Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

FIiiNNV SAViNGS_ AND DOINGS. President. Mayes wears paper collars and spits on his shoes when he blacks them. When is a candle like a tombstone? 1 When a woman puts it up for her late hus baud. A Chicago man wants to commit suicide by telegraph, but doesn't know how to ac complish it. “ Come, get up; you've been in bed long enough,” as the gardener said when he was pulling up radishes to carry to market. (iirls. don't be afraid to work. Ruth gleaned in the harvest field, and got juntas good a 80-az any girl in the neighborhood. •* Ma. have stcumbout boilers wings P” u Oh. don't bother me—nop” “Why 1 heard a genteman talking about a boiler Hue!” What can one poor wonk woman do with a club against a tyrannical husband who crawls under the bed and refuses to come outP A friend wants to know what is prettier than a pretty girl with a nice calico dress on. We don't know, unless it is two pretty girls. Curran was once asked by a judge on the bench, “ Mo you see anything ridicu lous in this wig!” •• .Nothing but the head,” was the reply. “Liberal discount to the trade,” as the bruiser said when he chewed off only one ear from a brother professional with whom he was fighting. A woman in Oshkosh ground nearly half of a shirt through a clothes wringer before discovering that her baby was in the shirt. It was an awful strain on the wringer. A woman having read in a poem about a simoon that “swept the plains,” is urging her husband to get one of them new-fan gled things for her to use in the kitchen. At the Atlanta colored college the cata logue says : “ The young ladies must be provided with waterproofs and overshoes.” Also, “no distinction is made on account of race, color,” etc. “Has that jury agreedP” asked the judge of a sheriff, whom he met on the stairs with a bucket m his hand. “ Yes,” replied Patrick, “they have agreed to send out for half a gallon.” An excellent old deacon, who, having won a fine turkey at a charity raffle, and didn't like to tell severe orthodox wife how he came by it, quietly remarked, as he handed her the turkey, ihat the “ Shakers gave it to him.” Landlady (to boarder who has passed his cup six times). —“ You are very fond of coffee, Mr. Smith.” Mr. Smith—“ Yes'm, it looks as if 1 was, when I am willing to swallow so much water for the sake of get ting a little.” “It was pitched without,” said the El berton clergyman, and an old base-ball player, who had been calmly slumbering, awoke with a start and yelled “foul!” The first bass came down from the choir and put him out. “Do you reside in this city?” asked a masked man of a masked lady at a masked party the other evening. He felt sick when she said to him, in a low voice : “ Don’t he a fool, John ; I know you by the wart on your thumb.” It was bis wife. “Comparisons are odious.” The Ma jor (rocking Nelly on his knee, for Aunt Mary's sake) —" I suppose this is what you like, Nelly ?” Nelly —“ Yes, it’s very nice. But I rode on a real donkey yesterday. I mean one with four legs, you know.” Round-cornered collars will he worn by gentlemen this season, having superseded those with sharp points, and hereafter a man will be able to call upon a girl to in quire after the health of her parents with out running the risk of putting out one of her eyes. At a prayer meeting in a Providence church recently, ycacon arose and ex pressed himself thusly : " My friends, with great sorrow and regret I have just learned of the decease of our beloved Brother . Let us now sing “ Praise God from whom all blessings How.' ” She was sweetly dreaming of bright golden fields where flowers breathed per fume. and she thought she was chasing but terflies. Up and down hill and dale she ran, and then she caught a beautiful but terfly. and awoke to find she had nearly twisted her husband's nose off. All about the eye.—What part of the eye is like a rainbow? —The iris. What part is like a school-boy?—The pupil. What part is like the globe?—The ball. What part is like the ton of a chest? —The lid. What part is like the piece of a whip ? —The lash. What part is the summit of the hill ?—The brow. A Detroit widow owns and occupies a cottage under the shadow of a church steeple which is supposed to bo in danger of falling when a high wind blows. At midnight a few nights ago when the wind blew fiercely, she got up her family and dressed them, and then folded her arms with the remark. " Now, then, if that stee ple falls and kills us. people will know that we were a respectable family anyhow. George, you brush up your hair a little more, and Sarah, take your feet off the stove hearth and pin your collar more to the left.” A woman being counted out, the other morning, after a debate on .the question, “ Who shall rise and build the tire ?” got up and split her husband's wooden leg into kindling wood, and broiled his steak with it. It made him so mad that he got hold of her false teeth and bit the dog with them. She cried until she had a fit of hys terics, and then flipped out his glass eye, and climbed upon the bed-post, and waxed the glaring eye to the ceiling with a quid of chewing gum. Then he took her wisp of false hair and tied it to a stick, and began whitewashing the kitchen with it. Then she started off to obtain a divorce, but the judge decided that he couldn't grant a di vorce unless there were two parties to the suit, and there was hardly enough left of them to make one. MiftcellNiicouN Item*. Advertising will pay you. Lenity will operate with greater force in some cases, than rigor. It pays to make people happy, and it can be done on small capilul. Governor Nicholls, of Louisiana, lost an arm and a leg in the Confederate service. “Are you fond of tongue, sir?” “I was always fond of tongue, and 1 like it still." “ We're in a pickle now,” said a man in a crowd. “ A regular jam.” said another. “ Heaven preserve us, said an old lady. Many persons after once they become learned, cease to be good ; all otfier know ledge is hurtful to him who lias not the science of honesty and good nature. The canting, whining, tale-bearing mem ber, who manufactures sin out of social amusements, is a drawback to the Church. There are enough sins in the world with out manufacturing more. There are eleven days difference between “old style,” still used by the Russians and the Hast, and the new style of chronology employed by us. So the Czar’s decla ration of war, issued April 12, was given to the world in April 23d, as wc count days. Keep harness well greased. Always clean the harness well before greasing. The grit on the leather destroys its, dura bility. If you will mix a little castor oil with the grease the rats will never damage the harness. Rats have no relish for castor oil, of the flour tightly, in your hand ; if it re tains the shape given by the pressure, that, too, is a good sign. It is safe to buv Hour that will stand all these tests. Thete modes are given by all our flour dealers, and they pertain to a matter that concerns everybody—the staff of life. An act of the last Congress requires a reduction of five in the number of internal revenue districts. This is to be accom plished by consolidating four New York districts into one, and by making Louisiana and Mississippi each a district. This leaves the two Georgia districts undis turbed. Lord Roseberry, when visiting Washing ton three or four years ago, said a pat tiling about New England’s relation to the rest of the country : “ 1 observe,” said he, •* that the people of your Middle, Western, Southern and Pacific States dig their living out of the soil. But the New Englanders dig their living out of other people.” If you ahe to marry a delicate, pale and sickly lady, make her take l)r. J. 11. McLean's Strengthening Cordial and Blood Purifier ; it vitalizes and purifies the blood, strengthens and invigorates, causes the rich blood to the cheek again. Dr. J. 11. McLean, 314 Chestnut Street, St. Louis, Missouri. One effect of the war will be cut off the export of petroleum to Russia and to Tur key, and also of cotton. The value of the exports to Russia are about $12,000,000, and to Turkey about 85,000,000 annually. Russia takes about £10,000,000 of cotton, and Turkey about 5,000,000 gallons of pe troleum. Thus trade will be lost during the war. In selecting flour first look to the color, if it is white, with a yellowish straw col ored tint, buy it. If it is white, with a bluish cast, or with specks in it. refuse it. Second, examine its adhesiveness—wet and knead a little of it between your fingers ; if it works soft and sticky, it is poor. Third, throw a little lump of dried flour against a smooth surface ; if it falls like powder, it is bad. Fourth, squeeze some A story is told of a shrewish Scotchwo man who tried to wean her husband from the public house by employing her brother to act the part of a ghost, and frighten John on his way home. ” Who are you?” said the guidman as the apparition rose be fore him from behind a bush. ”1 am auld Nick,” was the reply. “ Come awa,' man,” said John, nothing daunted ; ” gie'sa shake of your hand ; I am married to a sister of yours.” The cotton gin created a revolution in the cost and production of the important fleece. Recently another invention has been perfected which may produce as mark ed an effect as the cotton gin. It is a pick er. It is a wagon-like machine which is driven through the ripened fields and picks clean every scrap ofcotton lint, and nothing except cotton, and saves the labor of one hundred hands. The machine is a North Carolina affair, and is said to do good work. Mr. T. P. Paschall sends the following specific for hog cholera to the McDuffie Journal : Give your hogs one good feed every week of collard leaves, and I will warrant you will never have cholera in your hogs; If your hogs are very sick with the disease, and will not eat the leaves, press the juice from the stalks and feed it to them with a spoon. I will assure you it will cure every time, if taken in time. I give this because 1 have tried it—this is no hearsay. • Legal Ad verNti.siiig Kit lon. For the benefit of legal advertisers we give our rates. They correspond with our contiguous cotemporaries, except in two cases, where our charges are SI.OO and $2.00 less, respectively: Citation for Letters of Guardianship, • • - $5 (X) Citation for Letters of Administration, 5 (H) Application for Letters of Dismission, ... 600 Application for leave to sell Lands, 5 00 Notice to Debtors and Creditors, S 00 Sale of lands, &c., (per inch), 6 50 Sale of perishable property, ten days (per inch), 1 50 Estray Notice, 5 00 Exemption Notice, 250 Citation on Probate of Will (per inch) - • . -6 00 Libel for Divorce, per inch, each insertion. - -150 Foreclosure of Mortgage (per inch) each time, - 100 Sheriff's sales, per levy, 5 00 Sheriff Mortgage Fi. Fa. Sales, 9 00 Tax Collector’s Sales, (per inch), 5 00 All other advertisements will he charged according to the space and number of in sertions. Duplicates of this schedule will be placed in the offices of the Ordinary and Sheriff. In every instance the cash will be required to come with the advertisement. CHEAPEST AND BEST STOVES <& TINWARE IN THE SOUTH. AI A. K. CHILDS t C O'S, ATHENS. GEORGIA. Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral tFor Diseases of the Throat and Lungs, such as Coughs, Colds, Whooping Cough, Bronchitis, Asthma, and Consumption. The reputation it has attained, in consequence of the marvellous cures it has produced during the last half century, is a sufficient assurance to the public that it will continue to realize the happiest results that can be desired. In almost every section of country there are persons, publicly known, who have been restored from alarming and even desperate diseases of the lungs, by its use. All who have tried it,acknowledge its superiority; and where its virtues are known, no one hesitates as to what medicine to employ to relieve the dis tress and suffering peculiar to pulmonary affec tions. Cherry Pectoral always affords in stant relief, and performs rapid cures of the milder varieties of bronchial disorder, as well as the more formidable diseases of the lungs. Asa safeguard to children, amid the distress ing diseases which beset the Throat and Chest of Childhood, it is invaluable; for, by its timely use, multitudes are rescued and restored to health. This medicine gains friends at every trial, as the cures it is constantly producing are too re markable to be forgotten. No family should be without it, and those who have once used it never will. Eminent Physicians throughout the country prescribe it, and Clergymen often recommend it from their knowledge of its effects. PREPARED BY Dr. J. C. AYER & CO., Lowell, Mass., Practical and Analytical Chemists. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE. E. B. BENSON & CO., Agents, Hartwell, Ga. 1 77. HARTWELL SUN. PROSPECTUS. THE HARTWELL SUN will be a Democratic Journal, devoted to the in terests of the People. The Latest News will he furnished from all parts of the country, culled with care, and given in condensed form. General Reading Matter on Politics, Agriculture, Commerce, Finance, Lit erature, etc., will find due space in our columns. Local Items will be sought assidu ously, and will be a distiuctive feature. In fine, THE SUN intends to be a Paper for the People, and our objects in publishing this Journal are to give the public reliable information and the latest news, together with political views in accord with their own, as also to furnish means of support and consequent com petence to those engaged iu the enter prise. THE SUN has been placed at the exceedingly low price of ONE DOLLAR AND A HALF. We commend THE SUN to your consideration, and bespeak your patron age. We hope to receive such encour agement as will compensate our en deavors. CLUB RATES: Clubs of Ten subscribers will be enti tled to an extra copy. BENSON & McGILL, Publishers. Old papers for sale at this office. A. K. CHILDS. r. NICKERSON. Y. H. WYNN. CHILDS, NICKERSON & C 0„ No. 13 Franklin lloiimc Ilnildlng. Athena, Ga., WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN HARDWARE, Hi OX, STEEL, NAILS, HORSE and MULE SHOES, HORSE SHOE NAILS, AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, Leads. Oils, Glass and Varnish, Harness Leather, MILBURN WAaONS , COTTON , MANILLA AND JUTE ROPE , Carriage and Saddlery Hardware, Felloes, Hubs, Spokes, Buggy Wheels, Axles, Springs, etc.. Rubber and Leather Belting, Mill Saws, Mill Findings, Anvils, Bellows, Vices, Hollow Ware, etc. Manufacturer’s agents for the sale of FAIRBANK S STANDARD SCALES, WINSHIP AND SAWYER’S CELEBRATED COTTON 6INS, Cider Mills, Syrup Mills and Evaporators, Watt Plows, Farmers’ Friend Plow, Pumps, Circular Saws, etc. Any article in our line not in stock, will be ordered when desired, with the least possible delay. CALL AND EXAMINE OUR STOCK AND PRICES. 11 Hart County Ii reel or}'. COUNTY OFFICERS. Ordinan / —Fred. C. Stephenson. Clerk Superior Court —(j. A. Webb. Sheriff —J. Robert Myers, Tax Receiver- —J. M. Thornton. Tax Collector —James L. Johnson, Treasurer —J. O. Bobo. Surveyor —Allen S. Turner, Coroner —K. Phillips. School Commissioner —Clias. W. Seidel. TOWN OFFICERS. Mayor —John Peek. Secretary and Treasurer —W. K. Stephenson. Couneilmen —E. B. Benson. James w. Williams, W. H. Stephenson, E. H. Sanders, W. R. Stephenson llart County Itclig-loiiN Directory. METHODIST. Rev. W. I*. Smith. Pastor. Pethesda —lst Sabbath and Saturday before. Hartwell— 2nd Mt. Zion —2nd “ at 4 p. m. Cokesbvry —3rd Sabbath, and Saturday before, Providence —4th “ “ “ “ Rev. John Quillan, Pastor. Felloivship —lst Saturday and Sunday. Center —2nd “ “ “ Pedwine —3d “ “ “ Macedonia —4th “ “ “ Pennington's Chapel —2d Sunday at 3 p. m. Newtown —3d Sunday at 3 1-2 p. in. Samuel Gilliland's— lth Sunday at 3 1-2 p. m. BAPTIST. Rev. H. M. Barton, Pastor. Hartwell —4th Sabbatli and Saturday before. Shoal Creek —2d Sabbath and Saturday before, mo’ly. Rev. J. T. W. Vernon, Pastor. Milltown —2d Sabbath and Saturday before, monthly. Rev. L. W. Stephens. Pastor. Hendry's —2d Sabbath and Saturday before, monthly. Rev. James IT. McMullen, Pastor. Line —3rd Sabbath and Saturday before, monthly. Peed Creek —4 th “ “ “ “ Sardis —lst “ “ “ “ Rev. T. H. Goss, Pastor. Cross Roads —4tli Sabbath and Saturday before. Rev. John D. Adams, Pastor. Cannon's —2d Sabbath and Saturday before, monthly. Rev. J. R. Earle, Pastor. PRESBYTERIAN. Rev. John B. Morton. Pastor. Pleasant Hill —3rd Sabbath in each month. In A MATCHLESS FAMILY MEDICINE com pounded from vegetable ingredients which are re garded as standard remedies of the Materia! Medica actual experience confirm and has established this compound as far superior to others claiming like character. SIMMONS HEPATIC COMPOUND has nothing in its composition that can possibly in jure the most delicate. Its taste is not unpleasant, does not nauseate or gripe, and yet it acts on the Liver and Bowels just as effectually as Calomel or any of the preparations of mercury, without injuring the constitution or debilitating the system. Many people sutler with Torpid Liver anil Constipated Bowels and require something to stimulate these or gans. From some peculiarity of constitution, tliev cannot take calomel or blue mass. To such Simmon’s Hepatic Compound will be invaluable. It does not produce large watery actions that weaken and de press. but acts mildly, producing no depression. It simply stimulates nature to act Hence how invalu able to the sufferer. Try it and you will be satisfied. For sale by Druggists and Dealers. DOWIE & MOIRE, AVliolesnle Druggists. 36-39 Charleston, S. C. EDWIN DATES, 1 CIIAIII.ES K. HATES, \ THOS. K. MCC.AHAN, J JAMES I*. OIBUES. V EDWIN BATES & GO., JOBBERS OF Dry Goods & Clothing, Nos. 122 & 124 Meeting Street, 33 CHARLESTON, S. C. 58 W. 11. SATTERFIELD. W. A. HOLLAND. “REDTOP” SALOON, o FINE WINES, WHISKIES , BRANDIES, CIGARS, and TOBACCOS. |, UERYTIIING done up in the little brown jug. 3 SATTERFIELD & HOLLAND. W. G. ASHLEY & CO, (Successors to Jennings & Ashley,) 33 South Broad Street, ATLANTA, A. KEEPS constantly on hand at Wholesale and Retail the largest and cheapest stock of Doors, Sash, and Blinds, in Georgia. Also Mouldings, Mantles, \ aranda. Brackets, Balluster, Window Glass, Putty and BUIDERS’ HARDWARE. Write us for price list and special prices. Terms Cash. 34-59 W. Y. HOLLAND. WITH J. W. GOLDSMITH, (Sucessor to W. M. & It. J. LOWRY, who remain as Spe cial Partners). Grocer, Commission Merchants, anil Agents for the sale of Standard Brands of Domestic Cotton Goods. Hazard Powder and Fairbanks’Scales, 55 East Alabama Street, Atlanta, Ga. 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 DISSOLUTION^ THF. COPARTNERSHIP heretofore existing be tween the undersigned, under the firm name of THE HARTWELL STEAM SAW MILL COM PANY. is hereby dissolved by mutual consent by* the withdrawal of D. C. Alford, having disposed of his interest to Dr. W. A. Skelton. The business will be conducted as heretofore. It. P. BRADLEY, L. O. WILLIFORD, May 1, 1877 D. C. ALFORD. The undersigned regrets the circumstances that severs his connection with the above gentlemen, which has been of the most pleasant and hai-monious nature. D. C. ALFORD. A PENNY SAVED IS A PENNY MADE. We will send The Sun—usual price |l.so—and the Louisville COURIER-JOURNAL, Weekly edition—usual price J^.OO—nostage prepaid on both papers, one year, for $2.53.