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VOL. 111. Advertising Kates. One square, first insertion $ 75 Each subsequent insertion 50 One square three months 5 00 Wne square six months 10 00 One square twelre months 15 00 Ouartcr column twelve months... 30 00 Half column six months 40 00 Half column twelve months CO 00 One column twelve months 100 00 *s?“Ten lines or less considered a square. All fractions of squares are counted as full ■quarts, newspaper decisions. 1. Any person who takes n paper resrn- Jarly from the post office—whether directed to his name or another’s, or whether he ha* subscribed or not—is responsible for the payment. 2 If a person orders his paptT discontin ued, he most pay all arrearages, or the pub lisher may continue to send it until payment it made, and collect the whole amount, vhetber the paper Is taken from the office or not. S. The courts have decided that refusing to take newspapers and periodicals from the postoffice, or removing and leaving them un called for, is prima facie evidence of inten tional fraud. TOWN DIRECTORY. Mayor —Thomas G. Barnett. Commissioners —W. W. Tnrnipseed, J. &. Wyatt, K G. Harris, E. R. James. Ci,erk—E. <}. Harris. Treasurer —W. S. Shell. Marsbalb—S. A. BeMine, Marshal. J. W . Johnson,Deputy. JUDICIARY. A. M. Speer, - - ■ - - J udge. F. D. Dismckr, - - Solicitor General. Butts—Second Mondays in Murch and September. Henry—Thisf- 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 bar. Rockdale—Mondnv after fourth Mondays in March and September Spalding—First Mondays in February and Aagust. Upson First Mondays in May and No vtmber. CHURCH DIRECTORY. M ktmodtgt Episcopal Church, (South,) Rev. Wcslev F. Smith, Pastor. Fourth Sabbath in each month. Sunday-school 3 T. w. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening Methodist Protestakt Church. First Sabbath in Aach mouth. Sunday-school 9 A. X. Christian Church, W. S. Fears, Pastor, ffiecond Sabbath iD each month. Baptist Church, Rev. J. P. Lyon, Pas tor. Third Sabbath in each month. CIVIC SOCIETIES. Pine Grove Lodge, No. 1 77. F. A. M Stated communications, fourth Saturday in each month. DOCTORS. »R. J. C. TURNIPSEED will attend to all calls day or night. Office i resi dence, Hampton, Ga. TVR. W. LL PEEBLES treats all dis •* * eases, and will attend to all qplls day and night. Office at the Drug Store, Broad Street, Hampton, Ga. TvR. N. T. BARNETT tenders bis profes- MJ sional services to the citizens of Henry and adjoining counties, and will answer cali« day or night. Treats all discuses, of what ever natore. Office at Nipper’s Drug Store, Hampton, Ga. Night calls can be made at my residence, opposite Berea chorch. apr2fi 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 ail hours. Warrants all work for twelve moDths. 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. TC. NOLAN, Attorney at Law. Mc • Donongh, Georgia: Will practice in the counties composing the Flint Circuit ; the Supreme Court of Georgia, and the Uuited States District Court. WM. T. DICKEN, 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. M NOLAN, Attorney at Law. McDonough,Ga. (Officein Court bouse) Will practice in Henry aud adjoining coun ties, and iD the Supreme and District Courts of Georgia. Prompt attention giv°n to col lections. mch23-6m JF. WALL, Attorney at Law, f/amp . ton,Ga Will practice in the connties 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 Street, opposite the Railroad depot, Hampton, Georgia. Special attention given to commercial and other collections, and cases in Bankruptcy. BF. McCOLLUM Attorney and Coun • Bellor at L-iw, Hampton. Ga. Will practice in Henry, Clayton, Fayette, Coweta, Pike, Meriwether, Spalding and Butt* Snpe rior Coarts, and in the Supreme and United States Courts. Collecting claims a specialty. Office ao stairs in the Mclntosh Building. 7 WO. To one he brought the rarest flowers That gold could buy ; And gave them with the courteous smile That masked a sigh. Upon the other he bestowed, W ith scarce a look, A few wild violets, gathered by A wayside brook. When from the skies that golden day Went out the sun, Of all the flowers the first received Remained not one 1 Some Inred her swans, some gayly graced The fawn she petted ; Home decked her starling's cage ; all died, Not once regretted. The other, shyly from fhs world Turned her apart, And hid her wayside violets Upon her heart. And he who gave to each that day Such different share, By one was scorned ; the other, breathed His name in prayer! Years afterward, a woman died— A lonely creature, Whose sorrows were not written out On form oi feature, But they who shrouded her do say Dead on her breast, Close, close onto her cold, dumb heart, Were.violetß pressed ! —Mary Atldey Tovmund. Genius and Perseverance. AN AI.i.BQORT. Great gifts are many times abused, be cause they are not appreciated ; just as the inheritor of wealth is many times a spend thrift, because he knows nothing of the value ef labor and time and how wealth is made. The gift of genius is the rich gift of thought without much labor ; it is that pre science, that intuitive knowledge, that in stinctive grasp of things, principles and facts which come without effort. Perseverance is that gift of determination resolution, labor and painstaking. One wins fame with ease, the other commands recog nition through laborious study. But we will illustrate our meaning better in an allegory : When Jupiter called the gods together to consult upon the fate of man, and allowed each one to endow him with certain charac teristics, each gave what bethought best, Jove reserving to himself the power to give him immortality. Thus, among the gilts given, Genius and Perseverance were seen. Being peculiar in their address and in tastes and associations, and being rivals withal, the eyes of the world were turned upon them. The one was bright, brilliant, attractive and winning in his conversation ; quick to compreliend and ready to execute; a despieer of toil and a lover of pleasure—a rapid and erratic worker aud thinker ; what seemed difficult for others to accomplish, was bnt pleasing pastime to him. The other was dull, heavy and uninviting in appearance or form ; with sober look and steady step he labored up the Hill of Fame to the Tempi* of Glory. He was laughed at by Genius for his slow comprehension, and still slower execution ; but indifferent to all jests or jeers from bis brilliant and at tractive rival, he plodded on. Genius would dash past him with a loud hurrah and bid him overtake bim. “I am coming," says Perseverance, “and will yet meet you at the Temple.” Slowly Perseverance toiled along, remov ing evety obstacle that presented itself, in vestigating every object worthy of thought; mastering difficult subjects by continued in vestigation and antiring application ; deaf to all the allurements that presented them selves, and which would call him from bis course ; unmindful ef the sweet and charm ing voice of Plea*ure, still onward he bent his slow steps, his eyes fixed upon the glit tering Temple. Often did he see Genius, dallying and sportiiig with pleasure, and many times, alas! the victim to her wiles, reeling and staggering from the Temple of Bacchus, with mind beclouded or raving like a mad man ; or, perchance, he was in the loving and enervating embraces of Venus, or wagte ing golden hours in the Halls of Chance, where dice rattled or aces woo. Peneveranee, still plodding on, reaches the goal of his ambition ; but finds Genius there too, with garments bright, though soiled ; moral character blasted, and life cat short. Though great, he is an object of pity and at the same time admiration ; the pood deplore his frailties bat admire bis beauty, while Perseverance receives the homage of all. HAMPTON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1879. The Novel of the Future. “If T had only known it would have come to this!” said Augustus de Boots, with a sigh. And then the ex-hussar sat down in an easy chair and wept bitterly. No wonder the poor fellow was listless and low spirited.. Years ago he had been the pride of every garrison in which the regiment was quartered. His long mustache and curly locks had been the toast of every 5 o’clock tea within a ladius of five miles round each military center. Finding that his expenditure was considerably larger than bis income, he bad married. In one liny hour the dashing Major Augustus de Boots —the ppt of the garden party and the loung iest lounger of the clubs—bod given up single blessedness to beeome the neglected husband of a professional lady in large prac tice in the TTest End. And the result ? A miserable home. Too gentle to run away to his bachelor haunts, too heart-broken to face bis tailor, Augustus moped awny his days, awaiting the return of his more indus trious, if not better half. Nine struck, a.id the well-known turn in the lock told the neglected hnsbund that his wife wap letting herself in with her latch-key. Mrs. de Boots entered the dining-room with a frown upon her atern and deeply furrowed brow. “Dinner 1" she exclaimed, roughly, throw ing herself into a chair. "It has been waiting since 7 o’clock, dar ling,” said the poor husband, timidly. “Wbat of that?” replied the churlish wife. “You can’t expect a professional female to be tied to time. Now, then, I have only a quarter of an hour or so. Look sharp I” The trembling servant brought in the luke-warm soup, the cold fish, the burned meat. Mrs. De Boots gulped down her food hastily but moodily. Augustus with diffi culty kept down his tears. Poor Angustusl At last, when the cloth had been with drawn, and wile and husband were once more alone, Augustus ventured to ask what was the matter. “Don’t bother !” replied Mrs. De Boots. And Mien she added, as she noticed the tears welling over in Augustus’ mild blue eyes, “Now don’t he absurd, if yon can help it. 1 you must know, everything has gone wrong to-day. I have lost three patients by allow ing my hand to slip in three difficult surgi cal operations; and the great case in which I was specially retained bus been decided against me.” “Of course the judge was a man, dear,” said Augustus, with just a little spite. ‘ No, a woman,” returned his wife, an grily. “But let us ehange the subject. Have the workmen left the house yet ?” “Oh, deor.no,” replied Augustus, stroking his beautiful mustache. “And f have no idea when they will be finished.” “They get on very slowly,” growled Mrs. De Boots. “Yes, dear,” said Augustas. “The fact is, the plasterers are hiod and the carpenters women, and they waste all their time in flir tations. lam sure the carpenters should he ashamed of themselves I” And the ex-hussar tossed bis curly bead with pretty indigna tion. At that moment Mrs. De Boots, with all her strength of mind, coaid not help admir ing her ornamental bnt useless husband. But sternly repressing all sentimental weak ness, she produced a scientific review, and had been for some time buried in its pages when a loud knock was heard at the street door, followed at once by the entrance of the servant with a note. “Another serious case!” cried Mrs De Boots. "I mu«t be off at ones. Jane, pack op my portmanteau." “When will you return, darling?” asked the husband, timidly. “Perhaps to-morrow—perhaps in a week.” replied the wife, impatiently. “If my opera tion isn’t successful, I suppose I shall have to wait for the inquest.’’ And with a hur ried good-bye, half-swallowed in her caehc nez, the wife took her departure. “Oh, how I wish there had been a higher education for the light cavalry !” murmured the ej-hussar, as he sank hack iD bis chaise lounge, while the fast-flowing tears trickled down his cigar and turned its glow to ashes. A woman in a Kansas Pacific railroad car sat facing a man who, with one eye at least, seemed to be staring fixedly at her. She became indignant, and said : “Why do you look at me so, sir ?” He said he was not aware of having done so, but she insisted. “I beg your pardon, madam, but it’s this eye, is it not ?" lifting his finger to his left optic “Yes, sir, it’s that eye,” “Well, madam, that eye won’t do you any harm. It’s a glass eye, madam—only a glass eye 1 hope you’ll excuse it. But, upon my soul, I’m not snrprised that even a glass eye should feel interested in so pretty a woman.” The explanation and the compliment com bined to put tbe woman into a good humor. L«vc and Marriage. A popular writer says: "A young man meets a pretty face in a ball-room, falls in love with it, courts it, marries it, goes to house-keeping with it, and boasts of having a home and a wife to grace it. The chances are, nine to ten, that he has nei'h r. He ha* been ‘taken iD and done for!' Her pretty face gets to be an old story, or becomes faded, or freckled, or fretted; and as the fare was all he wanted, all he paid attention to, all he sat up with, all he bargained for, all be swore to honor and protect, he get* «ick of his trade, knows of a dozen faces he likes better, gives up staying at home even ings, consoles himself with cigars, oysters aud polities, and lo«ks opon his home as a very indifferent boarding-house. “A family of children grows up about him; but neither he nor his ‘face’knows anything about training them, so they come ud helter-skelter ; made toys of when babies, dolls when boys and girls, dmdges when men and women ; and so passes yenr after year, and not one quiet, ha’py, homely hour known throughout the whole household “Another young man heroines enamored of ai ‘fortune ’ He waits upon it to parties, dances the polka with it, exehsnges billet doux with it, pop* the qnestion to it, get ac cepted by it, calls it -wife,’ carries it home, sets up an establishment with ' it, introduces it to his friends, and says he, too, is married and tins got a home. It is false. He is not married ; he has no home. And he soon finds it out. He is in the wrong box ; but it is too late to get out of jt; he might as well hopo to get out of his coffin, llis friends congratulate him, and he has to grin and bear it. They praise the house, the furniture, the cradle, the new Bible, and bid the ‘fortune,’ and he who husbands it, good morning—as if he had known a good morning since ho and that gilded fortune were declared to be one! “Take another case. A young woman is smitten with a pnir of whiskers. Curled hair nevet before hud such charms. She sets her cap for him ; they take. The delighted whiskers make an offer, proffering themselves both in exchange for one heart. My dear miss is overcome with magnanimity, closes the bargain, carries home the pries, show* i* to pa and ma, calls hcreell engaged to it, thinks there never was such a pair of whis kers before, and in a few weeks they are married. Married ? Yes, the world calls it *o, and so we will. What is the resnlt ? A short honeymoon, and then the discovery that they are as unlike as chalk and cheese.” Too Good. A very good and pious-looking young 'man applied for a position in a well-known store last week. After he had introduced himself and made known his wants, the pro prietor informed him that he would like to have a clerk if he could get one that would suit him. “I suppose you go to church, eh ?” he commented. “Yes, sir.” “Do you drink ?” continued the merchant, eyeing him sharply. “Never!” “Do you use tobacco in any form?” Here the yonng man pushed the quid into the roof of his mon'h, and replied with n smile that was child-like and bland : “I never use the weed, and never did. I con sider it the lowest and most shocking habit that a man can be addicted to.” “Do yon freqnent the policy shops?” “No, sir ; never!” "Do you go to the theatre, dog fights or boxing exhibitions?” “Never was at one in my life,” wa3 the emphatic reply. "Can you tell me the ace of diamonds from the king of clubs?” “1 know nothing whatever of cards!” “Do you ever bet ?” “No, air, I don’t.” “Suppose.” said the merchant, “a maD should offer to bet a thousand dollars to ten dollars that a three-legged goat could out run a g-ay hound, would yon take him “No, sir 1” “Then you won’t do for this estabfish ment; we don't waQt you—we never hire fools!” That youth won’t be so good next time. “Amanda, I wish you to put the large Bible in a prominent place on the center table, and place three or four hymn books carelessly round on tbe sofas. I have ad vertised for a young maD to board in a cheerful Christian family, aod I tell you what, il you girls don’t manage, either one of yon, to rake him in, why I’ll never try anything again, for I’m tired out." Courage and common sense do more for a man than money or hair parted in tbe middle. “Baby Mine.” The baby carriage made its nppearni’ce yesterday for the Reason. It was occupied by the usual baby, and it was propelled by the woman who looks into all the stoi«*win dowg as she goes along. A reporter who followed the entringe for an hour found that it collided with five women, ten men, six curb-blocks, four boxes and a street cur, and every collision only made the woman more determined to occupy two thirds of the sidewalk, if it took all summer. She succeeded. They all succeed. A wonian pushing a baby cairi"ge in front f ' her on the sidewalk is as dnngeions as sev en roller skaters and four velocipede riders combined. She can’t kill a full-grown man quite ns promptly as a runaway team, but she can knock his shins to pieces, tumble him over, upset all his good resolution* and leave him flint-hparted and evil-minded. You can’t dodge a baby cab. Your only safe way is to make a jump from the curb stone or climb a ladder. They go on wheels. They are supposed to be a convenience which no respectable bnby can do without. No matter who first got the idea that jolting a baby nround town, bobbing him over cross walks, would sweeten his disposition—the idea is correct. I’ut a man in « vehicle of the sort and his back would De broken in an hour, bnt babies have no bucks They are simply greot hunks of sweetness. The only reason why all the regiments in the lute war were not armed with baby carriages was because the factories could not supply them. They would have ended the war in one year. The woman with the baby carriage nerds tio advice. She knows enough to head the vehicle toward every crowd she can see. The thicker the crowd the more business she has there. It is her duty to run to all fires with it, to select the busiest crosswalks, and to get in front of all runaway teams, and site perfectly understands it. If there is any country on earth where these vehicle* are not in u°e, it is no country to live in.— Detroit Free Pros. Women Eyeing Women. The eyeing of women by women is one of the most offensive manifestations of super cilinnsne-s now to be met with in society. Few observant persons cannot have failed to have noticed the manner in which one wo man, who is not perfectly well-bred or per fectly kind-hearted, will eye another woman whom she thinks w not in such good society, and, above all, not at the time in so costly a dress as she herself is in. It is done every where ; at parlies, at chart'll, in the street. It is done by women in all conditions of life The very seivant girls learn it of their mistresses. It is done in an instant. VV ho cannot recall hundreds of instances of that sweep of the eye which tnkes in at a glance the whole woman, and what she has on, from top-knot to shoe-ti«? Men are never gnihy of it, or, wilh such extreme rarity, and then in such a feeble and imnll-souled specimen of the ; r sex that it may be set down as a sin not masculino, or at least epicene. But women of sense, of some breeding, and even of some kindliness of nature, will thin en deavor to assert a superiority upon the mean est of all pretenses and inflict a wound in a mannei the most cowardly, because it cannot be resented, and admits of no retort. If they but only knew how unlovely, how positively offensive they make themselves in so doing, not only to their silent victims, but to every generous-hearted man who observes their maneuvers, they would give up a triumph at once so mean and fo cruel which is obtained at such a sacrifice on their part. No other evidence than this eyeiug i* Deeded that a woman, whatever be her birth or breeding, haa a small and vulgar soul.— Ex. Burdette on Pnn.ADEi.pniA. —Burdette writes as follows : Do you know, the only annoying thing ahnut Philadelphia is ita appalling cleanliness. You can stand on a residence street and see thirty-five miles of red brick houses and snow-white blinds, and tbe “big brass koobs” are so carefully pol ished that yon would think every bouse bar bored a miniature Sir Joseph Porter, K. C. B. The cleanliness is appalling. It makes you think of a heaven of house cleaning, and an eternity of mops and brushes. Hornetimea I was irresistibly impelled to go out into the street and scrape up a handful of mud and throw it against a snowy while blind. Aud 1 did go out into tbe street with that inten tion. But when I got out there I couldn’t find | any mod. If you want to throw rood at anything in ! Philadelphia, you will have to take your mud with you.— Hawlceye. Blessed b the man who lovetb bis wife’s rclatious ; aud not only blessed, but also scarce. How to Pay a Compliment. To pay a compliment ia to tell the truth, and to tell it a* though you meant it. And the only way to do that i* to mean it. If a girl is pretty or accomplished ; if she plays well, or sings well, or dances well, er talks well; if, in a word, she pleases, why, in the name *f common sense, should she not be told of it ? Don’t blurt it out before every body. That will only serve to make her' feel nncomfortable, and make you appear ridiculous. Say it quietly when opportunity offers, but say it strongly. Convey the idea distinctly and fully.so that there may be no mistake about it Bnt do not say it "offi cially.” Formality is about the coldest thing known. More than one maidfen has been made happy—say for half on hour—by a man’s tuking the trouble to say a pleasant thing about a toilet that he liked, and many of fashion’s follies have been given up by girls when they noticed a discreet silence concerning them on the part of their gentle men friends. A bewitching black-eyed beauty once said to a gentleman, “I like to have yon say sweet things tome, it seems to come se easy and natural.” In general terms, it may be said that it ia always better to say on agreeable thing than a disagreea ble one, better for all purties. The gallant who, when a young lady stepped on his foot while dancing and asked pardon, said, “Don’t mention it ; a dainty little foot like that wouldn’t hurt a daisy,” not only told the truth, hut doubtless felt more comfortable' than the boor who, when his foot was stepped* on, roared ont, “Thai’s right; climb all over me with your great clumsy hoofs.”— Bouton 7ranteript. • t Tns Science of Tickling —That on* must laugh when one is tickled seems now to be not only a well-settled law of cause and consequence, but a well-settled law of health The learned Dr Flecker says that it is dangerous not to laugh under such cir cumstances, and when the Germanic Scien tific Association had this subject up at a meeting in Leipsic, a while since, be gave the reasons for his theory. Tickling (“a variable, intermittent excite ment of the nerves of the skin,” as the doctor aalls it) ooptraets the blood vessels and draws blood away from the brain. Too much lessening of the pressure on the brain in this wav is dangerous, and had nature provided no remedy one could easily be “tkkled to death." Laughter is the remedy. It is the safe'y explosion (like thunder when there is too much electricity in the air) which equalizes matters in the nervous sys tem, and restores the balance of pressure all around. When we are mentally “tickled,’' or. in other words, feel a sense ef the ludi crous, the same set of sympathetic nerves is set agoing, Dr. Decker say®, and here, too, laughter cornea in for a relief. We make the same “intermittent, forced movement of expirution” —and feel better. In short, what should we do if the cheerful excitement of being tickled could not explode in its natural “ha. ha, ha!” Certainly we are quite ready to believe Hr. Meeker and the German Scientific Association at Leipsic when they tell us we should—burst. Njw Throkt About Mummuw —Flaving beard (hat Egyptian mummies could be di vided into two classes, one embracing those bodies which have been embalmed intact, and the other including those bodies which have been eviscerated, Dr. Gaulselbach, a Swedish chemist of repute and professor in the University of Upsal, has formed the opinion that the mommies of the first class are not really dead, but are only in a condi tion of suspended animation ; though, un fortunately for historians, the secret of bring ing them again to lifa has been lost. In support of this theory he adduces the results of his own researches and experiments, one of which consists in submitting a snake to a process, the details of which are of course kept secret, which petrifies it. Id this con dition it has been laid aside for a year or two at u lime, and is then restored to life by some tqnally myvterions vivifying process. This has now been gsing on about 15 years, and the snake does not seem to dislike it. Dr. Ganlselbach is said to have applied to the Swedish government for leave toexperi ment on a condemned criminal, the under standing being if the experiment be success ful the criminal shall receive pardon, because of the service thus rendered to science, and, possibly, to humanity.— Journal of Ckemii try- _ Tbby begged him to play a little. He seemed to feel bashful at first, but after a while began to paw the ivory vigorously. “ tVhat power I” said a listener to the owner of the piano. ‘ Yes!” exclaimed the latter in alarm, “be seems to have considerable muscle, bat he ought to know this isn’t a gymnasium.” NO. 45