes, took his wife into the sleigh
and started for West Concord to attend
church. He was shocked on reaching
the village to SEQ so many people disre-
parding the Sabbath by continuing regu-
lar work. He was shocked again when
he discovered that he had the day before
violated the Sabbath by teaming all day,
while his neighbors had been attending
church. Lyndon Union.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1884-02-06

Since the last cold wave western news
papers have been comforting themselves
with this item: The Mediterranean sea,
the gulf of Venice, the Black sea and the
Baltic sea have been frozen over. So
have all tho rivers of Italy. Ice 16 feet
thick was made in the river Po in 1916.
In 1882 houses in Austria were entirely
buried by snow. In 1890 snow stol m
In Scotland lasted IS days and nights,
An entire army crossed the Danube on
the ice on 462.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1884-02-06

New AFRICA. The New York cham ber
of commerce has done IA wise and proper
thing in asking the United States govern
ment TO recognize the authority of the
International African association, which
Under the patronage of the king OF
Belgium, who has expended $30O,OOO in
the project under the immediate manage
ment OF the explorer Stanley-has estab
lished twenty Two trading stations along
the line OF the Congo river, in the heart OF
Africa. The object of the international
association is to open up Central Africa to
commercial relations with civilized ma
tions without preference to any one nation.
The authority of the association has been
established by actual exploration and
settlement, and by amicabe treaties with
friendly tribes. f. is only disputed by
the Portuguese government on the shad
owy claim that 400 years ago Portuguese
vessel entered the mouth Of the Congo
and thereby acquired the right to the
country. The extent of fruitful aud pOpu
Ious country to be reoched from the west
coast through the water system of the
Congo river and its tributaries is estimat-
ed at 100000 square miles, an area
larger than that oil the Chinese Empire
and nearly twice as large rs the United
States. The Congo river is one of the
largest rivers in the world. The proGuc
tions of interior Ahca, aside from lis
mineral wealth, are cotton, ccil e, pepper
nutmeg and other spices. pre-, rous wooIs,
and the plant that yields lndIt rubber,
There is no other field of human activity
which is so large or so inviting rs thu
suddenly opened slorehousc OF natural
commodities adapted to the wants of the
whole world While the United States,
owing to their policy of sec usion, are not
prepared to reap the full benefit of the
establishment of commercial relations
with the dark peoples of the dark CONT
ncnt, it Is yet their interest TO do what
they may TO assist the enlightened king Of
Belgium in carrying into effect his great
project. The time may again come when
this country will take It's proper rank
among maratime nations.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1884-02-06

At II recent temperance meeting a
thrifty old lady observed that she knew
something about the evils of rum. 81
have buried three husbands and all were
hard drinkers. But am glad to say" "
she continued, "that didn't fight with
them. AS soon rs | found they would
drink / got them to ensure their lives
heavily and let them go ahead. Ah, me +!
every one of them died from the effects OF
linn1r. but thanks to kind providence
each death netted me clear SlO,OOO.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1884-02-06
TERMS FOR ADVERTISING.

For one square Of 10 lines loss OF Agate type uns
INSERTION 1lO; for each subsequent insertion, Is cts
Unless the number Of insertions are marked on the
advertisements 1t will be continued until ordered cut
Liberal discount made to merchants Gnd others advsr
tiIinH by the year.
Probate and mssioners' Notices, S2CI
For Notices of Liberation, Estrays, the Formation
and Dissolution of CoDartnerships 5 each for
three Insertions Ii sent by mail the money must 40
company the letter
Notices In columns 10 cents per line each nser
tion. but no charges made OF less than bOcents.
Notices of Deaths and Marriages inserted graiR, but
extended Obituary Notices Of Poetry will be cha RSd
n the rate of centa ner line.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1884-02-06

The autf critics of Beloit college, Wis.
have agreed TO undertake the education
and industrial training of twenty Indian
youths at their institution.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-11-29

DromOntory of Washington Terrific
ry the other end would pass Kansas
City, with enough miles to spare to
reach Sedalia.
This has only to do with the ballots
actually voted. The number of bal
lots printed, of course, is tremen-
diously larger than the amount voted.
In st. Louis, for instance. the Demo
Gratis having had 100000, the other
parties in all 100000 making for this
one town total OF 100000. 1t is
generally admitted, however, that
the vote of st. Louis will not at the
outside, make more than $4,000.
Here, then, is surplus Oftwenty-six
ballots for each one cast. This makes
the total of ballots offered to the peO-
pie throughout America at this cleo
ton 260,OO0,OO0. 1t would require
eighty-five freight cars to move this
load of paper, whose weight is 1,7l6,
600 pounds. The white paper and
printing this mass has cost 1924, 900.
Pasted end to end there would be pa.
per enough to go entirely around the
gle be, leaving $4,000 miles to spare
for gigantic double bow-not, which
would cover the greater part of the
two Americas, or if one preferring to
keep the string in the United States
there would be miles enough to wrap
the streamer thirty-ninet times around
the State of Missouri, and still leave
enough oyer to reach from the Post.
Dispatch building to Governor Cleve-
lands private Office in the State
house in Albany,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-11-29
Many Tons of Ballots.

st. Louis Post Dispatch. Nov, 4th.
Here are facts and figures not usu-
ally appended to election returns.
The history of past elections teaches
that this vote of the nation advances
from President to President by steps
measured III numbers by 10 per cent.
The total vote of 1868 was 1924 .654 ;
of 1872, was 6 49, sos; of 1876, was &,
4l2 1913 of 1880, was 9,2l0,970. Add
10 per cent to this last total and the
estimate for the vote going into bal
lot boxes to-day will be 1892, 067. an
approximation borne out 10y other
calculations, and which will he found
not far out of the result, A ballot is
piece of paper averag ny four inches
wide and 10i long. One hundred
and fifty ballots will weigh a pound.
Two hundred and fifty ballots laid on
each other will measure about an
inch. To prepare these bits of paper
at a reasonable profit costs ninety
cents thousand. If the ballots cast
to-day were placed end to end they
would reach in a continuous line from
Washington, ID. c., to Ell Paso, in
Texas, or they would stretch from
Eastport, Maine to New Orleans, as
the crow flies. If one end Of the long
line of paper were made fast at Cape
Flattery, the extreme north western
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-11-29
AN EXTRAORDINARY OFFER
To all Wanting Employment.

We want live, Energetic and Cap
able Agents in every county in the
United States and Canada, to sell
patent article of great merit, ON ITS
MERITS. An article having large
sale, paying over 100 per cent. profit,
having no competition, and on which
the agent is protected in the exclu-
sive sale by deed given for each and
every county he may secure from US.
With all these advantages to our
agents, and the fact that it is an ar
ticle that can be sold to every house.
owner, it might not be necessary to
make an EXTRAORDINARY OFFER"
to secure good agents at once, but we
have concluded to make it to show,
not only our confidence in the merits
of our invention, but in its stability
by any agent that will handle it with
energy, Our agents now at work are
making from $3.50 to 5000 a month
clear. and this fact makes it safe for
us to make our offer to all who are
out of employment. Any agent that
will give our business a thirty days
trial and fail to clear at least 500 in
this time, ABOVE ALL EXPENSES can
return all goods unsNld to US and we
will refund the money paid for them.
Any agent or General Agent who
would like ten or more counties and
work them through sub agents for
ninety days, and fail to clear at least
$3.50 ABOVE ALL EXPENSES, can re-
turn all unsoId and get their money
back. No other employment of ag
ents eyer dared to make such offers,
nor would we if we did not know
that we have agents now making
more than double the amount we
guaranteed, and but two sales day
would give profit of over S125 a
month, and that one of our agents
took eighteen orders in one day. Our
large descriptive circulars explain our
offer fully, and these we wish to send
to every one out of employment who
will send us three one cent stamps for
postage. Send at once and securethe
agency IN time for the boom, ana 90
to WORK on the terms named in our
extraordinary offer. We would like
to have the address of all the agents,
sowing machine solicitors and carpen-
ters in the country, and ask any
reader of this paper who reads this
offer, to send us at once the name and
address of all such they know. Adj
dress at once, or you will loose the
hest chance ever offered to those out
of employment to make money.
RENNER MANUFACTURING Co.,
1l6 Smithfield ST., Pittsburg, Pa.
1884 ~.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-11-29
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
REAL ESTATE
FOR SALE.
NO. 1.
Military Lot No. 2f9,

lying near Chisholm's Mill, in Ryans Glade
Garrett county. Well timbered and under,
laid with coal. Unimproved. Will be sold
cheap.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-11-29
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
ESTRAYS

EROM MY DROVE NEAR CLARYSVILLE.
Il about OctoberS, FIVE STEERS, one bran
ded ID. b. on horn; some of others O on hip.
~ reward and the expenses will he paid for
information OF their whereabouts.
Address
DANIEL BEEGHLEY.
Care DAILY NEWS,
ii ~ 81 Cumberland, Md.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-11-29
NO. 2.
Military Lots Nos. 1905 & 23O7.

UnimprOved timber lots, lying near Grants.
vile, part of the estate of the late Holmes
Wiley.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-11-29
House and Lot
g..

On Oak street. Oakland, Md, comfortable
dwelling Well of good wateran convenient
outbuildings. Will sell at bargain.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-11-29
NO. 4.
The Woodland Farm. !"

situated on the road leading from Oakland to
Accident, two miles from Oakland contain
lug ~ acres, well fenced and cultivated Inn
proved by large first-clasS mansion house
suitable for a summer resort. The farm would
suit for tirst-class mark ct garden or general
farming.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-11-29
PROCLAMATION.



WHEREAS, By an act to the General As
sembly of Maryland, passed at its January
Session. A ID. 1884, entitled IAN Act to enable
the qualified voters of Garrett county to de-
termine by ballot whether Intoxicating Iiq-
uors or Alcoholic Bitters shall be sold in said
Garrett county"
And Whereas in accordance with said Act
said question was submitted to the qualified
voters of said Garrett county, at an election
held in SAID Garrett county on the fourth day
of November, A. ID. 1884.
And whereas, the presiding judges of cleo
ton of the several election Districts in said
Garrett county did on the Sixth day of No
vember, a, ID. 1884 meet at Oakland, the usual
place of holding the Circuit Court for said
Garrett county, and make return of the votes
cast at said election on said question, to the
undersigned.
Now, therefore, in obedience to the require
ment of said act. and the returns made by
said presiding Judges ! do certify and pro-
claim, that in Election District Number Two
Of said Garrett county, there Is q majority of
Twenty-nine votes against the sale of Intoxi-
eating Liquors or Alcoholic Bitters, and that
in Election District Number Six of said Gar
rett county, there is a majority of Five votes
against the sale of Intoxicating Liquors or
Alcoholic Bitters, and that in Election Dis
trict Number Seven of said Garrett county,
there is IA majority of Forty-four votes against
the sale of Intoxicating Liquors or Alcoholic
Bitters, and that in Election District Number
Eight of said Garrett county, there is a ma
jority ofSeVenty-five votes against the sale of
Intoxicating Liquors or Alcoholic Bitters, and
that in Election District Number Ten of said
Garrett county, there is a majority of Sixteen
votes against the sale of intoxicating Liquors
or Alcoholic BitterS.
do further certify, declare, and proclaim
that in said Election Districts numbers Two,
six, Seven, Eight and Ten, in said Garrett
county, State aforesaid, that on or after the
First day of May, in the year eighteen hun
dred and eighty-five, IL shall not he lawful for
any person or persons, house, corporation,
company or association. to sell directly or in
directly at any place. or to give away at his,
her, their or its place of business any spirit
uous, fermented or intoxicating liquors of
whatever origin, or alcoholic bitters, nor shall
any license be issued or granted for the sale
of the same therein.
Given under my hand this 10th day of No
vember, A. ID. 1884, at Oakland, Garrett coun-
ty, Maryland. .
w. II. TOWER,
IL l53t Clerk Circuit Court for Garrett Co
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-11-29
BLACKSMITHING.

am prepared to do all kinds Of blacksmith.
Ing. Farmers work speciality. Prices as
near Browning House."
uA DAVID LITTLE,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-11-29

death resulted. Claims reopeI ed, restoration.
increases, bounty, back pay and discharges
obtained; Apply at once, delay prejudices
with stamp, the old established firm of ED
SON d Co, Attorneys and Claim Agents, Oh
T. St., Washington, ID. G.,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-11-29
SEALED PROPOSALS.

OFFICE OF THE
GARRETT COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
OAKLAND, Md, Nov. 18th, 1884.
Sealed proposals VIII be received by the
County Commissioners of Garrett county,
until ~
Monday. January 9Th, 1885,
at O'Clock p. NJ. for the erection of two stone
abutments on the Youghiogheny, at a point
known as the Red Bridge
Spec hcatiOnS for said abutments can be
seen at the office of the County Commission
ers.
By order
G. w. MERRILL,
III " 1T Clerk.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-11-29
NO. 3.
An ELEGANT New Residence

on Oak street, Oakland, Md, containing 8
rooms. Large lot improved by stable, car
riage house, ice house, &c. Well of good water,
Terms easy. Price, S2200.00.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-11-29
FOR SALE.
House and Lot in Oakland.

My house and lot on Oak Street, In the
town ofOakland is offered at private sale
The lot Is ene-fourth acre, well situated on the
corner of Oak and First Streets. The improve
ments are comfortable dwelling house of
SIX rooms, well of good water. and conven-
lent out buildings. VIII sell at q bargain,
Call on or address
w. M. WAGNER.
Oakland, Md.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-03-27
Time to Salt Pork.

1t has been my practice for TWEEN
ty-fve years to cut up and salt
my hogs as fast as they were killed.
L never have but one hog on the
pole at a time, and two gambrels
have served me many years. My
way was so unusual that it took
from ten to fifteen years for old lar
mers to believe in it; young farmers
learned in one year. Pork salted
as fast as killed readily takes salt,
draw sout blood and heat in very
few hours, and if the weather is
cold will take enough to save it,and
if well salted it hardly ever freezes.
[ re-salt and pack in three or four
days, keep in salt 81 days, wash
the joints in boiling water, pepper
with ground black pepper, and
hang up to smoke. The fly don't
care to meddle with peppered meat
have never lost a joint. l use
cobs and green hickory to smoke
with, and when the meat has the
color of old gold quit.
have known many persons to
let hogs hang out all night and
freeze too hard to cut up, and as a
consequence much spoiled meat Is
the result of such old fogy notions.
Cut up and salt while warm, do not
bulk it, and no fear of spoil meat;
on re-salting,. bulk up well, and do
not be too saving of salt, it is
cheaper than meat. It is the al
most universal practice as far
far as my practice Of saltlng meat
is known, to salt while warm
Swine Breeders Journal.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-03-27
Tobacco and Blindness.

Whatever the race may have been
once, it is now physiologically i'm
perfect. The diseases, ailments
and morbid tendencies of men of
the present day are the accumula-
ted results of the bad hygienic in
fuences that have flowed in upon
the race in all past time. Each
human being is now born with one
or more weak points, at which he is
most likely to break down, and
hence is differently affected by the
same exposure.
Now, it is not often that a man
knows what his weak points are,
and therefore it Dehooves him to
observe, as far as possible, every
law of hygiene, and not allow him
selfto tamper with agents of possi-
BILE harm, because thousands of 9th
er men have apparently used these
agents with impunity.
AS t to these thousands who
have apparently escaped injury, the
ease is not by any means closed
with them, and as for the man who
is tempted to do as they have
done, the harmful agent may make
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-03-27
Silent Tnfuance.

1t is the bubbling spring that
flows gently-the little rivulet
which runs along, day and night,
by the farm house, that is useful
rather than the swelling flood or
warning cataract. Niagara excites
our wonder and we stand amazed at
the power and greatness of God
there, as he poured it from the hol-
low of his hand. But one Niagara
is enough for the continent or the
world, while the same world re-
quires thousands and tens of thou
sands of silver fountains, gently
flowing rivulets, that water every
garden and that shall flow every
day and night with gentle quiet
beauty. So with the acts of our
lives. 1t is not by great deeds like
those of the martyrs, that good is
only to be done; it is by the daily
and quiet virtues of life-the Chris
tian temper, the meek forbearance.
the spirit of forgiveness, in the hus-
band, the wife, the mother, the
brother, the sister, the friend, the
that it is to be done.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-03-27
The Best KNOWLEDGE.

The knowledge which we crave
and work for, which we look for
and find, which we think out or dig
out for ourselves, which we Iejoice
in as a newly found treasure-that
is the knowledge, be it small or
great, that is worth having. 1t is
like the food tor which we hunger,
it gives US fresh power and fuller
life. 1t matters far less even what
this knowledge is than the way in
which it was gained.
The most systematic and we'll
prepared course of study, worried
through by student whose only
care is that he may get his diplo-
ma, is of far less value to him or to
the world than the vital thought of
the mechanic, who, anxious to master
the secrets of his trade, patiently
studies its details, discovers its
principles, and infuses into it his
own fresh and living force; perhaps
in the form of some new invention,
or perhaps in a more skillful touch
or a more delicate finish than it
has yet received.
knowledge, like the blood, is on
ly healthy while in brisk circula-
tion. Its work is to supply the
veins and arteries of our mental
life, thus continually being trans
formed into new thought and fresh
activity. 1t should feed our whole
lives, making them richer, happier,
more powerful, more valuable. The
knowledge that does this has at
tanned its object, whether it be the
highest culture of the schools, or
the practical business of the Office
or the factory; whether it be the
latest results of scientific research,
or the faithful observation of a SIN
gle flower; whether it be the knowl-
edge of human nature that enables
a general to conduct a campaign, or
that which helps a gentle woman to
maintain harmony in herSfamily.
/. At the best no one can know
much. Compared with the infinite
realms above and beyond US to be
yet discovered, the knowledge of
the most learned man covers but a
tiny spot, and what fraction of such
a spot ours may cover is but a
small matter. But it does matter
to ourselves and to all around us
the use we shall make of what we
do possess; whether we shall carry
it around for exhibition, or wheth-
er we shall convert it into a living
force, to elevate our own natures
and to bless and help mankind
Phil. Ledger.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-03-27

for his weakest point with all the
certainty of fate. Who would be
foolish enough to use tobacco if he
knew that in time blindness would
be the result? But see what Prof
Reynolds said in address to class
of medical graduates:
"It is a well-known fact that to-
bacco poisons the nerve-centers of
majority of the male members
of the human family. Careful in
vestigation has led to the discovery
that Smoking produces the So
called amblyopia-dimness of Wis
ion. This form of amblyopia is
precisely identical, in all respects.
with that produced by the exces-
sive use of alcohol. Both are in
I know a number of per-
sons here Tin Louisville) who are
practically blind from an excessive
use of tobacco. o."-Youth's Com.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-03-27

Whether the United States are to re-
gain their former pre-eminent rank as
a commercial and naval power on the
seas, is a question that no American
can contemplate with Indifference.
The subject is discussed with marked
ability in the North American Review
for April, by the Hon, Nelson Dingley,
NJ. c., who opposes the project of ad-
mltting foreign built ships to Ameri-
can register, and by Capt. John Cod
man, who is well known as a Jealous
advocate of that measure. Judge J. A.
Jameson, in the same number OF the
Review, discusses the question, "Shall
Our Civilization be Preserved point
ing out the means that are at hand for
withstanding the various agencies, ply
sicai, moral and intellectual, which
threaten to overturn oar existing civil
and social institutions. The Rev. DIR.
Phillip Scha1f gives a sketch of the
"Developement of Religious Freedom" :"
DIR. Felix l.. Oswald writes of
"Change5 of Climate of North Ameri-
can," with special reference to the in
creasing frequency OF disastrous floods.
Prot. Q. A. Eggert offers ga Plea for
Modern Languages" in the higher edu-
cation; and Julian Hawthorne dis
courses Of Literature for Children"
Finally, there is discussion of"Re-
cent Criticisms of the Bible" by the
Rev. r Heber Newton and Rev. a. G..
Mortimer