MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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gmptcmcntsi and pacluncry 
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PERSONAL ITEMS. 
M. Coquerkl, the eminent French Protestant 
minister. Is dead. 
Donaldson was paid $30,000 a season for his 
balloon ascensions. 
The founder of the Galveston News,’ Millard 
Richardson, Is dead. 
The Duke of Edinburgh'.ls said to be a musi¬ 
cal composer of some merit. 
Moody and Sankey are to be Invited to hold 
meeting* In Washington, D. C. 
John McIyer, one < f the proprietors of the 
Canard steamship line, is dead. 
It is reported that Jell'orson Davis will write 
a history of the “American Conflict.” 
VlCOMTEDK BEauMONT-VA 8KY, a well-known 
political writer, died recently In Paris. 
Prof. Janney has officially announced gold 
In paying quantities In the Black Hills. 
Sm Edward Thornton the English minister, 
has abandoned his Intended trip to England. 
PnOF, L. L, Paine of Bangor, has declined 
the professorship of Latin at Liowdoin College. 
Issac M. Singer, the inventor of the sewing 
machine, died in London on 23 ult., aged 84 
years. 
It is expected that Gustav Dore will pay us a 
visit next year, when the centennial exhibition 
opens. 
Gen. Garfield la rapidly recovering, his 
strength, and expects to take part In the cam¬ 
paign In Ohio. 
Father Nicephoros of the convent of Zltza, 
Mount Athoa, died recently at the advanced 
ago of 117 years. 
S. N. Bobbins, a dealer In carpets. No. 301 
Canal Street, New York, shot himself in Central 
Park, on the 20th ult. 
Mr. SchenCK, Dulled States Minister, has 
gone with his family on a tour to Norway, 
Sweden and Denmark. 
PROF. Kino, the weil-kuown aeronaut, taken 
the place of Donaldson, the lost balloonist, iu 
Barnum’s Hippodrome. 
Rev. Celia Burleigh, the well-known 
woman suffrage advocate aDd preacher, died at 
Syracuse, on the 37th ult., aged 48. 
H. A. G ahdner, Chief Engineer of the Michi¬ 
gan Central Railroad, died at Chicago, on the 
30th ult., after a protracted Ulnesa. 
Mn. Madison Sloat, one of the widest known 
ra'lroad managers of this country, died at 
Philadelphia on the 15th ult., aged 60. 
Trie descendants of John Eliot, th« apoatle 
to the Indians, are to have a family reunion at 
the Guilford Point House, Conn., In September. 
Madame Hues refuses the offer of 40,000 francs 
a year, as physician at the Sultan's harem, on 
the condition of never going out of the build¬ 
ing. 
The Eight Rev. Connop Thirlwull, D. D, 
Bishop of St. David’s, England, author and 
translator of several works, died on the 28th 
ult., aged 78. 
Mu. John Forster is engaged upon a life of 
Doan Swift. It will contain much matter 
derived from, hitherto unpublished and import¬ 
ant material. 
Gen. Wade Hampton has accepted the invi¬ 
tation of the Washington Artillery of Charles¬ 
ton, S. C„ to deliver an oration before them on 
the 33d of February. 
Obkd Bauman recently arrived In Sun Fran¬ 
cisco aloot, and asserted that lie had walked 
all the way from New York at an average speed 
of forty miles a day. 
Geo. IT. Mumford of Rochester, N. Y., a 
vice-president of the Western Union Telegraph 
Company, and secretary of that corporation, 
died recently lu Paris. 
Tut: Sultan of Z inzibur, on leaving England, 
sent a check for $500 to the Lord Mayor, re¬ 
questing him to distribute it among charitable 
Institutions In London. 
Da. NaCutigal, tlio^vcll-known African ex¬ 
plorer, lots had an annual pension of 0,000 
marks ($1,500} granted him from the Imperial 
Treasury by the Emperor William. 
L ady Anne Noel Blunt, a granddaughter of 
Byron, has wrlt’en to Mr. Disraeli protesting 
against the proposal to place a tablet in iluck- 
iiu.ll Torkard Church In memory of the poet. 
1. Garibaldi paid a visit to Civlta Vecchla 
recently, and received a most enthusiastic 
greeting. The crowd unharnessed the horses 
from his carriage, and drew him to ids hotel. 
Senator Scnunz writes to friends lu Wash¬ 
ington that ha will return to tills country In 
October. Be Is collecting data for the political 
history of America which he designs writing. 
It Is stated that Messrs. It. L, & A. Stuart of 
New York, are about to erect und present to 
the Theological Seminary, Princeton, N. J., a 
brown stone building, three stories in bight, to 
cost $100,000. 
Judge Fisher has tendered ids resignation 
of the office Of Doited States District Attorney 
for the district of Columbia. Ex-Governor 
Wells of Missouri has accepted the appointment 
to All the vacancy. 
Mies Mary Stanley, a Catholic young lady 
of Lotiduu, has the honor of originating the 
“Flower Mission,” by which the hospitals of 
many large cities on both sides of the Atlantic 
are supplied with flowers, to cheer and comfort 
the sick. 
HEEBNER’S IMPROVED 
Perfection at last Obtained! 
TRAVIS PATENT 
POTATO DIGGER! 
THE FARMERS’ FAVORITE 
RAILWAY HORSE-POWERS 
AND 
Ilorsc-Power Ciovcrnors 
Send for a Circular. 
it will do the work oi ten men. It dears away the 
vines, turn* nut the potatoes and clears them of ad¬ 
hering earth at one operation, without cutting, bruis¬ 
ing or loss from covering out of sight. 
It works welt In all kina* of soli, among plants with 
green or dry tope. and In clean or weedy land. 
The beam Is made of wrought iron : the blades or 
plows areof tnf* best steel. Be sure and see it before 
bayiDg. Manufactured only by 
Horses’ Feet stand Level on Floor ol Power. 
Labor and fatigue or the horse diminished. Power 
increased. Money saved. Smooth hordes work on 
them better than rouchonesontheold-s.tylopowprs. 
On what ? Why-on Hvehner’S I.m proved Patent 
Level-Tread Horse-Powers, single or double* 
geared, (with the only successful Governor c-r Speed 
Regulator in America,) for one or two horses. Also 
Threshers.Separators und Cleaner*. These machines 
will do morn work, with less labor for the hnrse and 
those Hat operate the machine, than any other— 
c<nmQ\unUv Stand ahtad! btrongly Intrenched in 
public favor, pronounced c UPKKioit hr every pur¬ 
chaser ! This ia the best evidence of perfection. Was 
awarded four Grand First Prize Silver Medals out Of 
r.ve at the Notional Threshing Machine Trial, at 
West Chester. Pn., in 1874, and at all other trials ex¬ 
hibited. 
Hkebner’s Patent Hokse-Power governor, 
oh speed Regulator. -T his is n perfect regulator 
of speed, and I* n safeguard to man and horse, even 
ir a bund-wheel breaks or become* loose. These 
Governors are put on all our powers, or can be at¬ 
tached to other powers. (These machines are only 
manufactured by us.) 
3TT Send for Circular, and learn of the great suc¬ 
cess of these machines. (Please state that rou no¬ 
ticed this In Rural New-Yorker.) Address 
UF.KUSKK & SON*, L:t iisiIii Ic. Pa. 
Higgnuum, Conn. 
This Potato Digger will be on exhibition at the 
Cincinnati Kxposltion this full, and may be found at 
our Branch Office, No. HO Walnut St., Cincinnati, 
Ohio. W. K. HAMPTON. Manager. 
BICKFORD A Ul'FFMAN, Mlr’g, Matodon, IV. Y. 
Stands at the JTead of the List. 
It wilj plant YOUR FIELD COHN, sow each and 
every variety of your Field Grains, with accuracy 
nod in the very hc-t possible manner; and distribute 
with the seed used, ANY of the COMMERl IAI, 
MANURES, lu doCred quantity. It i* warranted to 
(louJl that any Grain Drill |n the world cun do and It 
ilils the warranty. lt» manufacture Is BKT'i’KK It* 
draft LIGHTER—and its operation more POSIT1VK 
and PERFECT thlui any implement of its class, It 
Cun l>e BOUGHT FOR about the HAMK PIUCK ns a 
worthless inferior Drill.und t* ENTIRELY CHEAP¬ 
ER, at us price. It will return you the money In¬ 
vested In it* purchase w ith interest, and the use of 
It will give you both pleasure and siitlsfacUon. 
Circular* obtained by addressing either of the 
undersigned N. N. GALLUP. Genl Ag t. Macedon, 
Wayne Co,. N. Y. H. P. 11N Ok KM I LI.. Gen’l Ag’t 
tor H outhern Mates,qj 8. Sharp St.. Baltimore, Md. 
FOR SORGO ANO SUGAR-CANE, 
The oulv recognized stand¬ 
ard* in Cane Machines are 
The 
AND THE 
jThere are of these Ma- 
( ^ • ’A OVF.lt 31,00(1 IN I KK. 
*■—*** Iffv ' They have taken the 
FIRST PREMIUM AT 117 STATE FAIRS. 
All attempts, thus lar. to equal these unrivaled Ma¬ 
chines by other contrivance* h»vr nigually foiled 
on trial. Planters can’t afford to risk crop* of Cune 
on light, weak, unfinished Mills that Irmk or chukt, 
OT on eommop puns or kettles that do *»’/eiirt.e/UK* 
work, and only ho,If enough at that. The Sorgo Hand- 
liook and /‘rtce-LM *mt fret. 
BLYMKR MANUFACTURING CO., 
604 to 604 West High lb 8|„ CINCINNATI, O. 
Manufacturers of Cane Machinery. Steam Engines, 
Corn Crusher*. Farm. School, and Church Bell*. 
The Buffalo Scale Co.’s 
PATENT COMBINATION BE&M, 
For largo Seuloii, i* one of the greatest. Improve¬ 
ment* ever iuudc In Settles. Send for Illustrated 
Price List to BUFFA LO »CA LF. €«.. 
Itiillalo, N. 4 . 
£vcc.$, rite, $c 
FRUIT AND 
ORNAMENTAL fl Bikini? E 
LARGE STOCK. LOW RATES. 
STANDARD PI!IK TKKF.S A SPECIALTY 
AGENTS WANTED. Address 
F>. MOODY & »ON«, Lockpoi-i, N. Y. 
Niagara Nurseries, Established 1831). 
O. K. JOHNSON 
MANUFACTURER OF 
JEND for Circular of the old Reliable Sweei 
j stakos Thresher to C. AOLTMAn & Co., Canton, < 
POWER PRE88ES, RATCHET HEAD SCREWS 
And Forty Other Articles for Cider Mills 
PT* Send for Circular to 
O. K. JOHNSON, Medina, N. Y. 
GRATKRM, Etc., Superior to any known 
Full particulars sent free. Address 
quality extra. Prices 
T. S. HUBBARD, 
Fredonlu, N. Y. 
Largest stock In America 
reasonable. Price List free. 
IT T1 T1 ¥1 T "P ffl INC MACHINE 
IF I Hi Ll IB El ELi % can be obtained at 
l||l Pi in Q fl n gl 1 about one-half the 
is is IJ11 ll ll U SXJiSSrtSS: 
m w m mb mmm wm JfCI > s> 4() p<!r 
doz.: Wheeler ft Wilson. GOcts.; Howe’s, 00 ct*.! Gro¬ 
ver & tinker,straight, in ct*.. curved, 60 cts.,and oth¬ 
ers iu proportion. Inclose the amount, and Needleo 
will be returned by drst mail. .Address 
DEFIANCE NEEDLE CO..U6S Hr .udway, N. Y. 
SyrncuKf, N» V., 
and 20 Beckman Kt„ N. ’ 
IIY WILLARD’S 
KNIFE-SCISSORS! 
:pragtical butter book. 
Notv Ready, Price SI. 
Address MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
78 Duane St., New York 
ACAf^, 
SCISSORS & KNIFE 
IN ONE! 
^ ^ 1* 
MOP 
HEAD 
Nothing to equal It for rip¬ 
ping, batt en-hole cut¬ 
ting, Ac., &c. 
The uses to which they can 
be put suggest them¬ 
selves at once 
to every 
lady and gentleman. 
Our motive In establishing this Agency is to 
suitUfy a long felt want among «nr Subscribers, 
friends and the genera) public, thus offering a 
Reliable Medium 
through which they can supply till their wants In 
« wi‘l/ branch of Trade, at the cxtrcmr.lv Low Prices 
now ruling In New York Markets. Our 
Special Arrangements 
with leading Slanufacturers and Merchants enable 
us to purchase on mure favorable terms than parties 
who trade direct could secure. 
We are also prepared to receive 
IMPORTANT! 
ft ^ The Scissors are warranted. 
In '1 jj and the price by mall 
Jjj jt is only $1.00. 
Address 
C. II. E. REDDING, P. O. Box 581, Now York, 
s evincing 
A 86 Sewing Machine 
ATTENTION, OWNERS OF HORSES 
a Ask your harness maker 
Kk /Wi for the Zinc Collar Pad. 
Ifc They are warranted to cure 
i :H hd> sore neck, or money re- 
‘ 1, • . ft 1 undue, 11 j *ri i > * ,-<_l direc- 
VaA — I' -'t . m tlonaan; followed. Send 75 
'ip y Jv 1 ta. for xtimv'c. to the ZINC 
COLLAR PAD CO., Solo 
Manuf’rs Buchanan, Mich. 
of any nature, and will dlspoBO of 6uch business at 
the least practicable expense to the consignor, return¬ 
ing prompt aocouut-salus. Parties availing tbem- 
selvosof thlsandoiher Departments of our AGENCY 
can rely upon escaping the commissions of 
Middle-Men. 
thus reducing the cost of their merchandise very 
materially. 
We fill an ordor for 
A Single Article 
as carefully and promptly as a large order, and in¬ 
vite the patronage or Individuals, “clubs,” &c. 
Everything comes within our province, from 
A NEEDLE TO A STEAM ENGINE! 
Our commission is small, and always uniform. 
Explanatory Circular*, 
which give lull and complete information regarding 
the Agency', mailed on receipt of stamp. 
We will not be responsible for moneys, unless sent 
by Express, P. O. Money Order, Registered Letter or 
Draft on New York. 
Correspondence solicited. Address 
C. H. ZS. REDDING, 
Manager ltural Purchasing Agency, 
Eural New-Yorker Office, New York. 
E»“ P. «. Box 581. 
e37”Iuclone *25 Lenta when you make business 
Inquiries that ousts our time, or your request will 
be laid aside In favor of those who con ply. Our 
time la money. 
Moore’s Rural New-Yorker is an excellent. 
Agricultural paper, and very popular. As a family 
visitant it Is hard to beat in the attractions It holds 
forth for young and old. We are pleased to see that 
^U¥ WILLARD’S 
PRACTICAL BUTTER BOOK. 
Now Ready. Price SI. 
Address MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
78 Duane St., New York 
Automatic Pumps 
Water raised to any hlght and distance b 7 
Compressed Air, 
This machine will do a variety or work, and do it 
well- The various attachments usio on other ma¬ 
chines can be used with lids one. and families will 
find It Invaluable a* a help in their sewing. Will be 
sent to any address, by express, on receipt ol price. 
Humpies of work on application. It is itof a Toy 
Machine. Address C. II. E. REDDING. 
P. O. Box 681. 78 Duane bt.. New York. 
Cheaply and certainly. 
HARTFORD PIJMP CO„ 
llavtlord. Conn 
Address 
ITY WILLARD’S 
manufacturers oe fine 
ELECTRO-PLATED 
PRACTICAL BUTTER BOOK 
Now Ready. Price Si. 
Address MOORE’S RURAL NEW YORKER, 
78 Duane 8t„ New York, 
Salesooom at Factories, ’Taunton, Mass., and 
2 Maiden Lane, New Yohk. 
Moore’9 Rural New-Yorker, conducted by 
our jolly friend, Hon. D. D. Y. MOORE, leads all the 
papers ot Its class In this country. It is edited with 
great care and has a large variety of interesting and 
instructive departments for the family and me fire¬ 
side. Convenient in form, remarkably neat in typog¬ 
raphy. ahoundino In timely Illustrations, and well 
tilled with U 10 choicest of matter, both original and 
selected, it has no superior in its peculiar sphere.— 
Yonker* OasetU. 
>CY WILLARD’S 
3 PRACTICAL BUTTER BOOK. 
Now Ready.....Price fl. 
Address MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
78 Duane St., New York, 
