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THE BUBAL NEW-YORKER. 
PERSONAL ITEMS. 
Alexander Blain, LL. D., the eminent author 
and scholar of London, Is dead. 
Millard Fillmore, in extreme youth, was 
rocked In a sap trough tor want of abetter cradle. 
Gen. Leslie Coombs of Kentucky, who Is about 
83 years old, has Just married a lady of the same 
age. 
Baroness Auguste dk Stael, daughter-in-law 
of the author of “Corinne,” has Just died at 
Geneva. 
Mr. Motley Is traveling in Italy, ms daughter 
and her husband, Sir Vemon-Harcourt, accom¬ 
pany him. 
Empress Eugenie and Prince Louis called on 
, the Pope the other day, and were received with 
royal honors. 
Gkx. Joseph E. Johnston has rented a house In 
Richmond, where he Is about to attend to Insur¬ 
ance Interests. 
Pror. W. a. Summer of Yale college, has been 
delivering free-trade lectures In Illinois during the 
College vacation. 
Governor Colquitt of Georgia, Is a zealous 
Baptist and preaches every Sunday to the negroes 
whom he employs. 
Sue was dropped heavily on a sidewalk, and 
the sawdust burst from her arms and legs In pro¬ 
fusion. She was a doll. 
Frederic Bastiat, political economist, 1» to 
have a mouumeut raised to Ills memory In 
Mugron, his native town. 
Mb. Gladstone, it Is said, has realized the ex¬ 
traordinary sum of *60.000 from his pamphlet ou 
the “Bulgarian Horrors." 
Rhoda Broughton's latest novel, “ Joan,” lias 
been so vigorously denounced by all the critics 
that everybody Is reading it. 
Vermont has a stage-driver In active service 
who Is elghty-twn years old, and still he doesn't 
lag superfluous on the etage. 
Wicuam Doulton, head of tho Doulton potter¬ 
ies in England, has Just been baptized into the 
Baptist Church In Philadelphia. 
Sir Rowland Hill, author of thocheap postage 
system of Great Britain, is seriously 111 of nervous 
breakdown at tho age or elghty-one. 
Op tho three Esquimaux broughtto this country 
by Dr. Hall, only one—.foe—now lives. “Han¬ 
nah” having dk-d recently in Groton. 
Mr. J. C. Flood, the Californian, the man of 
gold and silver, gave a Christmas present of 
$ 2,000 in gold to Sau Francisco charities. 
A London paper in speaking of Liszt's latest 
piano work says that tho score looks like a spider 
in hysterics or a tarantula In convulsions. 
The Rev. Hr. W. L. Breckinridge, son of Jeffer¬ 
son’s Attorney-General, and undo of tho Con¬ 
federate Secretary of War, has Just died In Mis¬ 
souri. 
Miss Julia Grant, the President’s grand¬ 
daughter, wa3 treated with marked attention 
during tho New Year's reception at the White 
House. 
Gov. Hubbard, being a reformer, declined to 
wear the cockade which Connecticut Governors 
have worn from time Immemorial. 
Mr. Coxwell, the eminent English aeronaut 
endorses the opinion that the North Pole may be 
reached by balloons under favorable circum¬ 
stances and during comparatively mild weather. 
Prof. Henry urges the establishment of a Na¬ 
tional Museum at Washington, with the Govern¬ 
ment Centennial collection as a nucleus and the 
repaid Centennial loan as a building and endow¬ 
ment fund. 
It must, have afforded Mr. J. T. Fields exquisite 
pleasure to read the statement of a New York 
letter writer that his "eyes are like dark silts in 
an expanse of Ivory-white flesh, but he has a 
charming smile." 
The Rev. John S. C. Abbott, although sinking 
from an Incurable disease, Is dictating articles | 
for the press. Ho Is also dictating a series of 
chapters of personal reminiscences, to be pub¬ 
lished after hla death. 
Wong Chin Foo, the Chinese lecturer. Is at 
present entertaining Western audiences, no 
speaks English with great, fluency and accuracy, 
and 13 described as being very bright and Intelli¬ 
gent. Upon the platform he wears the costume 
of his natlvo country. 
Soon after Gov, Andrew's death, the gentlemen 
who had composed hla councils during the years 
of his trying service formed an organization for 
the purpose of Recuring annual meetings of those 
who had becu so Ini Itnalely associated with each 
other and with tho Governor. 
|Uu? ^ttbUcatiottS. 
THE ROOK FOR THE TIMES. 
ANDREWS’S 
MANUAL OF THE CONSTITUTION; 
Designed for instruction in the antics, obligations 
and rights of citizenship, fig Israel Ward An¬ 
drews, President Marietta College. 
Pram a Review bn the New 1 ork Nation : 
Andrews’s Manual records in detail the organiza¬ 
tion ami growth ot each department nt the Govern¬ 
ment, nnd shows tho Constitution to he something 
m.-ro than tho skeleton framework of 'ST plus a cer¬ 
tain number el'amendments. • ' ‘ I i each aspect 
of Its usefulness the work cannot fail to moot with 
approval, aita an n text-book it Is bn all odds THE iiest 
ii pits kind. 
Price, $1.50. Liberal terms on supplies for first 
Introduction Into schools. 
WILSON, HINKLE &. CO., Cincinnati and New York, 
Publishers Eclectic Educational Str^s. 
T T 0~W Tf ) 8ond 1 * re- 
-S- - 1 Ly rr J- V/ enlvu a pimt-nalrl eo»,„ i>i l 
WHAP-WHERE 
WHEN-HOW 
To Plant Farm, Garden and Flower Seeds; what 
they will cost and other valuable Information In our 
Hand-Book for 1877 . 
Sent to all applicants, post-paid, on receipt of 10c., by 
JAMES S' 1,1, VII Mi, Seedsman, 
67 t.utmau Nt., New York. 
PIANO. 
Mr. Inoalls of Kansas, Is considered by the 
ladles In the gallery to be the pet bachelor of the 
Senate, and Is termed fastidious, elegant and 
literary. 
Scene on a street carConductor, to a passen¬ 
ger who Is smoking:—" if you want to smoko In 
this car you must put out your cigar else get off 
right away.” 
A great-grandson of Gen. Putnam went to see 
the Old South Revolutionary collection the other 
day, and met on the spot a great-grandson of 
Gem Sullivan. 
Grace Greenwood hates two things—prune 
pudding and petty Impertinences rolled up and 
sent out on the points of Faber’s pencils.—Grace I 
Is getting old. 
A)though tho Sultan is mLsorably poor—fora 
sultan—he Is spending six or seven hundred 
thousand francs upon the wedding festivities of 
two of Ms sisters. ^ 
It 13 hinted that the Pope will very likely 
appoint another American Cardinal shortly, and 
that the appointment will fall upon Archbishop 
Bayley of Baltimore. 
The lion. John Conant of Jaffrey has just given 
to the agricultural department of Dartmouth 
College $4,000, making a total of *70,(ion which he 
has given to this department. 
"Stonewall” Jackson was an intense ad¬ 
mirer of the first Napoleon, and would dwell 
upon the great Emperor’s campaigns by the 
hour. He was fond of the 6tudy or history. 
Mr. Murat Halstead edits a large and well 
regulatsd family as well as a groat newspaper. 
The Western papers are congratulating him on 
the birth of his seventh son and tenth child. 
Mu P. I». Bliss, the evangelist, who was killed 
at Ashtabula, had a youth of comparative hard¬ 
ship. His first scientific knowledge of music was 
obtained from his wife after thPir marriage. 
Prince Was a, son of Custavus 1 v. or Sweden, 
who obdicated In favor or Bernadette, is now on 
a visit to Paris, He Is seventy-seven years or 
age, and devotes his tim to literary pursuits. 
A PniLADKLFHiA paper suggests that A. r. 
Goshorn, Director General of the Centennial Ex¬ 
hibition, shall be placed at th« head of the Ameri¬ 
can Commission at the nest Paris Exposition. 
WnKN Mr. Elbert A. Woodward,Slate’s evidence, 
reached his long-deserted home la Norwalk the 
other day he was liberally called upon; even the 
firemen visited him In full utttforA, and Mr. 
w oodward produced tor their benefit his most 
excellent wines. 
:- Abram L’Rifrj, a promlnenf citizen of Houghton, 
u Mich., who committed suicide the other day, had 
permitted his rnlnd to dwell too much ou the 
8 science of Government, a favorite study of his, 
3 which owtng to the present election troubles, In¬ 
creased hla mental strain ana overthrew his 
reason. 
t Mr, Jamk8 Buchanan was, when very young, 
one of a Government troop of horse, It Is said, who 
went from Lancaster Comity to the office of The 
' Reading Adler—the oldest German paper In this 
3 country—seized tho editor, Mr. Bchnelder, and 
subjected him to personal punishment for his 
> attacks on the Administration. 
Mr. Edwin Forrest's bequest Is making an 
appearance as a white elephant of a largiyslze. 
It was offered for sale by the Sheriff recently, to 
• satisfy a mortgage of $7i>,7$M, held by the execu¬ 
tors. Tho highest bid mudo was too.ooo. Not 
' being enough to satisfy the mortgage, the mort- 
l gagees wore forced to buy 11 in. 
Miss Anderson, the actress, has a dazeling 
effect upon the average critic. This stern and 
• measured opinion comes from Motnphfg:—•• MI?.s 
i Anderson Is Intense, yet expansive; cotnprehen- 
| save, yet particular; fervid without raultlnesa; 
glowing, and still controlled; natural, but refined; 
daring anything, fearing nothing but to violate 
grace. 
True bones of many forgotten notables avr 
found Dr the crypts of the London churches; In 
| that of St. Martin Outwtck, lately cleared away 
I from P.lshopsgate and Tbreadneeale streets, were 
recognized those of Abigail Vaughan, who left a 
bequest of four shillings a year to buy fagots lot 
the burning of heretics. The bequest still accu¬ 
mulates. 
Prof. Trumbull say3 that Mr. Charles Francis 
Adams Is tho only American who ever refused 
the degree of Doctor of civil Laws from Cam¬ 
bridge t'nlverslty, England. The cause of this 
refusal was the fact that the recipients of de¬ 
grees at tho English commencements are sub¬ 
jected to many annoyances by the undergraduates 
assembled In tho galleries. 
Da. Strousbero, although banished from Rus¬ 
sia on account of hla extensive railway frauds, is 
| not vanquished. Ills departure from Moscow to 
Berlin Is followed by the statementin Tho Mos¬ 
cow Gazette that he has been offered thc*dlrcc- 
tU>nOf his late Zlrowlrou works and mines by 
tho Dukes of Ratlbor and Ujest, two Prussian 
noblemen, who are about to purchase them. 
The new English clergyman at the Brick 
Church, tho Rev. Mr. Beven, doesn't llko Inter¬ 
ruptions. On a recent Sunday a lady, occupying 
a conspicuous seat la tho gallery, was forced to 
cough several times. Mr. Be van finally turned 
and requested her to leave the church, saying her 
cough annoyed him. She left as quietly as possi¬ 
ble, but not without being the center of universal 
attention. 
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EVERYWHERE. 
Grinin, Gu.—Severe weather unabated—heav¬ 
iest ever known here. Shade and rrults trees lit¬ 
erally ruined. Everytmng for the past four days 
has been covered, twig, stem and branch, with a 
sheet of Ice half an inch thick.— j. o. k. 
Warren to., N. c.—We still have severe cold 
weather. Mureury down to » deg. above zero. 
Good sleighing, but no sleigh. We begin to see 
the effects of a hard winter, In the carcasses of 
starved animals. Fine times ror the buzzards, but 
rather bad for the stock-owners. Perhaps we 
are now learning a lesson that will be remem¬ 
bered.— m. b. c. 
Harborton, N. J.—Prices or farm produce are 
as follows: Wheat, $i.40(5;.i.43 y busheL Corn 
50c. do. Oats, 3o(a.77c. do. Hay, *20 v ton, prlmo 
timothy; clover, *70 do. Butter, Ktu^ioc. y tt, 
Potatoes, L 2601 . 1 M) y bush. Apples, 75c. do. 
Dressed beef, Sc. y lb., by the side. Dressed hogs, 
y IF Farm hands are getting from $740 to 
*775 per year, with board, washing, etc. luciuded. 
Wages tor day uaads, T5c. to $i, with board.— I 
Dl.B. 
TTOW ) 8ond 1 5 rents »ad re- 
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I tlitr PoHii* with 17 pitftfVM 
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Information how to earn 
rood coramlsalons for 
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I J\8 O 57. other Gifts for 
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_ WHITE, SM ITH Sc co„ Boston. 
POTTER’S AMERICAN MONTHLY. 
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in tin* Country, at *3 ror 1STT. 5oojjto* 
one year for *13; 10 copies for *25; 2(1 
copies for *60, ana a ropy of I'otter’i, 
Subscrlbors I»lblp Encyclopedia. quarto, It.WOO 
for illustration*, price |*S, given to tho 
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AT BO 
NEW FLOWER SEED CATALOGUE 
For 1S77, 
READY FOR MAIUNG, fttKfi TO ALL /, PPUCANTS. 
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person sending thl* club. For ante at 
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WANTED-A PA ItTN «R. - A Practical 
,., N . ur *'T yl ?'L n ’ wlth capital auflioleiit in take 
naif Intercut with iin*,und In J7* uerea,,r moto of tho 
best of n«w land, well situated |,j tlio hm lnc**of 
Nuracr y and Ueove Plant*. I have been in tho bust- 
ne*s of trrowinK Hedao Plants hero f,,r flvo year* 
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favorably known In oil tha Stuto a round. No nait- 
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Hover, Del. 
1 or 1S77. Practical, pointed and thoroxuih, and 
Oi 111 tains half us much matter us *1.50 hooks uu the 
subject. Horit lor HI era., winch will he allnwod on 
the first ovuer for seeds. .1 B. ROOT, 
_Seed Grower, Roekford'lil. 
Spring Avemie Gardens. 
WINTER-BLOOMING PLANTS 
A SPECIALTY. 
Carnation*, Smllax, Neapolitan Violets, Bonvar- 
dlun, Chineso Azuloa#, Lily of the Valley. All the 
nsw and moat desirable Geraniums and nintUar 
plants. Also, a areat variety of the common and 
fancy Ilurdy Evergreen Trees, ua low us they nan 
bo purchased of uny trustworthy dealer. 
Addros* H. \V. IIA I,EM, 
Ridgewood, Brrgru Co., N. J. 
vew Thin f.’ntahowatlmfonn of tha Sunar 
Trough Gourd. Tlniy hold trom 8 to 10 
RAllons each. Twenty-five cents pays 
Cr’ ' f01-11 packatfo of tho seed, nnd one of 
few.'.. Pansy, Double Zinnia ami Striped Pe- 
iWtr . Ag -gjsy tunln. Price-list of need* free. 
’ Address WALDO V. BROWN, 
- • Do* 1,(>. 
1 7KKK SEED PRICE LIST for all. Seeds re- 
liuhle. l.owc*trutcs to Cluhs.Grunees and retail 
dealurs. SARAH H. MARTIN, Marblehead, Mass. 
JnHIiiiew. 
FISH lillAHO. StSS! 
percent. Bonn Phosphate of Lime. Uull-Diy Finn 
Seim*. KOod quality Also i*mi porphosplmte and 
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QLU.NMPrAC FERTILIZER CO., 
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Fifty pages—300 Illustrations, with Description* of 
thousands of the best Flowers nod VeKctahlo* In the 
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poRtauoMfttnp. Printed In German and KurIIbU. 
Vlfk’u Klornl GuIde, Guarterly, 2.7 cents a year. 
V ielt a Mower unci Y^iirtiihli) (iurden. 50 
cents lit paper; In elemint cloth c<fv«rs, *1. 
Adilross J AMK9 YIC-K, Rochester, N. Y. 
R oot graft* for new beginners 
—^Waurantkd.—H eadquarters for Fruit Plants, 
Tree*, &o. Ilavina u largo stock, prices are "down 
to tho bone." E. W. HARRINGTON. 
Commercial Nurseries, Pulinyra, N. Y. 
amtitr’s «uidt. i 
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- cents in paper; in elsnunt c 
THE,PALACE HOTEL TRAIN 
NEW YORK AND CHICAGO Commercial N’t 
via Cleveland. “TZjLirr—""”— 
Leaves Erie Railway po^it^foot of Chambers St. j.lj^ 
9:00 A* M., Dully except Sunday. Dmwlns-Room 11 W « i H B 
Sleeping (.'caches through to Chicago ; but I i 
7:00 P. ill., Dally. The Palace Hotel Train to 
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and Pullman * Hold Dining Car. through hMomMiSZrylLfl&J&S l 
without Cliauce; hut unc change of day cars " ' 
The only line running Hbto Dining Car* out of Wp/jsStl fL jB Eto Y'J l j 
New 5 ork. A ride of nearly a thotiaundmiles with. OB'7LOPrjfT.S"l. I Li 
out leaving the car to cat. dr) nk or sleeu I J wWr 
CALIFORNIA. KW*§ 
Have you any thought of going to California? B fl&S sS Jr are! I k,we, 
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Tho Ahortest, safmit, quickest «ud must comfort- ww ** w T't'DPV h 
•hlo route* arc those owned by the Chicago and "• “« * 4 '- 
Nortb-Westorn Hallway Company. It owns over WV - 
two thousand miles of trie host road mere H in ^flur .IbriiW Triced Catalo* 
the ooutitry. Ask auy llokct agent to show you It* r f 11 1 " 
maps and time curds. All ticket agents can sell you (■'-'* ' 'PA4 ' . -- *** - 
through ticket* by thl* route. Bu y yt.ur »lck»t» yla - . ^ _ __ 
the (7ntOAdo n Noutuwbstern raxlwa v tor san USgi U it P HhU 
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andall point* west-or north ivct till file ago, 1 1 you Kurin.Garden anti Flower So 
wish the best traveling nwommodutlons, you wifi beet strain* for Famiero. Mt 
buv yourticktusby thl* route, end wdl take tniothcr. Gardens, Amateursnnd Flor 
This popular rout.: I* nnnurooB-ed for Spued, corn- merit Introduced the past i 
p jr r' fidbrnoot-h Wcli-Huilttsted and flr*t-cla*8 Med* at,reiisonah 
RrAtua 1 Mni«-.°u ♦ *?« 8 ' " esc lie house Air *eml for patHliuniet’, which v 
Platform and Coupler* the and rent free (ocustomers i< 
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fine ciigravfng*. two 
W» I uWr clcg.int cohnvd plates, arid 
jA civek fblt description*, prico* 
1200 varieties of Vcgatahle 
Jr -\od Flowet h'oe.L. Redding Flanta, 
ge Hiac*, ,Vc„ nod i* invaluable to 
r Farmer, Gardener & Florist. Address, 
D.M. FEEHY !: CO., Detroit, Mich. 
celebrated Pullman Palatrt! Slopping Cm- tho Pi 
feet Tolugr ipU System or Moving Trains, Ihe reuu- 
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ment lor running Thraugb Cnt* from Clilcug-. to all 
point* Wiat, North aifd Northwest,^cdpmn to pim- 
sciurer* afi the ( omfqhth i . Moucrv Uaii.way 
T itA vkli.NO, J'nllman Palme Cars are ruu ou all 
trxiua of thi* road. 
This i* the ONLY LINE running those car* be¬ 
tween Chicago and t?t. Pan! i r ( iliuiooan l Milwau¬ 
kee. At Omaha our eleopoM connect with the Over¬ 
land Sleepers on the Union PaclOo Railroad for all 
point* west of the Missouri River. 
For rate..* or Information not attainable from your 
homo ticket agents, apply to 
MARVIN HUGH ITT, W. H. STKNNETT, 
Gen 1 Superintendent. Gon’l Pasaen’r Agt. 
Moiitk's Rural NKW-Yotmitjt isoncot tun rum- 
able, useful, family papers, equally in ocmaod by 
the lady la her conservatory, tho matron with Her 
household, tlu» farmer In his field, the mock raiser 
among his animals, ar.d the young folks around oh 
evening lamp.—Low* of Life. 
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Gardens, Amateursnnd Florist,*: tiHoall novelties of 
merit Introduced the pas’, year. All who wish for 
flrst-olns* *ee.i* nt,rc-HFonahle price*, ore Invited to 
send for ratalomies, which will bo ieady In January, 
and sent free toeustoioer* nnd all Who apply, heeds 
sent hv mall or .vpres* to all parts of tho country. 
ITOVEY A CO-. .‘A North Market ot., Rostou, Alas* 
U0 ROSES BAILED FREJELLo n$i ^ 
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8 ONE DOLLAR, g 
Spooner’s Gardening Guide for 1877, 
And iSpooDer’* special collection. 30 varletlea 
choice Flower Needs, or ti.V varletlea »elected 
Vegetable r»eeilB. mailed to any addres* on receipt 
of $1; or the Guide free to applicant*. 
W1I. H. HPOONEIt, Boston, Mae*. 
