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T II E S U N. fiTfWBCIIIPTIOXS.—()nt rpii, one year, |l.M| tit m ruth*. 75 frnt*. inrariahly in lolrnnre A PVr.ltTlWSn.—Onr rguare. frrt intention, (•<’ incM. #I.OO ; n.rh ruhreipient Inrerhon. 75 rent*. l.iherai deduction* mimlc to advertin'ft, accenting In the Ipacc anil time that it occupied. TEUVS - •Tranticni adrcrtiecnicnt*, ('nth; contract adrertitement* mart he fettled monthly * (P ■ For announcing candidate* Fire Ihiltur*—(li ra rutldu in advance. Ohitnaru notice* exceeding llre liner, tribute* of re rpect. anil all perm no I rotn iwufiicationt. or in alter* <•/ indiridunl intercut, will be cha ry< il for at regular rater. Xoticrr Of Marriage*, of ilrnth* and yf a religion* character are r*i/ucrtcd and will hr inr cried free Short hticty communication* are rolicited, hut ire are not re*pon*ible for the ricirr of corrcrpondenlr. JIJi.XSOX if McGILL . Fuhlirherr. HARTWELL, HART COrXTY, U\.t WoflncMlny Mornlnit. Mnrcli ‘AH, 1H77. ANNOUNCEMENT. FOR STATE COX VEST ION. r-jf* The ninny friend* of T>x. D. O. OSBORNH iuinonnci> him an n nnitnfbto* man to represent them in thn r<W*H tut ion al Cnvnitton. The friend* of Max J. 11. SKELTON announce him a* a ewidlitate for th<-Constitutional Convention. Good Times Coining. The universal growl of hard times is becoming monotonous, is in fact nil humbug. The times are easier in point of fact than they have been since the war. Money is nearer its value, and real necessities of life are cheaper. The people make the times hard by extrava gance, and extravagance has been caused by the immense slip-shod credit business. After the war, instead of practicing saving economy, the people lured by the fabulous prices of cotton, plunged into worst kinds of excesses in speculation and all its concomitant evils. J But this state of affairs could not go on always. Debt settled itself upon indi viduals as well as the government until universal bankruptcy came to warn us! to more economical thoughts and methods I Our County, from its natural position, has not been involved to the same ex tent as those sections favored by quick transportation and easy access to the markets, and besides its resources have just begun to develop. A spirit of prac tical economy is beginning to pervade all classes, and the bright morning of prosperity is dawning upon us. The peo ple of this County have not bought guano this spring as usual; have quit talking politics and gone to work. Hard times has been the erv for the last century and will Ik 1 for the next. God helps them that help themselves. Any man practicing industry, economy ,and perseverance can make a good living and lay up something for a rainy day, in this glorious County, the healthiest spot on the globe, with water better than the nectar of the gods, where anything but tropical fruits can ho grown to per fection, and the people quiet and order ly. For cash a man can buy anything he wants here as cheaply as it can be bought in any market, with freights added. We have good schools, plenty of churches, with nothing to prevent both our spiritual and temporal pros perity. Hayes and His Henchman. AVe take the following article from the Abbeville [S. C.] Medium, which, like all of its editorials, is replete with practical wisdom aud appropriateness, and is worthy of a careful perusal: The gullibility of the Southern peo ple is actually astonishing. There is no accounting for it upon any principle ot reason or common sense, lliis trait ap pears to our discredit in the wholesale adulation of Hay its, the Fraudulent President. Nothing is too good to be said of him and no promise he makes too great to he relied on. The truth of the matter is, that nothing lie says can be depended upon. He is not in a situation to be independent, and even il he was really inclined to do right by us, his surroundings would preclude the possibility of any such thing. Fair promises arc easily made and as easily broken. This is the history of the Rad ical party. Kvery change of adminis tration since the close of the war have ♦been ushered in exactly in the same way. The intentions of these men have aiwavs been disguised by fair words. Hayes lias commenced in the same old way, aud our people have again Keen misled. Tie is incapable of acting as he pretends lie will. It is not in him to do right. A man who has the audacity to steal the Presidency will not hesitate at lesser outrages on the rights of the people. His educatiou unfits him for seeing the situation of the South in the j proper light, and his votes ns a Con i gressman show that he has been in J hearty co-operation with our worst ene j lilies. The “ leopard cannot change his I spots.” Already he has eomnienced his grand game of deceit. Already he is playing fast and loose with the hopes of 1 our people. He is “all things to all men,” and gives one side the same as surance lie does the other. Instead of solving tin* question before the country lie is searching around to find a pre tence to decide it from a partisan stand point. He hesitates, and has not the moral courage to hreuk his party shackh sand lie a man. Our people must not he the dupes of his designing promises. He is a broken reed. We must stand up nmnfulllv in the assertion of our rights and give heed to no offers of compromise. We have already done too much of this without any profit to us. Every concession of principle wc have made has been to our disadvantage. If the fair words of Hayes mean anything, are followed up by the performance of his promises it will belie all his former life. Grant made good promises. It all amounted to nothing. Let us not again make ourselves objects of just contempt by any abject fawning upon the fraudulent ruler at Washington. It is unmanly and unbecoming a free people. We are tired of dirt eating unless it paid better. U Iml Thcj Kay About Uic Convent lon. To tuj; Editors of Tiik Si n : Wc hear a great deal about the Conven tion. Some want the homestead reduced to one thousand dollars, as that will an swer all purposes for common people, and the present one is to benefit rich folks. Others want it extended from “shore to shore.” One man wants the General As sembly’ reduced so there will only’ be 0(5 Representatives and 34 Senators, making 100 men at a salary of two hundred and fifty dollars per annum, which would save the State a large sum and secure better men. Another wants it fixed in the Con stitution that no preacher or priest of any denomination shall be clligible to the Leg islature. Another wants the Supreme Court, Guano and sewing machines abol ished ; that they were a greater curse on tho State than war, pestilence or famine. A man standing near by said. Oh, no, the Supreme Court is the lawyer’s heaven, and poor follows, they ought to get a little in this world, as they have a slim chance in the next —and what would become of At lanta ami her 100 lawyers. Few agree upon what should be done. Some want white folks made niggers, some want niggers made white folks. The result will be a mon grel Convention, if any. Our opinion is there will he none. Yours truly, Sam. State Xws. Teceoa lias invented a pair of mineral springs. The Southern Watchman says business is dull in Athens. The farmers of Worth county are pre paring for large cor-', crops. A bed of asbestos has been discovered in Douglas county. Asbestos is worth SSO a ton. Two young men in Wavne county want to marrv. Each otters live hundred acres of land for a wife. The Columbus mills have taken since September Ist 7.503 bales of cotton against 8,970 last year, showing a decrease of 1.4(57. A man named Arwood killed his neigh bor, Bozeman, in Pickens county last week, by breaking his skull with a pitch fork. Mr. Ben. Gilmer, of Albany, was acci dentally shot the other day. lie otters his gun for sale at fifty cents, and guarantees it to shoot. The llartw’El.t. Si x is a live sprightly weekly, ami we wish it much success un der the new management. Southern Watchman. Mr. Elisha Coleman, of Emanuel county killed a monster wild cat recently. One of the cat's feet was as large as the foot of a common dog. A Worth countv farmer has four hun dred acres planted in oats. He says he has been making money since adopting diversified farming. The Augusta Constitutionalist and the Chronicle amt Sentinel have been consol idated, and will hereafter be published un der the iname of the Chronicle and Con stitutionalist. The Southerner and Appeal says that nine homicides have been committed in Twiggs county within the last eighteen months, and but one execution has taken place, and that was by mob law. Georgia's most expensive luxury is her late Legislature. Over one hundred thou sand dollars vanished from the treasury at the late session. The clerical force in the House is said to have been paid eleven thousand one hundred and sixty dollars. La Grange Reporter : We arc glad to ob serve that, in old Wilkes county, there is a pressure to bring forward Gen. Toombs for the Constitutional Convention i! it should bo called. There is no man in the Slate whom we should prefer to see in t at Convention. If his counsels should pre vail in that body, the people of Georgia may rest assured that a Constitution will be framed in perfect accord with the wish es of the people, and that it would reflect the true principles, of good government, and result in a systcurof organic laws that w ould protect tin* interest of the whole State ami secure the right* of every citizen. General Toombs is an bouest and consis tent man. His record is without a blemish ns a trnc Georgian, and we love the true Georgians better than anybody else, and the sooner these give directions to the af fairs of our grand old State the better it will be for the people, their interest am their ultimate prosperity. M e have tried sufficiently, t lie so-called “progressive ideas of the present generation,’ and we find the people are becoming worse govern ed every year, and that they are all the poorer under the rnle of such ideas. W o nave never been of those who advocated these false ideas. We have longed to see the day when the old regime ol Georgia politics should gain ascendency, and when honest and fair government should prevail as it did in the time of our grand common wealth —when such men as Toombs. Steph ens. Herrien, Dawson, the Craw fords. Mil der. and men of their character, were the ruling spirits of Georgia polities and con trolled the alfairs of our State. Gen. Toombs has not bean relieved of his (sir called) political disabilities by the federal government. He has refused all the while to sue for pardon at the hands of the infa mous oppressors of the Southern people, and stood out manfully and gloriously against the right of a barbaric government to say whether or not lie should be an American citizen. For this we admire his pluck and his consistency in the position that he is not a criminal nml, therefore, desires no pardon from a government of oppression and usurpation, bet Wilkes j county honor him and serve the State by electing Mr. Toombs to the Constitutional Convention. The Fort Worth (Texas) Democrat says : Bill Arp. late of Georgia, the man who furnished the witicisms and odd savings, which Charles FI. Smith prepared and published some years ago. was accidentally killed near this place (Decatur. Texas.) last Monday. March sth. He fell from a wagon loaded with corn, the wheel passed over his neck, killing him instantly. When he left home in the morning he told his fam ily he would never again he permitted to enter the house alive: and strange to say, he was in tifty' y'ards of tiie house, on his return, when the sad accident occurred, which terminated so fatally. He was a re markable man; perfectly illiterate, but replete with original ideas and witty sav iegs, be rarely ever spoke without saying something pithy. It has been extensively circulated in our country exchanges that lion. Win. Brown, Representative of Fayette county in the last Legislature, had been killed in a per sonal difficulty. We arc glad to be able to state that such is not the case, that gentle man being alive and well. The report had its origin in a personal difficulty between his son and another person in Fayetteville recently. A correspondent of the McDuffie Jour nal, writing from Atlanta, says: “The Constitutional Convention will beheld, and it is to be hoped that it will move the Cap ital back to Milledgeville or somewhere else, anywhere in preference to Atlanta — muddy, dirty, dusty, cold, corrupt Atlanta —it is a veritable Chicago in every respect but size. 1 ' Etheldrcd Miller, of Gwinnett county, is 93 years old. lie was a soldier in 1812. and was present at organization of Gwin nett countv in 1819. lie plowed during the past season, and is still active for one of his years. A young man in Thomas county while out turkey huntingrecently, saw the bushes shake and fired at what he supposed was a gobbler, lie was much astonished to discover that he had slain a colored man. JOHN T. OSBORN, ATTORXEY AND COTXSELLOX AT LAW. KLBKRTON, GEORGIA, Practices in any Court where he is employed. Reg ularlv attends the Courts of the Northern and Wes tern Circuits. HI U N. CARPENTER, ATTORNEY-A T-LA W, ELBKKTON. GA. Practices in Elbert and adjoining Counties. Prompt attention given to all eases put in his charge. Hi W. N. HOLLAND. NITITII .1. W. GOLDSMITH. (Sueessor to IV W. M. AR. .1. LOWRY, who remain as Spe cial Partners), Grocer, Commission Merchants, and Agents for the sale of Standard brands of Domestic Cotton Goods, Hazard Powder and Fairbanks'Scales, 55 East Alabama Street. Atlanta, (ia. Solicit con signments of Cotton. Produce, etc. Make liberal ad vancements on same and prompt return of Sales. We have a Fire Proof Warehouse' for the storage of Cotton. All orders addressed as above, will receive prompt attention. 31 B. E. SEABORN, WITH HART & CO., IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF HARDWARE, CUTLERY, GUNS, IRON, Steel 21 till Agricultural Implements. CHARLESTON, S. C. 29-32 J. C. CARTER, WHOLESALE GROCER, 51 & 53 EAST ALABAMA ST., ATLANTA, GEORGIA. Orders from Prompt Paying Merchants So licited. Will Guarantee Prices as Low as any Respon sible House in this City. 3. J. C. CARTER. TO THE PUBLIC. r RESPECT FULLY call your attention to my continued reduction in prices, and large receipt of new Goods arriving by every Steamer from my Factory. Business has now reached large proportions (having increased materially during the last year.) I have been compelled to enlarge my Warerooms, w hich arc located on Broad Street, facing Monument Street, (known as the Eagle & Phoenix Hotel.) The dimensions of the building are seventy feet front by one hundred and twenty-live deep, three stories high. They' are said to he the largest and finest Warerooms in the Southern States. My Stock will compare with Northern and Western markets for price and selection. Thanking you for past favors, and awaiting further and esteemed patronage, I remain Yours respectfully, G. Y. I>GRAAF, Successor to E. G. ROGERS , Wholesale find Retail Furniture Dealer and Undertaker. 147,1475 & 149 BROAD STREET, AU6USTA, 6A, UNDERTAKING IN ALL ITS BRANCHES. Sunday and Night calls 102 Greene Street n HAKE OR BREAK. —— j We expect anew stock of GOODS, SHOES, HATS, CROCK ERY and HARDWARE noon. In; fact, will keep as before a little of ecery thing except Liquors, Playing Cards and Tombstones. For cash —well the bottom is knocked out, and you will be surprised to see at what astonishingly low prices everything is sold. To those who have paid us up, we will sell again on time. Those who know themselves to be Vote and bad jxty will! please not ask credit, ns they cannot ex pect anything but a refusal. We know them as well as they know themselves. For our knowledge we have paid dearly, and we have an abiding something, or things (notes or accounts) that continu ally remind us of fair promises not fid tilled. Bo they will not be forgotten, even if their names should not appear on our new Ledger. Besides, we have not the money, if we had the inclina tion, to supply the whole country with goods on time. Hence, will accommo date those only who care for us and show their appreciation by paying up at least once a year. E. B. BENSON & CO. WE “HAVE A large lot ot FLOOR, which we otter low. A good assortment of TOBACCO. GARDEN SEEDS, and the earliest as well as the most prolific CORN on the market. Several varieties IRISH POTATOES. Cheap MOLASSES —Three Grades of NEW ORLEANS SYRUP. Bark and shuck COLLARS. PLOWS, NAMES, TRACES, and BA CKBANDS. Also, a very large lot of IIOES, at very low prices. For a 5 mile smoke, try one of our long CIGARS. E, B, Benson & Cos. P B. HODGES, ATTORNEY-AT-LA W, HARTWELL, HART COUNTY, GA, Will promptly attend to all business intrusted to his cans and collecting made a specialty. :g JOHN P. SHANNON, A TTOItXEY-AT-LA W, ELBERTON, GEORGIA, Practices in the Counties of Elbert. Hart, Madison and Franklin, and in the Supreme Court; elsewhere when employed. 30 JjOW places,(Kick J^ales r G. O. ROBINSON. UIIDKX A RATES. G, 0. ROBINSON & CO. L. P. Q. S.— AT TIIE Augusta Music House!* P I A N O S. NEW YORK WHOLESALE PRICES To Cash Buyers. SSO TO SIOO BAVEI). EIGHT OF THE MOST CELEBRATED MAKERS ARE REPRESENTED. THE LARGEST STOCK. THE GREATEST VARIETY, THE REST MAKERS, THE LOWEST PRICES. A GOOD STOOL AND COVER With Freight Paid to any Point. EVERY INSTRUMENT W ARRAN T \ ED to Give Entire Satisfaction. t /W\ PIANO*, f, >r small monthly payments, X- V/V-/ arranged to suit all responsible parties. O R G A N Sv- Church, Hall, or Parlor. lot R ot tlie ISES'i MAKERS, including the ceie brated MASON A HAMLIN*, which have been as signed. by the Judges of the United States Centen nial Exposition, “The First (tank In tile sev€*ral Requisites of suelt Instruments. Superiority Everywhere Acknowledyed! Firat Prize at the “ World's Fair," in Paris, 1867; at the '■ Vienna Exposition." in 1873, and the Expo sition ot Linn, Austria. 1875, always receiving the higlies medals in competition with celebrated Euro pean makers. New styles, new improvements, and elegant new designs, as exhibited at the Centennial. *)/ W k ORti.IVS at factory prices for cash, or \ / small monthly payments. ■ O Musical Instruments, Of Every V ariety. SHEET~MUSIC MUSIC BOOKS, The LatoMt l*nMirations. Orders promptly filled at Publishers 7 prices. Pest Italian Sinners, and evervthina; pertaining to a hr.st-ela.ss Music House. PIANOS AND ORGANS FOR RENT. T lining and Repairing by a first-class workman, of •■in years practical experience. Orders from the coun try will receive prompt attention. • . ROBINSON A CO., Augusta Music House, 265 BROAD ST.. AUGUSTA. GA. [)R. A. J. MATHEWS, SUR GEON AND PHYSICIAN, first floor masonic hall, _1 HARTWELL, GA. J)R. GEORGE EBERHART, PR A CTICING PHYSICIAN, OFFICE, Next Door to J. \V. Williams. • 3 HARTWELL, (jA.