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WITH A CASKET OF LETTERS. What 1 have written is written ; And here >ou will find it some day, In this o’d, black, ebony casket, Dated, and hidden away ; When your heart will hare warmed to an other, * Although you swear now to be true. Then I hhpe that you’ll tear op my letters, Lost she should discover them too. You exclaim I say this to tormrnt you, To ecofi at the love you hove sworn ; Kiss fondly the words 1 hive sent you, And row they shall never be tom ; And if time sbonld tempt me to sever The fetters that suit yon so well. You will throw yourself in a river, Or live like a monk in a cell. Yet why should yon think 1 would wound yon ? 1 know you have loyally loved, And all I have said io these letters ] think that 1 too, dear, have proved ; And 1 well know yon think as you say, dear, That your heart will forever be true ; Put every oue soys that men change, dear, And so 1 suppose that (bey do I So if in the unknown future Yon chance on this ebony case. You needn’t look over my letters Krc taking than out of their place; There'll be no need to prize them or spere them— I)r, fruits of a faded desire ; Tou had much better take them and tear them, And toss them into the fire. Still, what I have written is written ; And here you will find it some day, When most of my words are lorgotten, And half of your bair is gray ; liut you needn’t think sadly of me, dear, Or lament that yon haven’t been tiue ; For 1 think you will probably see, dear, f j hat 1 shall have changed then, too ! —London World. Mark Twain Apologizes for Not Making a Speech. Mark Twain was recently at a dinner of the Stanley Club in Pnrip, and bring called upon for a speech, is thus reported by the Continental G zette: Mr. Ryan said to me just now that I'd got to make a speech. 1 «aid to Mr Ryan, “The news came too late to save Roger McPher son.” It is sad to know that some things always come tod late, and when I look around upon this brilliant assemblage 1 feel disappointed to think what a nice speech I might have made, what fine topics I might have fonnd in Paris to speak about among these historic monuments, the architecture of Puris, the towers of N'otre Paine, the caves, and otbt-r ancient things. Then I might have said something about the objects of which Paris folks are fond—literature, art, medicine and lashions. But the news came ton late to save Roger McPherson! Per haps yon are not as well acquainted with McPherson as I am? Well, I'll expla.n who McPherson was. When we sailed trom New York there came on board a man all haggard—a mere ekeletou. He wasn’t much el a man, he wasn’t, and on the voyage we often heard him say to hltnseif, ‘ The news came too late to save Roger McPherson.” 1 got interested, and I wanted to know about the man, so I asked him who was McPher son, and he said, “I'm McPherson ; but the news came too late to save Roger McPher son.” "How too late ?" I naked. "About three weeks too Inte,” he replied “I’ll tell you how it happened : A friend ol min* died, and they told me I must take his body on the cars to his parents in Illinois. I said I'd do it, nnd they gave me a card with the address, and told me to go down to the depot and put it on a box I’d find there, have ti e box \ ut on the baggage car.und go right along with it to Illihors. I found the box all right, and nailed the curd on it, and put It on the cars; then 1 went into the depot and got a sandwich. I was walking around, eating my sandwich, and 1 passed by the baggage room, and there was my box, With a young man tyalking around, looking at it, Bnd he h«3 a card in his bund. 1 felt like going up to that young man and saying. ‘Stranger, that's my corpse.’ But 1 didn’t. 1 walked on, ntc my sandwich, and when I look* d in again the young man was gone ; but there was that card nailed right on that box. 1 went and looked on that card. It was directed to Col Jenkins, Cleveland, Ohio. So I looked in the cor, and there was my box all right. Just before the train started a man came iuto the baggage car and laid a lot of limberger cheese down on my box ; he didn’t know what was in my box. you know, and I didn’t know what was in his paper, but I fonnd later. It was an awfnl cold night, and after we started the baggage master came in. He was a Dice tellow, Johnson was, and said, ‘A nion will freeze to death out there ; I’ll warm up this stove.’ So he shut all the doors md ull (be windows, and built a rousing coal fire in the stove. Then he took turns fixing the car and poking the fire, till 1 began to smell something and feel uncomfortable, so I moved as far away from the corpse as I could, and Johnson says to me, ‘A friend of yours? Did he die lately—this year, 1 mean.’ Bays I, ‘l'll fix it;’ so I opened a window, and we took turns breathing the fresh air. After a while Johnson said, ‘Let’s smoke ; I think that’ll fix it.’ So we lit our cigars and pufied a bit, but we gat so sick that we let them go out again—it didn’t do any good. We trie! the air again. Sat s Johnson, ‘He’s io no trance, is he ? There’* doubt about some people being dead, but there’s no doubt about him, is there? What did be die of?’ We stopped at a station, and when we star ted off again Johnson came in with a bottle ol disinfector, and says, ‘l've got something tbat’ll fix it’ So he sprinkled it all around, over the box, the limberger, and over every thing ; but it wouldn’t do—the smells didn’t mix well. Johnson said, 'Just think of it. We’ve all got to die—all got to come to this.’ Then we thought we’d movp the box to one end of the car; so we stooped over it ; I took ODe end of it and he took the other, but we couldn't get it far. Johnsoo says, •We'll freeze to death if we stay out on the platform ; we’ii die if we stay in here.’ So we took bold of it again ; but Johnsoo be couldn’t stand it; he fall right over. I dragged him out on the platform, and the cold air soon brought him to, and we went io the car to gel warm. ‘What are we go ing to do?’ asked Johnson, and in* looked ill. ,We arp sure to have typhoid fever and half a dozen other fevers. We’re pizened, we are 1’ At Inst we thought it was better to go out on the platform. In an hour and n half I was taken ofl that platform stiff, nearly frozen to death. They put me to bed, andt had all them fevers Johnson spoke about. Yon see the thing worked on my mind. It -didn’t do me no good to learn, three weeks sfter. that there had been a mistake—that my corpse had gone to Col. Jenkins, Cleve land, and that I’d taken his hox of rifles for decent burial to Illinois. The news came too late to save Roger McPherson—about ihree weeks too late.” Amid roars of applause, Mr. Twain closed by saying. ‘‘When I’m not prepared to speak, I always upologize, and that’s the reason I’ve told yoa so much about Roger McPhersor. ” Indian and African. The white people i f Oregon and Wash ington, pnd indeed of all the Indian country, regard the Indian a-> fair gamt. If green backs are wanted, we have it upon official authority that the Indians are provoked. War brings purchases nnd disbursements. A few people are scalped, hut it is livelier for those who are left Land is wanted for set tlement and the Indian is driven hack, war results, and the wicked Indian is sent some where to starve, or sent to the happy hunt ing grounds to seek redress from Gitche Manitou All is done by emigrants from the civilized North, and yet no outcry is made by Ike politicians. There is no great popular movement led by Conk Ing and Blaine—no effort to arouse the people to put down these barbarities. All that is ri nged to have oceuned in the South palps before the facts which are known to exist in the West. Tho oppression of the Indian by the settler is a chapter of unexampled black ness when wa consider the vaunted civiliza tion of those who engage in it and those who look in silent approval and applaud the growth of States and watch with compla cency the new political power implied in new Htutes. The political reasons are against the Indian. He has no friends except'amongst the Quakers, who are out of tune with the times. The Indian has no vote, and lie would he of no political account if he had. New Republican States in the West are fur more desirable. The negro is of more account. The po litical motive leads to his exaltation. We confess to a preference for the negro over the Indian lie libr more orthodox notions con cerning sculps If he were not n political football he would be a useful citizen. The con'rast of these two races shows the hypo crisy of (lie entire outcry about the negro and bis rights and his persecutions and his exodus Irom the so called land of bondage. So long as he is a football in politics no doubt his condition is unenviable. So long as he permits one party to hoist him io the air as a means of winning the game, the other will be very likely to kick him back. It the negro will perceive the hypocrisy ol this pretended friendship, the absurdity of his position, and amlertake, without tieing himself to any party, to seek his own ad vancement wherever he can find it, he will become vastly more important, nnd his sit uation more pleasant. Ho is depriving him self of tho advantages of active competition. If the Northern people w , ill look nt these two eases and perceive the hollow hypocrisy of the politicians who are allowing the des truction of the Indian for political ends on one side and piofessing a sympathy which is not felt, for political ends on the other, and rebuke the hypocrisy, they will the more spc'dilv restore prospeiity, good government, law and order. The rolling of the waves of progress Westward will never stop ; superior intelli gence and power will rule over the poor devil of a savage, sentimentalize ns we will. Equally superior intelligence, property nnd moral superiority will rule in the South soon or late.— Nashville American. Svkxt Sckntb —Perfumes were used in the early times of ilia Chinese empire, when fine ladies had a Imhit of robbing in their hands a small ball mode of a mixture of amber, rnnsk nnd sweet-scented flowers. The Jews, who were nl"0 devoted to sweet scents, used them in their sacrifices, nnd also to annoint themselves bclore their reposts. Tfae Scythian ladies went n step farther, and after pounding on a stone cedar, cypress and incense, made np the ingicdients thus ob tained into a thick paste, with which they sme'm-ed their faces and limbs. This com position emitted fora Tong time n pleasing odor, and on the following day g«ve to the skin a soft and shining appearance. The Greeks carried sachets of scent in their dresses, und filled their dining-rooms with lames and incense. Even their wines were Often impregnated with decoctions of flowers or sweet-scented flowers themselves, such as roses and violets. The luxurious Athenians resorted to effeminate refinements of luxury, annointing pigeons with a liquid perlume and cansing them to fiv loose about the rooms, scattering the drops from Ihe leathers over the heads and garments of those who were feast ing beneath. A tkachkr in one of the public schools was startled the other day at the answer she got from one bright little fellow. On tue blackboard was the picture of nn ostrich, and the teacher described its great strength and power of endurance, closing by saying it was the only bird upon which a man could ride. "I know another,” spoke up a little chap. "Well, what is it?’’ “A lark.” Unexpectedly the teacher asked, "How can you prove that. Johnny?” “All I know about it,” said tbc little boy, "is that mother every little while says father’s oft on a lark, and when he comes borne he looks as if he had rode nwful fast.” E C. Stkdmax sings, in Scribner, “Why should 1 fear to sip the sweets of. each led lip?” Why? Because, Mr. Stedman. yon have a conviction that the gloomy-looking old gentleman in the background, with blond in his eye and a cane like the angel of death in bis hand, will make a poultice of yen, if you do any such sampling while he is iu reach.— Hawkeyt. An unmarried lady on the wintry side of fifty hearing of the marriage of a young lady, her friend, observed wiib a deep senti mental. sigh : “Well. I suppose it is wbat we all must cotne to.” Ik tbc characters of all our young men stood as uigh as their shirt collars, the com munity would present a better aspect than it doss. NEW HEM! Copartnership Notice. In AVK this dav sold a half interest in my business to (y. F. Turner, and the eume and style ol the firm will he known in future as Harper -fe Turner. R. T. HARPER. January 9th, 1879. We respectfully solicit a share of the pub lic patronage, believing we can show as fine and well assorted stock of goods as will oe found anywhere. Our stock of DRY GOODS Is complete in every particular, and include" a fine assortment of Ladies’ Dress Goods. Linens, Bleaehings, Domestics, and Fancy Notions of all kinds. ClotHing ! A new and elegant lot of Clothing, o r every style and quality. Gents’ Underwear a spe cialty. HATS AND CAPS To suit the tustes of the musses, and at prices that will meet the requirements ef the trade. BOOTS AND SHOES! Our stock of Boots and Shoes, having been bought at a bargain in the Northern mar kets, we can afford to sell aheap, and are pre pared to offer extra iudueements to the trade. Furniture! Wo have also a larjre lot of Furniture—Bed steads, Bureaux, VVashstanda, Wardrobes, Tables, Chairs,/ etc —which we will sell at extremely low figures. Bedroom setts & specialty. GROCERIES. Special attention is called to our stock ol Groceries, which is quite large, and com prises every article kept in that line. Our stock is being constantly replenished with Goods that are carefully selected by ex perienced buyers, and arc bought for cash from first hands, thereby enabling us to sell to advantage—both to oorselves and customers Withal! these facilities we are prepared toex bibit at all times a complete general stock, and parlies wishing to buy can always bod some specialties at very low prices at our store. Give us a call. Harper & Turner. ■ Tljis important organ weighs but about three pounds, and all the blood in a. living person (about ■ three gallons; passes through it at ler.st once every ™ half hour, to nave the bile and other impurities m strained or filtered from it. Bile is the natural W purgative of the bowels, and if the Liver becomes torpid it is not separated from the blood, but car ried through the veins to all parts of the system, and iu trying to escape through the ports of the skin, causes it to turn yellow or a dirty brown color. The stomach becomes diseased, and Dys b pepsia, Indigestion, Constipation! Headache, Bi’i ousness, Jaundice, Chills, Malarial Fevers. Piles. TO Sick and Sour Stomach, and general debility fol low. Mrfrbll's Hepatinr, the great vegetable {*4 discovery for torpidity, causes the Liver >o throw . . off from one to two ounces of bile each time the H blood passes through it, as long as there is an ex- Wcess ©t bile; and the effect ©1 even a few closes upon yellow complexion or a brown dirty looking skin, will astonish all who try it—they being the I first symptoms to disappear. The cure of all bili ous diseases and Liver complaint is made certain by taking Hbpattnk in accordance with directions. Headache is generally cured in twenty minutes, and no disease that arises from the Liver can exist if a fair trial is given. SOLD AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR PILLS BY ALL DRUGGISTS. Pries 25 Cents and SI,OO 'LUNGS P* The fatality of Consumption or Throat and Ag Lung Diseases, which sweep to the grave at least P one-third of all death’s victims, arises from the M Opium or Morphine treatment, which simply stil ly pefies as the work of death goes on. SIO,OOO will be paid if Opium or Morphine, or any preparation of Opium, Morphine or Prussic Acid, can be found H in the Globs Flower Cough Syrup, which has M cured people who are living to-day with but one Fj remaining lung. No greater wrong can be done g than to say that Consumption is incurable. The r Globb Flower Cough Syrup will cure it when Q all other means have foiled. Also, Colds, Cough, 2 Asthma, Bronchitis, and all diseases of the throat and lungs. Read the testimonials of the Hon. p!4 Alexander H. Stephens, Gov. Smith and Ex-Gov. Brown of Ga., Hon. Geo. Peabody, as well as S those of other remarkable cures in our book-free to all at the drug stores —and be convinced that if you wish to be cured you can be by taking the S Globb Flower Cough Syrup. Take no Troches or Lozenges for Sore ThroAt, when you can get Globe Flower Syrup at same price. For sale by all Druggists | 'Price 25 Cents and SI.OO J! Grave mistakes are made in the treatment of all diseases that arise from poison in the blood. Not 'one case of Scrofula, Syphilis, White Swelling, . I Ulcerous Sores and Skin Disease, in a thousand, U » s treated without the use of Mercury in some form. . , Mercury rots the bones, and the diseases it pro |E| duces are worse than any other kind of blood or skin disease can be • Dr. Pemberton’sStii lim- gia or Queen’s Delight is the only medicine 5*4 upon which a hope of recovery from Scrofula, Sy « pnilis and Mercurial diseases in all stages, can be W reasonably founded, and that will cure Cancer. M ,000 will be paid by the proprietors if Mercury, r m or any ingredient not purely vegetable and harm- EH less can be found in it. r£\ Price by all Druggists .00. Globe Flower Cough Syrup and Merrill’? I Hepatinr por the Liver for sale by all Drug gists in 25 cent and SI.OO bottles. A. F. M3EBELL h CO,, Proprietors ~ PHILADELPHIA, PA. DR. RICE, 37 Court Place, LOUISVILLE, KV., A mn»lsrlv educated and legally qualified phvrtcian and tbs moat successful, as his practice will prove. Cures all forma ©* private, chrouio and sexual diseases, J§pf»rmatOT— rhea and Impoteney. result of seif atuseln vouth, sexual *exaes.ses In maturer years, or other causes, and producing sorno 0 fthe following effects. Net vous- Bess. Seminal Emissions, Pimnc#s of Sight. Defective Mem ory. Physical Dccav.PimplPS on Face, Aversion to Society of Females, Confusion of Idea*, Loss of Sexua 1 Power, &c., re dering marriage iropropor or unhappy, are thoroughly and permanently cured. §YJ» lIiXS eu red and entirely eradicated “mm the system; GON« GRRHEA, Gleet, Stricture, pile"and other pri vate diseases quickly cured. Patients treated by mail ore** pros. Consultation fr«e and invited, charges reasonably and correspondence strictly confidential. A PRIVATE COUNSELOR Of 500 pages, sent to any address, securely sealed, for thlrtf (JO) cents. Should be rend by ail. Address as abery UQice hours from 9A. il. to IP. M. Sundays, Jto4P. Ma iiMHiIDB. BUTTS csia tfaiial’T No. I 2 R. Eighth St. KK—gJlL«siL_9ul St. Louis, Mo. Who has had greater experience in the treatment of the sexual troubles of both male and female than any physician in the West, gives tlu; r««»u ts of his long and successful practice in his two new works, just published, entitled The PHYSIOLOGY OF MARRIAGE The PRIVATE MEDICAL ADVISER Books that nre reallv Guide* and SelMmtraetors in ail mat ters pertaining to Xunfcood and Womanhood, and supply want long felt. They are beautifully tllnstrairil, and in plain language, easily understood. The two books embrace 445 pqgtou and contain valuable Information for both married and single, with all the receu (improvements ia medical treatment Read what our home papers ss v: “The knowledge imparted in Dr. Hulls' new works is in no way ©f questionable cliar sefer, but is something lint every ooe anonld know The lon Ik, the victim of early indiscretion; the Ulan, otherwise perfectly healfhv maybe, but with waning vigor in the prime of life, and the Honan, in miseia H from the many ills her sex is befrN A\|4J £3 SI to-”—St. Louis Journal. Ky Ik I Q M POPULAR PitlC’ltS —6O ets. each ATJ f kft" both in one volume, $1 ; in cloth ami V lll T|bjTVjr 1 gilt, HA etc extra. Sent under seal, oijS Igd TNw r jfesg receipt of price in money of stamps. M w —'g Jg .BURNHAM'S WMWWWTEQ SEST CHEAPEST. ■%jCSjB.-Pricn rcduct'd. Pamphlet free. I MILLING SUPPLIES. Works: Christiana, Lancaster county, Pa. Office : 23 S. Beaver st., York, Pa. n 29 ly CMOKP ■ BLACKWELL’S 111 M DURHAM mm TOBACCO PRESCRIPTION FREE I For tli<■ speedv OuH» of Meminal eakneos. Lost Manhood and' all disorders brought on by indis cretion or excess. Any Druggist hits the Ingre dients. Dr. W. J MJI KN A I 0.. -No. 130 West Sixth Street, t lneimmti. ©. bx mp ■ a m and Xorphine hahlt eared. f|pll ■La? i |L K.JI Opium Eating, to WB- Squire, xjw ■ ■WI fl WurtMufUn, Greene Co., lad. Watehr-S JS tn S 7 Rreolerre—j—engC-- $2.50. Over 100 latest Novelties X7.W Agte wa:,w4. So. Supply Co .NeihviUe.Tenn."W si Ucan make money faster at work for us than at anything else. Capital not re quired ; we will start you. sl2 per day at home made by the industrious. Men ,wo men, boys and girls wanted everywhere to work for us. Now is the time. Costly out fit and terms free. Address Tsck & Co., Augusta, Maine. DUOTI business you can engage io. DJLikjl. to £2O per day made by any wmker ol either sex, right iu their own lo calities. Particulars and samples worth S 5 free. Improve your spare time at this busi ness. Address sstinsow & Co., Portland, Maine. GulieU’s Improved Cotton Gin. Planters are rcspeclfnlly invited to ex amine this Gin before bnying I will beep sample Gin, with Feeder, Condenser and Gullett’a Double Revolting Cotton Press (dispensing with a lint room,) always on hand for exhibition. We guarantee the most per feet satisfaction to purchasers, in every par ticular. Ti e price will be reduced next sea son from *4 to 83 50 per sow on the Gins, and from 81 25 to 81 on the Feedeis. 1 refer all to the accompanying certificates of oar cotton buyers and planters of last year, and to Ihe ceriifientes of well known planters who are using Gullett’s Gins, as to the extra prices obtained tor cotton •.’inner) on them. J A. BEKKS, Agent. Griffin, Ga., March 10, 1879. Griffth, G a , Match 1. 1879. We, the undersigned, are using the Gullett Improved Lght Draft Cotton Gin The Gin is of superior workmanship For fast ginning, safety in running and light draft (’o do the same work,) we think it has no eqnal; bat the most imports,)l feature is the attach iner t for opening and improving the sample. The best cotton is improved by it so as to bring from % »o % cent, and stained and dirty cotton from % to 1 cent per lb. more in the Griffin market than on other Gi.s (Signed) W J Bridges,!' W Mauley, J’! Manley. Griffin. Ga , M«v 17 1878. To J A Beefo, Agent for the Gullett Gin Man’f'g Co. Griffin' Ga:—At your re quest, we, planters and dealers in cotton, pi'< 1 1 the public onr opinion of your Qrn. We take pleasure in saying to all in rued of new Gins that it is now a well established fact that, cotton ginned on these G ns brings a higher price in our markpt than any other, and »ljp Gins are growing in public favor. Cotton ginned on them sold last season at from % to 1 cent per pound above the mar» ket price. Mr. Gullett’s attaenment for im proving the sample of cotton, we are satisfied, is what he claims for it. The Gin appears to have reached perfection in gin machinery. (Signed) A C Sorrel, T J Brooks, R P McWilliams. S B McWilliams, D W Pat terson. R 11 Sims T J Bloodworth. I am also agent lor the celebrated Eclipse Portable Engine manufactured by Frick & Co, for the counties of Butts. Spalding Fayetie and Clayton. J. A. KEEKS. mai2B;3m THE NEW DAVIS Sewing Machine Is now generally conceded to be the best in use. Bnd thousands have been sold to delight ed purchasers all over the country. It has a vertical feed, runs at a high rate of speed, which, combined with its peculiar feed, enables the operator to turn the work at any angle while the machine is in full motion, without clmngirg the tension or length of stitch, consequently it can easily do in a given time one-third more work than any rotary or four motion feed. It excels in hemming, Idling, tucking, braiding, cording, binding, quilting, raffling, etc , and for all ol which it has attachments especially adapted. It uses a shuttle which holds a large amount of thread, and which gives an even tension in the most simple mnnr.tr. For sale by G. W. Ilemlemn. Hampton , Ga , April 19-ly k|oi» %s.\y - «s^Mt OFFICE N? 137 : W;4\ M ..ST>': I - CINCINNATI, O.i L.C; N EBI N-GER, Manager __ Jfc£' Jb’ur bale by (jr. frj. V\ me, 1 * . ? o♦», Ga. pep] 3-1 y. Furniture. S. S. Middleton, HAMPTON , 6M., Has on band a large and assorted stock of FURNITURE, Bureaus, Bedsteads, Cbairs, Secretaries, Wardrobes, Cupboards, And is prepared to manufacture to order anything you need to furnish your bouse Upholstering and Cabinet work done in the latest style and with dispatch, ggk- Coffins alwavs on band. week in yoar own town. 85 out JpuUSt free. No risk. Reader, if you want a business at which persons of either sex caD make great pay all the time they work, write for particulars to H. Haixictt k Co . Portland, Maine Sscbscribr for Tux VVekklt—§l 60 per annum. Reduced to 11.50! TUB HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY. 4 PUBLISHED HVDET FKIDAT AT Hampton, Henry County, Ga. A DEMOCRATIC PAPER, SOUND IN PRINCIPLE AND UN SWERVING FROM PARTY LINEt Confident thn* Democratic supremacy can on'y he maintained in the State bvs'rict adherence to the cardinal principles of Dem ocracy, and unfailing courage in their sup port, THE WEEKLY will never oe found remiss in its doty, either by departing in the slightest degree from Democratic doctrines, or failing to maintain them to their full »x --'ent at all times Believing it also to be a fair assumption ili >t a large proportion of the readers of weekly new'p'ipi rs see no other, epecia l •i ons win lie *akn *0 present each week ■ hi.ngli necessarily In : # condensed form, ALL THE NEWS. OF EVERY KIND, AND FROM EVERY QUARTER/ SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Oue year .81 5G Six mouths 76 Three months.. 4 M