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— The Chicago public library wants money. 
— Verdi’s Requiem is to be revived in Paris in 
April. 
— Hostile Indians are making raids into 
Mexico. 
— Pampeluna is saved, and King Alfonso has 
entered the city. 
— A dog 28 years old died in New Milford, 
Conn., last week. 
— The snow 13 seven feet deep In the streets 
of Lewiston, Me. 
— The proposed new morgue i«. Constanti¬ 
nople will not be built- 
— The next Ug»f holiday is Washington’s 
birthday—FebruTy SSJ* 
— The President announces the ratification 
of tho convWnion with Mexico. 
— The ^wbany penitentiary will make a clear 
profit tl» s year of about $30,000. 
_A’out 2,600 square yards of window shade 
clot’ :ire colored daily in Buffalo. 
. Frequent conflicts take place] [between 
notostants and Catholics in Mexico. 
— It is stated that tho Dutch Cremation So¬ 
ciety now numbers about 1.000 members. 
— 3,100 graves of U 10 confederate dead have 
been furnished with headboards tn Elmira. 
— Tiie Illinois Legislature has passed a bill 
allowing women to become notaries public. 
— “Tannhauser” was performed at St. 
Petersburg for tho first time on Christmas day. 
— The lock out in tho coal mines of South 
Wales has boguu and thousands of miners are 
Idle. 
— A baby In Delaware three weeks old 
already has whiskers. Ho.is a very promising 
“ heir.” 
— Loss by tho Are at tho Shaker village, near 
Lebanon, N. 5T., Saturday week, $70,000; no in¬ 
surance. 
— Twelvo cannon, 4.000 rifles, and 500,000 
cartridges for the Carl is is wore landed on the 
coast of Biscay, recently. 
— The Pope has thanked tho Emperor Francis 
Joseph for Ills considerate application of the 
Austrian ecclesiastical laws. 
Tho Massachusetts dental society con¬ 
demns chloroform us an anesthetic, and will 
expel any member so using it. 
-Tho board of managers of] tho national 
temperance society, have culled a convention 
to meet at Chicago on June 1st. 
— The American Museum of Natural History 
in Central Park has secured Mr. E. G. SqLier’a 
valuable antiquarian collection. 
— The German Federal Council lias empow¬ 
ered Prince Ilium ark to conclude an extradi¬ 
tion treaty with tlie rafted States. 
— Detroit 1 b growing famous for its dog tour¬ 
naments; Indianapolis for its cock ditto.— 
“ Westward the star of Empire ’’ <ko. 
-A conflagration occurred in Jacrnel, Ilayti, 
Dec. 27. Throe hundred houses wore destroyed 
and tilts loss Is estimated at $300,000. 
— The United States Senate has passed the 
bill appropriating $35,000 to defray the ex¬ 
penses of entertaining King Kalakuua. 
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SOUTHERN HOMES 
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to tint superiority 
*>f »b» eelebraled 
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SL]4 r V^ V\ Watches ouide liy 
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All persons who Contemplate making Virginia or 
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V a. Land Co. and publisher ■>( “ Southern Homos," 
u paper now discontinued, ily first farming was io 
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and pleasures ate superior In Virginia, owing to-ad- 
vantages of climate, ncruess to markets,and the 
abundance of so many varieties of fruit. Address 
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CLIPPER. \ rir«l-elnss. Scli'-luliiiig 
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OlfAS. HAVENS & CO., 
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Holbrook’s 
Sows all kind* of VcroIuMo W i<li rfl(ltIiiTity. 
ihe Sr a nimbi* machine. Hk.’40ij»:i.i j> iur J#rv 
Xv C , «’*i»birics tho lif t poinri ever iiroduccil. 
%vs pl»% <l«uaDii.\ iviv/cAf handled. WflJTiO 
Sj 1 M COJ«l|»ur-ruR till" WB 
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ARYLANDI! ipr , 1 
id, town, river, Behoof, church 
J. F. MANCHA, Eiraton, MU. 
JHoclt ami poultry 
tl attlicws’ CSa ril eii Sood Drill 
Ibhhr. iS'tpvy^;: ," f tlif ,nv ' ;,ik ’ r uf > 
cqiinl* it. IKIVire you buy nay aSSK n iwjji' 
tend lor circular to 3 o CAd aAjy 
Ft. WVrAT.Ij, 
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(Successor to t'.F.Holbrook & Co.) N- 1 
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Whoeliir'* Homes for the Pecuhi. .. . aim 
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Window Gardening (H. T. Wllllarua)1 60 
Woodruff’* Trottiug Hors* of A merlon.. 
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Do. Suburoan and Country Hoaxes.. .. 1 Sj 
Yonatt and Spooner on tlie Horse.... t 
Youutt and Martin on Cattle... ’" t S 
Youatt iind Martin ou tbe Hog...... . i S 
Youatton ghevp... . 
Yonuian’s Hand-Book of Household Science.!!! 1 76 
Address all order* to 
D. D. T. MOORE, 78 Duano St., New York. 
\ v -y P9°’5, s dssired, not numed in this List 
will be f urntshed on receipt of price. 
To reduce stock we will sell at, thnfollowing vtru 
ton’ prices. Our stock lias been carotTdly >elt'etcil 
and bred from tbe best strains in tbe country; 
Berkshire Pigs, two to fouy month* Old. ii> each ; $11 
per pair. Southdown Blieep (early i.unbs), rams or 
ewe*, $lft each Brown Lf gh'n-n . Light and Dark 
Brahma*, Huff and Partridge Cochins, B. 15 it 
GaUi.-s Sebright Hantuius. Rouen and Ctiyrjga Docks! 
* 3 per trio; single fowls, *2. A few faronzoTurkeys 
twihdcp Gce-e ft! per pair;$lfr*er trio. Two 
pair* 1 Ckin Ducks, thj per pair. Eggs In k iisoo. 
Orders booked now ami stock •■hipped at onoe. or 
Whoa the weather will admit. Address UI,UU > 
Imitation Silver Watches, American Style, 
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