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local affairs.
Best Yet!
Jas. L. Owens, of this County, has sent
us the best sample of wheat we have ever
seen. It has from 104 to 108 grains, large
tine wheat, to the head.
Fancy Fannin*.
Our E. B. B. visited the Centennial,
Laid five dollars for a bushel of seed wheat.
It was cut this morning. He may make
the seed back, if he does, he will have the
Straw for clear profit. _
A lint-gain.
I John Brown, Esq., ofTers his new house
for sale in this issue. Any one wishing to
avail themselves of good schools, tine,
healthy climate, pure water and good so
[ciety, would do well to buy before John
[gets out of the notion of selling.
John Chastecns Fro*.
John lives near Big Lightwood-Log
ICreek, and last week a bull frog from said
[creek made a raid upon Ins chickens. lie
'killed the frog, with a half grown chicken
half swallowed. Wc would not be sur
prised now if the champion “ possom ”
hunter’s dog were to tree a catfish in the
fork of a maple, 40 feet from the ground.
llealh.
John E. Sadler, of the drug firm of
Simpson & Sadler, Anderson, S. C., died
in that place on Friday morning, June Bth,
in the 06th year of his age. Mr. Sadler
was born and reared in Hart County, and
has many warm friends and numerous rela
tives in this County who sympathize with
the distressed family. Only a few' months
ago he w r as married to Mrs. Mary E.
Sloan, of Anderson, S. C.
Still Shining.
The Detroit Free Press is known in ev
ery nook and corner of the land as one of
the brightest .and most interesting weeklies
in the country. Every paper quotes from
it. Its fame wil 1 last, because every ef
fort is put forth to keep it leading all other
weeklies in the Union. Send for a speci
men copy, which will be sent free, .and
then club tvith this paper and subscribe for
a year. We furnish the two for $2.50.
Personal.
We had the pleasure of meeting Mr. J.
B. Wilson, Editor of the Carnesville
Register , on Monday, who came to the
High School Examination. lie is jthc
handsomest editor in the State, affable, and
weilds a trenchant pen, as the columns of
the Regietcr amply testify. It is said that
he is deeply enamored with one of Hart
well's fair daughters, and no doubt takes
back what he said about the Carnesville
girls being the prettiest in the State.
Tile Tempter.
Our worthy Ordinary, whom no one has
ever been heard to speak of in any but the
highest terms, was sitting in his office one
day last week, with his crutches beside
him, apparently in a brown study, when a
gentleman entering the door of his office
cried out —“Look at that snake, Fed!”
The Ordinary, looking around, saw a big
copperhead in three feet of him. Although
he has not walked without his crutches in
25 years, he got away from that spot as
pert as a cricket. Was his snakeship a
lineal descendant of the old “ sarpent ”
that caused our G. G. Grandfather Adam
all his trouble, and came to persuade Fed
that green apples are ripe. lie is not so
Ordinary as that, however.
The High School.
The examination of this school on Mon
day and Tuesday, and the exhibition on
Monday night, and Miss. Jordan's concert
on Tuesday night, was highly creditable
to all concerned —teachers and pupils.
Hartwell is proud of her school. Hartwell
is proud of her teachers. Hartwell is proud
of her boys and girls. We are sorry that
we are unable to give the programme of the
exercises in this issue, but will do so in our
next. This closes the School, which will
resume sometime in August, the time not
being definitely lixed; and we hope the
recreation, which the teachers so much
need, will prove both beneficial and pleas
ant. We have no fears but that the school
will be well patronized and hope that the
people will remember the Professor's hint
that the laborer is worthy of his hire.
Owing: to Hell.
Sixty years ago, Greenville City, in
South Carolina, was a small village. Gen.
John Blassingame picked up a ragged
young man on the streets, delirious
from drink. He was a stranger. No one
knew from whence he came. Gen. Blas
singame found him to be a Mason, took
him home with him, clothed him and min
istered to all his wants for a month, when
the young man was himself again. This
young man never drank any more, and
made a most useful member of society.
Where will you find a Mason in these days
who would take up a ragged, fallen bro
ther and try to put him on his feet again.
Inquire of the old men whether Baptist,
Methodist or Presbyterian, sixty years
ago, cheated and swindled their brethren.
Of course in those good, honest days there
was no homestead law. Our country is
now going to hell as fast as a locomotive
would go down an inclined plane without
brakes.
Nnn Huy*.
Fa ma ri do sol ma fa ra do ra.
Miss Jennie Vanduzer, of Elberton, is
in town.
Hartwell has her Toombs as well as
Washington.
Everybody is delighted with the Exami
nation and Concert.
Mr. Tabor, of Madison County, died on
the 12th inst., aged 60.
Hides bring 8 cents at W. 11. Stephen
son's. He buys cotton rags.
J. M. Pressnel's stencil plates are very
popular. You ought to have one.
Why ought rats to be good food for
cows? Because the cat'll eat them.
Albert Brown knows how to doctor up [
a little mistake. He is “A ” No. 1.
Misses Shirley and Grubb's compositions
were highly amusing, and well delivered.
Our candidates, since the election, can't
get up a skeleton of a smile and look
peaked.
The first new wheat brought to this j
market was purchased by W. 11. Stephen
son, at $1.25.
Col. Wm. 11. Mattox, the “ No Conven
tion ” candidate, was elected to the Con
vention in Elbert County.
Oh ! those sweet little girls? How well
they did act their parts—little angels. We
wish we were a whole lot of little girls.
Willie Ayers graced the Examination
with his presence ; so did Johnnie Linder,
and Willie Snow. They are all pretty
boys, and so sweet.
Morgan Looney's poem on the death of
General Lee is equal to Father Ryan's
“ Conquered Banner,” and May Seidel's
rendition was highly applauded.
Dr. R. G. Witherspoon, Andersonville,
S. C., and W. J. Snow, of Toccoa City,
are agents for The Sun, and will take sub
scriptions and advertisements for us.
A Partner, with capital of $1,500, is
wanted at Davis’ Premium Gallery in
Athens. This is a fair opening for a young
man to engage in a largely established and
lucrative business.
Mrs. Barton Hilliard had a fainting fit
on the road near Bowersville, on the Bth
inst.. and was found after nightfall still in
sensible. We are glad to state that she
has recovered.
A tripartite agreement Underwood,
“ Vote for Mosely and Osborne.” Moseley,
“Vote for Osborne and Underwood.”
Osborne, “Vote for Moseley and Under
wood.” Chorus, “We three.”
When you are in Athens, don’t fail to
visit Davis’ Premium Gallery besides
being the most interesting place in the city,
it is the largest and finest Gallery in the
State, and makes the best work.
Plums are half ripe, and that is what
makes the boys say in company, Ma, my
bel—” But he never finishes the sentence,
for the mother catches him by the left ear
and leads him off to tell him something.
Joe Wright, the man who took down
with a fowl stomach, some months ago,
in Elberton, was on hand at the examina
tion, pumping up soda water for the thirsty
as slick as goose grease. Joe is no gosling.
E. B. Benson, one of the editors of our
paper, accompanied by his family, has gone
to Athens to attend the Commencement of
the Lucy Cobb Institute, and this accounts
for some of the wild editorials in this
issue.
J. P. Roberts, of Parkertown, sends
us a sample of very fine wheat, six feet
high. When the wheat is thrashed, black
berries will be ripe, and we will not object
to samples of old-fashioned family pies, 12
inches across and 13 inches deep.
See adventisment of McMullan’s Mills.
Buy some of that flour. Jud says it is
pretty enough for the girls to powder their
faces, but that the girls in his neighbor
hood don’t powder their faces dough. They
are grinding new wheat already.
It ivould be a great pleasure to us if we
thought any of our exchanges appreciated
our paper as we do the Owatonna (Minne
sota) Review. When we get our basket
full of papers from the post-office, we
always lay that paper aside to read last for
dessert.
Don’t fail to read our Burke County let
ter. It is from one of our old and highly
esteemed citizens, who moved to that
County this year. We hope he will write
us often, as his numerous friends in this
County will always be pleased to hear
from him.
Is there a man in this County who has
never said, “ This is iny own—my native
land ?” Is there a man in this County so
poor that he has said “The Sun is a good
paper, but lam too poor to take it?” If
so. come forward, and we will give ; to
you as a dead-head; and in a short time
from reading it, if you have any marrow in
your bones, or ambition in your soul, you
will go to work to be somebody, to build
up Hart County and make her what she
was before the war—honest, independent,
and with no favors to ask from the old
aristocratic families, who have monopo
lized all the honors and glory of the State
for fifty years before the war. We are all
on a level now.
The elections are now over. We hope
the papers will find something more in
teresting to the peoplo than Hayes and
Hampton to write about. They might tell
their patrons how hot it is, how much
money there is in dried blackberries, when
the first shipment of corn and bacon goes
to Turkey, instruct the farmers only to
plant cotton enough to pay for their guano.
Politics does mighty well for speculators,
who have pockets full of money, made
from the hard earnings of the farmers.
A man who does unto others as he would
have them do unto him, need not fear
taking the leap in the dark when the time
comes to leave this terrestrial ball. There
will be no conductors to punch his thou
sand mile ticket on that route. He will
go through all right with the speed of a
shooting star.
“ K*o Nnm Nlultiu."
You will doubtless give your readers an
account of the Examination and Exhibi
tion of Prof. Looney's High School. I
straggled to the Academy on Monday
morning, and must say I was surprised to
sec the advancement made by the pupils.
They all did exceedingly well. The little
boys and girls taught by Mrs. Looney, are
either the smartest children in Georgia, or
she is the best teacher, or both. Some of
the little live-year-olds could make a geog
raphy, run up figures and do sums on the
blackboard that many old men, who think
they are some, could not touch. Forty
years ago I knew something about latin,
Ac., and hearing a class of little boys
reading latin with such ease and rapidity,
caused me to study up some myself, and
Ego sum stultus was all I could think ofj;
and the reason I remember that was this,
when my class were studying their Virgil
lesson at playtime, a big boy came up to
us and said he wanted to know what was
latin for “ I will fight for liberty.” Bill
Taylor told him Ego sum stultus was the
dot. So the big boy went out to the play
ground and bawled it out. “ There,” said
the boys, “ he has found it out at last.”
I have the “rumatiz,” but hobbled out
Monday night to the Exhibition—that is
what we used to call them in old times—
anyhow, the boys made speeches, and the
girls read compositions, all of which were
good ; but Albert Brown as “ Dr. Jones ”
was just splendid. Albert is as smart and
good looking as any boy, and cuts wood
and hauls rock on Saturday, and if lie lives
there will be another prominent Brown in
Georgia. Toombs Hodges took the prize
in declamation, and Gloav's mock singing
school brought down the house. We hope
you will get some of the girl's composi
tions and publish them in your paper.
Only last week I saw the composition of a
Hartwell school girl in a Minnesota paper,
two thousand miles from here.
If you think this rambling article worth
a place in your paper, put it in.
Old Boy.
Communication.
“ Some have at first for wits then poets passed,
Turned critics next and proved plain folks at last."
These lines, from England’s gifted bard,
present an appropriate reply to the poetic
quotation and would-be criticism of “C.
W. S.” in the last issue of your paper.
And, in order that misrepresentations may
not go unanswered, and that proper con
clusions may be reached, we have a few
words to say in reply to his vague and pue
rile production. Perhaps, too, in this con
nection, it would not be amiss to state that
there is no danger of anyone ever con
founding his declarations with the “ law of
Moses,” or any other law or fact, inasmuch
as the article m your last paper contains a
virtual admission of his ignorance of this
subject about which he undertook to en
lighten the people of this county. But,
while it contains this admission, it at the
same time contains some very wonderful
statements, some of which we propose to
notice.
“C. W. S.” states that he considered
our “ Ray’s District ” letter as a direct
attack entirely uncalled for on ourselves,
both as an attorney and as a citizen. Now
ifit be true that he did take our letter in
that sense, he arrogated to himself a prom
inence which we never designed to confer.
No mention was made of him, either as a
citizen or attorney, and he never entered
our mind when we wrote the above letter ;
and if he can find anything in that letter
that alludes to him in the slightest degree,
we would be more than happy for him to
call our attention to it, as well as present
it to the public. Further, if he considered
our “ Ray’s District,” letter a personal at
tack on himself, why', in the name of all
that's wonderful, did he not reply, or at
least make mention of the “ personal at
tack ’’ in his communication, which appear
ed in The Sun dated 30th of last month,
instead of coming forth in what we termed
a long dead head advertisement of the Sin
ger Manufacturing Company. Again vour
correspondent states that he considered
our “Kay’s District” letter a little elec
tioneering with the people and justices of
the peace to get popularity at his expense.
In this he is most egregiously mistaken,
what we said of the magistrates and peo
ple was a plain statement of the truth.
There was no “ blarney ” or “ soft-solder
ing” about it, and as to getting popularity
at his “ expense,” we can’t conceive how
his “ expense ” entered into the matter
at all, as he was neither mentioned or
thought of. This is certainly a draft on
I the gentleman's imagination. And as to
! electioneering for popularity, there cer
l tamly was not as much of that commodity
! about our letter as there seems to be about
} the “ royal puff ” of the Singer Manufac
turing Company. Through deference to
vour correspondent, we will not ngain term
it a “dead head ” advertisement. What
we meant by “dead head ” was, that it was
a letter written solely in the interests of the
Singer Manufacturing Gompany, inserted
in the paper without being paid for. If
such is the truth, nil will admit that it
squints muchly towards “ dead headisni.”
One other point, in conclusion : The only
charge that we made in our first letter was
that the Singer Manufacturing Company
had heretofore been selling its machines to
our people at ruinous prices. Y’our cor
respondent came forth as the attorney for
the Company, professing to speak ex ca
thedra, and that the valuable information
he was imparting came with the same
sanction as the oracle from Delphi. In
reply to that, and in substantiation of our
original statement, we gave the plain un
varnished facts, which showed at what
exorbitant rates the Singer Manufacturing
Company, in connection with other compa
nies, has been selling its machines to our
people, and what a vast fortune they have
extracted from their honest industry by
means of a powerful ring monopoly. In
reply to this, what says your correspon
dent 9 Does he gainsay this showing?
He writes for information alter having al
ready attempted to explain the whole
thing. He has sent to headquarters, and
just as soon as the Company he represents
forwards him a supply of information lie is
ready to distribute it. By this last sub
terfuge your correspondent virtully ad
mits that he is ignorant as to the matter
about which he joined issue with us, and is
driven by the stern facts of the case to call
upon the Singer Manufacturing Company
for help. There is one thing that will
perhaps perplex all who have read this
correspondence, and that is why the Com
pany's attorney did not acquaint himself
with the facts before he undertook to give
information to the people of this County.
Here wc drop tue subject. The facts
of the case confirm all we have said, and
wc bid “C. W. S.” an adieu as far as a
further correspondence on this subject is
concerned. But in taking our final leave,
we would remind him of the fearful catas
trophe that befell Esop's frog in trying to
equal the monster. Let him take care lest
a similar fate overtake him in trying to de
fend the past dealings of Sewing Machine
companies with our people.
M.
Com in it n lent ion.
On one of Wm. Flemming's farms in
this County, near Franklin Springs I*. ().,
Dr. Veal and Marshal Brown succeeded in
capturing a very large rattlesnake between
4 and 5 feet in length, with 9 rattles and a
button. They could hear it sing a quarter of
a mile. They carried it to the Doctor's of
fice and extracted its fangs, which were
from three-fourths to one inch long. The
Doctor says he intends keeping it for a pet
to sing for him, as lie likes music. The
young men are looking around for the
mate of the one caught. Mr. Royston kill
ed a large coachwhip near bis door a few
days since. He is growing very uneasy
about some of his children being bitten,
for 1 tell you he has a crowd. Anon.
A Card.
1 received two notices from a customer,
who had removed to Franklin County, that
on a certain day he would take the Home
stead. lam sorry, John, you spent six
cents in postage, as I had sold out all the
interest I hail in you for live cents in the
dollar long ago.
2 John B. Benson.
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Fact 2. —Each number (monthly) con
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Fact 3.—Each subscriber is presented
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Ludden & Bates, Savannah, Ga.
There is an advertisement in our col
umns to which wc take much pleasure in
referring our readers, because we believe
in it and can conscientiously and heartily
recommend it. We refer to Hall’s Hair
Renewer. We remember many cases in
our midst of old and middle aged people
who formerly wore grey hair, or whose
locks were thin and faded, but who now
have presentable head pieces, and with no
little pride announce to their friends that
they haven’t a grey hair in their heads. It
is a pardonable pride, and the world would
be better off if there was more of it, for
when the aged make themselves attractive
to others they are more certain to win and
retain the esteem and respect to which u
burthen of well spent years entitles them.
Try Hall's Hair Renewer if age or disease
has thinned or whitened your locks and you
will thank us for our advice.— Pan-Handle
News , Wellsbvrg , W. Va.
The invigorating and regulating proper
ties of Dr. Harter's Elixir of Wild
Cherry are superior to any other medi
cines in the world. Sold by E. B Benson
& Cos.
*• Vl y t|illi<>r'
“My Mother's Daughter," an intensely
interesting story from the pen of Mrs.
Ophelia Nebsct Reid, of Eaton ton, Ga.,
will be commenced in the SAVANNAH
Weekly News ofJuneSoth, 1877. The
price of the Weekly News is only #1.90
for six months,or #2.00 per year, postage
paid.
Dr. Barter's Liver Pills restores
the secretions, removes obstructions, and
change the diseased organic action into a
healthy one. Sold by K. B. Henson & Cos.
Coiiiiiioiliire \ untierlillt.
Handsomely endowed a University in the
South; but Dr, James L. Gilder left a
richer legacy to his people by giving them
his celebrat'd Liver Pil's. The people
living in the Southern portion of the United
Stntes are natural I v sunject to liver dieases,
nnii these pills will always Prevent, Re
liirc, or Cure. Sold by all druggists and
country merchants.
Sensible Ail vice.
Y ou are asked every day through tho
columns of newspapers and by yoar Drug
gist to use something for your Dyspepsia
and Liver Complaint that you know no
thing about you get discouraged spending
money without but little success. Now to
give you satisfactory proof that Green's
AUOI’ST Fidwkr will euro you of Dys
pepsia and Liver Complaint with all its ef
fects, such as sour stomach, sick Headache,
Habitual Costiveness, palpitation of the
Heart, Heart-burn, Water-biash, Fullness
at the pit of the Stomach, Yellow Skin,
Coated Tongue, Indigestion, swimming of
the head, low spirits Ac., vve ask you to go
to your Druggist E. B. Benson A Cos,, and
get a Sample Bottle of Green's Auoi'ht
Flower ror 1© oenta and try it. or a Re|
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E. B. B.
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SOU 1 E It,
KOAI’KST.
We have just received an invoice of
COLGATE SOAP,
Iu half, three-fourths and pound cakes,
suitable for toilet, shaving and laundry
use. Cheaper than the cheapest. Good
enough to eat. Just the tiling for wash
ing light, fancy goods. Will not injure
the texture. Will take grease and stains
out of anything, even to a guilty con
science or a blackened character.
“ Cleanliness next to Godliness.”
Call and get a supply before all is
sold.
E. B. BENSON & CO.
PLANT SORGHUM
Buy your MILLS and EVAPORA
TORS from us.
We arc Agents for the best made, in
cluding the Mills manufactured by the
O J
Athens Foundry.
We sell ENGINES, GRAIN SEP
ARATORS, <t*c., &c., for the Blymyer
Manufacturing Company, Cincinnati.
All of which we sell at LOWEST
Prices.
Those in need of such Machinery will
do well to see us at once.
Orders should be sent as early as pos
sible.
E. B. BENSON & CO.
BURKE’S BOOKSTORE,
ATIIE9B, GEORGIA*
O
('I OOI)S sold at lowest prices for cash, and sat-
Jf jsfuction guaranteed.
School liooks.
A full line of School Books, such as are in com
mon use, at publishers' prices.
Stationery.
Pens, Tnk, Paper, Envelopes, Slates and Slate
Pencils, Ac., at lowest prices.
Croquet, JiH*e tin I Is. Ac.
Cmcinet. at various prioes. I lane Balls, from 25c.
to |1.50. Base Ball Guide for 1877.
I*inine, anil Organs.
The best makes, at lowest ju ice s. I cannot be un
tier mid, and will give as id bargains and as long
time as any one in Georgia, or elsewhere.
Magazines nmi Venspnprrs.
Subscription forwarded for any Magazine or News
paper. published in this country, at regular subscrip
tion rates, and satisfaction guaranteed.
Safety Matches.
The American Safety Parlor Fusee—the only per
fect safety match in the world—free from poison—
will not ignite except on the box, and the cheapest
match in the world. For sale by the gross, dozen, or
single box.
Picture Frames.
Picture Frames and Glass always on hand.
Frames made to order, and perfect tali-'factum guar
anteed in price and style of workmanship.
Anything in my line, not on band, ordered at short
notice, and orders respectfully solicited.
T. A. 111 RKr.
M 59 Athens. b.