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VOL. 111. Advertising Kates. One square, first insertion $ 75 Each subsequent insertion 50 One square three months 5 00 One square six months 10 00 One 3quure twelve months 15 00 Quarter column twelve months... 30 00 Half column six months... 40 00 Half column twelve months 60 00 One column twelve months 100 00 fteg-'l Vn lines or less considered a sqtiarp. All fractions of squares are counted as full squares, newspaper nzcisiONa. 1. Any person who takes a paper regu larly 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 a person orders his paper discontin ued, be must pay all arrearages, or the pub lisher may continue to send it until payment is made, and collect the whole amount, vhether the paper Is taken from the office or n >t. 3. 'The courts Lave decided that refusing to take newspapers and periodicals from the postoffice, or removinc and leaving them un called for, is pnma facie evidence of inten t'onal fraud. TOWN DIRECTORY. Mayor—Thomus (4. Barnett. % Commissioners—VV. W. I’nrnipseed, J. S. Wyatt, E. G. Harris, E. R. James. Clerk—E. <l. Harris. Treasurer— W. M. Shell. Marshals—S. A. Belding, Marshal. J. W. Johnson,Deputy. JUDICIARY. Ji. M. Speer, - Judge. F. D. Dismi kk, - - Solicitor General. Butts —Second Mondays in March and September. Henry—2'hir,' Mondays in April and Oc tober. Monroe—Fourth Mondays in February, and August. Newton—Thin! Mondays in March and September. Dike—Second Mondays in April and Octo ber. Rockdale Monday after fourth Mondays in March nnd September Spalding—First Mondays in February and August. Upson First Mondays in May and No vember. CHURCH DIRECTORY. Methodist Episcopal, Church, (South.) Rev. Wesley F. Smith, Pastor. Fourth Sabbath in each month Sunday-school 3 p. x. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening. M stmodist Protestant Church. First Sabbath in>ucb month. Sunday-school 9 A. M. Christian Church, W S. Fears, Pastor. Second Sabbath in each month. Baptist Church, Rev. J. P. Lyon, Pas toi. Third Sabbath in each month. CIVIC SOCIETIES. Pink Grovk Lodge, No. J 77, F. A. M Stated communications, lourth Saturday in each month. DOCTORS. J\R. J. C. TURNIPSEED will attend to A* all calls day or night. Office t resi dence, Hampton, Ga. liR. W. H 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. 'l'. BARNETT tenders his profes sional services to thp citizens of Henry and adjoining comities, and will answer calls day or night. Treats all diseases, of what ever nature. Office at Nipper’s Drug Stote, Hampton, Ga. Night calls can be made at my residence, opposite Berea church. »pr 26 I" F PONDER, Dentist, has located in ” • Hampton. Ga., and invites the public to call at his room, upstairs in the Bivins House, where he will be found at all hours. W arrants all work for twelve months. 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. r p C. NOLAN Attorney at Law, Mc- J- • Donongh, Georgia. Will practice in the counties composing the Flint Circuit; the Supreme Court of Georgia, and the Uuited States District Court. W.M. T. DICK.EN, Attorney at Law, Lo cust Grove, Georgia, (Henry county.) Will practice in the counties composing the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supierae Court of Georgia, and the United States District Court. apr27-ly GEO. M NOLAN, Attorney at Law, .McDonough, Ga. (Office in Court house ) V\ ill practice in Henry and adjoining coun ties, and in the Supreme and District Courts of Georgia. Prompt attention given to col lections. mcb23-6m JF. WALL, Attorney at Law. //amp . 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 Street, opposite the Railroad depot, Hampton, Georgia. Special attention given to commercial and other collections, and cases in Bankruptcy. BF. McCOLLUM, Attorney and Coun * sellor at L.w, Hamptoo, Ga. Will practice in Henry, Clayton, Fayette, Coweta, P.ke, Meriwether, Spalding and Butts Snpe rior Courts, and in the Supreme and United States Coarts. Collecting claims a specialty. Office uo stairs io the Mclntosh Building. OU T OF THE GLOOM. The day was dull ami dark and sad ;■ I sat beside my desk aijne ; All verdure was in sombre clad ; The birds to some retreat bad (town. The threatening clouds hung dark and low, And winds with angry, sullen sound, Shook window-pane, while flakes of snow In silence fell upon the ground. Forbidding all things seemed to be— No sign of cheer in all the land; The forest moaned, and e’en the sea Rolled angry waves against the strand. I caught the strange contagion, too, Ami sat in silent, sullen mood, Debating in my mind if true That ‘ evtry work of God is good.” ’Twas thus all gloom, when, quick as thought, The sunlight flushed o'er land and sea; The birds the tiee tops quickly sought, And filltd the air with melody. I looked nhroud—how changed the scene— No gloom in all the landscape o’er; A 1 nature wore a smile serene, And waves made music on the shore. If thus, thought I, one simple ray . Of sunlight, sent athwart the gloom, Can drive all sadness quite away And make earth like a garden bloom, What must ourfieight of rapture be When passed is earth, and we, at home On those celestial plains, shall see The dazzling radiance of God’s throne Leadville. Leadville, the city of carbonates, is a giant wonder. A year ago last August, it was un old, desertid mining camp with not more than 50 people. In 1859, as an outgrowth of the Pike’s Peak excitement, the placer mines of California Gulch, Stray Hotae Gulch and lowa Gulch were discovered. Front 1860 to 1863 sl3 000 000 were taken lionn these mioes, and the population of tie mining camp reached 10,000 During this time it was one of the roughest and wildest mining camps ever known. They mined only for gold, and the carbonates, which have since become so valuable, were then only dirt and greatly in the way, getting into their sluice boxes and making a vast amount of trouble. They piled them up anywhere to get them out of the way. In 1864 the placer mines were practically abandoned, and, ultbough since worked at intervals to some extent, they have eaused no great ex citement. Last year they yielded about $70,000 in gold, and can only be worked during tbe warm weather of the summer. W. 11. Stephens, who was an old miner during the gold excitement, knew that these carbonates were there, but, like tbe other miners, he considered them of r.o value. About two years ago he conceived the idea that they contained rich silver ore, and with his partner, Mr. Wood, began prospecting and locating the mines. But without money, or credit, or influence, it was hard work, nnd the developments hastened very slowly. Everybody laughed at him, and report says that for a long time he was unable to pay the hands he employed to help open the oiines. Now that he has become one of the leading mine-owners, very wealthy, more than a millionaire, with untold millions yet unknown, he is naturally somewhat reticent about recounting the history of his former trials. Some .gne undertook to interview him. and asked him how it was that he came to discover such a rich mining district und the value of these ores. His answer was as laconic as it was non-responsive. He re plied : ‘‘When I was hunting for it, every body called me a d d old fool ; and now, since I have found it, and struck it rich, they call me a d d old hog.” Among others he located and partly opened tbe since famous iron mine. But it finally took Chicago capital and Chicago enterprise to develop Leadville, and but veiy little was done until after Mr. L Z loiter bought out Mr. Wood’s intciest for $40,000. From that time new life possessed the mining camp. Everybody seemed to think that it so sagacious and prudent a business man as Mr. Leiter, of Chicago, would at once invest $40,000 in tbe mining interest, there must be millions in it. And so it proved Mines were rapidly located, rapidly developed and as rapidly sold. The Gallagher brothers, two extraordi narily poor and illiterate Irish boys, went up ou tbe bill, sunk down a shaft, struck min eral, named it Camp Bird mine, and in Jan uary, 1878. sold out for $250,000. Lieu tenant-Governor Tabor, of Colorado, fur nished a “grub stake” of S6O to George S. Hook and August Ritchie, two miners who were strictly poor, and started them off to prospect the Dew mining district, each to HAMPTON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1879. soon opened the Little Pittsburgh, striking the mineral at the depth of twenty-six feet. In a short lime Mr. Tabor bought out Hook's one-third for $90,000. paying for it out of the proceeds of the mine, without advancing u dollar, and subsequently he bought out Ritchie’s interest for $265,000, paying for it in the same way. "Chicken Bill,” a well known lad of the mining camp, thought he would try his luck. So he went up on the kill, just below the Little Pittsburgh, and sunk down a shaft twenty feet deep, but being constitutionally opposed to work of that kind, and not strik ing it rich in that distance, he threw it -up and abandoned the whole thing as a humbug. Some lii-h boys, Pat and Dick Dillon, who had more pluck but less money than “Chicken Bill,” pitched into the bole he had l*lt, went down thirty feet further and developed an immensely rich mine, named it the Little Chief, sold out for a good round sum. invest ed their money in United States fonr per cpnt bonds, and live at ease on the semi annual coupons. In August, 1877, some twenty shanties comprised the whole town of leadville In June, 1878, it hud a pop ulation of only 400. In October, 1878, it numbered 6,000, and now it has a popula tion of 12.000 to 15,000, wiih an additional daily floating population of from 1 000 to 3,000, and “tender heels,” or “tender feet," as they are called, (new comers.) flocking in at the rate of 300 to 500 a day, and seven days in the week, for in a business point of view, and for traveling. Sunday is considered just as good as any other day and no better It is true that in Leadville there are churches and church services, and Sunday schools, and those who desire “rtcreation” of that kind have it, but those wtio wish to gamble and traffic and trade nnd work on Sunday, do so witliout'let or hindrance. Business is the one important thing in h mining camp, and anything other or less than that is looked upon as a mere pastime or recreation. Indeed it has been but a short time since the business houses, the s ores, the saloons, the gamtiling hells aed •‘feeding” places were kept open and running bn-ily all night, never closing or shutting up from one month's end to another. They thought they could not do otherwise. But now they have adopted a new order closing regularly nights, and have settled down to that new way with all the diguity of an older city. Latrnt Forces. A Kansas mule, ot the brindle denomina tion. was standing in a pasture field, backed np uncomfoi tably ciose to a mild-ey d Texas steer. The mole was not feeling in a very good humor. He had lost his railroad ticket, or had a note to lift, or somebody had k'cked his dog or something. Anyhow, he was cross, and feeling just ready to do something mean the first chance he got. By-and-by a careless swish of the Texan’s tale gave him the longed-for provocation, and before the mule got his heels back to the ground, the I’exan thought somebody had shot him with a double-barrelled cannon. And then the steer slowly turned his head, and opened wide his clear, pensive eyes, and without swearing or catching his breath or saying a word, he lifted one of his hind legs about eight feet from the ground und tapped the astonished mule with his cloven hoof, rigid where he lived. And the mule curled up in a knot and gasped, ‘ Oh, bleeding beirt!" And then he leaned np against a tree to catch his breath, and sat down on the ground and opened his mouth to get air, and finally he laid down and held his legs up in t!>e air and said, in a husky whisper, that if heeou'd only die and be over with it, be would be glad. But he got over it a little alter a while, and as he was limping sadly toward the lence, tiving to think just how it hap pened, and wondeiing just where he was hit, be met his mother, who noticed his rueful countenance and his painful locomotion. “Well,” she said, “and what’s the matter with you ?” “Nothing,” the mule said faintly. “Oh, nothing I have just kicked a book agent.” “Heaven save us,” said his mother with derisive accent, “I tbnnglit you bail more aense.”— Burlington Ilaukeije. “You bachelors ought to be taxed,” said a young lady to a resolute evader of the noose matrimonial. “I agree with yoa ma’am,” wag the reply, “for bachelorism certainly is a luxary.” An exchange says a wife will hardly ever notice whether her husband has had his hair cut or not, bat let him go home with a strange hair-pin in his over-coat and she’ll see it before be reaches tbe gate. A competent authority says you must lie with yocr feet to the equator. Eli Perkins and G. Alfred Townsend will please take Little Jolintiy'’B Contribution. Once there was a opery man with hired fokes fer to sing. He was a goin thru the woods and a lion came along and luked at him, and wipped itself with its tail, and stickid its main up, and opened its mowtli, and roared friiefle, yu never seen seeh beller in ! The opery man he sed : "That’s ol rite, consider yure self engaged for the Iff ■' mi at ynre own terms, hut I got to be cxca«cd now, cos seventeen barry tones is waiting for me to here theirn.” And the opery man he walked a wav mity li f ely, I'ke he was trade the harry tone j wud bust their- Sfrlfs a boldin in the sing fore lie cude git there. One time Franky was a snekin the end of a nx handle wicli had been sawd off, and Uncle Ned he see him a sucking it, and lie holleffd to me : “Run quick, Johnny, and pull it out, it’s too late to save the ax, but the handle will do for to rebuke Muse with, which is the cat, und exhort Bildad, that’s the new dog, to.lead a better life." Another time Franky was left asleep sick and father he went in the rume for to luke at him, and wen lie cum out mother she ast: 'Mias he got sech a hot fever like he had?” Then father lie sed : "No, not quite, but guess lie will have agin purty soon, cos he is nsin the fire poker mity vigerously in his inside." And wen mother she went fer to ace, Franky was a suckin the black end, but lickerish is the stuff for me wer. it comes to suekm sumthing. Once a man who lived in the woods wuh euttin down trees, and he hud so many chit— dieii that Ins wife cndiuit mind ’em all nt home, so he take the baby with him a«d laid it on a stump wile no workt. The baby was red-heded, nnd the wood-peeked there is red-lieded, too, and one wa ra w ttin on a iim. Pretty soon the to eri, ar.d wen the wood-pecker see its mou'h open and he d it u crine it tliot to itself, poor thing, were is ynre ole birds, you must tie nffle hungry ; He see if 1 can do anything for you ; and wen the mnn came up to the baby to say, gitehy, hitchy, giteby, he see the wood pecker drop a long red worm in tbe buly’s mowlb and fly back to tbe lim. Then the man pullid nut the worm and lnokt at the wood-pecker and sed, “My gtiod feller, if yu keep a bqrdin house here wot is your terms ?” Uncle Ned be says one time there was a king wich had a court fool, and one day wen the king was to his dinner, lie had a real nice ptidden, and the fool he sed : “May it please Yure Majesty, I have got a crime on my contience, und if yule make that wrascle, the Prime Minister, eat that pudden, He confess.” But the King swore a wicked oth.an l sed : “You got to eat it yure ownsef, you notty pizener!” So the fool was made eat it every little tiny bit np, and wen it was et, he patted hisself onto the stumack of his bully, and sed : “The royal suspicions was unfounded.” Then the king sed : “Wot was yure crime, then ?” And the fool lie sed : “A tieesinible ambition for to eat my master’s pudden my ownseft.” But you j.-et ot to see me and Billy cat a raisn pudden ! A man wicb had been put in the pen tenchery cos he stole a horse he got out and run away with his stripy close on. And one day wile he was a runnir. away he met a zebry. So the man he luked a wile aston ish, and then he sed : “How long was you put in for?” But the i.' bry it dident say enything, and after a wile the man be sed agin : “How did you git out?” Then the z. bry it dideot say nothiu a other time, so the man he said : “I have ben tole there is a place were they put fellers in the pfntcnchery wich steel borseg, but here I gess they put horses in wich are stole, and I hope it ain’t no offense for to say 1 think that’s jest the way it ot to be ” One time I been was a man had a cammle, and the cammle it was a show, and the man wich bad it be was a ridin it to a other town, and be met a other man wich wa9 pushn a wheel barro. Then the wheel barro man he was a s'.onish, aid he luked up to the feller onto the camml’s back, and he said : “I gess you wude be safer if you wude put a liteniu rod onto yure horse.” Then the cammle buck feller be sed : “Yes, and I ge.-s you wude ride more comftable if you put a scat in jure waggen.” Solomon was tbe fiisi man to suggest parting tbe heir in tbe middle. Tbe sugges tion was made to two women in a famous Burdette Among the Farmers. Bob Burdette, of the Burlington Hawk eye, paints this pretfr pastoral pictured It is Spring, ami die annual wnrfaie be gins. Early in the morning the jocund far mer hies him to tbe field, and hunts around in the dead weeds and grass for the plow he left out there somewhere some time last fall. When he finds it, he takes it to the shop to have it mended. When it is mended, he goes back into the field with it. Half way down the first furrow, he runs the plow (ably into a big live oak root ; the handles alter nately break a rib on this side of him, and jab the breath out of him on the other, and the sturdy root, looking up out of the ground with a pleased smile of recognition, says cheerfully ; “Ah, Mr. Thistlepod, at it again, eh ?” Fifty feet farther on he strikes a stone that doubles up the plow point like a piece of lead, and, while the amazed and breath less agriculturist leans, a limp heap of hu manity, across the plow, the relic of the glacial period remarks, sleepily : ‘‘Ah, ha ; spring here already ? Glad you woke me up.” And then the granger sits down and pa tiently tries to tie on that plow point with a hickory withe, and while he pursues this fruitless task the friendly crow swoops down Dear enough to ask : “Goin’ to put this patch in corn, this year, Mr. Thistlepod?” And, before he has time to answer the sable bird, a tiny grasshopper, wriggling out of a clod so full of eggs that they can’t be counted, shouts briskly : “Here we are again, Mr. Thistlepod; dinner for 580,000,000,000 1” . And then a slow-moving, but vpry posi tive, potato bug crawls out into tbe sunlight to sec if the frost Ims faded his stripes, and says : “The old-fashioned peachblow potatoes are the best for a sure crop, but the early rose should be planted for the first market." 'Then several new kinds of bugs who haven’t mole any record yet. climb over the fence, and comp up to inquire about the staple crops of the neighborhood, and, before he can get through with them, Prof. Tice sends him a circular Stating that there won’t be a drop of rain from the middle of May till the last of October. 'This almost stuns him, but he is beginning to feel a little re signed when a disputch is received from the Department of Agriculture at Washington, saying that all indications j oint to a summer •of unprecedented, almost incessant and long continued rains and floods, and advising him to plant no root crops at all. While he is trying to find words to express his emotion, a neighbor drops in to tell him that all the peach trees in the country are winter-killed, and that the hog cholera is raging fiercely in the northern part of the township. Then his wife comes out to tell him the dog has fallen into the well, and when the poor man gets to the door-yard Ins children, with much shout ing and excitement, meet him and tell him there are a couple of eats, of the pole de nomination, in the spring- house, and another nndei the barn. With tears am) grouns he returns to the field, but by that time it has begun to snow so hard lie can’t see the horses when he stands at the plow. He is discouraged and starts for the home with his team, when he meets a man who bounces him for using a three-horse clevis he made him-elf, and wrings ten relnetanl dollars out of him for it. When he reaches the house the drive- well man is wailing for him, and while he is settling with him a chick-peddler comes in, nnd a lightning-rod man, screen'd by the storm, climbs up on the $lO smoke house and fasten- $65 worth of lightning rods on it, and before the poor farmer can get his gun half loaded the .bailiff comes in to tell him that he has been drawn on tbe j° ry ' An Embarrassing Girt.—A Methodist minister in Michigan is undergoing great exercise of mind in % regard to some barrels of beer which have come into his possession ia a remaikable way, and which he would like to get rid of. Some time ago he went to Cleveland aud asked a wealthy brewer in that city for a gilt to bis church. brewer,after some delay, responded bv send ing several barrels oT beer The minister has no use for the beer. To sell it would hardly be in accordance with the rules and practices of the Methodist church. To give it to tbe poor would be unprofitable, besides tho parson says the poor have already bad enough beer. He wishes tbe brewer would take the ungodly stuff back aud give hint Ibe money lor it, tiut as yet tbe brewer has shown no disposition to do this. S-’hok dealer—"l find we have no No. 12 ehovs. but here is a pair of large nines.” I Customer—“ Nines 1 . Do you take me for The rifv of Quito. Except the plains of Central Asia, Ecuador is the Inchest table-1 ind upon the earth. Quito is 9 000 feet above the sea ; placed by the side of Boston or New York, it would seem as if lifted above the clouds. It is 2 000 feel higher thun the hospice of Pt. Bernard, the loftiest place in Europe. Its flowers are beautiful, and b'oorn all the yeur. No reptiles nor insect? disturb it* repose ; poisonous snake* are unknown ; even the mo-qnito never reaches these lofty regions But fur up above the clouds, in the midst o’ the finest climate, the rarest skies of untarnished brilliancy, one fatal ele ment is mingled with the scene to prove for ever the helplessness of mini; tbe ear'liqnake and the ever active volcanoes are the chief features of life in Ecuador. Above Quito rises the ceaseless smoke of its Piehincha, down whose horrible crater, ever threatening ruin to the nation, the Imveler looks with never-s ited awe.* “'There,” says Orton, “yoa see a frightful opening in the earth’3 crust nearly a mile in width und half a mile deep, and from the dark abyss comes rolling up a cloud of sulphurous vapors.” Twenty vol canoes of enormous size, presided over by Cotopaxi and Chimborazo, encircle the val ley of Quito, and brood like giants of destructions over the peaceful scene. Chim borazo is a monstrous dome, twice as high as ./Etna, covered with a crown of perpetual snow. Its great proportions are best seen from the Pacific, ns the voyager sails along the dangerous shore. Its sides are riven by deep valleys, compared to which the Alpine vales are shallow crevices or rifts. Around its magnificent dome of snow, where mortal foot has never trodden, only the wbite wingcd condor is seen floating in the trails parent air. Cotopaxi is an active volcano, sending out its perpetual smoke ; at night it seems crowned wjtli fire—a blazing torch on high ; sometimes it breaks out into fierce and terrible eruptions. These giant moun tains are all so huge and tall that -Etna and Vesuvius would wem pigmies at their side ; they encircle the fertile plains of Ecuador as if to hide its people in a happy vale. Its only peril is the earthquake. One Sunday morning in August, 1868, there was u slight tremor of the earth, a sadden shock, and within u single minute u whole province was laid in ruins. Cities, towns, houses and factories fell together. Atone town alone 6 000 persons perished Houses were thrown into the open air; a cotton factory—solo proof of progress—was dashed to pieces, and its proprietor killed. Huge chasms opened in the cultivated land ; the roads were broken up; torrents of mud ai d water flowed down the sides of the mountains, car rying away mules and cattle. Quito suffered slightly, but Otavalo was left a desert, and the wreck of the «reat earthquake has Dever been repaired.— Harper’s Weekly. Gutting Laser.— When you see a train about three hundred and twenty yards down the track, with the rear end of the train pointed toward the station, and you also sea a man on the platform with a valise in one hand and a ticket.in the other, waiving his burdened arms furiously, and encumbering the pure air with rude, ungrammatical, but evidently earnest expressions, you may de pend upon it that man and that train desire to effect a junction, no mit'er whether you can understand a word the man says or not. That is, the man wants to gut to the train pretty seriously. But the train does not appear to care very much about getting to* the maD. If it did it would reverse its motion. It is this cool, stolid, haughty in d (Terence of the train to ihe mao’s anguish and his agonized appeals that is so madden ing to the man. That is the gall of being left. You wouldn’t really mind being left so much, if the train went away from yon rather regretfully like. If it seemed to look back at you longingly, as you stand wildly gesticulating and howling on the platform ; if it seems to be tearing the fibers of its heart to go away from you, you might en dure it But to have it get up and dust.aS it always does—to turn its back right squarely in your face and go off coughing and barking down Ihe track just as com pletely ai d sublimely unconcerned about you us though you had no existence—this is what makes you rave. And this, also, is what pleases the rest of the people on the platform.— Dob BuriLttt. A littlk boy in HpnngfielJ, slter his cus tomary evening prayer a night or two ago, continued, '*and bless mamma and Jenny and Uucle Benny, ’ adding after a moment's pause the explanatory remark, ‘ his name is Hopkins. ” Do not kiss the baby unless yon want the diptheiia. N. B—Female babies at seven teen not dangerous. A NO. 46