CONTRACTS TAKEN! 
New publications 
Secbs, plants, ©tc 
NEWS CONDENSER, 
— Oregon has 529 post-offices. 1 
— The Boston Jubilee cost $050,000. 
— Brussels has two femalo barbers. 
— Figs arc successfully grown in Texas. 
— Italy will suppress the order of Jesuits. 
— Iowa has a State hospital for sick horses. 
— The prohibitory law is a success in Maine. 
— Hay sells in Concord, N. If., at $20 per ton. 
— The Baldwin apple originated in Baldwin, 
Maine. 
— Game is abundant in the Adirondacks this 
season. 
— The tournament at Saratoga was not a 
success. 
— Saratoga has had a very successful season 
thus far. 
— Farmers in Massachusetts are cutting their 
tobacco. 
— Boston appropriates $50,000 for a small pox 
hospital. 
— Friars exiled from Guatemala, will go to 
Milwaukee. 
— Women have appeared in Troy as drivers of 
express wagons. 
— A Russian farmer of Odessa has half a mil¬ 
lion Merino sheep. 
— Ono California orchard has yielded 81,000 
gallons of olive oil. 
— The Rappahannock river Is so low the grist¬ 
mills have stopped. 
— Vermont ts to have a great musical conven¬ 
tion at Lyndouvtlle. 
— There are more than 1,000 steamboats on 
the Mississippi river. 
The life stations on Cape Cod will be ready 
l'or use before Winter. 
— Less than 20,000 people have gone to Europe 
from New York this year. 
— The increase of values in Boston last year 
was seventy millions of dollars. 
— Work on the Maine General Hospital at 
Portland has been discontinued. 
— Thirty hoys have escaped from the State 
Reform School In Wcsfboro, Mass. 
— The women of Boston and Rochester have 
held great congratulation meetings. 
— The female college in North Hampton, 
Mass., will go into operation in 1874. 
Germany lifts set. aside 22 large French can¬ 
non to cast a colossal boll to ring in peace. 
— Lightning' seldom does any damage in large 
cities now-a-days, so much iron enters into their 
construction. 
— Two Russian Editors have been put in pris¬ 
on for saying the Grand Duke was secretly 
married while in this country. 
THE STANDARD IN THE VAN ! 
All other Church Music Books, of whatever degree 
of exi-olluuco, are lospooUbUy luvltod to full in the 
rear of 
>-y ears old. Also, 
season. Send for 
Ihuisvtllo, N. Y. 
Cherr 
Price 
THE STANDARD! 
Peach Seed, growth of 1872. saved in Southern Illi¬ 
nois; product of seedling punch trees. Price*1 poi 
bushel; liberal discount on birao lots. 
j. m. McCullough a son, 
Cincinnati, Ohio. 
Our New COLUCOTtnN OV Mt'Sie FOR Ononis, Con¬ 
ventions unit SlNUlNU Seuooi.S. It cannot bo ex¬ 
celled in quality, and intends to load In circulation. 
Some ol' the Merit*. Short Theory. Abundant 
Material, Sacred und Secular, for practice Ev eel lent 
set, of Motrloa! Tuuos, iri. Mils' efivir print and not 
crowded; u groat advantage, Unusually good col¬ 
lodion nf Anthem*, Set Pieces. &o. Thu compil¬ 
ers, Messrs. L. O. KMHltsoNof Boston, and tl. K. 
PALMER of Chicago, are perhaps tlio most skillful 
man of their time lu adapting mu-da to lliu wants 
of the “singing" public. Price, St..JO. Specimen 
copies sent, for tho present, post-paid, for s 
50,000 Standard Penns, unusually line. 2 and 
3 years old. at the to west living rate*. Correspond- 
oneo solicited. H- H. FARLEY, 
Union Springs, N. Y. 
(Patented March 5, 18(17.' 
Used In laying streets, roadways, sidewalks, in lining 
cellars, cisterns, vats, and In the manufacture ol sew¬ 
ers und sowor-Liipo, wulor-plpe, drain.pipe, gas-pipe, 
rooting aud architectural ornaments. 
HT BEETS. 
Karan's Improved Macadam pavement for streets 
Is destined to lake the place of all other forms of 
pavement, for tho reasons, vu. 
It is cheaper, more durable, more easily and per¬ 
fectly repaired. Is impervious to water, and no at¬ 
mospheric change will affect It. 
It Is free from mud ami dust, und is noiseless. 
tt Is smooth without being slippery, and has, sof- 
tlclent elasticity to make It the easiest pavement 
known for uuimuls to travel over. 
OUR ABILITY. 
The reason a Macadam road does not lust longer ts 
because the Slones are loose and rub und grind upon 
each other —dust und luud Is tl.. Eagan s 
Composition holds the rocks llrmly together, thus 
completely remedying this evit, and coiUlnlng the 
wear of ilio road to Its surface. 
SI DEW A I, ICS. 
Wagun's Composition Is peculiarly adapted for side¬ 
walks and lawa wallet, private roadways, gutters, 
etc. It can he made Into Mocks and lain in squares 
or diamond form, or made one continuous sheet, cov¬ 
ering arched work more perfectly than the largest 
tines tone. aud at one-fourt-li the expense. 
Walks made ol It have a smooth, hard and even 
siirtacc, pleasant to walk Upon, always clean and free 
of tee, anil of us great durability as it made of the best 
flagstone. Sidewalks uiiido under Eagan's patent cost 
but little If any more than if tuadu of plank, and lira 
as durable as rock. 
ROOFING. 
Mudo of tills composition, la far superior to tho com¬ 
mon felt roofs that arc ■unto Of gravnl, felt., coul-tar 
and pitch. The latter Is liable to run In warm cli¬ 
mates and to cmak in cold. By tills peculiar Chem¬ 
ical combination* tn thin com position both of tlitjso 
objections are obviated, and a roof produced eftna.1 to 
klute, at a cost of ubout otiu-thlrd as much nor square. 
CELLAR BOTTOMS AND SIDES, 
Lined with this composition, from one to two inches 
thick, keep perfectly dry and warm in winter and cool 
lu summer, and are rat and vermin proof. 
FLOORS. ** 
Floors nuido of It may he painted any color: and 
aro as pluusunl to tread upon us if made of wood. 
CISTERNS AND VATS. 
• Kagan's Composition Is Impervious to water and In¬ 
soluble In acids, making It just the tiling for lining 
vats in breweries and munufactories of most kinds, 
it Is equally well adapted for r-iMc.rn:i, much butter 
than tho host hydraulic cements, ami not subject to 
decay from any cause. 
FIRING. 
Piping ramie of Eagan's Composition has been In use 
for live years in Ban Francisco, Cal,, where It was first 
invented. It has given entire satisfaction, almost 
entirely superseding all other kinds of piping for 
sower* or drums. It is eiudly and Cheaply made, and 
lias the advantage of being made, at any place with¬ 
out u great, outlay of money for machinery, tools, 
buildings or imtloWala, 
Pipes can he made of any required size, aro cheaper, 
and will nuHtuln u greater external or Internal press¬ 
ure than any other kind of cement pipe. 
CEMENT. 
As a cement It Is acknowledged, by scientific men 
who have examined It, to bo the strongest known. 
A wall built of brink or Stone, und this cement used 
as a mortar, wsuld bo perfectly solid as if made of a 
solid rock. 
SEA WALLS. 
|fSea walls can ho built with this material In combi¬ 
nation with .min rock, moro rapidly und cheaper 
than in any other way 
Conover’s Asparagus. 
100,000 ti-ycar, 1 Goon I*i ants 
00,000 I -year. ( uo, ’ l ’ “anis. 
•For sale very low. .1. 1IEYSKR, Cliambersburg, Fa, 
A Perfect Success t Tho printers cannot keep 
pace with tho demand ! Diteou ifc Co.'s 
FLOWER ROOTS 
i rtOM HOLLAND. 
PLANT NOW FDR SPRING FLOWERS. 
I have Just imported non varieties of Dutgu lit uis. 
Send for a > ululogue, flee to all; tho price list will 
be found less than any other house lu the trade. 
I deliver Bulbs at your pnst-ofllce free of postage. 
Order early, and address It. 'I s . WELLS. 
It Hawley St., ItriMton. Miras. 
By JOHANN STRAUSS, 
It is a largo book (of ilM) pages, full sheet madia 
Hike), tilled with the best Strauss Mil ale. Waltzes, 
PoIIi.ih, Quadrilles, Ac , Including those performed 
In I Ids country under tho direction oft.hu groat com¬ 
poser. 
About #10 worth of tuilkie are included In the 
"Gems." which are, however, sold for Uio dimin¬ 
utive price of 
$‘L50 in Boards; ©:{ in Cloth. Sent, post-paid, 
fur ilia retail price. 
OLIVER DITSON CO., Boston. 
CD AS, TL DITSON & CO., Now York. 
Tree*, Shrub*, Plains, Etc. Best kinds for 
South and West. Large stock; tine assortment; 
best quality ; prices very reasonable. For Catalogue 
Or oilier information, address 
R. G. HANFORD, Columbus, Ohio. 
PEAR TREES A SPECIALTY 
TAUNTING, TRAPPING, FISHING. -Mak- 
1 I. mg traps, preserving, dressing and tanning skins 
and fin'd, baits, cut. 71, pages, Ml engravings Only 
•JO cts. .Mailed by (!, S. RILEY, Holland, N. Y. 
We offer to those wishing llrst-class stock, a large 
and splendid stock of (snindiird and Dwarf Pours, 
at reduced prices. 
R. «. HANFORD, CoItinihuM, Ohio. 
THE COMIC YANKEE 
HEDGE PLANTS! 
Nursery Stock! Fruit and Flower Plates! 
Address F. K. PIHKN1X, 
Bloomington Nursery, 
I2X) Acre*; 21st year; 12 '.rcen-llouses. 
Apple aud Crabs, llrst-class trees 1,000 l vr., $20; 2 
yr,. $30; 3 yr„ iftflt I yi\.*5U. 
Stand. Burnett, etc., lirat.class, l.fi ft., 100, #25 
" good 2d size, ,1.5 ft., 100... 15 
Grapes- Concord and Clinton, IsUeliivi, 1 yr., 1IKK), 25 
K iiHphcrrics Doolittle, M. Cluster A I’lilla., I0IKJ. 8 
ltlucli berries Kittiulrmy,Wilson A Lawton, 1000, li 
1,000 1 yr. Hurd or Soft Maple, #1, Elm und Ash, $3. 
Four Catalogues, 20 cents. 
NOVELLO’S 
CHEAP MUSIC 
NOVF.LLO’S Glees, Purt-Hongs, Ac. 
NOVELLO’S Church Music. 
NOVELLO'S Organ Musto (Books). ,1 
NOVKLLO’S Plano Music (Book*). 7 
NOVELLO’S Popular Songs...... V! 
NOVELLO’S Oratorio*. .1 
NOVELLO’S Operas.Sl.U 
Ask for NOVELLO’S Edition*. 
Seud for Catalogue and Ll*t.* to 
NOVLLLO, EWEH & CO., 
751 Broadway. New Yor 
l’ca ra 
IS. lit LBS, HEDGE PLANTS, 
, Fruit and Flower Plate*. 4 Catalogues, 20c. 
K. PIKENIX, Bloomington Nursery, 111. 
SENECA COUNTY NURSERIES 
IT* It Kit! S1CND FOIL \ Ml* ICG I 111 UN. 
I 1 A mil Catalogue ol our Standard, Miscellaneous 
and Illustrated Juvenile Book*, or spud man num¬ 
ber* ol Oliver Optle's Magazine, scot by mull free. 
LEE .ft SHEPARD. PuMisher*, Boston, 
whore all publications may he loutid. 
AVATJKIILOO, N. V. 
Over :{»() Aries In Trees, Slinibs and Plants, 
Our Trees are all young, healthy and thrifty. No 
old blocks. 
Our Apples and Pears are especially tine, and we 
have a very largo stock to select from. CV Corre¬ 
spondence and orders solicited. 
ni nnr MICROSCOPE.— 1 The on I v genuine clump 
uLuul Scientific Inntruiueut. Magnifies 1(K> di¬ 
ameter*. TUN TUOPaANl) time*. Invaluable to Stu. 
dents, Professional Men. and for tho home circle. 
lias no KQPAL at less than tlli. Price uNl.v $2.7.',. 
Rent free and prepaid on receipt of pile©. Illustrated 
Circular* rung. Address HUNTER A CO., General 
Agents, Hinsdale, N. Y. 
ffAA AAA ST A N DA U !» PEA R T R EES, 
OvMLWwo lit greatly ru ueed rates. Also, a 
general line of Nursery Stock. Write for Price List. 
E. MOODY Hi RONS, Lock port, N. Y. 
Iiniarn - The Eastern Shore of Maryland Is 
nUIvlCOa settling up very rapidly. Great ad¬ 
vantages over the West and Far South. Send for 
.. . .!. F. MANCHA & IlltO.. Ridgoly, Md. 
Catalogue 
W EBSTER'S POCKET DICTIONARY, 
abridged from the grant American Quarto, con¬ 
taining 18,009 words, with rumefuun proverbs, Latin, 
French and Greek quotatloi « and illustrated with 
nearly HOOengravIng*. Suhata. c«illy bound, gilt edges, 
and »7>nl by mall on receipt ■ , *1. Address I v iron, 
hi. a a km an, Taylor A Co., IBS & HO Grand St., N. Y. 
LEE’S SUMMIT NURSERIES 
JOHU N. LUCAS, Hon. L. L. HOLBROOK, 
Counselor at Law, GcIlcrft i M Hunger. 
President. 
Wholesale and General Supply Nurseries. 
An Immense stock, of superior quality, ill. low prices. 
rZT Dcnleix, this Is the moat cxUmsivu Nursef) 
in tho West. Bond for Price List. 
Ill,AIK BHDS.. 
Lee’S Summit, Jackson Co., Mo. 
rjtllE BEST FAMILY PERIODICALS. 
J- THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY,*!. 
OUR YOUNG FOLKS. S3. 
EVERY SATURDAY, »5. 
Published by „ , „ , , 
JAMES K. OSGOOD A CO., 
B on ton. 
t%r Send for full Prospectus, and forCiitulogue of 
Standard Works by first American and English 
authors. 
TUBES! TREES! TREES! TREES! 
MERRELL & COLEMAN, Geneva, N. Y., 
(lifer, for Full planting, Strip Acres of fJhnice tfumeru 
Grown Treex, consisting of Pear (standard and dwarf), 
Plum, Apple. Cherry, Poa.ch. Nectarine, Apricot und 
Crab; also, C/inkv (ir.ipc I'idfs, Pres. Wilder Straw¬ 
berry, Currant and Gooseberry Bushes, Shrubbery, 
Ac. Ih’scrIptive Vululogue, 10c. Club a? jL t’mnlly 
to ten free-. 
DIPLOMAS*. 
First premiums bavo been awarded to Kagan’s Com¬ 
position from the following Fairs: 
(ill I font la State Fair, at Sacramento, Cal., 1808. 
Mechanics’ Institute Fair. San Francisco, 1808. 
Sonoma County Fair, at r’etulumu, Cal., 181X1. 
St. Louis Agricultural and Mechanical Fair, at St. 
Louis, 18119. 
New Jersey Statu Fair, 1870. 
It has been exhibited at no other Fairs. 
Tho U. S. I.aml Ofllce, for the Southern and West¬ 
ern part of the Sta'e of Nebraska, recently located at 
Jewell, Kearney Co. contains the largest amount of 
iqo i farming, unoccupied land of any Land District 
in t ie United States, 
i loines toads selected and located for soldiers, under 
the late net of Congress, without their personal at- 
tentlH! ce at tho l s. Lund Ofliee. 
Address, for particulars, either the President or 
General Manager, at l.owell, Kearney Co,. Neb, 
Reference *Tho Register and Receiver, 1J. 8. Land 
Ollice, l.owell. Kearney Co., Neb.; and Hon. P- W. 
Hitchcock ami lion. T. W. Tutus. U. S. Senator*; 
and Hop JOHN TaPi'K M, (',. from Neu. 
PLANTS 
RECOMMENDATIONS. 
omtT. or Union RArr.noAD Company,) 
St, I.m; is, Mfq 2Krh .March, 1871. 1 
This specimen of Paotfle Concrete. (Kagan’s Patent,) 
was taken from the Union Street Railroad of St. Louis, 
Mo., where tt ham been in use since December, 1809. 
Since that dal© the team* of I ho ritUrouil have passed 
over that portion of the truck where Hie concrete n 
used, BOO filin'* nn h 'It'll. wldlG lUill *s. portion of 
tin, truck l« const* ally used l*y other teams and vehi¬ 
cle* of the City. TUI* pavement loin received no ris 
paira whatever, and show* tint Utile wear utter con¬ 
stant use for sixteen months fnow 22 months), lu 
summer It I* free from dust, and In winter bring* 
with It no Inconvenience from mow and Ice. Tlio 
Macadamizing meiihcr end of this block of concrete 
I* renewed three times each year, is soft and wot 
alien much wafer is used, and In all pruh.ititllLy will 
require such renewing for several year* to come be¬ 
fore tho concrete needs repairing. The block ol Pa¬ 
cific Concrete tn thn track of the Union Railroad ha* 
given entire satisfaction. Wii. STORK, Sup’t. 
ATWATER’S SYSTEM 
of GItADED REWARDS, sllrtnld be used In every 
School. It contain* 8(X) beautiful ticket*. Price, 
$1.60, by mail. Stihlmih School fieriea, 8*J. 
jar'Send for Dcsorintive Circular. 
JOHN ATWATER, Publisher. 
40 Fifth Avenue, CUICAdo, XU,. 
THE BEST CATALOGtJK yet Published, con¬ 
taining a complete list, of Vegetable nod Flower 
Seeds; Bulbs of every sort lor spring planting; also 
Roses, Geraniums, and Other Bedding Plants, Small 
Fruits, Ac., Ac. Fully illustrated. 
Sent Free to all Applicants. 
Address V. L. ALLEN A; CIO., 
7<i Fulton Si., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
NURSERYMEN. 
Seeds of Fruit Trees 
BY MAIli- 
CflfWl P pr month guaranteed, 
>j) 1 (111 1 '■* Miro, to Agonl* overy- 
where,selling our new seven strand W hits IT.atina 
( lumir.a links. Bells readily at overy house, ftnmple* 
free. Address th© UHIAltD Will* MI 1.1 *. Phll'ii. Pa. 
Pen r Seed. ‘-Til''’ *5j{ 
({oiiice Seed. .‘{0c. .t (MJ 
('iirrnm r-i-ed iIn varieties). 40c. t 00 
Siraberry Seed (in varieties).SJ 50 2ft 00 
II n-pheiu v 8rrd... .. .... 75c. H OC) 
JUnhalel) C'lierry Pit©.. ... 
Black Uiizziii'il Cherry Pita, per quail, 4Or.; 
per bushel. SO, bv express or freight. Apricot 
Pits, per quart, 75c. ; Peach Pits, per quart, 
IOc.i per im-hel, SI.50. by express or freight. 
J.arge mnilitltlc* to Dealers, at special rate*, ou Ap¬ 
plication to .1. U. THORBLRN A CO., 
Seed WUrehouse, 15 John St.. New York. 
iUiscetliiuconG 'AMu’rtiQemenu’nls 
Tills rnmpitny will take contract,* In nny city of tho 
United State* to make Macadamized Pavements, and 
will guarantee them to last, twenty years, and keep 
them In repair for a small percentage. Will also 
supply orders for DruLn, Sewer, Water and Gas Pipe. 
Pooling Tor sale. 
sun. N. PIKE, I'ros’t. 
DAVID ALLEltTON, AUo-Pre*. 
W. €. MOO It 15, Treasurer. 
A. WELLES, Secretary. 
E. McMUICWY, Director. 
D. D. T. HIOOItK, Director. 
A full lino of stock In every department Bend for 
our Catalogues. No. 1, Descriptive Catalogue of 
Fruits; No. 2, Descriptive and Illustrated Catul.iguc 
of Ornamental 'frees and Plant*; No. 3, Wholesale 
Catalogue. liOOPEd, BltO. A THOMAS, Cherry 
Jllll Nurseries, West Chester, 1‘a. 
...A.. ’ .-i. ONLY FOUR DOLLARS A YEAR IN ADVANr.r- 
Liberally Conducted, Ably Edited, without Politics or Sect, tt Is a Journal For Buergbodu; a Welcome 
Visitor tn 
JHOTJIIS OF R-ESXjAXATlOJSr. 
Tour Elegrant Chroraos, and 52 Full-Pagfe Engravings 
Given to Each Subscriber, und no Agent authorized to collect until Chromos are delivered. Send Stamp for 
Copy and Full Particulars, to 
H CMDV U QAlf'ST 335 Brand wav, NEW YORK. 
C. I’d K Y rl . OALtC.) ao Allen Sr., BUFFALO, N. Y. 
EXTRA INDUCEMENTS.—We will furnish For Kvkhyropy and It© Premiums and the Rricvi. 
NjSiV-ToKKKK with it* i'remlum for Only Five Dollar*, If subscription ts sent pluvious t© Nwvembor 1st. 
Our importation* aro expected early In September, 
direct from the inoat eminent growers in Holland, 
who have supplied us the past twenty years. They 
cun he relied <<n as of the very tluest quality. 
Rivers celebrated now Early Peaches—Early Be¬ 
atrice, Early Louise and Early llivers, &C.—much 
earlier than Hale’s. 
Catalogues mailed on application. 
JOSI\ SUSi, 
Wii!*liin;;ton City, D. O. 
rBCAll communication* should be addressed 
9S5 'Broadway 
Office second floor. 
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