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(Trees, £ecd$, plants, £r 
itni’ yubticatian 
implem ents and 3Waehinery. 
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King Kalakaua ts a free mason. 
Kino Alfonso has arrived at Saragossa. 
Tiie Mikado of Japan is studying German. 
Schuyler Colfax lectured in Syracuse, 
Thursday week. 
Kalakaua has .arrived at Omaha, en route 
for Salt Lake City. 
Garnet McMilak, member of Congress elect 
from Georgia, i» dead. 
Silas C, Uatcu has been elected Treasurer 
of the State of Maine. 
The Starbucks of Troy are building a $40,000 
dredge for use in China. 
Gen.SHERMAN and stall made a formal call 
on King Kalakaua in St. Louis. 
Geo. F. Paddock & Co,’» bank at Watertown 
N. Y., hag suspended payment. 
David L. Moorhead, a prominent citizen of 
Syracuse, died suddenly, aged 80. 
The Grand Duke Alexis of Kussla is about to 
make a second trip to Australia. 
Hannibal Hamlin lias been re-elected 
United States Senator from Maine. 
Charles II. Den-ntb has been elected City 
Treasury of Boston, vice Tracy deceased. 
Senator Anthony’s health is so far restored 
as to permit of his return to Washington. 
X’nrr.LiP Eckel lias been elected President 
of the Fire men’s Association of Syracuse. 
David A. Wells lm« boon chosen President 
cf the American Social Science Association. 
Jay Gould has boon elected President of the 
Long Branch and Sea Shore Railroad Company. 
Alexander Dumas will bo received into the 
French Academy some time during February. 
Dr. Friedrich Metz, the learned arclueolo- 
glst and professoral the University of Berlin, is 
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.Spooner’s Prize Flower Seed*. 
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irew tu applicant. 
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Green-11 on bp Plum-, 
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ptStMulf Seeds will he Kent f ree. 
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Remedies. Trial Packagk prxr. I 
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Optic’s Magazine, 1875 
S’ GUIDE •asusas 
7. , L tinted MocM 
Ait of gaining love oml uf inruryicg 
low lo tu. i ni sc me— 
^—:.a. Also iLtcy tew 
!-r.',?l c ' p .‘'Dmakir.e methods, ac. 
Cnion Pin. Co., Newark, lx. Y. 
I'*( t *r*-Art of gaining 
«ho and when von i leate-flov 
lures for hundreds of diRcioea 
««crets, rnoiam * 
Price only 1 U eta. 
Attention Is requested to the following liealtbv' 
well-grown stock -Ten Plnnt* for SI -viz rJ,‘ 
np ^ f'WiTihiTia ftim cv (from my«*ojit*etjdn of 
*/ v '/ r Wyartcthwi, .tlafifon, LeyUA t,,„. OiVeuf",!, 
rtbvob/rirt,, ('iiiriiK, Chri/Miiitht nnirnv, ((nu,nifty, T.hth- 
liriK, (Ji'UtniVM* \Doable anil Single). Furhnrtay Ilrlin 
'il'"' 'j- Double), Aficrntutn*. .-»•-» i. j, 
'' V 1 s neamln.TJIT"'“ nf ! many othera In iargeva. 
lisli* {’Deautllul Pi.lorgonl iiiiih, ^.i; >>u Verbenas So 
"umod, from ray coll, of GO varietie»’su 
ft’• Mlo S U assort^I 
r 0- L^ 4 ', "Xi Plants lor Ribbon Redsimit llnr 
dors, .i orGcolors(tollngei, 84 t f>Udo.. H Add Ifiets 
for postage on 1 1 orders, and an additional olunt will 
be 8e,lt - *^to'ojmwsonitouil appltcaiiw.* 1 ntw111 
«. It. 1»A I LBV , Plat ishiirgli, X. Y. 
(I'.otatc 
dead. 
William Bv/eetman, aged 14, fell down 
fitalrs in Rochester, Friday week, and was 
killed. 
I’.RAfiTCS llOsS of Binghamton, N, Y., lias 
given that city 3d0acres of land, to be used as a 
public park. 
Mr. Edward Jakkinb, M. P., denies that lie 
lias resigned the office of agent general for 
Canada in England. 
The Rev. Thomas K. Beecher is preaching in 
a large hail Bi Elmira, while his new church is 
in process of building. 
Gen. JI. II. fiiBLEY of St. Paul lias resigned 
his position as a member of the Board of 
Indian Commissioners. 
Col. Wm. F. Allkn, Congressman elect from 
the 33d district, .New York, is very ill at his 
residence in Jamestown. 
J. A. Poppe of Sonoma* California, is raising 
carp for the Ban Francisco market, He import¬ 
ed the stock from Europe. 
Gens. Sheridan and Etnery have been sued 
for damages for expelling a Conservative from 
the Louisiana Legislature. 
The ruruor t hat Senator Nye is dying Is In¬ 
correct. He la at Ids daughter's house in this 
city, and is not oven an invalid. 
Senators Bkowxlow and Buckingham 
have been kept at their homes during the 
present session by Indisposition. 
Mrs. Eliza B.mxth, an aged lady of Nashua, 
N, H., was burned to death by her clothes 
catching lire from a kerosene lamp. 
Jos. W. Eolden. Mayor c.t Raleigh, X. 
died Jan. -1, aged 38 years. Ho was speaker of 
the House of Representatives in 1868. 
The inauguration of Gov. John P. Cochran 
(Dem.) of Delaware and Gov. Joseph ±>. R e dle 
(Dem.) of New Jersey, took place Jan. 19 . 
Ex-Mayor Francis B. Chktwood, an old 
and highly respected resident of Elizabeth, X. 
J., died Jan. 20, o; congestion on the brain. 
The private library of the late ex-President 
Walker is said to have been bequeathed by id 
v j Harvard College. B is valued at $15,000. 
Fkchter, the actor, who has been 111 In Cii 
cinnatl. Is much Improved. His nhvm.i... 
A Vegetable Manual, Prepare.il with 
a view to Economy and Pi oflt. 
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N. G. BOND. Fairfax C. H„ Va. 
ana mo rieia Culture of Root Crops. U cy 1\ T 
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city of Troy, claiming $100,000 for services in 
procuring volunteers during the war, has sold 
his claim to the city for $55. 
THE Rev. Dr. Thomas A. Japger, the newly 
elected Bishop of Southern Ohio, is at presen t 
rector of the Holy Trinty in Philadelphia. He 
is a Low Churchman, and about 88 years of 
age. 
Lord Dlfperin, Governor-General of Canada 
has presented tho Mayor of Detroit with a 
book of travels written by himself, and with 
photographs of himself und Lady Dufferin.us 
ouvenirs of thoir visit to that city last Summer. 
Dr. Silas Dyrkee of Boston has presented 
Dartmouth College with a fine collection of 
microscopic anatomical specimens. The same 
collection received n medal nr. the Exhibition 
of All Ni tlons, in this city in 1858, Prof. Agassiz 
being Chairman of the Awarding Committee. 
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