THOS. NELSON & SONS, 42 Bleecker Street, New York. * * * * * Meneely & Kimberly, BELL FOUNDERS, TROY, N. Y. Manufacture a superior quality of BELLS. Special attention given to =CHURCH BELLS=. ☞ Catalogues sent free to parties needing bells. * * * * * Brown Bros. & Co. BANKERS, 59 & 61 Wall Street, New York, 211 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, 66 State Street, Boston. Issue Commercial Credits, make Cable transfers of Money between this Country and England, and buy and sell Bills of Exchange on Great Britain and Ireland. They also issue, against cash deposited, or satisfactory guarantee of repayment, Circular Credits for Travellers, In DOLLARS for use in the United States and adjacent countries, and in POUNDS STERLING, for use in any part of the world. * * * * * 73,620 MORE Singer Sewing Machines Sold in ’78 THAN IN ANY PREVIOUS YEAR. In =1870= we sold =127,833= Sewing Machines. ” =1878= ” =356,432= ” ” Our sales have increased enormously every year through the whole period of “hard times.” We now Sell Three-Quarters of all the Sewing Machines sold in the World. For the accommodation of the Public we have 1,500 subordinate offices in the United States and Canada, and 3,000 offices in the Old World and South America. PRICES GREATLY REDUCED. Waste no money on “cheap” counterfeits. Send for our handsomely Illustrated Price List. THE SINGER MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Principal Office, 34 Union Square, New York. * * * * * [Illustration: Hands] CRAMPTON’S PURE OLD PALM SOAP, FOR The Laundry, the Kitchen, and For General Household Purposes, MANUFACTURED BY CRAMPTON BROTHERS, _Cor. Monroe & Jefferson Sts., N. Y._ Send for Circular and Price List.