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Ri -v Tit?r, f IT A MILTON, GA. .T. M. MO I’L K Y, X fTORNEY AT LAW, HAMILTON, GA. Will continue to ] r etire law in all the State nd Unit and S . t. s .'.nuts. 7IJ-OS. S. MITCHELL, M. D., Resident Physician anti Surgeon, HAMILTON GEORGIA Special attention g : v< nto operative surgery j&tT' Ternib C J, T. Blount. H. C. Cameron JiLOUNT <6 CAMERON, • attorneys at law, HAMILTON, GEORGIA. Will practice in the State and Federal Courts. Oflice in the Cant House. ALONZO A. DOZIEK, Attorney and Counselor at Law, VOLUME US, GA. Practices in State and Federal Courts in <>o "ia and Alabama. Makes Commercial Law a specialty. Office over No. 126 Colum bus, Ga. dec4-ly TTlnes Dozier, ATTORNEY-AT LAW, HAMILTON, GEORGIA Will practice In the Chattahoochee Circuit, or tsnywhere ele. Office in the Northwest comer of the Court-house, up-stairs. jaiiß Columbus Dental Rooms, W\ T. POOL, Proprietor, Grorsia Ilomr Building, fnlnmhnx. G CENTRAL HOTEL, Columlous, GVa- Mrs. S. E. Woldkidge, Prop’s*. L. 1. Harvey, Clerk. R. A RUSSEL!.. C. R. RUSSEELL BUSSELL <fc RUSSEL L, Attorneys at Law, COLUMBUS, - - ■ • OA. WMI j.raetiec iu lie Smt<i and Fu3er.il C ur‘*. ot, r Aot ti Much k's =!ore. f*"l Sirr-t, I't'ltiu.l us i.-. The Old Clock’s Secret. “You shall marry Godfrey Marsh, Ma:cin, Mrs. Stanhope said, setting her teeth together in that grim fash ion of hers, which told that her mind wfts fully made up. “He ift rich. lie can give you a home second to none in all the country round. Ho can give you position and influence.” “I don’t want a home, if I nave got to marry for that, and tioihing else,” an swered Marcia, bitterly. “I don’t care for all the position and influence Godfrey Marsh can give me, if I have got to accept him with them. I hate him. If I married him I would not live with him a year.” “You are a foolish girl,” her mother answered, sternly. “Avery foolish trirl. There isn’t another girl in Ilil bury that wouldn’t jump at the chance you have. Arid I don’t be lieve you will let it slip out of your hands when you think it over as a sensible girl should.” “1 shall never change my mind,” answered Marcia, with something of her mothers grim determination in her voice. “Neier.” “You are thinking oi Dick Gresham, of course, ’* sneered Mrs. Stanhope. “ lie is a much more desirable fellow than Godfrey Marsh, I suppose. I in ter that you would not hesitate to accept the position and influence he could give you, as Mrs, Gresham.” “I have never said anything of the kind,” answered Marcia, wi;h a ri-ing flush. “He has never asked me to say anything of The kind, and 1 cer tainly shall wait till I aui. asked. Dick C resham is an honest respecta ble man, and the peer of Godfrey M trsb lti every way. Godfrey Marsh’s money I count out of the question entirely.” “I understand how the oase stands,” said Mrs. Stanhope, sternly. “I have told you before, and 1 repeat it again, that you may understand mo fully— never, with my consent, shall you marry I)>ek Gresham. I d-n t be l.eve he cares half as much for you as you dolor him. If lie does, he doesn’t si o.v it as most men are apt to do, and you w ill save a good deal of gossip if von keep your fancy for him a ,iu!e more to \ourself. People are not blind.” And I lieu Mrs. Slauliope went out, and Mtucia sal and thought. Those last words o! her motlie.l’- might hold a good deal ot tnith in t cm. She had sometimes wondered if Dick '(iiord.uiu did care for her as she ac knowledged to herself that she oared for him ? He was not like most men. It was tint in his nature to be demon strative. Perhaps he was waiting to be sure of his own heart—and of her regard for him. She had been with him a good deal. She had wondered more than once il he loved her. If he did, he had never told her so. She believed that he did, however. There was the rattle ot carriage wheels at the gate. She looked out with a trown gathering on her face. She knew who was there, well enough. “Is Marcia at home ? ” she heard Godfrey Marsh ask her mother. If she is, I should like to lake her out for a drive this afternoon.” “Yes,’’ she heard her mother reply. “ She’ll be delighted to go. I’ll call her.” “I won’t go,” she thougt, hurried ly, with a little angry gesture. Thun she thought better of that decision. It would offend her mother if she re fused, and their life was not a very harmonious one of late. And perhaps Dick Gresham might see them, and conclude to speak out. So she got ready and went. While she was gone Dick Gresham came to see her. Mrs. Stanhope met him coldly, but politely. He inquired for Marcia. “Sbe has gone out to ride with Mi*. Godfrey Marsh,” Mrs. Stanhope answered, with an inward chuckle at the discomfited look on Dick’s face. “I am very sorry,’’ he eai*. “ I wanted to see her very much. lam going away this evening, and I do not know how long I shall be gone, nor how far I shall go. I wanted to say something to her before I went.” Dick knew that Mrs. Stanhope hated him. He felt it. But he was frank and honest with her. “I can’t say when she win be back,’’ Mrs, Stanhope said. “I think Mr. Marsh expects to Mop to lea. From that, I infer that they will be gone most of the afternoon.” ‘■Yes quite likely,” answered Diek, nbsetHy. ‘ I shall not see her, then, btu I might write wfcnt I wanted to HAMILTON, HARRIS CO., GA„ WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1876. say, and leave it for you to g ve her.” ‘ Yes, von could do that,’’ she said; you will find pen and pnp-r in the secretary there.” “ It’s the best L ean do,’’ thought Dick. I’d much rather have said it; hut,-if I can’t do that, I’ll h ivo to do the next best thing,” lie wrote down what he came to say to Marcia Stanhope, and sealed it in an envelope, upon which he wrote her name. “If you w ill give it to her,’* he said, laying it down upon the table by Mrs. Stanhope, “you will bo doing me a favor. I had rather not tell you w hat I have written, though, perhaps, you have a right to know. Mama may tell you. Then he said good bye, and went away. “I have a right to know, according to his own admission,” Mrs. Stauhope said, and tore away the envelope. She read his letter through carefully. “I think fate is playing into my hands,” she said grimly. “It will be quite a long time before your letter is answered if I am not mistaken, Dick* Gresham. Shu went to the old clock in the corner, opened it, and drop the let ter down into its mysterious depths. “ThereI 1 ’ she said’ shutting the door upon its secret, ‘‘that is disposed of safely , I think.” The next morning she spoke up suddenly to Marcia, as they were at woik in the kitchen together: “D ck Gresham was here yester day to see you. He said he was going away last night, and didn,t know how far he was going, nor how long he should bo gone. 11a has j ined the engineering party going from Hilbury to tho West. He told me to tell you good-bye for him.” “That was all ?’’ Marcia said it sharply', as if the words cost her a great effort. Her face was very pale. “Yes, that was all,” answered Mrs. Stanhope, busy with the milk-pans. “He never cared for me, I’m sure,” Murcia whispered to her pillow that night, and then cried herself to sleep. * * * * * * * It was a pleasant afteinoon in Octo ber when Mrs. Stanhope died. The sky was full of dreamy vagueness—a haze through which the sunshine fil tered gokleniy, and hid the moun tain-lar ill’, and made the hills near by seem like the hilis of some ghostly land. The leaves of the old eiic.-nnt by the door were dropping softly and with a slow rustle that kept time to the ticking of the old clock in the corner. Mrs. Stanhope had been failing slowly for years. Her life had faded as the day fades; you scarcely can tell ihat the light is going out, but the hirst you know it is gone. It was so with her. The light was almost gone out, now. It only flickered for a moment; then there would be dark ness. “ Marcia,” she said faintly. “Well, Mother? ” ‘ There is something I want to tell you. I ought to have told you long ago. Dick Gresham left a letter for you when he went away. I read it and hid it in the old clock. It is there yet. When lain gone find it and read it. But not till then, Mar. cia.” She looked up pleadingly into Marcia’s face. “ No, not till then,” Marcia prom ised, with a strange feeling of expec tancy, regret and anger at heart. What did that hidden letter have to say ? Perhaps—and then she tried to pnt all thought of it out of her mind until the time came for her to know what Dick had had to say. But she could not do that. By. and-by Mrs. Stanhope said she wanted to go sleep. Marcia ar ranged her pillows, and the sick wo* man closed her eyes wearily. She slept long and well, for she never woke again. The funeral was over. And then came that awful sense of desolation which follows “afier the burial. Whoever has passed through this experience iu life can never forget the dreary lonesoraeness, the solemn Bi lence that is about the house. The world seemed to have stopped for a little time, Tick, tick 1 the old clock kept re peating that night, and Marcia went to solve the mystery it held. She took off the old door, and removed the curiously carved front. In the bottom covered with the dust oL fif teen years, she found the letter she bad Dever known for so lorg. j She read it through with a curious | blending of pleasure to know that | Dick had loved her, and bitter regret [for whit she had lost. If sho had only known then! Now her life must go on as it had gone on so Ling, but sbe should have it to think of that he had loved her ! She laid her held down against the old clock and cried softly. His love would have been so sweet. It would have made life so pleasant. But it was lost. It had been lost for fifteen years. There was a knock at tho door. She got up drying her eyes hastily and went to ".dmit her visitor, hardly conscious of what she was doing, but acting more liom force of habit than anything else. A man stood at tho threshold. “ Marcia,” he said, and held out his hand. -‘You don’t know me, I guess. lam Dick Gresham I came to-day. I heard of your modier’A death, and I knew you’d be lonesome, and I thought perhaps you’d be glad to see an old friend, so I made bold to come.” “ Oh, Dick, Dick !” she cried, and then broke down in true woman fashion. “ I wonder what sent you here to-night? I have just found the letter yon wrote and left tor me before you went away. I never knew there had been one until three days ago. You can’t blame me for not writing, as yen asked mo to, Dick,” and then the face ot this woman, whose years were thirty-five, and out of whose heart you would have supposed all girlish romance had fl and, grew suddenly hot with sweet shame to think of what her words meant. “ God sent me, I guess,” he said with great gladness in his face, and he caught her to his heart and kissed her. “ I was sure you loved me, Marcia, hut the letter I looked for never came, and 1 thought your mother had get you to thinking as she did. So I gave up hoping for that which I took it tor granted I had lost, and I stayed away because there was nothing to draw me back here. A month ago I got into my head that I wanted to see Ilillbury .again, and came back. They told me that you were Marcia Stanhope yet, and I think that set me to hoping a little. You see, it’s hard to give up hoping, in the first place, and it don’t rake much to set a man to hoping again, after lie thinks he’s given it up, for he can't forijet." And so, alter fifteen years, the old clock gave its secret up, and two hearts came together to never be parted more. At a collection made at a charity fair a lady offered the plate to a tich man who was well-known for his stinginess, “ I have nothing,” v/as the curt reply. “Then take some thing, sir,” said the lady, “you know lain begging for the poor.” Important Information. For the information of our readers we give below a few important ebangeu made by the last legislature, in reference to certain laws, which it will do well for all interested to ob serve : Justices of the peace have no long er the right by law to award costs against the accused or prosecutor, at discretion. Jury. —ln all cases of forcible en try and detainer tried by justice of the peace, a (ury is required to be drawn from alt the persons in the district subject to jury duty. Tax receivers are required hereafter to enter on their digests the first name in full of tax payers. Let no fellow get wearied now for having to give his full name. Mortgages.— The law now requires mortgages on real and personal prop erty to be recorded in thirty days iu- Btead of three months. Mortgages on personalty must be recorded in the county when the property at the time of the execution of tile mort gage is out of the couuty of the mort gagers residence, aIBO iu the county of his residence. Summors. —The law requires all summonses to bear dale fifteen days before the time of the trial of the cause, if the amount is fifteen dollars or under; and to bear date twenty days before trial, when the amount is over fifty dollars, Aud to be served the defender!t, by givmg him a copy, or leaving a copy at his usual and most notoriuH place of residence, at least, ten days btLrt the rial. Half-Way Do in’s. IMtibhol fel’ow-lrabelwrs—l l hMdla’ An Pi to day, 1 doesn't quote no Bpc is I verso for wlitit I linn to say; Do Rt-Tnv'ii will be berry short, and dis here am do text: Dt halfway doin's ain't no'count for di woi l' or de nox'. Die wmT dat wo'a a-llbbin' In is like a colon tow, Whar eliorry culled gentleman his got bis line to h >e; And üboriy lime a I&xy nig gcr stops to take a nap, De grass keep* on a giowin for to smudder up his crap. • When MOsca hd de Jowa a crost de wider* of de a -a, Day bad to keep a-goin', jc*' ns fun' as fas' could be; Do you a'poso dat dey could übber hub suc ceeded in de’r wish, And touched do Promised Land at last—if dey lin'd stopped to fish ’ My frlan’s, dar win a garden once, whar Adam libbed wid Ere, Wid no one 'round to bodder deni, no neigh bors for to thieve. And ebery day was Christmas, and dey got deir 'lownnce free, And ebefyting belonged to and m, except an gpplotrce. Yon all know 'bout de atory—how de shake come snoopin’ ’roun' — A atnmp-tail maty moccasin, a-crawlin on. de groun'— How Eve and Adnm ate de fruit, and went awl hid de'r face, Till de angel oberseer be come and drove ’tin off depl-ee. Now, s’pose dat man and 'ooaaou luTn’t tempted for to shirk, Ret bad gone übout deir gardenin’, and 'tended totlelr work, Dey wouldn’t liab been loafin’ wbArilcy had no busine,* to, And de debbll nebber’d got a chance to tell V-m what to do. No half-way dotals, brudren 1 It'll nebbar do, I s;y! Goat your task and finish it, den’s de time to play— For eben if do crap is good, dc rain ’ll spile do bolls, Unless you beeps a-pickln’ io de garden oh young souls Keep a-plowln,’ nud a-koein', and a-remteh in’ oh de rows, And when do gmnio's ober, you can pay up what you owes; B it if you quits a-workin’ ebory time de sun is hot, De shmiff's gwlnoto lehby upon eberyting you's got. Whatebar ’tis you’# diivln’ at, be shore aud drivo it through, Air I (lou t lot nuf.in’ stop you, but do what you's gwi.ie to do ; For when you Sees a nigger foolin', den os shore's you’re liorti, You's gwine to see him cornin' out de rmall ccnd ob de horn. I thanks you for de 'tendon you has gib Uii afternoon — Sister Williams will oblige Ijs by a-iaising cb de tone— I bee dat BrudJer Johncon’s ’bout to pa.-.! roun’ de hat, And don’t let’s have no hah-w-y doiu’ when it come; to dat 1 [lrwin llubSeli, in Scribner’s "loathly for Mulch.] Dyiiis Words. The following tie the dying words of some of our eminent Statesmen, recently diseased Shed no muleteers for me. —B. 11. Bristow. The game is played out.—Poker Bob Sclitnck. Stand by your post-traderships. — Belknap. I am glad that I die young. It would be a terrible thing to grow old and sinful- —Williams. My son, never write letters. —Pier- repont. This is not suicide, but assassina tion. —John B. Henderson, If I could have only been born twins I could have made just twice as much. —Orville L. Grant. Some love to roam o’er the dark sefc foam, hut as lor me, give me a worm-eaten hull in a snug harbor. — Robeson. Don’t weep for me. I am glad to get out of the wilderness. M :et nt” on the happy hunting ground.— Delons. Tell Butler I died happy, by special request. —11. 11. Dana. Look not on the still when it is crooked. —John McDaniel. They soy the streets of the New Jerusalem are paved with gold. I waDt to go there.—Boss Shepherd. Who would hare thought that cold tongue would kill a man ? Jabbering Jim Blsiine. This is a sacred thing.—Deacon McKee. A tanner won’t lust more than eight years.— Babcock. I go where “ilium's the word.” — Joyce, J A Fearful SucinioiiK. “Mi". Smith, I ci It'll to sec if I uoii’il take jour li.c.” “Wli —ah—what il’yotl say?" exclaimed Smith, in some alarm “ 1 nay tlmt I’ve oolite around to j utkc your lift*. Jify mine is Gunn. As soon as I hoard that- you were uupruU'otvd, that you had nothing on your life, l thought I would j rest run in and fct'l. the li g for yu ~t once." Then Smith g<v up nod went to the other sido of the table, and said to liium. If: “ He’d kill me if 1 halloo or run. I must humor him. “You can choose your own plan, you know, I,’s immaterial to me. Some like one way and some like another. It’s a matter of taste. — Which one do yon prefer ?” “ I’d rather not die at nil,’* said Smith iu despair. “ But you've got to die, < l course,'* said Guun; “that’s a thing there’s no choice about. All I inn do ia to make death easy for jou; to make you feel happy as you go • ff. Now which plan will you take?’’ “ Couldn’t you postpone it until tomorrow, so ns to givu me time to thiuk ?” “ No, I prefer to take yon on the spot. I might as well do it now as at any other time. You have a wife aud children ?” “ Yrs, and I think you ought to have some consideration for them and let me i ff.” “ Well, that’s a c urious bind of an argument,” said Gunu. “When 1 take you your family will be per fectly protected, of course, und not otherwise.’’ “ But w hy do yoU want to murder tne ? I—*’ *• Mm der you ! Murder you 1 Who in the thunder’s talking about mur dering you ?” “ Why, didn’t you say— “ I called to get you to take out a life insurance policy in our company, and I—” “Oh, you did, did you?” said Smith suddenly becoming fierce. “VV ell, 1 ain’t a going to do it, mid I want you to skip out of the ollice, or I’ll brain you with tbo poker. Come now, skip.” Then Mr. Gunu withdrew without selling him a policy, 2nd Smith is still uninsured. — Hhilu. Bulletin. President Grant had a severe and sudden attack of illness recently.— Coriesponderits say the late ugly dis coveries among his cabinet officers, intimate friends and kin-'folk havo had a rem rably depressing effect upon the president. He is reported as heartily tired of office und has given up all idea of a third term. He may rest assured that the people mo heartily tired of him and Bis party, and hope to bo rid of both after tiro fourth of March next. What Ben Hill says About That Secession Speech. Hon. B. 11. Hill deniea that lie has been preparing a speech defending the right of secession. A Washing ton correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer reports him ns making this picturesoue comment on the subject: “I see that the Radical papers are calling on me now that the Now Hamshire election is over, to invke the speech on secession that 1 have been holding back on account of the New Hamshire election. This is a most infernal lie; I was amused to see even a paper in my own State calling on me if I had such a speech to sup press it. Tlii- is a lie started by the Rads over there!’’ and lie nodded his head toward Blaine’s aide of the house. “Fact of it is I never had any such speech prepared. I could not deliver a secession speech vitli out stultifying the record of my life. I have made hundred* of speeches against secession, but never one for it. I alwags fought Yancey and Rhett. During the debate, the oth er day, I sat arid looked at Bl.dne while he was speaking. It seemed to me that the spirit* of Yamy aud Riicli had found habitation in hi* bo dy, and there was only one ihtng that shook my belief in the transmi gration of souls, and that was the contemptible littleness of the roan's nature, w hieti drove him to seek re luge in lies! Y.sncy and Uhett were biller opponents, but they were 100 manly to be little or dishonorrble ! All sections of this country have fa vored secession, but the issue is now dead forever, and r.o one but a mad man or a fool would attempt to re vitc it.” i £2.00 A YEAR MASK. "A little n >nsons.: now and then, Is full-bed by tbe wisest mou." The warmest kind ot a hat one thin’s got Move in. Wh eti arc eyes not eye-? When the w iml mikes them water. When birds soar they warble, but when a throat’s sore it doesn’t Natural humbugs- bees. Artifi cial humbugs—girls. A big bug the cook roach. “ l hat’s going too far,” as the Bos ton nmn f.iid when Ids wife ran away to S*n Francisco with another man. There is nothing very original in a money market report. It is too foil of quotutieum The shower of flesh in Kentucky is satisfactorily explained. Au old horse was taken up in awbirlwind and pounded to pieces. A Brookliu baohel r mentions the fact that the scratch of a female baby is always more sudden and treacher ous than the scratch of a male baby. The man who ever attempted to put down twenty yards of carpet will have no sympathy for the M 'ssaebu set.tß laok factory that burned down the other day. One of the hardest lines in the life of an agriculturist is, on seeing an editor cutting copy from exchanges, to refrain from saying: “Oh that* tho way you make up the paper, eh? steal it ? ” When a California woman defeated a lion in a hand-to-hand combat tha neighbors were greatly astonished, but the husband quietly remarked: “Oh that’s nothing. That woman could lick the devil.” An old veteran was relating his exploits to a crowd of boys, and mentioned being in five engagements, “That’s nothing,” broke in a sirup little urchin; “my sister Minnie has been engaged move’u eleven times.” At the marriage of an Alabama widower one of tha servants was asked ii his master would lake a bri dal tour. “Dniino, sab; when old missus’s alive lie took a paddle to her; dunno if he take a bridle to do ne v, one or not.” The Fflrnira Advertiser says a doc tor in that place removed a tape worm “from a lad that w as uirieiy-six feet long and had over eleven lon dred joints,’’ Well a boy as long as that ought to huve eleven hundred joints. “Job printing?” exclaimed an old lady as ah ii peeped over her spectacles at thu advertising page of ti country paper. “Poor Job! they’ve kept him printing, week after week, ever since I iarut to read; and if it wasn’t for his puience, he never could luve stood it no long, no how!’’ A tramping printer on the route bt tween New York mid Newburgh, is accompanied by hi t w ife. When asked the other day by a country ed itor, why he carted her around with him, remarked that she took him for better or worse, aud having had a good taste of the latter, whs endeav oring to find out the better. “Young man,” said the revivalist, addressing a swearer, “how hot do you supposo hell is?’’ The fellow recognized his questioner,and placing bis arms akimbo, and looking him i.-i the face, said; “Well Mr. Moody. I suppose it is so hot there that if some one brought you a spoonful of inched iron you would swear that it was ice cream.” He had no more to say, A young gentleman got neatly out of a fine scrape with his intended. She taxed hint with having kbseJ two young ladies at a party at which she was not present. He owned up to i’, but said their united ago- only made twenty one. The simple mind ''d girl thought of ten and e 'even, so laugh-d off her pout. He didn’t ex plain that one was nineteen and the other two years of age. She wa'tE'ul like Juno at the hoi; I vowed the question I ’.void ! pup; and ns her pa. trier tendered in at my throbbing heart with anxious pang did beat, I tripp la-shl* u lovely charm; I bowed an 1 gently touched he. arm. “Eng -.gol f next?” I said, “tu/ darling '- •‘Go’way," said she, “You hit my vaccinate.”.