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In the election of the President of the tin
ted States tins year. Ihe knowledge of
Uiis fart hns ensiled a sensation all over
the South, and to a great client in the
Northern Stale*. While (.arheld elec
tion was so well assured that the vote ol
Georgia could not have titered it, yet the
announcement that Georgia s vole could
not he counted created no little surprise
and mortification; for. if tho success of the
Democratic |wr(y had havedepended upon
the electoral vote of Georgia, the result
would have been just the some as it is now
and Garfield would have been inaugurated
President or these United States.
The trouble lies in a discrepancy be
tween the State code and tho United States
statutes, as to the time the electoral vote
shall be cast. The United States statute
is as follows : , ~
•• The electors for each State shall meet,
and give their votes upon the first W ed
nesdav in December in the year in which
they arc appointed, at such place in each
State, as the Legislature of such State
ahall direct.”
Passed in March. 1702.
lint here comes the code of Georgia and
•• Section 1312. On the twentieth day
after said election shall have taken place
it is the duty of the Governor to consoli
date the several returns and immediately
notify those persons of their election who
have received a vote amounting to a ma
jority. and to require their attendance at
the capitol on the first Monday in Decem
ber thereafter to cast the vote of the State
on the Wednesday following at 12 M.”
It will be very readily noticed that no
conflict could ever occur between these
two laws except when a first W edtiesday
in December comes before a Monday.
This year being the exception, the other
States met on the first Wednesday and
cast their votes, while Georgia remained a
blank in the count. It is strange that our
law-makers and politicians had never no
ticed this conflict and remedied it; and
their failure to do so is calling forth ridi
cule and censure from all sections of the
State. .
It seems to ns that it would have been
much better for Gov. Colquitt to have
called the electors together and to have
cast the vote under the Federal requirement
without regard to the State provision.
However, wo will not complain, hut hope
our law makers will seethe propriety of
wining the provision in question from the
code before the year 1884 rolls around.
Wm. H. Pullen. Fowlerville, Mich.v
pays : I have not rested better for months
than I did last night. The “Onlv Lung
Pad ” has helped nic wonderfully.—See
Adr.
ALL the new solicitors will assume their
duties on the Ist of January.
We might hate a worse President than
Hayes has been. We shall see.
FORTY-THREE railroads have been start
ed in Arkansas in the last two years.
Joe Harris' book is out. Probably at
the right juncture—if his money was out.
llknry Beurse was elected Mayor of
Athens last week, defeating Judge Thomas
370 rotes.
W. K. Stevens now has control of the
Athens Watchman as editor and business
manager.
IN the popular vote of tho United States.
Garfield only received a majority over
Hancock of 3,714.
Three presidents of the United States
began life as school-teachers. Fillmore,
Pierce and Garfield.
The South Carolina Legislature has
only five Republicans in it—two in the
Senate and four in the House.
It is definitely decided that the great
National Cotton Exposition will be held in
Atlanta next October and November.
J. S. BARNETT has been appointed judge
of the county court of Elbert county, to
fill tho vacancy caused by the death of
Hon. Emory P. .Edwards.
Governments have no more right to
pay what per cent, a man shall get for his
money than they htwc to say per
cent, a merchant shall p.ut upon his goods.
—Sparta Ishmaelite.
It will cost the Southern cotton planters,
at a close estimate. #40,000.000 to pick the
crop this year. #25.000.000 of which will
go into the pockets of the colored laborers,
women and children.
The organ of tho colored people at
Washington insists that Garfield shall
recognize the importance of their vote by
calling to the Cabinet somo such man as
Bruce, or Turner, or Pledger.
: Charley Croft, colored, reports that
he has killed thirteen hundred and eighty
four squirrels in the past four years, and
caught three hundred and eighty-one 'pos
sums.—Newberry ( S . C.) Herald.
The Atlanta Constitution in speaking
of Senator Moseley, of this District, says :
Mr. Moseley's face beams with benevo
lence. His manner is benignant, and what
he says is pithily spoken.’’
Jolly, flic self-confessed murderer ot
Victoria Norris, in DcKalb county, was
sentenced to the penitentiary last, week
during his natural life. With the present
law in Georgia, very few men go to the
: gallows.
The Democratic masses in the Uni
ted States ought to advertise for leaders
with a common purpose, who have brains
enough to know how to lead, and courage
enough to ero in advance of their followers,
without being prodded with sharp sticks.
—Sparia Immutliie.
The election for Mayor of Atlanta was
very close between Capt. J. W. English
and 11. I. K imball. Capt. English was
elected by only 54 majority, and had the
negroes all registered, Kimball would have
been elected. It certainly seems that
’ Bullock and his gang arc becoming popular
again in Georgia.
We see it stated that before the adjourn
ment of the' Legislature, a petition was
* signed by about half of the Senators and
Representatives asking President-elect
Gartield to appoint Hon. A. 11. Stephens
to a position in his cabinet. We know sev
eral individuals who would go into ecstacy
over Mr. Stephens’ appointment—not alto
gether on Mr. Stephens’ account, either.
Under the heading “A Dad Birth
Mark," the Bellton North Georgian says :
‘’Ope of those stnmjrc and mexj livable
occurrences usually attributed losorno im
proper influence on the mind of the pro
spective mother, just occurred in our town.
The victim of Ibis misfortune is the first
bom son of Mr. If. M. Breaker, son of
the editor of the Christian Monitor, pub
lished atlliis place. Mr. llreakcr married
Miss Jennie E. Brown, of Chattanooga,
about two yaars ago. and came to Melton
shortly afterward and went into business
with his father. There is in the neighbor
hood a woman whose face has been partly
destroyed by cancer. Mrs. Mreaker has
known her ever since she came here, and
having seen her so frequently none of the
family thought there was any risk in see
ing her after she became encicntc. Bat
the child is a fao simile of the woman re
ferred to. The occurrence has cast a gloom
over the entire family. Mr. Breaker is a
handsome man, and his wife is a very pret
ty lady. They have the heartfelt sympathy
of the entire community.”
lIEMtY Grady, the young nnn elo
quent, writes a strong article in the Atlanta
Constitution protesting that Hon. A. 11.
Stephens is in error in his assertion that
Georgia is poorer than she was in 1870 and
growing poorer every year. He deplores
the damage to the State by the declaration
of Mr. Stephens by driving capital and im
migration away, lie bases his argument
upon the logic of figures, and we think
his deductions convincing and irresistible.
He closes with the following challenge to
Mr. Stephens :
I.will appeal with Mr. Stephens to any
officer in Georgia from Governor down to
tax-collector through every department.
If 93 of every hundred of these do not
testify that in their records and observa
tion they find Unbroken evidence that the
State and the people arc more prosperous
than they have ever been, then I will ac
knowledge that he is right and I am wrong.
Or let him take 100 citizens, merchants,
farmers, manufacturers, bankers. Take
these men from all classes and all sections
and let them he representative inen. Then
ask each man to testify from his own ex
perience mid knowledge, if 00 of this 100
do not declare that ttie people are better
otf than they have been in twenty years,
then Mr. Stephens stands justified.
1 respectfully suggest tiiat it is worth
Mr. Stephens's while to look into this
matter. Ills adverse statement is quoted
by the entire northern and western press,
as a confession from high quarters that the
growth of Georgia lias been apparent and
not real; that her progress is all on paper ;
that the documents sent out by her depart
ments; tho utterances of her newspapers
are all fallacious and untrue. It has been
my humble ambition—the ambition of the
Constitution and the press—the ambition
of our people—to fairiy put the progress
Georgia has been able to make from the
desolation in which the war left her, so
Chat the recital might invite capital and
business and muscle from outside sources.
We have labored to so present the truth
that it might attract favorahlo attention
and direct the stream of wealth and labor
that is enriching the west.
After all this labor, here comes a few
words from Mr. Stephens that appears to
confess that all that has been said, is base
less boasting. Now Ido not suggest that
Mr. Stephens should abandon a positinnthat
he finds tenable—but I do say that he can
not occupy the position bo lias taken on
this. 11c must see that he has erred in his
figures, and in his conclusions. Will he
not then do the State justice? It is not
possible, I take it, that having indorsed
one sentiment of General Toombs, he will
indorso that other sentiment of the Gene
ral's, expressed when ho says : ‘ We don't
want nny immigration or capital. I’d like
to build a wall and fence tho rest of the
world out.’”
Bro. Waterman, of the A thens Ban
ner is sharply disgusted with the Legisla
ture. and speaks of it as follows :
“ The Georgia Legislature adjourned
yesterday till the first Wednesday in July.
Thus the constitutional provision that the
sessions shall be biennial, is virtually set
aside. This we regard as a plain in
fringement on the rights of the people.
The constitution should be obeyed, ami no
supposed necessity should bo allowed to
override it. llow is it that the lawmakers
of the land can thus, in ctlect abrogate the
fundamental law ?
“There is little need for a Legislature.
The present one has done next to nothing
of importance, if we except the election of
judges and solicitors. The state would he
better oil’, we doubt not, if the Legislature
should meet only once m four or five v'cars.
ity far the major'pnrt of tho laws enacted
during the recent session, are of no im
portance whatever. And this is a general
truth, applicable to all our Legislatures
and not to this one particularly. If the
people had not been accustomed to a fre
quent-meeting Legislature, they would not
tolerate it. That is, if a proposal to have
a Legislature were presented to them as
an originnl proposition, and they could
view it in the true light, disconnected from
all past associations, we have no idea they
would be in favor of it.”
An interviewer, after a bard struggle
could only get what follows from the
newly-electcd Senator, lion. Joseph E.
Drown : “1 intend to try to secure appro
priations for tho improvement of our har
bors and rivers. In the southern part of
the State wc have vast timber interests
which need only better transportation
facilities to bring 11s millions of dollars.
Public education will also be one of my
favorite objects. 1 atn for selling the public
lands and devoting the proceeds to the
education ot the masses. The negroes
must be educated, and as the General Gov
ernment fVeod them and clothed them with
new responsibilities, the General Govern
ment ought to bear tiie burden of their
education. The negroes have the right to
hold otliee. and 1 expect to aid some of
them in getting office, in preference to some
white men. 1 believe 1 have said enough.
Vou know that I am an original secession
ist. 1 have nothing to take back. I ac
cepted the constitutional amendments and
reconstruction measures in good faith. 1
mean to abide by them in good faith. Wc
have anew South. The world moves; I
am going to move with it.”
Tiir North Georgia Conference of the
Methodist Church South met at Rome on
Ist inst. That body consists of 216
traveling preachers (or pastors) and about
50 laymen—representing some six hundred
churches and about sixty thousand white
Methodists. The Conference line extends
across the state Columbus to Augusta.
There are in the same territory about forty
thousand more white Methodists, belonging
to the Northern Methodist, the Protestant
and tho Congregational Methodist churches
and moro than fifty thousand colored
Methodists ; a total of one hundred and
fifty thousand Methodists in Georgia north
of the line referred to above.
The Legislature adjourned last Saturday
to meet on the hist Wednesday in July.
While to many it seems that tho body did
but little work, they did more hard work,
occupied less time in making set speeches
to obtain self promotion, than any Legis
lature that has met in the State for several
years. So many of the members were sick
that it was almost impossible to get a
quorum during the last few days, and the
adjournment was absolutely necessary.
Cl! ah. L. Kommtkk. 105 Summit St.,
Toledo, Ohio, says: I would not take one
thousand dollars for my Excelsior Kidney
Pad, if I could not get another. I have
gained in three months thirty pounds.—
Sue Adv.
Broken Arrow, Rushfxl Cos., Aha.,
Aug. Ist, 1870.
Dr. 0. J. MoFKBTT—Dear Sir—l. for
years, used your Teethina (Teething Pow
ders) with my own children and on my
plantation, when I owned negroes. They
relieved and prevented much suffering and
sickness among the children, and besides
saving many lives, saved me much anxietv,
and many hundred dollars in doctor's bilfs.
/ row, with confidence reromrnenil them an
the nurent and )>ent medicine I ever lined for
Teething Children and the. Jiowrl Dinordern
of our Southern Country. Yours truly,
224 ROBERT FLOURNOY.
For iwlo ly F.. R. HENSON Sc CO.. Hartwell, (la.
Shoes ! Shoes !! Shoes !!! Swilling A
Ayers have a very large and well selected
stock of shoes, which they propose to sell
cheaper than can be bought at retail any
where in the State. Go and see them and
they will save you money.
There ls’no Tobacco on the market equal
to A. C. & B. F. Wyly’s “Cabin Boy”
for the prico. 209-231
Go to Swilling & Ayers for Flour, Su
gar, Coffee, &c,, and they will save you
money.
WE mont earnest lv ank all who hare not paid iih
up, to conic forward and pay ub every rent
duo iia, hm we are needing it. And, in tlda connec
tion, we feel deairow* of extending our thank* to the
public generally for their liliernl patronage and punc
tuality In paying even as much hh they have; not
only to the honorable white, hut alao to tho humble
colored people. While they have not all paid, the
majority have , and thonc that have not we arc in
dined io credit more to omiMaion than intention.
You all know we have npared no pain* to accommo
date you. w hich ow injz to prcMaof hiwdncMH at times
we may have failed to do. We did the beat we could.
So now ooiuo aud pay in* up.
SS3 W. 11. HOLMAN.
HARTIKL SPREADING!
NEW STORE
Ofif tlxe Sq_\xGire I
1 liavo opened iu Hartwell a well selected utoek of
Family Groceries,
Confectioneries,
i
and
FANCY GOODS.
My Goods are all fresh and new,—and just what
you need. [ propose to soil at bottom tig urea lor
rash. 1 will liavo iu stool* j,
Unas Goofls,
Suitable for presents, and itwiJTpay you to price raj
Goods before you purchase. Mv stand is on tho
corner of the lot neat Preanoll'a Carriage Shop.
Mrs. N. J. Presnell.
223 234
KRISMUS TRIXr
SKELTON & SNIPES
Have Just received a moat beautiful assortment of
CONFECTIONERIES,
FANCY GROCERIES,
And articles suitable for
Christmas Presents.
Ami are a<l<liii£ dully to their handsome stock. Our
store is headquarters for
And if yon want somethin* sweet, neat. nice, and
prettv to give your wives, children, sweethearts, or
mends, go to
SKELTON & SNIPES,
Who will treat you right every time, and don't yon
forget it.
OKAY’S SPECIFIC MEDICINE.
TRADE MARE The Groat Eng TRADE MARK
Memory,
BED RE TAKING. sal Lassitude, AFTER TAKING.
i'rtin in the Hack, Dimness of Vision, Prematuit?
Olil Age, ami many other Diseases that lcatl to In
sanity nr ronsuniptioii ami a Premature Grave.
Full particulars iu our pamphlet, which we
dosiio to semi five by mail to every one. |'f^ J The
Specific Medicine is sold by all druggists at #1 per
C auk ago, or six packages for |5, or will be sent tree
v mail on receipt of the money, bv addressing
Til K GRAY miiMmi: til..
No. 3 Mechanics' Block, Dktuoit, Mich.
Z'W S°M by all Druggists. Ijunar, Rankin &.
Lamar, Atlanta, Ga., Wholesale Agents. 209-260
H ART SHERIFF SALE.
W ill be sold in Hartwell, Hart county, Ga.,
during the legal hours of sale, on the first Tuesday
in January next, the following property, to-wit:
One huudred and seventy acres of land, moro of
less, lying in the county of Uait on Coldwater Creek,
joining lands of Win. McConnell, F. B. Hodges and
others, all levied on by virtue of a ti. fa., issued from
the Inferior Court ot said county, returnable to June
Term, ISO 2, iu favor of John liighsmith ami L.
Parks, Executors of the estate of Burrel Bobo, de
ceased. all levied on as the propel ty of John A.
Johnson to satisfy the above stated tt. fa. Levy
made by Wm. A. Holland, Sheriff, July 32, 1673.
This November 30. iB6O.
J K. MYERS Sheriff.
HARTWELL
Stoves & tinware
DEPOT.
US
us \W,
And Tinware a Little Clea Der.
MERCHANTS !
LOOK TO YOUR INTERESTS !
MY WHOLESALE PRICES
CANNOT he EXCELLED in the STATE !
<T. Q. Donnald.
217-243
01, for a TloisaM Tones
AND
40 Missionary Preaciers!
To beg Baptist, Methodist, Presbyte
rian and common, plain sinners to come
up and pay their debts to us. We know
you are weary of being dunned by us ;
but the weariness and vexation of spirit
in this world ain’t nothing to what it
will be in the next.
Don’t do like that Reed Creek brother
did last week—stepped into the store
with his breeches stuffed in his boots,
his right hand full of homestead notices,
and with a flourish of his left drew out
one and handed over just like he would
have doue if he had turned Jack in a
game of Old Sledge.
Now, come on ye weary and heavy
laden and we will give you rest when
you pay us. You know you have or
can get the money. There is not a man
in Hart county but what cau pay if he
wants to do so.
E. B. Benson & Cos.
Contractors aid Holers.
THE rXPEHSIGXEI) have entered into a co
partnership. under the style of Smith A Temples
in the above business, and art. prepared to do .all
work in their line in the best maimer and with dis
patch. \Ve have all tho machinery necessary to
push work forward, and respectfully ask a trial.
M. I). SMITH.
218-229 J- R- TEMPLES.
MANHOOD:
HOW LOST, HOW RESTORED !
Just published anew edition of Dr. t’nl
verwell's Celebrated Kssay on the rad
ical cure (without medicine) of Si'KKHator
kikka or Seminal Weakness, Involuntary Sem
inal Losses. IMIMTK.NCV. Mental and Physical Inca
pacity, Impediments t Marriage, etc. ; also, Cox
st Ml’TtoK, Epilepsy and Kits, induced by self-in
dulgence or sexual extravagance. &c.
The celebrated author, iu tliis admiralde Essay,
clearlv domonatrates. from a thirty years' successful
practice, tliat the alarming consequences of self
abuse may l>e radically cured without the dangerous
use of internal medicine or the application of the
knife: pointing out a mode of cure at once simple,
certain, ami effectual, by means of which every suf
ferer, no matter what his condition may lie, may
cure himself cheaply, privately, and radically.
j-jy' This Lecture should he in the hands of every
youth ami every man in the land.
Sent, under seal, in a plain envelope, to any ad
dress, post-paid, on receipt of six cents, or two post
age stamps.
Address the Publishers,
THE OULVEKWELL MEDICAL CO..
41 Ann St., New York, N. Y.: Post Office Box
175-896
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Having just returned from New York, we offer for sale an immense stock of
Goods at Extraordinarily Low Prices. The careful labor as well as the abun
dant time consumed in its purchase, guarantee that this stock of Goods, amount
ing to over s*2s 000, cannot be equalled in point of perfection, of detail in its
beauty, its volume, or the lowness of its prices. The auction rooms have been
ransacked, the various nooks and corners in which Bargains are to be found for
cash, have been thoroughly canvassed and results are marvelous. Read this
partial list carefully:
500 Pieces New Fall Prints, from sc. up.
100 Pieces Bleaching, from 4c. up.
100 Pieces Quilt Lining at 3ic.
300 Pieces Jeans and Cassimeres, all kinds, from 10c. up.
Factory Checks at Bc.
Silks, Satins, Worsteds, Cashmeres, Alpacas, &c., from the best to the
cheapest.
No such line of Goods have ever been offered in Hartwell.
Cloaks I Cloaks ! Cloaks I
To this branch of our stock we call your particular attention. Our Cloaks
are carefully selected, and are of the latest styles, from $*2.50 up.
otions, IST otlorxs, -bTotlcns.
In this Department yon will find everything usually kept in the Notion line,
at uncommonly low prices.
Corsets, from 25c. to SI.OO.
Silk Handkerchiefs. 25c. to $2.00.
Ladies Ties and Ribbons in abundance.
CLOTHING, CLOTHING, CLOTHING!
We have now on hand a large and elegant stock of Clothing—all we ask is
an examination. Any one wanting a suit this Fall should not "fail to give us a
call b
COATS, from $1.50 to $20.00.
PANTS, from SI.OO to SIO.OO.
OVERCOATS, from $3.00 to the finest Beavers and Chinchillas.
Boots and Shoes.
If you want gopd Boots and Shoes, buy from us, either in Pegged Standard-
Screwed, Machine or Hand Sewed. We can fit everybody in fine Shoes, as well
as coarse ones. Boots of every description.
HATS, HATS, HATS, HATS.
Men's Hats, from 40c. to $4.00.
Boy’s llats, from 25c. to $2.00.
We keep a fine assortment of Hats of all colors and styles.
GENT’S FURNISHING GOODS DEPARTMENT
In this Department can be found a splendid assortment of fine Dress Shirts
Underwear of all kinds, latest style Scarfs, tfcc. ’
We are Agents for Richardson’s Patent Universal Shirt, and the Liberty Un
laundried Shirt, from 75c. up, 3
Trunks, Satchels and Valises, all kinds.
Crockery aifl Glassware at Hie yery Lowest Prices.
CUPS and SAUCERS at 2.5 c. per Set.
Hardware andPotware of all descriptions .Cheap.
XoToacc© anad. Cigars, all irind-s.
Sugar, Coffee and Flour
AS LOW AS CAN BE SOLD IN TIIE STATE.
As we are determined to keep tiie trade at home, we offer such Bargains in
every line of Goods as cannot be beaten anywhere. We Guarantee
f YW, \W VietAsX.
All we ask is to call and examine before buying elsewhere.
L. N. COHEN & CO.