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y^T o make room for the Bowcrsville stock,
ae offer
EXTRA IND UCEMEXTS
at our Hartwell Storo, where we expect to
concentrate our business and forces for u
{rand and furions
War Upon High Prices I
With our strong determination, backed by
a long experience, good Goods and Low
Prices, we expect to achieve a
GLORIOUS VICTORY!
E. B. Benson & Cos.
GARFIELD & ARTHUR
Have been nominated by the
REPUBLICANS,
Hut notwithstanding their nomination and
their certain defeat next Fall by
HANCOCK & ENGLISH
T. W. AYERS
Continues to sell goods cheaper than any
other house in this section. His motto is
known by every one who frequents his
place of business to be
“ Quick Sales and Short Profits.”
The leading specialty of his business is
to keep a better quality of FAMILY
GROCERIES than has ever been kept in
Hartwell, and to sell them for less money.
lie has in stock a brand of Flour, which
makes as good biscuit as any flour in the
world, Carter’s Fancy not excepted, which
he is now offering for s7.soper barrel.
He sells the best brand of COFFEE
from 15 to 20 cents per pound.
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BA-ee, V\v\.\s,
"WutW'cX,
O’vV,
£Ac.,
He sell as CHEAP as the CHEAPEST.
You will never fail to find him with a
good stock of
VjV\i\.*\.eA Wuc\\es,
O V^s\tYS,
BvvvvYocvefc, eXe., o\e.,
at BOTTOM PRICES. He also keeps a
a select stock of
aooDs,
which he is is now offering at just a frac
tion more than Cost.
•vrj’ GALLANT YOUNG MEN and CANDI
1_ DATES, HEAR THIS ! You can always pro
cure from T. XV. Ayers a drink of BC’IO COM)
KOIK WATEK. Eemonade and Cider for your
Rweethearts and friends. Now then, young men,
bring your lady friends right along, and show your
gallantry and liberality. Young Ladies, obey this:
Never refuse to come and have Soda Water when
asked, and discard every close-disted boy whs is too
stingy to show you this courtesy. Wives, make
your husbands divide wiili you tin: money they spend
for w hisky and tobacco, and you come and buy some
thing nice, cool and refreshing. Candidates, if you
wish to treat your friends, bring them here, instead
giving them something that probably would prove
their eternal ruin
T. W. AYEKS’ store is the place for everyone
to go who wish to return home with bargains and
feeling happy. Go and be convinced.
T. W. AYERS’ wants all the HIDES in the
country, and will pay the top of the market for them.
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KOAD NOTICE
Application having been made to the Court of
Ordinary of Hart county, Georgia, for the establish
jnentof anew publicroadiu said county, commencing
at or near the Hardy place on the Knox bridge road,
thence along the present road by the factory, thence
bv wav of Joseph Maret’s thence to the Anderson
ville road thence along said road to the creek, thence
by way of Charles Walters’, thence by way of S. IS
Byrum's thence to intersect the Camesville road
near B. J. McLeskv’s—running all the way as tht
present road now runs; said road having beei
marked out and report thereof made to said conn
in manner prescribed by law. Notice is hereby
given to all persons that on and after the 21st day of
August, 1880, an order w ill be passed finally grant
ing said road to be opened as a public road, if no
good cause is shown to the contrary.
Witness my hand and official signature, this July
10, 1880. F. C. STEPHENSON, Ordinary.
Ann a week in you: own town. Terms and J 5
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The Hartwell Sun.
By BENSON & McGILL.
VOL. IV—NO. 50.
THE MILLHIV3 MAID.
Nenr the hamlet of Udorf, on the
bank of the Rhine, not far front Bonn,
there yet stands the mill which was the
scene of the following adventure:
One Sabbath morning the miller and
his family set out as usual to attend
service at the nearest church in the
village of Ileasel, leaving the mill, to
which the dwelling house was attached,
in charge of his servant-maid Ilanchen,
a bold-hearted girl who had been some
time in his service. The youngest
child, who was still too little to go to
church, remained also under her care.
As Hanchen was busily engaged in
preparing dinner for the family, site
| was interrupted by a visit from her ad
mirer, Heinrich Botteler. lie was au
idle, graceless fellow, and her master,
who knew his character well, had for
bidden him the house; but Ilanchen
could not believe all the stories she
heard against her lover, and was sin
cerely attached to him. On this occa
sion she greeted him kindly, and not
onty got him something to eat at once,
but found time in the midst of her bus
iness to sit down and have a gossip
with him, while he did justice to the
fare set before him. As lie was eating
he let fall his knife, wliich he asked her
to pick up for him ; she playfully re
monstrated, telling him she feared,
from all she had heard, he did little
enough work, and ought at least to
wait upon himself. In the end, how
ever, she stooped down to pick up the
knife, when the treacherous villain
(irew a dagger from under his coat, and
•caught her by the nape of the neck,
grappling her throat firmly with his
fingers to prevent her screaming; then,
with an oath, he desired her to tell * ,: _a
where her master kept his .none} - ,
threatening to kill her if sko did not
comply with his demand. The sur
prised and terrified girl in vain attempt
ed to parley with him; he still held
her tightly in his choking grasp, leav
ing her no other choice but to die, or
betray her master. She saw there was
no hope of softening him, or changing
Ins purpose, and, with a full conviction
of treachery, all her native courage
awoke in her bosom. Affecting, how
ever, to yield to what was inevitable,
she answered him in a resigned tone,
that what must be, must; only, if he
carried off her master's gold, he must
take her with him too; for she could
never stay to hear their suspicions and
reproaches, entreating him at the same
time to relax his grasp of her throat,
for she could hardly speak, much less
do what he bade her, while he held her
so tight. At length he was induced to
quit hold, on her reminding him that
he must lose no time, or the family
would be returning from church. She
then led the way to her masters bed
room, and showed him the coffer where
he kept his money. “Here,” she said,
reaching to him an axe which lay in a
corner of the room, “you can open it
with this, while I run up stairs to put
all my things together, besides the
money I have saved since I have been
here.” m
Completely deceived by her apparent
readiness to enter into his plans, he
allowed her to leave the room, only ex
horting her to be as quick as possible,
and was immediately absorbed in his
own operations, first opening the box,
and then disposing of the money about
his person. In the meanwhile, Han
chen, instead of going up stairs to her
own room, crept softly along several
passages, till she reached her master’s
chamber. It was the work of a mo
ment to shut and bolt the door upon
him ; and this done, she rushed out of
the outer door of the mill to give the
alarm. The only being in sight was
her master’s little boy, a child of five
years old ; to him she called with all
her might, “Run ! run to meet your
father as he comes from church; tell
him we shall all be murdered if he does
not hurry back!” The frightened
child did as she bade him, and set oif
running on the road she pointed out.
Somewhat relieved by seeing that
the child understood her, and would
make her case known, she sank down
for a moment on the stone seat before
the door, and full Jt conflicting emo
tions of grief and thankfulness for her
HARTWELL, UA., WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 11, 1880.
escape, she burst Into tears. But at
this fcribmenfc a shrill whistle aroused
her attention ; it was from her prisoner
Heinrich, who, opening the grated win
dow above her head, shouted to some
accomplice without, to catch the child
that was running away so fast, and to
kill the girl. Ilanchen looked around in
great alarm, but saw noone. The child
still continued to run with all bis might,
and she lifted that it was ajalse
alarm to excite her fear and overcome
her resolution*?’ when, just as the child
reached a hollow in the next field (the
channel of a natural drain), she saw a
ruffian start up from the bed of the
drain, and snatching up the child in
his arms, hasten with him towards the
mill, in nccordance with the direction
oT his accomplice. In a moment she
perceived the full extent of her danger
and formed her plans for escaping it.
Retreating into the mill, she double
locked and bolted the door—the only
apparent entrance into the building, ev
ery other means of obvious access be
ing prevented by strong iron gratings
fixed up against all the windows—and
then took her post at the upper case
ment, determined to await patiently
her master’s return, and her consequent
delivery from her dangerous position,
or her own death, if, indeed inevitable ;
for she was fully resolved to enter into
no terms, and that nothing should in
duce her to give up her master's proper-
ty into the robbers’ hands. She had
hardly had time to secure herself in her
retreat, when the ruffian, holding the
screaming child in his arms, and bran
dishing a knife in one hand, came up
and bade her open the door or he would
break it down, adding many awful oaths
and threats ; to which her only answer
was, that she put her trust in God.
Heinrich, who from his window was a
witness of this colloquy, now called out
to cut lire child's throat before her e3 r es
if she still persisted in her refusal.
Poor llanchen’s heart quailed at this
horrible threat; for a moment her reso
lution I'ailed, but only for a moment.
The death of the child could be no gain
to them, while her own death wafc cer
tain if she admitted the assailant; and
her master too, would be robbed. She
had no reason either to suppose that her
compliance would save the life of the
child. It was to risk all against noth
ing, and she resolved to hold out to the
last, though the villain from without re
newed his threats, saying that if she
would not open the door to him he
would kill the child, and then set fire
to the mill over her head, “I put my
trust in God,” was still the poor girl's
answer.
In the meantime the ruffian set down
the child for a moment, to look about
for combuselbles to carry out his threat
In this search, he discovered a mode of
entering the mill unthougbt of by Ilan
chen. It was a large aperture in the
wall, communicating with the great
wheel, and the other machinery of the
mill; and it was a point entirely un
protected, for it had never been contem*
plated that any one would seek to enter
by so dangerous an inlet. Triumphant
at this discovery, he returned to tie tin;
hands and feet of the poor child, to
prevent its escape, and then stole back
to the aperture, by which lie intemfed to
effect an entrance. The situation of the
building prevented llanchen from see
ing anything of this ; but a thought had
meanwhile struck her. It was Sabbath,
when the mill was never at work; if,
therefore, the sails were seen in motion
the whole neighborhood would know
that something unusual was the matter ;
and her master especially would hasten
home to know the meaning of anything (
so strange.
Being all her life accustomed to the
machinery of the mill, it was the work
of a moment to set it in motion ; a brisk
breeze which sprung up at once set the
sails flying. The arms of the huge en
gine whirled round with fearful rapidity
and the great wheel slowly revolved on |
its axle; smaller gear turned, and
creaked, and groaned, according as the
machinery came into action; the mill
was in full operation. It was at this
moment that the ruffian intruder had
succeeded in squeezing himself through
the aperture in the wall, and gotten
himself safely lodged in the interior of
the great drum wheel. His dismay,
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however, was indescribable, when he
began to l>e whirled about with its rota
tion, and found that all his efforts to
put a stop to the powerful machinery
which set it, m motion, or to extricate
himself from this perilous situation
ed shrieks and horrible imprecations.
Astonished at this noise, Ilanchen ran
to the spot, and saw him caught like a
rat in his own trap, from which it was
no part of her plan to liberate him.
Sltfe knew he would be more frightened
than hurt, if he kept within his rotary
prison, without any rash attempt at es
cape ; and that, even if he became in
sensible, he could not fall out of it.
In the meantime the wheel went
round and round with its steady, un
ceasing motion ; and round and round
he went with it, while sense remained,
beseeching Hanchen witli intreaties,
promises, and wild, impotent threats,
which were all equally disregarded, till
by degrees feeling and perception fail
ed him, and lie saw and heard no one.
He fell senseless at the bottom of the
engine, but even then his inanimate
body continued to be whirled around
as before; for Hanchen did not dare
trust appearances in such a villain, and
would not venture to suspend the work
ing of the mill, or stop the mill-gear
and tackle from running at their fullest
speed.
At length she heard a lorn! knocking
at the door, and flew to open it. It was
her master and his family, accompanied
by several of the neighbors, all in the
utmost excitement snd wonder at see
ing the mill sails in full swing on a
Sabbath, and still more wheirthey had
found the poor child bound upon the
grass, who, howevlf, wms too terrified
to give them any account of what had
happmed. HaucheiLJn a few words,
py 'Liied^jail; jnnl then her spirits,
widen had sustained her through such
scenes of terror, gave way under the
sense of safety and relief, and she fell
fainting in tlieir arms, and was with
much difficulty recovered. The ma
chinery of the mill was at once stopped,
and the inanimate ruffian dragged from
his dreadful prison. Heinrich, too,
was brought forth from the miller’s
chamber, and both wore, in a short time,
sent hound, under a strong esfcort, to
Bonn, where they sortin' after met the
reward of their crimes.
The story of this extraordinary act
of presence of mind concludes by tell
ing us that llanchen, thus effectually
cured of her penchant for her uuworth}'
suitor, became, evcntuall)', the wife of
the miller’s eldest son, and thus lived
all her life on the scene of her imminent
danger and happy deliverance.
False Teeth and Crutches.
Among the passengers who boarded
the east bound train at Holly, Michi
gan, the other daj', were a bride and
groom of the regular hollyhock order.
Although the car was full of passen
gers the pair began to squeeze hands
and hug as soon as they were seated.
This of course attracted attention, and
pretty soon everybody was nodding
and winking, and several persons so far
forgot themselves as to laugh outright.
Bv and by the broad-shouldered and
red-handed groom became aware of the
fact that he was being ridiculed, and
lie unlinked himself to the height of
six feet, looked up and down the aisle,
and said : “ There seems to be con
siderable nodding and winking around
here because I’m hugging the girl who
was married to me at 7 o’clock this
morning. If the rules of this railroad
forbid a man from hugging his wife af
ter he has paid full fare, then I’m going
to quit; but if the rules don’t, and this
winking and blinking isn’t bitten short
off when we pass the next mile post, I
am going to begin on the front seats
and create a rising market for false
teeth and crutches!” If there were
any more winks and blinks in that car
the groom did not catch them at it.
One of the hardest lessons to learn
in life is that the man who differs with
you not only in opinions, but in princi
ples may be as honest and sincere as
yourself.
If you let trouble sit upon your soul
like a hen upon her nest, you may ex
pect the hatching of a large brood.
$1.50 Per Annum.
How to Grow.
Once I read of a lively, fun-loving lit
tle fellow, who was found standing in
the garden with his feet buried in the
soil and his hand clasping a tall sun
flower. His face was aglow with de
light, and when his mother said: “Wil
lie, dear, what pleases you so much?”
he replied ; “Mamma, 1 am going to be
a man ! I've planted myself to grow !’’
Willie seemed to think that he was a
plant and could draw food for growth
from the soil. In this he was mistaken
as you know. Boys grow into tuen by
fo<xl taken into the mouth, but to be
real, noble men, they must eat some
thing more than mere bread and meat.
They must eat facts.
•‘Oh! how can we do that?” exclaims
some wee Willie.
“By thinking of them, my dear.
Reading is the spoon with which yon
get the Facts into your head. By think
ing, you get to know what the facts re
ally signify. Now, just as the bread,
meat, vegetables and fruit you put into
your mouth make the body grow, so the
facts you think altout make your mind
grow. Bea reader and a thinker.”
A Wonderful Spring.
Silver Spring, Florida, is one of the
greatest curiosity of the South. It hub
bies up in a basin nearly 100 feet deep
and about an acre in extent, sending
from it a deep stream (50 to 100 feet
wide, and extending six or eight miles
to the Oclawaha River. In the spring
itself sixty boats may lie at anchor—
quite a licet. The spring thus forms a
natural inward port, to which three
steamers run regularly Iroin St. Johns,
making close connection with the ocean
stcumers at Patatka. The clearness of
the water is truly wonderful. It seems
eveu more transparent than air. You
seethe bottojn eighty feet below the
bottom of your boat, the exact form of
the smallest pebble, the outline and
color of the leaf that lias sunk, and all
the prismatic colors of the rainbow are
reflected. Large fish swim in it, every
scale visible and every movement dis
tinctly seen. If you go over the spring
in a boat you will see the fissure in the
rock from which the river rushes up
ward like an inverted cataract.
Blunder*.
Few attributes of character are more
charming than the faculty of gracefully
acknowledging one’s errors. The man
who makes a blunder and sticks to it is
a person with whom argument or con
troversy becomes impossible. The
trouble and time spent in attempting
to convince him of the truth are com
pletely wasted, for lie will still believe
that what b has advanced must he
right, even in the face of actual dem
onstration that it is wrong. On the
other hand, of the action of one who
will admit with frank and ready cour
tesy that he had been mistaken, it may
be said that it “blessfith him that gives
and him that takes”—it covers his own
retreat with gracefulness rttid gives Ids
adversary a pleasant memory of an en
counter with a generous foe.
A Parisian’s Curiosity Satisfied.
A retired Baris tradesman, advanced
in years, recently took it into his head
to buy a coffin. Once in his lodgings,
he thought he would try how one felt
in it. He got in and laydown, but be
ing old and stifT, he could not get out
again. There lie lay for several days,
when his hall porter, weary at not see
ing him, knocked at his door. Hearing
groans, the porter broke the door and
found the state of things described,
lie broke the side of the coffin and re
leased the old man. With the aid of
wine and beef tea he was restored to
health.
Abernethy, the celebrated surgeon,
finding a large pile of paving-stones op
posite his door, swore hastily at the pa
vior, and desired him to remove them.
Where will I take them to? asked the
Hibernian ; To hell, cried the choleric
surgeon. Paddy, looking up in his face
with an arch grin said, Hadn’t I better
take them to heaven ? sure they’d bo
more out of yer honor’s way.
It is not merely the individual but
society that suffers by every idle, everv
selfish, evory mean, every uffhist man.
WHOLE NO. 20(5.
LETTER FROM BUENA VISTA.
Dkaii Sun: Supposing that your
people would like to know something
of this pnrt of the State, I drop you a
hasty note.
I thought, before coming here that
the country was level like the eastern
part of State, situated in the same lat
itude, but this is not the case. The
country is diversified with hill and dale.
There is a great deal of safid in tho
soil, and in consequence the land when
cleared washes Into deep gullies unless
special pains are taken to prevent it.
Buena Vista, the county site of Ma-*
rion connty, it on a high elevation, and
consequently the summers here are
quite as pleasant ns in your section.
Although we have had some very warm
weather litis summer the nights have
been cool and pleasant.
Buena Vista contains about six hun
dred inhabitants. The town is very
much dilapidated ami there is a want
of public spirit about tho place which
suffers tilings to drag weary course
along as best they can. Yet a more
hospitable set, of citizens it would be
difficult to find. They have been al
ways noted for keeping up good schools.
Tho school this year lias bad more than
a hundred pupils. The town has been
noted for its morality. Until recently
it was a very rare thing to hear an oath
on the street, even from the negroes ;
in fact people looked around in aston
ishment if one was uttered. A grog
shop. something unknown here for two
years, has recently been set up, and lo !
what a change! Blasphemy is now
heard on the street and people are not
astonished. Thin swearing, however,
is done mostly by negroes and people
who visit the town.
Thou sparkling howl! thou sparkling bow!!
Though lips olbanls thy brim may press,
And eyes of beauty o’er the roll,
And song and dance thy power confess.
I will not touch thee; for there clings
A scorpion to thy side, that stings.
This has been a year of disasters
with our farmers. In the spring tliero
was a freshet that swept everything be
fore it—fences, bridges, mills, Ac.;
then came uu eight weeks’ drouth,
parching and burning up the crops, and
another fresfiet has come, washing
away the crops in the liottoins, upon
which the hopes of the farmers rested.
The drouth fortunately did not extend
over the entire county. In some places
they Imd all the rain needed, and in
those places the crops are very fine in
deed.
There arc some very fine farming
lands in this county, hut there is also
a belt of pincy woods running across
in which the lands arc very poor. The
people are beginning to find out'Pint
these pines are valuable ami are putting
up turpentine stills, and thus develop
ing the resources of the county.
This is is emphatically the year of
elections and politics lias been raging
here as elsewhere. The delegates to
the Gubernatorial Convention were
chosen by mass meeting and a small
majority were in favor of Hardeman
for Governor, consequently delegates
in favor of that gentleman were chosen.
The wild hunt after office here has be
come alarming. You can count the
candidates by scores at any public- 1
gathering.
Our people beat the world for picnics.
There is cither a picnic or barbacue
sorncwnlere in the county almost if not
quite every Saturday, and judging from
the quantity of good things to eat dis
played on the tables no one would sup
pose that there was any fear of hard
times.
This county is well supplied with
churches, the Methodist and Baptist
being the prevailing denominations.
There are a good many Primitive or
Hardshell Baptist churches in this sec
tion but that Church is fast passing
away. Any church destitute of a mis
sionary spirit is bound to die.
This section of the State will com
pare favorably with any other portion
in every respect.
With many wishes for the success of
The Sun, the spiciest paper in the
State I am, as ever. D.
A Yankee came running down to a
pier just as a steamer was starting. The
boat moved off some four or five yards
as he took a jump, and coming down on
the back of his head on the deck, he
lay stunned for two or three minutes.
When he came to, the boat had gone
the best part of a quarter of a mile,
and raising his head and looking to the
shore, the Yankee said, “ Great Jehos
ephut! what a jump!”
God walks with the simple; he re
veals himself to the lowly; he gives
understanding to the little ones.; ho
discloses his meaning to pure minds,
and hides his grace from the curious
and proud.