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IN CONGRESS, JULY 4TH,
1776.
THE i:X4>int'S DECLARATION
OF THE
THIRTEEN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
When in the course of human events it be
comes necessary for one people to dissolve
the political bands which have connected them
with another, and to assume among the pow
ers of the earth, the separate and equal sta
tion to which the laws of Nature and of Na
ture’s God entitle them, a decent respect to
the opinions of mankind requires that they
should declare the causes which impel them
to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that
all men are created equal, that they are en
dowed by their Creator with certain unalien
able rights, that among these are life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness : that to procure
these rights, Governments are instituted
among men, deriving their just powers from
the consent of the governed ; that whenever
any form of government becomes destructive
of these ends, it is the right of the people to
alter or to abolish it, and to institute anew
government, laying its foundation on such
principles, and organizing its powers in such
form, as to them shall seem most likely to ef
fect their safety and happiness. Prudence,
indeed, will dictate that governments long
established should not be changed for light
and transient causes; and accordingly all
experience hath shewn that mankind are more
disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable,
than to right themselves by abolishing the
forms to which thej' are accustomed. But
when a long train of abuses and usurpations,
pursuing invariably the same object, evinces
a design to reduce them under absolute Des
potism, it is their right, it is their duty, to
throw off such Government, and to provide
new guards for their future security. Such
has been the patient sufferance of these Col
onies ; and such is flow the necessity which
constrains them to alter their former systems
of Government. The history of the present
King of Great Britain is a history of repeated
injuries and usurpations, all having in direct
object the establishment of an absolute tyran
ny over these States. To prove this, let facts
be submitted to a candid world. He has re
fused his assent to laws, the most wholesome
and necessary for the public good. lie has
forbidden his Governors to pass laws of im-
mediate and pressing importance, unless sus
pended in their operation till his assent should
be obtained ; and when so suspended, he has
utterly neglected to attend to them. He has
refused to pass other laws for the accommo
dation of large districts of people, unless
those people would relinquish the right of
representation in the Legislature, a right in
estimable to them and formidable to tyrants
only. He has called together legislative bodies
at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant
from the depository of their public records,
for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into
compliance with his measures. He has dis
solved Representative Houses repeatedly, for
opposing with manly firmness his invasions
on the rights of the people. He has refused
for a long time after such dissolutions, to
cause others to be elected ; whereby the leg
islative powers, incapable of annihilation, have
returned to the people at largo for their exer
cise ; the State remaining in the meantime
exposed to .all the dangers of invasion from
without, and convulsions within. He has en
deavored to prevent the population of these
States; for that purpose obstructing the laws
for the naturalization of foreigners ; refusing
to pass others to encourage their migrations
hither, and raising the conditions of new ap
propriations of lands. He has obstructed the
administration of justice, by refusing his as
sent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his will
alone for the tenure of their offices, and the
amount and payment of their salaries. He
has erected a multitude of new offices, and
sent hither swarms of officers to harrass our
people and eat out their substance. He has
kept among us, in times of peace, standing
armies, without the consent of our Legisla
tures, He has affected to render the military
independent of and superior to the civil pow
er. He has combined with others to subject
ns to a jurisdiction foreign to our Constitu
tion, and unacknowledged by our laws; giv
ing his assent to their acts of pretended legis
lation. For quartering large bodies of armed
troops among us. For protecting them by a
mock trial from punishment for any murders
which they should commit on the inhabitants
of these States. For cutting off our trade
with all parts of the world. For imposing
taxes on ns without our consent. For de
priving us in many cases of the benefits of
trial by jury. For transporting us bcj T ond
seas to be tried for pretended offences. For
abolishing the free system of English laws in
a neighboring Province, establishing therein
an arbitrary government, and enlarging its
boundaries so as to render it at once an ex
ample and fit instrument for introducing the
same absolute rule into these Colonies. For
taking away our charters, abolishing our most
valuable laws altering fundamentally the
twins of our governments. For suspending
our own Legislatures, and declaring them
selves invested with power to legislate for us
in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated
Government here by declaring us out of his
protection and waging war against us. He
has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts,
burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of
our people. He is at this time transporting
large armies of foreign mercenaries to com
plete the works of death, desolation and tyran
ny, already begnn with circumstances of
cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in tile
most barbarous ages, ami totally unworthy
the Head of a civilized nation. He has con-
strained our fellow-citizens taken captive on
the high seas to bear arms against their coun
try. to become the executioners of their friends
and brethren, or to tall themselves by their
hands. He has incited domestic insurrec
tions amongst us. and has endeavored to
bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the
merciless Indian savages, whose known rule
of warfare is an undistinguished destruction
of all ages, sexes and conditions. In every
stage of these oppressions we have petitioned
for redress in the most humble terms. Our
repeated petitions have been answered by re
peated injury. A Prince, whose character is
thus marked by every act Which may define
a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free peo
ple. Nor have we been wanting in attentions
to our British brethren. We have warned
them from time to time of attempts by their
Legislature to extend an unwarrantable juris
diction over us. We have reminded them of
the circumstances of our emigration and set
tlement here. We have appealed to their
native justice and magnanimity, and we have
conjured them by the ties of our common kin
dred to disavow these usurpations, which
would inevitably interrupt our connections
and correspondence. They, too, have been
deaf to the voice of justice and of consonguin-
ity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the
necessity, which denounces our separation,
and hold them, as we hold the rest of man
kind—enemies, in war; in peace, friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the
United States of America, in General Con
gress assembled, appealing to the Supreme
Judge of the world for the rectitude of our
intentions, do, in the name and by authority
of the good people of these Colonies, solemnly
publish and declare, That these United Col
onies are, and of right ought to be, free and
independent States ; that they are absolved
from all allegiance to the British Crown, and
that all political connection between them and
the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be,
totally dissolved ; and that as free and inde
pendent States, they have full power to levy
war, conclude peace, contract alliances, es
tablish commerce, and to do all other acts and
things which independent States may of right
do. And for the support of this Declaration,
with a firm reliance on the protection of Di
vine Providence, we mutually pledge to each
other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred
honor.
Button Gwinnett, Jas. Smith,
Lyman Hall, Geo. Taylor,
George Walton, James Wilson,
Wm. Hooper, Geo. Ross,
Joseph Hewes, Caesar Rodney,
John Penn, Geo. Read,
Edward Rutledge, Thos. M’Kean,
Thos. Heyward, Jr., Wm. Floyd,
Thomas Lynch, Jr., Phil. Livingston,
Arthur Middleton, Francis Lewis,
John Hancock, Lewis Morris,
Samuel Chase, Richard Stockton,
Wm. Paca, Jno. Witherspoon,
Thos. Stone, Francis Hopkinson,
Charles Carroll, John Hart,
of Carrollton, Abra. Clark,
George Wythe, Josiah Bartlett,
Richard Henry Lee, AVm. Whipple,
Thos. Jefferson, Sam’l Adams,
Benj. Harrison, John Adams,
Thos. Nelson. Jr.. Rob’t Treat Paine,
Francis Lightfoot Lee, Elbridge Gerry,
Carter Braxton, Step. Ilopkins,
Rob’t Morris, William Ellery,
Benjamin Rush, Roger Sherman,
Benj. Franklin, Samuel Huntington,
John Morton, Wm. Williams,
Geo. Clymer, Oliver Wolcott.
Matthew Thornton,
HUMOROUS.
“John” on American Depravity.
“Me alle go same Centennial,” said Hop
Wau, as he slammed the basket of laundried
clothes down on Wau Lee’s floor.
“You alle same damme foole,” said Wau,
sententiously, as he prepared to fill his mouth
with sprinkling water. “ Whatee you goee
him fol
“Melican man alle go. Hop Wan like be
alle same as Melican man.”
“llop Wau alle same as Melican man ?”
sniffed Wau. “llop Wau no workee me,
then.”
“No workee fol you ? No cally clo’ Wau
Lee ? Why him so ? Why him so ?”
Wau opened his mouth, sent the prisoned
jet of water over the shirt in hand, squatted
on a stool, and deliberately responded ; “Hop
Wau want be likee Melican man, eh ? Then
llop Wau cut off pig tail, lettee whiskel glow
on face, chew bacco, sweal at stlcet cal dli
ver, and lookee at pletty girl on stleet. Alle
same Melican man, eh ? Then Hop Wau go
out to saloon, spend money velly loose, get
dlunk, say ‘ Whoop !’ on stleet, gette in police
house ! To-mollow go lonnd allee soon, pay
ten dollee and costs. Not muchee same as
Melican man here ; no muchee damme fool
here !” and Wau Lee nearly smashed a fancy
Joss and a counting-board in his excitement.
And that is the reason that Cleveland’s Chi
nese population is not represented at the
Ce nten n i al.— Clevela nd Leader.
The Tramp.
A YOUNG DEVIL’S COMPOSITION.
The tramp is allers a printer, i never never
heard of no uther kind of a tramp. And tlia
haint no slouch of printers neether, you can’t
stick’em on any kind of work you may set
’em at, cause, as our foreman says, “ they’ve
traveled.”
The tramp is a fellow wot cums into the
ofisanand
and then the regiller printers stick their heds
down close into their space boxis and work
like lightning, and say as bisiness is awful
dull, and tha haint no work for nobody, and
the tramp smiles and says so i see, and then
he gits a drink of wotter out uv the wotter
cooler and Imrrows a chew of tobacker, and
saj’s so long, boj’s, and goes off whissling
there’s a good time coining, and waks 30 or
40 miles to the next town and goes through
the same experience.
lie’s a feller that the edditur is oilers swar
ing about for not going to work and settling
down and being sumbuddy, but i notis that
wen one of ’em cums along dying for some
work, he allers says as how lie haint got no
work for tramps.
One tramp came into our oflls las week and
he was a jolly feller 1 tell you. lie says hello
fellers, jest lik al the rest of flic tramps say.
and he says to the edditur says he careless
like could you tell me where I can git a
square meal for twenty-five cents ? and the
edditur spok up crossern a bare and tol him
go around to Thompson’s ristarrant, and then
the tramp looked funny like and says he but,
say mister, where could I git the twenty-five
cents ? and then the edditur fel to laffin like
ol posscst and give the tramp as much as ten
cents. —Buffalo News.
Two Courses for Eight Cents.
A colored man living on Fourth street,
east, has a sign on his house reading: “Meals
for Eight Cents.” The sign attracted the
attention of a hungry man of color, the other
daj’, and lie stepped in and said he would
have a dinner. A slice of bread and a bowl
of water were placed on the table, and he was
told to draw up.
“ What sort of a meal is dat ?” he demand
ed, drawing away, instead of drawing up.
“ Dat’s an eight cent meal, ray friend.”
“ I isn’t prepared to squar' off in front of
no such dinner,” growled the stranger, get
ting out doors.
“It isn’t no festival, dat’s true,” replied
the proprietor, “ but when de price is limited
down to eight cents you must spec food will
be limited down to about two courses. DaFs
bread and dar’s water, and if yon want to
make it ten cents I’ll put on de pepper-bex
and a knife and fork.”
THE FARM.
Good Hay from the Rag Weed.
Has it ever occurred to our farmers that
they can obtain a supply of long forage by
curing the ordinary rag-weed ? In the May
number of the Rural Carolinian, we .find the
report of an experiment made by Colonel J.
Wash. Watts, of Laurens, who is a practical
and experienced farmer, and a gentleman of
undoubted veracity. This report proves that
an abundance of long forage can be harvest
ed from the stubble fields, where the rag-weed
grows spontaneously, and at a very light cost.
Col. Watts writes as follows to the editor of
the Rural Carolinian: -
“ Some time ago, I promised to give you
the result of my experiment with the rag*weed
hay, as feed for horses. I had seen it fed to
sheep in Pennsylvania, but I did not know
whether horses would eat it, or whether they
would be benefitted by eating it.
“ The drought being heavy on our crops,
and knowing that food would be very scarce,
I concluded to try the weeds; so I put a
hand to cutting them while in bloom, and cut
several tons, always cutting in the forenoon
and raking up into cocks in the afternoon,
and in two days hauling into the barn ; by
this time they were usually well enough cured
to pack away, which should be done
as they will bear it. -*■ "
“We began to feed to the horses at once,
and fed no other fodder or hay for three
months, and I have never had horses to do
better on any forage ; they ate it with avidity
to the last stem, and improved all the time,
notwithstanding their corn rations were light.
I am satisfied that it is as good and as healthy
feed as we can desire, and from its abun
dance, we can fill our barns with the cheapest
fodder that grows—the “ rag-weed hay.”
“ Asa feed for sheep, lam assured by one
of the best shepherds in Pennsylvania, that
his sheep prefer it to timothy hay; thaV he
regards it as good, healthy feed for she^p.
“ Why we have not found this out before I
am at a loss to know; but Ido know that I
never again expect to be out of fodder so
long as we can grow a crop of rag-weeds.—
Nearly every stubble field grows up in cither
rag-weed or crab-grass, and either will make
good enough hay if it is properly cured and
housed.”
The Harlequin Cabbage Bug.
This terrible scourge to the growers of cab
bages is, in some sections, already doing
great mischief. It is mentioned b} r Mr. Town
send Glover, entomologist to the United States
Agricultural Department at Washington, in
the annual report for 1867, page 71, and for
1870, page 90, and designated as stranchia
histrionycha. lie says: “ The female de
posits her eggs in March and April, in two
rows, cemented together, mostly on the un
derside of the leaf, and generalty ten to
twelve in number. * * * * About six
teen to eighteen days elapse the (Ipgfisi
tion of the eggs to the perfect development of
the perfect insect. A second brood appears
in Juty, which probably hybernates in shelter
ed places.”
Mr. Glover recommends that early in the
spring, the bugs which have hybernated, be
searched for, under bark, heaps of stones or
rubbish, and killed before they lay an}' eggs.
He specially recommends making small heaps
of refuse vegetables—such as weeds, dead
vines, cabbage stalks, etc., in the fall, for
them to shelter in during the winter, and in
the spring, before they come out from their
winter quarters, to build fires on the rubbish
heaps and thus kill all of them.
If any of the readers of the Grange are
troubled with these great pests, we will be
glad to have them follow this latter advice,
and report the result to us next year. If anj f
one concludes to make this test, it would be
well to commence making the rubbish heaps
in August, and not allow them to be dis
turbed till the fire is applied next sprirtg.
A practical farmer residing near Atlanta,
informs us that he has succeeded in ridding
his cabbages of all manner of insects, b y
sprinkling them thoroughly with a solution
of aloes. Take half an ounce of gum aloes,
powder it as finely as you can, then put two
teaspoonfuls of common cooking soda into
the powdered aloes and mix well, then pour
on it a quart of boiling water, and stir it
briskly a few minutes. The best way to
sprinkle the cabbage is to apply it with a
syringe, or “ squirt gun,” as the boys denom
inate their spring toy made of cane or elder
joints.
We do not know anything more of the
value of this remedy, than what we were in
formed as above stated ; but we would be
glad to have several of our readers make an
experiment of it, and report to us the results.
A remedy for the ravages of the insects
that prey upon cabbages—especially the har
lequin bug—will be worth thousands of dol
lars to the farmers of Georgia, and is worth
seeking after.
Potatoes.— Editor Southern Cultivator :
As this is the potato patch month, it may not
be amiss to call the attention of your readers
to this, that the early planted and made po
tatoes do not keep well for seed or winter use.
Slips put out in June late, or even Juty, make
best seed and easiest kept. Try it, and you’ll
find plenty of potatoes (if properly cared for)
to bed next spring.—“ Sox,” LaGranrje, Ga.,
May, 1876.
The happiness of the home is too much neg
lected or discarded by the farmers in yield
ing to the tyranny which many allow their
daily out-of-door work to exert over their
time and thoughts. How many there are
who, from Monday morning to Saturday
night, scarce allow themselves to think of
what they might do to alleviate the cares,
toils, and often disheartening lot of tlieir
families.
SUNDAY READING*.
Nearer My God to Thee.
A girl’s sweet voice, like the song of a bird.
The soft gray garments of evening stirred;
A song that thrilled like an angel’s prayer
As it floated on the warm spring air,
Triumphant yet humble, and grandly sweet:
My soul drank in its melody,
And seemed to rest in the golden street,
Nearer my God to Thee !
Only a wanderer passing by,
A stranger alike to cross and crown,
Weary and worn from years that flv,
Watching the gray light fall slowly down ;
The sun's last kiss in tne distant west.
When the sweet voice rang exultingly,
E’en though a stone be my place of rest,
Nearer my God to Thee!
Perchance to singer the words were naught
But empty sound, to be hushed ere long;
To me with a deeper meaning fraught—
The throb of a soul poured out in a song,
From one who welcomed the bitter cup,
Nor paused at the stormiest sea;
So the dark waves bore the toiler up,
Nearer my God to Thee!
Grander sermons have never been taught,
Since life by the dear Christ’s blood was bought,
And the thorn-crown pressed the fainting head
That for our sake lay among the dead.
Never was echoed a grander song
Since together the stars sang free,
Nor will till the ransomed millions throng
Nearer my God to Thee !
A Song in the Night.
In one of the upper chambers in a board
ing-house, late one autumn night, ayougman
was walking nervously to and fro. He was
alone, and he was unhappy. To him the
chief value of life had been the opportunity
it gave him to make money. He had bent
all his scheming and striving to that sordid
use—and failed.
While he paced the floor, nursing his mis
erable thoughts, he heard someone begin to
sing. Ordinarily he would have paid no at
tention, perhaps, and he was even less likely
to do so to-night, absorbed as he was in
gloomy and bitter reflections. But this
sound had nothing of the merry music that is
mockery to the heavy of heart. The voice
was a female voice, and, though low And gen
tle, it was exceedingly clear and sweet, and
the words it sang were those of the immortal
h} T mn of Charles Wesley,—
“ Jesus, lover of my soul.
Let me to thy bosom fly.”
Involuntarily the young man stopped and
listened. The melody and the hymn both
arrested him. He became interested. Op
posite his own chamber, in the next house,
across a narrow alley, was a sick room, and
it was from this that the sound of the singing
came.
The windows were open, and he could dis
tinctly hear every syllable. lie softly raised
his curtains, and saw a sight that held him
motionless. A little group gathered with
bowed heads by the bedside of one who lay
dying, and the singer, a fair 3’oung girl, sat
close, holding the sufferer’s cold hand in
hers. Her tones grew more tremulous, but
very distinctly came the words, —
“ Other refuge have T none.
Hangs my helpless soul on Thee;
I.< oli mo nnK olnn^ ( <i
Still support and comfort me !
All my trust on Thee is stayed ;
All my help from Thee 1 bring;
(Cover my defenceless head
With the shadow of Thy wing !”
At a faint signal from the dying one, the
friends kneeled around the bed. Strangely
touched and subdued, the young man at his
window kneeled too. The plaintive, weeping
song went on, its words of trust still clear
in the supreme moment of grief:
“Thou. 0 Christ, art all l want;
More than all in Thee 1 find.”
And then the singer ceased, for the hand
she held in hers was the hand of the dead.
The young man dropped the curtain and
turned away in tears. It was not from mere
sympathy that he wept, nor for his own loss
es or disappointments, now.
That hymn and that peaceful death-bed
scene had called his thoughts from himself
to his Saviour. lie spent the night in pray
er, with a yearning heart, repeating,—
“ Hangs my helplevss soul on Thee,
Leave, ah, leave me not alone.”
And the morning sun brought him also the
light of a believer’s joj\ He lived to bless
the Providence that so strangely and tender
ly. on that autumn night, pointed him away
from his selfish sorrows to the Lover of his
soul.— Youth's Companion.
Signs of Spiritual Decline.
1. When 3'ou are averse to religious con
versation or the company of heavenly-mind
ed Christians.
2. When, from preference and without ne
cessity, you absent yourself from religious
services.
3. When you are more concerned about
pacifying conscience, than honoring Christ,
in performing duty.
4. When j t ou are more afraid of being
counted over-strict than of dishonoring Christ.
5. When you trifle with temptation, or
think lightly of sin.
6. When the faults of others are more a
matter of censorious conversation than se
cret grief and praj'er.
7. When you are impatient and unforgiv
ing towards the faults of others.
8. When you confess, but do not forsake
sin; and when you acknowledge, but still
neglect, duty.
9. When your cheerfulness has more of the
levity of the unregenerate than the holy joy
of the children of God.
10. When you shrink from self-examina
tion.
11. When the sorrows and cares of the
world follow you farther into the Sabbath
than the savor and sanctity of the Sabbath
follow you into the week.
12. When you are easily prevailed upon to
let your duty as a Christian yield to your
worldly interest or the opinions of your
neighbors.
13. When you associate with men of the
world without solicitude about doing good or
having your own spiritual life injured.
BARGAINS!
NEW GOODS 5 REDUCED PRICES
STANLEY & PINSON,
HAVE JUST RECEIVED A FULL ASSORTMENT OF
Dry Goods, Groceries, Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, Hardware, Earthenware, Hollo*
Ready-Made Clothing,
Ladies’ and Misses Dress Goods, of various styles ; Medicines, Drugs, Dye-Stuffs •
Oils, A FULL VARIETY OF NOTIONS to please the little children as well
those of a larger growth. All of which, together with many other things 58
Will be sold Cheaper than Ever
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The Old Reliable!
(ESTABLISHED LY 1858.)
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The Fanners of Jachson County and surrounding countrr
are most respectfully ashed to visit our establish - '
meat and examine those Celebrated
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Refer to 11. W. Bell, Rev. F. Stakx, Jackson Hancock.
WE ALSO KEEP A FULL LINE OF EVERYTHING
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its superior improvements, as a Steam Car excells in achievements
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PROSPECTUS
OF
The Spirit of the Age,
FEELING the great necessity for an Organ
through which the members and friends of the
Temperance Reform can communicate w r ith each
other, and at the same time make known the
achievements of our army of Noble Reformers,
the undersigned proposes to commence the publi
cation, in the city of Athens, Ga., so soon as a
sufficient number of subscribers shall have been
obtained to justify the undertaking, of a weekly
paper, bearing the name of “ The Spirit of the
Age,” to be devoted to the advancement of the
glorious cause of Temperance.
The “ Age” will not be the organ of any par
ticular clique or society, but will be the advocate
of all a imperance work, under whatever name
presented, deling satisfied that all of the means
employed in this Heaven blessed cause have the
same object in view, and are aiming for the same
glorious result—the entire suppression of the man-'
ufacture, sale and use of all kinds of intoxicating
liquors in our otherwise highly favored country—
to which the best efforts of “ The Spirit of the
Age” will at all times be devoted.
Some of the best Temperance writers in differ
ent portions of the United States will contribute
to its columns, furnishing Temperance news and
literature, thus keeping us informed as to the pro
gress of our work in various parts of our country.
At the same time, arrangements will be made to
have regular correspondents in every section of
our own State, to furnish us with everything that
may transpire in the Temperance Reform in their
own locality. By this means we hope to keep our
readers regularly posted as to everything of inter-
est connected with our cause.
We will also, each week, devote a portion of the
“Age” to the family circle, publishing choice
Stories, Poetry, and other miscellaneous matter,
both original and selected, as well as a brief syn
opsis of the current news and events of the day.
In fact, neither pains nor expense will be spared
to make “ The Spirit of the Age” a welcome
visitor to every family circle.
“ The Spirit of the Age” will be an eight
page form, printed on first class paper, with good,
clear type, and in such a style that it may be
bound at the end of the year, thus making a hand
some volume of about 400 pages of choice litera-
ture.
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of club) 10.00
To the person or society sending us the largest
number of subscribers, not less than fifty, during
the year, we will send a handsome Bible.
To the one sending us the largest number, not
less than one hundred, during the year, we will
send a first class Sewing Machine.
To the one sending the largest number, not less
than two hundred, during the year, we will send
a first class Melodeon or Organ.
Address, JAMES T. POWELL, Athens, Ga.
I Legal Weight.
The following is the Legal Weight of >1
! bushel, as fixed by an Act of the General A-|
I sembly, approved February 20th, 1875: I
! Wheat, .... 60 pounds.|
| Shelled Corn, ... 56
I Ear Corn, - 70
i Peas, - ... 60
i Rye, - - - 56 I
I Oats, 52 I
i Barley - - • • 47 I
j Irish Potatoes, - - 60 I
i Sweet Potatoes, - - 55 I
i White Beans, - - *6O I
! Clover Seed, - - 60 H I
; Timothy, - - • „ I
j Hemp, - - - * 44 I
i Blue Grass, - - - *4 ■
Buck Wheat, - - - 52 _ I
Unpeeled dried Peaches, - *53 I
Peeled dried Peaches, - 38 I
Dried Apples, - • •24 # I
Onions, - - - 5< M I
Stone Coal, - - 8® I
Unslaked Lime, - - •30 ■
Turnips, - 55 ( I
Com Meal, - - - *4B I
Wheat Bran, - - 20 u I
Cotton Seed, - - - 30 u I
Ground Peas, - - *25 „ I
Plastering Hair, - ® B
SEND 50 CENTS FOR A YEAR’S ‘ ■
THE “TYPOS GUIDE,” A VALUABLE r I
CATION TO ALL. INTERESTED IN T I
ART OF PRINTING.
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