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HARTWELL, H ART C OI STY. A.i
HrdntdK}' Horaint. April I. 1*77.
ANNOUN CEMENT.
FOR STATE CONVENTION.
Thf> many frii-mIH of Ilh. P. O. OSTIORXE
nnnouuro Win a* a uitnt.lo roan to repremnt tliom In
tiio OMitMtond Coonatlos.
Tbt* frirmlx of Ma.. .1. 11. BKKLTOX announce I
hlia a candidati? for thoConatitulhnial Convention.
Discrimination in Freights.
We were glad to s*e the Andersou
Intelligencer of lust week conic out in
an editorial about the discrimination
made in freights by the Greenville &
Columbia Railroad. It does seem that
Anderson suffers unjustly. We know
something about their high rates our
selves from experience. The G. & C.
K. R. is decidedly the highest road
over which we have bail goods shipped.
They certainly have acted unwisely in
this discrimination. They have cut
themselves out of all the cotton from
N. E. Georgia that used to go to
Charleston, and freights from New York
and other points North, are now ship
lied toToccoa and depots along the Air
Line Road. What, however, is Charles
ton’s loss, is the gain of others who per
haps appreciate us more.
So fur as shipping goods or cotton is
concerned, we are independent of the
G. <fc C. R. R., as we live between rail
roads here, and can take our choice of
routes, or can do what is better still,
ship our cotton down the Savannah
River to Augusta.
A few years ago, this whole country
was supplied with fertilizers shipped
over the G. & C. R. R., and now, we
will venture the assertion, that there will
not be over five tons of guano used in
this County that was shipped over that
road.
For several years after the war, An
derson, and other points on the G. A C.
K. 11., bought a great deal of cotton
raised in Ceorgia. Now, they get none.
Then, they sold quantities of groceries
and supplies to this County. Now, all
this trade is turned to Toccoa and
Athens.
The merchants here would all ship to
Anderson, if they could get the same
rates that they do on other roads.
Mr. 11. IL Fant, the Agent at An
derson, is just as clever as people get to
be, and we dislike to give him up. So
that accounts for the occasional ship
ment of goods for this place via Ander
son depot.
That used to be our only route, and
we did not abandon it until choked off.
Give us a fair showing on that line, and
we will return to it again, otherwise we
must bid the G. A- C. K. H. farewell.
Meeting of Corporators of the Augusta
& Knoxville Railroad.
None of the corporators of this* Road
from this County can be in Augusta to
day at the meeting, from various causes.
One was, the letter giving them notice
was ten days on the road.
It is to be hoped that some arrange
ments will be made to commence the
work, if it never gets twenty miles above
Augusta, and as far as we are concern
ed, would not care if it stopped at Fu
ries Ferry and crossed to Greenwood,
S. C. The river suits us better than a
road run through the extreme edge of
our County, and water transportation is
equally as cheap, and freights paid in
that way is distributed among a poor
class at home.
Now for Business.
The following from the Chronicle
and Sentinel, is so appropriate that we
gjytJ it a place in onr columns:
p yjiscussiona of the Presidency, as be-
the right of one man and the
wrong of another, are practically “dead
issues.” What is done is done. We
: may wish it to have been otherwise, hut
vain longings only make the situation
more intolerable and engender had blood
where none need exist, especially if it
healthy equilibrium in business is to be
established. Too much {xiliticul wrang
ling has jeopardized trade. Let us drop
partisan clamor as soon as possible and
go to work. “ Let our rusting machine
ry be oiled up and started again , let our
big wheels turn againto the merry plunge
of water power ; Ictus hear the thump
of ponderous engines and the hum of
busy commercial centres.” What we ask
of the Administration is peace—to he
let alone in all local affairs w hich projier
ly belong to State governments. This
demand is made, even at at the North,
for the South, and it comes not merely
from politicians of the better class, but
their masters, the mercantile communi
ties. The merchants of the East and
West have found out by hitter experi
ence that licentious interference from
Washington in Southern affairs does not
pay. Finding that game is a losing one
to them they are prepared to change
their base, and if President Hayeh shall
act in couccrt with this newly awaken
ed’idea it will not only redound to his
credit, but to the common weal. Peace
and non-interference in the South mean
emigration to this section of a thrifty
race, and the introduction of capital.
In Augusta we have already had an
earnest of the truth of this. The cry all
along the line is: “ Let the demagogues
clamor if they choose, but peace we
must and will have.”
LETTER FROM FLORIDA.
OnlncNvlll—lt* K|i<l Improvement—
Sand v. .Murt-JloMiiilloi'N, Ac.
Gainesville, Fla., March 23, 1877.
To the Editors ok The Sun :
If you will give me space, I will, for the
benefit of some of your many readers, give
a few hints upon our town, and its surround
ing country.
Take an old misshapen sour orange tree,
with decaying t runk, diseased leaves, im
poverished roots and you have Gainesville,
as described to me, of 1870. Dig around
its base, lop of! the unpruned branches,
graft in a scion of its sweet sister and give
it a year’s growth and you have it in 1877.
The luxuriant, luscious laden tree, that
ministers at once to four of the five senses,
will be a fair type of Gainesville when
time shall have endorsed its present rate of
promise.
Our first source of gratification must
arise from the immense power of extension
we enjoy, especially with such a near pros
pect of testing that power.
No frowning mountain peaks, or mala
rial marshes, or even annoying hills, dis
pute the right of way with it, and only a
lack of innate vitality can place a barrier
in our limits.
It is true, as an old sojourner said the
other day, “that the musquitoes couldn’t
be bad in Gainesville, for only a man's
ears were above the sand when walking in
the streets, and if he couldn't protect that
much of himself he deserves to be bitten."
We have the sand it is true, but we haven't
the mud, and. if left to a popular vote,
which is preferable? Desides, a philo
sophic mind would derive comfort from
the fact that the leg muscles were being
splendidly developed by out of door exer
cise, preparatory to the time when knee
breeches shall bo worn again. Nature has
kindly provided a remedy for the sand in
the peculiar rock clay which abounds in
the suburbs, and. in consideration ot its
abundance, proximity and economy, will
surely be the coming pavement.
In lieu of mountain scenery, with its at
tendant evils, we have near by the ham
mocks, lovely, majestic proofs of the fer
tility of the neighboring soil ; lakes, full as
j charming, and far more accessible than
Italy's far-famed ones, and last, but not
least, “The Devil's Mill Hopper,"that awe
inspiring freak of nature, which in its lone
ly beauty cannot be surpassed by Toccoa
Falls, nor too often seen to be enjoyed.
Of the climate and health of our town. 1
cannot speak without using some of the
many thoughts and words that have been
so truly employed to describe the dry,
bracing, balmy air, the elevated location,
and fine scented breezes that favor us. The
thronged halls of our hotels (four in num
ber) bear testimony of Gainesville's pop
ularity as a health resort; the resounding
clang of hammer and anvil speak in clarion
notes of the spirit of improvement that is
upon us; its location in the centre of the
State, is its recommendation as the future
Capital; the Land Office is no less one of
its attractions to travelers and home
j seekers; the fertility of the surrounding
country, its promise from outside support,
and the rapid Rettlmg of the same, the re
alization of that promise ; join these ad
vantages to those of a climate unequalled
for beauty and health, fruit of the tempe
rate and tropic zones, vegetable* in season
and out of season, tiowers so lavish even
now. that they perfume the whole air and
crown the tree tops with a golden diadem
visible as far as the eye can reach, and a
people whose hearts seem as warm and
genial as the bright skies under which they
bask, and it is hoped we will, before many
years, be able to claim for Florida the
sceptre of the sisterhood of States, and for
< iainesville the brightest jewel that graces
its summit.
With the request that you excuse me for
occupying this much of your valuable
space. 1 will close the Acorn.
Slate Yews.
Governor Colquitt has appointed and
commissioned Hr. R. W. Westmoreland,
of Atlanta, State Vaccine Surgeon of Geor
gia.
It is stated that a large Augusta stock
holder in the Langley Mills has offered to
subscribe fifty thousand dollars towards
doubling therpresent capacity of the factory.
Died on the 20th inst. in this county. Mr.
Robt. Dickerson, at the age of 109 years,
lie came to Elbert when a boy from A ir
ginia. fought in the war of 1812. —Elbcrton
Gazette.
The Rome Tribune says: “The wheat
crop begins to exhibit a promising outcome,
and the yield now promises to be a full
i one. The amount sown is, however, small-
I er than usual.”
Gainesville Southron : A beautiful flint
arrow-head and a bow! were found last
week by Dr. Stephenson, evidently 7 the
work of the mound builders, who have
i been extinct as a race for countless ages.
Mrs. Sanders, wife of Mr. James San
ders. died in this county last Saturday,
aged 80 years. She was stricken with pa
ralysis a few weeks since, from the effects
of which she Elba ton Gazette.
Two negroes have'been arrested in At
lanta charged with‘the most horrid and
cruel treatment of a child left in their care.
It was subjected to fire, was tied up in a
sack and hung in the chimney, then placed
in a tub of water, and other cruel treat
ment used until discovered by the police,
who arrested the parties.
An old negro woman living in this county
gives her views on raising cotton tliusly :
“ De way dev use to make cotton in my
day was wid plenty' ob hick'ry. Dev
didn't need noju&noer don. And if you'll
gib me a few niggers and a good hickry
now, 1 kin make any ob dis land about
iieah fotch good cotton, dat will beat any
ob y r cr juanner !”—Washington Gazette.
The Brooklyn Eagle says : “ Georgia
was among the first of the Southern States
to get from * under the harrow 1 of carpet
bag rule. Louisiana is again put in ‘■com
mission.' Six per cent. Georgia bonds
sell in Wall street at 101} ; Georgia sevens
at 10S>}. Louisiana sevens go a begging at
38 cents on the dollar. Georgia is contrib
uting to the wealth of the whole country.
Louisiana is a drag upon it. and Mr. Hayes
has not yet made up his mind on his -South
ern policy.”
The Atianta correspondent of the Macon
Telegraph furnishes the following incident;
“ A few evenings ago a little incident oc
curred in the charming superb of West End,
which illustrates the spirit of our noble
Southern women, and which reminds us of
the woman of “ 7G.' Nancy Hart, the ter
ror of Tories and centennial carpet-bag
gers. Mrs. Smith, the wife of our late
Governor, was at home alone the other
evening, the Governor having business in
the city. During the evening a poor wom
an rushed in. crying that a federal soldier
was pursuing her to kill her. Mrs. Smith
bade her to lie assured of protection. The
good lady then reached down the Governors
double-barrel, and, as the scoundrel at
tempted to enter, he found himself con
fronted by the brown tubes in a way that
probably recalled to his memory the expe
riences of Dull Run, for he beat a retreat
of more alacrity than order: as Xenophon
would say. in his terse directness, *he
moved himself with much energy.’ We
regret to say that the rascal was not caught
and punished, as he deserved.’’
Lit under.
A TTORXE T-A T-LA IT,
HARTWELL. GEORGIA
Strict attention to all business entrusted to
32-£3 his care.
J. MYERS. S. MARCUS.
MYERS & MARCUS,
JOBBERS IX
DRY GOODS, •
NOTIONS,
CLOTHING,
BOOTS and SHOES. HATS. CAPS. Etc.
Xo. 274 Broad Street. Augusta. <.
32 * t 35
RART SHERIFF’S SALE.
Will be sold, before the Courthouse door in
Hartwell, mi the First Tuesday in Ma> next, within
the legal hours of sale. Twenty-Five Acres of Land,
more or less, adjoining lauds of the estate of Henry
Tvler and Pelzcr Rodgers. Levied on as the proper
ty of IVlzer Rodgers. Property isdnted out by
Janies Rice, piaintiff. Levied with Justice's cost. fi.
fa. issued from the 11 tilth District (1. M. Levy made
by J. 11. Alford, law ful Constable, and returned to
nic, April 3d, 1877,
J. K. MYERS. Sheriff
GRAMLING, SPALDING & CO
W"=. s ROOTS, SHOE 8, JKA V! NDINGS E *c.,
3 a So. H lo Y. 14 l>*cilnr mid Y. 15 Line Street, ATLANTA, GA. 55
NEflfi) BRIGHT
LADIES GLOVE KID, PEBBLED, GOAT, CLOTH, BOX TOED, and
FOXED GAITERS and BOOTS.
Also, Ladies’ HOME-MADE SHOES.
Among the above will be found Shoes suitable for the finest Parlor, and Shoes
suitable to wear to the Cow-pen.
Prices ranging from One to Two Dollars a pair CASH.
Also, Men’s Shoes, Home-made and Eastern make.
All will be sold Cheap for CASH, and at reasonable prices to prompt paying
customers on time. •
E. B. BENSON & CO.
100 Dozen Best Spool Thread, just received. Four Spools for Twenty-Five
Centft CASH.
E. B. BENSON & CO.
J. C. CARTER,
WllO LES ALE 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.
, J. C. CARTER.,
TO THE PUBLIC.
I RESPECTFULLY 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. which are located on Droad Street,
facing Monument Street, (known as the Eagle & Phoenix Hotel.) The dimensions of the
building are seventy feet front by one hundred and twenty-five deep, three stories high.
They are said to be 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 and Retail Furniture Dealer and Undertaker.
147,1471 & 149 BROAD STREET, AU6USTA, RA.
UNDERTAKING IN ALL ITS BRANCHES.
Sunday and Night calls 102 Greene Street. „
WALTER E. FISHER,
AVI Til
Crane, Boylston & Cos,,
JOBBERS ANI) 1A PORTERS OF
DRY GOODS , and XT
1\ OTIOXS ,
32 CHARLESTON, S. C. 35
B. E. SEABORN,
WITH
IIA R T & C 0.,
IMPORTERS AXI) JOBBERS OF
HARDWARE, CUTLERY, GUNS, IRON,
Steel mid Agricultural Implements,
CHARLESTON, S. C. 29-32
JOHN T. OSBORN,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LA IT.
ELBERTOX, GEORGIA,
Practices in any Court where be is employed. Reg
ularly attends the Courts of the Northern and Wes
tern Circuits. 31
JOHN P. SHANNON,
A TTORNE V-A T-LA IF,
ELBERTOX, GEORGIA,
Practices in the Counties of Elbert. Hart, Madison
and Franklin, and iu the Supreme Court; elsewhere
w heu employed, 30
P B. HODGES,
A TTORXEY-A T-LA IF,
IIARTWELL, HART COUNTY, GA.,
Will promptly attend to all business intrusted to his
care, and collecting made a specialty. 3C
g N. CARPENTER,
A TTORXE Y-A T-LA IF,
ELBERTON, GA.
Practices in Elbert and adjoining Counties. Prompt
attention given to all eases put in liis charge. 31
JJR. A. J. MATHEWS^™
SURGEON AND PHYSICIAN,
FIRST FLOOR MASONIC IIALL,
1 HARTWELL, GA.
JAR. GEORGE EBERHART,
PRACTICING PHYSICIAN,
OFFICE, Next Door to J. AV. AViluams.
3 HARTWELL, GA.
QH ARLES W. SEIDEL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
HARTWELL, HART COUNTY,
I 52 GEORGIA.
W. JENNINGS &. CR
(Successors to Jennings & Ashley,)
3S HeeatnrSt.. Atlanta. - - . Georgia.
WHITE PINE
Doors, Sash,
Blinds, Mantels, Etc.
also
BUILDERS' HARDWARE PAINTS,
Mixed and Ready for Use, and
WINDOW LANi. 30-33