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TO ALL WHOM IT MAT CONCERN
Notice is hereby piven that at the next aeaaion of
the General AHnembly of the State of Georgia, which
convenes in July next, the following bill w ill he in*
troducMl ami asked for final passage to-writ: A Hill
to be eutitlefi An Act to incorporate the Hartwell
Kail road Company and for other punjoses ; said Koad
to run from IJowereville to Hartwell in Hart County,
Georgia. This, May 21, 1879.
E. B- BENSON, Secretary.
Dr. R. P. Sorrells
HAS located in the town of Boynton, and will
practice his profession in too surrounding
country. He attended courses of lectures in the
medical colleges of Philadelphia and Augusta. a of
which he is a graduate. Owing to the depression
in inonev matters, he has concluded to reduce his tees
to one half, and patients living over five miles from
his location will only be charged for five miles lie
will be found at the residence of Mr. Eppy Bonus,
when not professionally absent.
L. J. GARTRELL,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
ATLANTA, OA.,
PRACTICES in the Unite*! State* Circuit and
District Court* at Atlanta, anet the Supreme
and Superior Court# of the Stete 1®
The Hartwell Sun.
By BENSON & McGILL.
VOL. Ill —NO. 42.
DIVORCED.
“ He’ll go to the dogs, now."
“Of course he will.”
“By nil means. Only see how lie
acted when his wife lived with him!
Now that she’s left him, and all restraint
is removed, he’ll go the rest of the down
ward way in no time. Poor Nettie! I
wonder she stood it so long!"
“I’ll give him just a year to be
buried.”
“ Pshaw ! Half that time will finish
him.”
“Well, I pity him, too; hut I pity
her more. lie brought misery on both."
Such was the gossip of half a dozen
villagers, who stood in front of the prin
cipal store, one summer evening, while
the subject of their remarks went stag
gering along on the opposite side of the
street.
It was evident that he was trying to
walk straight, and not to appear intoxi
cated, hut such endeavors always seem
to make such a drunken man walk more
crooked. Well, it proved one thing:
that he was not yet lost to all sense of
shame—that lie still retained a little
pride, and a lingering aversion of being
ridiculed and despised.
But Harry lingers had ear.ied on at
a fearful rate for a year or two past.
He had just one vice—drink—hut that
was enough. He had become an aetnal
drunkard by degrees,and was everyday
grow ing more abandoned. He had mar
ried a worthy farmer’s daughte-, Nettie
Rav, only a few years previously, and
sueli had been his conduct during more
than a year past that she, seeing no hope
of his reform, had been ohliged to east
him loose, to pursue his profligate course
alone; and a legal separation had just
been effected. It was sad. indeed, hut
no other eourse seemed to be left her.
Harry’s home was on a little farm a
mile from tow n. He ow ned it, hut then
it was heavily mortgaged,and in another
year foreclosure was certain. It was
not likely his creditors would spare him,
w hen he made no effort to meet his obli
gations, and spent his time in riotous and
disgraceful conduct.
A week passed after thatsummer eve
ning on which all had agreed in pre
dicting his early ruin—two weeks—three
weeks—a month or two. What strange
mystery is here? To the utter bewilder
ment of the prophesying sages, Harry
discontinued visiting the tavern, and was
rarely ever seen in the village. When
he did come to the store, he speedily
trmsaeted his business and went home
—sober.
But wonders never cease, when they
get a start. He was next reported as
actually at work on his fa-m. Had
hut one man seen this and t< 11 it in the
village he would have been marked as a
man lacking veracity; hut a number of
neighbors saw it and told it, and their
con b'ned testimony was worthy of all
credence.
The little farm began to look health
ier, as the summer wore on. The fences
straightened up : the weeds disappeared ;
the torn grew marvelously; the briars
and elders were rooted up from the fields
and fence rows; the animals looked fat
ter, sleeker and happier; the cottage
looked neater.
Time wore on, and the great change
was the more strongly marked each day.
Harry’s creditors called and told him
they would not he hard on him, seeing
that lie was doing his best, and he might
have his own time about paying off his
debts and clearing his farm of the mort
gage.
The fall came, and the farm yielded
an abundance of gulden corn and fruit;
such crops, indeed, as it had never pro
duced before, and Ilarrv found himself
beginning to drift along with the tide of
prosperity.
And Nettie Ray had begun to live
her young girlhood over again, as it were,
under her father’s roof; blit, somehow,
it was not like the happy, joyous girlhood
of memory. It was sober and quiet
now, and Nettie fell into trains of musing
and every now and then passed through
her mind a certain sad thought—she
was neither maid nor wife.
She avoided the vicinity of her late
home, nor had she once seen Harry since
the separation ; but she had heard of
him occasionally, and knew that he was
a changed man. Still, this knowledge
brought her hut a melancholy satisfac
tion. The reform had come too late —
too Inte! There was a wide gulf be
tween them now.
But one evening, in the golden Octo
ber, Nettie found herself ruther obliged
to pass Harry’s farm. It lay between
her father’s house and the village, hut
she had heretofore taken a round-about
road in going and returning from the
village. On the evening in question,
however, she had been detained in the
village, unconsciously, till it was nearly
dark, and she determined to hazard the
nearest road home. It would be fully
dark when she would pass bis house,
and the chances were that he would not
see her. She wouldn't have him see
her for the world !
When she arrive/! opposite the house,
she perceived that there was a light in
the little sitting room. Her first im
pulse was to hurry by, but some more
HARTWELL, GA., WEDNESDAY JUNE 18. 187!).
powerful influence prompted her to stop.
She did so, anti stood timidly at the
farther side of the road, gazing long
ingly at the house that had been a home
for her—first of happiness, then of mis
ery. By and by, she felt an irresistible
yearning to look at the room once more.
He was evidently within, and there was
no danger that he would see her. So
she walked hurriedly across the road,
opened the gate softly, anti stepped in
to the lawn. Another moment, and she
was at the window, looking in. What
singular behavior! but she could not
help it.
The little room was as neat as when
she herself had watched over it. A
cheerful fire was burning in the grate,
although it was not very cold, and a
lighted lamp stood on the table. It
was there that Ilarry was sitting. llow
her heart bounded as she caught sight
of him ! He held in his right hand a
book, from his scanty library.
She recognized it at once : hut he was
not reading now. He had allowed it
to drop, with its pages looking mutely
to the ceiling—and his face was sup
ported, half concealed in the left hand,
the elbow resting on the table. Was
he asleep, or was he buried in a sad
reverie? Nettie thought that the latter
was the case, and her heart was touch
ed.
“ I wish I had borne with him,” she
said to herself.
But a moment later her iieart was
more than touched, when she was sure
she saw a tear roll down his cheek, and
drop upon the hook. The lonely man
was not asleep ; he was crying.
She could not help it. All that was
womanly in her heart was aroused, and
she was at the door in a moment. No
ceremony—she burst into the sitting
room and was at his side.
“Oh, Harry!”
Her voice quivered with emotion.
“ Why, Nettie !” lie exclaimed, try
ing to hide his tears —men are ashamed
of them—“ Is—it you?”
“ Yes, Harry 1” hiding her face in her
hands, “ I was passing—looked in—l
saw you sitting here so lonely, and
could not heli> coming in. I thought of
the time when we were happy here, and
Then her womanly tears couhf he re
pressed no longer. There was no use
trying to hide them. Besides, her
voice broke down and she could say no
more just then.
“ Nettie !” he arose and took both of
her hands from her face and held them
in his own. “I thought you had blot
ten me out of your memory.”
“ No, no, Ilarry!” she sobbed, “ I
could not do that. I could not help
leaving you ; but I left you loving you
more than ever. Oh, I have been un
happy since!”
“ Nettie, you have heard that I.”
“Yes, I have heard that you are
changed—that you no longer drink any
more—that you are again manly and
industrious as you used to be : but how
lonely you must be here?" and the tears
gushed forth anew, as her heart felt
what her lips spoke.
•• Yes, I'm lonely, Nettie—more so
than you may think; hut I deserve
this punishment for the way I have act
ed. I had no discouragements, I had
nothing to make me do so. It was only
a passion for drink, that it seemed im
possible fos me to overcome. You were j
all a wife should be or could he. When
you left me I thought I should become
more-reckless than ever. Only a day
or two after I knew you had left me for
good, I was in town, drunk, and I heard
some of the village people—they did
not think I could hear them across the
street —passing all sorts of remarks
about me, saying that I was a doomed
man for certain, that my destruction
was near. Although intoxicated, it
startled ine, and for the first time I felt
the full force of our separation, and re
alized that ruin stared me in the face.
I had a bottle of whisky in my pocket
at the time, and when I got out of town
I smashed it, bathed my face in a little
clear stream of water at the roadside,
and silently resolved never to touch
whisky again. I had tried it long
enough to know that I could not drink
and he temperate. It was hard for me
to keep my resolve for the first week
or two; but I stuck to it, and so my taste
for drink disappeared. I care nothing
for it now, and would not touch it if
it ran in streams. Now, Nettie, if you
love me as ever—and God knows that
I love you the same—let us start anew,
let ns get married over again, and the
1 litter experience of the last two years
will only enhance our happiness. Net
tie, dear, what do you say'!”’
She could not answer. She was cry
ing as though her heart would break,
and her head was pillowed upon his
breast. It was more eloquent “ Yes ”
than she could have spoken with the
tongue.
“ Harry,” she finally sobbed, in a
self-reproachful way, “ I might have
borne with you longer.”
“ No, no, Nettie, it was best. It lias
brought us certain happiness now. God
bless you for coming into my lonely
home this evening!”
His arms were around bar neck, and
Devoted to Hart County.
lxt kissed her forehead.
The moon was rising anti it had
never looked so happy as it did while
he walked home with Nettie to her
fat her’s.
So Harry Rogers and Nettio Ray
married again, and there is no divorce
that could separate them now.
Hulincville, Elbert County, Dots.
The weather has been and still is
dry, drier, driest. The enrth revolves
through dry places seeking rain ami
finding none.
Mr. Ruff has been cutting oats for
three weeks—red and black. He has
a blacksmith shop up, and can do
almost any kind of work that any live
naan can do, and lots that no dead man
can do.
Joseph Adams has cotton squares too
numerous to mention and too tedious
to count.
Willis Haley's fresh field of wheat
will soon have to be cut, if it is not
blown down, or the cattle do not eat it
HP-
By the way, James Bone can beat
the drum louder, and blow the bugle
stronger than a dozen other men all
bundled together.
We killed a snake the other day
green the main color, streaked length
wise and around, and as hard as a gar
fish. Can any one tell its name ?
A little boy in this neighbrhood was
called to dinner—three hundred yards
otf— the other day. He started otf sit
right angles, and cannot tell why he
did; but when he got to a certain
post-oak in another field he found a
large swarm of bees on the tree, which
■non went into a hollow limb and are
doing well.
A person in our vicinity has been
for some months past at times oppress
ed by a choking and swelling about the
stomach, windpipe and glands of the
throat. Some days ago a very strange
worm was discharged. It was an inch
or more in length, of a lead color, black,
round, hard, smooth head, in ridges
longitudinally, tapering as a common
snake, and most intensely vindictive,
trying to bite wood or anything it could
get hold of. Did any reader ever hear
of or see the like before ? Any in
formation gladly received.
Wc were in a gentleman’s melon
patch a few days ago, and saw water
melons as large as a man's head or
less. I think the boys about here are
aiming to make the largest melon for
“ The Sun one year.” They seem to
be run mad on the melon question;
and we are afraid, that by the time they
are ripe the hoys will be so deranged
that they will not know whose patch
they are in, or how many they pull.
Mrs. Rutf planted her garden out in
cabbage plants five times, and the cut
worms have cut the last one down.
Mrs. Bond planted hers out seven
teen times, and the last time she
planted it she was holding the last
plant in her hand talking a moment to
a friend, and when she looked at her
plant a worm had crawled up into her
hand and eaten the plant—all but the
root. She thinks a barrel would not
hold the worms in her garden. Now
she and Mrs. Huffs say greens are un
healthy, and they content themselves
by singing “old hundred.” Had these
ladies come to us we could have told
them how to keep the worms from cut
ting their greens. They did not come,
but will tell them of our success, and
they may profit by it. The worms did
not cut our greens because wc—didn’t
plant some. Tyro.
If you have any doubts in your
mind, either by rumor, hearsay or re
port, that. James Conwill is not a good
singer, come and hear him ; besides lie
stands as high ns any youngster in the
vicinity.
If you wish to hear cannons roar,
lions howl and any other heavy
noise, just hear John Taylor, Willie
Smith and John Ilalev on the base. It
is worth fifty cents a day to lienr them,
and to hear Milton Conwill sing
“ Babylon is fallen.”
E. 15. Taylor has a school in the
neighborhood, and he driveth like Jehu,
furiously.
Billings’ Advice (o Joe.
By awl means, Joe, get married if
you haven fairsliow. Don't stand shiv
ering on the bank, but pitch in and
stick your head under, and the shiver is
over There ain’t any more trick inget
ting married after you’re ready than
there is in eating peanuts. Menny a
man has stood shivering on the shore till
the river all run out. Don’t expect t<>
marry an angel; them hev all been pick
ed up long ago. Remember, Joe, you
ain't a saint yourself. Do not marry
for butv exclusively; buty is like ice,
awful slippery’, and thaws dreadful easy.
Don’t marry for luv neither; luv is like
a cooking stove, gud for nothing when
the fuel gives out. But let the mixture
be some buty, becomingly dressed with
about two hundred and fifty dollars in
her pocket, a gud speller, handy and
neat in her house, plenty of good sense,
a tuff constitution and by-laws, small
feet, a light step; add to this sound
81.50 Per Annum.
WHOLE NO. id;
I teeth autl a warm heart. This mixture
j will keep in any climate, and not evap
orate. If the cork happens to he left
out for two or three minits, the strength
ain’t all gone, Joe. Don’t marry foi
pedigree; there aint much in pedigret
unless it is bucked by bank stocks. A
family with nothing but pedigree gen
erully luck sense.
Our Traveling Governor.
Kume Tiibunr.
In Aristotle’s duy, he had a class
of followers who walked while they
studied or talked. It seemed that thoii
brains would not act unless they kept
their feet in motion.
Governor Colquitt appears to havt
also adopted the peripatetic system, ami
although the method is a novel one in
Georgia politics, lie seems to understand
his duty to l>e that of a traveling Sun
day-school agent —a gubernatorial col
porteur —a lecturer who combines relig
ion and his chances for a re nomination :
a kind of soi diannt itinerary and peri
patetic polities. This is anew (angled
system, and tinless Mr. Murphy man
ages all the State's business as satisfac
torily to the Governor as he managed
1 the Northeastern bonds, we are coin pell
ed to believe the Governor’s di tr lies a
little nearer to the State lb u<e than
either Chatauqua or Brooklyn. If he
only knew how many sneers had been
called forth by this new Sunday-chool
jamboree, with the scandal about the
old man reverend, he could m t suppose
all these newspaper flourishes, put up
by admiring Bohemian ink-slingers, any
compensation for the aforesaid sneers.
Some are asking “ who foots the bills
this time?” Others inquire, “ Did the
Rolling Mill or Tuggle supply the
Rhino?” We are sorry Governor Col
quitt liskctl auothcr one of these politi
eo-religious journeys until the Murphy
fee had been settled bv the Legislature.
It Creates talk and unfriendly comment.
If Governor Colquitt feels it his duty
to preach and travel for Sunday-schools,
he has a right to do so. His commission
from the church is a much higher one
than his commission as Governor, hut
he should not try to serve two masters iu
the wav lie is doing. lie is employed
by the State to look alter her iuiitw*
just as if lie were the head clerk of a
hanking house. He should attend to it
too, or resign.
Unless Mr. Murphy is the real Gov
ernor, there is no excuse for this peram
bulating way of doing business and in
that ease Mr. Murphy should have the
credit.
If you take out the benefit to Gar
lington and Alston, and the same to
Tuggle, you have nothing left to mark
this administration and its eighty thous
and majority except the Murphy fee aud
a lot of Sunday-school jamborees.
A Word lo Ministers of flie Gospel.
For The Hartwell Sun.
In this day ministers are engaged in
a very important and difficult work.
No other calling can compare with it.
All true ministers are divinely called to
the same work—the same in every es
sential feature ; their hopes and fears,
aids and obstacles, their trials and tri
umphs are one. Why, then, should
they hinder each other's work ? God
forbid that they do this. Their sympa
thy for eacli other should be holy, deep
and abiding. They should not rejoice
in each other's defeat. In their treat
ment one of the other there should lie
ever felt and displayed the truest kind
ness, the most generous concern and
the purest affection. No envy ol a
brother minister’s talents, acquirements
or popularity should be for a moment
indulged; never, without an urgent
reason, should they utter a disparaging
word of one another. The sneer—the
inuendo—the be-iittleing word should
never be heard. Never shoull they
throw a straw in each other's way, Of
that sort of work the devil and wicked
men and worldly profes-ors will do
enough. Ministers should be helpers
of each other's joy ; they should lie li
borers together with Go t; they should
love one another with a pure heart fer
vently. The world should see that
Gospel ministers at least dwell toget her
in unity. Such a heavenly spectacle
would go far towards convincing the on
looking world of the divinity of Chris
tianitv. Sue!) mutual and cordial fel
lowship and co-operation would might!y
comfort each other's hearts and greatly
strengthen each other's hands. Would
to Heaven that such a state of things
were far more common among the pro
fessed ministers of Christ. Would
that all words ol misrepresentation and
detraction and all undermining acts
might forever cease. llow will such j
things appear in the Judgment Day ? !
How do they now grieve the Holy
Spirit and work the defeat of the Gos
pel and the ruin of souls. Come,
brethren, let us draw near to God and
one another. Let us get so much of
the Holy Ghost that we cannot help
loving, cheering nnd strengthening
each other in our high and holy calling.
S. R.
Flower of the family—the girl who
makes the bread
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EDITORIAL MELANGE.
Wilkie Collins is coming to America.
Let her come—who’s afraid !
Which would you prefer a Moffett
bell punch Orr a brandy smash ?
The Augusta police are passing
•ound the dog collars. Hope they will
all be tight (its.
When you sit down fin a pin. don’t
stop to study who put it there, but get
right up from there.
The Clark Light Infantry of Augusta
went on an excursion to Savannah.
Guess they were white folks.
Jones Adair of Morgan comity, aged
*t“2, plows Ids own crop.—Gainesville
Argus. Well, we should think he was
old enough to do it.
Have the public no rights that goats
are bound to respect ? asks the Savan
nah Recorder. The Town Council of
Hartwell don't think so.
Lowndes county favors the Moffett
punch and a dog law. That is all right,
if Moirctt will only punch the dogs
hard enough to kill them.
Every month we see the papers note
dint the Atlanta Post is another month
older, and it is now going on nine
months old. What sort, of way is that
—having a birth day every month.
The Middle Georgia Argus wishes it
was a penitentiary oirence to play base
ball. Yes, or anything else base say
wc. Then they would have a fine
opportunity of playing with base balls
to their hearts content.
Senator Matt Carpenter is killing
himself with tobacco. Ho smokes
'Vnni 20 to 30 choice cigars a day, and
fills in the spare time with pulls at his
pipe. lie will smoke worse than that
some day—but we anticipate.
Hori. W. L. Goldsmith is President
of the State Sunday School Associa
tion. We don’t know, but we reckon
Gov. Colquitt is President of the
World's Association from Greenland'*
coral strand to the Indian's icy moun
tains.
The Police News has a truthful ac
count of the killing of the negro wo
man in Anderson county, S. C., last
month by Knrgcrson. It even has a
picture of the alfair, in which the negoes
arc busy picking cotton. Picking cot
con in May!
A man living near St. Albans Bay
lias one of the most curious freaks of
nature. He captured three frogs, all
fastened together like the Siamese
twins. This news will be hailed with
joy by Hart county frog caters as the
present supply does not equal the de
mand, und this new style of three
- z--o - ii- —*
ment. Send for a paper of seed.
Did the Witch Raise Samuel?
fur The Hartnell Sun.
It was our fortunate lot to bear the
Rev. Win. Norman preach about the
Witch of Endor raising Samuel from
the dead, a few days ago. It is, I think,
believed by many that the Witch did
raise Samuel; but he showed to the sat
isfaction of all that the Witch did no
such thing. Some may, after reading
this, still believe the old theory; but as
we never did believe if. we are still of
the same opinion. Mr. Norman’s re
marks were pointed, positive, pungent
and powerful. Heexpoundcd theScrip*-
ture alluded to energetically, theoreti
cally and theologically. Ho said that
God did not permit that wicked Woman
to raise the prophet, hut tliut God Him
self brought up Samuel. Read the ac
count found in the 28th Chapter of Ist
Samuel, and if you think otherwise, we
should lie very glad to see something
from anv of you that might throw light
on it. We are sorry we cannot give the
whole sermon, but it would he too long.
In conclusion, we think it would be time
and labor well spent for oue to ride
twenty miles to hear Mr. N. preach on
the Witch of Endor, and to hear Mr.
E. Chapman sing “How happy every
child of grace, etc.” We believe they
can preach and sing better than Moody
and Sankey. At any rate we would go
farther to hear them. If you do not
think they can, invite Mr. N. to preach
the same sermon at Hartwell, and Mr.
Chapman to sing, and you will lie very
pleasantly convinced of the actual fact.
Tyro.
A Noble Woman.
In one of the naval battles during tho
war of 1812 an English officer was shot
to pieces. He lost both legs and one
arm and recovered. The brave girl to
whom he was to he married received a
letter from him cancelling their engage
ment on account of his crippled body.
“ If you have body enough left to hold
your"soul, I will marry you,” was her
noble reply. A similar incideut, it
scents occurred iu our civil war:
There may sometimes be met in the
streets of Portland a bright-eyed, rosy
little woman usually accompanied by
two children, one a fair little girl, and
the other an apple-munching urchin.
Nothing extraordinary about that, but
thereby hangs a tale.
At the time of the “ late unpleasant
ness” this Tittle lady’s lover wns a sol
dier, and was down with Phil Sheridan
in the Shenandoah, where he lost a leg.
Her friends notified her that ol course
she would regard the engagement as
cancelled.
“I shall do nothing of the kind, she
replied.
“ What; marry a one-legged man."
“Of course I’m going to! Why,
bless your souls, if they’d shot James all
1 * wav and left the leg, I’d marry that !**