gist 
Life Insurance »idvertlsements, 
Implements , .Tifff/tu!fJ*y, $c, 
Implements £ •llachinci'y , #c. 
NEWS CONDENSER. 
— An Indiana canary lias died of sun-stroke. 1 
— Oranges are ripe in Florida. t 
— Business is increasing in Russia. 
— Maine’s hops are a failure. 
— Business on the Erie Canal is very dull. 
— Niagara county’s potatoes are rotting badly. 
— Richmond, Va., has a new synagogue. 
— In August New York had sixty-four Arcs. 
— Russia is to have trial by jury. 
— Alaska, wants a Territorial Government. 
— East Boston tins two ghosts. 
— Cape Cod has but few cranberries this year. 
— Auburn, N. Y., mailed 69,000 letters in Au¬ 
gust. 
— Egyptian mummies are manufactured in 
Paris. 
— During June, Paris ate six hundred and live 
hoi*ses. 
— The Chicago police made 2,506 arrests during 
August. • 
— The New York public schools opeued on the 
6th inst. 
— St Thomas had another earthquake on the 
29th ult. 
— The chief theater in Florence is still lighted 
by oil lamps. 
— One of the outgoing Irish bishops is ninety- 
nine years old. 
— A $45 ,000 fire occurred at Navasota, Texas, 
on the 7th inst. 
— Banks are springing up In all the smaller 
Russian cities. 
The mint at Zacatecas, Mexico, coined $5,- 
000,000 last year. 
The old designs are to be restored upon the 
postage stamps. 
There is a brisk demand for dwelling houses 
in Auburn, N. Y. 
Richmond, Va., had a $120,000 Ore on the 
night of the 0th inst. 
A farmer in Hardwick, Mass., has over fifty 
miles of stone fence. 
— The new English bayonet can lie used either 
as a sword or as a saw. 
— Of Chicago’s twenty-eight fires in August 
eight wore incendiary. 
—The Republicans carried Vermont on the 7th 
by about 20,000 majority. 
— London has eight parks which are cultivated 
and five which me commons. 
— Spain is sending 6,000 more troops to face 
the Cubans and yellow fever. 
— A woman in New Hampshire stole a tomb¬ 
stone and pawned It for whisky. 
— Tho English Cabinet is considering the par¬ 
don of tho condemned Fenians. 
— Switzerland forbids retfruitUig within her 
borders for the Viceroy of Egypt. 
— Four hundred and twenty-nine Mormons 
landed at New York on the 6th inst. 
— Mexico is organizing troops to defend her 
northern frontier against the Indians. 
— A Mnytiou paper dollar is worth just a mffi, 
or the thousandth part ol a gold dollar. 
— The last of the Mohegnns, ninety in number, 
have been bolding a fair at Norwich, Ct. 
— Indiana, on account of the nttmbor of her 
railroads, claims (o be tho Gridiron State. 
— At Madras a lion was given five ounces of 
chloroform prior to having his tail cut. otf. 
— CVvwleigh, a village of Devonshire, Eng¬ 
land, was destroyed by fire on tho 26th ult. 
— The I'iiIon Fence Co.’s works at rninosville, 
O., were burnt on the 4th lust. Loss $30,000. 
— The latest Niagara desperado is ranking a 
set of wings with which to fly over the falls. 
- Painesvillc, O., is to have a nitre-glycerine 
factory with a. dally capacity of 2,000 pounds. 
— The cotton crop in the interior of Egypt is 
reported us excellent In quality and quantity. 
— The American Institute has appropriated 
$3,000 for scientific lectures the coming winter. 
— An excellent span of horses was found dead 
iu the stable nt Homer, N. Y., a few days since. 
— It is proposed to reduce the Spanish hier¬ 
archy to five archbishops and thirty-two bishops. 
— There arc but three private residences on 
Broadway, between IJnloaPlace and the Battery. 
— The Nova Scotia papers have got over their 
spasm of loyalty, and arc discussing annexation 
again- 
— A thirsty wretch estimates that the Philadel¬ 
phia whisky fire destroyed 61,000,000 “straight 
drinks.” 
— Ithaca, N. Y., expects that Commodore Van¬ 
derbilt will erect a railway between it and Union 
Springs. 
— Since the completion of the Pacific Railroad 
eighteen United States Senators have visited 
California. 
— A home for aged men is building In Boston 
at a co -t of $53,000, of which $41,(XX) has been 
subscribed, 
— A Sioux City father-in-law has successfully 
6ued a deserting husband for $1,360 for two 
years' board. 
— A twenty pound snapping turtle was caught 
the other day at Rockdale Lake, N. Y., by a man 
while fishing. 
— The Virginia State Library lias had 75,000 
volumes, 35,000 of which have been stolen by 
hook thieves. 
— A Boston belle sporfed $35,000 worth of dry 
goods and trappings at the Clarendon, Saratoga, 
the other day. 
— Liverpool's cotton importations for the few 
days previous to tho 4th inst. were unprece¬ 
dentedly heavy. 
— The total number of Union soldiers during 
the war was 2,023,200, of whom 1,523,300 were na¬ 
tive Americans. 
—The Western Pacific Railroad of California 
Is now completed, and ears run from San Fran¬ 
cisco to Now York. 
— Two moccasins were killed near Troy, tho 
oilier day, and forty-six little refugees were 
found inside them. 
ttng-maehiue ever invented- H la annul. light. neat, 
simple of construction, rtnnibfd, works Very rapidly, 
has out one itcedto, makes tbo old-fashioned knitting- 
needlc stitch (and two others,i with light or heavy, 
single or double yitm, set* Uv " ml flit (Wi. > its own front, 
and needs tie weights. It knits Close or loose tex¬ 
tures, hollow or Hut web, large or small bibrio*,— 
anything that can he Unit by bund, and In a uracil 
better manner- A child cun readily operate it. and 
can learn to do so much sooner than to knit, with 
ordinary needles. Tluiro is nothing to be done but to 
thread a needle and turn a crunk, until the ImO is 
reached, which is formed to perfection, with little 
trouble and no sewing: thesaroe 1- the case with the 
toe. 
Tho nnre of this knitter Is tint $25.00. which places 
It within the rcidi of every family L is destined to 
bo verv popular, and we can otter agents, general 
and special, exceedingly liberal terms for engaging 
in its sale. Send for circulars. 
fr" Address 1SSSICK KNITTING MACHIN'ECO., 
S. W. cor. 11th and Chestnut streets, Philadelphia, 
Pa. 
AMERICAN T O N TI! 
Life si lid Savings Insurance Con 
C_ J 
149 BROADWAY, NEW YORK 
FOR SOWING ALL 1V1NDS OF 
GRAIN AND GRASS SEED. 
* . '''.' '■'•v- -,S • ' • • i . • i t f t f * * • 
I : R. "■ ' V V- ’ 
•• »>A\\\V »• 1 1 ‘ : ' v-y.r/z-Xv;*: 
WILLIAM II. I.I IH.OW, President. 
I&OISIIKT M. STBATTOA, I ice-Prcsidcut 
HENRY SNYDER, Secretary, 
JOHN N. WHITING, Counsel, 
PARKS EACKLER, Consulting Actuary. 
FOSTER A THOMPSON, Solicitors, 
( I1ARLEN MCMILLAN, M. I>., Medical Examiner. 
Prindie’s Steamer, 
For CooKlng Food for Stock. 
Send Stamp for Circular to 
R 0 Alien & Co. 
P B O. Box 376, 
Mew-York 
WILLIAM II. LI'PLOW 
ROBERT ,11. STRATTON 
SAMUEL WALLETS. 
CLARENCE S. BROWN. 
JONATHAN TIIORNE 
JOHN N. WHITING. 
ROBERT SCII ELI.. 
J. O. SEYMOUR. 
WILLIAM RLOODGOOI) 
J. I’. GTRAFO FOSTER . 
.1. WILSON STRATTON. 
JOSEPH M. COOPER . 
It. LENOX KENNEDY. 
MINOT C. MORGAN_ 
JOHN CASWELL 
EDWARD IIAIGIIT. 
WILLIAM M. TWEED 
CHARLES J. SHEPARD 
DWIGHT TOWNSEND 
PHILIP W. ENGS 
JAMES M. IIROWN 
SAMUEL L. MITCH ILL 
ELIJAH T. BROWN. 
ABRAM S. HEWITT. 
.. .Proiltlcnt. 
.... Viesj'rcddna. 
.of W’tlictx A. Co. 
.of Brown Broa. A Co. 
.ol Thorne, Walpou & Co. 
... . Allorney amt Counsellor. 
... ol Roller! Scltcll A' Co. 
. ol J. Seymour & Co. 
.No. M3 Went Twenty-fourth St. 
.of Foster »V Thomson. 
•Treasurer ol tilt* Novelty Iron Works. 
.....of Cooper, Fellows »V Co. 
ice-Frcsidcii! of I lit* UmiU of Column -<■. 
... .Bunker. 
.of John ('unwell & Co. 
i Natiouul ItuuU of the- Couniiouwealtlt. 
...No. M3? Broadway, 
.... .No. ‘242 It ntcr St, 
.No. 03 Wall St, 
.of P. W. Eug* cY Sons. 
.of Brown «Y Co 
.. . . .Mert hunt. 
......of Elijah T. Brown & Co. 
..,oi Cooper, Hewitt A: Co 
The Hand Machine will sow .70 acres of wheat, In 
10 hours i the Horse Power 120 In tho same time, 
and the work is dune In tho most perfect maimer. 
Hundreds of letters from all parts ot tiro country 
speak Its praise. 
JotMCPtl llAiuus, author or “ Walks and Talks" 
in American Agriculturist, said, in t letter to u 
friend, duted .Tub 3,1869:-" I like the faltoon Broad¬ 
cast Seed Sower very much Indeed. I sowed all my 
clover need with it,and It certainly saves a great deal 
of work. I have no doubt it sows perfectly evoo.ut 
least more evenly than it nun be sown l»y hand.” 
The following is from one of tho Editors of tho 
11 U IIAI, NEW-YORKBR : 
latTi.H FALX,», N. Y., July 8,1809. 
D. IT. Goodell— Dear Sir: Tlie llroudeast Seed 
Sower you sent mo last spring gave good satisfac¬ 
tion. U sows evenly and rapidly. For small seeds, 
so far as I tested, it seem* to he admirable, li Is a 
very handy machine, and farmers, I think, cannot 
fail to be pleased with it. Very truly yours, 
X. A. WILLARD. 
The prloe of the Hand Sower in # 10. and of Power 
Sowera, #00. Send for Circulars. 
D. H. GOODELL -Nr CO., 
Bole Manufacturers, Aniriiu, N. !I. 
\: A M I I. V 
CIDER A\D W1YF, MILL. 
HPTCfH NSON‘S PAT ENT. 
Grinds fine, fast and easy. Makes 
pure 'vine amt sweet elder. Mine 
than 29,000 in use. Larger sixes wUh 
two curbs, also with large square 
curly. Chirr Praia Semes, tine thread, 
very powerful. r.'njq/i rSlrlp FmlCwl- 
li ra, Die best and cheapest self-feed- 
•i r ('utter fi»r 11av*. Straw and Corn 
[ talks. Semi fee Illustrated circular. 
PKCKSKI 1.1. PLOW WORKS, 
Peek skill, N. Y„ . ,r 
61 Merwin SI.. Cleveland, Ohio. 
I'lio campnnv issue eeetllli ill's, wuenevee nrsimi, ngi.-tn ng n> put' 
at. their surrender value, which, when accompanied by the policy duly transferred 
may bo used as collateral security for loans. 
AM kinds rtf Non-Forfeit biff Idle Mill Endowment Policies issnedi nit 
BUntnce and Deferred Annuity, .IoTiH Lite and Loan Redemption Policies and Mini 
Policies Ineonleslnltlei Liberal Modes of Payment ol Premiums; I.o 
of Insurance; liberty to Travel; Thirty Days'Grace on Renewals; Prompt Payment 
in Expenses; Loans on Policies; Annual Dividends on Contribution Plan; No Extr 
8tatii|is, or Medical Examination; No Extra Charge for Otticers of the Army and N 
JVew Publications*, Sc 
O CAPITALISTS ami EMIGRANTS: 
liii 
The South offers splendid opportunities for Capital 
and Emigration, and 
THE “OLD NORTH STATE” 
especially hold-" out rare Inducements. A Full De¬ 
scription of its Count tuft. together with Letters from 
Prominent. Citizens of the Rente in Relatbei to Soil, 
Climate, Productions, Mineral:, Ac., lire given in 
CTOR.TH CAROLINA, 
A GLIDE TO CAPITA LISTS AM* jmiUKAXTS. 
An8vo. vnlumo nf 136 pages', which every individual 
meditating Investment or settlement la tho South 
should peruse. 
Pit ice In Cloth.fl 25 
Paper... <•> 
Sent post-paid on receipt of price. Apply to or 
address IU’KAL NkW-YORKEH oI-Vivk. 
H Park Row. New York, or Rochester, N. Y. 
LHAULUS II. KAYMOAD, Presidcut 
ISOlSEfitT A. GBAAIiAISN, Sctrclaiy 
Sold by all respectable dealers. Send for Circular to 
W. O. IIICKOK <fc HON, 
Harrisburg, Pa. 
SlIEPPAUD IlOMiAN, (ensulliisg Actuary 
OW IS THE TIME TO SUBSCRIBE 
fOR TUB 
This Is a Mutual Company. The Policy Holders arc its Members. 
The Surplus and Earnings tire tlieirs, and Divided unioug them every year on the 
Contribution I’lun. 
Its Directors ure among the most experienced Insurance Men and Financiers iu Hie 
country. 
Its Odicers ure careful and conservative. 
Its Assets exceed One Million Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars. 
The Interest on Investments more than pays all Losses. 
It has paid In two years ueurly One Hundred Thousand Dollars in Dividends. 
Its risks ure examined and selected with greet care. 
As a consequence, its rate of Mortality is less than any other Company Iu tho country. 
It deals only in Cash. 
It pays the full amount of the Poliey in Cash. 
Its Dividends ure paid iu Cash. 
Its Assets ure Cush. 
Its Mnlingers mid Representatives believe In the Security unit Economy of Cash only. 
Cash Insurance is the Safest. 
Cush Insurance is the Cheapest. 
This Company 1ms never done other tlinn u Cash Business. 
In the character of Policies issued by this Company — 
The Policy Holder makes tin Investment waving better luterest than Government 
Bonds; 
Lays up n.u Annuity for Sickness or Old Aget 
And secures those dependent on him from want in ease ot ueatn. 
The most popular features iu the practice of Life iusitrauce were originated by tho 
Actuary of this Company. 
The business ol tlie Company is the embodiment of them all. 
It is, hence, enabled to otter advantages unsurpassed by those offered by any ether 
Company in the country. 
Intelligent investigation will prove this. 
Farmers and Business Men who seek to unite 
Send Stamp for Circular to 
R* H. ASBen & Co, 
P„ O Box 376, 
Mew-York 
. THE PEOPLE’S FAVORITE JOURNAL. 
The Most Intmisting Stories 
Are always to be found in the 
NEW YO RK W EEKLY. 
At present there arc 
FOim GItE+lT ST OSSIES 
running through Its columns ; and 'it least 
ONE STORY IS BEGUN EVERY MONTH. 
New subscriber* nre Unis -ure of having tbo com¬ 
mencement uf a new continued story, no matter when 
they subsea i be for the 
NEW YO RK W EEKLY. 
Each numhor of the NEW YORK WEEKLY con¬ 
tains Several Beautiful Illustrations, Double the 
Amount of Rending Mutter ot any ptvpor of Its class, 
and the Sketches, Short Stories. Poems, etc., are hy 
the ablest writers of America and Europe. '1 Ira 
NEW YORK WEEKLY 
does not coniine Its usefulness to amusement, hut 
publishes a great quantity ot reall y Instructive Mat¬ 
ter, in the most condensed form The 
f 'BUlttH, SUNPAY M HOOl A Nil 
V J LECTURE ROOM KETTRE8 
,if every description. Also, JOEOKKD'8 PAT- UE- 
VEHK1BLE SEAT. The back of this settee, which 
Is easily reversed, nt the same time adjusts the seat 
toa ptuai indispensable for comfort. Send for Cata¬ 
logue LrJ It. PATON A GO., Manufacturers of School 
Furniture, 26 Grove St„ New York. 
Grain Cleaner and 
have attained a high reputation from their brevity, 
excellence, and correctaess. 
The Pleasant p.miaukaitih arc nmduupof the 
concentrated wit and humor of many minds. 
The Knowledge Box in confined to useful infor¬ 
mation on nil manner of subjects. 
The News Items give in the fewest words the 
most notable clulii&s all over the world. 
The Gossip with Cohuespoindents contains an¬ 
swers to inquiries upon all imaginable subjects. 
Send Stamp for Circular to 
H. Allen & Co, 
P. O. Box 376, 
New-York 
SECURITY! A PAYING INVESTMENT! AN INCOME IN OLD AGE! 
AND A PROVISION FOR THEIR FAMILIES! 
AN TJNRIYALED LITERARY PAPER 
18 THE 
NEW YORK WEEKLY. 
Each issue contains from BIGHT to ti :n STORIES 
and SKI D > 1 
ADDITION to the FOLK SERIAL STORIES and 
the VARIED DEPARTMENTS. 
The Terms to HuliMvribers t 
One Year— single copy.Throe Dollars. 
•• “ Four bopies (42 50 each).. ...Ten Dollars. 
" “ Eight cobles-. .Twenty Dollars. 
Those sending 820 for a club uf Eight, nil sent at 
one time, will be entitled to a copy PllKi:. Gctters-iip 
of clubs can afterward add single copies at 82 50 
each. 
(STREET ifc SMITH, Proprietors, 
No. 33 Fulton St., N. Y. 
FENCE A GATE 
X do dt Ax > have, now for sale Farm, Town, 
f "UUtyaml State Rights to build their Patent Fence 
and Gjito for farm and other inclosures. The posts 
are Iron, their bases Stone, the other materials, 
rads, poles, boards or pickets; client) and stromi as 
any wooden !""» fence, sad will last tutermlirably. 
ActWC Uravassers wonted In all parts oJUhe United 
sta Iqs. lor I a m pill ct Circulars, containing plans 
and dejcviotlon. address LEWIS F. A LLEN. Trean- 
mer. Black ltock,k.ne r„..S, Y.,or Sh P. WJ’LU A MS, 
Prca t, Sheridan, Chantttnqua Co., N. V. * 
joim the tontine ceabs or this coaeiPAsnr 
The Public are requested, for full information, to apply at the Company’s Office, or to 
any of its Agents. 
137“ 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 Oltlce, 
No. 132 BKOlIHV iY, NEW YORK, 
The 
Blanchard Churn. 
Send Stamp for Circular to 
R. H. AJSen & Co, 
P. O. Box 376, 
New-York 
W HAT E X E R Y RURAL 
SUBSCRIBER WANTS—Is the 
Eureka Patent Self-Binder, 
An efficient and cheap method of placing the 
Bubal In a convenient shape tor reading and pre¬ 
servation. it Is neat and durable—the heat of the 
many Self-Binders we. have examined. The Eureka 
has board sides covered with morocco paper, doth 
back, and gilt lettering, (RUKAL NEW-YOliK rat.riind 
will hold a half volume-twenty-six numbers. By 
an ingenious nrrungemeut i-aeh number can be. in¬ 
stantly filed, and la t hus in bonk shape for reading. 
Sent by mail, prepaId. for fl.50; by Express, paid, 
$1.75. Call at the RURAL (ittlce, II Park Row, New 
York, or 82 Ruffalo street. Rn* liester. N. V ., where 
the Binder may be examined and ocureo'; or Ad¬ 
dress 
D. D. T. MOORE, 
41 Park Row, New York, or Rochester, N. Y. 
Int pie incuts, Jfl etch i n cry , <(V 
F OR Family use—simple,cheap,rsliablc, Knit? everything 
A6ENTS WVinO. Circular and rampla stocking FREE 
Addrm HINKLEY KNITTING MACHINE CO., Bath, Me< 
ltl men’s work. No sore lingers. Sells at itijht. 
A ijrtitx wanted. $20 a day. one -ample 60 cts., or t hree 
styles $1.25, or 0 Hnsknrs for 82.00, prepnid Address, 
immediately, CITY NOVELTY CO., fbl Library St., 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
YELLS! BELLS! BELLS! 
> Best and Cheapest Jladc iu tills Country, 
Send for Illustrated Catalogue. 
HAUIU80N & DAVIS, 
35 ami 37 Park Place, New York City. 
CHAMBERLAIN’S 
Patent Screw Stump Machine, 
FOR FARMER’S USE. 
Safe. Economical, Cheap, and 
the best in use Will puli the 
laTgest stump with ease. 
Patented Jnne 11th, 1867. 
Pot partiruIaM send for circular to 
Geo. Chamberlain & Son. Oleao, fl.V. 
F or *nmt>lr Stocking and Circular address 
,1 ah. If. ok.xK A Cu.,(jcn. Agt’s. I X .1 Murkel St., 
Rochester, N.Y.,ra'M2‘iGhe'tnut bU, IMuladeiyhia, Fa. 
riHIE NATIONAL CORN HI SK Fit. A 
S pertc-t and practical machine; pick- from the 
stalk and hiukH 000 im -tiel* per day with one-horse 
power. Price $150. Liberal discount to the trade. 
JAMES A ROBINSON. 
164 Duuira St. New York. 
“ Uhappcd Hands, face, rough skin, pimples, 
ring-wonn, salt-rheum, ami other cutaneous 
affoetlqns, cured, by using the Juniper Tar Soap 
nir.ilo by Caswell, Hazard A Co., New York. 
It is more convenient and easily applied than 
other remedies, avoiding the trouble of the 
greasy compounds now in use.”—St. Louis Bern. 
|)ItI\DhK'S AGttICFLTrRAL Ktrnmov 
A Is perfectly sale, ts cheap,does not require skill¬ 
ed labor to manage, and saves from 25 to 50 per •■cut. 
to the Block Feeder. Those In want will Meud for 
price* and circulars to 
BARROWS, SAVERV k CO., 
Successors to Savery & Co., Philadelphia. 
F >U SALE AT A BA RGA IN — SINGLE 
barrel or iot., five bbls. iiM) lbs. i"ich,l Grafton 
Mineral Paint, valuable for houses, barns, fences 
carriages and carriage makers, and agricultural Im¬ 
plements. Address JOHN (4. WILLIAMS, 
Rural New-Yorker office, Rod'ester, N. Y. 
MNPftAR HOW MADE FROM CIDER, 
1 IIILurilli Wine, Molasses >o- Sorghum ,n ill 
ours, without using drugs. For Circulars, address 
I. SAGE, Vinegar Maker, Cromwell, Ct. 
This machine will be on Exhibition at the State 
Fair, at Elmira, this tall. 
