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Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1886-04-09
Fortunes Made in Old COrks.

'eYou wouldn't think a man coulu
make fortune selling old corks and Dot
ties, would youl Well, know man
who bought out a coffin shop twenty-five
years ago and began to deal in old corNs'
Eight years ago he went into the old DOT
tie business, and he is now rich man.
The policeman who said this took the
writer down Mulberry street, and lew
blocks below Bleecker stopped before
rickety old building, in front Of when
stood several barrels filled with bottles oil
all sizes. There were bottles emptied oi
Vino Vermouth, Piper Sec and Rhine
wine, of Bass ale, claret and stomach
bitters. Inside the shop were seen the
necks Of a thousand bottles, pointed
toward the door like little howitzers.
They were piled up and boxed up and
were in rows on the floor. From the rool
hung dingy dcmijohns, covered with
cobwebs, and in the center of the room
was barrel of old champagne corks.
GLOW many corks have you sold TO-
day, Hugh2' asked tho policeman.
Eight barrels AA
GLOW many bottles"
"Seventy five gross. You see we never
take the labels off, and never wash the
bottles. The men who buy wine bottles
want the labels as well as the bottles
sometimes want the labels much more
than the bottles; but we do not deal in
labels. When a junkman comes in with
a load of bottles he may have twenty
different kinds. We sort them. When
we get a gross of a certain kind we know
where to sell them A gross of quart
champagne bottles fetches $4. SO; pints,
$2.25. Claret bottles sell for So. 70 per
gross, and so do soda water bottles.
Bass ale is worth S2.25 but for Rhine
wine bottles we get SO per gross. ''Tom'
gins and stomach bitters 30 at $4; porter
and Vino Vermouth at 81. %. Apollina-
ris, quarts, we sell for s. per gross, and
pints at So 2j. A gallon demijohn is
only worth 20 cents, but larger beer bot
ties with the patent shoppers bring IS
per gross. Root beer bottles sell for So,
while ginger ales only fetch $3.50. We
sell Hathorn, Congress and Geyser bot
ties back to the mineral spring men in
Saratoga for 80 cents per dozen. Most
of the small bottles are bought by catsup
and table sauce makers. We don't buy
medicine bottles. We sell very little
stock to medicine men.
'You know champagne cork has q
sound head and is turned from the bark.
1t is not cut out as straight corks arc
made. When it pops from the bottle the
head is cut up by the string and the corf
looks like a mushroom we pur -.
all in big Kettle Of boiling watef md
swell them. Then they're as good as
new. Ordinary sound corks sell for
twenty-five cents per gross, but corks
from champagne bottles, made with more
labor, bring $3.50 We have handled
enough corks in the past twenty-five
years to float the Great Eastern. "-Ne0
YORK. Sun.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1886-04-09

Recent stati.tics compiled by the Reg
i.trar- General OF England show great diff
fcrenccs in the mortality rate among the
different trade, and professions. Clergy
men are apparently the longest lived
of all who have to earn a living. Then
come farmers and stock raiscrs, school
teachers and groccrs ia the order named.
Among the callings that exhibit high
rate oI mortality are physicians and sur
gcons. brewers, bakers and confcctioners,
plumbers painters and GLACIERS. Labor
crs and the poorest class of unskilled
workers show the highest rate of all, and
and in this class the miners lead, proving
that Of all vocations that of the coal, iron
or tin miner is the most destructive to
life and injurious to health.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1886-04-09
He Knew What He Was About.

Brown say, Smith, what's the az
traction up this wayl | see you passing
quite frequently.
Smith-Yes, six nights in the week.
and twice on Sunday. There's lady IN
the case, old man.
Brown-Ah, ha! I see. But SIX nlgh''
in the week and twice on Sunday Is
rather thick, isn't it9 found that twice
a week was
smith-Yes, but you married a young
lady. I'm courting widow | Know
what I'm about, old man, -Ne@ i"'
Sun,
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1886-04-09
Goats as Animnl nnetors

II IS curious fact that, prejudiced as
We seem to be against the useful GOAT in
Spi'e o. all its really admirable proner-
'ieS' It has been from very early times
popular in this country, on account of a
virtue VIII, which is purely fictitious and fan
I tiu' Antiquity has bcqueathed to us
'iie legend that goats were exceptionally
"iSe IN the matter of wholesome herbs
'.la' 'ney were, in fact, the herbalists
11'Oas quadrupeds and "cunning in sim
M p,'o' Out Of this grew the idea that
- were virtually physicians, that their
ta P.e'snce among domestic animals was
ny u'ial' and that their odor, though
b Sapieasant to man, was wholesome to
varS COWS, pigs, sheep, and the farm
-, N generally. For this reason one sin
ma. r. ga, was often kept, and farmyards
..N sun be found where Betty" or
..; Asany' lives at its ease, and is main
In !; not ior any real use it is put to,
ipo, NViefenee, perhaps quite unknow
- IT, y an almost obsolete superstition.
-'0"o0" Telegraph.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1886-04-09

Locomotives in the Prussian service
used for switching purposes are to be
provided with fire cxtingrishing appa-
ratus bv which they can ni"cdiate!y be
converted into iIc engines.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1886-04-09
Killing n Giraffe.

The noble animal stood at bay paving
and stamping the ground, his long neck
swaying to and fro; several more shots
were fred at him, causing him to strike
desperately with his fore feet blow
which would knock a horse down. Dis
mounting, ran to get nearer view.
There was despair in his large dropping
brown eyes, and look which seemed to
say, "What harm have ever done you"
1t seemed a shame that no one gave him
coup de grace, and put him out of his
agony. Turning to one of the men said,
"Shoot him in the head, and put an end
to his pain But he answered me by
grasping my arm and pulling me to one
side, shouting, Look out, or he will be
on YOU" Looking up | saw the cra7f
ereafilre. ,s..-ss.; .ssss laosrsas
a ~ r,nney saved bs bnyIro ~
ong neck putting NJ M nliffd { H.
as it fairly whirled throua,loi7
the ar, forming wide circles as he madT
desperate plungcs to keep his body un-
Ter his neck; pitching forward, he fell on
lis head and shoulders, and rolled over
with thud that shook the ground. He
vas a ''zwart bont7 black-spottcd, the
'ariety usually seen in geological collec-
ions; the white-spotted ones are LONGER
md finer made, and have never been
'rought to Europe, and are never so
leavy). He measured from the root of
he tail to the shoulder feet inch and
rom the shoulder to the tip of the nose
0 feet : 10 inchcs.-Loadoa G5oDajc.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1886-04-09
AYERS
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It checks falling of the hair, and stimu-
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!. II Is estimated that so, 900 conversa-
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1o'A every twenty-four hours. For each
A''ssage there must be at least five 'hel-
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Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1886-04-09

WV 80 - H'tt'tNA VI kRAtoAANA lHltIBSL
to breeders Of goats, as an Angora buck
cost S10O Or over, while the common
goat can be had almost for the asking.
The fccundity of the Angora is not so
great as that of the common GOAT the
Angora eve giving birth to but one kid
yearly.
As source of profit the goats have
turned out well. The wool is from four
to SIX inches in length, silky, and of
beautiful texture. A full grown animal
will yield four pounds of wool, which
will readily sell at 81 per pound. Just
now the demand for this wool is not nar-
ticuIarly lively, as the lustrous dress of
fabric into which it was at one time
largely converted is out of vogue with
fashionable ladies. 1t is therefore used
almost exclusively in the manufacture of
plush for upholstery purposes. When
the KID is 6 months old its hide. IN
dressed, IS worth SO, and will sell rcadi-
y Tor that amount to glove manufactur-
ers. Kids on the farm IN question meet
with sudden death on that account At
about that age with considerable REGULAR
ity When it is necessary to kill them
the good lady has them chloroformcd co
that she may not hear the death cries Of
mgr little pets The milk of the goat is
mucil sought after by dyspcptics, by per
sons suffering from pulmonary troubles
ana oy otherwise delicate persons, and it !
brings much greater price than cows
nilN' AS to their use for food little can
De si'ld, because the goat does not flesh
lp wen, but the kid, when killed vopno
FINISHES fair amount of tender meat
Nn'cn some people like. 1t will never |
'ecolle great dclicacy in the market or
'e IN sufficient demand to become =
ource Of income to the goat raiser.
mere Is nothing in the world SO cbean 70
alse as goats, because they will find am
" lood In lots up here where other ami
i''' would starve to death. Acorns are
's'0fl'e article of food with them, and
;. : ''iese abound In the woods the cost for
' inter fodder is mainly confined to the
'ouole Of gathering the acorns.
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A GOAT FARM.
A Woman's Venture which
has Proved Profitable.
Raising Angora Goats and Selling Their
Wool at One Dollar Pound.

A Nyack, (N. Y,,) letter to the New
York Times, says: Three miles from
this village, near the Hudson River is an
Angora goat farm, which from its novel
ty attracts much attention hereabout
1t is lookcdupon as something in fine ma
turc Of farmers freak. like the r,isino
of bees OF silkworms. Goats browse and
goats prosper on this farm on the heights
that border RockIaud Lake as readily AS
they do on the rocks about Shantytown
in New York City. But they are a differ
ent breed Of goats, more ari,tocratic than
their city relatives as to wool, more cpic-
urcan in their tastes, and more blue
blooded as to ancestry. The herd in
this somewhat novel farm Just now mum.
bers IS, varying in age from the tiny OBJ
ject Of three months which looks like a
cross between a dog, rabbit, and a
lady's powder puff. to the handsome pa-
triarch OF the flock, magnificent spcci-
men OF the pure Angora breed, with inn
mcnse curling horns. This handsome old
fellow with his wife were imported by
DR.. Agnew, the famous oculist Of New
York, from Asia Minor and the impor-
tation cost him heap Of money as the
price of goats goes. Their present own
or is the good woman who now runs tn s
goat farm, and who never tires of dis
canting on the good qualities of her pets
They know her voice, and answer tc
their names when she calls them. Kind
and gentle they appear when visitors ar,
about, but the fondncss for fighting, al
characteristic Of goats as it is of nativ,
of Tipperary, crops out when the herd i
together and apparently out of sight o
mankind.
A strange fact noticed in the breedinj
of these animals is that the females d,
not thrive in this locality as well as til
male. The hardy female goat Of the or
dinary species was introduced into thi
flock for experimental breeding purpose,
and with marked success. Repcate
crossing with the common goat and he
offspring has produced apparently pun
/
Angora goats, the tendency being in a
cases Tor the kids to revert in the textul
Of theif,w toward the male side. 4
a conseh huence the third generation HI
all the appearance Of its distinguished a
cestry. land in the fourth generation eve
l -. la exrerfs cannat tell the pu
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remedy has been discovered. In this country it is
new 1t has, however, been in successful use for
many years in Europe, and it Isl fact that the
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-30
TO LABOR UNIONS!
The True Version of the Convon-
tiDn i'm Tupnyerein Hall.


EDITOR HERALD: SIR-It has been some
what amusing to me- an outsider, to see the
amount of con troversy between the various
daily papers of this city as to the action
taken and its weight upon the Democratic
ticket, by the recent Labor Convention held
at Turnverein Hall. As one of the prime
movers in the calling OF that consultation
meeting, for such was its purpose, would
state that 1t was understood to be non-patti-
san, but previous to the date of gathering
the two old parties had held both their
State and County Conventions. And what
did they do? Why the Republicans met
and by an emphatic vote refused to nomi-
nate any candidate who either belonged to
or was IN sympathy with organized labor,
or in fact who.e name, according TO tew
one idea pative-born Americans, sounded
like that of man belonging to the labor
element. And this was done in the face OF
a decided effort on the part OF the friends
of labor to get recognition from them.
What did the Democrats doY Why they not
only listened to t. Q demands or organized
labor of Los Angeles C unity tor representa-
tion, but nominated six tried and true
mem bers of local labor societies for promi
nent positions OH their ticket. Now, in the
light of these facts, even with an assem-
blage composed of fully one half Repub l.
cans, what more could he expected than
the endorsement of the Democratic county
ticket, which was all they did, and that
right fully, too. / would ask our Republican
friends OF Los Angeles county If they would
enjoy "ta alton without representation"
sort OF doctrine they seem to hold good as
to organized labor in the midst which is
far larger body of respectable and intelli-
gent men than they are aware Of; and It is
also composed of y large number of native
Americans the WigginstonWilson party to
the contrary Notwithstanding The fact is
the Republican party is not the party ''of
the people, for the people," but it belongs
head and foot to the corporations, and
therefore does not want any unknown
quantity on its list of officers.
Now, ask, in view of these facts, is 1t
not just and equitable that all true friends
of labor in Los Angeles county should re-
turn the liberal recog gnition given to them
by the County Democracy. by going to the
polls on Tuesday next aud supporting the
straight Democratic ticket, and in SO doing
conviUce the enemies of labor that they are
not only solid but in earnest in all their de-
mands?
A NATIVE BORN UNIoNIsT.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-30
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Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-30

1 tried to induce ?. NJ. Darcy 70 ION me
IN a fioht on Hazard, but he said he did not
want to hurt the ticket by opposing Hazard,
and am sure he had not up to the publica-
tion of the Hazard article.
w. Respectfully yours,
ID. +. DoNEGAN.
EXTRACTION.
To the public: / wish to retract the state
mant I s,pned for II. Il. Hazard, since upon
refreshing my memory find 1t Is not true.
When he approached me / was in hurry
and had not time to think, but since have
look ed up the minutes OF the meeting and
And that there was M resolution passed to
paw ten per cent. or any other sum for col
iecting our claims against the l.. A. & S. G.
v. II. X. Co. A. McNALLY.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-30
The UDifference.D

The Electric Railway Homestead Associa-
tion proposes to give full values If yon get a
lot in their "South Side" tract entitled to an
eigh hundred dollar house. They will not
build one for five hundred and call II eight,
but if you desire TO build the house your.
self, they will pay the eight hundred dol
lars In cash. You can easily ascertain the
responsibility of the rs Ociation.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-30
Church Of the Unity.

Sunday evening, the 31st inst. at 73O, at
the opera house, sacred concert by six
teen thoroughly trained voices and the
Heine quartet. under the direction of Mrs.
Mamie Perry-Davis. Choruses from the
great oratorios. Brilliant solos and duets,
instrumental and vocal A very remark
able bass will appear for the first time In
SO cents; balcony. 25c.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-30
Articles of incorporation

Articles of incorporation were to-day
filed for the Edgemont Church of Christ,
Congregational. No capital is given. The
Directors are G s. Winters, Ed Huntly, v.
Huntly, s. p Rees, Elijah Cash. The prin'
eipal place OF business of the corporation Is
Edgemont; Los Angeles Co, Cal.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-30

The Childress Safe Deposit nix offers to
the public positive security and safety
against fire and burglars. as inspection
which is cordially invited, will convince
even the most skeptical. Rates for safes
ranging from SO to $40 per annum.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-30
Have ssscen Them Ail.,,

Said a shrewd buyer, and the South Side
lots of the ectric Railway Homestead AS
ISOLATION is the only place l would invest.
The location is so lovely and inviting.
Those lots will sell rapidly when low lots
are drug on the market.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-30
For sale.

One hundred horsepower engine. nearly
new. Has only been run three months, and
is guaranteed perfect in all part. Original
cost, $3.50. For price aud further particu-
lars call on WALTER s. MAXWELL,
10 Court street.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-30
Call at Omr office

And see the style of house the Electric Rail-
way Homestead Association propose to
build for $500. 1t is equal to scme with
represented value of more than double that
amount. We will give full values.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-30

Contracts have been let during the past
eli hit days for FIVE elegant residences in the
charming Ellis Tract all to he completed and
ready for occupancy before February first,
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-30

LOughecd Tract. Free Carriage.
Two p. M. See Chas. Victor Hall, 10% s.
Spring street. before you buy.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-30
DIR. w. DAWSON.

In another cOlHmn appears the announce
ment of DR.. VIM. Dawson. the magnetic
healer, whose cures during the past year
have attracted so much attention. The doc.
tor will reside permanently in this city aud
the sick will do well to see him.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-30
NEW FURNITURE CO.
Buy Direct from the Manufacturers
Agency and Save Money.

we 0her 70 the public OF Los Angeles and
surrounding country, at
Manufacturers Prices with
Freight Added,
complete line of Furniture, con- prising
Parlor Suits, Chamber Suits, Dining Room
Office and Library Furniture, all of the
latest designs and best possible workman
ship. For the coming week we call especial
attention to u line of Parlor Suits of seven
nut frames, highly finished, which we will
sell at the low price of FORTY DOLLARS
a suit. Our goods will stand the test of COM
parison with those of ony other Furniture
House In the city and we can convince pur.
chasers that they can save from TWENTY-FIVE
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WAREHOUSE -Ssating Rink Building.
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sep12
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-30
Attention, Democrats.

Examine the Great Register at once
and see if your names are in that publi-
cation, or you may lose your vote next
Tuesday.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-30
Cigars, Cigars

Buy your cigars from Barnett 4 Co.. the
only exclusive wholesale cigar and tobacco
house In Southern California. Corner Of
Los Angeles and Commercial Streets
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-30
800 Advance.

All lots in the Ellis Tract remaining un.
sold af er November sth will be advanced
one hundred dollars each, owing TO the
additional improvements contracted for.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-30
A Eiye.UcnfEare

will take you to the lots of the Electric
Railway Homestead Associations South
Side tract. What other "outside" tract can
guarantee five-cent fare? Think of this.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-30

Attention, Democrats.
Examine the Great Register at once
and see if your names ore in that publ.
cation, or you may lose your vote next
Tu asday
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-30

LOugh heed Tract. Free Carriage
Two p M See Chas. Victor Hall, 10la s
Spring street, before lou buy.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-30

Ten qrarter Unbleached Sheeting will be
sold Wednesday, Nov. Sd, at lie. per yard.
Extra heavy and worth 22}3c. 1000 yards at
l7c. per yard.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-30
Railroad Ticket Chea'
improvements,

For sale, first-class ticket to San Fran
,isco Enquire at 81 North Spring street.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-30
100 DOZEN
1000 YARDS

LADIES' MERINO VESTS AT 35c. EACH.
This Vest Is a four thread superfne quality
and worth 6Oc. 100 dozen at 35c. each