Newspaper Page Text
TII ESV N.
: HARTWI 1.1.. HART rot VTA .(i t.:
, . (klofctr 1X79.
BENSON & HcGHL. Editor*.
A. G. McCURRY, Associate Editor.
lowa rocs Republican again.
Thk Athens Manner will be issued as a
daily after November Ist.
The Oglethorpe Echo is now an eight
paper—the only objection we havo to it.
I'm: Blue Ridge Echo says it “ Did hope
to see Renfroe and all other darn rascally
officials of Georgia brought to justice.”
Oh, .Johnnie! you naughty boy.
Thk body of l)r. F. .J. LeMoyne, the
great advocate of cremation, was crema
ted at Washington, Pa., on the 10th. He
■was 81 years old at the time of his death.
Ohio has gone Republican by a con
siderable majority. The Democrats will
lose a prominent U. S. Senator. Garfield
or Sherman will probably fill Thurman's
scat.
The Markham House, Atlanta, has been
leased to Messrs. Huff A Brown for one
hundred thousand dollars. It is said that
they intend to make it the leading hotel
in the South.
It is said a rose would smell as sweet
by any other name. We believe it; and
we had just as goon be swindled by a Radi
cal State government as a Democratic one
—let them smell as thoy may.
“ Elzey Day,” Judge Andrews’ daugh
ter, says Washington, Ga., was named
after George Washington when he was but
a Colonel under Braddock before tho Rev
olution. It was the first place ever named
for the great patriot. And it was the last
place in which the Confederate cabinet
ever held a meeting.
-
The Cartersvillo Express comes to us
this week clad in mourning for the wife of
the editor, S. A. Cunningham. Her death
was a peculiarly sad one, she having under
gone a surgical operation on her lungs,
which was resorted to as the last chnnce.
Our hearts beat in sympathy with yours,
brother.
October Winds are sighing.
—Boston Post.
October leaves arc dying.
—Buffalo Express.
These morning chills arc trying.
—Chicago Journal.
Dead flies around us lying.
—Detroit Free Press.
And about two-thirds of the politicians
*ro engaged in the same business.
We have neglected to say anything be
fore now in regard to our County tax,
which, as will be seen from the notice of
our Ordinary, amounts to only 15 cents on
the SIOO. There are very few counties
which pay as little tax ns ours. All those
who place any blame for high taxes on our
Ordinary, are in error, hot them pitch
into the State officers and government.
A young man who lost a hot of oysters
with three of his friends, said ho wouldn't
pay it unless ho was four stew.
—Cincinnati Saturday Night.
lie has since made a hot with nine of his
friends, and says lie in ten stew pay this
time if lie loses.—Yawcob Strauss.
'Eleven stew them himself, if no ono
else will.—tiris.
Although ho 'eight stew.
—Cincinnati Commercial.
Woa, cotnc ! that 'stew much of the
good thing.
A (JUKAT many Editors seem to think
that a State officer must he paid a princely
salary to keep him honest—that five thou
sand dollars is little enough for any of the
lucky boys about the old Kimball Opera
House. We can lay our hands on a dozen
men in the little county of Hurt who
would make liist-class treasurers, and
would be glad to get the office at $2,000 ft
year, and could act honest and save $1,500
out of that. A little State officer need
not think it iucumbout on linn to entertain
old 'Lysses Grant, or any other old dead
head that goes spunging around among
shoddy towns and cities. If Grant comes
along, give him ten cents and let him go to
the grog shop and get a drink.
The General Assembly adjourned Wed
nesday night last. In many respects it is
the most notable session ever convened in
Georgia. Its great length—its investiga
tions and impeachments, etc., will give it
prominence in the annals of the State. We
believe that in the main its actions meet the
approval of the people. As an evidence
of this \vc cite the small amount of grum
bling that has been indulged in, the people
seeming to appreciate the enormous work
before the .Legislature. Hut wo are glad
it is over, and hope that Georgia will never
have occasion for such another lengthy one.
It has been a working body, and the inem
. hers will enjoy, doubtless, the long rest
ing spell that is now afforded them ; not
withstanding. some of them will miss the
$4.00 per day. Two hundred thousand
dollars is about the amount this protracted
session has cost the State.
“Dig About It and Dung It.”
Abbeville (S', C.) Malium.
We commend the eighth verse of the
thirteenth chapter of St. Lake to the seri
ous consideration of the advocates of the
State Agricultural College: “ And he an
swering said unto him. Lord, let it alone
this year also, till 1 shall dig about it, ami
dung it.”
The idea of an Agricultural College in
this State is so supremely ridiculous that
it will be laughed out of existence before
it •ever gets started.
THE INTEREST BILL.
The following is the full text of tho in
terest bill passed by tho late General As
sembly, which has been signed by the
Governor and is now a law :
An Act to regulate and restrict the rate
of interest in this State, and for other
purposes.
Section 1. The General Attembly of
the State of Georgia do enact , That from
and after tne passage of this act it shall
not be lawful for any person, company or
corporation to reserve, charge or take for
any loan or advance of inonoy, or forbear
ance to enforce the collection of any sum
of money, any rate of interest greater
than eight per centum per annum, either
directly or indirectly, by way of commis
sions for advances, discount or exchange,
or by any contract or continuance or de
vice whatever.
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted , That any
person, company or corporation violating
the provision of the foregoing sections of
tins act shall forfeit the interest and the
excess of interest so charged or taken, or
contract to be reserved, charged or taken.
Sec. 3. lie it further enacted , That the
legal rato of interost shall remain seven
per centum per annum, when the rate per
cent, is not named in the contract, and any
higher rate must be specified in writing ;
but no event to exceed eight percent, per
annum.
Sec. 4. Be it further enacted , That in
all suits hereafter brought in any of the
Courts of this State upon any account,
note, bond, bill, or other evidence of in
debtedness, bearing date after the passage
of this act, wherein a greater rate of inter
est is claimed than seven per cent., it shall
be incumbent on the plaintiff in such suit
or action to show affirmatively by proof
that no greater or higher rate of interest
than that testified in the contract so sued
upon lias been taken, received retained or
in any way or manner received, so as to be
thereafter had or taken by any device
whatever.
Sec. 5. Be it further enacted , That all
laws and part of laws in conflict with this
act, be and the same are hereby repealed.
Approved October 14, 187S*.
In regard to this bill, the Atlanta Con
stitution, which has all along been opposed
to the bill, says in its issuo of the 18th :
There is great commotion in commercial
circles consequent upon the passage of the
Awlry bill. It is the measure designed to
make 8 per cent, the legal rate of interest
in this state and to punish the taking of a
higher rate of interest by any bank, per
son or corporation, The bill was signed
on Tuesday and is now a statute of the
state. To say that its enactment is a pub
lic calamity is to draw it mild upon the
real terms by which it should be charac
terized. As it goes into effect and the
people begin to realize the obstruction that
it is to the wheels of trade iu this state
they arc abusilig it unstintedly.
As to the effect the bill will have upon
the operations of the banks, and what they
propose to do about it, the Constitution
further says :
The stoppage of the discounts is the fea
ture of the bill which aims a fatal blow at
the banking business. Heretofore, under
all the interest laws the banks have had
the privilege of discounting notes and bills
of exchange at current rates and to the
mutual advantage of the customers and
themselves. Uuder the new law such
transactions are prohibited except at rates
largely inadequate to compensate the banks
and the consequence is the refusal to dis
count bills of exchange or to renew any
outstanding bills rcceivalde to the banks.
The result to the commercial community
is almost disastrous and requires the great
est exertions to keep ahead of this sudden
and unexpected pressure. The only good
the bill can do will be that reaped by mer
chants who charge time prices for supplies.
Instead of making 8 per cent, they will be
enabled, the banks refusing money to pur
chasers as heretofore, to advance rates on
time hills and make 20 to 25 per cent., in
stead of 8 to 12 as heretofore upon bills
due them.
What will the banks do? That is the
great question of the day. One of the
best hankers in the city said yesterday
that the only solution of the difficulty for
the banks was to rctiro from business.
The only way to go forward at paying
rates was by n total disregard of the law
but the law of the code, unrepealed by this
act, requires bank officers to tile semi-an
nual statements with the Governor nnd
swear the bank had the prccedingti months
violated no law of the state. To charge or
take by any device more than 8 per cent,
and then to make tho oath would be per
jury. Hence, he said, his advice to those
owning tho bank was to wind it up as
speedily nnd with as little expense as pos
sible. Another prominent banker express
ed like views and said they prevailed
among the hank owners all over the state.
Meetings of the officers of the various
banks will shortly he held to determine
what is best to be done. In the meanwhile
monetary affairs arc in an unsettled state
and confidence weakened. The attorneys
of several of the banks have examined the
law carefully nnd see no escape from the
rigid and sweeping provisions it contains.
When the law is properly understood it
will be one of the most unpopular acts
ever put upon the statute books.
The Atlanta Dispatch, which is in favor
of the new law, has this to say about it,
and we are inclined to think with it:
The opponents of the new Georgia law
say that the money which has been brought
here and loaned will be driven from the
State by our reduction from 12 per cent, to
8. Now. all we have to say is to ask these
opponents of the act to name a single State
in the t'niou where they can loan money
more advantageously than in Georgia under
her new interest law. They cannot name
one. Then why‘try to create a furor in
favor of a rate of interest which in thopast
lias bankrupted both lender and borrower?
Our banker friends, who are so troubled,
arc themselves victims of the high interest
they now so earnestly desire. Let them
count up their losses under this glorious
high interest law, and make a list of their
oldest and best customers, and see how
few of said customers escaped financial
graves.
Now, while nine-tenths of the bank cap
ital of the nation is employed under a six
and seven per cent. law. it seems reason
able to suppose Georgia banks can stand 8
per cent.
General Grant, on being informed of the
sweeping Republican triumph in Ohio, ex
pressed much gratification. He said with
much emphasis that Ewing, as a represen
tative of false and dangerous financial doc
trines, deserved defeat. For many years
the country had been struggling to reach a
sound financial basis, and it was inexcusa
ble in any man to take a position which
would again debase the currency and im
pair the pnblic credit,
Condensed Milk from the Press.
Speaker Randall: The thing seems to
have set in for the Republicans, and 1 don’t
see how we are going to stop it.”
Gov. Colquitt has appointed cx-Gov.
James M. Smith, Samuel Harnett and Maj.
Campbell Wallace as Railroad Commis
sioners.
Crawfordvillo Democrat: Gen. Toombs
says that Renfroe swore be was guilty, but
17 Senators (Renfroe's friends) wouldn't
believe him on his oath.
Blue Ridge Echo : High, low, Jack Jones
and Goldsmith, and it turns ont that Rcn
froo is as innocent as a lamb. The tide of
life is ebbing fast. Mark our prediction.
Cartersvillo Express: A good many
farmers arc storing their cotton, awaiting
better prices. Take caro you don’t get
bit. “A bird in the hand is worth two in
the bush,” so to speak.
Tho oldest daughter of Mr. J. T. Faulks,
of Laurens county, fell headforemost into
a well the other day. The water was fif
teen feet deep, but the young lady was
rescued uninjured.
A white man and a negro made their es
cape from the Warrcnton jail last week, by
means of a false key with which they un
locked the cell door, and by burning a
hole in the main door.
Fennel tea is a simple remedy to quiet
the baby, and this innocent article is em
bodied in Dr. Hull’s Baby Syrup, which
puts the baby to sleep without the evil use
of opiates. Price 25 cents.
Cartersville Express: The announce
ment is made that for the first time in the
history of Georgia the local mills find
wheat in sufficient abundance to run them
without drawing supplies of wheat from
the North.
Atlanta Phonograph : A solid South
makes a solid North. Just so long as we
all vote one way in the South, just so long
will the- Demagogues of the North, iby
preaching sectional doctriues, array that
people against us.
Sparta Ishmaelitc : We are glad to note
the fact that General Gordon, in his- cen
tennial oration, made a graceful allusion
to Greece and Rome. It was certainly a
fine stroke of oratory. Heaven bo praised
for the gift of Greece and Koine !
South Carolinians propose to erect a
monument to the memory of John C. Cal
houn. The granite shaft is to stand on the
western side of the Siencca river, near the
old Calhoun mansion, and within a few
yards of the Piedmont Air-Line railroad.
Franklin Register : Judge W. F. Dow
ers passed through town last Thursday go
ing out West, looking after the interest of
the Rome railroad via Gainesville. He
says before ho dies he wants to see a rail
road completed to the county site of old
Franklin.
Atlanta Constitution : It is to bo borne
in mind that tho recent investigations did
not save a dollar to the State, and that the
wild land investigation was hushed up be
fore it had restored to the people the
money already stolen from them, These
facts are very solemn ones.
Tho Memphis Avalanche proposes that
tho old town be entirely depopulated and
destroyed, and that anew Memphis be
built at a place known as Bartlett, eleven
miles distant. It suggests that “half a
dozen railroad tracks ’’ could do all the
transporting between the new city aud the
river.
A Jackson county man by tho name of
Smith, in Athens on 17th, done the biggest
eating on record, viz: 36 eggs, 1 two
nound can of oysters, 1 pound of crackers,
j pound of ham, and two small loaves of
bread, 6 cups of coffee, and washed all
down with a quart of water. No bet; reg
ular breakfast.
Hawkinsvillc Dispatch : Some of the
Georgia newspapers (if it is not a stretch
of veracity to call them such) are sending
their papers for one dollar a year, and
“ drumming ’’ advertisements for their col
umns at seventy-five cents an acre. They
take in payment anything equal to a mess
of chitlins or a broken codec mill.
Franklin Register : lion. F. B. Hodges,
our worthy State Senator from the 31st,
was in town a few hours last Monday. He
is of the opinion lie will never regret per
forming his duty in voting to convict Ivon
froe. The counties of Franklin, Hart and
Habersham should certainly feel proud of
Capt. 11. for the able manner in which he
has performed his duties all. during the
session of the Legislature.
A long-standing order of the post-office
department has required that all postal
cards having any portion of the message
written on their face should be treated as
unmailablc. Eirst Assistant Postmaster
General Tyner has rescinded this order to
the extent of holding that such writing
shall not render them unmailable per sc,
nor prevent their being forwarded unless
it makes the address illegible. The public
are cautioned, however, that by writing
any portion of the message on the face
they will incur a risk of tnc cards being
missent or delayed.
It costs the Government from four mil
lion to eight million dollars a year to feed
and care for 30,000 roving Indians. Last
year these Indians oost the country $4,029,-
280. in 1875 they, cost nearly twice as
much —or about S3OO apiece. This is alto
gether too high and Congress should take
steps to secure cheaper board for these
wandering wards of tne nation. Up to the
current year a recently compiled table
shows that we have expended on the roam
ing remnants of tho red meu $181.(XX),000,
and the Indian agents are doubtless wil
ling that we should annually add to this
aggregate a very handsome sum.
Mr. Sharp S. Reynolds writes to the
Gainesville Eagle that he has discovered
perpetual motion. His plan is to make a
wheel threo foot in diameter, out of steel
or some other metal ; let the wheel haw
one heavy place iu it. so when you start it
let the heavy side be on the top side ; let
it go ; the weight of it will bring it most
to the top ; hare the heavy part magnet
ized : have another wheel over it, station
ary ; have it faced with loadstone, so when
this part comes up it will lack a little of
coming over the top, the loadstone will
draw it over, then the weight will carry it
on.
Atlanta Constitution : Hardly had the
order that declared all postal cards with
any portion of the message written on the
face unmailable been rescinded, when a
new and even more idiotic order was issu
ed by the Postmaster-General to the effect
that all letters not fully and properly ad
dressed should be sent to the dead-letter
office. This order, if enforced, would
send to the dead-letter office any letter di
rected to “New York City” instead of
“ New York, N. Y." If a man in Griffin
sends us a letter bearing the address.
“ Constitution Office, Atlanta,” it must.
CHAMBERLIN, BOYNTON A CO.
Ha/ve th.e 3L.axgest and Airiest Store in. me State.
Their Stock of STAPLE and FANCY DRY' GOODS, LADIES’ DRESS GOODS, SILKS, LACES, EMBROID
ERIES, LADIES' UNDERWEAR, HOSIERY, GLOVES, NOTIONS and FANCY GOODS has never belore b
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.
IXIT/YT7C! We have all of our BOOTS and SHOES made to order and GUARANTEE FAERY
Hi OXIUHiO. PAIR, and our stock in this department is unequalled in Georgia.
Samples sent from our Dry Goods department on application. \N e cordially invite all readers of IHK HARTWELL
visit our Store when in Atlanta. __ m &
Chamberlin, Boynton § Cos.,
ri SWA 69 WHITEIIAI.I, STREET. ATI.AXTA^CA^
All Iron (iooils h.TC advanced'in tlie Northern markets
as XJolo llig
Do not delay, thinking that prices will be lower, for Every- L.-—?gc
thing Indicates a Decided in the price of all Iron
under Mr. Key’s obstructive and peda
gogical order go to the dead-letter office,
because the altogether superfluous abbre
viation, “ Ga.,” was not added to it.
Postmaster James, of New York, has de
clared the order inoperative to bis office for
want of room to store unmailablc letters.
It should be rescinded, and the Postmaster
General should in the future endeavor to
extend the facilities of the people, instead
of the business of the dead-letter office.
Constitution 16tli: The Telegraph says
that in east Macon last Sunday afternoon,
Mrs. C. 11. Bodwell was very seriously
burned, and is now lying in a very preca
rious condition. She was engaged in pre!
paring the evening meal, and was stand
ing at the fire-place, when she fainted and
fell forward, face downward into the fire.
There was at the time on the coals a pot of
boiling coffee, winch was overturned, the
contents frightfully scalding the unfortun
ate woman about the bead and face. No
one was in the room at the time, and Mrs.
B. was found in the prostrate position
above described. She was taken out when
it was found that the hair of her head in
front and above her ears had been entirely
removed. Her left eye-ball protruded
from the socket, lying upon her cheek ter
ribly scalded and inflamed by the heat.
Remedies at hand were promptly applied,
and such relief given as was possible un
der the circumstances. She was still alive,
but was suffering intensely from her inju
ries. The other eye from the effects of the
fearful scalding has also come out from the
socket, and is swollen almost to bursting
at last accounts.
Cold piercing winds and driving rains
seldom fail to bring on a Cough, Cold or
Hoarseness at this season, and l)r. Bull’s
Cough Syrup should be kept in every
house. For sale by all Druggists.
A Wise Deueon.
“ Deacon Wilder, I want you to tell me
how you kept yourself and family well the
East season, wnen all the rest of us have
een sick so much, and have had the doc
tors visiting us so often.”
“Bro. Taylor, the answer is very easy.
I used Hop Bitters in time ; kept my fam
ily well and saved the doctor bills. Three
dollar's worth of it kept us well and able
to work all the time. I’ll warrant it has
cost you and the neighbors one to two
hundred dollars apiece to keep sick the
same, time.”
“Deacon, I'll use your medicine here
after.”
Let Us Pray.
ITawldnsville Dispatch.
Probably as we go to press with this is
sue of the Dispatch the Georgia Legisla
ture has adjourned sine die, and the mem
bers are packing their grip sacks and set
tling their hash bills. Now if the Gov
ernor intends to issue a thanksgiving pro
clamation, let us have it.
The Iron Boom.
Atlanta Constitution.
The unprecedented advance in the price
of iron within the past week, has material
ly effected almost every branch of manu
facturing enterprise and quickened the
pulse of industry and trade in every direc
tion.
We shall not stop to enquire into the
causes that have led to this remarkable re
sult, but we may rejoice that new life and
vigor have been infused into the business
of the country and that more prosperous
times arc dawning upon us.
The tires have been rekindled in many a
long silent furnace, and idle men are again
gladdened with the prospect of plenty of
work.
This renewed activity in this important
branch of industry, in which some of the
I States of the South are so deeply interest
i cd, has already effected another great
Southern interest —that of coal mining.
We learn that the mines of Georgia,
Alabama and Tennessee are all full of or
| dors, and that in the latter State the
miners have struck for higher wages.
I What effect this may have upon the price
of domestic coal remains to be seen, but
we understand that the coal-dealers of At
lanta have all ordered large stocks in an
ticipation of an advance, and that the price
is not likely to be effected here.
From present indications we think it
safe to predict that the year 1880 will be
the most prosperous the country has seen
since ’7O
Public School Notice.
The school year in this County ends the 10th
November, 1 -79. All accounts of Schools taught
must be in my hands by that time, or they will be
too late for this years apportionment Teachers
will please take notice that their accounts must be
certified to a# correct by one or more of the Trustees
of their respective districts, liefore handing to me.
C. W. SEIDELL. Cos. School Com.
Hartwell, Ga.. October 13, 1579. 165
W. H. STEPHENSON
IS RECEIVING
NEW GOODS!
Daily ami selling Cheap for C ash.
HIGHEST TRICE
PAID FOR COTTON IN CASH ,
OR ON ACCOUNT.
Expects to do a provision business another 3 T ear, and sell Guano*.
Have done a little credit business this year, and hope everybody that ha*
bought on time will come forward and pay up, and enable me to run them an
other 3’ear.
Bring on your Cotton at once, the money is waiting for you. Come to the
sign of the BIG STAR, and get the most goods and the best goods for the least
money. Determined to please you, if I have to give my goods awa3*. lil
Investigation i
p. I I. BOWERS
Has just completed his large and commodious store house in ROYSTON. where
I he has removed his entire business, and with the Goods on hand and arriving will hav®
the
Largest aid Most Attractive Stock of Ms .
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 sec that they are
_iA.t ihb Boarxoi^ci
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 lie must have money to pay hia
debts. Come and see.
s. P , ,3. P. H. BOWERS.
n. K. GAIRDNER, M’ALPIN ARNOLD, TUGS. GAIRDNKR.
GAIRDNER, ARNOLD £ GO.,
ELBEETOU, GhA-,
HAVE IN STOCK A FUEL SUPPLY OF
PROVISIONS k GROCERIES
T77"lx©lesa,le B3eta.il IPxices.
STAPLE AND FANCY DRY GOODS,
NOTIONS,
€ lot mm,
Boots, Sloes, Hats, Hardware, Crockery, Wood-ware,
AND ALL OTHER GOODS OF ALL KINDS NEEDED BY THE PUBLIC
Meat, Bagging and Ties, Salt,
AND OTHER STAPLE GOODS,
We now have in stock 25,000 j’ardsof Bagging and 1,000 bundles of Arrow
Ties, which will be sold at prices that will
DEFY COMPETITION.
We invite our Hart County friends to call and price our goods before purchas
ing elsewhere.
Bagging, Ties, and Meat a specialty—since we receive them weekly by th
car load.
Highest Market Price
FOR COTTON IN CASH, OR ON ACCOUNT. 171
We will sell Kerosene Oil at 15 cents a
gallon by the barrel, or 20 cents by the
gallon. E. B. Benson & Cos.
If you want good lard, you can get it
by the single pound at 10 cents from
Jas. M. Webb.
THOMAS C. CARLTON,
Attorney - at - law,
ELBERTON, GA.,
AXTILL practice wherever employed, in belli
\Y Federal and State Courts, im