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AGRICULTURE. Constitution of the Georgia Agricultural Society. Article 1. This Association shall be known by the name of (he Georgia State Agricultural Society. Art. 2. The officers of the society shall }»e a President, one Vice-President from each Congressional District; which officers shall be elected by ballot by the society in convention, as hereinafter pre sen bed. Art. 3. The legislative and elective power of the society shall be vested in the convention of delegates from the county agricultural societies. These del egates shall be elected by ballot by the county societies in January of each year, or as early thereafter as practicable. Each county shall be entitled to send three delegates to the Convention, and if there shall he more than two organ ized societies in each county, tlien the representation from that county shall be double this number. The delegates shall hold their appointment for one year. There shall be two conventions annu ally. the first on the 22d February, the second at such time and place in the Fall as the Spring Convention shall deter mine. At the Fall convention the An nual Fair of the Society shall be held. An election for President, Vice-Presi dents, and members of the Executive Committee, shall be held during the present convention, and shall be inaugu rated at the Spring session in 1871. Hereafter the election of these officers shall be held during the Spring session of the society. The present officers shall hold their offices until their successors are inaugurated us provided for in this constitution. At the fall sessions hereafter, the President and Vice-Presidents and mem bers of the Executive Committe from the Congressional districts shall be elec ted for the succeeding year, their duties to commence with the first or spring ses sion of the next year, at which time the Executive Committee and Secretary and Treasurer of the preceding year shall m ike their annual report. The Presi dent shall be inaugurated at the spring convention, and publicly, on the 22d of February ; if this day shall fall on Sun day, then on the day succeeding. At the spring convention the standing committees on all subjects deemed im portant to the interests of agriculture, mechanics, manufactures, and the min cralogical interests of the State shall be appointed, and they shall make their re ports at the fall session. 'flic President, Vice-President, and members of the Executive Committee, or Presidents of the Society and life members on the roll of the Society, and life members as hereinafter provided for, shall be members of this legislative body. Any person who shall be interested in the agricultural, manufacturing, mechan ical or mineral interests in this State, shall be nominated to the Executive Committee of this Society for election as a life member upon the payment of ten dollars, but the Society reserves the right through its Executive Committee to reject any person so nominated. Any person who shall pay two dollars to the Secretary shall be an annual mem ber of this Society, and shall be enti tled to a scat in the convention of dele gates, but shall not be allowed to vote on any question before the convention. Upon the rejection of a person by the Executive Committee, who shall be nom inated for a life membership, the fee of ten dollars shall be returned to him from the Treasury of the Society. Art. 4. There shall be three Execu tive Committeemen from each Congres sional District. The delegates in convention, from each District, shall nominate five names, from which the convention shall choose three members of said Board to serve as the Executive Committee from their Dis tricts. The members of this Board, at the first election, shall be elected for one, two and three years, and one member from each District annually, thereafter; one member from a county only. The J‘resident and Vice-Presidents shall be ex-officio members of the Executive Committee; and the committee, thus constituted, shall have power to elect the Secretary and Treasurer, and prescribe their duties. A two-thirds vote of the whole Committee shall have the power, for cause, to remove these officers and fill these vacancies. The President may suspend the Treas urer or Secretary for any gross malfeas ance in office, and appoint a successor, pro tempore to discharge their duties. The members of the Executive Com mittee shall be ex-officio members of the legislative and elective body of the socie ty, and entitled to vote on all questions coming before it. The President may call extraordinary sessions of the committee and convention Bkdeemed necessary. 6. Two counties, represented by delegates, shall be a quorum of the con vention of the Society, for the transac tion of business, in conjunction with a quorum of the Executive Committee. Eleven members of the Executive Com mittee shall be a quorum. If seven Congressional Districts are represented at any meeting of the Executive Com mittee, five members shall be a quorum thereof. Art. 7. The Treasury shall keep the funds of the Society, and disburse them on the order of the President or a A’ice President when acting in his place, and shall make a report of his receipts and disbursement at the spring annual meet ing. The Treasurer shall pay no order '"that is not countersigned by the Record ing Secretary. lie shall be required to give a bond in a sum satisfactory to the President, to be approved by the Execu tive Committee. The Secretary shall take charge of, distribute or preserve all seeds, plants, books, models, specimens in mineralogy or natural history, which maybe transmitted to the Society; shall have charge of all communications de signed or calculated for publication; and so far as may be deemed proper shall collect, arrange and publish the same in such manner and form as he may deem best calculated to promote the objects and interests of the Society, by the ——d day of February of each year. Me shall also keep a neat and perfect record of the acts and doings of the Annual Con ventions or Extraordinary Sessions of the Society, and act as Secretary to the Executive Committee, keeping a perfid and neat record of their transactions, and shall publish his records as directed by the Executive Committee or the So ciety. Art. 8. The annual Fairs of the So ciety shall be held at such time and place as may be determined by the Ex ecutive Comm it tee. Art. 9. The Executive Committee shall, by ballot, elect a Secretary and Treasurer, whose term of office shall continue for three years, but removable upon cause; and the- Executive Com mittee shall fix the salaries and define the duties of these officers. Art. 10. The Executive Committee shall make’ an annual report of its ac tions, through its presiding officer, at its annnal meeting; this action of the Ex ecutive Committee shall be subject to the approval of the Society, in Conven tion. Art. 11. At all elections held by the Executive Committee, under the provi sions of this Constitution, the persons re ceiving the greatest number of votes, shall be declared elected. Art. 12. Each County Society repre sented in this Society shall be required to forward through its proper officer such sum of money as the Executive Commit tee shall assess upon its membership, this sum not to exceed 50c per capita of the membership. Art. 13. The Constitution shall go into force at once, except so much there of as applies to the regulations of the Executive Committee made for the con duct of the Fair of 1870. Art. 14. This Constitution shall be amended or altered by a vote of two thirds of the members present at any annual meeting of the Society in con vention, upon one year’s notice in wri ting. The House-Keeper. J elly Ice Creams are made by dissolv ii g animal or vegetable jellies, and ad ding them to the ordinary ice cream in gredients. Gelatine and isinglass are also used. ■ Nail in tiie Foot. —To relieve from the terrible effects of running a nail in to the foot of man or beast, take peach leaves, bruise them, apply to the wound, and confine with a bandage. They cure as if' by magic. Renew the application twice a day, if necessary; but one appli cation usually does the work. I have cured both man and horse in a few T hours, when they were apparently on the point of having the loc/.-jaw. This recipe, re membered and practiced, will save many valuable lives. —— Toothache. —All who suffer from toothache, or neuralgic affections, arising from teeth in any state of decay, may experience relief, instantaneous and permanent, by saturating a small bit of clean cotton or wool with a strong solu tion of ammonia, and applying it im mediately to the affected tooth. The pleasing contrast instantaneously pro duces, in some eases, a fit of laughter, although a moment before extreme suffering and anguish prevailed. Recipe for Blackberry Wine.— Gather nice, ripe blackberries; mash them well in a wooden or earthen vessel, strain, and for every gallon of juice thus obtained, add two quarts of water to the pomace. Let this stand several hours, stirring occasionally; then strain and mix with the pure juice. To every gal lon of this mixture add three pounds white sugar. Place in any suitable ves sel to ferment, substituting a piece of gauze neatly pasted on for a stopper, After fermentation, loosely place the stopper in. Rack off and bottle in Oc tober.— Country Gentleman. Certain Cure for Ear-ac^ie. — A writer in the Western Rural says: “As soon as any soreness is felt in the ear, let three or fyur drops of tincture of arnica be poured in and the orifice filled with a piece of cotton to exclude the air, and in a short time the uneasi ness is forgotten. If the arnica be not resorted to till there is actual pain, the cure may not be as speedy, but it is just as certain, although it may be necessary to repeat the application. It is a sure preventive for gathering in the ear, which is the usual cause of ear-ache.” Caution to Mothrs. —A distin guished physician of Paris, declared just before his death, “ I believe that during the twenty-six years that I have ticed my profession in this city, twenty thousand children have been borne to the cemeteries a sacrifice to the absurd custom of naked arms. ” “ Boston, ” adds Dr. Warren, “ sacri fices five hundred babies every year bv not clothing their arms.” What these little arms need is thick, knit, woollen, warm sleeves, extended from the hand to the shoulder. The extremities require as much clothing as the body. Women should dress their arms and legs in woollen of some kind. The absurdity of loose flow ing sleeves and wide skirts, worn in our climate, hardly needs be discussed. Warming Cold Feet. —An excel lent mode of warming cold feet by exer cise, which is the true way of warming them, is by means of an ordinary iron dumb-bell, the balls of which are from four to six inches in diameter, or a cyl inder of heavy wood some six inches in diameter and a foot and a half long, may be used. The bell or cylinder is placed upon a smooth floor, and the patient, with slip pers or shoes on, steps upon it and rolls it along backward and forward, balan cing at first with a rod. or by taking hold of another person’s hand or other sup port. A little practice will enable him to balance himself and move along with out assistance. All who are troubled with cold feet, and are strong enough, should try it. » -« » > The Turcos, mentioned as a part of the French military force, are native Al gerines, trained to war by the French. They are light infantry troops..of quick movement, and accustomed to the scal ing of difficult places. Poe’s Song of the “ Bells. ” WHERE AND HOW IT WAS COMPOSED. The following incident was related bv a member of the Baltimore bar .who, : t the time of its occurrence, was but re cently admitted to practice. The truth of the statement may be depended on ; and evep the conversation introduced. I give. I think, nearly word for word as reported to me. At the period referred to there were several single-storied houses on the east side of St. Paul street, between Lexing ton and Saratoga streets, each of which contained but two rooms. They were rather massive—according to present ideas—constructed of brie&, but have been for a long time displaced by tall and stately buildings. One of those sin gle-storied houses was occupied by my in formant. r I he front apartment was used as a law office, the rear as a sleeping room. One calm and clear moon-light winter night, when the snow lay deep upon the city trees and roots, Mr. was ma king preparations to retire to bed, when his front door-bell was rung. He arous ed his negro servant-boy, who was nod ding on his st >ol by the chimney corner, and sent him to open the door to his late visitor. The boy almost immediately returned alone. He said that nobody was at the door, but that a gentleman was standing iu the snow in the middle of the street taU-ing to himself and tossing his arms about. Mr. now went to the front door himself. When he opened it he found one who was evidently a gentleman—he could see that by the moonlight—stand ing on the pavement facing him. “ Was it you who rang my bell ?” he asked. “Yes, sir,” was the reply. “I owe you an apology for disturbing you at an hour io unreasonable. But the fact is, some thoughts have come into my mind which I wish to commit to paper, and seeing a light in your bac& window (the house stood on the corner of an alley) and considering it a matter of course that a lawyer’s office is supplied with stationary, I took the liberty of ringing your bell. ” “ You are very welcome,” said the law T yer, “ walk in sir.” The stranger followed him into the in ner apartment, where a bright coal fire was burning in the grate. The manner of his guest was so impressive of intel lect that Mr. offered a bed, but the visitor only asked the use of a chair, t ible and writing material. So the ne gro boy lay down upon has pallet on the floor, and the young lawyer retired to his bed, leaving the stranger bending over the table. "W hen Mr. awakened in the morning his visitor was sitting in a chair, with his head upon the table, asleep. The motion made by the young lawyer on awakening aroused the stranger- The latter seemed at once to be wide a wake. He arose from the seat, thanked his host for his hospitality, and grace fully apologized for his intrusion on the previous night, He was then about to leave the room. “You are forgetting your manuscript,” said the young lawyer, pointing to some pieces of paper on the table. ‘ I have a copy of what I have emu posed, ” said the stranger, “and leave the original with you as some acknowl edgement of your kindness under circum stances so trying. ” The stranger left. The lawyer did not know until a long time afterward, when the “Song of the Bells”—of whi< h he still has the original—had been pub lished and become famous, that his sin gular visitor was Edgar A. Poe. Catching a Fly in Church. A lady in one of our churches rested her head on the back of the pew in front, as all devout people do in the time of prayer, but in the pew before her sat a young man who neither bowed his head nor kneeled. A beautiful plume noded and danced upon the head of the fair one dehind him, occasionally touching the neck of the youth, who evidently considered it a fly or some other trouble some insect. For a time he bore the unpleasant sensation without a murmur, but patience ceased to be a virtue, and from the flash of his eagle eye, one could plainly see that the hour of “that fly’’ had come. Instead of saying “shco fly, don’t bodder me,” cautiously his hand moved toward the supposed offend ing insect; then followed a frantic clutch and a spring behind him. Imagine the horror of the youth to find in his hand the nobby hat of the fair one, which he had torn violently from her head, sadly disarranging the contour of braids and chignon. The lady was indignant, of course, and the youth could have been purchased at any immense sacrifice about that time. Explanations and apologies followed, and the disorganized was put in order as soon as possible, and the de votional exercises were resumed. —Lima ( Ohio ) Gazette. Treatment of Sick Children. A correspondent of the Herald of Health writes as follows : I was reading, a short time since, Dr. Humphrey’s description of a case of cholera infantum treated at first drug opathically, when it occurred to me that one of an opposite treatment might be interesting to the readers of the columns of “ How to Treat the Sick ” without medicine. My little boy who has never eaten any meat, salt, butter, cookeys, dough nuts, or die like, was taken violently sick last summer, during teething. He seemed as well as usual that morn ing, only that he ate no breakfast, which I knew was a sign that something was wrong, as he never eats when not tyell. Before I left the table, he was taken with bloody discharges and rapidly grew cold, though a very warm day. I never saw one grow sick so fast; he had eight discharges in an hour with griping pains. I put his feet in warm water, made a bed of warm blankets put a battle of hot water to his feet and warm flannels on his knees. When he was well warm. I removed the bottle from his feet, and gradually, as the color returned to his checks, removed the covering. * • * GRAND RAFFLE! AND SALE OF REAL ESTATE AND PERSONAL PROPERTY! IN' GEORGIA, October 24th, 1870. TICKETS ONLY ONE DOLLAR. ! ill TlfflT (WARMTH) A PRIZE! NO STOCKHOLDER PERMITTED TO PURCHASE or be INTERESTED I3ST A TICKET ! Never before, in the memory of man, was there such inducements offered to People ewby where to make their Thousands on the investment of ONE DOL LAII. There is nothing lost, and Thousands to be gained by purchasing Tick ets. Look to your interest, and let Every Man, Woman and Child have a ticket, or tickets, before the time appointed for Raffle. ONLY ONE DOLLAR A TICKET ! LIST OF ARTICLES TO BE RAFFLED FOR. Ist CAPITAL PRIZE—One Plantation lying on Coossawatte River, well improved, and in a high state of cultivation, valued at : ; ; : ; : $6,000 2nd Prize—One Lot Creek Bottom Land, 1 on the Western & Atlantic Railroad, well timbered, valued at : : 3,000 3d Prize—One small River Farm, within half a mile of the Depot at Calhoun, valued at ; : : ; 2,000 4th Prize—One House and Lot in the town of Calhoun, on Railroad Street, fronting Depot, elligibly located, : 2,000 sth Prize—One Livery & Sale Stable and Lot, new building, put up upon the most modern improvements, ; 2,000 Gth Prize—One Large Dwelling, 2 acre lot, good well water and all necessary out buildings : : ; 2,000 7th Prize—One 6 room Dwelling, acre lot, near Court House, 1,500 Bth Prize—One pair very large, extra fine, young mules, Carriage and Harness, all new : : : 1,200 9th Prize—One Lot and Dwelling near Calhoun Hotel, 1,000 10th Prize—One Business House and lot on R. R. street, 1,000 11th Prize— “ « “ “ “ “ •* 1,000 12th Prize—One pair extra large fine Match Horses, 600 13th Prize—One pair fine match Horses, : 500 14th Prize—One lot and stable fronting Wall street, 500 15th Prize—One house and lot near the Academy, 500 16th Prize—l6o acres land in Gilmer county, 400 17th Prize—One fine buggy, harness, &c., : : 350 18th Prize— “ 44 “ “ : : 325 19th Prize— “ “ “ “ : : 300 20th Prize— “ 44 44 “ : : 275 21st Prize—One new iron-axle Wagon, coach harness, &c., 275 22nd Prize— 44 44 44 " 44 44 250 Also, 29,778 Prizes consisting of all articles kept in a first class store, such as Watches, Saddles, Boots, Hats, and other articles too numerous to mention.— Prizes valued at from 81 to $6,000. There will be 30,000 tickets issued and sold. Every ticket will be duplicated, the purchaser holding one, the other to be filedin the office. On the day of the Raffle the 30.000 duplicate tickets will be placed in a wheel, and the three first drawn out will be entitled to Raffle for the highest prize, and the two remaining tickets will be placed in wheel No. 2. Wheel No. 1 will again be turned, and the next three tickets drawn will be entitled to Raffle for the 2d prize, and the two remaining tickets will also be placed in wheel No. 2 ; and so it will proceed until wheel No. 1 is emptied of all tickets then wheel No. 2 will be turned and drawn from the same as No. 1, and the remaining two tickets, after each drawn, will be placed in wheel No. 1; and so continue to draw from wheel No. 1 and 2 until the 30,000 tickets are drawn; thereby giving each and every one a chance and a prize. The Raffle will be conducted with six dice, thrown from one box, at the same time. In the event there be a tie between the contestants, a throw from each will determine the fortunate one. Refer to Hon W. H. Dabney. Atlanta, Ga.; Col. R. M. Young, Calhoun, Ga. ; H. C. Hunt, Clerk Superior Court; D. W. Neel, Ordinary, and other County Officers of Gordon County. AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE. For every Ten Tickets sold, the Agent will be entitled to one Extra Ticket. Send for Circular and Tickets. Money sent for Tickets by express or registered letter (if by mail at sender’s risk) wiil be promptly attended to. All communications, or orders, enclosing stamp, should be addressed to H. K. HICKS & CO., Managing Agents. Calhoun Ga. TAKE YOUR HOME PAPER! The Calhoun Times! A FIRST-CLASS FAMILY NEWSPAPER ! DEVOTED TO Literature, Aginculture, Politico, News, Education, Humor, -A_rt, Science, History, AND THE Varied. 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