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RICH FAMING LANDS 
For Sale VERY CHEAP by the 
S. B. Parsons & Sons offer at 
Flushing, N. Y., Camellias, Aza¬ 
leas, Roses, and Rhododendrons, 
and other Trees and Plants. 
IN THE 
STATE OF NEBRASKA 
AT PRICES RANGING FROM 
$2 to $10 per Acre. 
FIVE AND TEN YEARS CREDIT GIVEN, 
With Interest at Six per Cent. 
Convenient to Markets East and West. 
The Lands of the Union Pacific Railroad Company are the odd numbered Sections for 
twenty miles on each side of the road. They are located in the valley of the Platte and its 
tributaries—a region widely celebrated for its beautiful scenery, rich productive soil, and 
mild and healthful climate. The winters are short, and the atmosphere dry and invigorating. 
Epidemic diseases are unknown. The surface is undulating, covered with nutritions grasses, 
and watered with numerous clear running streams. All the productions of the Eastern 
and Middle States are grown with success. Wheat and Corn are the staples, and it is well 
adapted to the cultivation of Fruit. For Stock-raising, in all its branches, these land’s are 
BABCOCK 
Warehouse Engine, 
For Railway Depots, Car Works, Machine Shops, Lumber 
Yards, Warehouses', Docks, &c. Send for “ Record." 
|pg~ Engines for Cities and Towns. The Improved Bab¬ 
cock Extinguishers, for Hotels, Private Residences, Fac¬ 
tories, &c. All kinds of Fire Department Supplies. 
The Babcock Manufacturing Co., 
40T Broadway, New York; Corner Desplaines niuL Mather 
Streets, Chicago. 
A DAY GUARANTEED 
using our WELL AUCtR AND 
DRILL in good territory. HIGHEST 
TESTIMONIALS FROM GOVERNORS 
OF IOWA, ARKANSAS AKD DAKOTA. 
Catalogues free. W. GILES. St. Louis, Mo. 
unsurpassed. The Union Pacific and its branch railroads furnish market facilities unequalled. 
Education is free. One-eigliteenth part of the entire area forms a permanent endowment 
of the Public Schools. Good Society, Schools, Churches, PoSt-OffiCes, Mills, Stores, and 
other advantages of civilization are enjoyed. 
The liberal provisions made for Education, the freedom from State debt, the rapidity with 
which this section is settling, the numerous towns' and villages springing up, offering induce¬ 
ments to the merchant, farmer, and mechanic, render this tract a most desirable location 
for the industrious man of limited means to secure a comfortable home, and acquire com¬ 
petence, independence, and position. 
These lands are granted directly to the Railroad Company. The title given to the pur¬ 
chaser is absolute, in fee simple, free from incumbrances. 
They are sold in tracts of forty acres and upwards, giving the man of small means an equal 
chance with the capitalist to make a safe and profitable investment, one which can not he 
destroyed by fire or flood, a provision for future support, not affected by revulsions, or liable 
to the fluctuations of stocks. 
Full information in reference to particular localities will be furnished, good lands selected, 
and sales made, free of charge, for persons not desiring to incur the expense of coming 
to examine the lands in person, 
ALSO 
THE P I O N OE B R, 
A handsome Illustrated Paper, with Maps, etc., and containing the Homestead Law, mailed 
free to all applicants, by addressing 
O. F. DAVIS, 
Land Commissioner U. P. R. R. Co., 
Omaha! Neb. 
CHICAGO & NORTH-WESTERN R’Y. 
THE TRANS-CONTINENTAL ROUTE. 
This is the Pioneer line between Chicago and the Pacific 
Coast, and was the first to connect with the great Pacific 
roads, and form the OVERLAND ROUTE. This line is 
the s lortest rail line between Chicago and Omaha; the track 
is oi the best steel rail, and is well ballasted, and as free 
from dust as a road can be made; the bridges are strong 
and durable; and ail the appointments are first-class in 
every respect. The trains that run over this line are made 
up of elegant new Pullman Palace Drawing Room and 
Sleeping Coaches built expressl.// for thin line, luxurious, 
well lighted and well ventilated Day; Coaches, and pleasant 
lounging and smoking cars; all built by this Company in 
their own shops. The cars are all equipped with the cele¬ 
brated Miller Safety Platform, and patent Buffers and Coup¬ 
lings, Westinghouss Safety Air Brakes, and every other ap¬ 
pliance that has been devised for the safety of passenger 
trains. All trains are run by telegrap i. In a word, this 
GREAT CALIFORNIA LINE has the best and smoothest 
track, and the most elegant and comfortable equipment of 
any road in the West; and has no sup: rior in the country. 
It is eminently the favorite route witn Ciih agoans traveling 
west, and is acknowledged by the trav.ling public to be the 
popular line for all points in Western Iowa, Nebraska, Wy¬ 
oming, Colorado, Utah, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, Califor¬ 
nia, and the Paciuc Slope. 
All Coupon Ticket Agents sell tickets by this route. If 
you are going West, you should try this route. 
New York Office: No. 229 Broadway. 
Boston Office : No. 5 State Street. 
CHICAGO TICKET OFFICES 
fi? Clark Street, under Sherman House. 
Corner Canal and Madison Streets. 
Kind ’ Street Depot, cor. West Kinzie and Canal Streets. 
Wells -vreet Depot, corner Wells and Kinzie Streets. 
MARVIN HUGHITT, W. H. STENNETT, 
juerai Superintendent. General Passenger Agent, 
Herbert’s Hints to Horse-Keepers. 
By the hue HENRY WILUADI HEKBEItT, 
(FRANK FORESTER.) 
PRICE, POST-PAID, $1.75. 
A complete manual for Horsemen, embracing: How to 
Breed a Horse; How to Buy a Horse.; How to Break a 
Horse; How to Use a Horse; How to Feed a Horse: How 
to Physic a Horse; How to Drive a Horse: Ponies—Different 
Breeds; Farriery; How to Shoe a Horse; Baucher’s 
Method of Training; How to I tide a Horse ; Ladies Riding; 
Itnrey’s System of I lorse-Taming; etc.; and a chapter on 
Mules and Ponies, etc. Beautifully illustrated. 
ORANGE JUDD COMPANY, 345 Broadway, N. Y. 
