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THE HON. BENJAMIN il. HILL/
What He Hhm o Nny in Kxplnn ition of
llin Poklilob.
From the Atlanta Constitution.
JJousi: of Representatives.
{ ' WJkuinoton, D. C. !><v. 21,1870.
I My s■•<!>■ Sir : I trust you will believe
■lie when JRasrare you that your letter is
from one who
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president by retbijmjng boards or bayonets. '
. m> thing is ccrtam*r 4 "U'r>Tilden cannot |
and will not be made President unless he
is made so by a fair It nest count of the
votes of the people.
That coma can be neither fair nor honest
unless it be had unde* interpretations of
the Constitution long 'accepted, aid by
methods of procedure long established.
The party that now demands new inter
pretations, or anew form or method of
count, will be a party in rebellion nd trea
son against tho Constitution, the Union,
and the people.
J am, therefore, in favor of a fair and
"Honest constitutional count of the votes of
the peopll. lam laboring to secure that
count. ami. whin secured, I shall abide its
result; and so ' ill every other man North
and South 4 who not willing to d"St r oyhis
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1 aiuAravc < ough to want p ace, but
not cowardly e uigii to accept dishonor.
P is unpivas! it now to have to write let-®
tws. and, I co ess. a little wounding to
hy pride to be called on by my friends to
'deny charges so plainly absurd, and so
wickedly circulated. But 1 will make an
allowance for a natural anxiety in these
evil times.
I ask you, therefore, to give this letter
to the press, and 1 respectfully ask every
paper in Georgia to give it an in; ertion.
I make one request of the people of
Georgia, and that is tiiat they will believe
nothing as ribed to me unless it appears
over my c£vn signature or in the otlicial
proceedings of Congress. 1 can see no
other possible protection from misrepre
sentation.
1 believe we can avert all the calamities
I now so much dread. If we can peace
fully inaugurate the man elected by the
people, we shall have anew and long lease
of constitutional government. If we can
not. then our beautifully glorious and con
stitutional system will perish, and my
friends will find me on the front line of the
■s defense. ,
Benj. 11. Hill.
>n, Esq., Atlanta, Ga.
’s Love jtory.
Vtica Herald.
ght littlj miss of ten
by- a l.nsin of the
HARTWELL, GA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1877.
A SAFE REMEDY.
How the Shrewd Bumliicmm Man Ride*
Over the Hard Times.
Times am hard, indeed, and money is
scarce; but merchants and dealers can
make them a great deal harder and money
much scarcer, so far. at least, as they are
concerned, l>y secluding themselves from
public gaze, as it were, and failing to use
every means within their reach for doing at
least a share of what business there is to
he done. No matter how hard times may
be, a certain amount of purchasing must be
done daily by almost every family; and
the harder the times the more .sharply are
buyers looking out for bargains. And a
peculiarity of the case is that in periods of
great depression a large, portion of the
small trade is for cash. Business men who
fail to advertise, and thus make known
what special inducements they have to of
fer. are therefore certain to he passed by,
while their energetic and enterprising com
petitors are picking up what money there
is in circulation. What would be thought
of a farmer, who, having bought or rented
his place, ploughed his fields and sowed his
seed, would sullenly refuse to gather his
crop because the yield happened to be light
er than usual-—when, indeed, there was all
the more necessity for gathering what there
might be? Yet that is precisely the atti
tude in which a business man places him
self when he fails to advcrfi.se because mo
ney is scarce and business dull.
A Place Where the Surf Jumps a Day.
Chatham Island, lying otf the coast of
New Zealand, in the South J'acilic Ocean,
is peculiarly situated, as it is one of the
few habitable points of the globe where the
day of the week changes. It is just on the
line of demarcation between datqs. There
high twelve on Sunday or Sunday noon
ceases, and instantly Monday';/ meridian
begins. Sunday comes into a Mian's house
on the east side, and becomes 1 Monday by
the time it passes out the western door.
A man sits down toe dinner on
Sunday and it is noon before he
finishes it. There is Sunday and
Sun lay s Moutlay. n lay becomes
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good plst'-e for pe<>p avt* lost, much
ripped up my face ami extended my mouth
several inches.”
With eyes full of sympathetic tears, he
rose from the sofa, and remarked, as he
made toward the door: ”My angel, you
are perhaps mistaken. Probably', in the
excitement of that awful moment, you left
your mouth down in the basement, and ac
cidentally brought up the cellar. We shall
meet again in another world. Adieu.”
Improvement of the Business Outlook.
From the JVeu> York I‘vblic.
There can he no doubt that business is
steadily improving. The croakers rethse
to see the facts, and dwell upon incidents
which prompt gloomy forebodings, as if
tliose told the whole story. In some
branches of business there is reasonable
complaint, but in the aggregate transac
tions are very near as large as they were
at this time last year. The exchanges at
the clearing houses of the seven chief cit
ies, for the week ending December Hi, ag
gregates $55:1,266,406, against $.>60,271,077
during the corresponding week last year.
These clearings, it should he remembered,
represent the transactions of banks having
over $808,000,000 of deposits, out of about
$2,200,000,000 in all the hanks, national,
State, savings and private, in the whole
country.
The decline is less fuan it has been in
any week since October. In the aggregate
the decline is barely $21,574,504 on trans
actions of over $1,160,000,(MM) —about 2.7
per centum. This, too, in spite of a ma
terial decline in stock speculation, which
during the two weeks in question resulted
in sales of only 1,122,079 shares, against
1,148.540 shares during the same weeks
last year. Beyond dispute, business is
better than it was last year at this time in
quantities exchanged and it is steadily im
proving. Political uncertainty alone re
tards the recovery.
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A Juvenile Fight
A lad, narrating a light in which he had
been engaged, said : "I'll tell you how it
was. You see. Bill and me went down to
the wharf to lisli; and 1 felt in my pocke f
and found my knife, and it was gone; and
1 said. • Bill, you olemy^fc|ij^amU^
PARAGRAPHS OF THE PEtfOP.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
A half loaf is better than a who* loafcr '
A Wisconsin couple named thd r s!Xt 1
boy “ Enough.” .
lie who has health is a rich man an
does not know it. >
Many young ladies are made nncoin or
able by having trouhlesotn><**is^i v on Ul<
hands. . '
NUMBER 20.
“ It's a mnighty fine thing to
especially when your swatoheart
ye,” says Pat.
We may look for an exodus of carpet
baggers from Florida and South Carolina
within the next few months.
Bishop Whipple says it cost $500,000 to
kill one Indian. Mow much does it cost
the Indians to kill a white man '<
One hundred years ago there were no
steamships, no railroads, no telegraph, no
| sewing machines, no carpet-baggers.
During these sudden changes in tlso
j weather a little hoy should not he penmt
i ted to attend church without a handker
chief.
Nothing will sooner tempt a bachelor
to abandon his resolution to marry than
to sleep in the next room to a couple with
a colicky baby.
—The Dublin Mercury of March, 17 ( 18,
advertises "A neat and beautiful black girl,
brought from tiie Carolina#, who speaks
English, and is very tit to wait on a lady.
To be disposed of on application to Mr.
Carolan.”
The Overturning Board is the name given
by the J’icai/nne to the four disrcputaple
colored and white politicians in houisiana
who undertook the job ot electing Hayes
President after Tilden had been elected by
the people.
A little Boston girl, four years old, cre
ated a ripple by remarking to the teacher
of her Sunday-school class: "Our dog s
dead. 1 bet the angels was scared when
they saw him coining up the walk, lie a
cross to strangers.
The custom in eastern Turkey is to re
move the hoots and shoes on enternnj
church. An American saw at
Turkey, twelve hundred boots l j
at the dour of the church. lP^gjSreM
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