raont of n standard of excellence to which thoso 
who have only mixed breeds should aim to ut- 
taln. This standard of excellence Of a hog for 
market was, wc believe, made by men experi¬ 
enced In the producing for and purchasing of 
hogs In market for packing and consumption. 
Every owner of a pig especially every breeder 
and feeder of pigs is Interested In studying It. 
The scale of points adopted for the guidance of 
Judges nt fairs will be found most useful, and 
Insure, If adopted by the different societies, 
Just or and more intelligent awards. When tho 
proceedings, complete, are published, we shall 
give our renders moro specific information con¬ 
cerning the action of tho Convention relative 
to the different breeds. 
A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED 
Conducting Editor and Publisher 
CHAS. D. BRAODON, ANDREW 8. FULLER 
Aaaoomtfl Editor*. 
HENRY S. RANDALL, LL. I)., Cortland Village, N. Y., 
Emtou €)** Till p*r**Twr*T nr ftiucrr tliTNiuNr.KY. 
X. A. WILLARD, A. M.. Llltlft Falls, N. Y., 
fcniTo* or nir Dbfahtmkkt or l>«iay Hcmunduy. 
Col. S. D. HARRIS, Cleveland, Ohio, 
ComiRfroMsiNr* Kim ton. 
Horace Greeley'* Love of llurnl Idle, like 
that of many eminent tnen of both ancient and 
modern times, was Intense. Ills happiest days 
wore apen ton the farm his homestead at Chnp- 
piujim where handling the ax and hoe, plant¬ 
ing and pruning, became his recreation. And 
his writings on Agriculture Including “ What 
I Know of Farming," and his contributions to 
his own, this and other Journals—prove that ho 
was no tyro In t he science and practice of what 
Washington pronounced "tho most Noblennd 
Honorable, because the most Natural and Use- 
lt»l. Pursuit of Mon." Speaking of Mr. (Jrkk- 
i.ev's fondness for farming, Lit as. A. Dana of 
the Sun (long associated with Mr. G. on tho 
Tribune) says: 
Mr. Gueklbv'r binning proclivities have been 
the butt of a great deal of ridicule. Hut his ri©- 
v " , '°. n *" agricultural pursuits was not mere 
iilfeetatimi. Though his hard experiences in 
childhood and boyhood in New Hampshire and 
V ermont might seem tilted to wean lilm from 
SATURDAY, DEC!. 7, 1872. 
DEATH OF HORACE GREELEY 
A CREAT AND COOD MAN CONE ! 
HORACE GWKBLRY is HEAD, and a Nation 
mourns the loss of Its greatest Journalist, Phi¬ 
lanthropist and Humanitarian I Tho Tribune 
of tho People the friend and protector of the 
poor and oppressed of every raoe and color— 
has gone to Ids reward. Though so lately de¬ 
feated ns a candidate for tho highest olllce in 
the gift of the American People, no death has 
occurred during tho past twenty-live years thal 
created so much sadness and mourning among 
the masses as has this seemingly sudden and 
untimely event. Not within that period have 
thepeopleof the whole country been so shocked 
and affected as by the announcement of the de¬ 
mise of Horace Greeley, (except by the assas¬ 
sination of President Lincoln.) Never have we 
known, during thirty years' experience as a 
Journalist, snub tributes paid to the character, 
career and memory ot any private citizen us are 
now emanating from People, Press and Pulpit 
over the whole Continent, to the goodness, vir¬ 
tues and talents of the justly distinguished 
deceased. Buoh paeans of praise such tributes 
of respect and expressions of regret mid sorrow 
and miduoas are indeed rare, and show a wide 
Knowledge and appreciation of tho high char¬ 
acter, purity and ability of the greatest of 
American Journalists. 
Horace Ghricley departed this life at ten 
minutes before seven o'clock on Friday evening, 
November 3V just four weeks from the day Ills 
wife was buried —at. the residence of Dr. 
Choate, (a lew miles from deceased’s late 
homestead In Chappaqua, Westchester county,) 
aged til years and 9 months. Ills disease was 
nervous prostration, resulting In an affection of 
tho brain. Of tliooausos of his Illness and death 
the Tribune says: 
“ For some time past bis health had been seri¬ 
ously Impaired, but not to so groat, a degree us 
to awaken tho apprehension of Ills friends. His 
labors during the Presidential canvass had been 
of a diameter to tax bis intellectual and phy¬ 
sical energies to tho utmost. The blended wis¬ 
dom and ability which ho exhibited on this oc¬ 
casion oliotted admiration even from h|g oppo- 
ents. Abstaining, to no extent that is rarely 
witnessed during a warmly contested ©lection, 
from personal criticisms, he devoted himself to 
expositions of the questions nt issue, 
BUSINESS INFORMATION, 
ers can ulford to forego. "Why, sir," said a 
farmer to ws to-day, “our Club has done more 
to Improve the agriculture of our town and In¬ 
crease the market value of our farms, than all 
other agencies combined. Men who wore sup¬ 
posed to know little, and almost without Inilu- 
ence, have oomo right to the front, while others, 
inflated with egotism and full of assumption, 
who believed themselves neighborhood oracles, 
have fallen back to their places; they were 
mere gas bubbles; and a little Joint discussion 
of l.hclr theories urn! notions lot tho gas out, 
and tile bubbles collapsed. They arc now con¬ 
tent to learn of men at whom, three years ago, 
they si me red. I toll you it is a great thing to 
show who’s who!" 
Meet once a week, gentlemen. If It is only In 
some one’s barn, and have a good talk over the 
uppermost matters In your minds. If you do 
not choose to hold a formal meeting, hold an In¬ 
formal one. If the roads are bad, talk about, 
good onos, and dev ise ways and means to make 
thorn good. Think, and talk together and you'll 
llnd you know more (or less, which is an equally 
prolltable thing to llnd out) than you thought 
you did. Tho moro you know the more you'll 
want to, anil you will have each other to draw 
upon for it. 
if this advice seems in any degree arrogant or 
presuming to anybody, lei them be assured that 
it is not intended to bo ; it is simply urging the 
doing of what we know, from much cxporlcDco 
and observation, it is protltablo to do. 
"liver ami I In led U'nrc.-Our readers have 
doubtless noted the advertisement of Messrs. 
Simpson, IUll, Miller ,<t Co., No. pj John 
street. New York, and we only call attention to 
It now to say that the advertisement Is decided¬ 
ly modest in iis statement of goods to be found 
in their store. The stock is enormous, and t lie 
variety apparently Inexhaustible. For beauty 
of design, elegance of execution and Intrinsic 
worth, we know or no manufactures which sur¬ 
pass (hem. In tho approaching Holiday times 
we shall lie surprised if the store of Messis. 
Simpson, Hall, Miller & Co. does not prove 
magnetic, though their goods be silver. 
temperate, and industrious, lie commenced ua 
a printer's boy, and after hard work In various 
country towns, he came to New York, where lie 
found employment as a type-setter. Ho mar¬ 
ried, in IKitI, Mira Mary Y. Chenev, who hits so 
recently died. Wc need not repeat the story of 
Ills busy life u life known and read of all Amer¬ 
icans. Enough that he Issued the first number 
of Iho N. Y. Tribuno on the Kith of April, 1811, 
and that since then his name has boon inter¬ 
woven with the history of the count ry, has been 
longer and more prominently before the nation 
and tho world than that of any other American. 
He has exerted a vast and lasting Influence up¬ 
on the moral and political condition of the oo en¬ 
try ; he lias educated moro pooplo to a Just ap¬ 
preciation of truly republican Institutions than 
any other one man ; he has been an advocate of 
all good reforms; has generally stood high 
above party politics, laboring everywhere for 
the good of his fellow tnen. 
— Our acquaintance with Horace Greblky 
began in 189«, while wc wore a printer's boy, 
and Iihs been somewhat intimate of late yours. 
Since the removal of tho principal office of the 
Rural to Now York, ho has proved a good 
friend and safe advisor of tho writer—and wc 
have abundant reason to deplore bis loss and 
revere bis memory. Blit we must not utter 
what the emotions of the heart prompt lu re¬ 
gard to the amiability andgenerous kindness of 
our departed friend. He has been misunder¬ 
stood, misconst rued and hence abused by many, 
but will be appreciated in the future -for bin 
record ift such that his fame must be lasting. 
The portrait herewith given is from a photo¬ 
graph Mr. Greeley gave us lost suminor, (re¬ 
marking that it was the one he liked best,) 
under which lie then wrote the autograph that 
wo have caused to be transferred. 
PUBLISHER’S NOTICES 
lucid 
and iho earnest advocacy of measures which he 
doomed of pregnant Import to the peace and 
welfare of the country. But such a protracted 
tension of tho faculties was too severe a strain 
for almost any human constitution. Long be¬ 
fore 1 bo close of tho contest, tho issue of which 
caused him no disappointment, ills watchful 
friends observed certain unusual symptoms of 
fatigue and languor. They wore sufficient, 
perhaps, to suggest anxiety, but certainly not 
to produce alarm. The effects of political de¬ 
feat were soon absorbed In the intensity ol 
private sorrow. The long-continued illness of 
Mrs. Greeley terminated In her death a short 
time before the election. For many days and 
nights her husband did not leave her sick cham¬ 
ber, except at short Intervals. The sight of her 
sufferings exercised a painful lniluonce on his 
nervous system. Nlghl after night, he was ne¬ 
cessarily deprived of sleep, but when the op¬ 
portunity for rest was restored, ho was unable 
to make use of it. His lueessunl watch around 
tho dying pillow of his wife had well-nigh de¬ 
stroyed the povvor of sleep. Symptoms of ex¬ 
treme nervous prostration gradually became 
apparent, his appetite was gone, the stoinaoh 
reject /l food, tho free use or his faculties was 
dist urbed and he «ank, with a rapidity that oven 
to those who watched him closest, seemed 
startling." 
Mr. Greeley's last words were:—"I know 
that my Redeemer llvetli. It is done." His re¬ 
mains were brought to Now York City on tho 
30tb ulL, and on tho 3d Inst, they were plaoed 
where the public could view them. His funeral 
took place from Dr. Chapin's church on the 
4 th, an 1 he was buried by the side of bis wife, 
In Greenwood Cemetery. 
R end Our I’re at In in Li»t 
and t hen try for a shea of the • 
Good." 
, nn preceding page, 
" Good Pay for IJolnu 
THE NATIONAL SWINE BREEDERS’ CON 
VENTION. 
Send for the Document* ! —Our new Show- 
Bill, Supplement, Prospectus, Ac., aro note ready and 
will he sent Jrt* and pot (-paid to all applicants dis¬ 
posed to form clubs. Send fortuid use tho documents! 
The Premium Picture I* sent to All > r hn 
pay ?i.3t» for a copy of the K oka none year and 
not to thou who only pay the dub rate. Club suhscrib- 
ern ran secure the Engraving, however, by adding 60 
cts, to tho usual club price (».) Don’t target Hits. 
Begin CIiiIin Now I—And to all who want the 
paper from date, or either one year (at f2 60) or 16 
months (at *3) from Oot. 1, we will send tho minor 
Elsewhere wo publish an abstract of the 
proceedings of this Convention nt Indianapolis, 
Nov. 30, received from our Corresponding Ed¬ 
itor, who was present. Our readers interested 
In the breeding of swine will tied it profitable 
reading, hiuce it was in type, wc* have "Inter¬ 
viewed” ( i)I. F. D. crime, Delegate at Largo 
from New York, and tho man who first suggest¬ 
ed such a convention, and has done much to 
Insure its success and soeuro practical result* 
that will advance the interests of all honest 
swlno breeders In the country. Col. Curtis 
speaks in enthusiastic terms of the Convention, 
both an to its composition and tho spirit with 
which If undertook and accomplished the work 
before it. Those results, so far as wo have seen 
tho record, seem to contlrm his opinion of tho 
wisdom and disinterested motives of the mem¬ 
bers of llu* Convention. Personal preferences 
and int< rests seem to have been subordinated 
to the broader purpose, of fixing types and 
standards of excellence of tho different breeds 
that, could be regarded ns broad and general, 
and yet critical enough to meet tho demand 
for a common standard. Tho answer made by 
the committee to the question, " Whftt. consti¬ 
tutes thoroughbred swlno?" could not have 
been different; and t he. supplementary recom¬ 
mendation Ihat u herd registry by breeders of 
the respective breeds be made, seems to us very 
important and desirable. Not the least import¬ 
ant action of the Convention, us affecting tho 
general breeder and feeder of swine, was tho 
definition Oi a good market hug i lie establish- 
BUSINESS NOTICES 
HORSE EPIDEMIC 
THE FRICTION NEEDED 
paper annul mo nor*o Kpidemlo, saysExter- 
rmily I used and would recommend Or. Trank’* Mug. 
neilc Ointment to the throat., around the ear* and cn 
ttie forehead. Thi* ointment eontatna tobacco and 
lobelia, and operate* upon the rancou* gland* of Iho 
head and throat by causing an Increased flow of *nero- 
tton from them, at the same tune hy 11 * relaxing effect 
removing the stricture and giving almost instant re- 
Ituf to tho 00ugh and breathing.” H I* kept by all 
Druggists. 
FARMERS need mental friction. What, a man 
reads, or what he thinks, requires discussion ub 
much as food does chewing. The man who 
looks at life from a single standpoint sees but 
one phase of it, and that very imperfectly. Wc 
press this matter of farmers’convention?, clubs, 
oxobangoa. sociable*, again upon the attention 
of farm readers, because we have an abiding 
faith In Its utility. It is an educational agency 
no neighborhood of would-be progressive farm- 
THE WAKEFIELD EARTH CLOSET. 
Get Descriptive Pamphlet at 3fl Dey 8L, New York 
