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THE SUN.
II ikTWI LI,. IIA Ml M % * '
Vl idiii'iilaij. Oflolurl, IH7I.
BENSON & MoGILL. Editors.
A. G. MrCURRY, Associate Editor.
Thk Chronicle A Constitutionalist is get
ting better in its old age.
Thh friends of Rev. T. C. Boykin will
be sorry to hear that his wife is dead.
Thk Atlanta Dispatch is now a morning
paper. The top o’ the morning to ye.
Members of the Legislature can carry
Christmas presents to their children when
they go home.
We arc happy to state that lion. A. G.
McCurry is still rapidly improving, and in
a few' more days will be able to come up
town and look around.
Prominent Republicans held a meeting
in Washington City recently for the pur
pose of devising means of organizing their
party in the South. Independents should
make a note of this.
An Atlanta girl put on her brother’s
clothes, and went out for a stroll through
the city the other day. Put alas! she
fainted ; a doctor appeared upon thw scene
and—let tho cat out of the wallet.
Moral : Don’t faint in your breeches.
Thk people of Anderson county, S. C.,
are holding meetings and discussing the
feasibility of building a railroad from Hel
ton, S. C., to Asheville, N. C., crossing
the Blue Ridge Mountains at the head of
Eastatoe Creek. The engineers estimate
the probable cost of grading at $90,500. It
would afford connections between South
Carolina and Louisville, Cincinnati, Chica
go and all sections West and Northwest.
Jr a person were to judge of the speak
ers in the Georgia Legislature by what the
newspapers say they're all eloquent ami say
their little says square to the point. To a
man up a tree so much fullsomc praise is
very ludicrous. Let us hear from somo of
the fellows that make bad speeches. But
perhaps they all do it—make good speeches
we mean.
Senator McDaniel is said to bo the
most powerful reasoncr in the Senate. lie
is a firm, bold, honest man, and is bound
to figure extensively on the political slate
in the near future. While in Atlanta, we
had the pleasure of meeting him. There
is nothing flashy about him. He is plain,
frank, unassuming—just the man to sway
the masses. His name is used very fre
quently in connection with high official
positions.
"nVriv'e until
Monday. And again, it is strange that let
ters posted at Elberton Saturdays or Sun
days fail about half the time to get here
Monday. And again, it is peculiar that
papers posted at this office Tuesday often
fail to reach Coldwater on Thursday. The
fault lies at lJowersvillo or Elberton, we
don't know which. If this thing continues
some bloated postmaster will be reported
sure pop. Transfer your mails at the
proper time.
Hartwell wants competition in buying
cotton, and for selling supplies another
year. Our farmers will need more help
year than they ever have before, as the
corn crop will be light and the cotton made
will not pay off the whole of their indebt
edness, and if they can got corn and bacon
at fair prices another year to enable them
to make crops, they will come out all right
next fall and have money left in their poc
kets. This monopoly of a few merchants
m selling flour, meat, corn, Jtc., to farmers
who could not help themselves and were
thrown upon the mercy of sharpers, thank
God, will soon play out, and capital will
come into Hurt county that will enable
honest poor men who pay their debts to
get supplies to make crops without having
to give it all to the voracious merchant.
Hon. A. 11. Stephens has just returned
to his home in Cruwfordville trom an exten
sive trip in the Northern States. In a con
versation with Mr. Sullivan, editor of the
Crawfordville Democrat, he says :
The only annoyance with which he met
during his summer’s travel, was from what
purported to be interviews published in
several papers. Several of these were ut
terly unfounded, while some related to
conversations without any idea on his part
of their ever appearing in a newspaper,
and wherein lie was represented in several
instances as saying exactly contrary to
what he did say, in several of these so
called interviews. and mixed up generally
with a great deal of error. At the end of
a long talk on this subject, in which Mr.
Stephens evinced considerable feeling at
being misstated, he concluded by saying,
*• Sullivan, never do you believe or give
currency to anything you sec purporting
to be an Interview with me, unless you
know it is by authority.”
The New York Democrats are badly
split up, and are running two tickets for
< lovernor. Unless the differences are set
tled, the Republicans will elect their man.
Deploring this state of affairs, the Atlanta
Dispatch suggests that Senator B. 11. Hill j
be called on in the role of peacemaker:
If Mr. Hill could he induced to spend a
few days in addressing the people of New
York and exhorting them to forego their
local differences for the sake of the cause
throughout the country, it could not fail to
have a good effect, ifis well-known con
servatisui, broad national views, and his
persuasive eloquence, would give him great
influence with the Democracy of New
Y’ork. \Ye do not believe that there is
any other man in the whole country better j
qualified to act the part of a peace-maker
between the factions and to bring them
1 back from their factious ways to a patriot
ic co-operation with the Democrats of the
whole country in the great work of rescu
ing the Government from the clutches of
usurpers and sectional disorganiaers.
Through the financial legislation of Con
gress, cotton and every product of labor
lias been cheapened in order to bring it te
e gold basis, while there is no gold in the
the country ! Cotton has already touched
a point that nearly approaches the cost of
production, for tho best grades, and later,
when the lower grades come into market,
will place the season of ’79 in the list with
the many disastrous years that have gone
before. And still, in the face of ruin, pov
erty and misery, an insensate press howls
about dead issues, and complacently driv
els about returning prosperity.
The above utterance is from the Green
ville (Miss.) Local and Advertiser. It is
just about right. And we are inclined to
think with Hon. A. 11. Stephens, that the
true issue before the country is our de
plorable financial condition. Return to
our impoverished country financial pros
perity, and bury Republican parties and
Democrat parties, with their political ha
treds, in one common grave and then—ami
not before—will we have a happy and con
tented people.
Condensed Milk from the Press.
Corn is selling in portions of North Ala
bama at 20 cents per bushel.
Senator Conkling, of New York, is very
ill from a congestive chill.
sls per acre, says the Register, is the
price for good land in Franklin County.
J. T. Cox, of Anderson County, S. C.,
picked 410 pounds of cotton in one day,
recently.
Twelve years ago Texas shipped only
75.000 bales of cotton. Last year she
shipped 1,000,000.
Tho Franklin Register suggests Hon.
John M. Freeman as a suitable man for
next Comptroller General.
The Augusta Evening News, the best af
ternoon paper in the South, is putting lip a
fast cylinder press.
Tcxarcana lies partly in Texas and part
ly in Arkansas, ami it is proposed to make
it the county seat for one county in each
State.
The Louisville Courier-Journal says:
Georgia is the most prosperous and most
miserable State—her Legislature won't ad
journ.”
Col. Henry Moore, of Augusta, former
ly editor of the Chronicle & Sentinel, died
on the 29th of September, of nervous pros
tration.
l'rivato Gibbonß, of Battery M Fifth ar
tillery, was stabbed to death cm the Ist
inst., by Joe Bacchus, a bricklayer, in
Atlanta.
A young mother must have some rest.
But how is this to be accomplished, when
the baby is restless and cries constantly ?
Simply by using l)r. Bull's Baby Syrup.
North Georgian : Everything seems to
point now to Gen. Gartrell as the coming
man for Governor of Georgia. We need
somebody J.hat an *•--
North Georgian: We had hoped that
when Dr. Janes, of the Agricultural Bu
reau, took his resignation to Governor
Colquitt, that he would “ take the Bureau
in after him,” but be didn’t—lie died that
the Bureau might live.
New Orleans Picayune: Mrs. Mattie
Potts has struck Richmond on her return
trip. Owing to a Reported trouble with
her right knee there are some doubts about
her getting through on time. This is a
trying moment. The eyes of the world
are now on the right knee of Mrs. Potts.
A wooden pumpkin has been taking all
the premiums at the Kansas fairs. It
measured seven feet around and weighed
2.10 pounds. The fraud was discovered at
Council Groves last week by an old man
who tried to tap it. There are a good
many tnad farmers in Kansas just about
this time.
The Attorney-General of the Postoffice
department has decided that stamps on
misdirected letters, stopped in the office of
deposit and returned to the sender for bet
ter direction, shall, provided the letter has
not been transmitted through the mails
though cancelled, be accepted as good for
forwarding.
Major Thornburgh, with three compan
ies of calvary fell into an ambuscade of
Ute Indians, on the 29th of September, at
Milk River, Colorado, and were badly used
up. Maj. Thornburgh and 11 men were
lulled and 25 wounded. About three
fourths of the horses and mules were
killed. Reinforcements have been sent to
succor the endangered command.
The Araericus Republican wants to know
“who can beat it?” and remarks : “ Mr.
J. M. Glover, of Suinptcr county, has five
acres of cotton from which he has already
| picked and sold four hales, and he says he
| will get two more hales from the same
patch. This heats anything in the cotton
making business we have yet heard of.”
The South is more solid than at any
time since the war. She will raise this
year about 5.000.000 hales o( cotton, 200,-
000 hogsheads of sugar, and very nearly
000,000.000 pounds of tobacco. This will
he a half million more bales of cotton,
twice as much sugar, and 12,000.000 more
pounds of tobacco than she ever raised
before.
The States yet to elect officers the present
year are the following : Ohio. October 14th,
State officers and members of the Legisla
ture : lowa, same date. State officers, and
members of the Legislature, and one Con
gressman to fill vacancy. November 4tli,
Maryland, Massachusetts. Minnesota, New
York and Wisconsin elect State officers and
members of the Legislature. On the same
day, Mississippi and New Jersey elect
members of the Legislature : and Penn
sylvania. State Treasurer and members of
(lie Legislature. December 2d. Louisiana
votes on the adoption of anew constitution.
The Chicago Inter-Ocean says that the
original proprietors are trying to get up a
corner on wooden toothpicks. In 1866 a
Boston company established a factory at
Buckstleld, Maine, having secured a patent
upon the article for fourteen years. From
this factory they have turned out annually
toothpicks in immense quantities. usk'.g
from 3.001) to 5.(Xk) cords of wood every
year. The machinery was such as to cut a
log six feet long and eighteen inches in di
ameter into pointed toothpicks in a few
minutes. They were sold to the trade in
boxes of 2,500’f0r 25 cents, and the profit
was large. About the time of the expira
tion of the patent another Boston firm es
tablished a factory in the wood* of Ohio,
and tho opposition haa been hucli as to re
duce the price from 25cents to 8 cents per
box. The Maine firm believes the Buckeye
concern is upon the evo of bankruptcy,
and upon its death the corner on tooth
picks will be complete. Now is the time
to buy toothpicks.
Talbotton Register:J)uring last Maya
rather inexplicable occurrence took place
at the residence of W. T. Holmes, near
Bellevue. A brood of young chickens had
been hatched, when it became necessary
for their protection to provide other quar
ters than the parent nest. Accordingly
the chicks wore placed in a commodious
tin basin, and a piece of old woolen cloth
thrown over them to shield them from the
sun’s rays. The basin was then placed in
a window on the west side of the house,
in the afternoon, and had been in position
only a short time when the odor of some
thing burning was sensibly perceptible
throughout the house. But as suspicion
did not point to the above source, it was
some minutes before the fire was discov
ered. It proved to be the woolen cloth
over the young chicks in the basin. It
was quickly extinguished. Thinking the
incident somewhat unusual, the experi
ment was repeated and the cloth again
placed in its former position, when, in less
than a minute, it took tire again, and blazed
up vigorously. The cloth might have con
tninen some chemical in its dye-stuffs which
caused the spontaneous combustion, other
wise it is not explicable on any reasonable
hypothesis.
Detroit Free Press : Small cotton fac
tories arc being established in the South,
especially in Georgia and South Carolina,
which promise to he of great benefit to the
places in which they are located. They
are mainly run by w ater power, in neigh
borhoods where there is a small popula
tion which would have no other places of
employment during certain seasons of the
year. Tt lias been found that colored girls
and boys are quite dexterous at the spindle,
and that where the little mills are located
there is much more peace and order than
in hamlets where there is no industrial at
traction for the idle. The cotton is near
at hand, the running power is cheap, the
workingmen are attracted by the novelty
and by the opportunity to labor under
sheltering roots, tho warps command a
ready market, and the profits, relieved of
much of the expense of heavy freight, are
good. The success of these mills seems
to show that cotton should be spun near
where it grows. These mills will no doubt
materially aid in bringing hack prosperity
to the South.
We have a modern Jasper right here in
Georgia to-day. It is Sergeant Isaac P.
Gollier, formerly of Company E. Fifth
Georgia Regiment. A correspondent of
the Americus Republican says of him,
tliat in the late war between the States,
while in the field, near Marietta, on the
21st day of June, 1864, he and several
comrades were in a ditch in front of the
enemy, under a heavy fire. Suddenly a
slirapnel shot with a burning fuse, fell in
the ditch. While the fuse was still burn
ing, and the men were flying from the dan
ger of the apprehended explosion, Ser
geant Collier seized the projectile and
threw it out of the ditch. For this gallant
act lie was promoted in general order to a
Second Lieutenancy, but, like Jasper, he
wrote back declining the honor, saying :
“In throwing the shell from the ditch, I
vvillhClOUo OI Having UUUU
my duty in attempting to save my life and
the lives of the men around me. I prefer
to remain in my company with my com
rades, who 1 left home with on the 7th of
May, 1861.
The Abbeville Press and Banner, the
Abbeville Medium, the Anderson Intelli
gencer, the Anderson Journal, the Keo
vvec Courier, and other papers give most
deplorable accounts of the drunken, dis
orderly inob which collected on Sunday
of Sandy Springs campmeeting in Ander
son county, South Carolina. The Green
ville A Columbia and Blue Ridge railroads
ran extra trains on that day and poured in
all the drunken, pistol-shooting black
guards of that and the adjoining counties.
Ladies and decent people were insulted,
and from the accounts published by their
own papers, such a scene was never
known this side of the brimstone-burning
hell we have heard so much obout. No
such doings are ever permitted in law
abiding Georgia.
The Atlanta Dispatch of the 4th thus de
scribes the scene at the Capitol during the
trial of Treasurer Renfroe : We do not re
member to have ever seen as much lobby
ing and log-rolling as is now going on in
reference to this case. The friends of Ren
froe are bringing heavy pressure to bear
to have him acquitted. If any one from
any other portion of the State were to drop
in,' and look at the commotion among
prominent citizens of Georgia, they would
conclude the Legislature was on the eve of
an important election, and that the candi
dates were husilv engaged electioneering.
A distinguished Georgian jocosely said,
yesterday, that from what ho saw, if he
had been one of the managers he would
have asked that the Senate he put in the
hands of a baililf, and kept together as
juries are until they make a verdict.
Anderson (S. C.) Journal : On Wednes
day the Atlanta bound express train on
the Air-Line Railroad, Conductor Phil.
Simms, Engineer Fred. Krogg and engine
No. 23, made a very successful run on hist
time. The tram left Charlotte two hours
behind time, 45 minutes of which was
made up when Mount Airy was reached,
and it being the rule of the road to make
the Atlanta connection on schedule time if
possible, the speed of the train was then
further quickened so that the remaining
hour ana a quarter was made up when
Norcross was reached. To do this several
sections were run over at the rate of sixty
miles an hour, by the watch, several pas
sengers holding their time pieces and not
ing the speed. This is probably the best
running ever done in the South, and no
railroad is more worthy the honor than the
great Air-Line.
llawkinsvillc Dispatch : The sportsmen
of Telfair county never fail to bring in the
game. When they go fishing they always
orind in the “ dead oodles " of fish, and
when they go on an alligator hunt they
beat the 'gator hunters of Florida. A
correspondent, writing from Mcßae, states
that on Saturday, the 20th ult., Messrs.
Wm. McLean and Wright Lancaster and
K. W. Lancaster, with the assistance of
Dick Moten, colored, caught ten alligators,
six of which were as large as alligators
grow in this country. The alligators were
caught from their caves by means of hooks
attached to the ends of polls.
Is it possible for a man to speak after he
is dead? The Readville, North Carolina,
Times tells a story that, “if true," is, to
say the least, very strange. A citizen of
Danville. Va.. died, and in turning him
over to shroud him the words *• O God 1”
escaped his lips. An able philosopher on
CHAMBERLIN, BOYNTON & CO.
X3ZaT7*e tire X-ergrest oxlcL Finest Store in tire Sta/te.
Thefr Stock of Staple and FANCY DRY GOODS, LADIES’ DRESS GOODS, SILKS, LACES, EMBROIL
EITIES, LADIES’UNDERWEAR, HOSIERY, GLOVES, NOTIONS and FANCY GOODS has never before been
Equalled in the State,
CARPETS. CARPETS, CARPETS, CARPETS.
Our Stock of Carpets, Oil Cloths, Window Shades and House Furnishing Goods is immense. Our display in this
department alone is well worth a trip from Hart County to Atlanta to see.
u | fVYITC UIIYYI7C We have all of our BOOTS and SHOES made to order and GUARANTEE EVERY
O IIUtjO, OXiU-bjO. PAIR, and our stock in this department is unequalled in Georgia.
Samples sent from our Dry Goods department ou application. We cordially invite all readers of THE HARTWELL SIN to
visit our Store when iu Atlanta. ____ _ _ * a _
Chamberlin, Boynton % Cos.,
r| IIA Wlll IKH 41,1, NIHKKT. ATLANTA, GA.
~~ NOW IS THE TIME TO BOY . MSI fj^
All Iron Goods have advanced in the Northern markets
J. C. WILKINS , AT,,,:>s Ki!V , KH IO '\. \ ~ ;
S ill offers superior inducement to Cash Customers. Having iiiwy.ffrffi tj’Vl wmh
purchased a large stock before the advance, ho can afford and
Cla-eap as tlxe Cheapest. Jf|| Ifesliilfffil
Do not delay, thinking that prices will be lower, for Every
thing Indicates a Decided Advance in the price of all Iron JT
Goods ; so send in your orders, or call at once on vial
J. C. WILKINS,
the spot explained the marvel by saying
that when tnc man died those words, al
most spoken, were left in him unuttered
by his last breath, and in handling his
body they came out. Could such a case,
asks the local journal, ever have happened?
Can there be such a theory ?
A bite from a rattlesnake is sometimes
not more dangerous than a severe Cough
or Cold. A well merited reputation has
Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup, and this remedy
is sold by all druggists. Price 25 cents.
Atlanta Phonograph : The Fort Valley
Advertiser asks this conundrum: “ What
is a gentleman?” A gentleman, old fel
low, is a man who comes into a newspaper
office once in a great while and pays for
Ins paper in advance. We always thought
you knew that, else we should have told
you before.
“Mr. Pickings, what did you kill that
hog for?” “Well now you ought to re
member. neighbor, that I frequently put
up the fence around the field von rented
me and stopped the pig holes. It is true T
killed one of your fine slioats, hut then
you ought to remember the work 1 have
done around that field. It is true I ate the
pig—it wasn’t very large, but then all that
fence work was such a disinterested favor,
jl )n , , .1 U it n Uvu til i C
dead hog is thought of.” Renfroe keeps
on reminding the Legislature of that favor
on the fence line, when the dead pig is
mentioned.
Washington Gazette: It is clearly evi
dent to all thinking men that the salaries
of the high officials generally in Georgia
are too small to be compatible with the
dignity of the offices. A man to serve the
interests of the public with credit to him
self and acceptably to the people, should
be well enough paid to relieve him of hll
embarrassment financially in supporting
his family in a manner becoming his posi
tion. Such salaries as would secure the
best talent in the State should be the re
muneration offered for it. We do not ap
prove of such salaries as only rich men,
who have other means of living, can aflord
to accept. The reduction in the new con
stitution is one feature that detracts from
it. The remedy should be resorted to,
notwithstanding the trouble it might incur.
Athens Chronicle: On Wednesday
morning. Rev. James Wilson, while des
cending the steps of Deuprec Hall, made a
misstep and was precipitated to the bottom.
The fall was so rapid and severe as to break
his neck, and proved fatal in a few minutes.
The Coroner held an inquest, and the jury
returned a verdict in accordance with the
above facts.
He had been a local elder in the M. E.
Church South for fifty years or more. He
spent his early manhood in Elbert county,
and preached with acceptance there and in
this vicinity for many years. He was a
Methodist of the old style, stern and un
yielding when in the line of duty, and yet
as gentle and guileless as a child.
Central Georgia Weekly : The Impeach
ment trial of Treasurer Renfroe is drawing
to a close and it is likely to result in con
viction. It will he painful to the peopie as
to him. that he should have fallen from
his high estate. There is but one course
to be pursued. Let justice be done though
the Heavens fall. It is hard, but the only
way to stop fraud is to punisn it. and the I
verdicts against Goldsmith and Renfroe. i
will go far to raise a barrier against official j
dishonesty in the State of Georgia. To I
falter now is to make crime respectable
and open the flood gates for the future.
The seal of condemnation and punishment,
though apparently severe must be done,
for in that, the people of Georgia, through
their representatives, can only remove the
stain cast upon them bv the wrong doing
of their servants. We believe, that while
the Legislature will do their duty, so far
as the power within them lies and the
welfare of the State is concerned, will
temper justice with mercy, but will not go
so far in their sympathy as to condone
fraud. May Georgia's disgrace and that of
the Democratic party end with these in
vestigations and convictions.
Bosnia Certificates.
It is no vile drugged stuff, pretending to
be made of wonderful foreign roots, barks,
Ac., and putfed lip by long bogus certifi
cates of pretended miraculous cures, but a
simple, pure, effective medicine, made of
well known valuable remedies, that furp
islies its own certificates by its cures. We
refer to Hop Bitters, the purest and best
of medicines.—Exchange. See another
column.
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Seed Cotton Wanted.
We want 100.000 pounds seed cotton and
will pay the highest market value for same
in goods or money. Bring it on early, as
we want to get new cotton on the market
as soon as possible.
E. B. Be>'so>’ A Cos.
W. H. STEPHENSON
IS RECEIVING
NEW GOODS!
Daily and selling Cheap for Cash.
HIGHEST PRICE
RAID FOR COTTON TN CASH,
OR ON ACCOUNT.
Expects to do a provision business another j r ear, and sell Guanos.
Have done a little credit business this year, and hope everybody that has
bought ou time will come forward and pay up, and enable me to run them an
other year.
Bring on your Cotton at once, the money is waiting for you. ( ome to the
sGn of the BIG STAR, and get the most goods and the best goods for the least
money. Determined to please j'ou, if I have to give my goods away. 171
INVESTIGATION!
I \ H. BOWERS
Has just completed his large and commodious store house in ROYSTON, where
he has removeclliis entire business, and with the Goods on hand and arriving will have
the
Larges! ail Most Attractive Stock of Goods
on the E. A. L. R. R. He will not enumerate, for he keeps almost everything. He
is anxious that the public investigate his prices and see that they are
-AJX THE BOTTOM!
He will pay Athens prices in CASH FOR COTTON, and if you owe him will give you
almost any price if it will induce early settlements, as he must have money to pay his
debts. Come and sec.
159 Sept. 13. P. H. BOWERS.
H. K. GAIRDNER, M'ALPIN ARNOLD, THOS. GAIRDNER.
GAIRDNER, ARNOLD & CO.,
lEi-.EEiiK'ionsr,
HAVE IN STOCK A FULL SUPPLY OF
PROVISIONS & GROCERIES
-A-t olesa-le 6z BSetaal Prices.
STAPLE AND FANCY DRY GOODS,
NOTIONS,
£e*.'dy-Mabb
Boots, Sloes, Hats, Hardware, Crockery, Wood-ware,
AND ALL OTHER GOODS OF ALL KINDS NEEDED BY THE PUBLIC
meat, Sagging and Ties, Salt,
AND OTHER STAPLE GOODS,
We now have in stock 25,000 yards of Bagging and 1,000 bundles of Arrow
Ties, which will be sold at prices that will
DEFY COMPETITION.
A\ e invite our Hart County friends to call and price our goods before purchaa
i ing elsewhere.
Bagging, Ties, and Meat a specialty—since we receive them weekly bv the
car load.
Highest Market Price
FOR COTTON IN CASH, OR ON ACCOUNT. 171
JOHN P. SHANNON,
A TTORKE Y-A T-LA W,
ELBERTON, GEORGIA,
Practices in the Counties of Elbert, Hart Madison
and Franklin, and in the Supreme Court elsewhere
when employed. el
THOMAS C. CARLTON,
Attorney-at-Law,
ELBERTON, GA.,
VIT'IEL practice wherever employed, in both
i V Federal and State Coujp, in