M B rosenfield ' s
IS HEAD-QUARTERS FOR
CHEAP
CLOTHING
HATS, CAPS,
NECKWEAR, GLOVES, HOSIERY,
and a full line of
GENTS* FURNISHING GOODS,
which are offered
EXCEEDINGLY LOW.
Call and sec me, examine goods, loam prices, &c
M. R. ROSENFIELD.
) 1831. THE CULTIVATOR* 1880.
AND
Country Gentleman.
The Be.Ht of the
AGRICULTURAL WEEKLIES.
It is UNSURPABSBU, if not UNKQUALBU, for he
Amount and Variety of the PRACTICAL INFORMA
TION it contains, and for the Ability and Extent of
ita OORRKBPONI>KNCK— in the Throe Chief Directions
of
Farm Crops and Processes,
Horticulture and Fruit-Frowing,
Live Stock and Dairying—
while it also includes all minor depatments of rural
interest, such as the Poultry Yard, Entomology,
Bee-Keeping, Green house and Grapery, Veterinary
Replies, Farm Questions and Answers, Fireside
Reading, Domestic Economy, and a summary of
the News of the Week. Its MARKET REPORTS are
unusually complete, and more information can be
gathered from its columns than from any other
source with regard to the Prospects of the Crops, as
throwing light upon one of the most important of all
questions— When to Buy and When to Sell. It Is
liberally illustrated, and constitutes to a greater
degree than any of Its contemporaries A LIVE
AGRICULTURAL NKWHP\PER
Of never-failing interest both to Producers and Con
sumers of every class.
The COUNTRY GENTLEMAN is published Weekly
on thu following terms, when paid strictly in ad
vance: One Copy, one year, $2.50; Four Copies,
$lO, and an additional ropy for the year free to
the sender of the Club' Ten Copies, S2O, and an
additional topyfor t). year free to the sender of
the Club.
For the year 18S0, these prices include a copy of
the ANNUAL RKOISTEROF RURAL AFFAIRS, to each
uhsertber—a book of 144 pages and about 120 ue
graving*—a gift by the Publishers.
All NEW Subscribers for 7880, paying in ad
vance now, will receive the paper WEEKLY, from
receipt of remittance, to January Ist, 1880, with
out charge.
OWHpecimen eopies of the paper free. Adddress,
LUTIiER TUCKER & HON, Publishers,
Albany, N V.
DECLARED !
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The flubacriber having leased the large and com
modioli* barn, known an the
i Hearts House no un ,
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Is now prepared to make war on
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II Wc have room for all. Come along with your
! horses. Put them where they are safo. Food or
j not, as you choose.
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We Guarantee Satisfaction.
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E. E. BUFFINGTON.
p/f IjrSURJMJYCE
Against
| in oki, reliable, firmly established and honorabe
crmpanies, witli
MILLIONS OF CAPITAL!
call upon C. JfE. MM*EEEJ, Attorney-at-I.aw, To- j
wanda, Penn'a. Jan. 18.
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A farm of 150 acres near
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Wyalusinj;. Pa, *
Contains of improved lands 125 acres; good barn,
i fine orchard, well watered, with four miles of Lc
! high valley railroad, is uner cest of cultivation.
Will be sold at reasonable price, or
EXCHANGED FOR TOWN PROPERTY.
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Inquire of CIIAR. M. IIALL, Attorney at-Law,
Towanda, Pa. Jan. 18.
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.To, 1, Reitileman's fflork,
(Bridge Street, near the corner of Main.)
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Mrs. S. //. Sweet
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Offer* a constantly increasing dock of
l IVf illinery and Fancy
< roods,
Consisting of Hats, Fancy Goods, Toweling, Collars,
Comforters, Embroideries, Flowers, Ribbons, i
! Handkerchiefs, silk, linen and embroidered, Feuth-
I ers and Tips, Slipper Patterns, Card-board, Zephyrs, '
I Combs, .let Ornaments. Hunching, Necklaces, Veil- J
; ing iu all colors, Java Canvas Patterns, Lace Capes, I
i (.'rape Pellisses, Babies' Knit Stockings, Ladies' !
j Hose in all colors and styles, Dolls, Children's I
I Sacks, Hoods and Mittens, Ladies' Nubias in all j
j colors, Bracelets, Pocket Books, Mottoes, Birds and j
j Feathers, Hhawls, Jewelry, Napkins, tee., He..,
LADIES' AND GENTLEMENS'
UNDERWEAR,
All these tilings can he found at greatly reduced j
prices; and some of them
AT PRICKS THAT WILL ASTONISH '
THE PURCHASING PUBLIC. 1
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The late fire has left on hand
A QUANTITY OF GOODS
that must be disposed of at
ALMOST ANY FIG Uli E S
and at all hazards, for Fresh Invoices.
; CALL ANI) EXAMINE AND DETER
MINE FOR YOURSELF.
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M RS. SW EET'S
Fancy Goods Bazar,
No. 1. BRIDGE STREET, i
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lowanda January 21, 1880.
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NATHAN TIDD,
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PITTSTON, WILKES - BARRK, AND
LOYAL SOCK COAL.
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Invitee the patronage of hie old friends and the pub
lic generally. I shall keep a full assortment
of all sired,
AXD SHALT, SELL AT
LOWEST PRICES FOR CASH.
Yard and office, foot of line street, just south 01 1
Court House.
Aug. SO K. TIDD.
V ertical
Feed J
As usual, the Vertical Feed
Sewing Machine took First Pre
mium, at the late county Fair.
T FIGHT MIT SIGEL
and ail
HONORABLY DISCHAROF.It SOLDIKRH
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will (sonsslt rtie.ir <>wr> interests oy calling at
J A C O B S'
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long established and well known
ONE PRICK
CLOTHING!
HOUSE,
PATTON'S BLOCK,
and buy their coat*, pants, vests, overcoats, shirts,
overalls, Gloves, Hose, Uata arid Caps, and every
tiling in the line of fine and stylish
GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS.
Don't lie deceived by persons falsely representing
themselves to he JACOBB, but corao directly to my
store in Batten Block, Msln street, near Bridge st*
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augW ill. JACOBS. I
Text Booh Uniformity.
RESULT WHERE HOOKS HAVE TO
STAND ON THEIR OWN MERIT.
At a Convention of School Directors, of
Centre County, held a Bellefonte, Decem
ber 26, 1878, pursuant to the call of H.
Meyer, Esq., County Superintendent, for
the purpose of considering the propriety
of taking measures to secure a uniformity
of the text-books used in the schools of
said county, the following action was
taken, over fifty directors being present
and nearly all the district in the county
being represented:
COPY OF MINUTES.
Upon motion of C. P. Stonerod, of Snow
Shoe township, the following preamble and
resolutions were adopted:
Whkkhas: Great expense and waste aro
frequently incurred by the present and eon
nstatly changing variety of text-books used in
the common schools of "Centre county, there
fore, be it
Resolved , By the representative directors
here in session, that a system of text-books,
suitable, complete and uniform, be adopted in
accordance with the laws of the State
throughout the county.
Upon motion of ,J. C. P. Jones, the follow
ing plan was adopted with but one dissenting
vote, to carry into effect the following pre
amble and resolutions:
First. The various publishing houses to
send samples of their books to each sehol
board in me county tor examination and to
submit therewith the lowest exchange, intr -
ductory and wholesale prices, and t hi- length
of time th *y will guarantee to furnish tliem
at said price.
Second. No agent of any publishing house
to be permitted to do any work in the county,
to be either general or local agent, beyond
sending his books and terms as above stated.
Any house or agent violating this under
standing, their books to be counted ou of the
contest.
Third. The several school boards of the
i county, after examination of the various
' books which may have been submitted, to
hold a meeting at which each director shall
make out a list of the hooks which he prefers
to have adopted in the county, and send it to
Henry Meyer, Esq., County Superindent, at
| Rebersburg, Pa., prior to* the tirst day of
June, 1879, who shall ma.:: i e
several statements so sent, and the books up
on the various branches having tin ighest
number of votes or preference shall be the
j series recommended for county uniformity.
The County Superintendent, after having
J made the above canvaos as above, to send the
: result of the same to each of the papers in the
J county for publication.
W. C. llkinle, Chairman.
J. C. P. Jones, Secretary.
The following is the result of the votes
of the Directors of Centre county, Pa., on
the uniformity of Text-books in said
county, with the number of votes cast fro
each book, under the foregoing plan and
resolutions:
READERS. No. vote.
for eucsh
New Graded 74
Independent 20
Appleton's 17
New American 12
SPELLERS.
Swinton's 83
New American 6
Independent 23
Appleton's 1
Patterson's
Sander's Union
llaub's 1
GEOGRAPHIES.
Swinton's 100
Cotton's 14
Mitchell's 10
Independent 1
| Monteith's ft
HISTORIES.
Swinton's t'3
Redpath's 5
Barnes' Brief 7
Butler's
Ouackenbos' 1
Watson's .... fl
V KITTEN ARITHMETIC.
Robinson's Shorter Course 67
Green leaf's 14
Brook's mX _
Gilne's 22
Boflf's 12
N rook's Union
Mew American
MENTAL ARITHMETIC.
Milne's
Greenleafs
ALGEBRA.
Robinson's
Greenleafs
COPY BOOKS.
Spencerian 09
Appleton's 30
Ellsworth's 10
GRAMMARS.
Kerl's 72
Swinton's 1?
Clark's Brief Ift
Bullion's 1
j Harvey's 20
Ouackenbos' 3
1 Fewsmith's 1
LANGUAGE LESSONS.
Kerl's 0
Clark's 1
Harvey's ft
Morton's...., 5
BOOK-KEEPING.
I Bryant & Stratton's 44
Folsom's 0
! Smith's
! CIVIL GOVERNMENT.
! Townsend's