down to little three-year-old Bessie, beam with 
exultant gladness.—W oodman. 
The above, from a subscriber and valued cor¬ 
respondent iu a Southern State, tells its own 
story. From what we he, r, in letters and ver¬ 
bally, we think there are b 6ts of Mrs. Wood¬ 
mans all over the land. 
Grain Raising, lor export, has nearly ceased 
to be an item in the business of the farmers of 
Ohio, while muob of the flour which is sold in 
our cities is from the wheat of the new North¬ 
west., which is becoming the granary of the Con¬ 
tinent. 
Fruit growing, alone the south shore of Lake 
Erie, is a large and increasing item of produc¬ 
tion. Tho crops or apples and grapes in 1870 
have afforded material for immense shipments 
to supply the deficiencies of less favored locali¬ 
ties. The keeping qualities of our winter ap- 
pies are not so good as those of Western New 
York or of Michigan, but their present quality 
is superior. Thegrowth and shipment of grapes 
on tho Islands Of Lalce Erie, and along the south 
shore, are Immense, aud we can hardly compute 
the amount, of sweet, benediction which they 
take in their purple clusters, to distil upon the 
be publisher’s J?csb 
Referring to the complimentary announce¬ 
ment. in the Rural Nf.w-Yorker, a few weeks 
ago, I will answer at the roll-call of the Edito¬ 
rial Stuff for 1871. not as “one born out. of duo 
season," but as one on whoso garments are tho 
weather stains of a quarter of a century of edi¬ 
torial ilfo, and on whose sandals is the dust of 
many a traveled field and highway, from the 
Granite Hills of New England to the broad 
Plains of the West, and from the great lakes of 
the North to tho Everglades of the Land of 
Flowers, Jo the South. 
Time was, and not many years ago, when 
Ohio was the West: but times change and geog¬ 
raphies change with them; now, Ohio is in the 
center of the population of the Stales, and the 
West has gone oil on an excursion to the Pacific. 
PUBLISHER'S ANNOUNCEMENTS. &c, 
THE GREAT ILLUSTRATED 
Agents nn<l Oilier Friends are advised that, 
thanks to their efforts, the RURAL New-Yorker is 
In a more prosperous and progressive condition than 
ever before. Both People and Press, all over the 
land, seem to he working and speaking in its behalf. 
Its Subscription Receipts from Oct. 1st to Dec. 
23 (the date of this writing) nmnnnted to full three 
times what they were during the corresponding pe¬ 
riod of 1S/19. This tolls the story, and we trust wili 
prove gratifying to the RURAL'S hosts of friends 
all over die Continent. While we are striving to 
merit what its friends ate so generously doing in 
Its behalf,—In all the Slates, Territories, Canada, 
Ac,,—we trust they will continue to lend their efforts 
and influence to Increase and widen its circulation. 
Both old and new Agent-Friends will hear In mind 
that we profess to furnish the Best Paper, and 
offer the Best Inducements. For evidence, exam¬ 
ine a number of the Rural, and send for our In* 
dccements. _ 
Write Name*. Arc., Plainly.— Please write the 
names ol all persons plainly. Don’t forget to give 
the Post-Office,County and State (Territory or Prov¬ 
ince) of each subscriber. Moreover, be sureund data 
your letter properly and sign your Name. People who 
omit these Items don’t get the paper, of course, but 
generally, after wailing awhile, give us a blessing. 
The Rural Causes a Family ,Inr.—A“I)OWH 
East" subscriber writes us in this wise: 
“Dear Sir:—I always believed the Rural 
New-Yorker was doing a vast amount of good, 
but 1 have recently thought you had better sus¬ 
pend its publication. It is malting trouble in 
my family. It happens in this wise. My busi¬ 
ness requires ray absence from home. I take 
several papers; among them is the Rural. I 
have had it six mouths. My wife never saw It 
before. I desire my panel’s all forwarded to me 
after the family read them. My wife firmly de¬ 
clares that she will send all the other papers, but 
iL'U.1 not send the Ritual, for there Is something 
in every number which she wishes to preserve. 
She says she never saw suob a paper—such a va¬ 
riety in one journal. You see this is a serious 
faniiJy jar—I believe tho first one we ever had. 
Hadu t you better stop issuing the Rural?” 
Regret to say that wc cannot comply with our 
friend’s suggestion, for the reason that wc have 
already contracted to send the Rural during 
1871 to a great many people—including about, 
ten thousand new subscribers. Indeed, instead 
of Stopping it, we confidently expect to publish, 
this year, at least 20,(KW more copies than we did 
in September last. So, the RtTRAi is “to be 
continued”—family jar or no family jar I We 
suggest that, in order to keep peace in the fam¬ 
ily, it may pay our friend to subscribe for 
another copy. 
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Onr New Corresponding Editor—who was an¬ 
nounced in the Rural New-Yorker of the 3d 
ult., and whose capital Introductory article is 
given In this number under i lm heading of “Tho 
Out-look front Ohio "—is thus handsomely men¬ 
tioned by Mansfield (0„) Shield and Bauner t 
The Kurai,New- Yorkkh announces Unit Col. 
8. D. H arris, who has for many years boon at 
i he head of the Agricultural Press of Ohio, is to 
fake charge, on the first of January, of ibenut- 
eide business of that paper, and also act as Cor¬ 
responding Editor. The hosts of friends of Col. 
Harris in Ohio, while they may be gratified to 
find that he will have a more extended field for 
his Agricultural and Horticultural taste aud ex¬ 
perience. will regret t halos* of so gonial a gentle¬ 
man. The Colonel dropped in upon us Inst week, 
mid we were pleased (o see that t hue makes little 
impression upon him. Our best wishes go with 
bint iu liis neiv field ot labor. 
Conducting Editor and (Proprietor, 
CHAS. D. BRAGDON, ANDREW S. FULLER, 
A.BBOoisAt<* Editor*-. 
HENRY S. RANDALL, LL. D., Corlland Village, N. Y„ 
Editor <>► ihk Pkiauthb-t or SuKitr IIl'bb»ni>hv. 
X. A. WILLARD, A. M., Little Falls, N. Y., 
Editor mr thk Dkpakt»bi*t of Dairy Hdwia.npry. 
Col. S. D. HARRIS, Cleveland, Ohio, 
Tjuvri.im. CcHUtimroffiuHO Bonos. 
T. HART HYATT, San Francisco, 
CoNDrrToit „i> tii» Pacitjc Slop* Dsfisthskt. 
CHAS. V. RILEY, St. Louis, Mo., 
CoNDreroi. or the K *iomol-x. ic n. Department. 
MARY A. E. WAGER, 
Editoi: ”F thr Domestic Economy Dkpaetment. 
SPECIAL CONTRIBUTORS. 
P. BARRY. T. C. PETERS, 
H. T. BROOKS, ANDRE POEY, 
■7. Jt. DODGE, JULIA COLMAN, 
F. H. ELLIOTT, K. W. STEWART, 
HORACE OREELEY, JAMES VICK, 
.7. STANTON GOULD, J. WILKINSON, 
“NOW AND THEN," MADAME LE VERT. 
A Request.—AH non-subscribers Into wliosehands 
a number of the Rural may fall are requested to 
examine It carefully, noting Its Size, Style, Contents, 
Ac., and then decide upon the mkrjts of our claim 
that it is the Largest, Brel and Cheapest -Journal of its 
Clare in the World. Now is the best time to Act—to 
Do Good, for which wo give Good Pay. 
How in Help i he Rural.—There are numerous 
ways in which its friends can aid in circulating the 
Rural. First, show the paper, or talk to your 
friends about it. or both. Get up a club, or aid somo 
triend to do so—or Induce your P. M. to act as agent. 
Addition* to Club* are alwoys in order, whether 
in ones, twos, fives, tens, or any other number. A 
host of people are subscribing for papers about these 
nays, and our Agent-Friends should Improve every 
occasion to secure recruits for tho RURAL. 
Term*.—Only #1.30 per Volume of 26 numbers, 
or #3 per year of 32 numbers. To Clubs—per Vol¬ 
ume: Five copies for $7; Seven, and one free to 
agent, for f'.i50: 'l’en, and one free, for >12.50, Per 
Year. Five copies tor 811; Seven, aud one free, for 
£10, Ten, and one free, for f25-on)y 82.50 per copy. 
The lowest Yearly rate to Canada Is 82.70, and 83AO 
to Europe. Drafts, P. O. Money Orders and Regis¬ 
tered Letters at our risk. 
Advertising. —Inside, 75 cents per line. Agate 
space; Outside, 81 per line, each insertion. For Ex¬ 
tra Display and Cuts, a price and a-lialf. Spiclal and 
Business Notices, 81.50 and 82 a lino. No advertise¬ 
ment inserted for less than 83. 
Our Premia ms.—Agents entitled to Premiums 
are requested to designate wbal they prefer (in cases 
where they have a choice) and notify us liow and 
where to send— whether by Freight or Express, and 
the name of Station or Office. 
No Traveling A acuta are employed by us, but 
any person so disposed can act as Local Agent, on his 
or her own authority, und secure premiums, etc. 
#liow Bills, Specimen Numbers, Etc., sent 
free to all applicants, if you want such documents, 
let us know and they will be forwarded. 
All Remittance* by Draft-, I’. O. Money Order 
or Registered Letter, are at OUR risk. 
The Entomological Department.— Mr. On as. V. 
Rilky, State Entomologist ot Missouri, takes 
possession of this Department of the Rural 
NEW-YORKRR this week, with an article which 
contains many new fuels of much Interest. 
This paper i* the burthen of an Essay read be¬ 
fore the Illinois Slate Horticultural Society. 
Mr. Riley will transfer some of the interest 
manifested in tliq American Entomologist aud 
Botanist, of which he was editor, to this Depart¬ 
ment, which is to be Ills organ for reaching the 
public the coming year. He will undertake to 
answer all entomological inquiries,aud desires 
that such queries should, as often as possible, be 
accompanied by specimens of insects about 
which they may be made. 
PCELSIO^ 
SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1871 
0UB TWI.NTY-SEOOiro YEAR. 
BUSINESS NOTICES 
Again, mid for the twenty-second time, It is 
incumbent upon us to indite an Annual Address 
to the Readers of the Rural New-Yorker— a 
Now Year's Salutation to its numerous long¬ 
time friends, and the thousands who have re¬ 
cently joined Its Continental Parish. 
Our first, thought is one of Thanksgiving to 
Him who has so long vouchsafed us health and 
strength to labor in a sphere of usefulness 
chosen in early manhood—for we have devoted 
nearly thirty years to the management of Agri¬ 
cultural and Family Journals; und our next Is 
one of grateful acknowledgment to the teus of 
thousands of earnest and inilueotial persons, In 
both Town and Country, who have, during the 
publication of this Journal, cordially and sub¬ 
stantially seconded our efforts to excel in fur¬ 
nishing n combiued Rural, Literary and Family 
Newspaper. To those who have aided us, iu 
every appropriate manner, to establish, im¬ 
prove, enlarge and extend the usefulness of the 
Rural New-Yorker, we are especially indebt¬ 
ed, and shall manifest our appreciation by con¬ 
tinuously enhancing the beauty, interest and 
value of its pages—thus rendering the paper 
more acceptable and beneficial to its Subscrib¬ 
ers, tbe Cause and Community. 
Those who bare taken and read tbe Rural for 
years-as many have from Its start—know its 
progressive character and laudable objects too 
well to need any explanation uf Its purposes or 
principles. They know It has ever advocated 
flic Right, been consistent, straightforward and 
independent—leading rather than following 
public opinion, being over up to the rimes and 
the enterprising mid progressive spirit of our 
People, and, as we said recently, aiming to ren¬ 
der American Mop, Women and Young People 
more intelligent, prosperous and happy, and 
American Homes more attractive to all whom 
they influence. 
To tho many thousands whom we now ad¬ 
dress, as subscribers, for tbe first time, we will 
onlj - promise that, the reputation of this Jour¬ 
nal shall be fully maintained—ranking first in 
iis sphere in all the essentials of u first-class, 
progressive, high-toned and eminently useful 
paper for the Farm aud Fireside. With “ Excel¬ 
sior’' as its inspiriting .Motto, and “ Progress and 
Improvement" as its laudable Objects, it will in 
the future, as ii has In the past, keep in the van 
of tho spirit and progress ot tbo age in all that 
tends to improve, benefit aud elevate the People 
mid Country. Our course has boen so heartily 
approved and supported that we have been 
enabled to improve and enlarge the paper until 
it is now double its original size, correspondingly 
improved, ami far in advance of any Journal in 
its Important Sphere. 
Another point for new subscribers to note can 
perhaps best be expressed in the language used 
in the closing article of our last volume, as fol¬ 
lows:—“Tho great enlargement and improve¬ 
ment of this Journal, in 1869, necessitated a 
change from Annual to Semi-Annual Volumes, 
(commencing January and July,) and this last 
change has met with hearty approval from both 
Patrons and the Press. {Flic Index given here¬ 
with shows Hint i he Rural now gives, in a semi¬ 
annual volume, more than double the Reading 
Matter , llluxlrations, Ac., Un\n it formerly gave 
in a whole year! In other words, we now fur¬ 
nish two volumes a year, each superior to the one 
formerly published, and at least equal to the 
animal volumes of journals of the same class 
which claim chcuimcss without alluding to size, 
of paper, quality of contents, illustrations, etc." 
— Briefly, we purpose this year to excel in ef¬ 
forts and results. With the best talent ob¬ 
tainable, (see list of Editors and Contributors 
above,) and greater facilities than over before, 
•we intend to publish a Journal which shall not. 
only bo the Largest, Best and Cheapest of Its 
Class, but far superior in all the essentials of 
a National Illustrated Rural, Literary, Fam¬ 
ily aud Business Newspaper. 
HARVEY FISK. A. S. HATCH. 
FISK & HATCH, 
BANKERS AND DEALERS IN GOVERNMENT 
securities, 
No. 5 Nassau Street, ? 
New York, Dec. 23, 1870. > 
FUNDING FIVE-TWENTY BONDS. 
Within the past, three months n very large amount 
of Five-Twenty Bonds have been funded through 
our office Into the Fitter Mortgage Bonds of the 
Central pacific railroad Company, besides 
large sales of the same securities for new Invest 
meats. 
We deal in Central Pacific Bonds the same as in 
Government Securities, and regard them hb afford- 
tug the desired medium for funding Five-Twenty 
Bunds, without reduction of Interest and with unim¬ 
paired security, 
S2T They are- well known, and have a ready market 
in all the money centers in this country and Europe, 
are duly quoted at the Stock Exchange, and can be told 
at on rent, market price at readily as the Bondi of the 
Government. 
We keep a supply of these Securit ies on hand, and 
furnisd them at current market price, which to-day 
Is 92* to 93. 
We oontinue. as heretofore, to buy and sell Gov- 
eminent Bonds, make Collections, receive Deposits 
subject to check at sight without notice, and allow 
interest on balances, and do a general Banking busi¬ 
ness, _ ^ FIS K A HATCH. 
OUR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE 
and Price list or Genuine Waltham Watches, 
tells how and where they are made, describes the 
different grades aud gives weight and quality of the 
cases with prices of each. We send them by express 
to any part of the country, With bill to Collect on 
Delivery, with privilege to the purchaser to examine 
the Watch before paying. No risk is taken by those 
who buy o( us, as every Watch is warranted to give 
satisfaction or the money will be refunded. The 
prices ot the Silver Watches range from 816upwards, 
and the Gold Watches from 870. When you write for 
a Price List, state that you saw this notice in the 
Rural New-Yorker. Address. HOWARD & CO., 
785 Broadway, New York. 
History ol the Late War.— A correspondent at 
Portsmouth, K. L, asks us to toll him “whathis¬ 
tory of our late war you would advise any one 
to get, who wanted a perfectly reliable und au¬ 
thentic work." We cannot advise. It is impos¬ 
sible for us to know better than our correspon¬ 
dent, what is a “ perfectly reliable and authentic 
work." There are over fitly histories of the re¬ 
bellion published. We may mentiou onu by W. 
J. Tenney, published by Appleton, lvol., price 
$5; one by Lossing, price, $15; one (pictorial) 
by Harper A Bros., price $15 ; one by Draper, 
3 vols., price $11.25, &o.y &c. Which of these is 
tho most authentic, we have no means of deter¬ 
mining. Any one of them can be obtained by 
remitting tbe price to this office. 
GrENER j-YIj JOSEPH GTYlilliALDl. 
appreciative palates of far-off consumers. 
This is a brief view of the Ont-look of Ohio, 
in some of its material aspects, as we stand upon 
the dividing ridge bet ween the Old Year and the 
New; for the rest, and of other like matters 
here and there in the broad dominion visited by 
the Rural New-Yorker, 1 hope to send you 
notes and gleanings, as time goes on and oppor¬ 
tunity offers. s. d. n. 
In this region, tho past season has been ot a 
character peculiar to itself. With somewhat of 
a mid-sumtnor drouth, the Autumn rains came 
in due season and in abundant measure; tbo 
fail plowing for winter wheat was well done, 
and u good deal of it, and the crop has got. a fair 
start. But the way in which the Indian Summer 
ran into the Winter, was a miracle in the way of 
weather; up to the middle ot December, there 
was no freezing of the ground to prevent, plow¬ 
ing, and uo snow to call in the flocks and herds 
from the pasture fields. The world was ripe for 
Winter and the Fall work as well done up as 
such work is ever done up by a people who 
leave corn-husking to he done at tho most un¬ 
comfortable season of the year. 
The Live Stock businessof Ohio is In a healthy 
condition. The raising of good horses is a good 
business, and the style of our horse stock is fast 
recovering from the demoralization ot fif teen 
years ago, caused by the introduction of the little 
Morgan stallions of Vermont, by which our plow 
teams were reduced to tho capacity of u four- 
inch furrow. Lately the introduction of the 
large breeds of English and French horses, Is 
giving us useful and stalely teams lor tbe plow 
and the coach. 
The revival of tho plantation industries of the 
South, has again opened the trade In mules, 
t hough the chief of this animal production, for 
tho Southern market, is in Kentucky. 
Of Horned Cattle, the Short-Horns are again 
rising in Importance among us, and for amateur 
purposes on suburban homesteads, tho little 
Channel Islands cattle are rapidly coming into 
favor. Our cows for the dairy continue tor the 
most part, to be selected from among the low 
grade and native stock, whioh isatmunlly driven 
In from the West. Animals of Hits sort, which 
prove unusually good, are kept over, and those 
which are indifferent in quality, are led up for 
the butcher, at the end of the dairy season. In 
all the northeastern counties of Ohio, the dairy 
business 16 the predominant occupation of the 
farmers. 
In tho production of Merino wool, Ohio has 
for some years stood at the head of the market; 
but the present low price of this staple has so 
far discouraged its production that the growing 
of Merino wool has largely declined, and is no 
longer remunerative on lands which are as 
valuable as most, of our Ohio farms arc. The 
growing of long wool, mostly of the Cot.swold 
aud .Leicester breeds, is rapidly on Ihe increase 
in our State; but t he experience of the lost year 
has not fully justified trie high expectations of 
the long wool breeders, and seems to point to 
ilie fact that the upper limit of profit ingrow¬ 
ing long wool can be easily reached, il, indeed, 
it has not already been reached, by interior 
farmers. Tim wool clip or Ohio was mostly sold 
from first hands dining the past Summer. 
The opening of the great highways to the Pa¬ 
cific, furnishing easy transit for the cattle of 
Texas and the wool of California, will hereafter 
hold very much in cheek t he cattle and sheep 
business of Ohio. 
Hogs are a great staple of our live- stock pro¬ 
duction, and being quickly brought to maturity 
for the market, are a convenient stock to handle. 
And then, too, they can so readily convert our 
waste corn crop Into marketable moat, that they 
will always be popular among our large farm¬ 
ers. This year the plentifulness of both hogs 
and corn lias served to keep down the prioe of 
pork to a low figure. 
BUBAL NOTES AND QUERIES. 
Garalmldl.—We give herewith a fine likeness 
of the Italian patriot, Garabaldi, with whose 
history our readers are familiar. We are pre¬ 
vented from reviewing his life, even briefly, by 
the crowded state of our columns. He was born 
at Nice, in 1807, beeame a sailor, was implicated 
in a conspiracy against the King of Sardinia, 
twiee,wns condemned to death, escaped, has been 
a naval officer In the service of the Bey of Tunis, 
fought In 1836 for the Republic of Rio Grande In 
South America, fought against Franco and the 
Reactionary party in Italy in 18+9, came to the 
United States and manufactured soap ami can¬ 
dles on Staten Island, thence went to California, 
Peru and China, fought successfully in the Fran- 
eo-Austrian war of 1859, aided in making VICTOR 
Em anuel King of Italy, attempted 1o gain pos¬ 
session of Rome in 1862 but was defeated, visited 
England In 1864, fought against the Austrians in 
1866, attacked the Roman States again In 1867, 
but was defeated by the French, aud the 4ih of 
September last lie entered the field for Republi¬ 
can France against Prussia. Suck is the skele¬ 
ton of his eventful life. 
Cnn’t Afford to do without the Rural.— Hero is 
another former subscriber, now in Winona Co., 
Minn-, who appreciates the Rural New-York¬ 
er and proposes to manifest the same. He 
writes:— 1 "J have done without the Rural now 
for two years, and I thick it is about as long a&I 
cau afford to wait. At tbe time I subscribed for 
the Rural I was taking five other papers, and I 
will here state that, all things considered, it 
paid better than aU the rest- combined. My means 
being somewhat limited, I have concluded to try 
to get up a club of ten, at least, for you. Saw 
your advertisement in the Winona Republican, 
my local paper. Please send me specimen, poster 
aud terms by return moil, and oblige." 
From Prnhlo, Colorado. —An old subscriber, 
Mr. G. W. Oijn, sends $:£> fur a club of ten, and 
writes“ I have just come to this country. Do¬ 
ing an old subscriber to Moohb’s Rural New- 
Youkek, ami finding that no copies were taken 
here, I have been trying to get it started, and 
have succeeded a fit tie, as you will see. Will 
continue to do the best I cau, and 6eud ou as 1 
get the names,” 
— That, is the way to do it. Every old sub¬ 
scriber who goes into a new place where the 
Rural is not taken, by actiug as a missionary or 
colporteur In Its behalf, can Do Good and Make 
Money. Many have done and are doing this—will 
others do likewise? 
VACUUM OIL BLACKING 
Fits HARNESS Perfectly. 
Sold by HARNESS MAKERS and dealers 
generally. 
Warranted to give satisfaction or the 
money refunded. _ 
NIC0L & DAVIDSON, 
686 Broadway, near Great Jones St,, 
NEW YORK, 
Offer a Splendid Stock of 
HOLIDAY GOODS, 
Consisting of 
FRENCH CHINA DINNER. TEA AND DESSERT 
SERVICES, 890 upwards; 
ENGLISH CHINA DINNER. TEA AND DESSERT 
SERVICES. 850 upwards; 
REAL AND COMPOSITION BRONZE CLOCKS 
AND MANTEL SETS; 
GILT CLOCKS AND MANTEL SETS; 
STATUARY IN BRONZE, PARIAN AND BISQUE; 
SILVER PLATED WARE. CUTLERY. VASES, 
BOHEMIAN GOODS AND ROGERS" GROUPS; 
Also, 
A FULL LINE OF GORHAM PLATED GOODS 
AT MANUFACURERS’ PRICES. 
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USE WINCHESTER’S HYP0PH0SPHITES 
OF LIME AND SODA. 
It is the only Remedy which will 
CURE CONHUMPTION. 
“ \ Clitel's aiming Ve. tnliin* Notes,” Ac. —Col. 
Harris, our Traveling Corresponding Editor, 
will visit and lake notes about prominent Farms, 
Herds, Studs and Flocks, Nurseries, Implement 
and Machine Manufactories, &c„ &0„ in the 
Eastern, Western, Northern and Southern States, 
and be very likely to tell our readers many 
things of interest and value thereabouts. He 
will also attend the Annual Meetings, Conven¬ 
tions. Fairs, &c„ of various Societies designed to 
promote 1 tie interests of the great Industrial 
and Producing Classes for whom the Rural 
labors, and report the main features and pro¬ 
ceedings,— while (lie eondition of tbe country 
and crops in the various and widely separated 
districts visited will not be overlooked. As Col. 
H. is a veteran Agricultural journalist, and 
possesses varied Information and sound sense 
and judgment, his contributions cannot fail of 
proving of peculiar interest aud value to tho 
great majority of our readers. 
“An Agricultural Dinner.”—The RURAL Edi¬ 
torial Staff acknowledge the receipt of an invi¬ 
tation tor an “Agricultural Dinner*' from Long 
John Lymam, Major-General F. D. Cuims and 
the fair-faced, Italian-eyed Crandall, all of 
whom, it is well known, accompanied good Dea¬ 
con Rf.ade in his " overland trip to the Pacific 
Slope." Thanks, gentlemen ; also for the beau¬ 
tiful portrait of ihe sweet damsel at whose in¬ 
stance this dinner is proffered. 
The New Advertisements in this number have 
obliged us to condense some articles, and defer 
many. Indeed, we have bad a “ tussle” with the 
man who “edits the advert i semen l s.” and obliged 
him to defer several columns ol' announcements 
that would probably prove profitable to Read¬ 
ers, Advertisers and the Publisher. 
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The Knox Frail Farm and Nurseries, Pitts¬ 
burgh, Pa., have been purchased by R. Gumming 
A-Co., who are to continue the extensive busi¬ 
ness in all ils branches, as will be seen by refer¬ 
ence to an advertisement in this paper. Success 
to the noiv and enterprising proprietors 
Appleton A: Co.'s announcement of Apple¬ 
ton’s Journal, in our advertising department, is 
worthy of attention. The proprietors of this 
Journal have achieved deserved success. 
“ line the Rural Come?"—This is the literal 
quotation of what Mrs. “ Woodman " says about 
three evening* in the week, until the Rural 
“ comes" Assuring her that tho Rural is not a 
daily, nor yet a semi-weekly, seems to have no 
effect upon her question. Assuring her that it 
is published only on "Saturday, for the week 
ending.” Ao„ does no good. Tor, commencing 
about Wednesday eveuiug. ns I come from my 
office in town, site usually meets me at the 
threshold with, “Has the Rural come?" "Not 
yet, - ' for reply, is sure to meet “ O, pshaw /” But 
when I hold it up in all its marvelous beauty, 
with its matchless illustrations of men, women, 
flowers, fowls, etc., etc., all eyes, from the oldest 
To Cure A Cough, Cold or Sore Throat, use 
BROWN'S BRONCHIAL TROCHES. 
A GREAT DISCOVERY. 
A new and important remedy for Scrofula, Skin 
diseases, and impure Blood; has just been discovered. 
Those afflicted should send to D. RANSOM & CO., 
Buffalo. N. Y., for Free Circulars, containing a trealie 
on the subject, and all necessary information. 
