TERMS FOR 1877, IN ADVANCE, 
INCLUDING POSTAGE, WHICH PUBLISHERS PREPAY. 
Slntdo Copy, $2.50 1 'CrYun.r. To Club* :-FIv« Oopiei. 
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let, and one fter #20—only t! per aopy, Tlie above 
raU.ii include postage (under the new law) to any part 
of the United Htatea, and the American poataye on all 
copleemulled to Canada. On paper* mailed to JCurop# 
by steamer, the poetatre wLIJ be 85 cent# extra for each 
eubmiription. Drafts, Pout-Office Money Order* and 
Itcylntered Lnttera may be mailed at our risk, tar* Lib- 
oral Premiums to all Club Agent* who do not take free 
copies. Specimen Number*, Show-Bills, Ac., aont free 
Ice sells for twelve cents a pound at Corpus 
Crlstl, Texas. 
Nearly all of the Minnesota wheat tests co 
pounds per bushel. 
There are said to be 50,000 Jews In the city of 
San Francisco, California. 
The flax mills at K nigs town, Ind., use 30,000 
tons of flax straw weekly. 
Good and well-broken horses sell at auction in 
Hunt county, Texas, for $ 10 . 
Cincinnati owes a railway debt of $ 17 , 285 , 000 , 
and Louisville one or $5,011,000. 
Raphael Hemincs, the ex-Confederate Admiral, 
died on the 30th ulf.., at Point Clear, Alabama. 
The grape crop of Florida la unusually heavy, 
and the orange groves are reported In tine condi¬ 
tion. 
During last week no fowor than 351,000 baskets 
of peaches were received In New York from Dela¬ 
ware. 
The supply of lithographic stone Is rapidly fall¬ 
ing ofr. over$ 10 , 000,000 worth Is consumed an¬ 
nually. 
If our country should become as densely popu¬ 
lated as Holland, It would contain 1,000,000,000 In¬ 
habitants. 
The narrow gauge railroad, two feet wide, be¬ 
tween Billerica and Bedford, Mass., cost, less than 
$oooo per mile. 
Twenty-six Percheron stallions have lately ar¬ 
rived from France for the stables of It. W. Stod¬ 
dard, New York. 
The best bricklayers in Paris receive but $ 1.80 
per day. The average wages In this country for 
the same Is $3.00 per day. 
Twenty-live carpenters sailed from New York 
last week for Manchester, England, under con¬ 
tract for three years labor. 
A Saratoga county, N. Y. farmer boasts that he 
has raised and threshed looo bushel of oats this 
year off fifteen acres of land. 
A lady of Janesville, seventy-four years of age, 
has Just completed a patchwork quilt containing 
MV5 pieces, and 155,000 stitches. 
The public debt, of Boston amounts to the very 
large sum of $48,090,497. 
Ptollatuouis 
m frr.ni NERVOUS DEBITITY 
etc., can learn of a certain and 
speedy remedy, /ret, by ad- 
Dlk JAQUKS A CO.. Cincinnati, Ohio. 
dressing 
CE Mixed Cards, with name. file, and 3c. stamp 
V*"*# OntfltlOc. Booth A Baker, New Britain, Ct. 
QB MIXED CARDf*, with name, 10c. Samples 
O Vr 3 ct. stamp. J. Winkler A Co., Nassau, N. Y. 
Off HtQAHT CAROS, no two alike, with name, 10c., 
AO post-paid. j'. B. BUSTED, Nassau, N. Y. 
ill I XED cards, with name, 10 cts. Samples for 
He. stamp. J. MINKLER & CO., Nassau. N. Y. 
ff Fancy f 'ards. with name, 10c.. 50 for 15o.; Plain 
O or (fold. Try ua. W. E. Hull &Cu., Buds. m.N.Y. 
pf ELEGANT CARDS, no two alike, with name 
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CONDENSED NEW YORK TELEGRAMS 
MIXED CARDS, with mime, 10c. and 3c. stump 
Samples tic. DOWD A OO.. Bristol. Conn. 
Tuesday, Kept. 4 .—Work has been resumed In 
most of the mines In the Lohlgli Valley. A num¬ 
ber of the principal ex-ofllce-holders of South 
Carolina have been Indicted and arrested for 
iraudtn office, and strong disclosures have been 
made against them. The Nez Forces have re¬ 
leased a number of prisoners they had captured, 
many of whom have been reported killed. Thiers, 
the great French statesman, historian, Journalist 
and ex-Prcaldent, died suddenly at six o’clock last 
evening at St. Germain. 
Osman Pasha attacked the Russian entrench¬ 
ments near Plevna, but after an obstinate strug¬ 
gle, was repulsed with a loss or 2,000 men, after 
having Inflicted one of lor,o. Gen. Mollkoff. the 
commander or the Muscovite forces In Asia, has 
been superseded by the Grand Duke Michael. 
Wednesday, Sept. 5.—Prospects are still trouble¬ 
some on the Ido Grande. The American and 
British rifle teams are dally practicing for the 
approaching contest at Creed moor, near this city, 
and the prospects are bright for the success of 
our marksmen. Considerable trouble between 
whites and Indians up in Alaska—cause bad rum. 
The Russians, after a fierce battle of Urn Hours 
have captured l.ovatz to the south of Plevna, 
thus endangering the communications of Osman 
Pasha, while their own are menaced by Meliemec 
All’s advance from the East with a force estimated 
at 100,000 men. Tillers' death causes Intense po¬ 
litical excitement In France, and it Is regarded as 
a great calamity tor the Republicans. 
Thursday, Sept. fi. 
Fine Cards, Repp, Damask, Ac., with name 
on all, 13c. Clinton Bros., Clintonviile, Ct. 
EUDANT CARDS, no two alike, with name, 10c. 
post-paid. GEO. I, REED A CO.,Nassau, N. Y 
RA SNOWPJ.AKE CARDS, SO cts. Nleostin 
w* v the world. A pack*, H names, $1. By return 
mail. W. C. CANNON, 712 Washington St., Boston. 
|Collar Button and our Catalogue free to 
all who send 3c. etamp W. K. Lan- 
phkar, Baltimore, Md. Mention Rural. 
PATENT 
POCKET COIN DETECTOR. 
. Slxe of a silver dollar. It tests 
Hie, gauge and weight. United 
States Mint standard. No coun¬ 
terfeit can be made it will not de¬ 
tect. Pi Ice 25c., by mail. Agents 
wanted; liberal discounts. 
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95 Liberty Si.., New York. 
FOREIGN NOTES. 
Japan has 33, 000,000 inhabitants. 
The final expenses of the Tlchborne trial have 
been figured up, and it is shown that the trial 
cost England over $1,250,0501 
It Is stated that Lancashire, England, contains 
over one hundred Roman Catholic chapels. More 
than any other oouUtry in the kingdom. 
The famous magician Del file has Just died In 
Paris, leaving a fortune estimated at 7,000,000 
francs, acquitted by a legitimate use of cards 
and tricks. 
The cost of a modern English naval monitor, 
fully equipped, Is over 2,500,000, and yet they are 
comparatively useless, since the newly-invented 
torpedoes will blow them to pieces In a mo¬ 
ment. 
A farmer ol Bllctln the fertile Austrian prov- 
Incoor Banat, has tills year harvested the extra¬ 
ordinary quantity of 105 bushels of barley from a 
held of One and a half acres, or at the rate of 
sixty-eight bushels to the acre. 
It.ls the Intention of the Australian Postmaster- 
General 10 t ransfer country Post-Offices now in 
charge of persons carrying on business on their 
tluir own account to the teachers of state schools, 
or to oilier persons exclusively employed by the 
Government. 
The Chemical Society of London has 
©dutaticrnul 
HUE NEW YORK COLLEGE 
VETERINARY SURGEONS 
The only one Chartered by the State Legislature, 
and Authorized to Issue Diplomas, 
Will open the Regular Course* of Lectures at *205 
Lexington Avcuoe. OOTOBEH I, 1.S77. 
For Circular and addition ‘ 
D. iX COMSTOCK. M. D 
And that Is not the 
worst of It; this debt Is Increasing. 
The shipment of canned goods to Europe Sat¬ 
urday the 1st, aggregated 11 ,coo cases, supposed 
to be for the use or the French army. 
The yield of wheat m Canada this season Is 
stated to be about forty bushels to the acre! aud 
the quantity is pronounced better than usual. 
At a private dinner In Ottowa, Ont, 
S3 Lexington Av..N. Y 
New York City, 12S Second Ave., cor. 8tli St. 
WOMAN’* HIED IGA I. COLLEGE of the 
V V Now York Innrmary. 
Regular session of 1877—78 will open Oct. 1. 
A thorough course of throe yours’ instruction by 
lectures, clinics, and practical work In laboratory, 
drug-room, ana different wards of the Infirmary. 
For Catalogues, etc., address the Secretary of the 
College, 
MERCY N. RAKER, M. D. 
A Company of the Twelfth 
Penn. Mil ilia mutl nlzed yesterday at Wllksbarre, 
on account of the removal of their captain by the 
Colonel of the Regiment. Five thousand Smiths 
mot yesterday at Peapaok, N. J. Four noted 
outlaws were lynched at New Cast le, Ky. Alvan 
Adams, the founder or the Express Company, and 
E. L. Davenport, the actor were burled yesterday. 
Senator owon, of South Carolina, died suddenly In 
Baltimore of epilepsy. 
'The Russians are closing in upon Plevna and 
promise to take It In a few days. Redlt Pasha, 
late Minister of War, Ahdul Kerim Pasha, ex- 
Tfirktsh European 
-»have 
to await a 
, recently a 
number or gentleman wore poisoned by eating 
cauliflower upon which Paris-green had been 
used. 
The Berrien Springs Journal, Mich,, gives the 
names or S7 farmers tn Oronoko township who 
have lost, since the 1st of March, by hog cholera, 
395 hogs, valued at $ 1 .867. 
It is estimated that the counties of Madison, 
Montgomery, Clark, Scott, Bourbon, Fayette and 
W'oodlord, Ky., will furnish, this year, 32,000 head 
Dt fat cattle, valued at $3, 000 , 01 m. 
There are 300,one inhabitants In San Francisco, 
and the current expenses of the city government 
are $8,471,029.84. Deducting Interest 011 debt the 
actual expenses are $ 3 , 124,571 ,n. 
One firm in New York, engaged In the manu¬ 
facture of matches, consumes per aunumn 700,000 
feet of white pine lumber, 100,000 pounds or sul¬ 
phur, and 150 tons of straw board for boxes. 
A young man, 17 years of age, died recently at 
Charlestown, Mass., of hemorrage, resulting from 
the extraction of a tooth. Niue of the young 
man’s relatives have died from similar causes. 
The claimants for freight destroyed in the Pitts¬ 
burgh riots have given the railroad company 
power of attorney to act for them In collect ing 
damages, It guaranteeing payment within two 
years. 
Argus Dean of Jeffersonville County, Ky.. has 
12,000 crab apple trees laden with rrult, all of 
which he Intends to bring to the cider mill. 
Champagne will be plentiful In Louisville next 
winter. 
A Chicago minister went Into bankruptcy last 
week. Ills assets were $250 of real estate, but in 
charity he was rich. The Chicago University 
holds his note for $ 10 , 000 , and a Baptist church 
one for $ 7 , 000 . 
Fitzpatrick, the Montreal volunteer who bay¬ 
oneted and killed a rough who tried to take his 
rifle from him while he was on guard on the 12 th 
of July, has been presented by the officers of his 
regiment with $ 100 . 
The net public debt Kept. 1st was $2,065,469,779 ; 
J AME8BURU (N. J.) INSTITUTE FOll 
HOYB. offers a thorough and useful education, 
English or Classical. M. OAKEY, A.M.. Principal. 
Nentsi Wanted 
Commander-ln-chlef of the 
armies, and a dozen other unseccessf ul chiefs 
been banished to the isle of Lemnos 
favorable time for trial. 
Friday Shot. 7 IU. —A few days ago Crazy Horse 
the Indian Chief, who had been with Hitting 
Bull at the Ouster massacre and had afterwards 
" C011U: *»■” was arrested for trying to foment dis¬ 
turbances. Ho attempted to escape from the 
guard-house, and received a wound from which 
he|has Just died. Sitting Hull, despite former tele¬ 
grams, seems to be still In Canada. The County 
Treasurer at Wapokenetta, Ohio, has been tor¬ 
tured and robbed of $no,ooo. 
Strikers at Wllksbarre have rejected proposed 
compromise and arc plundering the neighboring 
farmers, robbing barns, killing cattle, etc., etc. 
Mehcmet All reports another defeat of the Rus¬ 
sians on the Loin, loss Inflicted 3,000, sustained 
90 °- Grant has been presented with the 
“freedom”of Aberdeen. The Austrian harvest 
will be exceptionally abundant; wheat, good to 
very good; rye—Hungary excepted-very good ; 
barley, better than expected ; potatoes and beets, 
excellent. Hops, good in Bohemia; not as good 
In other provinces—a middling average. 
Satckpav, Sept. 8.—Five thousand strikers are 
reported under arms al. Hyde Park, Pa., and 
vigorous efforts are being made to induce those 
now at work to quit labor. Much dissatisfaction 
among the engineers of the Pennsylvania. North¬ 
ern Central and Philadelphia and Erie railroads 
with regard to the management of the Brotber- 
lnod or Locomotive Engineers. The dissolution 
of this powerful organization la threatened. 
President Hayes has been enthusiastically re¬ 
ceived at, Marietta, Ohio. 
At l.ovatz 7 ,two Turks were opposed to 22,*oo 
Russians, The latter acknowledge a loss of 1 , 400 . 
Turkish loss not known yet. At, Klzutepe, near 
Lr/erouitt in Armenia, the Russians were lately 
defeated by an overwhelming Turkish fore..* 
'Ff oa AGENT’S profits per week. Will 
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v justpatented. Samples sent free to 
Address W. II. Ohidkstkk, 21sF ulton st,, N. Y. 
, - -- a research 
fund raised by voluntary subscriptions now 
amounting to jC 3,0I)0. The rund Is uBed to en¬ 
courage scientific investigations which have no 
immediate practical value and could not bo under¬ 
taken in the ordinary business. 
r I he Rhone Irrigation canal Is a great, work 
which Is to afford the means of submerging the 
vineyards extending between the Department, 
Du Guard by Montpellier, Narbomm, ,te., toward 
Marseilles, and giving a water supply to various 
towns and villages en route, it baa been found 
that, the phylloxera which has now for so many 
seasons ravaged French vineyards, can be des¬ 
troyed by laying vineyards under water ror a 
month, 
The recent death or the grandson and last male 
relative ortho poetKehliior has led to the state¬ 
ment: that there Is not now living a single de¬ 
scendant lu the male lino of Chaucer, Shakes¬ 
peare. Spenser, Milton, Cowley, Butler, Dryden 
Pope, fowper, Goldsmith, Scott, llvron, Moore, 
Sir Philip Sidney, sir Walter Raleigh, Drake, 
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When writing 
mention thit No. 
i ue net puouc debt Kept. 1st WHS $2,055,469,779 ; 
and a parliamentary return just Issued shows the 
total of the British national debt on April 7, 1877. 
It amounted to $3,778,404,982, when reduced from 
pounds sterling to American dollars. 
The late conflagration in Paris, Texas—not Mo., 
as the telegraph said last week—destroyed ten 
blocks, Including the Court-House, and many 
stores, offices and dwellings. Many families are 
wltnout shelter. The loss la estimated at up¬ 
wards of one million dollars. 
The experiment In importing the migratory 
quail Into Vermont Is reported to be proving a 
success. They are often heard and seen in the 
woods where they have been placed, and are now 
raising a large number of young birds, some of 
the nests having twelve and fourteen eggs. 
A cow at West Sutton, Mass., was lately taken 
with hydrophobia. She struggled In great ugony 
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Insures only Farm Property and Private Residences. 
Onpital. $‘200,000 OO 
Ntirplne . M50.CWJ 70 
Net Ae»et«t Jan 1,1S?7. 1,050,OWJ 70 
N«f Hurplun over Capital and 
Uexerve . . ISO,31 *5 03 
Total Amt pntd by this Coin- 
puny tor Louaes.*2,089,013 69 
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J. A. 8HBRMAN, V. Pres. H.M. Stevens, Ass’ttlec. 
Hi ram Dewey, General Airent. 
HOME NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
There are 800 Baptist churches In Mississippi. 
The suspended Chicago bank bad 15 ,ooo depos¬ 
itors. 
Schuylkill county, Pa., has twelve female post¬ 
masters. 
