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AMICABLY ADJUSTED.
Hot Springs, Va., July 14, 1880.
Messrs. E. B. Benson & Cos., Hart
well, Oa.:
Gents: An article appeared in The
Hartwell St’N 16th June last signed
'* I. J. M. Goss, M. D.. LL.l).which
I construed to mean that all commer
cial fertilizers bought by the planters
and fanners of Hart county were
frauds, and ounseqiicntly all manufac
turers of shell fertilizers were cheats
and swindlers.
On the 21st of that month, I wrote
you a letter denouncing Dr. Goss and
charging falsehood upon him in no
measured terms.
On the 3.1 of July I received a letter
from Dr. Goss giving specific cases,
which came under his notice where fer
tilizers had beon adulterated and ask
ing me to retract what I had said reflect
ing upon his veracity.
I replied to his letter on the sth July
declining to do as requested, unless lie
would retract his sweeping allegations
contained in his first letter.
On my arrival here yesterday I found
a letter from Dr. Goss dated Bth inst.,
which you will please publish with this
letter in The Sun. lam entirely sat
isfied with the statementjniade in that
letter, and I cheerfully withdraw al\
that is offensive, or that in any wav re _
fleets upon the integrity or truthfulness
of the Doctor.
Yours, very truly,
M. A. Stovall,
Treas. Ga. Chem. Works.
Marietta, Ga., July 8, 1880.
Messrs. M. A. Stovall & Co.:—
Your letter of sth is before me, and in
reply, I have corrected the mistake that
1 was under, ami affirm that the ? mis
take grew out of the fact that I did not
know that now the law required a defi
nite standard, which was not the case
when I was running a farm ; and when
time and again I was imposed upon in
fertilizers.
I am perfectly willing at all times to
correct mistakes. My statements were
but mistakes. I'did not intend any
thing else than to caution against spu
rious articles, such as had been sold
years ago when I was running a farm.
I procured from Mr. Henderson recent
ly tl??liiw, and the analyses of all the
brands that had been sold this past
year, and I see that the farmer is now
protected. That is just what every
well-wisher desired. Not having run a
farm in 8 years, I did not know that
the law now protected the farmer
against imposition. I did not know
that it could not be sold without analy
sis. I knew that Mr. Peceptor, to-wit:
Dr. A. Means was appointed to analyze
fertilizers, but supposed it was to give
pure articles reputation over the spuri
ous ones manufactured in the North.
As 1 stated before, I had in ray posses
sion the analysis of two articles, one
only containing a little over 3 percent,
available plant food, the rest (I do not
say what) of course some inert material,
only worth $3.34. Another only really
worth $10.40. And my statements were
made in all honest truth, relative to
these articles. I did not know that
there was an . honest article manufac
tured, for I had not seen any analysis
lately, except the above, and one more,
in which $25.64’s worth of chemicals
were put to the ton. That was Loes',
a good article, very popular in some
places. I made no mistake in regard
to the price here, for it sold here at one
price—$67.50, cotton option. It sold
at Roswell at s7l, as I am told by the
seller. I have the analysis of yours
(“Old B.”)and lam free to confess that
it is superior to some brands sold here
at $67.50, as you will see by the analy
ses. I did not, as you suppose, design
to misrepresent the honest manufac
turer, but to expose the imposter. I
have made a public retraction. I ask
-on to do the same. I wUIi you every
; I am gicJ that you are manu
facturing a good article, and thus in
creasing the agricultural interest of
this tny native State, I am a warm
friend to agricultural progress, as it is
the great weaith of the country. I
claim to be a Christian minister, and
would not injure any man laboring to
promote the interest of his race. II
I had seen the analysis ot yours or
others (made pure as they are now) I
would not have made such statement
for any consideration, and the publisher
did injustice to me and his readers by
publishing it without informing me of
my fatal mistake. [Just here we are
inclined to think the Doctor does us an
injustice, as it would in nine cases out
of ten been considered flagrant pre
sumption upon publishers to advise as
intelligent a correspondent as the Doc.
The Hartwell Sun.
By BENSON & McGILL.
VOL. IV—NO. va.
tor what lie sheuld write. This advice
we suggest to all correspondents: be
sure yon are right before you write—
then write ahead.—Publishers Sun.]
I supposed that most articles sold (and
I did not know that there was any man
ufactured South) was manufactured
North. Now, my dear sir, I cannot
blame you. and I hope you (seeing the
facts in the case) will not blame me, as
I did all I did to benefit the planters,
not knowing that they really had now a
good fertilizer to double the production
of the farm. But 1 tell you that in the
past there lias been worse imposition
then you think. 1 have known it made
of a few pounds of chemicals and the
rest dirt. Yours,
I. J. M. Goss.
• Figures of Speech.
Cincinnati Timee-Star.
The boy who asserted stoutly that lie
saw a thousand cats, and afterward was
brought down by some Gradgrind stick
ler for the exactitude of speculations
to say that he saw their own and two of
their neighbors, was not probably guilty
of deliberate falsification, but only of a
a somewhat florid figure of speech pe
culiar alike to boys and to moil as well.
“ It’s the hottest day I ever saw,” says
Neighbor C., darting under the shadow
of an awning wiping away the per
spiration ftp n> his brow with his banda
na. “This is the coldest weather we
have ever experienced,” says farmer
I)., rushing in to the kitchen stove to
thaw his stinging ears and benumbed
fingers when the thermometer is down
to zero. “Your party,” says an enthu
siastic orator in the heat of a political
< umpingn, kl iS rotten tv) liit? yOF6, niiu ij
it should succeed in ■securing the control
of the Government, would destroy the
liberties of the people.”
“And yours,” says his no less earnest
opponent, “has no principles hut thedc
si7 <TtoMidribfffc tlie'*!oaves amTfishe's of
official patronage among your tatterde
malion followers and strikers,” “That
woman is horrid,” says oue lady to an
other on the street. “That man is a
fool says A to B of X, who differs from
him in a question iff theology. “As the
sands upon the sea-shore or the leaves of
the forest, my tribe is numerous,”. says
the savage proudly, meaning in the ab
stract that his people is ;v multitude, but
having no idea of numbers in the con
crete. And so the spirit of exaggera
tion goes on the world even among con
scientious persons who would scorn to
tell an untruth. A man, by some act
of exceptional merit, achieves distinc
tion, and is straightway so extravagant
ly eulogized that his own brother fails
to recognize the portrait. Another falls
under temptation, and his most innocent
acts are declared to be monstrous.
The moral of this is, don’t believe all
the good nor all the bad you hear of
men, but remember, in making up your
judgement, the boy’s thousand cats.
This bit of juvenile hyperbole we would
suggest as particularly worthy of re
membrance in arriving at conclusions
after a diligent perusal of tbe political
newspapers or after drinking in the el
oquence of the political stump speaker
of the period.
Here is a Republican who can see no
good to come out of the Democratic
Nazareth ; there is a Democrat who be
lieves the whole Republican Church is
surely anti-Chri-t, and yet some of the
purest tnindod citizens of this or any
other city vote the Democratic ticket as
religiously almost as they partake of the
sacrament, while others no less consci
entiously believe they are serving God
and the everlasting principles of free
dom and justice by depositing a Repub
lican vote on election day-and it is well
it should be so, for when the conscience
of the Republic is all ranged on one side,
and the evil and the irreligion on the
other it will be a sad day for Republi
can freedom in the world. Let us take
heart, therefore, to believe that, notwith
standing the heat of political partisan
ship, the great division of the American
people into parties, is, after all, a source
of safety to the liberties each is anxious
in his own way and according to his
own lights to conserve, Moreover let
us not judge too severely the innate
truthfulness of the boy who probably for
the moment deluded himself into believ
ing that he really did see the
cats.
HARTWELL 1 , GA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1880.
A Boy, A Woman and a C'oW.
It is now over one hundred years since
ian American philosopher propounded
the query : “Why is a woman afraid
of a cow ?” and yet no one has ever suc
ceeded in giving a satisfactory answer.
There is once in a while a woman who
does not seem to have the slightest fear,
even when passing a cow with one horn
all twisted out of shape ; hut fallow that
woman home and you will find that sho
kicks the dog, cuffs the children, jaws
her husband and knows how to sharp
en a butcher-knife and use an axe.
The real woman has a mortal terror of
cows, and the real cow seems to have
an antipathy for her.
Friday forenoon a lady was walking
down Cass avenue when she suddenly
came upon a cow. The animal was
feeding on the other side of the street
and the boy sent out to watch her sat
under a shade tree and played on a
mouth organ.
The lady halted.
The cow looked up.
“ Lost anything, raa’rin?” asked the
boy, as he removed the music from his
mouth.
“ I—l’m afraid of that cow !” she re
plied.
“What fur? Cows don’t bite nor
kick same as a horse. All they kin do
is ran their horns through you and
pin you to the ground.”
“Oh tny! she’s coining!”
“No she hain’t. She’s just making
believe that she wants to get at ye and
hook ye over the fence.”
“Oh, but I dare not pass!”
“ Yes you dare. Cows know when a
jworaan is affciiu jusi as quick as any
body. The minit you give cows to un
derstand that you are able to catch ’em
by the heels and mop the ground with
’em they go to hunting for clover.”
“ Dear me, but I guess I’ll go back !”
“I wouldn’t. If ye’ll only spit ou
yer hands and shake yer fist at her she’ll
wilt right down. Cows know who’s
boss just as well as men do. Now, then
I’ll hold your parasol while you spit on
your hands.”
“Oh ! I can’t —I’m going right on
home!”
“ Well, my little brother he swears at
’em instead of spitting on his hands,
See if you can do that.”
“ No —no —no! I’m going now!”
“ If I was a woman and I couldn’t
swear or spit on rny hands, I should
carry a sword caue to stab cows with,”
observed the boy as he looked across the
way.
“My soul! hut there’s another cow
up there!” exclaimed the lady as she
looked up the street.
“ Yes, lots of cows around these days,
but I never heard of two cows attacking
a woman at ouce. I guess one general
ly hooks ’em all to pieces first, and then
the other conics up and paws at the
mangled remains. If you —.”
The lady uttered a first-class scream
and made a jump for the nearest gate.
It opened hard, and after one pull she
went over the fence and up the front
steps ofa strange house, there to remain
until her husband conld be summoned
by telephone to come and act as a body
guard.
“ I’d just like to be a woman,” inused
the boy as he sat down to punish his
mouth orgau some more. “ I’d carry a
bowie knife down the back of my neck,
and the first cotv that tried to hook me
would feel that ere knife playing rnnm
blety peg around her vicious heart
strings.”
An Irish nobleman, riding along a
country road in Ireland, saw a very fiit
boy dozing by the roadside. “Which
way is it to Macroon, my lad?” asked
the nobleman. “ That way,” replied the
boy, lazily moving the toe of his boot in
the direction of the place. Astonished
at his extreme laziness, “my lord ” dis
mounted. “ Boy,” said he, “if you
can show a lazier act than that I will
give you a half crown.” The boy eyed
him sleepily fora moment, and, turning
half over on his side, muttered, “ Put it
in me pocket, but!” He got the half
crown.
Judge to prisoner: “ Why will you
drink ? Now look at me !I am 60, and
I never tasted liquor.” “You’ve lost
lots of fun, then, Judge, sure as you’re
born.”
Devoted to Hart County.
A Dentist's Friend.
An Oil City man was standing in
front of a dentist’s office, with an auat
ious, unhappy look in his eves, and two
yards of flannel round his lower jaw.
lie east sorrowful glances upward to the
dentist’s sign, and in a hesitating sort of
way placed his foot on the lower stair;
then came out to the street again as if he
had forgottcu something. Col. Solon
etynie along at this moment, and with a
thmighttul interest in the man's welfare,
said: •
“Toothache, eh? Coin’ to have it
pulled? Ever had a tooth pulled? No?
Well, you’d better go right up afore
your courage fails you. Worst thing in
the world is pullin’ a tooth. I’ve been
through the war, had both lungs shot
away, fifteen bullets in my head, and
doctors run a probe through my shoul
der right down through my body to my
toe—thought ’twould kill me. But,
im,u alive, I never knew what pain was
’till I had a tooth pulled. Maybe you
think the toothache is horrible. It is.
It is awful. Rut wait till the dentist
runs them air iron tongs in your mouth,
pulls the tooth right down through your
jaw boue, and then yanks away ns if he
was pulling at an old engine, and you’ll
think the toothache ain’t no more to be
compared to it than a flea-bite is to a
railioad accident. Yer had better go
right up, though, and have it out.
Don’t let anything I said, cause you to
back out. I merely wanted to prepare
yer mind fur it. And don’t yer take
ether. Knew a man onet about your
complexion an’ build, who took ether,
an’ lie died. It’s dangerous. Jes’ go
right up an’ have it. I’ll go up with
ver, and see how yer stand it when he
begins twistin’ the bones round. Yer
won’t sleep a wink to night if yer don’t
have it out ; an’ maybe yer won’t, any
how, for sometimes the tooth breaks the
iariv, inflammatory rheumatism strikes
the what's-its-name nerve, and the what
they call it sets in.” ,
Just at this moment a young man
practicing on a French horn iu one of
the upper rooi;is drew a long, ear-pierc
ing blast, like the yell of a man in tor
ment, and as the last sound echoed
through the hall, the colonel said:
that’s it; there’s someone getting a
tooth pulled now, and the dentist hasn’t
no more thau just given the first twist
either. Come right up and have yours
yanked ! Whoop ! there he goes agin !”
as another terrible blast from the horn
came down the staircase. “Hold on,
hold on !” yelled the colonel —but he
wasu’t quick enough to stop the man
with the aching tooth, who rushed out
of the doorway and down the street so
fast that his two yards of flannel became
unwound and streamed behind him like
signals of danger— while the villainous
old colonel sat down on the lowef step
and laughed till his eyes ached.
Hayes anil Sherman on Arthur.
llaym' Hextayc to Senate, January 31*1. 1579.
With my information of the facts in
the case, and with a deep sense of the
responsible obligation imposed upon me
by ibe Constitution, to ‘take care that
tbe laws be faithfully executed,’ I re
gard it my plain duty to suspend the
officers in question, and to make the j
nominations now before the Senate, in
order that this important office may be
honestly and efficiently administered.
siibrman’s letter TO PRESIDENT, JAN. :
28th, 1879.
If, to secure tbe removal of an officer,
it is necessary to establish the actual j
commission of a crime by proofs deman
ded in a court of justice, then it is clear
that the case against Mr. Arthur is not j
made out, especially if his answer is j
held to be conclusive, without reference j
to the proofs on the public records and
tendered to the committee and the Sen
ate. But if it is to be held that, to pro
cure the removal of Mr. Arthur, it is
sufficient to reasonably establish that
gross abuses of administration have con
tinued and increased during his incum
bency that many persons have been reg
ularly paid on his rolls who rendered
little or no service; that the expenses
of his office have increase!, while collec
tions have been diminishing; that bribes
have been received by his subordinates
in several branches of the Customhouse ;
that efforts to correct these abuses have
not met his support, and that he has
$1.50 Per Annum.
not given to the duties of the office the
requisite diligence ami attention, then
it is submitted that the case is made out.
Tuis form of proof the department is
prepared to submit.
ItlackMiiithing in Germany.
In the interior towns and villages of
Germany, it has been tbe custom for
many years for the farmer to purchase
the iron f. r his tires and horseshoes, and
in some instances, when having anew
wagon built, to purchase nil the iron en
tering into the same, the lengths of ev
ery piece being furnished him by the
smith. One part of the contract is
that the smith shall return to tbe farmer
all ends and cuttings from the iron, and
it frequently occurs that the farmer re
mains at the shop until the iron is all
cut up, in order that the smith shall not
indulge too much cabbage. Each smitla
shop has what is termed “the hell,” and
on cutting off n set of tires, if the far
mer be not present, the largest half of
the end cut off finds its way to “the
hell,” tbe duty of putting it there de
volving upon the youngest apprentice.
From this always plentiful store the
smith furnishes his materials for the
manufacture of holts, horseshoes, etc.,
for transient customers. The horse
shoeing part is also a feature; the far
mer w ill bring with him the end of some
piece of irou or tire, with which to make
the shoes, or perhaps n dozen nr more
old horseshoes to be converted into new
ones. The farmer must blow the bel
lows until tbe work is forged or the
shoes all made, and must then hold up
the horse’s foot whilo the shoes are be
ing driven on or taken off’, and invaria
bly carries the old shoes home with him,
unless he prefers to jjvc the old shoes in
payment for the apprentice's service in
holding up the feet.
Affection of the Elephant.
Tho (!ilnmhnH I'hp.L of a Into date,
relates the following interesting story
of affection recently exhibited in an
elephant belonging to Herr Driesbacli’s
menagerie, for his keeper: “The men
agerie on coming into Newark, Ohio,
the keeper fell in a lit from his horse.
The whole menagerie immediately name
to a halt, and some members of the
company went forward to pick up the
man, but the elephant would not allow
any person to approach the senseless
form of his keeper. Taking him up
with his trunk softly, he would place
him on his horse, but finding that the
man was senseless, he laid him down on
the ground and kept watch over him.
Many members of the menagerie tried
to soothe the faithful elephant, who had
now become furious at the supposed
death of his master, but to no purpose,
and there tbe man lay, watched by the
sagacious animal. After laying in this
condition for some time, a physician,
who had been sent for, arrived, and yet
the elephant would allow no one to ap
proach. At length, the keeper became
so far conscious as to command the ele
phant to let the physician come near,
and the elephant was docile and obe
dient in a moment, and the keeper was
properly cared for—the elephant all the
time expressing the utmost anxiety for
the sick man.”
Enough! Enough !
A Frenchman who knew very little
of our language, unfortunately got into
a difficulty with a countryman, and fight
lie must, and that, too, rough and tum
ble. But before he went at it, be want
ed to know what be should cry if lie
found himself whipped. After being in- j
formed that, when satisfied, all he would [
have to do would be to cry out “enough,”
at it they went; but poor monsieur, in
bis difficulties, forgot, the word, and i
finding bis eyes likely to be removed i
from their sockets, lie began to cry ;
but instead of saying wliat was told him
he commenced bawling lustily, “Hur
rah ! hurrah ! hurrah! ”
To his astonishment, the countryman
kept pounding harder, whqn monsieur,
finding there was no use in halloing,
turned and went to work in such good
earnest, that it was not long before tbe
countryman sang out in a stentorian
voice, “Enough!” “Say that again,”
said the Frenchman. “ Enough!
Enough !” cried he, again. When the
Frenchman in bis turn exclaimed,
“ Besrar, dat is the vere word 1 was trv
ingto say long time ago.”
WHOLE NO. 204.
A LETTER FROM TEXAS.
Minnoi.a. Texas, July 13. t#W>.
Messrs. Editors: As 1 receive The
Sun weekly 1 nm happy in hearing the
news from my old native State anil
friends of Hart county. But I ofteu
wonder how the people are doing so
well, when twenty years ago I left
Hart county seeing no prospectH of
making an honest living there. So I
forsook father, mother, brothers, sisters
and all that near and dear to me.
From all the information U>nve of tho
United States, Texas possesses more
advantages and offers to tho industri
ous settler greater inducements than
any other State in tho Union. It is a
fact—and one that can be readily
proven, however wonderful it may ap
pear—that in Texas a cow can lie raised
; for less than it costs to raise a turkey
in any other part of the United States.
We have fine ponies, many of them as
good specimens of horses as I have
ever scon, and know that—thanks to
the abundaneo of free pasture lands—
t he raising of them has not yet cost tho
first red cent. To farmers and mechan
ics who are industrious I say, if you
wish to better your condition and live
in a country where lulior is lilierully re
warded, where lands t hat are now cheap
(50 cents to $3.00 per acre) will bo worth
fortunes iu a few years, come to Texas.
Come, if not for yourselves for your
children. Come early, delay not.
Taxes arc light; tbe school fund is
large. Crops yield on an average:
wheat, 12$ bushels per acre; corn, 30
bushels per acre ; oats, from 50 to 80
bushels per acre. Tobacco also docs
well and millet gives a wonderful yield,
Sheep thrive well and will give on an
average six pounds of wool per bead
this year. No State in tbe Union is
half as healthy, none possess a better
climate. A white mon can stand field
work here equally as well ay in Geor
gia; I have tried batfes&Btes, and pre
fer this. Society is not so good as far
ther east, but improving fast. Rail
roads in abundance —market at each
man’s door. Plenty of young men ; few
young ladies. There are six young
men to one young lady ; and as it is
customary for young ladies to want to
marry, persuade your papas to move to
the garden spot of tbe universe,
Texas, where you can have your choice
among many, nil of whom have good
homes and able to prepare all conven
iences for your earthly welfare. Young
man, remain where you are, unless you
can get you a wife—then come here
and till the soil. School teachers, law
yers, editors, and all other professional
men, can do better in Georgia.
We have some excitement about pol*
itics; Col. Weaver and Chambers are
now in our State carrying their thou
sands with them on the present issue
before the people. Dallas county is
making preparations to feed 7,000-
on the 15th and 16th, and wo are pre
paring to feed 4,000 the 17th. Both
Greenbackers and Democrats are anx
ious to see one nominee for President,
and have the financial problem solved,
and see whether we can once more have
a government by the [>eople and for
the people; not for tho bondholders,
and by the bondholders.
B. F. Roberts*
The Stingy Man.
Bob Iwjermdl-
I despise a stingy man. I don’t see
how it is possible for a man to die worth
$5,000,000 or $10,000,000 in a city full
of want, when lie meets almost ever}
day the withered hand of beggary and
the white lips of famine. How a man
tau withstand all that and lipid in the
clutch of his hand $20,000,000 or $30,-
000,000 is past my comprehension. 1
do not see bow he can do it. I should
not think he could do it any more than
be could keep a pile of lumber when
hundreds and thousands were drowning
in the sea. Dojou know I have known
men who would trust their wive3 with
their hearts anil their homes, not with,
their pocketbooks—not with a dolla:.
When I see a man of that kind, I al
ways think he knows which is most,
valuable. Think of her asking you e\ -
ery day for a dollar or two dollars.
“What did you do with that dollar I
gave you?” Think of having a wi''-
that is afraid of yon! What kind o '
1 children do you expect to have with a
beggar and a coward for a mother?
Oh ! I tell you, if you have but a dollar'
; in tbe world and you have got to spend
; it, spend it like a king ; spend it a +
though it were a dry leaf and you tli
! owner of unbounded forests. Thai-'.?
the way to spend it. I had rather be a
beggar and spend my last dollar like h
king, than be a king and spend my moq.
ey like a beggar.