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local affairs. Atieiul. R. E. Sadler is now enjoying the results of early gardening, in the way of snap beans, things we all like, especially print ers. Come and sec samples—samples of raspberries will next be in order. Honest. Mrs. Ithoda Stovall's “leetle” boy found a roll of greenbacks in Benson’s cot ton yard, back of the printing office, and his mother by inquiry ascertained, strange ns it may appear, that said roll belonged to John, our “ Devil.” ('amp Meeting;. Campnieeting at the Hartwell camp ground will commence, this year, Wednes day night before the ‘2nd Sunday in August; will close Monday after. A full attendance is hoped for. In the meantime we would be glad to see many new tents erected. Public Speaking'. We arc authorized to announce that Maj. ,T. 11. Skelton, at the earnest solicitation of his many friends, has consented to ad dress the people of this County at Hart well on the First Tuesday in June, on the propriety of holding a Constitutional Con vention. M. JI. Johnson Is Agent for Ridpath's History of the U. S. for Hart County. It has an amount of new and valuable matter, clearness and elegance of style, fine illustrations, at such a low price that every family can atford to subscribe for one. It is sold by subscrip tion and cannot be procured at the book stores. lilseii From tlic Dcail. AFalking into Henson’s Store last week, we saw Joseph Maret, Esq., sitting in a chair, looking fresh and blooming as arose. We were astonished, and said, “Why, Mr. Maret, we saw your death in the last Toc coa paper.” “ Well, yes; I saw it myself but didn't believe it.” Alex. Stephens the second. mammoth Radish. Yesterday, Mr. Jas. R. Brown sent us a radish 13 inches long and 5 inches in cir cumference. It is not pithy, as might be supposed. He has plenty more like it. The seeds were planted April Ist. He has 50 acres bottom land corn that will pro duce nary yield. He lives on the Carter planta tion on the Savannah. Hartwell Sabbath School. We have the banner Sabbath School in N. E. Georgia. It numbers about 125 scholars, and is the most interesting School we know of anywhere. There seems to be some great attraction about it, for when one joins he becomes a regular attendant. We hope that if there is any one in and around this place who doubts the assertion that he will try the experiment. A Hard Case. A woman, a few miles from this place, a short time ago gave birth to a child when no one was present except two small chil dren, she acting as accoucheuse in her own case. On the following morning she got up and cooked breakfast for herself and clnl dren. One week afterward she walked a mile carrying her infant. She is getting on well and don’t care for trifles like the little spell from which she has just recov ered. Prolific Corn. Dr. J. B. Bowers sends us a curiosity in the way of corn. It is a cluster of seven ears. In the centre is a large ear and growing around it six smaller ears all joined together at the lower end of centre ear. Each ear has a cob well filled with grain, large and well shaped. One shuck covered the whole family. It can be seen at our office. Interpretation—the seven ears of corn denote seven years of plenty, but when they are to come is another ques tion. Rigid Economy. For economy commend us to the Augus ta Chronicle 8f Constitutionalist. While such energetic and progressive papers as the Atlanta Constitution and Savannah Neics recognize the advantage of exchang ing with the County papers, this journal, through short sighted economy, refuses to exchange with the local papers of some Counties that do a large business with Au gusta. One of the reasons why Augusta is lagging behind Atlanta. Savannah and other cities is its lack of liberality and courtesy. This kind of spirit will not build the Knoxville & Augusta Railroad. The Chronicle 6f Constitutionalist does not seem to know that articles clipped by the country press has the same effect as adver tising. Advertising is beneficial to all kinds of business. Fruit Cans made to order at McCurry & Co.'s Tin Shop. Berry has come back. Sun Hayw. Fans. Gnats. Snakes. Lizards. Scorpions. Butterflies. Green plums. Lightning bugs. And other reptiles. Carncsville has an “oldest inhabitant.” Henry Woods has bought anew pair of socks. Maj. Skelton looks better since he has shaved. Snap beans at the Skelton House for three days. C. W. Seidel, Esq., has gone to Dalton on business. Bridges Smith's Paper has been hung. We are sorry. All the papers in the State say it is hot, hotter, hottest. “ Lucinda ” is the popular street song for Hartwell this summer. The High School Exhibition promises to be a grand affair. Thos. V. Skelton had a ‘2th pulled last week. The 4ceps hurt bad. W. It. Stephenson's house is turning pale under the brush of Flep Kay. Capt. Peek rejoices in anew well bouse and a gate. What does it all mean? Little Bill has returned home again. Whereat his little dog waxeth gladly. Everybody is buying John M. Pressnel’s beautiful Stencil Plates. Only 50 cents. Our thanks are due C. J. Hickman, of Warsaw, Ala., for late Alabama papers. Pleasant Hill School is larger than it was last week. Session ends Bth of June. Mr. Thos. 11. Sanders ploughed up a horned snake 6 feet 2 inches long, on last Thursday. J. 11. Stevens gave us an Irish potato yesterday, raised this season, 8] inches in circumference. Dr. Webb and Ira Eberhart caught a gar fish last week weighing 20 pounds and three feet long. Dr. Eberhart went gunning Saturday, and brought in thirty fine frogs. They make fine chicken pie. Notwithstanding the hard times, new subscribers pour in upon us tvery week, and still we are happy. Mr. J. S. Fore, of Illinois, writes : “The Hartwell Sun is a small sheet, but filled with sound matter.” The veracious proprietor of Holland's Store, S. 0., informs us that he has 1,700 cabbage plants 42£ inches across ! Mr. A. R. McCurry returned from a visit to Atlanta Thursday evening. He says he never enjoyed himself better. W. R. Hill, of Cox, Hill & Thompson, Atlanta, caned Satterfield last week. It was a beautifully carved orange stick. Squire Thomas Teasley was the first to, find out that summer had come and hung, on his linen. Torn has keen perception. We are sorry to learn that Mattie Da vant, little daughter of Col. P. E. Davant, Lawton ville, Ga., is very ill with typhoid fever. Fishing is on the increase. A number of gentlemen ditched out a pond on Eight wood Log Creek, and caught five or six large fish. How doth the busy buzzing fly Tickle a fellows nose, And make us swear and flop our hands While trying to repose. The war map in the Atlanta Constitution is the best one we have seen. This paper is a necessity to any one wishing to keep up with the times. Subscribe for it. A smart clerk asked a Hartwell High School boy “ which is the butt end of a billy goat?” The boy replied, “I don’t know which end is buttered—do you ?” Lee Linder, Esq., has bad the small rooms in front of his house torn down. He is preparing to make his dwelling more com modious. Mr. Kay is the man that can do it. Mr. J. E. Scott caught a shad in the Savannah river Wednesday last, weighing pounds, was 18 inches long without head or tail, and measured 17 inches in circum ference. A merchant in Atlanta says Thos. Jeff. Linder is a fine looking man, and would make an imposing appearance in Congress. Jefferson hadn’t oughter impose on Atlan ta people that way. Bro. Crymes, of the Toccoa Herald is not a successful equestrian. He assayed to ride a lineal descendant of Balaam’s animal, and found himself 6kimming through the air like a swallow. He is not as good looking as before but has more ! practical knowledge. Ham, of the Warrenton Clipper, says : “Complimenting some butter sent him, tho editor of The Hartwell Sen says, ‘it would appear that butter, like wine, improves with age.’ Of course, anybody knows that. Why give butter age enough and it will acquire strength sufficient to butt a billy goat as flat as a circus poster at one lick.” Ham improves with age, too, provided it don't get w rmy. Three months ago a man, with 2 bushels of corn on the back ofa small mule, could be seen passing through town going to mill. This morning the same big man, with two mules hitched to a heavy wagon passed through town on his way to mill. This large man was sitting in his wagon on one bushel of corn. Pride —oh, pride ! Mrs. Amanda Fore sends us the follow ing receipt for canning fruit: Select good, sound fruit, not too ripe; put in a kettle of cold water ; bring to a boil ; take fruit out and put in air tight cans, without any sugar, while hot. I prefer tin cans, be cause they will give to tho fruit. When you wish to use, sweeten to taste. Miss Huldah, a dark brunette of Elber ton, paid us a visit recently. She put up at the calaboose one night and returned to Elberton next morning. She telephones a tune from one limit of the town to another. Marshal Dooly is an excellent persuader. Without fishing for a compliment by re turn mail, we must say that without doubt the Marietta Journal is the best county paper in the State. Our scissors play havoc with it every we k. Personal. E. W. Brown, of that sterlihg liou.se, Bleckley, Brown & Cos., Anderson, S. C., paid us a visit last week. He had been in Elbert and the lower part of this County on business. He looks well and in good spirits. Long may he and his house pros per. Wayman Holland, who is now selling goods at Milford’s Store, Anderson Cos., S. C., gave us a call this week He is a jolly, clever fellow, an energetic young merchant and deserves a liberal patronage. 11. C. Eddins was in Hartwell Monday. He intends experimenting a summer in Florida. All three of the above gentlemen are subscribers to The Sun, and paid down the cash. Come and see us again. Corn nml Meat. last WBuk Mrs**Sßg3gbrtruttnim; trfffffioal Creek, brought in some nice bacon ham and middling to exchange for dry goods. Willie McClusky also brought a lot of corn to exchange for groceries. This is progres sive, Is there any other person in Hart that has anything to eat for sale? Before the war, there were as many stores in this town as there are now, and there never was a barrel of Western or Northern flour and only one hogshead of bacon brought hero for sale. Three Months on Trial. There are at least one hundred thousand musicians and music lovers in the Souti, who never have seen a copy of the SOUTH ERN Musical. Journal, or do not even know that such a magazine is in existence. Each, and all of this vast musical army are herewith invited to enclose us twenty-five cents and receive the JOURNAL ON TRIAL for Three Months ; or if they prefer, send us a three cent stamp for a Specimen Copy. Address the publishers, Ludden & Bates, Savannah, Ga. Hydrocephalus. A child of W. J. Baskins, of this County, about three months old has hydro cephalus. Its head measures 22 inches in circumference. PUengill'ti Newspaper Directory. Avery useful and interesting volume of 376 pages has just been issued by the old and well-known advertising agency of S. M. Pettengill & Cos., New York, en titled Pettengill’s Newspaper Direc tory and Advertisers’ Hand-Book FOR 1877. The preparation of the work has involved much careful labor, informa tion having been sought from every city, town, and village where even the smallest newspaper is published. The leading facts are given respecting 8,574 separate publi cations, designating the political or other distinctive character, the frequency of is sue, the names of publishers, etc., and showing how many of each addition (daily, weekly, monthly, etc,) are published in each State and Territory in the United States and Province in British America. The book is elegantly printed from new type, and, beside its mine of information, it contains portraits of leading New York journalists, and illustrations of the exten sive offices where the publishers transact their business in New York. Philadelphia, and Boston. It is sold at the low price of £I.OO per copy, and is certainly cheap at the price to any business man who does advertising, or to any person who is inter ested in the extent of the Newspaper busi ness in America. The immediate effect of Dr. Harter’s Elixir of Wild Cherry is to strength en the stomach, sharpen the appetite, tone and regulate the bowels, and give steadi ness and vigor to the nerves. Sold by E. B. Benson & Cos. ('oHiinuniritlloM. Editors Sun : Give me space in your valuable paper to return my sincere thanks to the good people of Elbert and Hart Coun ties generally for their kindness and chari ty bestowed upon myself and family since I have been among them, and especially to Brother John G. McCurry for a deed to seven acres of land, with a beautiful site on the public road, upon which be and neighborhood* and country in general arc building myself and family a neat and com fortable framed house, which will be ready to go into in a few weeks. W. 1,. Fore. Kii.V'n District. Editors Sun : Saturday last was the regular day for holding Court in the 1,113 th District G. M. The morning was bright, the heavens clear, and all nature joyous as we left Hartwell to visit the Law Ground where justice has been administered from time immemorial in and for Ray's District. Along the road, large fields of waving wheat gladdened the sight, and tho merry songs of the husbandmen, busy as bees, planting and cultivating their crops grootod our ears. We don't believe ice would much like to hire to Larkin Clark, because we beheld him, Argus-like, quietly sitting out amidst the cool grove that surrounds his eminently located residence, overlook ing the planting that was going on in the large bottom Held below. We couldn’t “ bulldoze ” him, lie would make us work, you bet he would. Arrived at Court, we found the newly elected Magistrates, Ira 1). Brown and Samuel T. Fleming, Esqs., presiding. The District should bo congratulated for hav ing such honorable intelligent and upright men to serve as Magistrates. On this oc casion James F. White, Esq., one of the best posted Magistrates in Hart County, by special invitation, was associated with the two first named gentlemen. The most important case of the day, Russum vs. Ginn, and a dozen others, was continued. We noticed several cases of the Singer Manufacturing Company against various parties were pending. Notwith standing the hard times, this Company, having sent its agents pell mell over the country palming off its machines at ruin ous prices, is now, vampire like, pouncing upon the citizens of our land and preparing to sacrifice what little property some of them have accumulated by hajrd toll and industry. No defenses Vve filed, except in one case, that of the Company against Carlton. * Ex-Justice Williams came up with a brief for the defendant, but con cluded to turn over his brief to a lawyer who was in attendance, and, after hearing argument, the Court was unanimous, that inasmuch as the Singer Manufacturing Cos. in selling the machine, having retained title to it by express stipulation in the contract, can now only bring an action of trover for the machine and its hire. If this view of the law prove correct, it will be a great blessing to those people of our County who have been induced to bargain for ma chines at such extravagant prices, they having been sold at about twice the price that they can now be obtained from J. M. Thornton, the present gentlemanly agent of the Company. And in speaking as we do, we by no means would cast any reflections on the former agents. They were working to make an honest living, while the Company was making a specula tion ruinous to our people. Ray’s District is composed of good farm ers and clever citizens. Our genial and clever friend, Patrick 11. Bowers, seems to be doing a line business with his store. A good Law' House has been erected, and everything is moving along quietly, smooth ly and pleasantly. We like to attend Court at Ray’s. At some future time we propose calling the attention of the vari ous Districts to the propriety of building Court Houses. M. Fact* Worth Knowing. One of the best indications of the South and prosperity of Charleston is to be found at the establishment of I. H. Hall & Cos., located at Nos. 2,4, 6, 8 Market and 223 & 225 East Bay Streets. The rapidly in creasing business last year of this firm has induced them to enlarge their establishment which now supplies every conceivable ar ticle that can be required in the building of a house, from a balurster to any size tim ber. Our friends in the city and through out the country who contemplate building a house can be supplied with all the mate rial necessary for its construction. Such as Sash, Doors, Blinds, Faints, Oils, Hard-; ware, <&c., at prices and quality of work which will save a large percentage in the cost of building. Commodure Vanderbilt. Handsomely endowed a University in the South ; but Dr. James L. Gilder left a richer legacy to his people by giving them | his celebrated Liver PiFs. The people living in the Southern portion of the United States are natural! v subject to liver dieases, j and these pills wv\ always Prevent , Re lieve, or Cure. Sold by all druggists and country merchants. Dr. Hautku'h Iron Tonic purities, enriches, gives color and tone to the Mood, increases tno quantity as well as tho qual ity, giving vigor, vitality, energy, power, and life itself. Sold by E. B. Benson A Cos. Fail** lin |.rrHioti. It is generally supposed by a certain class of citixrt a, whoaro uot practical or experienced, that Dyspepsia can n< t inva ri. nly be cured, but wo are plea*- and to say that i keen’s Acor.T FiuOWKR has never to our knowledge, faded to cure Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint in all its forms, stifh as Sour Stomach, Costiveness, Sick Head ache, palpitation of the Heart, low spirits, Ac., Ac. Out of 30,000 dozen bottles sold last year, not a single failure was reported, but thousands of complimentary letters re ceived from Druggists of wonderful cures. Three doses will relieve anv case. Try a Sample Bottles 10 cents Regular Size 75 cents. For sale by E. B. Henson A Cos. BURKE’S BOOKSTORE, ATHENE, OBORUIA. O / 1 OOPS mild at lowest price* lur null, ami Ml- VJt i faction guaranteed. .School Hooks. A full line of School Hooka, such m are in corn mon u\ at puhlinhcr*' pricea. Ntatlaaery. Pena, Ink, Paper, Kuvelopea, Slate* and Slate Pencil*, Ac,, at loweat price*. Croquet, Iliisc Hulls. tc. Croquet, at. variou* prire*. lt**e 11*11*, from 23c. to |1 50. lloae Hall Outdo for 1877. IMuiion mill Organa. The bat make*, at lowest price*, 1 cannot be uti* denold, and will give a* good Imi golu* and a* long tluic a* any one tu Georgia, or elaewhere. Jliikhiliun ami \e ws|in|i:r*. Subscription forwarded for any Magazine or New*, paper, put>li*hed in thi* country, at regular subscrip* tiou rate*, and Hiiliafactiou guaranteed, Safely Motclics. The American Safety Parlor Fusee—the oulv per fect safety match in the world—free from poison— will not ignite except on the box, and the cheape*t match in llie world. For *ulo by the groaa, dozen, or Mingle box. Picture Frame*. Picture Frames and Ola** always on baud, Frames mode to order, and perfect a tin faction guar anteed In price and style of workmanship. Anything In my line, not on hand, ordered at abort notice, and orders respectfully solicited. T. A. Ill'll 14 E, 31 59 Alliens, <<a. J. MYERS. S. MARCUS. MYERS & MARCUS, JOBBERS IN DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, - CLOTHING, BOOTS and SHOES, HATS, CAPS, Etc. No. 274 liroad Ntroet, Augusta, Ua. 32 3 £EE LINDER, ATTORN EYATL A W, HARTWELL, GEORGIA Strict atteiitiuu will begiven to all buaiuctm entruHted 32-SJ to hit) care. JOHN T. OSBORN, A TTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR A T LA W. ELBEKTON, GEORGIA, Practice* in any Court whore he i* employed. Reg ularly ttUendM the Court* of the Northern and Woe tern Circuit*. 31 JOHN P. SHANNON, A TTORNEY-AT-LA W, ELBERTON, OEOROIA, Practice* in the Counties of Elbert, Hart, MoUlhom and Fraukliu, and In the Supremo Court; elsewhere when employed. 30 P B. HODGES, A TTORNEY-A T-LA W, HARTWELL, HART COUNTY, GA., Will promptly attend to all bu*lne** intruHted to hi* care, and collecting made a upocialty. 3t piIOMAS W. TEASLEY, A TT OR N E Y AT LAW, HARTWELL, GEORGIA, Will practice in the Countie* of Hart, Elbert, Ogle thorpe, .Madison, and Franklin, Prompt attention given to the collection of all claim* entru*tcd to hi* care, 8 QH ARLES W. SEIDEL, A TTORNE Y AT LAW, HARTWELL, HART COUNTY, 1 52 GEORGIA. g N. CARPENTER, A TTORNEY-A T-LA IF, ELBERTON, GA. Practice* in Elbert and adjoining Countie*. Prompt attention given to all ca** put in hi* charge. 31 ]JR. A. J. MATHEWS, SUR GEON AND PHYSICIAN, FIRST FLOOR MASONIC HALL, J HARTWELL, GA. GEORGIA—HART COUNTY. YA ORDINARY’S OFFICE, May 7, 1877. Where#*, D. C. Alford applies to me for Lett*** of Administration on the estate of Lodwick Alford, de ceased, late of said County—-thi* is therefore to cite and admonish all and singular the next of kin and creditors of said deceased to show cause st the June term next of this Court why administration on the estate of said deceased should not be granted appli cant. Given under mv hand oiholallv, this May 7th, 1877. p. C. STEPJO&NBON, Ordinary.