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A New FoRAGE.PLANT AND FERTILIZER.
A correspondent of the Georgia Commissioner
of Agriculture calls attention to new for
age-plant, which first appeared on farm
of forty acres in Liberty county, Georgia,
owned by two freedmen, and was first noticed
in 1871. 1t appeared to be troublesome
weed, springing up very thickly after the
crops were laid by. 1t began to spread and
soon covered every foot of uncultivated
ground 1t has since spread over large sur
face, and has reached points several miles dis
tant from its original point of development.
But, so far from being nuisance, as was at
first suspected, it has proved great boon to
the WORKOUT lands of the South. 1t is relish
ed by farm.animals, both in the green and the
cured state. AS fertilizer its application in
one case indicated qualities superior to stable.
manure. A farmer plowed under two acres
of this plant, and on an adjoining two acres
a coating of stable manure was spread. The
first two acres produced twice as many BUSH
els of corn as the second two. 1t is known
as Mexican clover, and is leguminous plant.
In many localities it has driven out all other
grasses. 1t seeds heavily, but is not an early
grower; and hence, it never gets in the way
of young crops The first light frost in the
fall kills it.-Dpartment Of Agriculture.
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Anmuruns department.
ssTHE AGER.o


The following clever parody, by Prof j. P.
Stelle, editor of the Progressive Former and
of the agricultural department of the Mobile
Register, has been repeatedly published,
though generally in mutilated form. We
give what is believed to be correct version.
1t is good enough to bear repetition, and will
touch tender spot in the sympathies Of some
of our readers:
Once upon an evening bleary,
While sat me dreamy, dreary,
In the sunshine, thinking over ..
Things that passed in days of yore;
While nodded, nearly sleeping, =
Up my back like water seeping-
Seeping upward from the floor.
"'Tis cooling breeze" muttered, $500
"From the regions meath the floor
Only this and nothing more"
Oh! distinctly remember
1t was in that wet September, -
When the earth and every member
Of creation that it bore
Had for days and weeks been soaking
In the meanest, most provoking
Foggy rains that, without joking, r. -
We had ever seen before;
So knew it must be very
Cold and damp beneath the floor
Very cold beneath the floor. .
So I sat me nearly mapping,
In the sunshine, stretching, gaping,
Craving water, but delighted
With the breeze from meath, the floor;
Till found me waxing colder, a.
And the stretching growing bolder, 4
And myself feeling Older
Older than I'd felt before;
Feeling that my joints were sitter
Than they were in days of yore- ..
Sitter than they've been before. s
All along my back the creeping
Soon gave place to rushing, leaping,
AS if countless frozen demons
Had concluded to explore Z
All the cavities-the "varmints''-
'Twixt me and my neither garments,
Up my hair and downward
Through my boots into the floor;
Then found myself shaking,
Gently first, but more and more
Every moment more and more.
Twas the ager, and it shook me
Into many clothes and took me
Shaking to the kitchen-every
Place where there was warmth in store;
Shaking till the dish was shattered,
Shaking till the tea was spattered,
Shaking, and with all my warning
Feeling colder than before;
Shaking till it had exhausted
All it's powers to shake me more
Till it could not shake me more.
Then it rested till the morrow,
Then resumed with all the horror
That it had the face to borrow, .-.s
Shaking, shaking as before,
And from that day in September
Day that shall long remember
1t has made diurnal visits,
Shaking, shaking, oh so sore!
Shaking off my boots and shaking
Me to bed, ifnothing more
Fully this, ifnothing more.
And to-day the swallows fitting ....t
Roung my cottage see me sitting
Moodily within the sunshine
Just inside my silent door,
Waiting for the ages, seeming
Like man forever dreaming,
And the sunlight on me streaming
Throws no shadows on the floor:
For am too thin and sallow
To make shadows on the floor;
Nary shadow-any more.
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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
COUNTY OF YORK--COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
Alexius J. Myers, merchant, trading as &c. 81.
Myers and Brother" Plaintiff, against James
B.Allison and J. Rufus Bratton, merchants,
heretofore trading as "Allison and Bratton,"
Defendants.-ISu,nnsOnS.
To the Defendants, James B. Allison and J. Rufus
Bratton.
VyOU are hereby summoned and required to an
\ swer the complaint in this action, which was
this day filed in the office Of the Clerk of Common
Pleas for said county, and to serve copy of your
answer to the said complaint on the subscribers
at their office in Yorkvile, s.. c., within twenty
days after the service hereof, exclusive OF the
day of such service; and if you fail to answer the
complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff
in this action will apply to the Court for Judgment
against you for three hundred and hfty-three
dollars and twenty-three cents, with interest
thereon from October 18th. 1878; and the further
sum of three hundred and fifty four dollars and
ninety-four cents, with interest thereon from No
vember 18th, 1s73 together with all costs and ex-
penses of this action.
Dated May End, A. D., 1875.
HART & HART,
Plaintiffs Attorneys.
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COOP FOR THE GERMAN.--The other day
two citizens stood in the rain discussing the
merits of the German tongue one was ma
tive, the other was an importation from fader-
land. The native finally wound up by say
ing, somewhat profanely, "This is a nice
language; Just look at the names-the devil
couldn't spell them" "Dat is So" replied
the Teuton; "de tuyfel be don't got no Ger
man names OF his pooks." .'
g- A story is told Of an Englishman, who,
lately, in making return Of his income to the
tax commissioners, wrote on the paper: "For
the last three years my income has been some
what under ESQ. In the future it will be
more precarious, as the man is dead ofwhom
borrowed the money"
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REASON ENoUGH.-They were sitting to-
gether, he and she, and he was arduously
thinking what to say. Finally he burst out
with:
"In this land of noble achievments and
undying glory, why is it that women do not
come more to the front why is it they do not
climb the ladder of fame?"
"Isuppose," said she, putting her finger in
her mouth, "it is all on account Of their pull
Backs
And then she sighed and he sighed side by
side.
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&eadiua fnr the Sabbath,
CONDUCTED BY
REV. ROBERT LATHAM.
(Original.]
REMEMBER.

There are some things that we should never
forget, neither in theory nor in practice.
Amongst those things worthy to be stored up
in cur memories, is the fact that we cannot
hasten our progress to the New Jerusalem by
hindering the progress of others. That man
who keeps one soul out of heaven, it will be
very apt to be his own. He who spends much
of his time in thwarting the efforts of others
to reach that land of pure delight, will, most
assuredly, jeopardize his own soul. Whilst
he may hinder the progress of some weak
saint, he will, in all probability, stumble over
some of his own stumbling-blocks and tumble
into perdition. We should remember that it
is our duty to follow Christ. We should set
the Lord always before our face. He is our
pattern. We must be like him, and it is our
duty to influence others to follow us no far
ther than we follow Christ. That man who
spends all his time in impeding the progress
of poor, weak believers, is an Amalekite. He
brings out no bread and water to the traveller
on his journey to the land Of promise, and he
should fear an Amalekite's doom. God loves
his children, and any who attemptto do them
harm, arouse his righteous indignation.
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"LOST SHEEP"

'LVS1
The sheep, perhaps, more than any other
animal, is prone to1wander about and become
lost. Individual sheep are inclined to sepa-
rate themselves from the flock. A mother
often wanders away from her lamb, and a
lamb not unfrequently strolls away from its
mother. Whether the instinct of the sheep
is inferior to chat of other animals, we are not
able to ssy; but the strolling propensity of
the sheep is notorious. Another remarkable
fact is, that the lost sheep always becomes
worse lost. In its efforts to find its home, it
wanders farther away from home This is
the apt language in which the Holy Spirit
chooses to describe the human family. Each
of Adams race may say, 81 have gone astray
like lost Sheep"
Wehave forsaken God, our heavenly father,
and made ourselves poor and needy and blind
and naked and miserable We are lost and
constantly going astray. Each day we are
farther from the fold of our heavenly father,
and farther from happiness than we ever were
before. We take wide range, strolling all
over the hills and dales of vanity, and the
mountains and valleys of sin. No created
ear can hear our cries no created arm can
render US the needed assistance, We are ex-
posed to the wrath of God. We are conscious
of our weakness. We tremble at the rustling
of a leaf, and startle at our own shadow.
The echo of our own cry frightens US, and
every sound is harbinger Of destruction.
We are troubled. Our path is over rugged
cliffs, overlooking yawning CULTS below.
Darkness gathers around us, and gloom is
within US.
Every sinner is lost sheep going astray.
Soon, unless he is found by the lamb of God
and taken back to the fold, he will be lost
forever-eternally lost.
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YORKVILLE ENQUIRER.
VOLUME 22.--1S76.

THE YORKvILLE ENQUIRER is now in
its twenty-second volume, and is large twenty
eight column newspaper, handsomely printed on
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A MANS WAY.-The front steps ofa citi-
zen have needed repair for many months
past and almost every day since last October
he has promised to send carpenter around
to fix them. He came home, the other day,
to find that his wife had been tripped up
again by the steps, and this time she had re.
ceived a broken limb. She felt just as any
woman would, and as he came into the house,
stopped groaning long enough to say:
"'rhe doctor says I'm laid up for three or
four months, and guess you'll xthose steps
now" =
"They ought to have been fixed long ago"
he slow ly replied "but if you are going to
be laid up all summer, won't bother with
'em I'll come and 60 by the side door,"
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Maya IL
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Too MUCH NOISE FOR THE SIzE.-After
most ridiculous and extravagant plea by a
young lawyer, in trivial case, an older law
yer, who had way of saying quaint things,
remarked, in opening the opposing side of the
case, that his young friends elaborate plea
reminded him of the experience of a neighbor
of his engaged in breaking colt, and the
story he told was in substance like this
The colt breaker made his young son hide
in the bush, while he himself was to mount
the animal and put him at the top of his
speed to the hiding place, and the boy was to
rush suddenly out and shout, "Boo "-the
idea being to prove how well the colt would
stand the scare.
Everything was done according to pro-
gramme, but the result was altogether too
much of scare for the colt, who kicked up
his heels and put down his head, and the old
man was thrown far over in the road on his
head.
Clearing the dust from his loosened teeth,
he made for the boy with the switch he had
cut to drive the colt, and with rage began
to dress the astonished young man down,
shouting, "What did you do that for? What
did you do that for %
"But, father" said the crying boy, you
told me to holler boo !":
EYES," said the old man, "but dang it, it
was altogether too big BOO for so small a
colt"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-06-08
Newer Known 70 FaiI

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ry and Horehound has never been
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enced hands. 1t is positively guaran-
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For sale by Michael & Son, Druggists,
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Dec. 2, 1S75-1m
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-06-08

GdbOnJ MAdy ECU, 1Otosl
The County Commissioners met in
special session in accordance with an
Act passed April Sd, 1876, and organic
ed by electing Jehu B. Campbell Presi-
dent, and then proceeded to divide the
County into three districts as the law
directs, viz: The County being diyid-
ed by original surveys int II townships
and into Ranges Nos. 1, 2 and 8, each
having 4 townships, and the number of
miles of freepike in each range being
very near'y equal, it is therefore order
ed
LIST. That each Range be constituted a
Road District.
ID. That Road District No. l be o n
stituted of the Townships of Israel,
Dixon, Jackson and jefferson, and plac-
ed under the control of Eli Conger.
Sd. That Road District No. 2 be con-
stituted of the Townships of Somers,
Casper, Washington and Monroe, and
placed under the control of Jehu B.
Campbell.
4th. That Road District No. 3 be con-
stituted of the Townships of Gratis,
Lanier, Twin and Harrison, and placed
under the control of Jos. Mills.
9Th, That before the Directors of eth
er Road District shall receive q free
pike. or any part thereof, he shall call
a 10 MT Board of all Directors, and upon
view said Board shall determine wheth=
er such freepike or part thereof is fin
ished, an6 upon the filing of their re-
port with the County Auditor declaring
the same completed, it shall be the du-
ty of the said Auditor to Immediately
notify the Township Trustees Of their
decision, and the freepike or part there
of completed shall be under the control
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of the Director in whose District the
same is located.
9Th. That culverts, bridges, gravel,
lumber, lime, stone, &C., &C., hereto
fore paid for by the Board of Commits
sioners from the road and bridge funds
will cease to be paid for from and after
this date, and only such freepikes as are
completed and accepted will receive any
money for the aforesaid purposes, un-
less there be a bridge, the expense of
which the Commissioners may deter
mine to assist in the erection of.
9TH. That before any freepike or part
thereof shall be declared as completed
by the joint Board of Directors, the
grading, ~grayeling, ditching and cul-
verting shall be completed, and the
same paid for and certified to by the
Secretary of the Board of Freepike
Commissioners heretofore appointed to
lay out and construct the same.
Sth. That for the keeping of freepikes
in repair, accepted under the provis-
ions of the foregoing Sections, there
shall be territory set apart al provided
in Section s of Act passed March 2Sth.
1876, and the Commissioners levy of /
Hlill iOr TOdu purposes, II the tHO
days labor shall be under the control of
the Director, or his Agent or Superin-
tendent.
9th. That compensation fer services
by the Auditor, Commissioners, Super
intendent, &C., shall be paid as provid-
ed for in services for like cases.
Signed,
j. B. CAMPBELL, Pres.
Attest-Sam'1 Oldfather, Aud. & Cl'k.
June g., 1s76-w3
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-06-08
Published by Request.I
THE GEM.

There is a bright and peerless gen.
Who's lustre pales the driven snow:
More splandid tina the diadem
That decks the proudest monarch's brow.
More brilliant thar the diamonds glare.
And loveller than the rarest flower;
Than all else beautiful more fair
All feel and own its magic power.
More sacred than the dea est tie
That fond affection ever knew,
And milder than the softest sigh,
And purer tina the morning dew.
More precious thai the vital flame
That burns within the human heart;
More glorious thai the dream of fhme,
In all its gorgeous beauty drest.
yrls sweeter than the sweetest tone
That ever fell on mortal ear;
No sparkling Jewel ever shome
With brillianey SO full and clear,
A Prince may boast a royal line,
And wealth may always purchase power,
And Vanity and Pride may shine,
And blind and dazzle for the hour,
But wealth and power cannot command
The glory Of this matchless boon,
And, yet the poorest In the land
Nav make Its glory all his own.
But they who would the prize attain,
Must hold no sacrifice too dear,
To keep it free from every stain
And let its light shine bright IND clear.
n L. -.
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INSPECTORS REPORT.

10 Ire o cu0ge % 1TOOute:
STATE OF OHIO, PREBLE COUNTY.
SIR:-By authority derived from you,
officially bearing date the Both day of
May, 1876, and after being duly sworn
according to law, L, II. G. Heissand, as
Inspector, without previous notice or
intimation to the County Treasurer, or
any other person, of such intention, did
forthwith enter into the County Treas
ury and proceeded Immediately to count
the moneys therein, and inspect the
Books, Records and Vouchers thereof,
together with all other property which
should be in the custody of the Treas
urer. In compliance with the law re-
quiring certificates of such examine
ticn, l hereby certify that Thir; cen
Thousand Five Hundred and Forty-two
and fifty-three hundredths Dollars was
the exact amount of money so found
and counted in the County Treasury,
ard that the statement annexed, which
agrees with the books of the Auditor,
presents tie exact balances and over
payments in each fund, and of property
then in the custody of the Treasurer.
Respectfully Submitted,
H. C. HEISTAND, Inspector.
31st day of May, 1876.