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The courts Lave decided that refusiner ts take newspapers and periodicals from the postoffice, or removing and leaving them un called for, is prtma facie evidence of inten tional frand. TOWN DIRECTORY. Mayor —Thomas G. Barnett. Commissioners —W. W. I'urnipseed, J. S. Wyatt, E. G. Hnrris, E. R. James. Clerk —E. G. Hnrris. Treasure* —W. S. She!!. Marsmalb—S. A. Belding, Marshal. J. Vi . Johnson,Deputy. JUDICIARY. A. M. Spier, - Judge. t. D. Diimokr, - - Solicitor Genera!. Bntts—Second Mondays in March and September. Hemy—Thirl* Mondays in April and Oc tober. Monroe—Fourth Mondays in February, and August. Newton—Third Mondays in March and September. Pike—Second Mondays in April and Octo ber. Rockdale—Monday after fourth Mondays in March and September. Spalding—First Mondays in February and August. SJptoE—First Mondays in May and No vember. CHURCH DIRECTORY. Meteqdist Episcopal Church, (South.) Bev. Wesley F. Smith, Pastor. Fourth Sabbath •in each month. Sunday-school 3 p. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening Methodist Protestant Church. First Sabbath month. Sunday-school 9 a. x. Christian Church, W. S. Fears, Pastor. Second Sabbath in each month. Baptist Church, Rev. J. P. Lyon, Pas tor. Third Sabbath in each month. CIVIC SOCIETIES. Pink Grove Lodge, No. 177. F. A. M Stated communications, fourth Saturday in eaek month. DOCTORS. DR. J. C.TDRNIPSEED will attend to all calls day or night. Office i resi donco, Hampton, Ga. T\R. W. n. PEEBLES treats all dis * * eases, and will attend to all calls day and night. Office at the Drug Store, Broad Street, Hampton, Ga. DR. N. T. BARNETT tenders liis profes sional services to the citizens of Henry and adjoining counties, and will answer calls day or night. Treats all diseases, of what ever nature. Office at Nippgr’s Drng Store, Hampton, Ga. Night calls cud be made at my residence, opposite Berea church. apr26 JF. PONDER, Dentist, has located in • Hampton, Ga., and invites the public to eall at his room, upstairs in the Bivins House, where he will be found at all hours. "Warrants all work for twelve montb6. LAWYERS. JNO. G. COLDWELL, Attorney at I,aw, Brooks Station, Ga. Will practice in the counties composing the Coweta and Flint River Circuits. Prompt attention given to commercial and other collections. TO. NOLAN, Attorney nt Law. c • Donough, Georgia. Will practice in the counties composing the Flint Circuit ; the Supreme Court of Georgia, and the United States District Court. WM. T. DIOK.EN, Attorney at Law, Lo« cust Grove, Georgia, (Henry county.) Will practice in the counties composing the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court of Georgia, and the United States District Court. apr27-ly GEO. . NOLAN, Attorney at Law. McDonough, Ga. (Office in Court house ) Will practice in Henry and adjoining coun ties, and in the Supreme and District Courts •f Georgia. Prompt attention given to col lections. mcb23-6tn JF. WALL. Attorney at Law, //amps . ton.Ga Will practice in the counties composing the Flint Judicial Circuit, and the Supreme and District Courts of Georgia. Prompt attention given to collections. ocs EDWARD J. REAGAN, Attorney at law. Office on Broad Stfeet, opposite the Railroad depot, Hampton, Georgia. Special attention given to commercial and other collections, and cases in Bankruptcy. BF. cCOLLU , Attorney and Coun • sellor at Liw, Hampton, Ga. Will practice in Henry, Clayton, Fayette,Coweta, Pike, Meriwether, Spalding and Butts Supe rior Courts, and in the Supreme and Uoited States Courts. Collecting claims a specialty. Office an stairs in the Mclmosh Building. 7 HE LITTLE QUAKERESS. “I would wear,” said a little Quakeress, “A silken ribbon of bine ; It would look just like a glittering gem On my gown of sober hue.” "We are r.ot of the world, my Ruth ; Thee must not take delight On what thee knows the Lord frowns on, The garb of‘Colors bright. “But doth he frown ?” the small thing said, 01 He paints the earth and skv ; Sweet flowers he makes of every tint— He frowns? I wouder why.” "Thee knoweth in ignorance of him The flowers grow, my Ruth ; We may not, like those senseless things, Lack reasoning and truth; "W r e, we who have hearts and heads and hands To gnide us in onr dress ; For he hoth taught tie plainly, child, A godlike soberness." A smile illumed the face of Ruth ; "May be,” said the Quaker elf, "God painted the shining flower because It could not dress itself!” Barberous Experieuce. Burdette, the humerou3 writer of the Burlington Haxckcye, tells what he knows of barbers and their ways in the following style : On the fourth of December I was in Bos ton, thinking about a lecture 1 was expected to deliver in the evening, and so badly scared that I couldn’t remember the subject nor what it was about. I went into a Tremont street "Institution of Facial Manipulation and Tonsorial Decoration” and inquired for the professor who occupied the chair of Medaeval Shaving and Nineteenth Century Shampoo. One of the junior members of the faculty, who was brushing an under graduate’s coat, pointed me to a chair, and I climbed in. When the performance was about concluded, the barber said to me : "Have your hair trimmed, sir ?” 1 believed not. ‘ Needs it very badly, sir,” he said, “looks very ragged.” I never argue with a barber. I said, ‘all right, trim it a little, but don’t make it any shorter.” He immediately trimmed all the curl out of it, and my hair naturally, ton know, has a very graceful Cnrl to it. I never discov ered this myself until a few months ago, and then I was very much surprised. I discov ered it hy looking at my lithograph. Well, anyhow, he trimmed it. On the 6ih of December I was at Bath, Maine. Again 1 was shaved, and again the barber implored me to let him trim my hair When I answered him that it had been trimmed only two days before, he spitefully asked where it was done. I told him, and he gave expression to a burst of sarcastic laughter. ‘•Well, well, well,” be said at Inst, “so you let them trim your hair in Boston? Well, well. Now you look like a man who has been srennd the world enough to know bet ter than that.” Then he affected to examine a lock or two very particularly, and sighed heavily. “Dear, dear,” he said, “1 don’t know, really, as 1 could do anything with that hair or not ; it’s too bad." “No,” he said, “Oh, do, it wasn’t necessary to cut it any shorter, it was really too short now, but it did need trimming.'' So he trimmed it, and when I faced the Rockland audience that night, 1 looked like a prize fighter. In four days from that time I was sitting in the chair of a barber dowH in New York State. He ahaved me in grateful silence and then thoughtfully run bis fingers over my lonely hair. “Trim this hair a little, sir?” he said, “straighten it up about the edges?” I meekly told him I had had it trimmed twice during the preceding week, and I was afraid it was getting too short for winter wear. “Yes,” he said, “be didn’t know bat what it was pretty short, bat be didn’t need to cut it any shorter to trim it. It was very bad—ragged shape at the ends.” I remained silent aDd obstina*c-. and he asked me where 1 bad it trimmed last. I told him, and be burst into a shout of laogb ter that made the windows rattle. “What's the matter, Jim?” inquired an assistant partner down the room, holding his patient in the chair by the nose. Jim stifled bis laughter and replied : “This gentleman bud his hair trimmed down in Maine.” There was a general burst of merriment all over the shop, and the apprentice laid down the brush be was washing and cume over lo look at the Maine cut, that he migliL HAMPTON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1879. never forget it. I surrendered. "Trim it • little then,” I groaned, “butrin tho noine of humanity, please don't out it any shorter ” "No,” the barber said, "he weuldn’t make it a hair’s breadth shorter.” When I left that shop, if it hadn’t been for my ears, my hat would have fallen clear down on my shoulders. When I reached the hotel, everybody started, and a eoople of men got up and read a hand-bill on the wall, dfscript ive of r convict who had re cently escaped from Ring Sing, and looked from the bill, to myself very intently. That night several of the audience drew revolvers as I came out on the platform. Then I went to Amsterdam, New York. The barber of that sleepy village, who, in tbc interval ol his other dulies nets as«mayor of the town and edits the loeal papers, under took to shave me with a pifee of hoop iron he polled oat of his hoot Ipg. When I re sisted, he went into the kitchen and came back with the kitrbon knife and a can opener, and offered me my choice. I selected the can opener, and he began the massacre, remarking incidentally that he used to keep a good sharp spoke-shave for his particular customers, hut he had lost, it. Then be said my hair needed trimming very badly; I protested that it was impossible; it had been trimmed ten times within ten days and was as short now as a business man on the first of January. "Oh,” he said, "it wasn’t too short, and besides, there was no style about it at all. He could give it some shape, however, he said without making it any shorter.” So I snrrpndered and told him to shape it up. And if that foredoomed, abandoned Amsterdam son of an oakum-pieker didn’t go out into the woodshed and come back with a rnsty old horse rasp and began to file aw*y what little hair I had left. He allowed a few shreds and patches to remain, how ever, clinging here and there to my scalp in ghostly loneliness. I rather feared that my appearance that evening would create a panic hut it did not I observed that the majority of the audience had their heads "shaped rip” after the same manner, nnrl were rather pleased with my conformity to the local custom and style. Well, I got along to Corry, Pennsylvania, and rushed in for a shave and got it, in one time and two motions "Hair trimmed, sir ?” the barber said I snpposed he was speaking sarcastically, and so 1 laughed, but very feebly, for I was getting to be a little sensitive on the subject of my hair, or rather, my late hair. But he repeated his question and said that it needed trimming very badly. I told him that that was what ailed it. it had been trimmed to death : why, I said, my hair has been trimmed five times during the past thirteen days. And I was afraid it Wouldu’t last much longer. “‘Well," he said, “it was hardly the filing for a man of my impressive appearance, who would naturally attract attention the moment I entered a room (I have to stand on my tiptoes and hold on with both hands to look over the bark of a car seat) to go around with such h head of hair, when be could strnighten it our for me in a minute.” I told him to go ahead, and closed my eyes and wondered what would come next. That fellow took a pair of dentist’s forceps and “pulled” everv lock ®f hair I had left. “There,” he said proudly, ‘ now when your hair grows out it will grow out even.” I was a little dismayed at first when I looked at my glistening poll, but after all it was a relief to know that the end was reached, and nobody cnold torment me again to have my hair trimmed for several week*. But when I got shaved at Ashtabnla, the baiber insisted on puttying up the holes and giving my head a coat of shellac. I yielded, and my head looked like a varnished globe with the map 9 left off. Two days afterwards I sat in a barber’s chair at Mansfield. Then he paused, with a bottle poised io his hand, and said : * “Shampoo ?” I answered him with a look. Then he oiled my hairless globe and bent over it for a moment with a hairbrush. TheD he said : “On which side do yon part your hair ?” A citizkx went into a Norwich hardwaic store the other day and inquired: “How much do you ask for a bath-tub for a child?’’ “Three dollars and seventy-five cents,” was tbe reply. “W-b-e-w!” whistled the cus tomer, “Guess we’ll have to keep on wash ing the baby in the coai-scuttle till prices come down.” “I have a great ear, a wonderful ear,” said a conceited musician, in the course of conversation. “So has a donkey,” replied a bystander. “True worth, like the rose, will blush at its own sweetness.” Good! Could never The Cruel Khedive. Tfic account* of the distress now existing in the tbUpv cf the Nile remind the writer of n gpene he witnessed in the winter of lftGtl. Starting from fairo for a trip np the >fHe, we slopped the first night near the row of sneient Memphis, to which we walked in the moonlight. We were anr prisednt seeing on the plains mile or two south of ns a Urge gathering of people bear ing lights. Upon going to the spot we *' than a thousand men, women anil cluldr 'o engaged in throwing up an embank ment for.fhq railroad the khedive was hnild ing from Cairo to Thebes by forced labor No machinery or fools whatever were used except basket*. These, the poor wretches were filling with their hands, placing them upon their heads, and slowly and wearily, except when accelerated hy the voice and fash of the overseer, dragging themselves np the embankment and dumping them at the end. The fmhankment, I judged, was nhnnt twelve or fifteen feet higher than the plain, and perhaps forty feet wide. The baskets of the men would contain shoot three pecks of the I'ght. dry, alluvial earth ; those of the women about a half bushel, and the children perliap- a peck. This was all forced labor —no pay whatever. The khedive would send a steamer up the river to a village, and call for from fifty to two hundred people of all ages nod rpxps to go, without pny, nnd work on this railroad for one month, at the end of which time he would send them, or what was left of them, back. The bodies of those who died from exhaustion helped to swell the embankment. No time for senti ment. What their hours of labor were I could not find out, but I saw them at work at 10 pm. I saw villages np the rivpr partly depopulated, because of a late visit of these steamers, and one entirely abandoned and partly in ruins, having been fired into, as wps said hy our dragoman, because the ‘ sheik” could not or would not furnish the required quoin. It was the intention to grade the entire road of ppverel hnndred this way. Whether it has been Re compiled I am not aware. “ Onr' jfnrty chartered a government steamer for the trip. At the coal stations the nffieers impressed the first na'ives they could catch snd com pelled them to coal our steamer in the same manner the railroad was being graded, in baskets carried on the head. Ido not won der that with this system of unpaid labor in foil force, with all the palaces of the khedive, with his great desire for improvements, and his large and disastrous attempts at cotton irrowing nnd sugsr-making. there should finally be distress in the valley of the Nile. Correepondence Hail ford Post. The Price of Poetry. It is related that a gentleman recently took to Mr. Bryant a espy of an early edi tion of his poems, with the request that the poet would pot his autograph in it. He incidentally mentioned that he had paid $5 for it. “Why,” said Mr. Bryant, “that’s more than 1 got for the copyright.” But “Temptation,” writing to the Hartford Courunt, notes several instances of fetter compensation to poets, lie suys Longfel low did not get S4OOO (S2O per line) for “The Hanging of the Crane.” He got SIOOO. It was originally offered to the Atlantic Monthly, and accepted, at a compensation of $250. ’Then Bonner made the author an offer of SIOOO for a poem of this length fop the ledger ; the publishers of the Atlantic, appreciating the circumstances, pleased it to the author. He received S3OO in addition for the use of it for public reading purposes before it appeared in print. The Cornhill Magazine's compensation for Tennyson's “Tithonus” was $7 50 per line, and the Nineteenth Century paid him sl2 50 per line for “The Revenue.” Some of the best of Longfellow’s earlier poems were sold to Gra'iam’s Magazine for small sums. Except the Knickerbocker, which did not pay much, and for which Longfeiiow did not write there were then do other periodicals that paid for poetry. The Boston Miscellmy. which Lowell edited, had the disposition to do this; but it did not live long, and had little means while in existence. From fifty to a hundred dollars need to be paid men of established reputation for poems for anniver sary occasions, when societies had the means. Dr. Holmes’ longest -poem, “Urania—a Rhymed Lesson,” was given before the Mer cantile Literary Association of Boston. He was at first not inclined to write it, hut wa= startled by the magnificent offer of S2OO, and felt that he could Dot afford to neglect such an opportunity. It occupied nearly an boor in its delivery. Longfellow and Whit tier have realized considerable sums ftom their poems in book form, making probably more than do their publishers. I/mgferiow’s most profitable book wag '' gave an extraordinary sale on its first ap pearance. Whittier’s “Rnow-Round” also sold largely, as did IjongfeffnwV'The Hang ing of the Orane,” psprcmllv in a holiday edition. Trnnvson received n vpry hund >n«np srtm from bis Region nnhl shers for his "Enoch Arden,” and his hooks sell be’* of all in America, while it i* sa'd that Long fellow’s have the largest popularity in Kng land. The sale of Holmes’ poOms is consid ers fily larger than that of Lowell’s, but fills below the sales of T/mgf flow and Wlmtier. S. Y. Evening Poll. ITovr Hoggs Rnn for Office. Boggs was as peaceable * man as ever lived. He was sober, honest and respected. He bod never pounded his wife. Never taken anv interest in n dog fight. Had never been known to pawn somebody pise’s watch. And never had attempted to steal a saw mill. Boggs’ eharnrfer was above reproach. He was a shining light in society. All Boggsville looked up to and honored him. But a changp eame, a fearful, direful change. In on evil hour Boggs aeeep*ed the nomi nation for constable of bis native villagp. Alas! poor Boggs ! Little did ho understand the deceit and treachery of the wicked world.. His eyes were soon opened, however. In le c S than a week after he was nominat ed the opposition had fnllv established the following damaging charges against his character 1, That hr was a free lover xnd an infidel. 2. That he had fed his neighbor's hens on poisoned corn. 3 That he had broken his mother-in-law’s jaw with an iron boot-jack. 4 That lie on one occasion gave a whole wagen load of green wntermelons to on or phan asylum. 5. That he had served n term in the State prison for hnr»e etanKng. G That lie had pet firs to his next door neighbor's barn, merely because he refused to lend him a hop. 7. That because he had found a button of! his phirt, he tied his wife to the bed-post nnd mashed in three of her ribs with the stove poker. 8. That his chief RondoV amusements were cock fighting and card playing, 9. That he sold his vote every year regu larly to the highest bidder. Ifi. That he wasn't fit for the place any how. These charges, though without the slight est foundation, were religions’y believed by a majority of the voters of Boggsville. And Boggs’ political goose was cooked. IT is chances for being elected were no* worth three cents on the dollar. When Boggs pa=«pd along the strpet, his neighbors looked at him with suspicion, and crossed over on the other side Boggs was a miserable being. The day of town-meeting eame at Inst, and Boggs’ opponent scooped in the con- by a two-thirds vote. The anti-Boggs party swept their candi date into office on the filial wave of popular ity, »nd poor Boggs was left pprclieil high np on the spike-mounted picket-fence of de spair. Boggs will never run for office again, not even for President 1 . He says that it is too great a strain on character. If he can regain the esteem of his friends by grubbing along in the old way, he intends to do if, and leave office-seeking to people of cast iron reputation. Boggs is just coming to his senses. The Mule and TnE Indian —l sec the bcantitul Indian leaning np against the fence, calmly surveying his territory. And I am free to admit that the territory is a power ful sight more beautiful than the Indian The Indian is chewing tobacco, and ‘swear ing at the mule. He is six feet high, the Indian is, and his tail is fnll of burs, tlie mole’s is. He wears butternut j. uns, and a fur cap, the Indian does, and you can hear him bray clear into the car, the mule that is. He has a bushy bc.id of hair and shocky whiskers, tanned out by the sun, has the Indian ; and he wears more flat leather har ness tli mhe has hair, the mule does. He carries a black snake whip, the Indian docs, and as he swears he larrups it over bis hun kers. the mule’s hunkers. And every time he, the Indian, fetchesbim, the mule, one, he, the mule, kicks dot*n a whole panel of fence. I trust I have made this clear enough.— Bardettf. VBwm joti Making Our Friends attfome. Is it possible for our friend to "jn*t mqke himself at home” in oar hewse. as we .often ' invite an! enjoin him to dor Something de|)ends, no doubt, on the Iriend, but more, we think, on the home ’ If the guest be in capable of forgetting his own home, Aid given to contrasting unfavorably ewVlhing that is unlike it in others ; dr If he be mie of tbc nividnptive eori—a human.,cat,” who is never at •ease when nut of his aceus- Ipaied haunts, or if be per haps, this is she) only goes out anion* fri**ds to be "entertained,” in such a case you .can't well make them at home, nor avoid wishing them there 1 On the other hand if you desert the pleas ant family quarters nnd plant yonr fririvf amid the unused fineries of the stiff‘"best rooms” if von keep the children cm drCss parade, and break up all their wonted good times ; if you palpably make a decided dif ference in the family lare, a* if yenr friend came to learn the qnalificaiions of yonr cook or to judge of your ability to "keep a hotel;” if, in n *ord, you* everyday domestia life is so broken np that having a guest implies a complete change in the internal nrrange menls and economies of the household, be cannot, if a sensible and sensitive person, feel himself “at home," for he will perceive that yOu are not. Think what being "at home” means "to yourself, and try and let yonr guests bare something of that feeling. You require a certain liberty and an atmosphere of nntar«l« ness for yonr contentment; a knowledge that you are-not making any undue work or worry, and a aort of slippers and dresging gown freedom of deportment, for yonr com fort. You don’t want yonr down-sitting nnd np rising too much plunned out for you. You expect to be courteous and agreeable and punctnal, and to practice the rest of the household virtues as much as in you lies,but you don’t want to talk at a mark ail the time, nor to have everything give way to your entertainment. There isn’t a better rule of politeness and hospitality in the world than the rule railed the "golderf.” The trouble is that we kpep it too much for ethical or "great moral” questions, instead of turning it to use in the everyday affairs of life. We can b«st ennblc our friends to make them pnlves at home by keeping it homelike fer them. A Sa«J Story. A fist young man who hud lived hard and wasted a splendid constitution fell ill at Rome. At one moment it was thought be die. His disease was contagions. His friends fled from him with fear. When he recovered from the dangpr which threat ened he was blind. When he was told he would be blind.for life he cursed heaven, hell and earth I His curses were answered by nn angel’s and an angel’s voice and a woman’s bnnd.gently smoothed his pillow. Never had a voice so touched his heart. Who was this woman who was caring for him when atl had fled ? Who was this min istering angel ? Hp was told that she was the daughter of a family in the hon«e, and that when ehp heard of bin d'shlate position she would have no pay, but spent her days and nights bv his bpdside, never sleeping, never erasing her watch, tintil he was out of danger. When he heard this he forgot the terrible misfortune which had struck him. He forgot that he was blind, fie forgot everything, save the girl who bad risked her life for him. and this time he blessed Provi dence for the inexpressible boon granted him —a true woman Vlove. They were married. But each time that the poor blind man said, “I love you. darling Love you more than I ever loved before. Nor did I think I could ever love so mneh”—each time he spoke of love, each time be pressed her in his arms, the poor wile felt her heart beat loudly in her breast and her cheeks grew red a.# 6re. Why? Because she was ugly and knew it. . “Yon are beautiful, my own,” he would say. “No. I am ugly, she would an-'wer, with a forced laugh, while a tear of something Ilk'* shame triek'od down her cheek. He only thought she was jesting, and he ki-sed her all the more. Besides, what did it mat ter ? Was he uot blind?. And her voice was the vpry sweetest of anv he had ever heard. Several years p ssed thus, years of untold happiness to the loving wife, who, ou account of her homeliness, had never dreamed -be could be loved. But suddenly one day her husband exclaimed: “I see!” Well, he was odlv the average brute of a man. As soon as he found out that she was homely b<v ceased to love her, and re-utned his old life of debauchery. She has toe crosses aud suficrings of an abandoned wife. Her only hope is that her husband may again lose his sight and return to her arms. NO. 44