THE ESCORT.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 279, 11 July 1874, Page 4

THE ESCORT.

" OX. DWT. £Naseby 658 0 § a 1 St. Bathans 400 0 |h j Macraes o 0 ( Palmerston .. ~ 0-0 n , =-1058 0 Cardrona 472 13 Queenstown .. .. 2113 5 Arrow ... , ... 491 19 , : Cromwell .. , 2033 15 Clyde .. j 0 0 * ' Blacks 450 0 Alexandra ".. 487 0 Teviot 700 0 Total 7,806 12

There was a natural disinclination to serve upon the jury empanelled to try Ruperti Green. The prospect of several nights' incarceration—for jurors, unlike prisoners, can't be released on bail—was not cheering. Then it was not surprising that some efforts to escape should be made. I' May it please your Honor," said one juror, when directed to take the box, " I have a conscientious objection'to serve on this jury ; : I have-formed a-strong opinion about this case. lam really prejudiced." .Ordered to stand aside. Another juror, pleaded that he also felt prejudiced. " Prejudice," said his Honor, with grave severity, "is the growth of ignorance. I cannot understand excuses of this kind for evading a duty. No well-balanced mind could be so warped by prejudice as to be unable to correct an impression byevidence." After that unwilling - jurymen.; gave up the plea of prejudice.,,. As ; two of those who had escaped .serving were. dis-". cussing the rnatter, said one hyppthetically, /'S. u PP°Be,. now, I had! been seized with : a violent spasm in the jury-box, would' his Honor have let me go?" ' "Nothing of the kind," said the other 1" he would have told you that ho well-balanced mind; ever gave way to spasms."—' Star.'

Eolloway's Pills.—The Hour of Danger.— Disease commonly cornea on with slight, symptoms, which when neglected increase in extent and gradually grow, dangerous—a condition which betrays the grossest remissness, 'when it is known that these Pills, taken in accordance with their accompanying directions, would not only have checked but conquered the incipient disorder. Patients daily forward' details of the most remarkahle and instructive cases in which by timely attention to , Holloway's advice they were undoubtedly saved :from'severe illness. These Pills-act primarily on the,digestive which they,stimulate' When, sluggish and. inactive ; and, secondly'; "Wpun'fcLe.blood, whfch'theythbri uglily purifyj and hence is derived the.general tone they im-, part, and their power of subjugation hypo.chondriacism, dyspepsia, and nervous- complaints. ,: ;^