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mp_SALE lartwell, ga. 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. ViUvvX., 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. 193tf THE 6REJS.T CiLUSE IS HUHAV ( HXBIR7. Just Published, in a Healed Envelope. Price six cts A lecture on the Nature, Treatment: Radical cure of Seminal Weakness, or Spermator rhoea induced by Self-Abuse, Involuntary Emis sions, linpotency,' Nervous Debility, and Impedi ments to Marriage generally: Consumption, Epilepsy and Kite: Mental and I’lnsical Incapacity, Ac.—By ROBERT ,1. CULVERWELL, M. I) , autborofthe “ Green Boo's,” Ac. Tins world renowned author, in this admirable Lecture, clearly proves from his own experience that the awful consequences of Self-Abuse may be ellec tually removed without medicine, and without dan genius surgical operations, bougies, instruments, rings, or cordials ; pointing out a mode of cure at once certain and effectual, by which every sufferer, no matter what his condition may be. may cure him self cheaply, privately and radically. Jjy This Lecture unit prove a boon to thousands and Uwusands. Sent, under seal, in a plain envelope, to any ad dress, on receipt of six cents, or two postage stamps. Address the Publishers, THE CITLVERWELL MEDICAL CO.. 41 Ann St., New York, N. Y.; Post Office Box 45cfJ. 175-220 Williams & Peacock, Ironists ana Aptliecarios, No. 6 VV. Mitchell St., Atlanta, Proprietors of DR. CALHOUN'S FEMALE BITTERS, Dll. CALHOUN S LIVER PILL, PEACOCK’S EXTRACT OF BLACKBERRY AND GINGER. And the liest Medicines of the day. Druggists vis iting Atlanta would do well to call on them. 200 The above Medicines are sold b.V E. B. BENSON A CO., Hartwell, Ga. 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 Ww outfit free ' Address U. Hau.ptt A Cos., Portland Maine <#> 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, Devoted to Hart County. i . . , v . | 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.