N HW JOB PRINTING OFFICE. We respectfully invite puhß attention to our COMPLETE JOB PRINTING HOUSE! Corner .Main and Pine streets, over the Music Store. COMMERCIAL PRINTING AND PHAMPLET WORK A SPECIALTY. LETTER, NGTE ANf BILL HEADS, ENVELOPES, TAGS Neatly executed on the shortest notice. BUSINESS, PARTY AND CALLING CARDS printed to order. ALVORI) A SON. Y ertical Feed. As usual, the Vertical Feed Sewing Machine took First Pre mium, at the late county Fair. 1831. THE CULTIVATOR 1880. AND Country Gentleman. The Best of the AGRICULTURAL WEEKLIEA>. It is UNSURPASSED, if uot UNKQUALED, fur he Amount and Variety of the PRACTICAL INFORMA TION it contains, and for the Ability and Extent of its CORRESPONDENCE—in the Three Chief Directions of Farm Crops and B Processes, Horticulture and Fruit-Frowiug, Live Stock and Dairying— while it also includes all minor depatrnents of rural interest, such as the Poultry Yard, Entomology, Bee-Keepmg, Gieen house and Grapery, Veterinary Hop lies, Farm Questions and Answers, Fireside Heading, Domestic Economy, aud 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, aud constitutes to a greater degree than any of its contemporaries A LIVE AGIiICULT UIiAL NKWSI\ PER Of never-failing interest both to Producers and Con sumers of every class. The COUNTRY GENTLEMAN is published Weekly on the following terms, when paid strictly in ad vance: One Oepy, one year, (2.50; Four Copies, (10, and an additional copy for the year free to the (tender of the Club' Teu Copies, (20, and an additional copy for U, year free to the sender of the Club. For the year 1880, these prices include a copy of the ANNUAL REGISTER OP RURAL AFFAIRS, to each übscriber—a book of 144 pages and about 120 ne gravings—a gift by the Publishers. All NHW Subscribers for 1880, paying in ad vance now, will receive the paper WEEKLY, from receipt of remittance to January Ist, 1880, with out charge. 4®~Specimen copies of the paper free. Adddresa, LUTHER TUCKER & BON, Publishers, Albany, N Y. JTOK THE PRESIDENTIAL YEAH. " THE LEADING AMEItICAN NEWS PAPER." THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE FOR 1880. During the coming Presidential year The Tribune will be a more effective agency than ever for telling the newp best worth knowing, and for enforcing sound politics. From the day the war closed it has been most anxious for an end of sectional strife. But it saw two years ago, and was the first persist ently to Proclaim the new danger to the country from the revived alliance of the fiolld South and Tammany Hall. Against that danger it sought to rally the old party of Freedom and the Union. It began by demanding the abandonment of personal dislikes, and set the example. It called for an end to attacks upon eash other instead of the enemy; and for the heartiest agreement upon whatever tit candidates the majority should put up against the common foe. Since then the tide of disaster has been turned back; every doubtful state lias been won, and the omens for National victory were never more cheering. THE TRIBUNE'S POSITION. Of The Tribune's share in all this, those speak most enthusiastically who have seen most of the struggle. It will faithfully portray the varning phases of the campaign now beginning. It will earnestly strive that the party of Freedom, Union iuid Public Faith may select the man surest to win, and surest to make a good President. But in this crisis it can conceive of no nomination this party could make that would not be preferable to the best that could possibly be supported by the Solid South and Tammany Hall. The Tribune is now spending much labo and money than ever before to hold the distinction it has enjoyed of the largest circulation among the bent peopje. It secured, und means to retain it. by be coming the medium of the best thought and the voice of the best conscience of the time, by keeping abreast of the highest progress, favoring the freees discussions, hearing all sides, appealing always to the best intelligence and the purest morality, and re fusing to carter to the tastes of the vile or the preju dices of the ignorant. SPECIAL FEATURES. The distinctive features of The Tribune are known to everybody. It gives all the news. It has the best correspondents, and retains them from year to year, It is the only paper that maintains a special telegraphic wire of its own between its otllce and Washington, its scientific, literary, artistic and re ligious intelligence is the fullest. Its book reviews are the best. Its commercial and financial ne'vs is the most exact Its type is the largest; and its ar rangement the most systematic. TIIE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUN is by far the most successful Semi-Weekly in the country, having four times the circulation of any other in New York. It is especially adapted to the large class of intelligent, professional or business readers too far from New York to depend on our papers for the daily news, who nevertheless want tlie editorials, correspondence, book reviews, scien tific matter, lectures, literary miscellaney, etc,, for which The Tribune is famous. Like The Weekly it contains sixteen pages, and is in convenient form for binding, THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE remains the great favorite of our substantial country population, and lias the largest circulation of any Weekly issued from the office of a Daily paper in New York, or, so far as we know, in the United Suites. It revises and condenses all the news of the week into more readable shape. Its agricultural de partment is more carefully conducted than ever, and it has always been considered the best. Its market reports are the official standard for the Dairymen's Association, and have long been recognized author ity on cattle, grain and general country produce. There are special departments for the young and for household interests; the new handiwork department already extremely popular, gives unusually accurate and comprehensive instructions in knitting, crochet ing, and kindriil subjects; while poetry, fiction and the humors of the day are all abundantly supplied. The verdict of the tens of thousand old readers who have returned to it during the past year is that they find it better than ever. Increasing patronage and faeilitias enable us to reduce the rates to the lowest po. it we have ever touched, and to otier the most amazing premiums yet given, as follows: TKRMB OF THE TRIBUNE, Postage free in the United States. DAILY TRIBUNE $lO 00 THE SEMI-WEEKLY TKIBUNE. Single copy, one year $3 00 Five copies, one year *2 50 each Ten copies, one year 2 00 each THE WEKKIY TRIBUNE. 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The following are the terms in detail: For sl2, Chamber's Encyclopaedia, A Library of Universal Knowledge, 14 vols., with editions on American subjects, 6 separate vols,, 20 vols, in all, substantially bound in cloth, and The Weekly Tri bune 5 years, to one si For $lB, Chamber's Encyclopaedia, 20 vols., above, and The Semi-Weekly Tribune 5 years. For $lB, Chamber's Encyclopaedia, 20 vols., as above, and ten copies of The Weekly Tribune one year. For $27, Chamber's Encyclopaedia, 20 vols, as above, and twenty copies of The Weekly Tribune one year. For $26, Chamber's Encyclopedia, 20 vols., as above, and the Daily Tribune two years. The books will in all cases be sent at the subscri ber's expense, but with no charge for packing. We shall begin sending them in the order in which sub scriptions have been received on the Ist of January, when certainly five, and perhaps six, volumes will be ready, and shall send, thenceforth, by express or mall, as subscribers may direct. The publication will coutinne at the rate of two volumes per month, concluding in September next, A MAGNIFICENT GIFT! Worcester's Great Unabridged Dictionary Free! The New York Tribune will send at subscriber's expense for freight, or deliver in New York City FREE, Worcester's Great Unabridged Quarto Illus trated Dictionary, edition of 1879, the very latest and very best edition of the great work, to any one re mitting $lO for a single five years' subscription in advance or five one year subscriptions to The Weekly, or sls for a Hinglc tivc years' subacription in advance or five one year subscriptions to The Semi Weekly, or, one year's subscription to The Daily, or, S3O for a single three year's subscription in ad vane* to 1 he Daily Tribune, For one dollar extra the Diotiona y an be sent by mail to any part of the United States, while for short distances the expense is much cheaper. Address THE TKIBUNE, New York. Te-xt Book Uniformity. RESULT WHERE BOOKS HAVE TO STAND ON THEHt OWN MERIT. At a Convention of School Directors, of Centre County, held a Bellefoute, Decem ber 26, 1878, pursuant to the call of 11. 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: WHEREAS: Great expense and waste arc 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 schol board in tne county lor examination and to submit therewith the lowest exchange, intr - duetory and wholesale prices, and the length of time they will guarantee to furnish them at said price. Second. No agent ofany publtshing 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 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 books which he prefers to have adopted in the county, and send it to Henry Meyer. Esq., County Superindent, at Rebersburg, Pa., prior to* the first day of June, 1879, who shall ma::o cuv ju (lie several statements so sent, and the books up on the various branches having tin ighest number of votes or preference shall be the series recommended for county uniformitv. The County Superintendent, after having made the above canvaos as above, to send the result of the same to each of the papers in the county for publication. W. C. HEINLE, 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 eacsh 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 Haub's 1 GEOGRAPHIES. Swinton's 100 Colton's 14 Mitchell's 10 Independent 1 Monteith's 6 HISTORIES. Swinton's gg Redpath's 5 Barnes' Brief 7 Butler's Ouackenbos' Watson's .... V KITTEN ARITHMETIC. Robinson's Shorter Course 57 Greenleaf's is Brook's Gilne's |.. 22 Boff's 12 N rook's Union Mew American MENTAL ARITHMETIC. Milne's Greenleaf's ALGEBRA. Robinson's Greenleaf's COPY BOOKS. Spencerian 39 Appleton's 30 Ellsworth's 10 GRAMMARS. Kerl's 72 Swinton's i* Clark's Brief 15 Bullion's 1 Harvey's 20 Ouackenbos' g Fewsmith's 1 LANGUAGE LESSONS. Kerl's 5 Clark's 1 Harvey's y Morton's 5 BOOK-KEEPING. Bryant A Stratton's 44 Folsom's ■ Smith's CIVIL GOVERNMENT. Townsend's
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