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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. I— —■ ■— ■ —— 1 1 ■—■■■ 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