Rural .New-Yorker 
NEWS DEPAHTMnKTT. 
NEW V0&K AND Hill'll ESTER: 
SATURIJA-S-, 2, 1009. 
DOMESTIC NEWS. 
New York. 
Bonneh’s famous “Auburn horse” died of 
spasmodic colic on the Itilli oil. At one time 
“Auburn" was considered the fastest horse in 
the country. His loss is the liixf break which 
death has made in Air. li's stud of valuable 
horses. 
\ ladies’ museum of anatomy is to lx> estab¬ 
lished in New York. 
Fifteen homicides occurred in New York 
(luring the last three months of the year. 
Planchktte is said to be going out of fashion 
faster than it came in. 
Good food, to the amount of 500,000 pounds a 
jehr, is wasted in New York by being- thrown 
away as offal. 
TrtE sleety streets on Sunday, l)cc. SO, caused 
quite a number of severe accidents 1 !!! New York 
and vicinity—some of them fatal. 
-Mark Klein, a German boy of 18, committed 
suicide, on account of “disappointed Jove," in 
New York, Deo. 21. 
PnoF. D. W. Fiske, of Cornell University, has 
just returned from Ids European trip. Ilis 
prolessorshlp of North European languages 
embracing German, Icelandic, Swedish, and 
Danish.— is the first special provision for the 
study oi I ho Scandinavian tongues which has 
been made by an American institution. 
K. U. Stoddard has retired from (lie Literary 
Editorship of the New York Albion, which thus 
loses one of the ablest members of it s corps. 
L. C. Strum an lms become the literary editor 
of Putnam's Magazine. 
•fits. Morrell, Mrs. Vanning and Mrs. Thul- 
jirimer wet<; recently unanimously chosen first, 
deaconesses of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, 
Beecher advocating their election on the 
grounds of utility and early precedent in 
Apostolic days. 
The Tobacco Goiters of New York and New 
Jersey are petitioning Congress against the ex¬ 
tension of time beyond January, l, 1800, for the 
selling ol fine cut smoking and cliowing, shorts 
and snuff, without, compliance with the law of 
July 1888, in relation to each package having 
the required stamps. 
John Lothhop Motley, the historian, was 
chosen President or tlio “Academy ui Letters 
and Fine Arts,” of' New York, on the 8th olt. 
This Academy is k part of the “National in li- 
tuteof Arts and Sciences,” recently Organized. 
THE last surviving soldier of the UovoJufioii- 
ar.\ war is now laying in New York State and 
receive? his pension ; while I here are! 00 Jiovoiu- 
tionary widows who slid survive to receive 
thc-irs. 
Fifty thousand eggs of the Lake Ontario 
white-fish have Just lieen planted in tin- clear 
and beautiful Ixike Onotij, at. Pittsfield, Alas;; 
At a recent, fashionable wedding at Albany, 
N. V„ the bride's father's gift was valued at oho 
hundred thousand dollars. 
The Albany Argus says: - “The Renos and 
tlieir fellow-vlclitns belonged to a gang tlmt 
robbed express companies without being direct- 
ors. If they had been directors, theirs would 
have been a capital opportunity; as itwaa, it 
became a capital offence." 
John Humphrey, of Binghamton, N. Y., and 
the late Hon. James Humphrey, of Brooklyn, 
were her children, while one daughter married 
Rev. Mr, TORSEV, of Delhi, N. Y. 
One of the most wealthy and cultivated ladies 
in Boston, recent ly saw a man working a horse 
with a large, bleeding wound on his buck; order¬ 
ing her coachman to follow the driver and learn 
his name, slic herself took the witness* stand at 
Hie municipal court and caused the offender to 
be lined £30. 
On the 18th ult. a second attempt was made to 
burn the Harris Street Presbyterian Church at 
Ncwburyport, Mao. 
Mas. Park of Boston, on Saturday, Dec. 12, 
gave a stout overcoat and a pair of rubbers to 
each of the twenty-four members of the Sol¬ 
diers’ Messenger Corps. 
James Alt.\' 0 !J>, who recently died at New 
Bedford, Abe-;., leaving ? 1,500,000 worth of prop¬ 
erty, commits to lour trustees £90,000 for ihe 
poor Of that town, and to thtee trustees In Bos¬ 
ton $80,000 for the promotion of agriculture and 
horticulture, “or other philosophical and phil¬ 
anthropic purposes.” 
The paper upon which our postage stamps im¬ 
printed is made by the Owen’s, at Housatoiiic, 
Mass. 
The James .Mill at; Newbury port. Mass., is to 
be refitted with £125,000 worth of new machinery. 
<’nio “Old South Church," nt Boston, owns 
.fdOO.OdO worth of property in addition to Its 
church edifice. 
This pet bear on Boston Common on Sunday 
morning, Dec. 13, breakfasted upon one of the 
deer, which will cause him to be confined 
hereafter. 
At the recent municipal election in Worcester, 
Mies., the republicans nominated t wo women on 
tlio school committee and elected them by a 
handsome majority. 
Several fine specimens of t he Pine Grossbeak 
have recently been secured in central Massachu- 
Selis, probably driven from Labrador by the 
intense cold. 
Connecticut. 
A Connecticut liquor dealer is reported to 
have died recently ol‘ grief at the seizure of Ids 
stock by tlie town authorities. 
In proportion to its population, Danbury, Gt., 
takes more papers Ilian any other town in the 
Shite. 
Mew .Versey. 
Henry M. Flint, the well known World cor- 
respondunt “ Druid,” who died at Camden. N. J„ 
on the 12th ult., was the author of a “ Life oi 
Stephen A. Douglas,” a work entitled “ Mexico 
Under Maximilian," and “The History and Sta- 
11stic*; of the Railroad;; in the United Stoics,“ 
rceontly published. The article in fid number 
of the Rural entitled “ llr.mUtuj for Funner*' 
Soli*," was from Mr. Flint and one of his last 
productions. 
Pennsylvania. 
A. S. Aruh.vmiiauut, steam yacht builder ini 
Bhiiadelpliia, and once a major in Napoleon i.'s 
army, celebrated ids golden wedding a few 
days ago. 
The Iron Manufacturers of Pittsburgh are 
vci-y much interested in anew process of making 
iron without puddling. 
Tin: Bellefii-id l’resbyteiiun Chureb at Pitts- 
Lurgli, Pa., war. burned on the 20th ult. 
8. 8. White, the well known manufacturer of 
£50. It is signed by Salmon V. Chase— No. 1 
Letter A. 
Secretary McCulloch has ordered Collector 
Fuller, of New Orleans, not to seize the Peru¬ 
vian transport Havana. 
The Port Snellinjr, Minn., commissary house 
was burned on the 30th ult.; Joss $50,000. 
The Mormons are about starting a carriage 
factory at Salt Lake City, and have had one of 
their number at Concord, N. II., learning how to 
carry on the business. 
Gen. G. Evans, of South Carolina, who com¬ 
manded t he Southern forces at Bali's Bluff and 
was a graduate of West Point, died recently in 
Alabama. 
Osage Orange plants have been shipped from 
Iowa to Ireland for hedge purposes. 
The large farms of California are being rapidly 
divided and subdivided and more attention is 
paid to their cultivation than obtained on the 
large landed estates. 
The Union Pacific Railroad Company has 
completed that road flfnc hundred and xi.i ty miles 
west, from Omaha, and offer a limited amount of 
their First Mortgage Bonds at par, and accrued 
interest from July 1st, in currency. The road is 
pronounced first class by Government Commis¬ 
sioners; and upon that portion of the road in 
operation the business has been so large as to 
guarantee prompt payment, of all Interest liabil¬ 
ities of the company, The earning;; for the year 
ending June 30, 1868, upon an average distance 
of 472 miles, were more (ban £LOOO,OOQ ; while for 
the last live months (he receipts wore $2,386,870. 
-More than 400 miles of the Union Pacific road 
have been built this year, 000 are now in opera¬ 
tion, and the entire line to the Pacific coast will 
be completed early in the summer of I860. 
FOREIGN. 
England. 
Parliament has 
IUnlne, 
Weston expects lo make another attempt to 
accomplish a winter Journey of 500 miles in UK) 
consecutive days, from Bangor to ,8t. Paul and 
thence to New York. 
The York and American Hotels, with several 
oilier buildings were burned at Saco, Me., on the 
20th ult. 
An old fox at Meriden, Me., has killed eighty 
tin keys this season, and with Daniel Webster, 
“etlli lives." 
A stage running bet ween Itoekland and Bath, 
.Me., was tipped over Sunday night Dec. 13, and 
faking lire from the lamps was burned up. The 
passengers escaped, however. 
Homesick colored girls who had returned from 
Lewiston, Me., to Petersburg, have gone back, 
cone hiding that Maine Is, alter all, better than 
Dixie. 
New Hampsiiire. 
A ROCK maple fourteen feet nine inches in 
circumference, .100feet, high, and which had been 
tapped for Ukl years for sugar, was recently cut 
down at Concord, New Hampshire. 
R. Foster, of Hanover, N. H., who died a l'ow 
da) sago had ten sons. Sevan graduated at Dart- 
litoulii College; six became ministers, four law¬ 
yers, three wore officers of the Union army and 
two were killed in battle. 
Vermont. 
Tin: historic battle-town of Hubbard ton, Vt„ 
lias not a pauper w it bin its limits, and is entirely 
free from debt. 
ill uKsuehusettN. 
Richard H. Dana, Jr., has sued the Mayor and 
Aldermen of Gam bridge, Mass,, for striking his 
name from tlio election list, and lays Ills damages 
at five thousand dollars. 
At I lie recent, wedding,at Springfield, Mass., of 
the daughter of Gen. James Barnes n very 
splendid gift was received from George Pea¬ 
body, who is a relative of the bridegroom. 
Hon. James J). Blake was elected for the 
fourth time. Mayor of Worcester, Mas;., on the 
11th lilt, with only fourteen dissenting votes. 
1 rida\ night, the lltb ult., a tannery was 
burned at VV buffed, Gl., tlio light of which was 
seen at. Pittsfield, Maas., fifty miles off, while at 
Tyringlmm, thirty miles distant, the fire bells 
were rung. 
A i-ViR young Bostonian recently gave her 
lather, an old and respected merchant, a letter 
tin mail containing her acceptance of an offer of 
marriage. Papa curried Ir in his pocket- a week, 
much to the perplexity of the young lady and 
anguish of the impatient, lover. 
•Mrs. Sophia Humphrey, widow of the late 
ex-President Humphrey, of Amherst College, 
died at Pittsfield, Mass., on the 13th ult. Rev 
/. M. Humphrey, of Philadelphia, Kev. Ed¬ 
ward Humphrey, of Louisville, the late Rev. 
artificial teeth, ut Philadelphia, makes over two 
million.- of them mmuaJly. 
.Vi a meeting ol (heEpiscopalian clergymen 
oi Philadelphia, held on the Hth ult., to take 
aetion relative to the death of Rev. Mr. I'arvin, 
oneol' the victims or the Ohio river disaster, a 
memorial was adopted requesting Congress to 
prohibit the earr> big of petroleum as freight on 
steam vessels. 
Virginia, 
The anniversary of Washington's death was 
appropriately observed, on the Ulh ult., at 
Mount Vernon, Vn, 
In Eastern \ irginia there are large forest trees 
growing where corn and tobacco hills, made long 
ago, may lie seen. 
Iffnrylaiid. 
The Baltimore night police are to be 
with hot coffee durin >■ the cold weather, 
why not do it in New York? 
Toe celebrated Barbara. Freitchie flag is in 
possession of a Union officer in Maryland, it is 
ot silk, sixteen inches long, and was last dis¬ 
played in public in the Boys ill Blue procession 
in Phi lade) pitta, Oct. 2. 
.TJiKsourf, 
The lanious St. Louis artesian well has now 
reached a depth of nearly 3,500 feet and is keep¬ 
ing on gt throe feel per day. 
Thejqj jj<Vnf the St. Louisand Iron Mountain 
RailroSlFhashoen recently changed to five feet 
to eon form with the Southern railways with 
which it ootraectK, Unfortunately, that is the 
gauge of the Pacific Railroad, which should 
have been four feet, eight inches. 
Ihe St. Louis petition to < 'on,gross for female 
suffrage has over 2,000 Signatures. 
Ka itsas. 
served 
Good, 
I he college ut Topeka, Kansas, having re¬ 
ceived £25,000 from [ciiabod Washburn Of Wor¬ 
cester, Mass.. I;ik< s his name. 
Red snow tell along the Missouri river, twenty- 
five miles below Leavenworth, a few days since. 
Thj: Indians of the Plains are greatly aston¬ 
ished at t la- Pacific the Railroad. The Pintos call 
locomotive, “smoke wagonthe Shoshonees, 
heap wagon, no boss.” 
Illinois. 
The excavations for the foundation of the 
National Lincoln Monument, at Springfield, Ill,, 
were recently begun. 
The famous Ellsworth Zouaves, of Chicago, 
inaugurated their line new hall on the 17th ult., 
by a grand ball. 
The Illinois messenger was the first to reach 
Washington with the electoral vote of his State. 
lUisvelianeons, 
Minnesota has a school fuml of £2,081,000. 
The publisher of the Occident and Vanguard, 
a San Francisco paper destroyed by a mob three 
years ago, has just recovered $2,000 from the city. 
The Colorado antt-State men Hold a Conven¬ 
tion at Puebla «!i New Year’s day. 
8itua is said to have more bar-rooms than 
private houses, 
Gen. Sheridan bus not been defeated by the 
Indians. 
The new Parliament has seven Hebrew 
mem bers. 
Thirty military gentlemen were elected to 
tin- new Parliament, of whom twelve are Libe¬ 
rals and eighteen Conservatives. 
England and Germany are to have an inter¬ 
national money order system. 
The British man-of-war Nymph, has captured 
nine huge slave boats on the east coast of Africa, 
this season, 
Messiw. Gladstone, Bright, Lowe, and the 
other members of the Cabinet have been re¬ 
elected to Parliament-in accordance with Bug. 
lish usage. 
The London Times of the 21st ult., denounces 
President Johnson's repudiation proposition, 
mid approves t he action of Congress In its dis¬ 
posal of the document. 
The utter inability of the Great Powers to 
control the action of Greece has excited great 
distrust in London financial circles, and a gen¬ 
eral falling off of moneyed values is the conse¬ 
quence. 
The London “ Association for Improving the 
Dwellings of the Working uTtw*.*" intend eroet- 
ing a new lodging-hou.se in the parish of St. 
< i ilea. The President, the Marquis of St. George, 
has presented a large Jot in the rear of Bond 
si i-eet, and has hJsm given £30(1 to t he association. 
One of Hie t dijoc ttcfhs urged by the English 
snobs against praying for tlio President of the 
United States, in the English mid American 
church at Dresden, was. lb.it “ho was nominated 
every four yi-ur.s and they did not desire to pray 
for such a number of nobodios.” 
The Cambridge University bus decided to ex¬ 
amine women, ou r eighteen yearn of ape, noi 
members of the* University, for certificates oi 
scholarship. They will be examined in the higher 
branches of study, and regarding their religious 
knowledge, unless they make a written objection 
to the latter. 
One of the manuscripts stolen by the British 
in Abyssinia is illustrated with a picture of the 
Israelites crossing the Red Sea, and armed with 
inn.slid y. 
The Prince and Princess pf Wales will extend 
their Nile trip up to the “Second Cataract;” 
Grandma Victoria taking cure of the baby 
meanwhile at Windsor Castle. 
I’iiF. Bishops of the English Church have united 
in ;i formal reply to the Pope’s invitation to the 
Ecumenical Council in IThe original is in 
Latin ami is understood to have been written by 
the Bishop of SI, Andrews. 
Italy. 
Within a year nearly $11,000,000 gold have 
been realized from the sales of ecclesiastical 
property by the Italian Government. 
Next August, Italy will make a new.loan of 
250,000,000 lire, secured by ecclesiastical prop, -ty. 
France. 
A RECENT article in the Paris Pat dr, upon 
those who enjoy the rights of citizenship with¬ 
out its obligations, has created some alarm as 
pointing to the conscription of the “ foreigners 
born in France. 
lovers. She declined a four-in-hand team from a 
Prince because she had no room for them. Her 
last present is a seven thousand five hundred 
pair oi “first prize" thoroughbreds from a Duke, 
The recent ministerial change in France is 
generally believed to be due to the influence of 
the anti-clerical free press. 
Frunxia. 
i he twenty-nine German Universities have 
2,194 Professors, who lecture to 21,542 students. 
An American Club has been formed in Dresden 
The Prussian Diet has adjourned for the holi¬ 
days until Jan. 7. 
The Prussian Upper House rejected by a small 
majority the bill granting immunity from arrest 
lor words spoken In debate. 
Russia, 
The Czar's conference, at St. Petersburg, for 
Die abolition of small explosive missiles has de¬ 
termined that none should be Used which weigh 
j 1 ' 1 '-"' 1 hfin 100 grammes (about fourteen ounces.) 
Tills proposition tins been agreed to by Austria, 
Bavaria, Belgium, Fra nee. Great Britain, Hol¬ 
land, Wurtem berg, Greece, Denmark, Italy, Rus¬ 
sia, Prussia, Portugal, Persia, and Sweden. Let 
the I nited States now agree to it and have it a 
fixed principle of international Law. 
I oiing King Louts of' Bavaria, who is engaged 
to the Czar’s only daughter, the Grand Duchess 
Mary, insists that lii.s wife shall become a Ro¬ 
man Catholic. This is a serious theological 
objection to the match, but the holy men of St. 
Petersburg are doing their best to get the 
Church out of the way, and let the marriage 
go on, 
Tula is the Sheffield of Russia, and upon 
a church door in Moscow there is a painting of 
the " Sacrifice of Isaac,” in which tlio knife held 
by Abraham is marked “Tula.” 
I*eru. 
The United States gunboat Wateree, which 
was washed ashore at Arioix, Peru, by the tidal 
wave, last rummer, was sold at auction for 
$0,500. 
Cuu.t, 8. A., i. to have an Agricultural Expo¬ 
sition, beginning the 1st of April next; and $10 
will be allowed to each exhibitor from Europe 
or the I lined States, or to each laborer or me¬ 
chanic sent by manufacturers or inventors, to 
aid in paying their expenses. 
Spain, 
A sign of progress in Spain is that the Gov¬ 
ernment proposes to abolish bull-fights. 
December 22 it. was reported in Madrid that 
the Gutted States had sent a special envoy to ne¬ 
gotiate for the purchase of Cuba, and his arrival 
was daily expected. 
Six thousand troops have boon sent to rein- 
loive I he i 'aban tinny and more will soon follow. 
The Spanish Government announces tlmt it 
will never abandon a colony of Spain, 
In the Spanish elections all the moiiarehiul 
candidates were elected in Madrid ; while the 
Republicans carried Barcelona and Seville. 
Isabella has written Prim asking him to use 
In;; influence to have her restored to the throne, 
promising to make him a pardon for all past 
offence.;. Or if lie cannot accomplish that to 
make her son, the Duke of Asturias King, in 
which ease sin; promises Prim tin- Regency and 
pardon us before. 
The elections for members of the Spanish 
Cortez have been held in the incorporated cities 
with comparative quietness; disturbances of in- 
,significant character occurred in some towns. 
A large majority of those elected favor the for¬ 
mation or a inonarcUial government. 
The Cadiz insurgents are to be tried byacoun- 
ii of war, but in no case wilt the death penalty 
be inflicted. 
Tjie Government aim;unices tlie treaty of 
peave with Chili to be an accomplished 1'aet. 
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Culture of Flowers unit VegctnbleM. 
The Floral Guide Is imhllnhed for the benefit ol rnv 
customers, to whom ir. Ih sent flow Without auntie?,- 
5* ,on /n forwarilod to nil who apply by nviil 
tor Ten Cents, which is not fialf tim eost, Addrega’ 
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ket for Marketing Strawberries, &c. 
T1 lustmitsl Circulaw senl freo, 
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Races by female volocipedists are in vogue in 
France, 
The first greenback ever issued has recently 
been purchased by a Cincinnati gentleman for 
The French Academy of Sciences is com id; r- 
ing a plan, suggested by a physician of Bor¬ 
deaux, for tlio prevention of hydrophobia, by 
inoculating men and animals with the venom of 
a viper which is round in tlio South of France, 
whose bite is not fatal. 
The Empress Eugenie is getting more and 
more interested 111 practical politics. She had a 
voice in the council already. There is a moan¬ 
ing in this. The Emperor himself returns to his 
fits of lethargy more frequently as time ad¬ 
vances. Eugenie's aristocracy in fashion will 
lie disputed it site inclines to strong-mindedness, 
politics and bloomers. 
An old Parisian police order lias been discov ¬ 
ered dated Not. 12. lGOf), which directs that the 
theatres shall open ut 2 and close at I d P. m. 
The Marquis and Marquise de Gaux recently 
gave an evening reception. Among the guests 
Were Madame AI bon! and M. Auber. Agnesi and 
Alary, Prince Pouiatowski, &c. Madame de 
Gaux sang " L’Etranger" of Alary, and a. new 
composition of M. Hoffman. M. Auber, who 
I el t soon after midnight, as the young fellow 
had “some other parties to go to,” looked us 
fresh as a boy, and as if ir would be “any one's 
turn next" except his own. The veteran com¬ 
poser was asked his opinion of his hostess, and 
replied : “1 have seen and hoard many singera • 
* •'Pinc mher Catalan!, Pasta, Malibmn, brisk and 
Sontag; but 1 never heard so perfect an artist as 
La Patti; as for her voice, it is without flaw.” 
Cora Pearl’s stables are kept constantly full 
of very valuable horses by her aristocratic 
Ctrcecc, 
Affairs in Greece continue very warlike, and 
the popular feeling in favor of war runs very 
high. That in Constantinople is equally high, 
and the Russian flag has been publicly burned 
in the streets. 
The Greek steamer Erosis. on being signaled 
by llotiAUT Pasha, the Turkish Admiral, an¬ 
swered with a shot. Being pursued by him the 
Erosis took refuge in Syra, whore she was block¬ 
aded by the Turkish licet. Hobart Pasha 
offered loallowthe Eroristogo to Athens under 
escort of a Greek frigate and submit the ease to 
u Greek court. 
'i'lt 1 : Greek Envoy at Constant inoplodemanded 
of the guaranteeing powers the protection of 
the Greeks in that city, but the French Envoy 
had declined to take any action. The Greeks 
had asked permission from the Sultan to remain 
in Constantinople, promising to be perfectly 
neutral. 
It fi n forcf.ments hav e been sent to Hobart 
Pasha’s fleet. 
The Greek commanders in the Piraeus have 
been ordered to avoid a conflict with the Turk¬ 
ish fleet if possible, as it can at present only 
weaken Die Grecian cause. 
Th 1: Porte demands the expulsion of all Greeks 
from Bulgaria and Belgrade. 
Omar Pasjta has been ordered not to invade 
Greek territory unless armed bauds of Greeks 
cross the Thessalian frontier. 
The Emperor of Russia lias authorized Greek 
VOf seL-; ('probably those carrying refugees) to use 
the Russian flag. 
Chi mi and Japan. 
Serious disturbances have broken out in 
Northern China. Gen. Ling has raised the ban¬ 
ner of robe)lion arid gathered many disorderly 
bauds around him. 
The proclamation against the Christians, which 
fn^t appeared in the province ol' Hamm, is now 
widely posted throughout the Chinese Empire. 
The report that Chinese imperial soldiers had 
been sent, to drive away gold diggers from the 
mines in Chef 00 is unfounded. 
The troubles between the Foreigners and 
Chinese at Fonmosa are assuming a serious 
aspect, and two gunboat • have been sent to pro¬ 
tect the former. 
Polls were opened, on Nova 3, at Hankow and 
Kuckiang, The voting was aimost unanimous 
for Grant and Colfax. 
The Japanese rebels arc* still lighting but their 
»hief town is reported captured by the Impe¬ 
rialists. 
The flagship PLentaqua, on Nova 15, was at 
Woosung, China, as was also the Ashuelot; the 
other vessels of the American squadron are in 
Japanese and Southern China waters. 
( RATES OI*' 
111 ' ,r,i—. — CO. now tuiic tlie 
'! al . 1 Ul :Y Kr t’ : ", ,njl, ' k, v tl ‘- Th e Pickers ur.- <le- 
IlKhteit vvitli the baskets -they ftaua so ttrm. Tlie 
OXfiressnicn like tlio crates tliov are so rtreng uud 
eiisv to handle. Tin; nunmi.-iou men urn nicaseil 
with both nrutes and nu ki o tho/bring the fruit In 
huc'ii rxoollonr cuuditinn, and occupy twcnty-alx per 
tuUrkot ** |,,wce lllul ‘ ttU > other viaittlnted package In 
Orders to Hwaire nttenttim nnist bo eont ourtr. 
Verbena .i.U'knt* and Grapo Boxes at a very low 
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LAKE SHORE GRAPE GROWERS’ ASSOCIATION, 
FOR 
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Having'iOacrw or the Sai.i.m hi vineyard, we con- 
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In bearing, lioedoni irum dUcnse. beauty *.l 
“ ,ul lugb I ((reign quality or jruit, the best ami most 
protltiible outdoor Grape ui Aiuoriea. 
We otter vigorous vines, grown from the original 
stuck ol Mr. it. s. Rogers us follows; 
„ , Knell. Pur do*. Per 100 
2-year old. $ 1.00 it!) *;n 
1-year ord. 1.00 t; ;k» 
T. L. IIAItltlB, Suiom-Oii.Erie, 
tllroeton f'. o. ) Gtiautua<iua Co., N 
Per 1,000 
WOO 
200 
Y. 
J^APOIEON III. STRAWBERRY, 
the finest hekuy for amateur CULTURE 
and 
RURAL NEW.YORKER FOR 1S«!». 
On receipt of $u.U0 we will furnish by mail, postage 
paid, one dozen plants of Napoleon lit. nmi ihe 
Rural New-Yorker" tor IM«l, IIIum rated deserin- 
desorip- 
U- iliiinnials ol Clut?. Downijig, 
E. Booker. Prof. Helges. tind 
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other leading iritii enovers, mulled to aeplicjtitts.'”" 
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