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he is punislied. There are those who deal with society in the 

 same way ; they grasp at all and give nothing out by way of en- 

 couragement — in public spirit, in time, and in money ; and at the 

 ^nd of a few years they have a pocliet filled with dust, and a 

 heart turned into stone. 



^' Nor is that all, for they teach their cliildren to take the same 

 advantage; and they become so apt in their lessons that they skin 

 their own teacher, though he be their father; and could the old 

 man who thus has lived to himself but rise from the grave, a few 

 generations hence, he would not see one of his name or his kin- 

 /ired on the soil that he has wrought so earnestly ; and beneath 

 which he lies without a single pilgrim to shed a tear upon his 

 tomb. Selfishness, carries with it a just retribution. 



Officers for 1853. President, Charles Huiet, Elmira; Corres- 

 ponding Secretary, E. C. Frost, Catharines; Recording Secretary 

 A. J. Wynkoop, Elmira; Treasurer, W. H. Van Duzen, Horse 

 Heads; VicePresidentj:, Samuel Minier, Big Flatts; J.B. Burritt 

 €atlin; Z. F. Chase, Cayuta ; W. T. Jackson, Catharines; R. C. 

 Wilson, Chemung^ Lewis Sandford, Dix; J. B. Moore, Erin; 

 Lewis ^liller^ Southport; Augustus Latin, Veteran. 



'CHENANGO. 



The annual fair of the Chenango county Agricultural Society 

 was held at Norwich on th<^ 29th and 30th days of September, and 

 was numerously attended, and tlie exhibition as a whole was fully 

 €qual to any previous fair held in this county. 



At file annual meeting of the Society in January, 1852, the con- 

 'Stitution was so amended that the executive commitlee could lo- 

 cate the annual fair for a term of years at one place ; at a ;iieet- 

 ing of the executive committee un the lirst Tuesday of June last, 

 they located the fair at Norwich I'u* four years, and appointed a 

 committee of three persons to pi-ocure and lease a piece of ground 

 &r that pur]>ose. 



