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SaI’UKDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1871. 
THE RIGHT OF SUFFRAGE. 
Ip there is one thing more than another 
every good citizen of the Republic should 
seek to protect, make sacred, honorable 
and full of dignity and meaning, it is the 
right of suffrage. If there is one thing 
more than another which every good citizen 
of the Republic should seek to punish and 
crush out, it is the Abuse of that right as 
practiced by the unscrupulous and corrupt. 
Every illegal vote cast is a blow at the dig¬ 
nity and value of American citizenship—is 
the grip of a ruffian upon the throat of every 
honest man — is a dagger "in the heart of 
every one who loves liberty and prizes Free 
Speech, Free Schools and a Free Press — is 
a manacle upon the hands of Order, Peace, 
Security and Justice. 
It is one thing to exercise the Right of 
Suffrage and nnotlier tiling to protect it. 
Those who have exercised that right havo 
slill further duty to do. Every man cogni¬ 
zant of its abuse in any manner, who knows 
that any man has voted illegally, or has pre¬ 
vented another who had the right to vote 
front voting, should make it his business to 
aid in bringing such an assailant upon law 
and citizenship to the bar of justice—should 
aid in limiting from their retreats the re- 
pcaters, perjurers, bribe-takers and ruffianly 
assailants of citizens who attempted to vote, 
and meting out to them what is their due, 
to wit—full punishment under the statute. 
The right of suffrage in this country should 
mean something. Law should be respected. 
Otherwise, there is no security to person or 
property, to right, of opinion or in the honest 
expression of it. Let every good citizen 
think of this and act upon it promptly and 
fearlessly. It is liis only safety from a thrall- 
dom as irksome as the worst monarchy can 
ever inflict. 
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REFORM! 
“ That kitchen girl steals 1” 
“ That coachman is a thief!” 
“That dressmaker uses twice the silk she 
needs to J” 
" That grocer sends us hills for what we do 
not get!” 
“ That butcher charges us with meat which 
does not reach us 1” 
“ That miller lakes more toll than the law 
allows!” 
“ That barrel of apples is a fraud—it does 
not contain the same kind of fruit all 
through 1” 
“ That butter maker is a cheat!” 
“ That young man is honest only when my 
eye is upon him!” 
“ That agent of mine is on the make, and 
don’t deal square!” 
“ That office-holder cannot live as he does 
on the salary lie gets!” 
“ That editor is paid for his political opin¬ 
ions !” 
“ That D. D. preaches for profit and tickles 
people’s sensibilities for pay!” 
Who is honest? Ask any man you get 
hold of, and his answer will accord with his 
belief—” There is no one you can trust1” 
And so it has come to pass that ours is a 
pell-mell rush after gain, or fame, or posi¬ 
tion, or something that wc have not got. 
And the advice of the Quaker to his son is 
quoted and preached: — “My son, get 
money—honestly if thee cau—but get it.” 
Such is the underlying stratum which sup- 
p >ris the social morals of to-day. Even 
honest men do not get credit for honesty. 
The mass of people see no motive for hon¬ 
esty—they cannot understand why a man 
should act honestly when the rewards are 
apparently so slight as compared with the 
flit fees of corruption and peculation and 
ostentatious swindling. 
Reform! This watchword means that 
the moral sense of the masses is lit last 
aroused to the anarchy of corruption which 
prevails, and that they are discovering that 
the result must he and is ruin. It means 
that political issues are dead—that platforms 
of principles from which dishonest men 
step into power are no longer to lie regard¬ 
ed—that men must have records harmonious 
with the principles they profess—that to-day 
men of probity, unfaltering integrity, clear¬ 
headed, able business men who have no 
motive for keeping their hold on political 
power except by serving their constituents 
faithfully, protecting and subserving their 
best interests and compelling economy and 
faithfulness to duly on the part of executive 
officers, must go to the front or the Republic 
is lost and falls to pieces because of the rot¬ 
tenness of the body politic. 
So far as I lie result of the recent elections 
means the accomplishment of such reform, 
we congratulate the people ! So far as the 
verdict is death to professional politicians 
and plunderers, we give our congratulations! 
So far as a foundation has been laid upon 
which to build an era of trust and confi¬ 
dence in those who serve ns by transacting 
public business, wo say, Huzza! So far as 
the vote is a frown upon and a blow at. vil¬ 
lains and villainy, at. thieves and thieving, at 
partisan machinery and political degene¬ 
racy, we say, Amen / 
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RURAL NOTES AND QUERIES. 
Botany and Agriculture.—Some of our con¬ 
temporaries are raising a great “ line and cry ’’ 
because Commissioner Watts has discharged 
from service in the Department of Agriculture, 
Dr. Parky, the Botanist. Wo have before us 
the Report, of the. Department, for 1870. Natu¬ 
rally wc look in it to sec* wlmt the distinguished 
botanist lias been doing for hiscountry- if there 
is any evidence In his own Report that his 
services are indispensable. What lias he done? 
lie has received upwards of 4.000 species of 
pluuts from Russia, Norway, Cubit, Arizona, 
Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, California, Illinois, 
District of Columbia, Tennessee, Ate. He says 
“The greater port for. of the official time of the 
botanist has been necessarily taken tip in the 
mechanical work of arranging and assorting 
specimens." Added, according to Ids own re¬ 
port, the Botanist spent throe months of tills 
official time in England, and we havens a re¬ 
sult thereof throe and one-half pages of the 
Report devoted to the Royal Gardens at Kew 
ami cue and two-thirds pages occupied with tell¬ 
ing us that he has done nothing of any practical 
value whatever to the agriculturists ot live 
country. Why, ho has not even reported the 
names and localities of the plants found ami re¬ 
ceived Lam within our own territory! We 
know only that 4,000 species ot plants have been 
added to the Herbarium and that this devoted 
scient ist has spout most of Ids official time un¬ 
packing and assorting them, mul tire rest of it in 
the Kew Gardens! There is a year's record 
which is ample evidence why so learned a scien¬ 
tist should be retained and paid by the people ! 
Is if ihis remarkable power to do nothing useful 
which makes it mini eminent as a scientist? We 
believe the fewer such the Department or Agri¬ 
culture atiem pis to support the better. There is 
no excuse whatever for such poverty in a re¬ 
port, after a year's work, as that of the Botanist 
exhibits. 
— In thus criticising the work of the Botanist 
we by no meaue indorse the action of the Com¬ 
missioner in removing Idm; for it may not have 
been the Botanist's fault that his time has been 
occupied as lie reports it to have been. Besides, 
the criticism we make upon his report will 
apply to some other divisions of the Department 
as well. Nor do we intend hereby to disparage, 
in any sense, the eminent scientiiic attainments 
of the Botanist. It is simply nriucstiou of profit 
to agriculturists wo discuss. 
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Rates of Insurance.—The effect of the Clnongo 
fire upon insurance companies is such that those 
most familiar with their management and sol¬ 
vency, assert that. “the rates of premium must 
be advanced at once to a paying point;” and ns 
indicating wlmt that “paying point" is, the 
same authority asserts that “ rates should lie im¬ 
mediately doubled everywhere in the United 
States." We agree that rates should bo “ad¬ 
vanced to a paying point;” but wedo not assent 
to the conclusion of some that with proper 
economy and the abundonmontof (be expensive 
agent system and extravagances ot competing 
companies, the rates of premium have not been 
at the paying point heretofore. The army of 
solicitors, who got heavy' percentage<m policies, 
is superfluous. Lot insurance companies bo con¬ 
tent with doing a safe, legit itntue business, and 
retain and invest the-per cent, they pay middle¬ 
men, who are generally unmitigated nuisances, 
and conduct their business with some regard for 
the responsibilities they'Incur when they take 
risks, and there will be, it seems to us, little need 
of advancing rates at all. 
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Misplaced Mercy.—A dispatch from Ithaca 
slates that seven students of Cornell University 
were arrested in that city recently for gate lift¬ 
ing and general disturbance; that they were 
fined $10 each and released; that the Faculty 
informed them that they bad been suspended 
forono year and must leave within five day’s. 
This was wise notion on 1 lit* part of the Faculty 
of Cornell, nud it should have been persisted in. 
Dut the students threatened a general rebellion, 
packed their trunks, held an indignation meet¬ 
ing, frightened some weak-kneed citizens who 
petitioned the Faculty to revoke their action 
and, the dispatch says, had received assurances 
from President White that (lie request would 
be received favorably. Thus rowdyism has tri¬ 
umphed in Ithaca and Cornell. The gates may 
be lifted from citizens’yard fences, vandalism 
may riot in all the forms known to irresponsible 
rowdies, and Cornell University will, from fear 
of a general rebellion on the partof itsstudents, 
wink at such work, and by doing so make heroes 
of such rowdies in the eye* of the ballance of 
the students. Suppose there had been a general 
rebellion on the part of these students because 
these seven scapegraces were removed from 
their midst? Suppose the Faculty hud stood 
Aim and lost n hundred students thereby? What 
would such a result have accomplished for the 
school? Every parent would have felt at once 
that it was safe to send Ins boy to Cornell—that 
the culture lie would receive would include the 
whole man: that, he would bo taught and com¬ 
pelled to respect the rights of others, the decen- 
oiosof good society and himself. But what im¬ 
pression goes to the country now? That seven 
rowdies rule Cornell 1 That is all. And certain¬ 
ly a rowdy education is not what the youth or 
the country need to-day; nor will tiie triumph 
of insubordination do Cornell University any 
good. 
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Agricultural Legislation Wanted in Canada.— 
The Canada Farmers’ Advocate publishes the 
following appeal to Canada agriculturists: 
“ Farmers of Canada, we have now an applica¬ 
tion lying in the House Of Commons in Ottawa, 
asking the Government tn allow seeds to be 
sent through the post office at the same rate per 
pound that is charged for papers. At the pres¬ 
ent time the charge is four times ns much for 
sending a pound of seeds us It. is for sending a 
pound of papers. Also, that agricultural papers 
may he sent through the post-office for half a 
cent, that being the rate that other papers are 
charged at the present time. The charge for 
agricultural papers is one cent, which must be 
paid in advance; political papers, half n cent, 
and payment after delivery. Wo also Intend 
applying to the Legislature of Ontario for tm 
Act to allow agriculturists to unite in establish¬ 
ing experimental or test farms, and to establish 
institutions that may he conducted with joint 
capital, t he same as manufacturing or mercan t i le 
men may do, and which at present the inw pre¬ 
vents us from doing. If you deem cither of the 
above subjects of advantage to the country, you 
might speak to the member of Parliament for 
whom you vote, in regard to them and express 
j our opinion.” 
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Foot-and-Moulh Disease in Children,—In view 
of the prevalence of this disease among the live 
stock of Great Britain, niul of the fact: that It 
basalready prevailed In tills country, it, is im¬ 
portant that It should bo understood hero that 
Its presence is not confined to the dumb ani¬ 
mals—that children who drink the milk of cows 
m this diseased condition arc afflicted with Epi¬ 
zootic Aptba. Mr. Wyman, Chairman of the 
Herts Chamber of Agriculture, so assorts; so 
does Prof. HAitTWiG of Berlin nod Prof. Uam- 
oereof Edinburgh, well known in this country. 
Facts are 1 lie foundation of this assertion. As 
long ago as 1802 Mr. Watson of Kelso, found 
several children so affected; and the editor of 
the Edinburgh Veterinary Review confirms the 
statements. Mr. Duncan, a skillful veterinary 
surgeon of Collingshurgh, Fife, Boot land, states 
that lie had seen a boy suffer severely with all 
the symptoms of Epizootic Aptba, his month 
being so sore as to prevent any food being taken 
for 80 VC>'ai^^|eil'he hid was ill nearly ;t fort¬ 
night. ltfS^^Rjflyvrupfions about Hie mouth, 
face, aud body of intents reared, as they some¬ 
times must, be, on cow’s milk, may be due to 
such a cause. We commend these lacts to 
American importers and to American Health 
authorities. 
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Htinly of N'ntive Grasses.— We notice that Mr. 
Lundy exhibited at the State Fair nt Macon, 
Georgia, varieties of native grasses of that 
State, accompanied with a written description. 
We hope Mr. Lundy, and many of our farm 
readers, will pursue this study of native grasses 
with a view tn determining their utility. There 
is us much chance for improvement in the for¬ 
age grasses cultivated as there bus ever been in 
the potatoes, and as much need. There are 
without doubt, many of our neglected native 
grasses that would be found useful. We com¬ 
mend to Western readers especially an article 
ou the "Grasses of the Plains and Eastern Slope 
of the Rocky Mountains," in the Report of tiie 
Departments of Agriculture for 1870, which 
embraces a catalogue of the gramineous flora 
now existing west of the Missouri River, east of 
the ltocky MouuLUns and between hitititude 
85° and 4 .V. 
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“Hoiv is Ibis Threshing Story for High?” asks 
Mr. I. W. Briggs, Macedon, this State, and 
adds;— U A neighbor of mine, a thorough aud 
experienced thresher, gave mo, nt my request, 
his figures after laying up his threshing ma¬ 
chine. If any man with one maoliine, in Hie 
same length of time, can show a better record, 
lot us have it on paper. Mr. White, of Wal¬ 
worth, Wayne Co., N. Y-, actual]y threshed for 
sixty-seven consecutive days (Sundays ex¬ 
cepted, of course), set his machine sevenly- 
tbrec times, lost two or three hall duj-s by foul 
weather, and fonts up 30,235 bushels of wheat, 
rye, oats, barley anti buckwheat. This was 
done with an excellent machine, run by liorso 
power. This thrashing was done in the towns 
of Walworth and Mncedon, within a radius of 
not more than four miles, and several of Mr. 
White’s patrons found their grain to overrun 
the machine measure 4 to 5 per cent.” 
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New York Bank* and Bonkers have, generallj', 
a fair reputation, and arc. supposed, liy most 
people, to be Just and honorable. But knowl¬ 
edge recently acquired (derived parlly from 
personal observation and experience, and part¬ 
ly from those who know whereof they affirm.) 
has impressed us with the belief that the affairs 
and mnuagcincut of at least two or throe New 
York moneyed institutions should be venti¬ 
lated, in justice to their customers and the pub¬ 
lic. The business is hardly in the line of duty 
of this Journal, jet we propose making, ere 
long, some developments which may prove of 
interest and value to hoi li city and country 
readers. There are rings and corruptionists in 
banking circles ns well as among politicians, 
and an expose fs In order, now that the raid on 
the Tammany Ring has resulted in Reform. 
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Tin- Same Bort of ,Invitee as that meted out to 
forty-one London tradesmen, recently, is in de¬ 
mand in this country. Forty-one traders were 
arraigned, convicted and lined for having in 
their possession and using unjust weights and 
measures. There is a field in almost every town, 
village and city In this country for this sort of 
wholesome “ moral restraint.” It is a “ reform ” 
measure which deserves encouragement. Every 
man and woman who buys should constitute 
himself or herself a vigilance committee to de¬ 
tect this class of thieves; and once detected such 
need no other punishment than that of dying 
for want of custom. 
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Potato Hot in England.—The North of Eng¬ 
land Farmer says that the farmers in Nortli and 
East Yorkshire, on lifting their potatOcrop, find 
the result to be a most destructive state of 
thing*:—“Nearly all the new American varie¬ 
ties, aud all the old sorts, nre everywhere dis¬ 
eased, and such a thing ns a sound crop cannot 
be heard of. In dry situations it seems to be the 
unanimous oplniou that more than half the 
crop is unfit for market, and on wet lands fully 
75 per cent, is deemed to be valueless except for 
immediate consumption by pigs, It is certain 
Hint since the Irish famine the potato crop has 
not proved so great, a failure.” 
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A Prize for the “Brut Fellow.”—A Scottish 
Agricultural Association recently offered a 
handsome silver cup ** to tiie man who would 
be pronounced by ids neighbors the best follow 
in the district.” The election took place by 
ballot.. Candidates were to be members of Hie 
Association, and landlords and their agents were 
excluded from competition. One Jnsicpn Sedg¬ 
wick of Oowblggiu was elected “ the best fel¬ 
low, kindest neighbor, and one always ready to 
extend a helping hand to those around him,” 
Such a vote ns that, even at an Agricultural 
Fair, is worth trying to merit. 
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Labor vs. Capital,—We call attention to the 
dispatch in our news columns from Berlin,In¬ 
dicating the movement and purposes of the 
workingmen ot Germany in co-operation with 
those of other large manufacturing centers. This 
movement, as lias heretofore been Intimated in | 
1 peso columns, Is acquiring a magnitude and 
importance Hint compels attention and involves 
social revolution. It Is every workingman’s 
dutj’ to study tiie mailer dispassionately, and 
with intelligence, not forgetting that while 
labor is capital, capita 1 represents labor, aud 
each is dependent upon flic other. 
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Maryland Agricultural College. — We learn 
Hint the Trustees of this College havo appointed 
Prof. N. B. WuitTiii noton to take charge, tem¬ 
porarily. of the Chair of Practical Agriculture; 
and W. Douoias Williams was appointed to 
the Choir of Chemistry anil Natural Sciences, 
Mr. Williams is a graduate of Hie University 
of Virginia, and lias just returned from Europe, 
where lie lias been studying chcmislry nt the 
l niversity of Gottingen, under the chemist 
Wohler. 
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Buffalo Billies in Kansas.—A note from a new 
Kansas subscriber at Wellington says: —"We 
have a fine fanning country hero close to the 
buffalo range. We shall never have to pick 
stone off our land, every year, as I used to do in 
Eastern New York; but. we can, instead, gather 
a few loads of buffalo bones. The prairies here 
will average about one skeleton to the acre, 
showing that this section bus been the hunting 
ground of Hie Indians." 
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Liberal mid B4inbln Bankers—, 7*0 Messrs. 
Eugene Kelly ft Co., of 21 Nassau St., New 
York, whose business card will be found in Hu- 
appropriate department of this paper. In char¬ 
acterizing this firm ns liberal and reliable, we 
know whereof wo affirm,—and upon that knowl¬ 
edge cun safely commend the same to any of 
our readers, having occasion to do business with 
a New York Bank House. Those who deal with 
Kelly & Co. will neither be swindled or treated 
discourteously. 
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A Heap of Grandparent* !—Mrs. W. O. TAY¬ 
LOR of Bedford, Ohio, tells a story of numerous 
grandparents in her famllj', as follows:-" We 
have one grand child, three years old; he has 
ten grandparents-three great grandpas, and 
three great grandmas, two grandpas and two 
grandmas. Now, if any one cun beat this, I 
should like to know it.” 
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Every Woman her Own Flower Gardener, is 
the title of a little work by Mrs. S. O. Johnson 
( published by Henry T. Williams of N. Y. 
City) for fifty cents. Mrs. Johnson gives in this 
work not a little valuable information of prac¬ 
tical use to those who cultivate flowers—infor¬ 
mation of much the same character as that 
found in tiie catalogues of first-class florists. 
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Vick’s Catologue for 1872, somo of the ad¬ 
vance sheets of which arc before us, promises 
to be unique in beauty and in the amount or in¬ 
formation it affords. Compared with previous 
similar publications it is something worth seek¬ 
ing for, and will delight and bother many people 
with more wants tlmu money. 
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The Wntervliet Center Inquiry, by “a Sub¬ 
scriber,” is answered:—B. loses his boots and $50. 
THE SEASON. 
Weak Almond, Allegany Co.. N. V., Oct. 30.— 
Weather still very dry lor the season. Springs 
and wells mostly dry. If tiie winter should set 
in without heavy rain fallB stock will suffer 
much during the cold season. We have no re¬ 
collection of ever before experiencing so severe 
and long continued a drouth.— t. m. e. 
Licero, Ind„ Nov. 4.— We have had a very dry 
full. Weather warm; nice for gathering corn, 
which i3 about generally done; will be an aver¬ 
age crop; worth 30 cents. Wheat, $1,15;’oats, 
40c.; Hay $10 per ton : potatoes, 40e.; apples, 40c.: 
butter, 10c.; eggs, 18c. per doz.j cows, $25 to $40: 
spring calves $3 to $5; bogs, $4 per hi tod red; 
sheep, $1.25 per head; chickens, $3 per doz.; 
horses, from $75 to $200; land, from $25 to $75; 
country thickly settled; railroads plenty.—vr. c. 
Bratltcburo, Vt„ Nov. 8 .—At this date not a hit 
of snow, and full feed lias not been frost-bitten 
till within a week past. The cry of “ short bay 
crop " will be somewhat abated with so long an 
outdoor feeding for young cattle, l^tll plowing 
has made many an old fogy farmer do his spring 
work In October; (so much for “ book fanning;”) 
old pastures get turned over in autumn now 
which would never have been done in the burry 
of “spring work.” Potatoes selling for 50 to 75c. 
—Typo. 
Plnluwell, Midi., Oct. 31.—The season here 
lifts been the dryest ever known; have hud no 
rain of any account since the last of July until 
to-day. Wheat has been struggling' bravely 
with tiie drouth, and considering the chance it 
lias had it looks remarkably well. Corn more 
tlmn an average crop-some fields yielding from 
100 to 120 bushels of ears to tbe acre; busking in 
the majority of cases not yet completed. Pota¬ 
toes a very light crop; from the combined 
effects of tiie dry season and " bugs” they wore 
nearly a failure. Apples abundant; choice 
winter fruit selling at $1.-50 to $2 per barrel, 
wliilo older brings only $2.50 to $3 per barrel! 
The late fires have done immense damage to 
fences and timber in this locality, though com¬ 
paratively few buildings have been consumed.— 
r. b. 
Moon-field. Harrison Co., O., Nov. -I.—The soil 
in this partof the county is very good. Land 
here is of double value, being nil underlined 
with coal. Each farmer has his coal bank on his 
farm, making it very convenient. Farmers nro 
busy cribbing their com which is of a j'ellov 
variety, being richer and stronger than the 
while. Markets good. Wheat, $1.25; corn, 65c.; 
oats, 37c.; potatoes, 50c.; butter, 18c.; eggs, 18c.; 
cheese, 18c.—C. A. s. 
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BUSINESS INFORMATION. 
Impostors In all Vocations.—Among other im¬ 
positions practiced upon people under the guise 
of a good name, are those of decoctions sold as 
Fluid Extract of Bitchu, This field has been 
opened to imitators by tbe immense success nud 
recognized merit among physicians, of Helm- 
hold’s Bucliu, and by the enterprise of Dr. 
Jlr.i.MBOLD, wlm lias done more advertising than 
all his Imitators put together. Notwithstanding 
the push and enterprise of Dr. Hei.mrold, his 
IJucbu could not have met with the continued 
sale it lias but for its great curative power; 
lienee those who buy it can rely upon getting 
Just wlmt they seek, which we fear cannot bo 
said of other nostrums of the same name. Ask, 
therefore, lor II elm bold’s Bitchu. 
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The Piano-Forte* manufactured b.y Messrs. 
Dunham & Hons, 17 Union Square, New York, 
have a Continental reputation. Having used 
one of their instruments in our family for 
twenty years, we can confidently commend them 
to our readers as being first class in every re¬ 
spect. Both professional and amateur players on 
tbe piano pronounce our Dunham very superior 
in tone. An instrument that bus retained its 
brilliancy and sweetness of tone for a score of 
years needs no further commendation. 
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Tl»« Illustrated Library of Travel nml Adven. 
lure, edited by Bayaiid Taylor, and described 
In the advertisement of Charles Scribner & 
Co., promises to be ono of the most useful nud 
popular of the many important enterprises of 
that house. The first volume of the series is on 
Japan, ft country with which our own is annual¬ 
ly assuming closer relations. Wo advise every¬ 
body to begin with the first volume, and thus 
gradually build up a really valuable library. 
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INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES. 
Cotton State* Fair As»’n,—P. J. BERCKM ANS, 
Augusta, Gu., has been chosen President ol this 
organization in place of Dr. Tutt, resigned. 
A National Convention to organize a Grand 
National inventors', Authors' nml Artisans’ 
Union, is anooffncod to he held In New York 
City, December 13,14 and 15,1871. 
Tin* New llnni|ishlre State Hoard of Agricul¬ 
ture has, wc learn, made arrangements for hold¬ 
ing meetings for discussion in every county in 
Hio State. The first meeting is to bo held at the 
Agricultural College at Hanover, Nov. 14 and 
15. The next meeting is to be held itt Concord, 
Nov. 18 and 17. The first week In January t wo 
meetings will be held ul Walpole and Fitzwil- 
lium in Cheshire county. Of course it is imped 
and expected the* farmers will attend these dis¬ 
cussions, and profit greatlj' thereby. 
A Tobacco Grower*' Association has been or¬ 
ganized nt Evansville, W is., the objects of which 
is to collect information as to prices, amount 
and condition of the crop and t<> discuss I ho 
Cultivation and management of this plant. The 
second meeting was to havo been held Nov. 4, 
and it Is the intention to hold meetings every 
t wo weeks. The Secretary, Mr. Sheupe, informs 
the Western Farmer thatthominiiniiut estimate 
of the average of the crop per acre in the vicin¬ 
ity of Evansville is 1,200 pounds, and uinny think 
it will be 1,500 pounds. The quality Is good,and 
has been secured in good condition. Growers 
refuse to sell under 15o. per pound. 
Maryland Plate Ag. 8oi*.—The officers elected 
for 1872 are: I’m—J. H. Riisman. Cor, Sec.—Vf. 
S. G. Baker. Gen. .Sec.end Treas. —D. C. Trimble. 
I'Jx. Com.—J. H Uiotnan, Baltimore county; Gen. 
G. S. Brown, Baltimore city: J. H. McHenry, 
Baltimore county; Dr. W. 11. DeCourcy, Queen 
Anne’s; 11.0. Devries, Howard ; it F. Maynard, 
Baltimore countv; J.L. Johnson. Baltimore city; 
J. Slingllrff, Baltimore county; W. Devries, do ; 
B. II. Waring, Baltimore city. Vlcc-Pi-ets’ts - Ur. 
S. P. Smith, Allegany county; Dr. E. J, Hcuklc, 
Anne Arundel: A.D, Brown, Baltimore county; 
W. Booth, Baltimore city; E. Whitman,do.; 8 . 
T. C. Brown, G'arroll; D. Field, Caroline; T. II. 
Turner. Calvert; W. .'!. Knight, Cecil; John W. 
Jenkins, Charles; Cut. J. Wallace, Durolioster; 
CoI.G. It. Dennis, Frederick; J. L. Carroll, How¬ 
ard; Col. It. McHenry, Fteiiord; L>. C. lllncUis- 
ton, Kent; A. B. Davis, Montgomery ; C. B. Cul¬ 
vert, Prince George’s; Hon. J. T. litrle. Queen 
Anne’s; Dr. G. H. Dennis, Somerset; Col. II. G. 
S. Kev.St. Mary’s; Col. E- Lloyd,Talbot; W.J. 
Aydclot, Worcester; Wm. Dodge. Washington; 
P. Toadvipe, Wicomico; W. W. Corcoran, Dis¬ 
trict ot Columbia- 
BUSINESS NOTICES. 
TWENTY*FIVE PER CENT. SAVED 
By using Dooley’s Yeast Powder in tiie prepara¬ 
tion of biscuits, rolls, pastry, etc , over any of tiro 
ordinary baking powders In market. This is occa¬ 
sioned by the fail net weight tn each package, and 
the fact that it rs composed of articles strictly pure, 
healthy and nutritious, which insures satisfactory 
results every time. By using Dooley's 7 east 
Powder, thirty pounds more bread can bo made 
from a barrel of flour than by any other processor 
raising dough. A trial will satisfy any one ol its 
standard excellence, for sale by Grocers generally- 
1 'nE Lungs oftentimes are weakened by a very 
slight cold. To remove this trouble there is no bet¬ 
ter remedy than the Write Pine Compound., which 
is n valuable medium in Pulmonary and Kidney 
Complaints. 
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Burnett's Cocoatrre—for tire hair takes precc 
deuce nil over the United States. 
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