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Soluble Pacific Guano and Whann’s Raw-Bone Super-Phosphate—Price Reduced to $72
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nrdni'Mlii). April 3. IH.f.
BENSON & McOILL, Editors.
A. 0. McCPHRY. Associate E liter.
tiewb or ii. mrain.
During an interview a Tew days ago with
a reporter of the Washington Post. Mr.
Stephens presented his views on tho situa
tion which are so clear, practical and well
presented we think a synopsis of them
might not le devoid of interest to our
readers. In the first place he is utterly
opposed to confining the proceedings of the
present Congress to the legislative and
army appropriation hills, which made tho
convening of the present session a necessi
ty. There are measures of great general
interest that ought to hr immediately con
sidered. The present revenue system is
oppressive and unjust; it ought to he mod
ified or repealed. In mnny features it is
the most unjust system ever established in
any country, not excepting Ireland. Mr.
Stephens condemns in strong terms the
idea of sending a man to the penitentiary
for distilling for his own use, and that of
his family, his own fruits and grain—an
offense trivial in its character. This whole
revenue system hears unequally, not upon
States and sections alone, hut upon labor.
The toiling millions in the mines, the work
shops, factories, and on the farms hear the
burdens of government, while the great
body of the wealth of the government con
tributes nothing to its support.
Mr. Stephens adverts to the financial
problem. The volume of currency is too
small. Congress should provide for its in
crease. The whole amount is hardly suffi
cient to pay the taxes, if it all had to be
paid on the same day. There is hardly
one-fifth of the amount of money in circu
lation necessary for the business of the
country. The present volume should he
increased five hundred millions. The plan
by which this can he done is a grave ques
tion, hut Mr. Stephens thinks it can he
done. One plan is to authorize nil unlimited
coinage of silver. Next to this, the pres
ent debased silver coin, which is a cheat,
should he retired, and there should he is
sued certificates of silver and gold bullion
to an unlimited extent. Under our pres
ent mint system thirty-six millions of dol
lars per year is the maximum coinage, hut
the bullion can lie essayed, values stamp
ed. certificates issued, and in tho course
of five or six months a circulation of five
or six hundred millions could he put forth.
Mr. Stephens thinks the result of this
would give activity to every department of
industry, and that men in all the pursuits
of life would feel the beneficial effects in a
short time. Currency is the blood of our
country. What we need is more good
sound healthy blood. This plan would
subserve both ends. The gold and silver
would be in tho Treasury to icdecin the
certificates; the currency' would he sound.
Being receivable in payment of all public
dues, this would be the medium of ex
change throughout this country, and in
every part of the world where we have
business dealings.
Mr, Stephens then goes on to show how
the necessary revenue can be raised to run
the government by a modification of the
tariff laws, ami by rigidly taxing all stocks,
bonds and securities that are now exempt.
All in all, the views of Mr. Stephens
are able and replete with wise statesman
ship, and if the “ Croat Commoner” can
devise some plan to bring relief to the wide
spread distress that prevails throughout
the land, or to chock the increasing evils,
it will be a crowning wreath to a grand and
philanthropic character whose life has been
nobly spent in the public service of his
country.
IX oru FATHER’S HOUSE.
A grave responsibility rests upon the
Democratic members of the present Con
gress. Through patient forbearance and
through long endurance they have breast
cd the waves and have emerged at last
above the crested billows. They have a
small majority, and the commencement
of the record which they make will to a
a great extent involve the greatest inter
ests of our country for years to come. It
is important that the record commences
right. It should be characterized by fair
ness, impartiality, conservatism, and above
all, destitute of that narrow rancorous sec
tionalism which characterized that party
that has just been forced to relinquish its
grasp upon the helm of Government. The
South will no longer be misrepresented.
One by one those who were not the true
representatives and who were not capable
of reflecting true Southern manhood and
character, have been forced to retire, and
the places that knew them once will know
them no more forever. The work has been
progressing, and now but small remnants
remain of that dark and bitter period that
afflicted our beloved land. Their places
have been tilled by men of ability and
character—men who can illustrate the
grand section that sent them there and de
fend the rights of her people. After the
long hegira of misrule they are again in
their father's house, and there they mean
to Stay amidst ail the dangerous scenes the
future may bring forth, or tiie inroads on
Constitutional liberty that may be made
bv disappointed ambition and dominant
fanaticism. Hut in al! that they say or do
they should remember the bitter experi
ence of the past, and demonstrate that all
its cruelties and mistakes are buried out of
sight, ami that they will prove worthy of
the great trust in their keeping and legis
late for the good of cur entire and common
country.
41'DUE TUTTLE.
Judge Pottle is being subjected to some
\ verv severe criticisms by some of the pa
; pers of bis circuit. From an intimate per
sonal acquaintance with Judge I*, we are
convinced that it is uncalled for. and in
just. W’o know that there does not to-day
wear the Judicial ermine of Georgia, a
more honest, conscientious and incorrup
tible officer than Judge Pottle.—Gaines
ville Eagle.
W'e take the greater pleasure in repro
ducing the above in our columns from the
fact that a communication lately appeared
therein containing severe strictures on the
Judge's conduct during the .Superior Court
at Elbcrton, with reference to the fining of
Coleman, and which wo have no doubt
plnces him in an improper light, before our
readers. The article appeared simply as a
communication, and wo had nothing to do
with the assertions it made, neither did we
in the slightest degree endorse its senti
ments. As wo were uot present at the oc
currence. and know not of our knowledge
all the real facts of the transaction, we are
unable to present them ; we would that we
could, believing that such would be justice
to Judge Pottle, and feeling full confident
that the tacts would be bis best vindica
tion. Indeed, we arc assured from the
most authentic statements of the transac
tion. from the evidence adduced before him.
he was fully justified in holding that Cole
man was in contempt of court and in im
posing penalties on him for it. Judge Pot
tle's eminent character as an honest, faith
ful and upright jurist is well established,
and continued experience adds new lustre
to the same. We have thought proper to
say this much, lest our views might be
misunderstood, and we therefore cheerful
ly shed the luminous rays of Tim Sun
around the bold, vigorous and well put
judgment of the Eagle in bearing testimo
ny to the lofty character of our able Judge.
EDITORIAL MELANGE.
Gen. Gordon's health is improving.
Pulaski County has a peafowl thirty-two
years old.
A glass manufactory is talked of in
Atlanta.
Hartwell is tho prettiest little town in
Georgia.—A then* W atclinian.
Another valuable mineral spring has
been discovered near Gainesville.
The first Grant club of the campaign has
been organized at Terre Ilaut, Indiana.
Hon. Alex. 11. Stephens seems to be
working in the lend in the present Congress.
J. P. P. Harrell, of Sumter, has fifty
acres of wheat three feet high and heading
out finely.
Hamilton is still unable to take bis scat
in Congress, though his general health is
still improving.
The Toccoa News improves very rapidly
of late. The same may be said of the
Carnesville Register.
Dr. J. R. Brown, of Toccoa. came very
near cutting off one of his lingers the other
day with a hatchet.
Atlanta has a sun-bonnet factory which
gives employment to sixty white girls at
from three to five dollars a week.
Hartwell is said to he the prettiest little
town in Georgia. We do know that The
Sun is one ol the prettiest little papers in
the world. —Augusta Evening News.
The Gainesville Eagle wants the streets
sanded. It puts Ham on Ins trumps to
carry his feet, without the additional mud
freight.
Several of ourcotempnraries are noticing
the nourishing condition of the Hartwell
High School. It is a credit to the town
and county.
James Barnes, nged about 54, and
weighing 040 pounds, died in Blountville,
Tenn.. last Thursday, lie was a soldier
in the Mexican war.
A mnn named liuford killed Judge Jno.
M. Filiott, of Louisville, Ky., last week,
on account of a decision rendered by the
Judge against a relative.
We acknowledge the receipt of the pro
ceedings of the State Horticultural Society
at its third annual meeting, held at Macon.
Ga., July 81st and August Ist, IS7S.
Princess Editha Lo/.ala, llarroness of
Rosenthal and Countess of l.nndsfcldt,
will lecture in Atlanta in aft v days. She
is waging a crusade against Catholicism.
A mad dog was killed in Augusta one
day last week. Poor fellow, he did not
live long enough to be taxed. Commis
sioner Orr should wear crape for a season.
The Toccoa News makes the startling
announcement that Chattooga mountain
is gradually sinking. A rumbling and
commotion was fell and heard up there on
the 20th inst.
Wanted—to know if the editor of The
Hahtwkll Si n was present at the hen
convention at •• Possum Trot ” at which
the •• rumpless pullet ” acted as secretary.
—Cummmg Clarion.
F. L. Cardozo. the convicted cx-State
J Treasurer, has returned to Columbia, sur
j rendered himself to the Sheritf and now
! lodges in jail under sentence of three years
imprisonment for swindling the State while
in oltice. —Anderson Intelligencer.
Did you ever wrestle with a cellar door,
on a dark rainy night? The remembrance
of such an event is botli fresh and painful
to us.—Gainesville Argus.
Oh. well, keep your jug in the closet
hereafter.
The Chicago Times says nearly all the
olhcers of tiie Confederate State govern
ment are n >w members of the IT. S. Con
gress. and says further. ** the fleshless
skeleton of Vice-President Stephens sug
gests a reanimated tenant of the old Bour
bon graveyard." It fears Jefferson Davis
also will be sent to Congress. Yes, yes ;
a kind of Democratic resurrection, ain't it?
Well, the first thing the Chicago Times
knows Coogrefs will hark to our Toombs !
Taking colored and white, one in every
three of the population of Georgia is a
member cither of the Baptist or Methodi.-t
Church. What a good State this ought to
be t We suppose if Presbyterians, F.pis
copalians, Roman Catholics. Universalists
and odds and ends of other denominations
were counted we would all be members,
except a few case-hardened sinners that all
the water of the Atlantic Ocean, all the
sand of the Great Desert, all of Colgate'*
soap, with tho help of all the corn cobs
of Illinois could not cleanse.
The Hartwell Suk uses up a cent pos
tal card to remark privately to this office
that if The Sun hurts the eyes of the
Eagle, they will cense to exchange. The
Sun is a powerful bright luminary, indeed
one of the brightest andfiiest country pa
pers in Georgia, and our friends must not
tear uk from their hearts and exchange list.
We could not stand it. Let your light so
shine, brothers, that the Eagle may see to
wing its way to vour bailiwick.—A slice of
Ham from the Gainesville Eagle.
The Cnrnesville Register and Toccoa
News are discussing the propriety of cut
ting off Toccon from Habersham and hitch
ing it on to Franklin. We hardly think
Hninbersham would like the idea of losing
its most thriving and beautiful town. The
Register, however, darkly hints that Toc
coa might want to be the capital of Frank
lin. which would not suit the ideas of
Carnesville.
McCarty, of the Elbcrton Gazette, has
some very handsome things to say of Hart
well, Hart County, The Sl'N and Bowers
ville. We failed to get him in the paper
court-week, but be is as well known in
this county as bis excellent paper. Rut
whenever Jim Harper comes up here, we
intend to rip him up from stem to stern.
Harper, of the Elbcrton Gazette, objects
to pinning bis faith to a woman's sleeve, for
fear of losing bis independence. But he
don't object to a plump, bare arm taking a
few circles around bis neck, and when her
onion-tinctured breath greets his oil factory
—independence can go to thunder then.
Asa change, would like to sec what man
can stand on his head the longest ; walk
ing has about walked out. Sore-headed
politicians and bald-headed men are not cx
pecteil to engage in this useful exercise,
but they might try sitting on a hot stove in
lieu thereof.
Milledgevillc was visited by a cyclone
recently, which destroyed the bridge over
the Oconee river, and tore the lops off of
many store-houses. Some lives were lost,
and a considerable amount of property de
stroyed. The storm was very severe at
other points.
The population of the city of London is
4.000,000, and is equal to the following
American cities combined : New York.
Philadelphia, St. Louis. Chicago, Boston,
Baltimore, Cincinnati, New Orleans, Buf
falo, San Francisco. Washington, Louis
ville and Hartwell.
“ We have been thinking about it some
time. So here goes : Title II ART WELL
Sun. published at Hartwell. Ilart countv,
Ga.. is one of the most sprightly, interest
ing. and neatly printed weekly papers on
our exchange list.”—Hawkinsvillc Dis
patch.
Ouch, how good that makes us feel !
A case “ Where ignorance is bliss 'tis
folly to lie wise ” —we'll bet a dollar that
one-half of the women in Georgia do not
know who is President; and not one wo
man in live hundred in Virginia knows
that Blaine's grandmother was a Virginian.
The Elberton Gazette says Rev. G. M.
Campbell told the congregation of the Bap
tist .Church, that if they didn't pay his
salary in foil that he would not preach on
the Sunday following. The salary was
not and he did not preach.
Two trains on the New York Elevated
Railway collided last week. The trains
and the track were badly smashed, and a
number of passengers were severely in
jured, among whom was Mrs. Win. Henry
Peck, of Atlanta. No one killed.
Pi of. Frank 11. Bradley, former Assist
ant State Geolqpwt. was crushed to death
in a gold mine in Nacoochee by the caving
of the walls last week. This is a severe
blow to the development of the mining in
terest in that section.
The Warrenton Clipper recommends
yellow jessamine, which may be found in
swamps, as a sure rat poison. Gather the
flowers now and drop them where the an
imals use, and they will cat thereof and
die.
Music hath charms to soothe the savage.
This is why we occasionally sec a cross
dog with a brass hand around his neck.—
Gainesville Argus.
Yes ; but if you want to hear trilling
music, just tie a kettle drum to the dog's
tail.
McGill, of the Hartwell Sun. is one
of the hardest workers in the State, lie
undoubtedly gets up the freshest, bright
est newspaper in Georgia, and his office,
like his excellent weekly, is as neat and
tasty as a lady's boudoir.—Athens Watch
man.
The editor of the Warrenton Clipper has
been interviewing a jug that is more than
a hundred years old. He did not saj' what
was in it ; hut we suppose it was vinegar.
The jug was brought from Europe.
Eighty thousand tons of guano had been
analyzed in Georgia up to the “23d nit., at
a cost of £40.000. What goes with the
people's money, eh? Such protection is
wolf Keeping oiFwglf. Both had better be
left severely alone.—Warrenton Clipper.
The Atlanta Constitution says : ‘•Re
form has begun. Many young men have
transferred their pistols from their hips to
their breast-pockets. They are just as
handy and by no means so conspicuous.”
If you need a Sewing Machine, cal! and
see ours. The low price will surprise you.
Benson & McGill.
,Go to Benson A Co's and examine their
new stock of Plows, Stocks, Ac. Prices
down, down !
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Address, TIIE EAGLE. Gainesville, Ga.
Kkdwixk A 11am. Publishers.
FRUIT TREES !
Patronize Yoir NeigHler!
AT the urgent request of my neighbors, who j
wished to avail theimwlvcH of the benefit of my ;
in raining Fruit. I have within the last j
two years propagated several thousand trees of the
choicest ra net ini. including a smession of Apples
and Peaches from the earliest " May Apple to the
latest. Also, the best varieties of Pears. Apricots.
Plums. Nectarines. Figs. Almonds. Grapes, (iierries,
&c. Ido not lmd any'but those that- 1 know to he
reliable and adapted to this climate: and I warrant
every tree both to live and to bear the kind of fruit
I represent.
I have within the last 25 or 30 years tested more
than PHI varieties of Winter Apples; and out of
that number I have found less than a dozen that suit
this climate, and my experience has been the same,
to a greater or less extent with all other fruits : and
it will he the same with any person who buys trees
indiscriminately from peddlers ami distant nurse
ries. Every -fruit Has its particular climate, out of
which it is not safe to move it very far. The Apple
is especially capricious in this respect, ami though
it can he safely moved a short distance eu*t. west or
North, it will lint bear moving even UO miles South.
Although I cannot offer a long catalogue of high-
Sounding names like the regular nurserymen. I can
still furnish any person with more varieties than he
will need 1 have a good selection of winter Apples
now that I can safely warrant to be reliable in this
climate. I have several sorts that I have kept tiil
Jnl.v and Angnst. ....
Those wishing trees arc requested not to buy till
they see or communicate with me. There is plenyv
of time between now and November ; which is the
best month to move them.
I will sell at lowest market prices.
133 J. W. EARLE. Holland’s Store, S. C,
iTt a umrn A limited number of
WANI HI I * c^ve cner P e ti c canvassers to
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advertisement by letter, enclosing stamp for reply,
stating what business they have been engaged in.
None but those who mean business need apply.
Address, FINLEY, HARVEY Sl CO.,
Ki 4 Atlanta, Ga.
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VVr ~ 1,1 THIS HON I II dupiwe nj
1110 PIANOS A OKI. VXS. !<• anil <<toiiil
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lower 111-ices for ci.xli. or liiHtnllmt-nl*. Ilian ever
before oil, le.l. SPI.KN DID OUti AXS 9 self* of
mils 865. 3 sots with Sub Bass auil Coupler B*o,
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(-1 EdROIA—H ART COUNTY.
X Whereas. 11. F. Walters and Lumpkin Wal
ters, executors of A. J. M. Walters, deceased, pe
tions in terms of the law for a discharge from said
executorship. These art' therefore to cite and ad
monish all A-oneerncd to show cause at my othco on
or before the first Monday in May next why said
discharge should not he granted. Given under my
hand at office, this 20tii day of January, 1679.
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ELEEISTOIT, GhZi. ,
OFFER the following Popular and Standard brands of Fertilizers to the Planters of this and adjoining
Counties :
Excellenza Gotfosa ITertilizer,
Criant Guano, Fatapsco,
Grange Mixture,
JLcid Fhospliate,
Dissolved Bone and Potash,
The nlmvc Guanos can be had from our Agents on the Elberton Air-Line Railroad at the following
places: lbnston, W. A. Roy stun, Agent; West liowersviile, Glover Sl Ruuds, Agents; Lavouia, T. J.
black well. Agent.
Talk is cheap—but Cotton buys the Goods. Planters wishing Guano, will do well to call on the abovs
Agents; also, the undersigned at Elberton, Ga.
J. H. & T. A. JONES,
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E. B. BENSON it CO. are now Agents for the celebrated
WHANN’S
RAW-BONE SUPER-PHOSPHATE.
plow brand i .
They are getting in a stock fresh from the Factory this week. It is needless to tell
those who have used it ol its met its. All who ever tried it are well pleased with the
results. There is no better Guano in the land. Call on us. and see the splendid analy
sis and the relative commercial value to others. This is a high grade Guano and can
not fail to give entire satisfaction. The price has been
BEDTJCEID TO $72
With Cotton Option 13 cents, or 480 pounds of Cotton for a ton.
E. B. BENSON k CO.,
Agents, Bowersville. Ga.