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THE PEOPLE'S FAVORITE JOURNAL. 
RATIONAL 
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY 
or I HE 
UJYITffn STATES OF .iJSSUiJCJ, 
WASHINGTON. D. C. 
Chartered by Special Act of Congress, Ap¬ 
proved July 25, 1868. 
CASH CAPITAL.SI,000,000. 
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS 
NEWS CONDENSER. 
The Lodi Manufacturing Company invite Farmers 
and others using manures to send for a pamphlet de¬ 
scriptive of their Fertilizers. They offer their 
— Kansas Is to vote on Female Suffrage again. 
— Small-pox is raging in Ottawa, F. Q. 
— Toads are sold in Paris at fifty centsa dozen. 
— Now Albany, Ind., has a free soup house. 
— A Cincinnatian is on trial for stealing a eat. 
— Opium-eating is on the increase in Indiana. 
— Elmira wants a velocipede. 
— Chicago sent, 18.528,247 letters in 1868. 
— The debt of France is $2,228,000,000. 
— Passagassawamkeag is a Maine river. 
— San Francisco has had a u small pox meet¬ 
ing.” 
— The Greeks have ordered 15,000 American 
rifles. 
— Utica had twice as many deaths as births in 
1868. 
— Shad from Savannah hare reached New 
York. 
— South Carolina is to have a State Orphan 
Asylum. 
— Sixteen ladies are studying theology at 
Oberlin. 
— NaplC 3 , N. Y., wants a newspaper and print¬ 
ing-office. 
— Atlanta, Ga., has been enjoying the luxury 
of sleighing. 
— Portland, Mo., favors Catiadian Reciprocity'. 
Boston don’t. 
— The Ontario Legislature meets again on the 
4th of March. 
— Texas has sixty-five newspapers, of which 
six are dailies. 
— Boston is getting ready to celebrate the 
Fourth of July. 
— At Cheyenne a trip to Omaha is called “go¬ 
ing down East.” 
— Salt Lake City contains 8,000 Gentiles and 
88,000 Mormons. 
— Trumansburgh is afflicted with drunken men 
and street, fights. 
— The Dominion Parliament hus prorogued 
until the 2ath inst. 
—New York has some three hundred veloci¬ 
pedes now In use. 
— Bangor, Me., celebrates its one hundredth 
birthday tiffs year. 
— Missouri has redeemed more military bonds 
than she over issued. 
— The inhabitants of Beverly, Mass., are called 
“Beverly Bonnets." 
— Thousands of men are gat hering theica-crop 
on the Hudson River. 
— The Dakota Senate rejected Female Suffrage 
by only one majority. 
— The luinbcritig prospects in the Saginaw 
Valley, Mich., are bad. 
— Independence Hose Co. of Elmira is getting 
up a course of lectures. 
— Wisconsin is the only Western State which 
has legalized dissection. 
— A Western paper announces births under 
the head “ New Music.” 
— The value of Massachusetts crops for 1868 is 
estimated at $40,000,l>JO. 
— An Illinois paper heads its new3 column 
“Steal Pens and Scissors.” 
— A Chicagoan has just walked a thousand 
fiiilC3 in a i iiouaaad hours. 
— It has been Judicially decided in New York 
that cats are not property. 
— Connecticut lias on ex-tcamstcr who has 
worn no hat for forty years. 
— San Francisco needs and asks for two more 
hght-houoi* in her harbor. 
— In phonographic transcribing, women re¬ 
ceive the tsouio pay as men. 
— A St. Bernard dog was sold at Lockport, 
N. Y., the other day for $100. 
— A Now Haven burglar was found asleep in 
the bank ho intended to rob. 
— Troy, Pa., was nearly half destroyed by fire 
on tho 24'll u It. Loss $145,000. 
— Davidson Co.. Tonu., is troubled by the dep¬ 
redations of a largo panther. 
— Fredoniaus doing business in Dunkirk pro¬ 
pose to travel on velocipedes. 
— The Russians are having 30,000 breach-load¬ 
ing rifles made ill this county. 
— St. Johns, N. B., had a oue minute shock of 
an earthquake on the 17 th ult . 
— Spain again declares she cannot accept any 
proposition for the sale of Cuba. 
— Texas is going to erect a $5,000 monument 
over the grave of Sam Houston. 
— Penrith and Barrow-in-Furness, England, 
are to have dog show& this mouth. 
— Philadelphia hus a monster rink which will 
accommodate 2,000 skaters at once. 
— There were fifty-three. Thursdays in 1868, 
and win be but iii'ty-one this year. 
— The Northwestern grasshoppers are said to 
be organizing for a spring campaign. 
— A boy of fourteen was found dead drunk in 
the streets of Troy a few days since. 
The famous Loew Bridge across Broadway, 
New York City, Is at last taken down. 
— One American firm has recently shipped 
40,000 rifles to the Danish Government. 
— A new German weekly — the Now Zcit (Now 
Era) — is to be published in New York. 
— Dark liuir is now the rage In Paris, and 
blondes arc dyeing their golden locks. 
— Stealing a paper from a door step cost a man 
in Rochester six months imprisonment. 
— Poultry, pigeon, canary, rabbit, and dog 
shows are plenty iu England this winter. 
— Opium eating is almost universal among the 
Rajpoots (second caste) of Central India. 
— During tho six mouths ending December 11, 
San Francisco had 1,110 cases of small pox. 
— Pittsfield, Me., has a new tliree-story mill 
for the manufacture of shawls and plaids. 
— In London, two bundled and three pexsons 
were killed last year by horses and vehicles. 
— The Cleveland, O., letter-carriers received 
from $10 to $315 as presents on Now Year’s. 
— Tho other day a couple in Troy, N. Y., gave 
the minister who married them $200in gold. 
— East Marion, L. I., has had but three deaths 
in two years, it has five hundred inhabitants. 
— The Prussian Government has offered a 
prize of $2,000 for the best essay on vaccination. 
— The story goes that the people of ltondout, 
N. Y., have intermarried till they are all cousins. 
KE.VT TRIOIPH OF AMERICAN 
INDUSTRY. 
DOUBLE REFINED P0UDRETTE 
equal to the best Kupor-pbosphwto.atths low prior of 
*25 per ton on board. In Now York. They also make 
superiors article ol Nliuo PHosrH.vrK and PCU£ 
BONE DUST. 
We ask Attention to the Following Testi¬ 
monials. 
Prof. Geo. It. Cook, Of the New Jersey Agricul¬ 
tural College of New Brunswick, rays: -”Tho 
Double Jtclinprl Pomlrette tend Nltro Phosphate of 
Lime, paid u* mil KK) percent above their market 
value, in the lucreuso of trees this-year.” 
Michael Moore. Trenton 1 ills, Oneida f’o.. N'. Y.. 
rays: — *• With the IVmdrettc I have always had ;1 
fine crop of onions: ectthout it u miserable failure. 
For alt root crops and green-house plants I consider 
It invaluable." 
C. G. $tiirkwp.>itiipr a Pons, Rochester, N. Y.. (seed 
growers,) say of the Double Refilled Poluhette 
‘For growing unions n. mil nut. be bent. On corn 
(usoil one and a half barrels to the nrrn without any 
other manure) you would he surprised to see tho dif¬ 
ference where we 'kipped a row or two; It added 
one-fourth to the crop and matured much earlier • 
also the Same oo Potatoes. It is worth Ua cost as a 
preventive ol' the wire worm.” 
Horace Valentine, Cambridge, Washington Co.. V. 
V., says: — -• Where used, it suroone-liult more corn 
and potatoes.” 
C. O. Brumlngi?, South Sodns, says : — “I think It 
added nearly one-half more to the yielded my corn 
cron. 
Wilson N'. Page, Ohapeqitn, Westchester Co., says : 
“I used the different kinds of super-phosphate 
along side of vonr Doublo Refined Poudrottn The 
crop where the Poiidrettn was used was fully equal 
to tho Other lit half f.be co.tr . * ‘ 
Address The Lodi Manufacturing Co., Office 66 
Cortland! Rev ..i f) New York P. O.. or C. (i. 
STARKWEATHER A SONS. Rochester, N. Y. 
Patented November 22, 180 4, Septem 
her 30, I860; and July 21, 1868. 
MANUFACTURED BY 
THE HOST INTERESTING STORIES 
Are always to be found In the 
JVew York Weekly 
52 Beekman Street, N. ¥ 
AWARDED 
At present there are 
E^our Great Htories 
Running through Its columns; and at least 
ONS STORY XS BEGUN 
TWELVE First Premiums at 
Twelve Different State Fairs, 
October and November, 1868. 
Only Medal and Diploma at 
American Institute Fair, October 
26 , 1867 . 
EVERY MONTH 
Now subscribers are thus 6ure of having tho com¬ 
mencement of a new continued story, uo rnattor 
when they subscribe for tho 
BRANCH OFFICEi 
FIRST NATIONAL BANK BUILDING, 
PHILADELPHIA. 
■Where the business of the Company is transacted, 
and to which all general correspondence should be 
addressed. 
Directors. 
Cr.ARRNCE H. CLARK. K. A. ROLLINS, 
Jay COOKB, IlDNMY U. COOKE, 
F. Batch roRD STAKE, W. K. Chanoler, 
w. G. Moreueaii, John D Oki-rbeb, 
George f. Tyler. Edward iiodob, 
J. Hinckley Clark. u. C. Fahnestock. 
Officers. 
CLARENCE H. CLARK, Philadelphia. President. 
J A V COOK K, Chairman Finance and Executive Com. 
HENRY It, COO KB, Wnahmgton. Vice-President. 
EMERSON W. PEE r, Phlln., §c«‘y and Actuary. 
F. S. TURNER. Washington, AsiUr.tn.nt Secretary. 
I* RANCIS G. SMITH. M, 1»., Medical Director. 
J. EWING MEAKS. M l». Ass’t Medical Director. 
Medical Advisory Board. 
J. K. RA RNEH, Surgeon-General U. 8. Army, Wash. 
P.,t. HORW1TZ,Clilet Medical Dept. U.8. N., Wash. 
D. W. RUSS, M. D., W.j litngtou. 
Solicitors and Attorneys. 
WM. E. CD A NDLKR. Washington. D- C- 
GEORGE HARDING, Philadelphia, Pn 
THE ADVANTAGES 
Offered by this Company are: 
It taa National Company, chartered by Special Act 
of Congress, 1866. 
It lias a paid-up enpttai of $1,000,000. 
it offers low rates of pi'Smlura. 
it furnishes larger Insurance than other Companies 
fpr the sumo money. 
It. Is rlntlnIto and certain in Us terms. 
It Is a Home Company in every locality. 
Its policies ore- exempt from uttanhiacnt. 
There are no unuoceasui y restriction* in the poli¬ 
cies. 
livery policy is non-fnrfeltuble. 
Policies may bo taken which pay to the insured 
their full amount and return all the premiums, so 
that tho insurance costs only tho interest on the 
annual payments. 
Policies may bu taken that wiR pay to the insured, 
after a certain number of years, din ing life, an mi¬ 
nimi income of ouc-tanth tho amount uumod in the 
policy. 
No extra rato ie charged for risks upon the lives of 
females. 
It insures not to pay dividends, but at so low a cost 
that dividends will be impossible 
r.r LOCAL AGENTS ARE WANTED in every 
City and Town : and applications from competent 
parties for such agencies, with .-tillable endorse¬ 
ments, should bo adilro.-iMcil TO THE COMPANY'S 
GENERAL AGENTS ONLY, in thoir respective dis¬ 
tricts. 
GENERAL AGENTS OF THE COMPANY. 
JAY COOKE & CO . Now York, for New York State 
and Northern New Jersey. J. U.OKVIS and D.C. 
Whitman'. Manager* 
JAY COOKE ,Si CO., Washington, J). Cr, for Dela¬ 
ware, Virginia. Uiutrlrt of Columbia and Weal Va, 
K. W. CLARK ACO-. for Pennsylvania and Southern 
New Jersey, U. S Rgnsell. Harrisburg, Mana¬ 
ger for Central and War tern Pennsylvania. 
J. ALDEIt ELLIS & CO.. Chicago, for Illinois, Wis¬ 
consin and nova. 
JYew 1 *ork Weekly 
AVTANTFn AGENTS-$75 TO $200 
Vf per mouth. everywhere, male and female, to 
introduce tin GENUINE IMPROVED COMMON 
SENSE FAMILY SEWl i MACHINE. This 
Chinn will stitch, hem, fell, tuck, quilt, cord, bind, 
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Price only VIS, Fully warranted for five venra. We 
will pay IH.IMH for AUv machine that, will sew a strong¬ 
er, morn beautiful nr more el a-no mum thro ours. 
H makes the Elastic Look Stitch.” Every second 
9tlte.li can be cut, and still the cJolli cannot bo pulled 
apart a n hunt tearing it. We nay Agents Cretn $?5 
t" per month mrl expen.iv;. or " coinmliisn n 
from irliioli liv!re that amount- can he made. Ad¬ 
dress SKY.'(IMR A CO , PITTSBURG tt, PA.; BOSTON, 
Mass.. r,i St, LotTIS. Mo. 
t .ACTION.—Do not be Imposed upon by other par- 
t ies palming off worthless cast-iron machines, under 
the same inline or otherwise. Ours Is the only genu¬ 
ine aud really practical cheap machine manufactured. 
HORACE GREELEY. Pres’t, 
Each number of tho NEW YORK WEEKLY con¬ 
tains Several Beautiful Illustrations, Double the 
AmOhut of Reading Matter of any paper of Its class, 
and the Sketches, Short Stories, Poems, etc., are by 
the ablest writers of America and Europe. The 
HON. H. S. RANDALL, 
President New York Wool Growers' Association, and 
Author of Sheep Husbandry, says in Rural New- 
Yorker: 
“ We much like the Sheep Shears made by HENRY 
Seymour & Co. They possess the superior advant¬ 
age of being made from ona piece of metal, which 
gives i hem solid springs. The stops are tempered so 
they cannot wear away and let the blades lap. 
Among their varieties we entirely prefer tor flue 
wool sheep. Strong’s Patent Thumb-piece Shears. 
The Thumb-piece gives better facilities for clipping 
the legs, heads, Ac., of any kind of sheep, l also use 
their Toe Nippers. No. 3 Is mast. used. 1 have tested 
the articles, and such |* my verdict.” 90i-6tco 
Yew York Weekly 
does not coniine usefuluoseaud amusement but pub¬ 
lishes a great quantity of really Instructive Matter, 
In t he. most condensed form, Tho 
^ARMJBRHt HO If E 
THAN ONE-HALF 
I 1 may be added to the durability of your Harness 
and Carriage Pops, and millions or monoy maybe 
saved,with little ruro end ir'tiingexpellee, by using 
FRANK MILLER'S PREPARED HARNESS OIL 
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have attained a high reputation from their brevity, 
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The Pleasant Pakaoraphs are made up of the 
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The News Items give lu tho fewest words the 
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Tiie Gossip with Corrdspondents contains 
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rrow SHALL W1S PAS NT OUR 
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EXTERIORS OF COUNTRY AND 
CITY HOUSES. 
Those Paints require only t© be thinned with Raw 
Linseed Oil to make them ready for use. The list in¬ 
cludes forty shades and tints, comprising all the col¬ 
ors suitable for exterior painting. In durability and 
permanency of color they will be found superior m 
every respect to pure White Lead, while they cost, 
(con.-.idcrlng the quantity required) only about half 
us much. 
.Simple Cards, with a Descriptive Pamphlet, sent 
free by moil. Be Mire you got tho genuine “ RAIL¬ 
ROAD” Colors, every package tif which bears our 
I ull name. In u<lxlitiun cjourc. ipy-rigbted title,' 1 Rail¬ 
road Paints and railroad Colons.” None are 
rellu,hlo width do not. hear those marks. 
We would call attention aw.i to our WARRANTED 
PERFECTLY PURE COMBINATION WHITE 
LEAD, which r> >r economy anil durability is the beat, 
In market. For sale by ali Paint Dealt;ek t hrough¬ 
out the country., or M A r t; K V WlilTON, 
ill Fulton Street, Now York. 
Proprietors of the Globe Whim Lead uua Color 
Works. M.intrftusttirm-x Of WhiteLead, Zinc and 
Painters' Fine Colors. 
N. !!.—'• Mow Jituili wo Paint.” A popular treatise 
on the art ut House Printing, Ao., by John W. Ma- 
aiiry. Clotli- vJSpuyes. $1.3(1. Also, ilintson [Inline 
Fainting. Cloth, si pages. Vi cents. Either of the 
above sent freu by mull on rocoipt of price. UUl-bt 
riHElP LANDS—WE H AVE FIKST- 
\J class Lund, In tracts of 40 to W0 acres, near rail- 
road llnea. at. t.'j to S6 poraere; half eush. balance one 
and two years. Parties wan ring information about 
our Stale, the soli, climate, crops, markets, schools, 
workings of homestead law, etc., will bo furnlshod 
sitim;, with maps, tor $2.30. W< will makn entries of 
GovernmentUuids- PERCY A ROWE. 
- Sioux City, Iowa. 
Refer to 
Nootuwesterv national BANK,) Chicago 
K. w blatcuford ,v. Co., > Laica h°' 
m. i„ Rowe ^ Co., Now York. 
IL RAMSON & Co., Buffalo, N. Y. 
tin Unrivaled Literary Paper 
IS THE 
NEW YORK WEEKLY ! 
A LE NTS WANT EJD—FOR THE 
AMERICAN YEAR BOOK AND NATIONAL 
REGISTER fur I Sit). Astronomicul, Historical, Fo- 
litlcaiL I'inancm.1, (knpnjerchU. Anrituitural. Eduua- 
tlunal. IlMMlcms. Yhi* iroi k ooii tains a cant fund 
o; l ito mid valiiablo information respecting the 
United Staten and K,.reign Gouniries, including 
every department of tho Genera) and State Gov¬ 
ernments, which nil clauses WIR Dud invaluable for 
dally retorcnco. Address 
O. D. CASE & CO., Publishers, 
Hartford. Couu. 
Each Ispuo contains from EIUHT to TEN STORIES 
and SKETCHES, and HALF A DOZEN POEMS, in 
ADDITION to the FOUR SERIAL STORIES and 
the VARIED DEPARTMENTS. 
TJie Tonus to Subscribers: 
One year—singlo copy.Throe Dollars. 
“ four copies ($2.50 eaoh).Ten Dollars. 
eight copies. .....Twenty Dollars. 
Those seiiding $20 for a club of eight,, all sent at 
one time, will he entitled to a copy free. Gettors-up 
of clubs can allerwards add single copies at $2.30c&ch. 
STREET A- SMITH, Proprietors, 
5.7 Fulton St„ New York. 
CEEDS, ROOT GRAFTS,— OS AGE 
id Oranm Seed, prime, new, Slj t< bush. Apple Seeds, 
Peach Pit ;, frozen. Hoot Grafts, Apple, narked, 10,000, 
iflO. usrwe Uadic pumu, 1st ol., 1,000. $5; 10,000, <J5. 
peach, Dnlev Early and other best sorts, .stocks, 
Apple, Pear, Plum, Cherry, Oumee, Ac. /tones, Krer- 
•.rent*, Grapes, Dawning Ooa.ieheny, GlMi'tig JJbWhUig 
Strawbtrry, HUtpkhcrrics, ftasnberrkn, Gnrn-UuUe,e, 
lietldlne) Plants, Dahlias, Lilies,*c. Semi 10c. fur three 
Catalogues. F. K. Clio li.N I X, 
Bloomington Nursery, McLean Co , Illinois. 
I,'BJt S.ILE-WITHIV A JULE AND 
i a ball of Richmond, Va., an.( *o lull view of r.ho 
Information of the larger and ruoi-e costlv works, so 
as to put, new beginner a on equal footing with old 
fruit growers. We have hundreds of te-iimontuls, 
of which the following from Knv. H. W. Boeelior la 
a sample t—- 1 Your direotmnx for growing Strawber¬ 
ries and Haspborries are the best I have ever -con.” 
Price ID cents, wholesale and retail Hate son! by 
mail free on application. Address PURDY .4 JOHN¬ 
STON 1 , Palmyra, N. Y., or PURDY & DANCE, South 
Bend, Ind. Kd-lamSm 
W ATERS’ FIRST PHEMIIIIB 
1*1 A Nos. with Iron Frame, Uvonurung Bass 
and Agnilfr, Bridge. Molortoonb, Parlor. Chtiieh and 
Cabinet organa, tho best manufactured. Warranted 
for Six Years, 
IDO PI A SOS MELODKOS*; and Oroaxs of six first- 
class makers, at low prices tor < Wi, or mie-quartor 
cash mid the balance In Monthly or yuart.rrly Tn- 
slaUtnonts. fioeond-harid Infttrumenlaat great bar¬ 
gains IIIlistrntod Catalogues mailed. (Air H'ufrr* 
Is the A Hthorot SI B Suiulay-eeheml Music Books; "Heav¬ 
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rooms, 181 Broadway, New York- 
HORACE WATERS Jr. CO. 
city, a farm of ten acres, with excellent dwell lug uf 
six rooms, and *u rn..*omiry oiH-butldlti<ts. Young 
or> hards of pencil and pear trees, ol llie best varie¬ 
ties ; si.r,i wborn68, raspberries and other small fruits. 
The loud Is woll adapted to ganieningand fruit-grow¬ 
ing, and, to a person acquainted with tho biudtiese, 
tint place Can lu: made highly valuable, A bargain 
can be hud, if eurty iitipllcatlnn be made to 
WAV. BENNISTT, P. O. Box li'J. Richmond, Va. 
M A P L ti IS A V li s 
IS THE CHEAPEST PAPER PUBLISHED. 
Each number contains sixteen Quarto Pages, 
and Us matter i» varied and tntcresrlug, and pecu¬ 
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columns, which are a melange of Stories, Poetry, 
PmerJes, Agricultural and Peleuiifle Articles. Csofui 
Recipes, Ornamental Arts, etc., etc., and every nou- 
btv is finely Wusl ruled, Ills issued about tuO first, of 
each month, and Is eeut regularly to oubscribers for 
ONLY TWENTY-FIVE CENTS A YEAR. 
Send in vonr sutvimptinn for 1860 at once, you will 
not regret it. Specimen copies sent on receipt of a 
stamp to pay postage. Address 
O. A. KOOKBACH, 102 Narattu St., Now York. 
Inventors who wbh to tuko out Letters Patent arc 
advised to counsel with 
Kfi Ann SOLO. 'THE HAGNETBU 
fJuiUUU Pocket Time-Keeper and Cotnpii.'.s. In 
a hamUome case, with glass crystal, white enamelod 
dial, steel and meuil work-- ordinary watch f1/,n. 
Warranted to denote correct r oue nud keep in order 
two year*. Satisfaction guaranteed. Sent puat-eold 
for td, or i for $3. wanted, ('irciimrs free. 
W ALTER HOLT. No. ICG Nu.-.-aii St.. New York. 
PROPRIETORS OF THE 
W HY WILL YOU WOKS FOR SI.50 
pur day, when you cun make 430a week incur 
new bu?ine<s? tun be done in-door, by either sex. 
W« have mu hran-new urlieles never berore intro- 
(iueed. and wanted in every house. Samples sent on 
receipt ol 10 Conte. Address 
WALTER HOLT A OO., 102 Nassau St., N. Y. 
JTIl.EPSY CAN ftE CURED. THOSE 
* j having f mendsulliicted lueeniuostlv solicited to 
send fpr a Circular Letter ol References and Tea Li¬ 
ne lUid*. which '.ill convince the limit skeptical of 
H18 > uroliUitU of the til sense. Address VAN BUIlKN 
LOCKROW, M. D., 50 Grout Jones St.. N. Y. City. 
The Cheapest and Best Ventilating Bas¬ 
ket tor Marketing Strawberries, <Ste. 
Illustrated Cimilars sent free, 
T he baskets and crates of 
the AMERICAN BASKET CO. now take tho 
lead in all the great markets. Tbo pickers are de¬ 
lighted with the bankets— they stand so firm. The 
expressmen like the crates—they are so strong and 
easy to hand In. The commission men urn pleased 
with both crates and baskets- they bring the fruit in 
such 11. ind oi 
cent, less space than any other ventilated package m 
market. 
Orders to secure attention must he sent early. 
Verbena Baskets nod Grape Boxes at u very low 
figure. Circulars free. Address 
AMERICAN BASKET COMPANY, 
New Britain, Conn., 
or NEW FANE BO.Y St BASKET COMPANY, 
Newfanu. Niagara Co., N. Y. 
CilOO TO 8250 PF.R MO NTH Cf PA RA \- 
*“ TRKIY. .Sure juty. Silnric-paid weekly lo Agents 
everywhere selllngour Patent (•.’ocrUwtlng l VhU, iFire 
Ctothi ' l.ines. ( all at , nr write fur particulars to, the 
GIRARD WIRE AULLS, 2ul North Third St. Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. 
PATROON’S DAUGHTER 
T 7»AItLY ROHE POTATO, AJIERTCAN 
J and foreign Spring Wheats. Oats, Barley, Corn, 
i lover Seeds, Grass Seed, Hogs,Fowls, Best Fodder 
Cutter. Send for tho Experimkx i'Ai. Farm jour¬ 
nal, only 25 cents. Address 
GEO. A. DEiTZ, Chumbereburg. Pa. 
A Story of Colonial Times* 
By P. HAMILTON MYERS. 
NOW READY IN THE 
Cl II E A P LAWN MOWER, 
eUTTlvYG II I.VCIiUS, 
WEIGHING GO POUNDS. 
X* Xri. X C2 Ail.. 3 q m 
U. H. ALLEN & CO„ 
_P. O. Box 376, Ne w York. 
D R. GRANT'S DEEP WORKING PLOWS 
supply at small cost the lull equivalent of spado 
culture. Plow truin to 21 incho* ilerp, tlMi'nu^hly 
pulverizing and mingling. All farmers should onder- 
iduud them. Dlust rated Circular sent on mnilicatiou. 
Oik IWVik ACRES WESTERN AND 
Sol. PHERN LANDS and iMPhovisD 
Fak.ii s. f ill to »100 per acre. 
E. G. SH EPPA RX>, 
2 Rowling Green, New York- 
I OWA LANDS AT *5 TO Sill PER VI HK, 
in Ringgold County. JO to 36 miles I mpi B. X Mo, 
River Railroad. Tllles Investigated, taxes paid, Ac 
Twelve years’ expnrionee. Inclose stamp, and ad¬ 
dress I fH. H. BEALL, Jit. Ayr, Iowa. 
M A ill HI OTII CM'STRR R.VSP- 
BKItltY PLANTS. Mr STOCK IS GKXUINE, 
so proved by every comparison possible to bn made 
by competent HofMculturlnta. Mr. A. 8. FfLLEP, 
author of ” Thu Small Fruit CulturSt,” who raw it 
in full foliage, •ays he is “ well eitlBOcd it is true 
and lias i rdered of uie largely to exG;ui4 ins own 
plantation .if. Ridgewood. 
;r~ Bend stamp for Priced Catalogue uf tbrs and 
all tin- valuable Raspberries, FSPtcfchcri'|. : . ..., w ber- 
ri. .aud urupe*. Address C. L. VAN DUSEn. 
tar FOR SALK EVERYWHERE. 
CENT F K K E • 
O M. U KKEFE, SON ft CO’S 
CATATjOGFUE OF aiJdEDS, 
And Guide to tbi: Floweic and Vkgbtable 
Gaude.v for 1869. Every lover of flowers wishing 
this new work, free of charge, should address im¬ 
mediately M. O’KEEFE, SON & CO., 
Kllwanger & Barry’s Block, Rochester, X Y, 
CWILT'S PATENT FAIt.’I TULL. 
Efficient, low-priced and durable. Send for Cireu 
lor. LANE BROTHERS, Washington, N. Y. 
Warehouse, 261 Pearl St., New York. 
O SAGE ORANGE SEED.-WA Rif ANTED 
new and good by \v r . it, MANN. 
Gilman, Iroquois Co., III. 
2T r " Send 3 cts. for Price List and 10 cts. for Essay 
on Hedging. 
n ELI.S.-BUCKEYE BELL F«MM»KV. 
Estublished Hi7- VANlHJEKN A TIKI, 102 and 
WI East Second Bt.. Cincinnati, Ohio, manufacturers 
of Bells tor Churches. Academies, etc., made of tho 
Genuine Bcdl Metal, and mounted with our Patent 
Improv' d Rotating Hangings. All Bells wurriutcd 
In quality and tone. Scud for Catalogue and Price 
List. 
|> A T € H K LOR' S ill A HI I) Vli. 
This splendid Hair Dye is the best in the world; 
the. only true and perfect Dyts; harmless, reliable, 
instantunaoiis ; no disappointment - no ridiculous 
tints; remedies the ill effects of had dyes; invigor¬ 
ates and leaves the Hair soft and beautiful black or 
brawn. Bold by all Druggists and Perfumers, and 
properly applied at Batchelor’s Wig Factory, No. 16 
Bond street, New York. 
WANTED AGENTS —TO HELL THE 
»> AMERICAN KNITTING MACHINE. 
Price §25. Thu simplest, cheapest and host Knitting 
Machine ever invented. Will knit 2>.UIQ0stitches per 
minute. Liberal inducements to Agents. Address 
AMERICAN KNITTING MACHINE CO., 
Boston, Mass., or St. Louis, Mo. 
(lUhlCK SPANISH VIERIN'O SHEEP FOR 
y,' sale, low to tho trade, *0 Ewes and 20 R;trns, 
from one to three years old, bred by us. JOHN 
SHELDON & SON’, Moscow, Livingston Co., N. Y. 
WTAMUKUTXG CURED BY BATES’ AP- 
n pliancea. For descriptive pamphlet address 
SIMPSON & Co., Box 0,676, N. Y. 
flKAY'6 PATENT BRICK MACHINE. 
\TT Send for circular to WASHINGTON IRON 
WORKS, Newburgh, N. Y., Solo Manufacturers for 
tho United States. 
TJEEKSKILI, PLOWS AND PLOW CAST 
INGS.—Send for List. PEEK SKILL MAN V 
FACTORING CO., Peckskill, N. Y. 
