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ON WEAK-KNEED DEMOCRATS. W ho Are They T The Griffin Situ, ft red-hot, out-spoken, fearless ami ably conducted paper, blazes with white heat down on the pates of cer tain individuals in that place in the follow ing editorial, with so much truth, that we republish it. Its application is not con fined to Griffin, however. Hand lighters down often, bright orb of day : There are men in Griffin who hid behind the twenty negro exemption in order to keep out of the war. Niggers were good enough for them —and they talk about “ weak-kneed Democrats.” There arc others in Grifiiti who left the the country to keep from fighting (he bat tles of Georgia, who are the loudest mouthed in the abuse of that section in our present Constitution—and which is im plied in every State constitution —that acknowledges the supremacy of the United States Government. These men wouldn't fight to lessen the authority of the Federal Government over the State when the issue was at hand—and they talk about “weak kneed Democrats.” There are men in Griffin who were cattle speculators, or beef men, during the late war, and never exposed their precious car casses to danger in defence of their State— and they talk about “ weak-kneed Demo crats.”' There arc men in Griffin who held posi tions as stewards in hospitals and other bomb proof places, living on the fat of the land and keeping away from danger—and they talk about “week-kneed Democrats.” There are others who got appointed to some petty offices, and remained at home speculating upon the necessities of the sol diers' wives and children—and they talk about “weak-kneed Democrats.” There are others who have sought office under the Bullock Government, and some who held positions under Radical rule since the war—and they talk about “ weak kneed Democrats.” There are others who were rampant se cessionists when bringing about tbe war. and who promised to drink all the blood spilled and take care of our widows and orphans. These men, having gotten every thing else from the widows and orphans, want the homestead—and they talk about “ weak-kneed Democrats.” There are others in Griffin who were too cripple, or sick, or weak, to do duty as a soldier during the late war, but strong enough to make money by speculating upon the necessities of the people during the contest, and quite well as soon as the war ended—and they talk about “ weak kneed Democrats.” There are others who used every disgrace ful and cowardly means to keep from being sent to the front during the late war—and they talk nbout “weak-kneed Democrats.” (Mi. ye cowardly hypocrites ! Ye army of shirking speculators ! Ye usury-taking humbugs and legalized thimble-riggers! Ye intolerant, bulldozing bounty-jumpers and buttermilk rangers! How dare ye look brave, honest men in the face and talk about “ weak-kneed Democrats.” Mr. Hayes it ml His Minstrel ilium. Washington Star. There was an interview at the White House this morning, which was not down on the books. The sable knight of the pasteboards had carried in a bushel of cards more or less, and was engaged in his diur nal effort to keep good matured a room full of impatient office-seekers, all of whom wanted to go in first. The President with in was undergoing his daily torment. To him perspiring and sighing for a breeze came a card bearing the superscription : “ Charles Backus and wife.” The fame of the minstrel was talismanic. “ Admit him,” said the President, and Charley, round formed and jolly, rolled in. “ No, 1 don’t want an office, Mr. President,” said Charley, after being duly presented, “I’ve come to do you a favor.” The President sighed a sigli of relief. In two minutes had forgotten the cares of office, and was laugh ing at some of Charley's impromptu min strelsy. A dozen poor but proud gentle men from the South stood about saying : “Be Gawd, sah, what a letting down of official dignity, sah. Tt is disgraceful, sah!” But Charley joked and the Presi dent laughed. “ Well, Mr. President,” said the jolly minstrel rising to go at last, “ there’s a box at the theatre at your ser vice.” “Mr. Backus,” replied his Excel lency, evidently speaking from the bottom of his heart, “ 1 would go to see you three nights in succession if I could get the time ;” and he looked at the impatient waiters within and without, “ Come if you can,” said Charley, bowing himself out and vowing as he departed that he had never seen so many seedy-looking Gener als and Colonels in shiny black clothes gathered together before in one place in his life. The following obituary notice was sent for insertion in a Yankee journal : “ Mr. Edatur : Jem Bangs, tvce air sorry to stait, has deseized. He departed this Life last munday at the ago of 22. He went 4th without any struggle, and sich is life. Tu Da we are as pepper grass, mighty smart, to Morrow we air cut down like a cowcum ber of the grownd. Jem kept a nice stoar, which his wife now wates on. His vir chews wuz numerous to behold. We never new him to put sand in his sugir, tho he had a big sand bar in front ov his haus ; nor water in his milk, tho the Ohio river runs past his dore. Peace to his remains ! He leaves a wife, 8 children, a cow, 4 horses and quadrupets tu morne his loss ; but in splendid langwidge of the poit, his loss is thur eturnal gane."’ The blackberry industry in Georgia, North Carolina and other Southern states, is about to open, and the local papers are showing what a bonanza is in danger of running to waste. The little town of Sa lem N. C., containing only about 2,000 in habitants, has shipped during three years, over 3,000,000 pounds of dried blackber ries, for which nearly half a million dol lars was received. This was equal to over nine thousand bales of cotton at ten cents a pound and is a resource certainly not to be despised. There are 33,000 lawyers in the United States, with several counties yet to hear from I.citat Atlvrklllii|{ Bute*. For the benefit of legal advertisers we give our rates. They correspond with our contiguous cotemporaries, except in two cases, where our charges are ijl.no and £2.00 less, respectively: Citation for Letters of GuardlaoNliip, • • • s.'oo Citation for Let tern of Administration, • • • 500 Ap|>liesition for Letter* of Diaminaion, ... 600 A|iplie;iLion for leave to null I.untU, 5 Oil Notice to Debtors und Creditor*, 5 (X) Sale of lurid*, Ac., (per inch), 0 50 Snlc of iirriMhabie property, ten day* (per inch), 1 50 Rat ray Not ice, 5 00 exemption Notice, 2 50 Cited ton on I’rotmte of Will (per inch) • • . *0 00 I,ihol for Divorce, per inch, each Insertion, - • 150 Foreclosure of Mortgage (per inch) each time, - 100 SiierlU’ a auleo. per levy, 5 00 Sheriff Mortgage Fi. Fa. Salon 9 00 Tax Collector’* Sales, (per inch), 5 00 All other advertisements will be charged according to tho space and number of in sertions. NOTICE. ALL person* are notified that I will not be re sponsible for (lie contracts of my wife, Sue N. ■I. Higginbotham, on she lias lilt me without any ood ea f. B. HIGGINBOTHA M. Tills, June 14th, 1877 42-45 / VP QO *?aday smut are made by Agents Oil f' r ~' • /selling our Cbrouios, Crayon*, and iteward Motto, Snipturo Text, Transparent, picture and ChromoCards. 100 samples worth S4, sent postpaid for 750. Illustrated Catalogue free. .1. 11. 11l I IdltD S SONS, BOSTON. [Established, 1830. j TVTOTICE TO TRESPASSERS. i-i All persons are hereby forbidden to flsli, hunt, hold Debating Societies, or otherwise trespass upon my land. This is given in accordance with section 4,440 of tbe Code of Georgia. This May 3()th 1877. 40-43 C W. CHRISTIAN'. TEE LINDER, A TTORNE r A T LAW, IIA RTAVELL, GEORG IA Strict attention will begivon to all business entrusted 32-83 to bis care. JOHN P. SHANNON, A TTORNEY-A T-LA W, ELBERTON, GEORGIA, Practice* In the Counties of Elbert, Hart, Madison and Franklin, and in tbe Supreme Court; elsewhere when employed. 30 JOHN T. OSBORN, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR A T LA W. ELBEETON, GEORGIA, Practices in any Court where lie is employed. Reg ularly attends the Courts of the Northern and AVes tern Circuits. 31 g N. CARPENTER, A TTORNEY-A T-LA IF, ELBERTON, GA. Practices in Elbert and adjoining Counties. Prompt attention given to all cases put in his charge. 31 P P>. HODGES, A TTORNEY-A T-LA IF, HARTWELL, HART COUNTY, GA., Will promptly attend to all business intrusted to his core, and collecting made a specialty. 3t QH ARLES W. SEIDEL, A T T OR N E Y AT L A W, HARTWELL, HART COUNTY, 1 52 GEORGIA. 'T'IIOMAS W. TEASLEY, ATTORNEY AT LA W, 11ART WE LL, GEORGIA, Will practice in the Counties of Hart, Elbert, Ogle thorpe. Madison, and Franklin. Prompt attention given to the collection of all claims entrusted to his care. H J)R. A. J. MATHEWS, S UR GEON A ND PHYSICIAN, FIRST FLOOR MASONIC IIALL, 1 HARTWELL, GA. jyn. GEORGE EBERHART, ERA C TICINO PHYSICIA N, OFFICE, Next Boon to J. W. Wu.i.iams. 3 HARTWELL, GA. TAR. W. H. McCURP.Y, Dentist, 1J HARTWELL . GA. Will do all work in the Dental line. He uses the very best material and guarantees satisfaction. He can' be found at the Drug Store of A. G, McGurrv & Cos., when not professionally absent. 28 Unabridged, 3000 Engravings ; 1840 Pages Quarto. FOIE rAGES COLORED PLATES. A WHOLE LIItRARYIS ITSELF. IS VA L UAIIL EISA FA MIL Y. l'W r ‘ Sow contains twenty-live per cent, more mat ter than any other one volume English Dictionary published in this country or Great Britain. A MIIOVAI, STAXDAKI). The sale is 20 times as great as the sale of any oilier large Dictionary. More than 30.000 copies have been placed in the public schools of the United States. Recommended by 28 State Superintendents of Schools. !T©’ rJ Warmly recommended by Bancroft, Prescott, Motley. George P. Marsh, Hal lech, Whittier. Willis. Saxe, Klilm Burritt, Daniel Webster. Rufus Clioate, H. Coleridge, Smart, Horace ‘Maun. Presidents Wool sey. Wayland. iiopains. Notf, Walker. 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It can, therefore, be safely recommended as a sure remedy and specific for the Fever and Ague of the West, and the Chills and Fever of the South. It counteracts the miasmatic poison in the blood, and frees the system from its influ ence, so that fever and ague, shakes or chills, once broken up by it, do not return until the disease is again contracted. The great variety of disorders which arise from the irritation of this poison, such as Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Gout, Headache, Blindness, Toothache, Earache, Catarrh, Asthma, Pal pitation, Splenic Affections, Hysterics, Pain in the Bowels, Colic, Paralysis, and derauge of the Stomach, all of which become intermit tent or periodical, have no speedier remedy than Aver’s Ague Cure, which cures them all alike, and protects the system from future attacks. As a preventive, it is of immense service in those communities where Fever and Ague prevails, as it stays the development of the disease if taken on the first approach of the premonitory symp toms. Travellers and temporary residents arc thus enabled to defy these disorders, and few will ever suffer if they avail themselves of the protection this remedy affords. For Elver Complaints, arising from torpidity, it is an excellent remedy; it stimulates this organ into healthy activity, and produces many remark able cures where other medicines fail. Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer & Cos., Practical and Analytical Chemists, LOWELL, MASS, BOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE. E. B. BENSON & CO., Agents, Hartwell, Ga. gn UAS BEEN USED AND TESTED BY MANY of the bust Physicians and families in this and adjoining States, and lias gained a reputation, based upon merit, alone, and without puffing, unparalelled in the history of medicine. Five years experience gives us confidence in stating that we believe Sim mon's HErATic Compound or Liver Cuke to be the best liver medicine or regulator in Ilie United States. It will cure Liver Complaint, Bowel Affections, Skin Diseases, Fevers, Collie, Jaundice, Indigestion and Dyspepsia, and many regard it as a “Family Medicine Chest ” in i.self, Simmon's Hepatic Compound is truly a scientific preparation of the most highly nnproved Medicines in the Vegetable Kingdom, sustained by the stand ard authorities of the world. We are constantly receiving verbal and written testimony, unsolicited, which go to prove all we claim for it: and. in the name of suffering humanity, we ask a trial of it. Ask your Druggist or dealer for it, and take no other. All orders addressed to us will receive prompt attention. DOWTE & MOISE, Wholesale Druggists, 40-43 Charleston, S. C. W. 6. ASHLEY &. CO,, (Successors to Jenniugs & Ashley,) 33 South IJrotul Street, ATLANTA, A. 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The I greatest invention of the age. In use in every civilized country in the world. Nine styles. Latest improvements. Price, from $6.00 up. / jr J The Model Press is now giving employment to thousands of persons, /jHjSjMMME nnd is the means of enormous saving to Business men everywhere. ASHEF I HAND tk FOOT FUWtR. i Full particulars in “Mow to PrlntJ’ llßlllllili Hart County Directory. COUNTY OFFICERS. Ordinary —Fred. C. Stephenson. Clerk Superior Court —C. 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 —Chas. W. Seidel. TOWN OFFICERS. Mayor —John Peek. Secretary and Treasurer —W. R. Stephenson. Councilman —E. B. Benson, James W. Williams, W. H. Stephenson, E. H. Sanders, W. It. Stephenson Hart County Religious Directory. METHODIST. Rev. W. P. Smith, Pastor. Pethesda —lst Sabhath and Saturday before. Hartwell —2nd “ “ “ •• Mt. Zion —2nd “ at 4 p. m. Cokesbury —3rd Sabbath, and Saturday before, Providence —4th “ “ “ “ Rev. John Quii.t.an, Pastor. Fellowship —lst Saturday and Sunday. Center —2nd “ “ “ Pedwine —3d “ “ “ Macedonia —4lh “ “ “ Pennington's Chapel —2d Sunday at 3 p. m. Xewtown —3d Sunday at 3 1-2 p. m. Samuel Gilliland's —4in Sunday at 3 1-2 p. m. BAPTIST. Rev. H. M. Barton, Tastor. Hartwell —4th Sabbath and Saturday before. Shoal Creek —2d Sabbath and,Saturday before, rno’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 H. McMullen, Pastor. Line —3rd Sabbath and Saturday before, monthly. Peed Creek —4 th “ “ “ “ Sardis —lst “ “ “ “ Rev. I. H. Goss, Pastor. Cross Poads —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. W. H. SATTERFIELD. W. A. HOLLAND, “REDTOP” SALOON. o FINE WINES, WHISKIES , BRANDIES , CIGARS , and TOBACCOS. J,’ VERYTHING done up in the little brown jug. 3 SATTERFIELD & HOLLAND. WM. F. MARSHALL^ WITH E.W, MARSHALL &Cos„ *\ WHOLESALE DEALERS IN Dry Goods and Notions, Nos. 9 & 11 Hayne Street, 40 CHARLESTON. S. C. 52 I. H. HALL & CO., 2 to 10 MnrUet A 223 A 225 East Bay, CHARLESTON. S. C. SASHES* BLINDB, All kinds of Manufactured Wood Work at unusually low prices, to suit the times. BUILDERS’ HARDWARE, PAINTS, OILS, GLASS, Ac., &c. We have the best ready mixed paints, all colors, guaranteed to give satisfaction. All of the above has our special super vision ; can offer inducements to all pur chasers. Thankful for past favors, we solicit a liberal continuance of the same. Address L H. HALL & CO., Charleston, S. C. Or our Agents, E. It. ItESSOX A Cos., 34 85 Hartwell, Ga. For the cure of Cholera, Chol era-morbus, Cramp Colic, Diarrhea, and all pain and uneasiness in the stomach or bowels, arising from Flux or other causes. KEEP THE BOTTLE WELL CORKED. PRICE TWENTY-FIVE CENTS. For sale by E. B. BENSON & CO., Hartwell, Ga., And hv Druggists and Country Merchants generally. j\r OTICE TO TRESPASSERS. T. N We have some little tracts of land near Hart well, that are valuable for the timber, and we have been informed that firewood and saw logs have been cut off said lands lately. If they are trespassed on again, the parties will be prosecuted. We know you. This May 30th, 1877. 40-43 E. B. BENSON & CO. A PENNY SAVED IS A PENNY MADE. We will send The Sun—usual price sl.so—and the Louisville COURIER-JOURNAL, Weekly edition—usual price s2.oo—nostage prepaid on both papers, one year, for §2.85. Old papers for sale at this office. SOLD jmmsm CHATTAMOOGATenn.