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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. Fads For 9f ui<*iaitN. Fact I.—The most attractive and inter esting Musical Magazine published North or South is the Southern Musical Jour nal, published by Ludden & Bates, Sa vannah, Ga. Subscription price only $1.25 per year. Fact 2. —Each number (monthly) con tains a great variety of delightful Musical Reading Matter anil eight pages (sheet music size,) of choice Vocal and Instrumen tal Music, worth at retail rates fully SI.OO. Fact 3.—Each subscriber is presented with a dollar's worth of Sheet Music of their own choice from the publisher’s im mense stock. Those who do not wish the music when they subscribe will receive a Premium Certificate, which will enti tle them to the music at any time within one year from date. This grand offer makes the actual cost of the Journal only twent3 r -five cents yearly. Specimen copy free for three cent stamp. Address the publishers. 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| ulnr size for 75 cents. Two doses will re lieve you. E. B. B. & C< >. S< > A B! 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.