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©RE’S RURAL N£W-¥©BK£B 
NEWS OONDENSEB, 
— The Empress Eugenie has gone to Switzer¬ 
land. 
— The Ice business lias gained a good foothold 
in Japan. 
— Notice for a new trial lias been served on 
Mr. Beecher's counsel. 
— Buffalo’s completed census is 131,238—an in¬ 
crease over 1870 of 10,624. 
— The public debt statement shows a decrease 
since June 30 of $ 1,204,8*7. 
— Philadelphia has raised $5,000 for free ex¬ 
cursions for poor children. 
— A priest lias been captured and carried off 
by eight brigands in Sicily. 
The fisheries at Labrador are reported to 
lie almost a complete failure. 
— The population of New Fork, according to 
the census returns. Is about 1,050,000. 
— An old Roman amphitheater lias just been 
uncovered at Flesole, near 1 lore in e. 
— Thirty-one new operas have heeu produced 
In Italy from .fanunry 1st to June HO. 
The Cardinals in Rome have given 10,tl00f. 
for the sufferers by the French floods. 
— The Turkish Government has authorized 
the circulation of the Bible In Turkey. 
— The Turkish troops defeated the Herzego¬ 
vina Insurgents In the recent encounters. 
— It is proposed in France to secure seats in 
the railway carriages. Just ;u In a theater. 
— There are 12,000 miles of railway in use in 
Russia and 3,000 In course of construction. 
— The rate of growth of corals in the Gulf of 
Mex'co is from 3V 4 to 1 Inches per annum. 
— The law disendowing the Romish Church 
in Germany has been officially promulgated. 
The suspension of Duncan, Sherman & Co., 
had no effect oil the general London market. 
— The girls of West Troy have formed a boat 
club and challenged the Vassar girls to u race. 
— The Prince and Princess of Wales have 
given $500 to the French inundation relief fund. 
— By the Caving in of the Eureka mine, Ne¬ 
braska, live miners have lost their lives recently. 
— The French National Assembly have voted 
18,000,000 francs for supplementary war expen¬ 
ses. 
A new motor has been discovered at Hamil¬ 
ton, Can. The Inventor challenges Keely to a 
trial. 
— It is predicted that tho vintage of 1875 on 
the Rhine and Moselle “ will be a memorable 
one.” 
— The largest library in the United States is 
the Library of Congress, which contains 374,000 
volumes. 
— Since 1873 the balance of trade hus been 
against Germany to the tune rf six hundred 
millions of dollars. 
— Returns from 51 voting precincts In Texas 
show a small majority in favor of a constitu¬ 
tional convention. 
— English pointer and setter dogs, to the 
value of over $100,000, were Imported Into the 
United States last year. 
The Postmaster General has just put Into 
operation 5,000 new mail service routes, mostly 
In the Southern States. 
The floods In the West have dune great 
damage to the railroads, and traffic on several 
linos is partly suspended. 
A petition to the Queen for the annexation 
of New Guinea lias passed the Assembly and 
Council of South Australia. 
— The city of Dunodin, New Zealand has de¬ 
cided to offer engagements to Messrs. Moody 
and Sankey, the revivalists. 
— A life-sized bust In marble of the Hon. 
tteverdy Johnson, by T. D. Jones, a Washington 
sculptor, is nearly completed. 
— The free excursion system in Baltimore 
has much reduced the death-rate among the 
poor children of that city this Summer. 
The recent storms in Central Illinois have 
done Immense damage to crops, bridges and 
railroads. The loss is estimated at $1,000,000. 
A woman sixty years old was recently con¬ 
victed of murder in the Midland Circuit in En¬ 
gland for 1, III jug her husband, eged ninety-nine. 
— The Signal Service reports an Indication 
that an overflow of the Mississippi is inevitable. 
The crops, which were never better, may be 
lost. 
— The number of deaths in the English mines 
lust year averaged one to every 510 persons em¬ 
ployed. The total number of persons employed 
was 538,830. 
— The forty-fourth annual Fair of the Ameri¬ 
can Institute, New York, will be formally 
opened to the public at 3 P. M. on Wednesday, 
September 8. 
— The consumption of tea in the United 
Slates for the last two years appears from the 
last data to be at least 50,000,000 pounds, if not 
80,000,000 per annum. 
-An ornamental marble fountain, with 
figures of Shakespeare, Milton and Chaucer, 
erected at a cost of £5,000, has been opened in 
Park Lane, Loudon. 
— For some time past the citizens of Western 
-New York and Northwestern Pennsylvania 
have been alarmed by the depredations of bur¬ 
glars and highwaymen. 
(Mu rati anal. 
Sauted. 
Agricultural Department 
OP 
CO HIM K I.Tj UNIVERBITY. 
The course of study in this Department comprises 
agricultural chemistry and entomology, botany, free 
hand find linear drawing, geology, horticulture, his¬ 
tory, mathematics, modern lan •unaes ineonnnleul 
engineering, natural philosophy, political economy, 
prac! irnl lurrlcuUnri*, physiology, rhetoric, in nil 
architecture, surveying, use of tools and machinery, 
vegetable physiology, and veterinary science and 
practice. It is amply illustrated with the aid of col¬ 
lections of models und specimens, and consists to a 
large extent of practice in the laboratories and lu 
the Held. 
It nan he taken 
Fit RE (IF ANA CHARQBi) Foil TUITION, 
and ample opportunity will bo afforded to students 
to pay for their room rent in the University build¬ 
ing* urn) to meet a part of their other expenses, hy 
labor on ttic farm, if they desire to do o. 
The next entrance examinations will begin Sep¬ 
tember lit. 
For Register giving full particulars, apply to 
Prof. <1. C. <'A IJBVKLln 
Pet ret ary of the Pa iUfa, Ithaca, V. 
Special Course op Instruction in the Prin¬ 
ciples OF FABMTNiJ. 
A School or Agriculture and Horticulture in 
HARVARD UtilViRSm, 
Offers a systematic three years' cnnrxoOf instruction 
in agriculturenud useful and ornamental gardening 
and -.took raising. Special students may take any of 
the follow I m; couxsea, vii i 
t. The structure and diseases ,,f domestic annuals. 
Prof. Ht.AUK. 
2. The fungi injurious to vegetation, Ai*»’t Prof. 
Fahlow. 
:i. Agricultural Chemistry. IT >r. stoker. 
J. Field and in-door lessons on weeds and other 
plants of murom to agriculturists. Mr. WlilOIlT. 
5. Excursions for thustudy of larms. Mr. WRIGHT. 
No examination m required for admission to t hese 
courses; but students must he .t least eighteen 
years of age. Fees will be remitted to indigent 
students. For further information, address 
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78 Duane St., New York. 
THE STANDARD DAIRY BOOK! 
WILLARD’S 
PRACTICAL DAIRY HUSBANDRY: 
A COMPLETE TREATISE ON 
DAIRY FARMS AND FARMING,—DAIRY STOCK AND STOCK FEEDING,—MILK, 
ITS MANAGEMENT AND MANUFACTURE INTO BUTTER AND CHEESE,- 
HISTORY AND MODE OF ORGANIZATION OF BUTTER AND 
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My X. A. Wira.ASSM, A. M„ 
Editor of the Dairy Department of “Moore's Rural New-Yorker,” and Lecturer at the Maine 
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VII.—English Dairy Practice. VIII-Composition of Cheese. IX—Voelcker’s Cheese Ex¬ 
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Manufacture, XIII. Appendix. 
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cfntUiW. 
Until further nutlet’, Peruvian Guano, guaranteed 
tn contain ll) per cent, of Ammonia, will he sold by 
the Undersigned or their Agent*, in lot* of not less 
limn Ten tod*, at SIXTY DOLLARS CUB- 
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or Autumn seasons. 
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July 1st, 1876. New YORK. 
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