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JMuetfismtents.
Jackson Sheriff’s Sale.
117 ILL be sold, on fhc first Tuesday in March
M next, before the Court House door, in the
town of .Jctiyrson, Jackson comity, Ga., within
the legal hours of sale, tine following property,
to-wit:
Eighty-four acres of land, more or less, in said
county, adjoining lands of widow Parks, William
Davis and others, on the waters of Sandy Creek,
(hi said place is a tolerable good dwelling and ne
cessary out-buildings. The road from Athens to
Clarkcsville and the Northeastern Railroad both
run through said land, about half mile from Nich
olson; supposed to be ’2O acres of land, more or
less, in Cultivation, the balance mostly forest land.
Levied on by virtue of a li. fia. issued from Jack
son Superior Court in favor of W. T. Thurmond,
Ex'r, and E. E. Park, Ex’x, of •). L. Park; dec’ll,
vs. (Ireen Nance. Controlled by J. B. Jackson.
Property pointed out by said Jackson. Notice
served on (ireen Nance, defendant, and tenant in
as the law directs. Levy made by J.
S> Hunter, former Sheriff.
jan.’Sl T. A. McEUIANNON, Sh'ff.
AKORfeIA, Jaclison Uonnly.
Whereas, upon the report of Reviewers appoint
ed in terms (of the law to review, mark out and
report upon the public utility, and said Reviewers
having reported in favor of establishing and mak
ing public tiie road beginning at the State road
nar 11. C. jVpplcby’s, tbencc the present traveled
route through a small patch in front of a cabin on
the land of Robert White. thence present traveled
route across the branch, thence straight line along
right hand string of fence to mouth of lane, thence
present traveled route into the Hog Mountain road
near th%Jinusg of William Bailey, unless good,
cause is shown to the contrary, on or by the 27th
dav of February next, an order will lie passed
making the above described road one of the pub
lie roads of the county.
Liven under my official signature, January 23d.
1870. iaiyid 11. W. DELL, Ord’y.
(1 EOEHjJIA, .Ja<•&.►>< CoitKiv,
J
Whereas, Hugh A. Carither.s. Administrator
de bonis non of R. T. Caritliers, late of said coun
ty, deceased, represents to the Court, in his peti
tion duly lilcd, that lie l as fully and completely
administered the estate of said deceased, and asks
the Court to grant him Letters of Dismission from
the same—
This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred
itors, to show cause, if any they can. on the first
Monday in Match*lS7o, in the Court of Ordinary
for said county, why Letters of Dismission from
said estate should not be granted.
UTven under Jny official signature. December 4,
L'u'L dec? H. W. HELL. Ord’y.
Medical Card.
W. a*. A .1 ■ WeLain'i-riere, hav
ao iHg associated themselves together, will en-
Vviyr f to practice Medicine on true scientific prin
ciples m all of its branches, and will treat disease
with the safest, latest and most approved reme
dies. Dr. J. C.’DeLaperriere comes highly re
commended from the most influential citizens of
Myrgiwether and Pike counties, having been ac
tively engaged in his profession for thirty years,
fn critical 'casus. both will attend patients, with
out extra charge. We hope, by attentiveness and
success, and constant guarding of every possible
interest of pafieifts,' to merit the favor and esteem
of those in (Jie community. Our entire time will
J >0" tie voted to the profession, and no pains spared
ln trying to relieve our patients. _One or the other
can always be found at the office, when not pro
fessionally absent. Special attention given to diso
c.'.ses of children, and uterine and nervous diseases
{ 4 females, malarial fevers, and more especially
surgical operations, such as amputation of
lunhs, reducing dislocations and fractures, opera
tion for calculi, strictures, hernia, diseases of the
eye, and treatment of chronic ulcers, sores and all
scrofulous affections. Charges to suit the times.
W. I>. DeLAPERRIERE, M. 1).
Dnjl J. (J. DeLAPERRIERE, M. D.
Marlin Institute.
Great Reduction of Expenses!
r PHh SPRING TERM of 1870 will open on the
_ X '_M of .Jaivuary. Tuition, if paid lialf in nd
'ancvand balance at end of Term, will be reduced
at hast TEN 1*1441 CENT.
Y\ ith full di\idcnds off. our rates are note les.-
bian tliosc of the country schools ; being for pri
mary classes. the pas' year, less than eighty
u.xts per month. *
Hoard, with furnished rooms in an excellent
house, kept by Mr. Jerry .Johnson, can now be
ha 1 tor EIGHT DOLLARS PER MONTH. Other
houses will be opened at greatly reduced rates,
tor further information, apply to
JOHN YV. GLENN. Principal.
Or J. E. RANDOLPH.
Sec’y Board of Trustees. jan3
Harness and Saddle Shop!
j Hay E opened in Jefferson, in the Randolph
Corner, a first-class harness and repair shop.
" here all kinds of leather work can be done at
" >ort notice, and I will sell my work as low a.s the
atne class of work can be bought anywhere else.
<u ’ c a call, and 1 will satisfy you as to price
a W quality of work.
J. G. OAKES.
Notice.
I HE medical accounts of l)r. C. R. Giles are in
our hands for collection. Pay up. and save
of suit. novlG PI KE & McOARTY.
LIGHT JOB WORK,
Executed promptly, at thisolLice.
ggggggggggggggggggggggggg
i .u 1 topic their own Rulers; Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures.
Warwick Wilson
To the Front AGAIN!
K EI f PS COnStantly on a complete stock
COFFINS
and burial cases,
r rom the smallest to the largest. ALL STYLES
and at 1
PRICES TO SUIT
THE TIMES!
Everybody, and all classes, can be accom
modated at his
Furniture Emporium,
Jefferson, Ga. Feb. 23. 1877.
IDajaiel Sc Patman
KEEP on hand the freshest stock of Light Gro
ceries to he lound in Jefferson. Their stock
consists of all kinds of
PLAIN ami FANCY CANDIES,
Nuts of all Kinds,
Sardines, Oysters, Cheese,
PLAIN AND FANCY CRACKERS
PICKLES. SAUCES, CANDLES,
SOAP, Etc., Etc.
A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF
Cigars, Tobacco and Snuff,
Northern Cider a Specialty !
All of which they sell
LOW FOR THE CASH I
Give them a call when you come to town,
dec?
GEO. O. WARM.
Manufacturer and Wholesale Dealer in
Pure Apple Cider
—AND—
CIDER VINEGAR.
Sole Proprietor and Manufacturer of
E. R. Condit’s Table Sauce.
So 2VZ W. Third Si., CINCINNATI 0.
A DAY to Agents canvassing for the Tire*
side Tixitor. Terms and Outfit Free.
Address P. O. \ ICIvERY, Augusta, Maine.
Fancy Cards, Chromo, Snowflake. &c.. no
O- : * 2 alike, with name, 10 cts. J. Minkler &
Cos., Nassau, N. Y.
1 H Y T'AKWii, with name. 10 cents.
'V \ I A gents, out fit 10 cents. L. JONES & CO..
Nassau, N. Y.
TO ABa—Send for our Select
List of Local Newspapers. Sent free on applica
tion. Address GEO. P. ROWELL it CO., 10
Spruce St.. New York.
This important organ weighs but about three
pounds, and all the blood in a living person (about
three gallons) pusses through it at least once every
half hour, to have the bile and oilier impurities
strained or filtered from it. Bile is the natural
purgative of the bowels, and if the Liver becomes
torpid it is not separated from the blood, but car
ried through the veins to all parts of the system,
: in trying to escape through the pores of the
I skin, causes it to turn yellow or a dirty brown
| color. The stomach becomes diseased, and Dys
pepsia, Indigestion, Constipation, Headache, Bili
lousness, Jaundice, Chilis, Malarial Fevers, Piles,
Sick and Sour Stomach, and genera! debility fol
low. Mf.rrell’s Hepatine, the great vegetable
discovery for torpidity, causes the Liver to throw
off from one to two ounces of biie each time the
blood passes through it, as long as there is an ex
j cess of bile; and the effect of even a few doses
| upon yellow complexion or a brown dirty looking
Ain, will astonish all who try it—they being the
first symptoms to disappear. The cure of all bili
ous diseases and Liver complaint is made certain
by taking Hetatink in accordance with directions.
Headache is generally cured in twenty minutes,
and no disease that arises from the Liver can exist
if a fair trial is given.
SOLD AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR PILLS
BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
Pisk Z ■ tarts and £LOO
The fatality of Consumption or Throat and
Lung Diseases, which sweep to the grave at least
one-third of all death’s victims, arises from the
Opium or Morphine treatment, which simply stu-
Eefies as the work of death goes on. £IO,OOO will
e paid if Opium or Morphine, or any preparation
! of Opium, Morphine or Prussic Acid, can be found
in the Globe Flower Cough Syrup, which has
cured people who are living to-day with but one
remaining lung. No greater wrong can be done
than to say. that Consumption is incurable. The
Gloiui Flower Cough Syrup will cure it when
all other means have failed. Also, Colds, Cough,
Asthma, Bronchitis, and all diseases o! the throat
and lungs. Read the testimonials of the Hon
Alexander H. Stephens, Gov. Smith and Ex-Gov
Brown of Ga., Hon. Geo. Peabody, as well at
those of other remarkable cures in our book—fra
to all at the drug store* —and be convinced that i
you wish to he curcci you can be by taking th.
Globe Flower Cough Syrup.
Take no Troches or Lozenges forSoreThroat,
when you can get Globe Flower Syrup at same
price. For sale by all Druggists
Price 25 Cents and SI.OO
; Grave mistakes are made in the treatment of all
; diseases that arise from poison in the blood. Not
! one case of Scrofula, Syphilis, White Swelling,
| Ulcerous Sores and Skin Disease, in a thousand,
j is treated without the use of Mercury in some form.
Mercury rots the bones, and the diseases it pro
duces are worse than any other kind of blood or
skin disease can be. Du. Pemberton’sStillin
gia or Queen’s Delight is the only medicine
upon which a hope of recovery from Scrofula, Sy
philis and Mercurial diseases in all stages, can be
reasonably founded, and that will cure Cancer.
£IO,OOO will be paid by the proprietors if Mercury,
or any ingredient not purely vegetable and harm
less can be found in it.
Price by all Druggists $i .00.
Globe Flower Cough Syrup and Merrell’s
Hepatine for the Liver for sale by all Drug
gists in 25 cent and £I.OO bottles.
A. F. ME3RELL & CO., Proprietors,
*' PHILADELPHIA, PA.
HEPATIBEgggggg.
GLOBE FLOWER SYRUP.
STILLINGIA.
.Yoftheastern R. R. of Georgia
GT Z Xvl E TABLE.
rp A KING effect MONDAY. June 10th, 1878.
X 7.00 .V. M. All trains run daily except Sun
day.
Leave Athens 7.00 A. M.
•* Center 7.'22 4 “
“ Nicholson 7.‘19 “
Harmony Grove 8.07 ‘‘
“ Maysville., 8.32 “
Gillsville 8.50 “
Arrive Lula 9.1-5 “
Leave Lula 5.25 P. M.
** Gillsville 5.45 ik
“ Maysville 6.0S “
“ Harmony Grove, 6.40 4,4
Nicholson 7.07 “
“ Center 7.25 “
Arrive Athens 7.45 “
jtuie 29 JAS. M. EDWARDS. Sup*t.
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14,157.9.
SELECT MISCELLANY.
For the Forest News.
YOUNG GRIMES.
BY MRS. PARTINGTON.
Old Grimes is dead, that good old man,
\\ e ne’er shall see him more;
But he has left a son who bears
The names that Old Grimes bore.
He wears a coat of the latest cut,
His hair is new and gay;
He cannot bear to view distress,
So he turns from it away.
His pants are gaiters—fitted snug
O'er patent leather shoes;
II is hair is by a barber curled—
He smokes cigars and chews.
A chain of massive gold is borne,
Above his flashy vest;
His clothes are better every day
Than were old Grimes’ best.
In fashion’s court he constant walks,
Where he delight doth shed ;
His hands are white and very soft, ~
But softer is his head.
He's six feet tall—no post more straight,
IDs teeth are pearly white ;
In habits he is sometimes loose,
And sometimes very tight.
His manners arc of sweetest grace,
His voice of sweetest tone ;
His diamond pin’s the very one
'That Old Grimes used to own.
IILs moustache adorns his face,
His neck a scarf of blue;
He sometimes goes to church for change,
And sleeps in Grimes’ pew.
He sports the fastest “cab” in town,
Is always quick to bet;
He never knows who is President,
But thinks old Tip’s in yet.
He has drank wines of ever} 7 kind,
An<l liquors cold and hot;
loimg Grimes, in short, is just that sort
Of man—Old Grimes was not.
How the Minister Came to Live at Ichabod
Tramm’s.
BY MARY EDNA BIRTEN.
In all Edgeville there was no such charac
ter as Ichabod Tramm. To judge from his
daily walk through life he seemed to wish to
have as little to do with those about him as
possible. He never made conversation with
any one, and when it became necessary for
him to speak, it was in the most abridged
fashion, with a manner not at all genial.—
This is why the neighbors call him “odd.”
These habits had greatly increased with
him since his wife died, four years ago.
lie had lived alone in the comfortable two
story white house on the hill during These
four years, and Mrs. Edwins, the woman who
took charge of his dairy by the day’s work,
used often to say: “’Twas enough to make
him outlandish, going in and coining out ev
ery day with nothing to go in for and nothing
to come out for, for that matter, as she could
see.” But go in and come out he did, with
accustomed regularity, never neglecting any
matter of business. For all who dwelt with
him could not but confess that he was most
unapproachable aside from that. To live so
utterly alone seemed a weary enough life to
those who gave him a thought amid duties.
Ichabod Tramm had always been consid
ered odd, but Edgeville had been so small un-
til a few years back that “odd** people thriv
ed as well as any. Then, too, he had been
wont to depend on his wife to make the rough
places smooth for him, as she seemed to have
an unusual faculty for doing.
Once when Mrs. Tramm had been inter
viewed upon the subject of her husband’s pe
culiarities by the not over young maiden who
taught the town school, she had said: “O,
Ichabod is Ichabod !” and as everj-body
could do no less than to agree with the as
sertion, they as wisely concluded to let him
be “Ichabod,” and if with all his queer ways
his wife was satisfied, they ought certainly
to be.
The home of Mr. and Mrs. Tramm had al
ways been considered one of comfort and kind
words, and there were many sympathetic
lie iris ready to return to the lonely man
some of tin* good cheer which had been spread
abroad so unsparingly by Mrs. Tramm du
ring the early days of Edgefield, but he seem
ed so entirely within himself that after one
repulse the efforts were scarce!}* ever renew
ed. and lie lived on alone.
During the past year there had been sever
al new families added to the now fast-growing
town of Edgeville, among them a young min
ister and his wife, who had chosen a very
modest house, known as the “Cottage,” for
their home during a pastorate which extend
ed over the three adjoining towns, situated
about two miles apart in difierent direc
tions.
Mr. Sabin, the minister, had met Mr.
Tramm several times at the country store,
but beyond a quiet acknowledgment of any
remark he might offer, he had no ad-
vancement in becoming acquainted with the
man.
Knowing the position he occupied among
his neighbors, the minister had made him a
subject of consideration until he felt assured
that a good getting at was all that was re
quired to make his peculiar talents of use to
his fellow-men ; but just how to do this he
had not concluded, when about noon on the
day before Thanksgiving, imagine his sur
prise when he saw Ichabod Tramm's horse
and wagon draw up before the “Cottage”
gate!
llow most favorably to meet him the min
ister could hardly think, but be had not long
to wait before deciding, for this he did as he
reached the kitchen door, toward which his
unexpected guest was walking with length
ened strides. Ichabod Tramm entered as
soon as the door was opened, and with a nod
of recognition, marched straight to the kitch
en table and deposited a huge turkey and a
good-sized jar, which he had brought from
the wagon. As he laid them down, he turned
quickly about, saving;
“Hope you’ll have a good time to-mor
row ;’’ and would have been in the wagon be
fore the minister could have said, thank you,
had not the minister's wife, with woman’s
quick intuition, stepped forward and closed
the door.
“ are to stay to dinner with us,” she
said, with quiet decision, as she placed a chair
for their guest.
This was so unexpected that at first Icha
bod Tramm did not speak, but in a moment
he said, in his blunt way :
“Can’t; I’m obliged.”
“Excuse me,” said the persistent little wo
man, *‘we cannot take your gifts unless you
do.” - •
Ichabod Tramm was confused. He took
oil his hat, which he had so far had no thought
or opportunity of removing; then lie looked
out of the win low, .cleared his throat, and at
last sat down in the chair which was placed
for him, very much as though lie considered
himself decidedly cornered.
The minister, wishing to have no act inter
fere with reaching the still water which ran so
deeply beneath the icy surface ot the ‘ odd"
man, called his attention at once to the tur
key, remarking upon its “fatness,” and tak
ing that as a fact from which he drew funnv
comparisons with the “ leanness” of* their ex
pected Thanksgiving dinner up to the time of
its arrival.
His wife joined heartily in his comments,
as she said :
“I am getting interested, George, over the
contents of the jar !"
“That’s June butter; had it packed to or
der,” broke in Ichabod Tramm, who so far
forgot himself in seeing the merry couple be
fore him, that he found his voice and a remark
at the same time !
“Oh, you are so good,” said Mrs. Sabin,
with unfeigned satisfaction, raising the cover
to gain the housewife’s test for good butter
by smelling.
“ It's delicious ; just smell, George.”
“ I’d rather taste,” replied the husband, as
he obeyed the request.
“I’d warrant you would,” said his wife,
archly.
Just then the young girl who assisted Mrs.
Sabin called them to dinner. It must be
chronicled that Ichabod Traram’s eyes were
moist as he drew a chair to the table, and re
alized for the first time since his wife’s death
the comforts of a home and home like meal.
But Mr. Sabin assisted him in regaining his
composure by having a great deal to say to
his wife, and, after a while, drawing their
guest into some limited remarks upon Edge
ville and its early settlers, but it was quite
evident his visitor was in a “ brown study”
over some other subject.
When dinner was nearly finished he seem
ed to have reached a conclusion ; for, turning
abruptly from a question put by the minister
towards the minister’s wife, be asked :
“You pay rent for the cottage ?”
44 Yes,” responded Mrs. Sabin in evident
surprise.
“ I thought so,” as though there could be
any doubt, but he was reassuring himself,
then, after a moment of silent meditation, he
said : “Come up and live in the ‘white house
on the hill,’ ” and then, with greater earnest
ness of manner, indicating how much he wish
ed it, “you may have it for life.”
Mrs. Sabin looked toward her husband as
though she feared the insanity of their guest.
As she caught her husband’s e} T e, the merry
twinkle which she found there caused her to
realize what her thoughts were, and in an
other moment, with a blush, she quietly
said:
“Thank you. if my husband is willing.”
“ Love, honor and obey !” suggested her
husband, who indulged in a good laugli at the
little scene, for it did him good to see that
his wife’s kindly firmness had probed togreat
er depths of this old man's heart than had
been reached for years ; but upon noticing
that Ichabod Tramm was looking expecting
ly toward him for a final decision of the mat
ter, he said, soberly :
“Do you really mean that for a bargain,
sir ?”
“ Once said is said with me,” responded
Ichabod Tramm, sternly.
This seemed to be one of the Lord’s own
ways, and something must be answered im
mediately, for here was a nature where tri
fling would find no sympathy, so Mrs. Sabin
said, after a moment’s silence :
“ YYell, sir, we accept jour kind offer most
gladly, with the condition that you take din
ner with us to-morrow.”
Ichabod Tramm seemed satisfied, and said
he would, and furthermore be lingered after
dinner awhile, as though he was loth to go
back to the loneliness of the old life.
This ray of sunshine broadened into a sum
mer day for him, and the minister and his wife
take great comfort and satisfaction to this
flay in the “white house on the hill,” which
Ichabod Tramm, who, although retaining
many of his odd ways, has a kind word for
all who visit the happy family. Many a tur
key and pail of fresh, sweet butter have gone
from there to supply some need, and when
Ichabod Tramm is asked about it, he invaria
bly says:
“Its the minister’s wife, go to her.”—
Eoaugelicul Messenger.
New Explosives.
It will be remembered that a little before
Christmas, in 1877, a confectionery establish
ment, in Barclay street, suddenly exploded
in a mysterious manner. The roof flew up
and the front wall flew out, the book keepers
were blown through one window and the sales
men another, and the air was transient!}'
clouded with gum-drops and packing girls,
all of whom luckily got off without injury.
In the absence of any apparent cause for
snch an occurrence, it was, of course, laid to
the engineer, who was dead and could not
answer lor himself; but bis boiler answered
for him, as it remained quite intact after the
explosion. It was then surmised by an anx
ious public that some inventive Guy Fawkes
had rented premises in the building, and that
his explosives had gone off prematurely, hoist
ing him with his cwn petard, and distributing
him through space as cat’s iTleat.
None of these conjectures turned out to be
correct. It is now known that a certain de
gree of attenuation, and under certain condi
tions, the dust of flour, starch or sugar is as
explosive as gun powder, and that it was to
the sudden ignition of this impalpable sub
stance that Messrs. Greenleaf owed the de
struction of their manufactory. On the 2i
of May. 1878, the Washburn mill, at Minne
apolis, with a single exception the largest in
the world, incurred a similar visitation, and
one of the most extensive and solidest struc-
tures in the country, built throughout of
stone, with walls two yards in thickness at
their base, were in a few seconds reduced to
a shape ess mass ol ruin. In December of
the same year the Anchor mill, of the same
place, wai partially destroyed by a like
catastrophe.
So many destructive accidents, originating
in a similar cause, have drawn scientific at
tention to the subject, and various remedies
have been proposed. Mr. E. \Y. Spalding,
of Philadelphia, condemns the location of the
wheat and flour dust-rooms in the basement
of the mill; and thinks they should be in a
separate building. He shows that in the flour
dust-room of the Washburn mill there accu
mulated in a single day sixty sacks of dust
of 125 pounds each, the explosive force of
which would be enough to shatter the Mem-
nonkira. It is Ills theory that the fire was
started by friction between the mill-stones,
which were being run dry in order to clean
them, preparatory to the reception of anew
grade of wheat. With improved ventilation,
to be secured by a large brick chimitey in the
centre of every mill to carry off the finer par
ticles of dust, he thinks such accidents would
be prevented in the future. Dr. Weber, of
Berlin, has likewise published his views upon
the subject in a work which obtained a prize
from the association of German millers, and
his recommendation is that the mill-stones be
inclosed in air-tight curbs, in which the dust,
is condensed, and thus preventer] from dif
fusing itself through the air, which is a con
Jit ion of its explosiveness. The cause of
these accidents being defined, remedies could
not, of course, long be wanting, and if those
suggested by Mr. Spalding and Professor
Weber should turn out to be inadequate,
others will without doubt be applied, until it
will become almost as safe to visit a flour
mill as a powder magazine or a dynamite
factory.— Neiv York Tribune.
Grange Principles.
The Granges do not seem to be as numerous
nor as active and influential as a year or two
ago, but we must not infer from this that
they are dying out. Those who ought to
know, say 11 1 have only been pruned down
to sound and legitimate material, and are
now better capable of carrying out the ob
jects of the organization. What those objects
are, and the spirit that animates them, wii
be found in the following declaration of
principles, published by the National Grange,
assembled in Richmond, Va., in November
last:
“We, the members of the National Grange,
desiring to define the precise objects of the
order of Patrons of Husbandry, and place
them before the membership of tiie order
throughout the Union, do hereby set forth
the following propositions with our distinct
declaration of purpose relating thereto :
“The industry upon which our order is
based is agriculture—the most important of
all industries—'the foundation and support of
all others—■ the true basis of all our national
prosperity. We have observed the condition
of our people, and viewed with alarm the
encroachments upon their natural rights.
While agriculture is the chief source of all
wealth, and therefore deserving of at least
equal recognition with other vocations, it is
deprive 1 of its just rewards and "Oppressed
by methods of law. It is made to bear griev-
S TERMS, $1,50 PER ANNUM.
) SI.OO For Six Months.
ous hardens not its own ; it is compelled tfP
pay taxes which an equitable distribution
would place elsewhere ; it is forced by wicked
combinations to submit to hurtful discriinina*
tions against its products, i>oth in transporta
tion and in the mart of sale ; its votaries have
been and are now denied that consideration
in public affairs to which the magnitude and
the importance of their calling entitle them.
Ihe laws of the nation and of the several
States are so framed as to divert from our
great industry the rewards which arc tho
great incentives to toil, and an earnest re
monstrance against their injustice spurned.
“ 1 11 view of these truths we are bound in
defence of our manhood to assert our rights,
and we therefore declare our unalterable
purpose to emancipate agriculture from tho
burdens unjustly heaped upon it, and tho
means by which we shall seek to secure tho
desirable ends.
“1. We shall strive earnestly, within and
without our order, to extend the benefits of
education, which shall comprise knowledge of
public affairs anil the methods of self-govern
ment.
** 2. We shall demand admission in tho
Legislature of the several States, and in both
Houses of the National Congress, for re
presentatives of agriculture chosen directly
irotn its votaries, as the only means of relief.
“3. We shall accord to other industries
all the rights, privileges and immunities
which we claim for our own, and join with
their representatives in earnest endeavors to
impress upon the governments of States and
nation, habits of wise economy and frugality
as essential to the thrift and prosperity of all
the people.
“4. We shall give Constant care and at
tention to the public schools, in which the
youth of the nation are deeply interested,
limiting expenditures therefor only by their
usefulness, striving always for that higher
and practicable enlightenment which Should
become the distinguishing feature of a free
people.”
Alter tho above had been adopted the
lollowing was also presented and passed:
‘‘ln accordance with the above objects of
our organization, and the methods by which
they are to be obtained, we pledge our unyield
ing devotion to the work marked out. We
believe the principles enunciated in our
declaration are in full accord with the highest
welfare of our country, and that they deserve
support, especially by all farmers. The
history of agriculture on this continent shows
thut no organization in its behalf has ever
been attempted without direct effort on the
part of those who prey upon its products to
neutralize the work, and the lessons of the
past establish the conviction that our only
hope is in the full and cordial co-operation
ot farmers, wherever located, to insure that
success which is within their grasp.
“We appeal, therefore, to good men and
women, whose interests are our own, to join
their efforts with ours, confident that with
their support we shall not wait lonr for the
consummation of our hopes. W r e appeal to
the agricultural journals of the land, asking
their great influence in aid of the above objects.
Fo these forces, and to the intelligence of
our people, we present the purposes which
animate many thousands of farmers in every
State of our Union, and reverently trust in
the direction of the wise Providence bv whose
decree we were made tillers of the soil, that
<>ur efforts may be rewarded by the full ac
complishment of the measures which justice
lemands in the relief of an oppressed in
dustry, and the higher enlightenment of its
votaries. - ’ —Southern Farmer's Monthly.
How a Man Feels With His Head Off.
It is considered on all sides that the body
does not feel one instant after decapitation—
for the brain being the seat of sensation to
the whole frame through the medium of the
spinal marrow, every part of the body be
neath the point at which tbc latter may be
divided must be deprived cf feeling. But it
by no means follows that the head is deprived
of sensation immediately after decapitation,
nor that it may not retain its consciousness,
; and, like the head of the Iriah knight who
was killed by Saladin in the holy w'ar, get up
rind declare that it was never cut off bv so
sharp a cimetcr before—nor, like that of the
assassin Legare, swesr roundly at the ex
ecutioner for not keeping a keener axe; but
it is quite impossible that it may be troubled
with very serious reflection upon the irrevoca
bility of its fate, and . the awfulness of its
deprivation. In support of this unpleasant
theory many facts are adduced, with grave
vouchers for their authenticity. Among
others is tbc unfortunate Queen of Scots,
whose lips continued to move in praver for
at least a quarter of an hour after the execu
tioner bad performed his dirties. Wilt states
that having put bis month to the ear of a
decapitated criminal's head and called by
name, the eyes turned to the side from whence
the voice came ; and th<? fact is attested by
Fontanelle, Mogore, Guillotine, Nauche and
Aldint. On the word “ murder” being called
in the case of a criminal executed for that
crime at Coblentz, the half-closed eyes open
ed wide with an expression of reproach r
those who stood around.
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