THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
SOS 
PERSONAL ITEMS. 
Randall Is forty-nine. 
Moukhtar Is ln-Kare-erated. 
Gen. Grant does not pxpect to return to the 
United States before December, 1879. 
Ex-Minister Ellhu B. Washburn will make 
Chicago hi* future place of residence. 
Mrs Nancy Valentine. 114 years of age, died 
at Dottle Run, Alleghany County, Md., Sunday. 
There are fourteen e.x-Governors in the Senate 
and eight in the House, beal .es several ex-Gov 
ernors of Territories. 
General James Longstreet, now living quietly 
at Gainesville, Ga., has been writing a review of 
the battle of Gettysburg. 
Major Pole, the new Doorkeeper of the House 
of Representatives, gets his title from service In 
the rebel army, lie Is a couslu of President Polk 
and Bishop Polk. 
A Minneapolis miller asserts that flour made 
from the new crop of wheat will make forty 
pounds more bread to the barrel than the flour 
from last year’s wueat. 
Boss Tweed says he Is not worth $5,000 to-day, 
though he had been worth over $ 3 , 000 , 000 . The 
members or bis family, however, still cling to a 
good deal of his plunder. 
David n. Armstrong, the new Senator from 
Missouri, has the erect carriage, the impressive 
manner, the stern glance and tne brushed-baek 
white hair which obaracterlced Andrew Jackson 
when President. 
Charles Lamb wondered why people, made such 
a fuss about children, “they were so very com¬ 
mon.” “ But they are so rresh from God,” sug¬ 
gested his 111 fated sister Mary, who —poor 
thing!—was often crazy. 
It provokes a smile to read that on the pension 
list Queen Victoria’s dancing-master ranks with 
Adams the ramous astronomer who shares with 
Leverrler the honor of having reasoned out the 
existence of the planet Neptune. 
Camborne Jackson, once Governor of Missouri, 
married live sisters. When he weuttoaskfor 
the last one his father-in-law said, “ Yes, Clalb, 
you may have her. You have had ’em all. For 
goodness sake, don’t ask me for the old woman I" 
Miss Louise Gtn.ioc, of Middlesex, N. Y., aged 
thirty-seven, has been forced to sue her cousin, 
Peter Gullck, for breach of promise; of marriage. 
And he has but lately entered hla eightieth year 1 
The young rascal ought to be heartily ashamed of 
himself. 
John c. Fremont, the “ Pathfinder,” has'bmn 
sold out, at Sheriff's sale. A part of his library 
was auctioned off at New York the other day. 
Sad that In his old age a man once so Justly 
prominent, should lose all Ida meansund much of 
his reputation ! 
John o. Hopkins, Professor of Greek at the 
Irvington University in Indiana, lately, while at¬ 
tending a meeting of the faculty, suddenly re¬ 
marked “I am going blind," and before medical 
assistance came he was dead. It Is supposed 
that lie died of apoplexy. 
Honorable Zicharlah Chandlerowns and man¬ 
ages a farm In New England and another In Mich¬ 
igan. He declares that farming Is truly an Intel¬ 
lectual pursuit. Twenty years of public life, he 
says, have not diminished his love for what In 
boyhood had been his delight. 
/ ccordlng to the New York Tribune, R. B. Con¬ 
nolly and Harry W. Genet, of the famous Tam¬ 
many Ring, are willing to surrender respectively 
$ 1 , 000,000 and $ 100,000 of their Ill-gotten gains If 
they are allowed to return to New York and are 
promised Immunity from all prosecutions on ac¬ 
count of their misdeeds. 
Nast Is again working for Harper’s Weekly. 
Old Dan Drew 1* again speculating in Wall street. 
Gen. Schenck Is living quietly In Washington. 
Edward Picrpont, his successor as Ambassador to 
England, will spend the cornlug winter In the 
south of Europe and Egypt. The ages of the 
Democratic candidates on the State ticket are :— 
Mr. Beach, 49; Mr. Maekln, 54 ; Mr, Schoonmaker, 
49; Mr. 01cott,3«; and Mr. Seymour, 3-1. Mrs. 
Jefferson Davis has Just returned to this country, 
leaving her daughter at school la Germany. 
A Tkxan paper describing Gen. Ord, on occasion 
of bis late visit to Austin to consult Gov. Hub¬ 
bard In reference to the border troubles, says 
that he Is an eminently peaceable looking man. 
His whole outfit, when he leaped from the stage 
coach, did not cost more than |5. He wore a blue 
cotton shirt worth forty cents, even at rates that 
would be flxed by an old elo’ man. The General’s 
hat was absolutely villainously smashed, shock¬ 
ing and ancient, and his coar, and breeches corre¬ 
sponded with his other articles of apparel. No¬ 
body would have dreamed that a famous soldier 
of the regular army could be enveloped in so mod¬ 
est a garb. 
implement,5 ami Pachtnery. 
Vfczev 
to America 
A l (T)'oHV( t )I8i n ER /“nVil. 8 . l ? ward c<t 10 tlm Messrs. BORKL 
production, one Kr extreme ao. u- \ / ™* 1 0 ° adjuftnt'a a dre*ml^rItr 
\V at e bmf uTa Tr< St?edu*Uon from fom« 
e^ n ;T/ C, ro n a H n^t:; V r:. W gnf«tly re- f ' SSMii ti% emdi-nu’d daUb* 
^aJh’alL** These \^C’H 
the pus! is your*, nre made or the bestil aua £Jvn aHihm mod- 
»e n pl^| U Vl V «'»- 1 iwrn2J| l Wa n Ul | 1 lnjl i‘ i u KbftVlnR Chronometer Hit lnnce«. Rietntl iliiii -pilnvititriii- 
pernd, 11 n roe tied und I •mli roomed lor R. It. Travel. Fine Kuby J e weird, und in* warranted 
ft'otoiiii'ihpf n'V * 1 e regularity nnd accuracy of „ Chronometer. There Watches are for ml <3 liy all our local 
oi.^ ,llc c "V nt, . }r ' a | ul parties desiring u Rood nnn dnnude time keeper,are reuucstea to 
examine them before purchasing those of other mauutuoturers or home productions. 
QUINCHE KRUGLER, 
SALESROOM: IT MAIDEN LANE, N. V., Up Stair*. 
VUrUU A now medical Treatise "The 
i\ 11 U If Science or Like, on 9 jslk-Pbes- 
EiiVATION," a book for every- 
TUVCETI C body. Price#l.seotbymall. Fifty 
I 11 I OLLf original prescriptions, either o> e 
of which is worth len times the 
Prion of the hook Gold Medal awarded the author. 
The Boston Herald »ay&: "The Science of Lire Is, 
beyond all comparison, the most 
extraor Inary work 00 Physiology U C A I 
«ver published." An Illustrated flCHL 
Pamphlet set,; SHgK, Address Dr. _ 
W. 6 PARKER, No. 4 Bulfluoh TUVCCI C 
Street, Boston, Mass. | FlIOkLl 
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STEAMER AND EVAPORATOR 
The cheapen and matt durable Steamer 
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Made of the very best nmtBrlal, and warranted in 
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Eleven Hundred Sold the First Year. 
h ,£*p nt9 wanted. J’' 1 !. GirouI urs and particulars, ad- 
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Dailey’s new Fruit Dryer can be attached to 
this bteauier at a slight Additional expense. 
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11 ii'THnlrC .ftnnseruu.il pamphlet sent Kr«e. 
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1 7 y* [ rSSfl Pilce. complete, eased and de 
tW I'iaW llvered on boar 1 cars or at Ex- 
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8 M VLL STEAM ENGLNK 8 . 
. with copper holier, to drive 
light Lathes. Scroll Haws, etc. 100 Scroll Work De¬ 
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GEORG K I* A HR, Buffalo. N. Y. 
Saw ouly without attachment*, A9. 
A (lODllf) WF.I,I, CRD be made IP one day with our 
a ” T*Lib 4 . f00i WB1X auqer Send for 
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Trl umphant Everywhere ! 
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Accepted by the New England and Maine State 
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AMES PLOW - COMPANY, 
SOLA MAKERS. 
Awarded nil the First Prizes, Pour oat ol 
Five second Prizes, T*vo out ul Rive Third 
I nze**, iu nil KU'Vt’u PriKL'H out el Fifteen 
ottered hi thp Great Field Trltil held or Pre- 
hiinipiaot Puri., Porileml, ThurNduy, 
went. o. 1077. in com net 1 uiin will! the l^eiul- 
iiitf PlowH ut the Eastern Matei. 
Tne detiixu vf the plowiu^, h» aunounerd Itrfcbe 
ypc-iLaleM, was ** to shov the inorU« of competing 
pl« 3 WB. n The ri/Mint settles th«' question «»»i«» nhicn 
U host. Tde UeDttUuial are nuwolfeied rbe iarmer^ 
or thn UnitnO billies, rununfceii ftoimduLd perfect, 
Kutirtintei'd Hutlsfuotory in operation^ und to work us 
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Qiiiucy Hall, Ronton, Mans. 
_ TF" Liberal ilHoount lo dealer, and agents. Send 
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FARMERS, 
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T>A UN ES’ FOOT POWER 
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rv\ 1 n different uiaoblnos with 
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- /V lv\ pi anadertgtin Suv wncre you read 
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OILERS H0T '^TER. 
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NEW ECONOMIZER 
Agricultural Engine. 
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market; 11 mi u the only Agricultural 
Engine With Return Flue Boiler In u.o. 
no hbetructlOQ wbatevi r to the draft, yet 
enn, r .?elu r l * l r" ,t i" f '*Je flllOjeg til, ougil tile U lull 11 lubes 
oonirels the deposit. o( the great body of sparks In 
the oliumbe rear of the holler. 
»n I * ,iweH!m. be8t auU8uf ‘ 1 * ® t Steaming Roller In use. 
lt»iM ..?* ‘•Ompotiuon win, any )li»t-oluss maker 
. U V'U’ 8l * « u “ J fuel than miyher- 
fflr rnilMsi’ i r ’ ^Fbig- ono or lend 
r?I» ul 1 Mr8 ’ cUcul,u ' 8 ' ta<J - which wll be sent 
nee Dy aadruuHlnur 
WHITMAN <Sr. BUHttKI.L, 
„ Uttle Fulle, N.Y. 
fnV’iiA/i Tf'^KoonomDcr Boilers are mnnufaoturefl 
enLvJoiP 1 'P''J’ , »L “luler United hiatus pat- 
enta. by loiter Manuriioturmg Componv. fiyrarusc, 
tin,, Urfrt' I reeldent, thus securing perfec- 
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3000 MEN WANTED 
t'osell the ccluhiated Cow Fetter. 
It sells on sight. Wurianted to 
make the worst ticking now gen- 
Ge to milk In three days. Tnere 
la nothing equal Ml U fur hroukltig 
hclfera. Rotud pilce#2. Also ho«* 
*11 t:) make cows milk eftry. For Inr- 
ther mfonnatioa, semi for liius- 
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taio . ivintutor, Warren, Trumbull Co., Ohio. 
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