NEWS CONDENSER. 
— It cost $1,535,004.54 to take the last census. 
— Ripe raspberries still load California vines. 
— German emigrants are pouring into Texas. 
— St. Johns, N. B., is to have a new dry dock. 
— Three hundred Georgians have emigrated to 
Texas. 
- The city of Mexico has a population of 
130,000. 
- The hickory nut crop is abundant this year 
In Iowa. 
— Sixty-nine copies of the London Times go 
to Berlin. 
— In India railways charge passengers eight 
cents per mile. 
— Rhode Island coal sells in Newport at $7 a 
ton, delivered. 
— Philadelphia is said to consume 50,000 cab¬ 
bages per day. 
Boiled eggs are worth twenty-five cents a 
piece in Denver. 
— Twenty thousand children attend the Buf¬ 
falo public schools. 
Binghamton, N. Y., is ugaiu troubled with 
elotbes-liiio thieves. 
— More lumber will be cut in Maine this win¬ 
ter than ever before. 
— Cinnabar lias been discovered near Fort 
Biyard, New Mexico. 
— Cincinnati Is to have a new Merchants’ Ex¬ 
change, to cost $100,000- 
— The Now Haven police arc going to have a 
library at headquarters. 
— St. Anthony, Minn., estimates her loss by 
the late ilood at $.100,000. 
— Women are to be admitted to tlio famous 
school at Eton, England. 
— Pore Hyaclnthe will not issue an address to 
the Catholics of America. 
— Down in Mississippi they call a colored man 
a “ fifteenth amendment.” 
— One colored man 1ms been elected to the 
M assacli u sc Its Legislature. 
— Lopez has captured one hundred and thirty- 
three Brazilians at Curuguaty. 
— The first atone of the new post-oflico in New 
York was laid On the 15th hist. 
— A Richmond swell shot his tailor because 
ids pantaloons did not fit him. 
— Women arc filling the place of the Paris 
dry goods clerks now on strike. 
— New London, CL., has a society organized to 
investigate modern spiritualism. 
— 'Flic Washington City firemen are to have 
tin ir lives insured by the citizens. 
An ambitious artist of Reno, Nevada, is 
painting a panorama of tlio world. 
There wasn't a bucket or any vessel of the 
kind on bourd the ill-fated Stonewall. 
One boiler and engine Is to heat and do the 
lioisLiug fora whole Cincinnati block. 
— Three boys in Port Carbon, Pa., recently 
roasted a companion alive for “peaching.” 
A fearful hurricane lately passed over the 
Mediterranean, doing much damage to shipping. 
The Council of Washington Territory is 
composed ol" nine members the House of thirty. 
Hartford has un old pottery in which is a 
sti> vc that lias not been moved for seventy years. 
— The Boston and Providence Railroad bus 
ordered five hundred tons of German stool rails. 
A peanut stand keeper in Washington died 
and left hid daughter $00,0(11) raudo iu that busi¬ 
ness. 
At tlio beginning of tlio war Kentucky bad 
over $1)0,000,000 in stock—now it lias but $50,- 
000,000. 
— A horse, valued at $100, broke bis leg while 
In a funeral procession In Auburn ou the 10th 
instant. 
— Somebody proposes to plant the streets of 
Norfolk, Vu., with peanuts in order to pay the 
city debt. 
— The live stock in the Slate of Connecticut 
this year is valued at $24,088,141; in 1800 it was 
$n,3iim 
A Chinaman is foreman of one of the largest 
cigar manufacturing establishments in New 
York City. 
— The railroad connecting Salt Lake City with 
the Pacific Railroad will bo completed about 
New Years. 
— The machine shop of the Chicago and Alton 
Railroad at Bloomington, Illinois, now employs 
bix hundred men. 
— It is assorted that the Cuban fillibusters have 
headquarters in Paris and London, with ratnifl- 
cations in Madrid. 
— ACommiilee is sitting in Home to deter¬ 
mine how Latin shall be pronounced in the Ecu¬ 
menical speeches. 
— Tlio Albany Fire Department give concerts 
for the benefit of the widows and orphans of 
deceased firemen. 
— The two crops which in Connecticut pay the. 
farmers best and require the least labor are 
grass and tobacco. 
The Portland Press says that Mrs. Dr. W. A. 
Banks of Rockland, Me., has a Bible ouce owned 
by Martin Luther. 
— A Burlington, Vt., paper thus closes a mar¬ 
riage noticeNo cards; no cake; no Western 
paper need copy.” 
— Three hundred hogs have died iu Cincinnati 
within a week from a malady caused by being 
fed too long ou still slops. 
— The Washington Territory Legislature is 
again without a quorum, and warrants have 
boon issued for the soccdcrs. 
— One million bushels of peanuts a year are 
raised ou the south shore of the James River be¬ 
tween Norfolk and Petersburg. 
— Tlio coal found in Monte Diablo lias been 
tested in locomotives on the Western Pacific 
Railroad, and found to work well. 
— A Chinaman iu California threatened to sell 
his wife to raise the money to pay his debts. She 
foiled him by committing suicide. 
— The immediate cause of Mr. Peabody's death 
was congestion of the lungs, and ho passed away 
without much apparent suffering-. 
--- 
“Chapped Hands, face, rough skin, pimples 
ring-worm, salt-rhcum, and other cutaneous affec¬ 
tions. cured, by using the Jumper Tar Soap made by 
Caswell, IIazaiui & Co., New York. U is more 
convenient and easily applied than other remedies, 
avoiding the trouble of the greasy compounds now 
in use.”— St. Louis Democrat. 
Insurance ^Advertisement, etc. 
T H E 
Fanner 
f 
Mechanics’ 
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY 
OF INTEW 'YORK, 
NO. 200 BROADWAY, BET WEEN FUL TON AND JOHN STREETS. 
CLASH CAPITAL, 8125,000. 
$100,000 Deposited with the Insurance Department of the 
State for file Protecti on of the Policy Holders. 
All the Officers and Directors (without an exception) arc: Stockholders, and will 
take good care that the proper reserves for the further protection of the Policy Hold¬ 
ers will be made. 
This Company makes a Cash Dividend to its Policy Holders of from 33% lo 50 
per cent, each year and in advance, by means of its low rates of premiums. 
The safety of the Policy Holder is guarded. 
All New York Companies are Obliged by the Slide to Set Aside Hie saute Reserve. The 
reserve, for eaeh Company is the same, calculated on the same table of mortality, aud at the 
same rate of interest; consequently, all are safe. 
CONDITIONEi OP POLICY; 
This Company's policies arc non-forfeitable. 
This Company imposes no restriction on travel after one annual payment has 
been made. 
This Company insures the lives of females. 
This Company will not contest any legal claim. 
This Company will pay claims as soon as the proof thereof is fully established. 
1'He rales arc lower tlmu those of any Company organized 
inukr tiic laws of Yen York, aud responsible to ihe Insurance 
Ucparlnient for its, safety. 
The Farmers’ and Mechanics’ will grant insurance to suit on any of the follow¬ 
ing plans: 
ORDINARY LIFE!, 
BNIIOAV AS EMT, 
€IIIL DREN BIN DOAVAl ENT. 
COMPOUNDED INTEREST, JOINT ENDOWMENT, 
INCOME PRODUCING, JOINTLIFE, 
Tills ML a.a ST, 
IS1ST1JISN I*IEBMinis, 
ANNUITIES, 
MUTUAL. 
and in addition to the above plans will issue policies on the 
tt 
TONTINE MUTUAL. 
19 
Tontine Mutual is a combination of Insurance and Endowment, and is singularly 
adapted to the wants of a class of people who have hitherto been debarred from the 
benefits of Life Insurance by its heavy expenses. (Sec explanations below.) 
To insure your life ou the Tontine Mutual Plan you pay $15 once. 
You pay $2 annually. 
You pay $1.10 whenever a death occurs in your Class. 
You are certain to receive $1,000. 
And if your Class is full $5,000. 
Classes arc regulated by a; es. 
BOTH SEXES ADMITTED IN THE SAME CLASS. * 
ALL HAVE TO PASS A MEDICAL EXAMINATION. 
Classed arc limited to (5,000 Members. 
WHENEVER A CLASS IS ONCE FULL IT WILL /ALWAYS REMAIN FULL. 
The Company guarantees that in cilsq your death should occur within a year, 
although there ate not one thousand Members in your Claes, jet will your family 
receive $1,000; but in case that your Class lias more than one thousand Members, 
then you would receive as many more dollars ns there are Members jn your Class »t 
THEN $5,000. 
you would receive as many 
the time of your death. FIVE 'l' 1IO US AND MEM BE RS - 
Class A. Admits all between tlio ages of 15 and 85. 
Class B. Admits all between the ages of 35 and 45. 
Class C. Admits all between the ages of 45 and (50. 
At the same lime that you become insured, you also become 
A MEMBER OF A TONTINE FIT INTO. 
Which may give to yourself, whilst living, a large sum of money. 
This is the only Company in the United Slates doing business on a sound basis, 
i. e., that has a cash capital of $125,000, or that has a deposit with the State for the 
security of the Policy Holders. 
SEND FOR BOOK OF RATES. ALL DIRECTORS ARE STOCKHOLDERS. 
ALL OFFICERS ARE STOCKHOLDERS. 
DIRECTORS. 
JEWETT M. RICHMOND, of J. M. Rich¬ 
mond <& Co., Buffalo, N. Y. 
Hon. JOHN II. MARTINDALE, Ex-AL- 
torncy-Gcneralof State of New York, Roch¬ 
ester.' 
NATHAN F. CRAVES, President Fourth 
National Bank, Syracuse. 
WILLIAM C. RUG ER, of Huger, Wallace 
& Qonny, Attorneys at Law, Syracuse*. 
CHARLES H. DOOLITTLE, President 
Oneida County Bank, Utica, N. Y. 
W. C. SQUIRE, Special Agent Reming¬ 
ton Manufacturing Company. 
Hon. JASON C. OSGOOD, Manufacturer, 
Troy, N. Y. 
Hon. JOHN II. RUSSELL, Counsellor at 
Law, Salisbury, Ct. 
THOMAS LORD, of Lord & Smith, 
Wholesale Druggists, Chicago, III. 
H. O. ARMOUR, of Armour, Plunk in ton 
& Co., Chicago, Milwaukee and New York. 
ISRAEL D. CONDIT, Manufacturer, Mil- 
burn, N. J., ami 30 Vescy street, N Y. City. 
PHILO REMINGTON, President Rem¬ 
ington Arms Manufacturing Co., llton, N. Y. 
Hon, ISAAC DAYTON, Register in Bank¬ 
ruptcy, New York City. 
JOHN II. CLARK, of If. B. Cromwell & 
Co., $6 West street, New York City. 
EDWARD MARTINDALE, Attorney at 
Law, New York City. 
J. D. BADGLEY, Wholesale Grocer, 70 
Front, street, New York City. 
WILLIAM ADAMS, Jr., of Bonnell & 
Adams, Wholesale Grocers, 02 Front street, 
New York City. 
J. CROSBY BROWN, of Brown Broth¬ 
ers & Co., Bankers, 50 Wall street. New 
York City. 
JOSEPH S. DECKER, of Turner Broth¬ 
ers, Bankers, 14 Nassau street, New York 
City. 
CIIA RLES MOIES, President Pacific Na¬ 
tional Bank, Pawtucket, K. I. 
EDWARD McMUKDY, President. 
ORLANDO L. STEWART, of Stewart, 
Ricli & Woodford, Attorneys at Law, 271 
Broadway, New York City. 
ROBERT McMUItDY, Roseville, New 
LLOYD GRANVILLE BARTLETT, 
Dentist, 14 AYest Twenty-eighth street, New 
York City. 
Hon. JOS IA IT T MILLER, Counsellor, 
Seneca Falls, N. Y. 
TITUS MEAD, of Badgley & Mead, 79 
Front street. New York City'. 
THEO. F. IIAY, of J. O. Seymour, Ken- 
nurd & Hay, 89 Liberty street, New York 
City. 
Hon. STEWART L. WOODFORD, Ex- 
Lieutenant-Governor State of New York. 
AVILLTAM HENDERSON, Secretary. 
JOHN McMI KDIE, of Pardee, Bates & 
Co., New York City. 
R. J. TOD1), of A. J. Bleecker, Son & Co., 
New York City. 
WVI. IIUAUFICNOA, Scc’y. E. TIcTIURIiV, President. 
IXX’IUS lilcAIFUI, E. MAin nillUE, 
Consulting' Actuary. Vice-President. 
HOA. STEWART E. WOOREOHI*. Counsel. 
MEJDJC a.Ij EXAMINEns I 
J. W. HEARV. T. KEMPSOA, KODMIA KARTLETT. 
Persons desiring Lu act as Agents can write to Farmers’ and Mechanics’ Life 
Insurance Company, or call at the office, 200 Broadway, New York. 
Idvertisement 
CHARLES 11. UAViliOAH, President 
KOI1ERT A. UltANNlSS, Secretary. 
S1IEPPA BE l> HOJIAAS, Consulting Actuary. 
Till** is n Mutual. Company. The I’olley Holders ure its Members. 
The Suiqiliis and Eiiruinas nre theirs, aud Divided among them every year on the 
Contribution I’lun. 
Its Directors nre ninnua the most experienced Insurance Men and Financiers iu th 
country. 
Its Officers nre careful and conservative. 
Ils Assets exceed One Million Two Hundred and Filly Thousand Dollars. 
The Interest on Investment* more than pays all Dosses. 
It has paid iu two years nearly One Hundred Thousand Dollars iu Dividends. 
Its risks are examined mid selected with great care. 
As n consequence, its rale of Mortalily is less tlmu any other Company iu the country. 
It deals only iu Cadi. 
It pays the full amount of llie Policy In Cash. 
Its Dividends are paid in Cash. 
Ils Assets are Cash. 
Ils Mann iters and Representatives believe iu tlie Security ana economy of Cash only 
Cash Insurance is the Safest. 
Cash Insurance is the Cheapest. 
This Company hits never done oilier than a Cash Business. 
Iu the character of Policies issued by this Company — 
The Policy Holder makes an Investment paying better Interest than Government 
Bauds) 
Lays up mi Annuity lor Sickness or Old A no 1 
And secures those dependent ou him Iroiii want in case oi iicntn. 
The most popular lenturcs in the practice of J.ile Insurance were originated by tlio 
Actuary of tills Company. 
The business ol the Company is tlio embodiment of them all. 
Ir is, hence, tumbled to oiler advantages unsurpassed by those offered by any other 
Company iu the country. 
Intelligent investigation will prove this. 
Farmers and Business Men who seek to unite 
SECURITY! A PAYING INVESTMENT! AN INCOME IN OLD AGE! 
AND A PROVISION FOR THEIR FAMILIES ! 
WILL 
JOIN THE TOBJTXriE CLASS OF THIS COIVIFAWIT 
The Public are requested, lor full information, to apply at the Company’s Office, or to 
any of Us Agents 
BT7~ Active, Intelligent men, familiar with the business of Life Insurance, will do wcl 
to co-operate with this Company. 
Address nil Communications to the Company’s Office, 
Ao. LW BROAIIWAV. AE1V VOIMU 
, . W B L L I S’ L IC V ICIt ST V IT P 
' ’ MACHINE, — Clears un acre without 
moving. Works on side hill; pulls'trees; 
rs, ~r~ moves building^. Weight about vno ton. 
jp—Average work ten slumps per hour. Fifteen 
4^*8 of these machine* have been sold the past 
season in Pennsylvania, m the counties of 
Las Wyoming and Luzerne alone. Price $150. 
Address, for Circular, 
W. W.WILLIS, 
No. 30 Oak St., Rochester, N. V. 
Implements, Machinery, Sic. 
Yew Publications, SSc 
Prindle’s Steamer, 
For Cooking Food for Stock. 
Send Stamp for Circular to 
R. H. Ailen & Co. 
P. O. Box 376 , 
m mu-York 
“rpAKLE IT ALL IN ALL, IT IS TI1E 
J- best Magazine for children In the world.”— 
The Simday-ScMQL Thins. 
An Illustrated Magazine for the. Little Ones. 
EDITED BY T. S. ARTHUR. 
THE CHILDREN’S HOUR 
Is the most beautifully illustrated magazine 
published. 
For 1870, It will exceed in interest and Inanity all 
nrevlOlts years. 
In Thk Cnu.nitKN's lioim tor January will he 
published four original Illustration.,, on tinted paper, 
hv Heonoli, and engraved by Lauderhiicli, ol' Lung- 
lellow's exquisite pueui 
“THE CHILDREN’S HOUR.” 
Allen Cary. Virginia K Townsend. Phmbe Cary, 
Mrs. M O Johnson, T S Arthur, Mrs. L. A. IS Cur- 
H*. Ada. M, Kennieolt, Mrs. M I,. Clark, Itosella 
Iiioo, Irene L— . Knte Sutherland, and many other 
gifted authors write regularly tor 
N EW TREAD POWER, - FOR DK I V IN If 
all kinds ol Machinery, such as Circular and 
Drag Saws, Cutting Boxes, Corn Shelters. An., &e. 
It lias a firm, steady track, simple gear, and is simple 
and durable. The two-burso •' Victor ' will cut from 
16 to 26 cords of stove wood per day. Herat for Cir¬ 
cular. BLYMVHU, DAY ,V C(>„ Mansfield, O. 
The 
Blanchard Churn, 
Send Stamp for Circular to 
R. H- Allen & Co< 
Pc ©. Box 376 , 
New-York 
and will make it for 1370 the most, attractive and 
charming children * magazine iu the country 
IMPROVED FOOT LATIIICS, 
X with Side-Rest and Fittings. Elegant, 
durable, cheap and portable. Just tho 
thing for the Artisan or Amateur Turner. 
Send for Descri ptive Circular. 
S. K. BALDWIN Laconia, .S'. II ' 
with delight and profit tt. speak ;, through simple 
form of language, the highest truths, and while the 
little ones are fascinated by Its sweet stories, these 
heavcnlv truths drop like good seeds into their 
mind.3 to bear fruits in after years 
TEEMS IN ADVANCE. 
J Copy—. ... ... .Si.33 
.» Copies . . ... . .. 5.00 
10 Copies, and ono to getter-up of club- . 10.00 
Every ono sending a club of five or more subsorlb- 
ers to Thk Cnu.nnE.VS HOPS will receive as a pre¬ 
mium a copy of one of our splendid steel engravings, 
“ HKD-TIME.' 'T THK a NO Kl. Ok PEACE." 
rBEMIUMS. 
Tool-Chests, Hooks. Dolls. Sewing Machine r, Silver 
Ware, Cabinet Organs, Ac. Ac., are offered by tho 
publishers as premiums for subscribers. 
trtr Send for Premium List and Specimen Nambers. 
Address 
T. 8. ARTHUR A: SONS, 
SOD Jg 81 1 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
B est fodder cutter. —Do you want the 
til*test, easiest working, cheapest and most, dur¬ 
able Self-Foodlrig llay. Straw and Stalk Cutler > 
(Warranted to suit or muneji refunded.) PEEKSKILL 
PLOW WORKS reoksktlf N V.. or Cleveland Ohio. 
H ALL’S PATENT DISKING GLOVES. 
A new invention, made or the beat calf leather, 
with metafile claws attached to assist and prelect 
the hands. Roth right and left-handed. Warranted 
th® host hatnl busker ever invented. Mud® to luce 
ho as to fit tho hands. 
Ill ordering state size-large, medium or r.niall 
Samples sent for $1.. 12 pis.,$ 10 . Sent by Express, 
0. O. D., if desired. Address 
II. W. ROGERS, .lu.. & BRO., 
Produce Commission Merchants, 
No. 2 North LaSalle Street, Chicago, Ill, 
A lt 1 O N PI V \ O 1 O It T K. 
NF.W w.utKiiooas: 
‘213 East 2(flli Street, New York. 
ZJT Send Jo f J’riee J.u/.._g;JJ 
•• A WLtfABI.IC PIPES FOR OUR 
* farming population.” 
This is the verdict of the Coxaitia: ationamst, 
aud we feci confident that the subscribers of the 
NEW ENGLAND FARMER 
will Hilly indorse this conclusion. 
Terms : $2.W a /ear for the Weekly, or $1.60 for the 
Monthly. Send stamp for specimens and premium 
list. It. P. EATON & CO., Boston, Mass. 
