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§tts IpM® Mil 111 Ifiei®, VOL. 111. Advertising Itates. One square. first insertion. $ 75 Etch subsequent insertion SO One square three months 5 00 One square six months... 10 00 One aqjjare twelve months ]5 00 Suarter column twelve months... 30 00 all column six months 40 00 Hall enlutnn twelve months 60 00 Qae column twelve months 100 00 lines or less considered a square. All fractions of squares are counted as full squares, skwspapfr decisions. 1. Any person who takes a pap®r regn larlv from the post office—whether directed to his name or another's, or whether he has subscribed or not—is responsible for the payment. 2 If • person orders his paper discontin ued, he must pay all arrearages, or the pnb lisher may continne to send it until puvment is made, and collect the whole amount, whether the paper Is-taken from the office or net. ' i. The courts l ave decided that refusing to take newspapers and periodicals from the postoffice, or removing anil leaving them nn < ailed for, is pnma fncie evidence of inten tional fraud. TOWN DIRECTORY. Mayor—Thomas G. Barnett Ooumisswners—W. W. I’urnipseed, J. S Vfvatt. K U. Harris, F,. R. James. Clerk—K. G Harris. Treasurer—W. S. Shell. Marshals—S. A. Belding, Marshal. J. V\ . Johnson, Deputy. JUDICIARY. A. M. HrEER, - Judge. F. D. Dismi’kk, - Solicitor Genera!. Butts—Second Mondays in March and September. Henry—Thin- Mondays in April and Oc tober. Monroe—Fourth Mondays in February, aud August. Newton—Third Mondays in March and September. Fike—Second Mondays in April and Octo ber. Rockdale—Monday after fourth Mondays in March and September Spalding—First Mondays in February and August. Upson First Mondays in May and No ▼amber. CHURCH DIRECTORY. MsTHomsr Episcopal Church, (South.) Msv. Wesley F. Smith, Pastor. Fourth Sabbath in each month. Sunday-school 3 p. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening M*tuiu»tst Protestant Church. First Sabbath in.,each month. Sun lay-school 9 A. M. Christian Church, W. S. Fears, Pastor. Second Sabbath in each month. Baptist Church, Rev. J. P. Lvon, Pas tor. Third Sabbath in each month. CIVIC SOCIETIES Pink Grove Lodge, No. J 77. F. A. M Stated communications, fourth Saturday in •aeh month. DOCTORS .. I\R. J. C. TURNIPSEF.P wilt attend to ■*' all calls day or night. Office . resi dence, Hampton, Ga. "I\R. W. H PEEBLES treats all dis— ■i ' esses, and will attend to all calls day and night. Office at the Drug Store. Broad Street, Hampton, Ga. DR. N. T. BARNETT tenders his profes sional services to the citizens of Henry and adjoining counties, and will answer calls day or night. Treats all diseases, of what •ver nature. Office nt Nipper’s Drug Store. Hampton, Ga. Night calls can be made at my residence, opposite Berea church. api26 JF PONDER. Dentist, has located in • Hampton. Ga., and invites the public to call at his tooji. upstairs in the Bivins House, where he will be found at all hours Warrants all Work for twelve montbE. LAWYERS. JXO. G. COLD WELL, Attorney nt I,aw. Brooks Station, (in. Will praetire in the counties composing the Coweta and Flint River Circuits. Prompt attention given to commercial and other collections. TC. NOLAN Attorney at Law. Mc • Donough, Georgia. Will practice in the counties composing the Flint Circuit; the Supreme Court of Georgia, and the Uuited States District Court. WM. T. DICKF>N, Attorney at Law, Lo cust Grove, Georgia, (Henry county.) Will practice in the counties composing the Flint Judicial Circuit, the fmpieme Court of Georgia, and the United States District Court. apr27-ly GF.O. M NOLAN, Attorney at Law. McDonough, Ga (Office in Court house ) Will practice in Henry and adjoining conn ties, and in ti e Supreme and District Courts of Georgia. Prompt attention given to col lections. meh23-6m JF. WALL. Attorney at Law. Wamp . ton.Ga Will practice in the counties composing the Flint Judicial Circuit, and the Snpreme and District Courts of Georgia. Prompt attention given to collections, oc-5 EDW \RD J. RF.AGAN, Attorney at law. Office on Broad Street, opposite the Railroad depot, Hampton. Georgia. Special attention given to commercial and other collections, and cases in Bankruptcy. BF. McCOLLUM. Attorney and Coun « sel ! or at L-iw, Hampton, Ga. Will practice in Henry, Clayton, Fayette, Coweta. Pike, Meriwether, Spalding ami Butts Supe rior Courts, and id the Supreme and United States Coarts. Collecting claims a specialty. fl#ee no gtairs to Subarffer’s antreboww. “1 SHALL NOT FORGET “I shall not forget you—the yean may be tender,” But vsin ere their efforts to Foften my smart, And tbe strong hands of Time are too feeble and slender To garland the grave that is made in *v heart. Tour image is ever about me—before me, Your voice floats abroad on the voice of th# wind ; And the spell of your presence in absence is o’er me, And tbe dead of the past in the present I find. I cannot forget yon The one boon nngiren The booa of your lota is the cross that I bear ; In ths midnight of sorrow I vainly have striven To cruah in my heart the sweet image hid there. To banish the beautiful dreams that are thronging The halls of my memory—dreams worse than vain ; For the one drop withheld, I am thirsting and longing, For the one joy denied me, I’m weeping in pain. I wonld not forget yon. I live to remember The beautilnl hopes that bloomed but to decay, And brighter than June glows the bleaker December When peopled with ghosts of the dream? passed away. Once loving you truly, 1 love you foiever ; I motirn not in weak, idie grief for the past; But tbe love in my bosom can never, oh, never, Pass out. or another puss in, first or last. El- l-JJ Our Baby. A BACHKLOI’s EXPERIENCE WITH IT It was a very pretty little babr—'bat is, for a baby. I bad no fault to find with it, a? far a? its individual identity was ron cerned. It babies must exist—and I sup pose there is a necessity for the thing, nr else where would all the grown people cmne from T—this baby was as well as any other baby. I mention these facts merelv to prove that lamin no wnv prejudiced As far as mortal man can b-, I am an entirely impartial wit ness It was fast asleep in it* cradle—a liltle white-headed doll, with long, dark eye lashes, and a crimsnn dot of a mouth against which lay its tinv fist, with five well-defined dimples in the five joints thereof It was fast asleep, I say, when Bertha came airily into the room. “I am going over to the depot to see mother off, Joseph ; I’ll be back in half a* bonr Just keep an eye to baby while I’m gone, will you T” 1 locked blankly at my sister. But while I was considering how to express mv total d'ssent from her audacious proposition *he tiipped out of the room, her ribbons flutter ing in the soft Spring air. Silence doesn’t always give consent, but Bertha bad taken it for granted, in this matter, and I was left an unwilling guardian of my little nephew. However, he wa« fast asleep, that was one eirenmetance in my favor. Mortal baby couldn’t present a more innocent and cherubic aspect than he did. 8o I calmly went on with my writing, soon becoming oblivions to his infantile presence. .“Talk abont tending to babies,” qnotb I to myself, dipping my goose-qn ill triamph antly into the ink, “why it’s the easiest bnsi nes* in life. I should never spend my money hiring nurses. If that little one was mine— hot women never do know how to econo mize properly.” As these fancies passed through my mind, tbe baby woke op and sneezed. I gave the cradle aa oscillatory kick, and then burst forth into the well-known melody of “Bye a baby hunting,” hot the little vil lain absolutely declined to *hut bia eye* again. He opened them wider (ban two miniature moons, stating at me with an air of malevolence that has made me a firm be liever in homan depravity ever since, and deliberately began to cry. And the harder i rocked tbe cradle and tbe louder I sang tbe more resoluteiy did that baby cry. “He’a hungry,” thought I to myself. “Babiea must be fed, and it’s highly repre hensible of Bertha to stay away K) long.” So I went down int# the pantry and insti tuted a search for seme milk, which 1 had a vague idea was the diet generally preferred by toothless tofanay: Bat milk therj^nr', HAMPTON, GEORGIA, APRIL ii, 1879. none. Lamp oil; Stewart’s syrup; vine gar ; kerosene ; brandy ; everything but milk was there ; every known nr conceivable fluid, in aggravating profusion—but not a drop of milk. All thia time, meanwhile, the roar of nay infuriated nephew, but'slightly softened by distance, followed me abont like a Nemesis. I rushed frantically upstair*, armed with a lump of sngar, the first soothing expedient that suggeeted itself ta me. “Bless its dear little heart, there, there! (Confound yonr racket, erm’t yon keep still!) Take it* sngar from it* own, own uncle, that’* a little darling !’’ But the little darling resolutely rejected the sugar, seresming louder than ever, aa if its lungs were foTty bisby-pow<*r, and war ranted never to tire ont It kicked, it strug gled, it pawfd the air, it grew purple in the face. Ashes of King Herod and all the Kgrypt ians ! whnt was a man to do? In vain I exemted a war dance around its cradle, in rain I rang the jingled the China ornaments, and waved the feather-duster, and swung my gold repeater, and bawled nursery bolluds nt the top of my lungs Talk about perseverance Robert Bruce’s spinner was nothing to ibat atro cioas little lump o! mortality. “There’s nothing for it but to capitulate,” said I to myself, as I jammed my hat on my head, viciously thrust my arms into my overcoat, aid seized the baby out of it* cradle. Leave if atone I dared not, and ibe nearest grocery where milk was procur able lay full three blooks off ! 'Thus, in a sort of stony despair 1 issued forth from the house, carrying my prosecutor like a bundle under one arm. I thought he would stop crying when he got into the open air, but not he; oxygen only seemed to increase the shrill power of hi« villainous little pipes I People turned to stsre at me, as if I were an escaped lana tie, or an abductor ol infantile innocence. Women look'd indignantly at the baby. HI up worsted socks and little pink leg? kick ing blindly from beneath my arms. Chil dren ran after me, dog* burked, but I kept doggedlv on ray way. walking into the gro cery with a resolution second only to that of the Roman fellow who jumped into a crater, nobody knows bow many hundred years ago I “A pint of milk, if you please.” “Milk, sir? Have you brought anything to put it in ?” I thought of my tabneeo-box, my pocket hano'kerehicf. the corner of my hat. all of these impracticable places for the deposit of the lacteal fluid “I never thought of that !” I said, right ing the baby, who came head uppermost with a very crimpon countenance, and eyes locking defiantly into mine; eyes that said as if they had spoken in so many syllables, “I won’/ stop crying ; I’ll die first 1” The storekeeper looked on sympatheti cally. “I could sell yon a nice little pitcher, sir. if ” “The very idea,” I interrupted “A pitcher of milk ! and please take the change out of this porte-monaie, for if I had three pair of bands I couldn’t more than bold this kicking little demon with ’em !’’ “Well. *ir ” said the storekeeper, “he does seem a rare ’un for usin’ hi* legs, let alone his longs. Yes, sir thank’ee, sir 1” Now, I have always since laid it up as a grudge against human nature that that un principled grocery-man took a five-dollar bill out of my porte-monaie. knowing that I should not discover it anti I too late torectifv tbe error I (I wouldn’t have treated a Turk eo !) I took up the pitcher of milk with my right hand, still balancing the baby skillfully against mv left arm and side, and started for home. “Now, I’ll settle your business, my fine yoong friend !” I thought. “I* it possible that I was ever such an incotrigible nuisance as this ?” But my trinmnh was speedily reduced to tbe lowest pitch of humiliation ! “Dear me. Mr. Beverley, is it possible that this is yon ?” It was Knte Mi’ton’s self, rsdiant in Spring bonnet, lilac silk walking-dress, close-fringed parasol, and the daintiest of lilac kid glove* ! K te Milton, with ao air of astonishment that served to make her one degree prettier than ever ! Mv first instinct was to turn and flee ignomintouslymv second was to drop roy nephew and bis milk into tbe gutter and resolutely deny all connection whatever with them ; my third prompted me resolutely to stand roy ground. “Yea, it is I, Mina Milton—a—a fine day!” "Very fine.” wc One sock, curling and twisting ns if a ssrp-nt were inside of it instead of a baby’s toot, a ope*red beneath my cost-skirts, flanked by about a quarter of a yard of Kwiss em broidery Hnd tucks, wofullv crumpled bv the fiery ordeal through which we had both passed- the ntilk (confound it 1) had dropped ndown the full length of mv pearl-colored pantaloons, and mv hat, bent nnd bruised, was llirnst rakishly on the side of mv head. I w»s glovele**. flu-lied and disheveled, nnd t«ke roe for “all in all,” must have appeared considerably like a pickpocket or an old clo’hesman out for a walk ! I passed on, followed by the sound of faint, subdued laughter—a sound Hint slung me to tbe quick. So Kate and her companion were laugh ing at me j this wns. Indeed, the nnkindot cut of all. I resolved never to dance th n German with Kate Milton again I The honse was quiet ord dpserted ea I inserted my night-kev ir. the little circular lock. What could have become ol Berthn ? The cold dew oojed out upon mv brow as I. for one instant, eontemidated the horrible possibility of my being lett. a sort of m»d ern Robinson Crusoe, with that diabolical little man Friday on my hands Nonsense! there was no probability of that. I sat down on Bertha’s low rocking chair and. planting the-baby firmly on my knee, applied the spout of the pitcher to hi* m>’Uth V\ cnld yon believe it? he wouldn’t drink n drop. He screwed his month aa tightly shat as if he never intended to open it again, and doubled himself over hackward* with a strength of will that wonld have been re markable in a full-grown man, hut waa simply marvelous in n ten months old baby I persevered, and he persevered. I poured the milk down his neck, his embroidered dress waist, nnd his coral amulets ; he would have been drowned sooner tl an to open his month half a quarter of an inch. Probably of such stnff were our Revolutionary fall) r« made; and this baby had, through some inscrutable blunder of Dame Nature, come into the world just a century too Intel I put him back in the cradle, flat on his spinal column, and looked at him more in sorrow than in anger. “My youngster!” I addressed him, “cry nwav, cry your Inngs out —bre k a blood vessel or two if agreeable to yon—fracture your trachea ! I ean’t be held legally responsible for it, thank Providence 1” 1 took up a book and sat down by the cradle, rocking it lecklessly backward* and forwards, regardless of the screams which still rent the air. I wasn’t going to waste any more time in trying to quiet him. Let him cry ! This is a free esuntry 1 “Why Joe ! what is the matter?” It was Bertha's voice. I jumped up as il a cannon hall had smitten me, and dashed iny book upon the floor. “Matter, ma’am ! matter ? The matter is that I'm going rood 1 I shall be a fit subject for a Inna'ie asylim in just about fifteen minutes more I ’ But I might as well have wasted my despairing elrqueoee on a blank wall! She didn’t hear nor heed me I She was loading that little wretch with caresses, pity and blandishment*. And—l shouldn’t have cred ited the sudden turn of affairs, if I hadn’t witnessed it with my own eyee—the hßby ab“o!o!ely laughed up in her face, as il to aay : “I’ve given my uncle a pretty time of it I” Ye*—laughed and crowed, and held up his hands, and behaved exactly as if be had never in his small life known what it was to shed a tear I The hypocrites are not all grown np. “Has he been good, uncle Joe ?” 1 looked volume-' at my sister. “Bertha, if ever you leave me sgafn, in charge of tha f —that little atrocity. I'll com mit suicide!” “You needn’t speak so looit.” said mv sister, in sn injured voice ; “I intended to bare heea home before, but tbe train was delayed, snd—bless its little heart, did it want to pome to its mamma’s arm* —and was uncle Joe croseer thao an old bear, and wasn’t it tbe sweetest little rose-bud that ever—” l waited to hear no more, but rushed precipitately ont of tbe room, convinced that of all fools, a young mother was the most hopeless specimen ! That’s the last timp I have had the heir of tbe family confided to my guardianship. 1 think Bertha's a little afraid io leave me alone io tbe room with him. “So mote it be!” Home one aer.t me a comic valentioe this fourteenth day of February—a pictare of a booked-nosed old bachelor—(my nose is a fine Romanesque curved) in a blue coat and red trousers, dandling tbe baby upside down; I solemnly beliavg. Jt I detest comic valentines. I ab'or babies —and I believe in a Hfe of old hiche'or- Imnd ! That’s my platform 1 Do you won der at it ? The Highest Inhabited Point. The United Htstes Signal Service station at Bike's Peak is the highest signal Sturt ion in the world ; it is also the highest inhabited portion of the-globe It watt opened in the montli of September,'B73 That it was a win* provision of the government in estab lishing a signal sta'inn at this point is no longer quest toned, the facts having already di monatrated jt s practicability, and the pres ent success promises that Pike’s Peak Signal s'a'ion is yet to stand at the head of all as tronornical and meteorological stations in the world. This point is wondetfully favored by nature for the study of astronomy and meteorology. The rarity of the atmosphere brmgs out a remarkable brilliancy and clear ness to the Sim'S and all the heavenly fa< dies. The nights are almost hlwikr c.londless, and cloudy days are the exception. Nine-tenths of the steins aie helow the peak. 'I lie best and most complete report of the last total eclipse of the sun, received at Washington was the report of Prof. Loud, ol Colorado College, from observations taken at Pike’? Peak. The signal station is now under charge of Hergts. Choate, Blake and Sweeney The-e officers src detailed from the army because of their peculiar adaptability and, special quuliftoatons for the accurate execution »f the nice duties of taking astronomical nu te orological observations. To Sergt. Rufus Choate 1 am greatly indebted for the pur - ticulars embodied in this article. The summit of Pike's Peuk contains sixty ucres. It is 14,336 feet above the level of the sen. On the highest point of the summit stands the signal station, a rough ston' 1 building, twenty-four by thirty, one story in height. It i* divided into four rooms— 'officers’ room, kitchen, store-room and wood room And here in this bleak spot, nearly twenty miles from the bnhiiation of man, these men live the larger part of tbe year The station is three miles from the timber line, where Ibe greater port of vegetation ceases. Short grass, tolled with delicate Alpine flowers, struggle for an existence against the frigidity of the atmosphere, and creeps toward the mountain top; but there are hundreds of aeres of cold gray rocks where not a vestige of verdnre ex sts. Like the dwellers of the Artic regions, the inhabitants of Pike’s Peak have but two seasons—summer nnd winter. Two moftths of summer—August and Septetnhei and ten long, cold months of winter, The sum mer season passes quickly The atmosphere is congenial; the many visitors nt the peak enhance its social life with joy. wonderment and mirth. During the summer of 1878. upwards of nine hundred people, in parties of from five to thirtv, visited the peak, among them many ladies. They registered from the (our quarters of the globe, and they all expressed admiration and astnnbhrrirnt at the grandeur and sublimity of the' wonderful views as §ren from Ihe peak. To behold a sunrise from the pp*k is an event of a life time, and for this purpose visitors often re main over night at the station, to bp ready to catch the first glimpse of the sun as it appears above the horizon, gilding with its bright ray* the mountains, hills, valley* and plains, to the wonder and delight of the amazed beholders. The duties of the officers are various Seven observations are taken daily; all storms are closely watched and each special and distinctive characteristic duly recorded. Sunrise 3nd sunset demand close attention. Every peculiarity of the heavenly regions is viewed and a record made #f the same ; monthly reports are made of these and sent to headquarter* at VVa-hington. The pres ent year has hperi unusually prolific in sun dogs which are said to prognosticate earth quakes, aud subterranean explosions, im mense freshets, and tionblous times. A government office at Pike’s Peak is no sine cure, for the officer must bullet all storms and brave all weatbrrs. Sergeant Choate was at the springs in D< comber, and on De cember 21 he left for the Peak, westing Norwegian snow shoes twelve feet in length The summer months are also occupied in preparing for the long siege of winter. Dar ing the month* of August and Hepfember upwards of 3,000 pounds of 'he usual variety of family stores, and about 20 cord* of fire wood, are snugly stowed away. Ttose are ail carried to the Peak iu small quantities, on tbe back of the poor, despised burro, whose bead has ,! e appearance of being in cased in cloth, and whose ears are nearly the length of his legs, and who walks at tbe pace of a snail, and a very slow snail at that. * . ...m nn/tnvokutn n n/1 A out Nearly Broke up a Festival. BY (JKOROK w. t» eg. Not many vesrs ago there was a church f stivul in Milwaukee, ip raise fund- 1 for pay* ing one of 'lie many deb's of nature that churches always owe. Th° festival had been extensively advertised fiv.-rvthing had been arranged turd the women of the church were In the basement working like beavers. Die crowd hegan to arrive and thpii there was bustle We do not mean tbe kind of bn-tle that you do, gentle reader. We meat! business. There whs bu«ines* going on. A committee of ladies were engaged it) “plitting tli ' oysters, before cooking, so they would go further, and another committee wns thinning the milk, so it wouldn’t give anybody the dyspepsia Another committee WBs freezing tire ice-cream, the wom'-n look*- ing on. whiie the men turned the freerr. They had been freezing the cream since 4 o’clock in the afternoon, and here it was 7 o’clock, and the cream was as thin as a linen duster, and ns free from frigidity as when if came from the cow, or the lien., as the case may be The deacons put in suit and ice, and the more th>y turned the concern, the warmer the ice cream seemed to get. The deacons perspired, and said words that wouldn’t sound well tn history. Time pass ed, and the cteam would not freez 1 . Girl waiter* were coming down s'airs with orders lor iee-rream, and the wild-eyed men would take ofl the cover and look into the chnra and find it thinner than befnra. A conncil of wur was held in the basement, and the matter was discussed, hut no nng could give nny information that wonld freeae the cream Finally one old deacon, who had been work ing the freeier for three hours, until every bonp in his body ached, and who sut on the bottom step of the stairs with a coflee-=ack thrown over his shoulders to keep from tak ing cold, and mopping tbe perspiration from his brow, arose and said that desperate die-*- ea“e* require desperate remedies. He said il that cream conldn’t he induced to freeze, the church wa* heat ont ol at least S2O. He an id that there was only one way. “Send for my wife!” said he, as he »Hnk back, weeping. The man’s wife was up-stairs waiting on table, and a sister ru«hed sp to her and told her to come down sUi'ra at once, as her husband was in a terrible state. Die good woman dropped a lot of soup plate-', and ruslud do;?r. stairs, and found her hu-ba id looking as though he hud beeo paying a ba-e ball match. “For liph van’s soke Hennery, what is thd matter?” said the darling wife, ap she knelt at his feet, and took his blistered baud in her own soft' palm. “Harriet,” said he, ns he put her hand on her auburn hair to get it warm, “have I al wavs been a good husband to you ?” She admitted that lie hnd as far as she kn<-w, though he lwd a reprehensible habit ol going down town at nights. ‘Then," said he, “I have only one favor to ask We have been trying for three hour* to freeze that cussed ice-cream. If it wasn’t for the church, i wouldn’t it, but Har riet, something has got to be dune. Now, if you will take off yg*r shoe* and stocking* and pot your teet jn that ice-cream frfczer, you cun freeze that cream in two miuute*, und we are saved !” There was a none as of a ward caucus breaking up >n a row, and a wild-eyed dea con might have been seen going around that room in the baserc-nt, trying to dodge chairs,, and plates, arid cups and saucers, and when, he got to the door, and a soup tareen took him on the head, he went out into the wide world and went home in his shirt sleeves, and a young man that sings in the choir went borne with the deacon's wife later, and the ice cream did not freeze. PaNOZR or Ot-TCBBtNO > SI.KBPINQ Rtuurr— An exchange relates that a lady was .sleeping in a berth on a Hudson Kiver Railroad train a lew evenings since, with one hand hanging peacefully but ov»r a loop in the curtain A Troy drummer thought he would have some fun, and seized hold of the hand and shook it most cordially*! “Good-bye, old boy, good-bye; can’t up. wiih you always, you know ; give my love to the folks, and don’t fail to call and see os when you coiue to town ” Here the face tious drummer was knocked clear across the car by u stalwart blow from the disengaged hand of the occupant of the berth. After picking himself up und pulling his none around to its proper place, he offered to bet a week's salary that the fellow in the berth was a prize fighter. This excited some ca riosity on that point, and the berth waa closely watched. Susan B Anthony turned out Oi it in the morning.— Troy Slw.ulard. W« know not, G we care not, IIM « * _ .. . NO. 40