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(The Ijcnrj! Ctmnlit UfeelJn, VOL. IV. Advertising Kates. Owe square. Gjpt imwWtas. Rash subsequent insertion..... ; 50 One square three months & 00 One square six months. ... 10 00 One square twelve months 15 00 Quarter column twelve months. .. 30 00 Half column six m0nth*.,.,. ... 44)00 Halt column twelve months GO 00 Oueeelwmu twelve months 100 00 MP*TVn tinea or lass considered a square. All fractions of squares are coaoted as full a quarts. NBWSrAPEE DECISION'S. 1. Any person who talers a paper rrgn 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 or lei s hi« papor discontin ued, he must pay all arrearages, or the pub lisher may continue to send it until payment is. made, and collect the whole amount, whether the paper Is taken from the office or not. 3. The courts l.ave decided that refusing to take newspapers and periodicals from the post office, or removing and leaving them un called for, is pnma facie evidence of inten tional fraud. TOWN DIRECTORY. Mayor—Thomas G. Barnett. Commissioners—W. W.Tnrnipseed.D. B. Bivins, E. G. Harris, E. R. James. Glerk —E. <l. Harris. Treasurer—W. S. Shell. Marshals —S. A. Bolding, Marshal. J. W. Johnson, Deputy. JUDICIARY. A. M. Speer, - Judge. F. D. Dismuke, - - Solicitor General. Butts—Second Mondays in March and September. Henry—Tintt;' Mondays In April and Oc tober. Monroe —Fourth Mondays in February, ;and August. Newton—Third Mondays in March and September. Pike—Svcond Mondays in April and Octo ber. Rockdale—Monday after fourth Mondays in MtuCh and September. RpaMing—First Mondays in February and August. Upson—First Mondays in May and No vember. CHURCH DIRECTORY. Methodist Episcopal Church, (South,) ftev. Wesley F. Smith, Pastor Fourth Sabbath in each month. Sunday-school 3 ip. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday evanwg Methodist Protestant Churcb. First "Sabbath in„eaob mouth. SuuJay-scbool 9 A. M. t Christian Cgft'RQß, W. S. Fears, Pastor. Second Sabbath in each month. Baptist Church, Rev. J. P. Lyon, Pas tor. Third Sabbath in each mouth. CIVIC SOCIETIES. Pink Grove Lodge, No. 177, F. A. M. "Stated communications, lourth Saturday in each month. DOCTORS. BR. J. C.TURNIFSEED will attend to all calls day or uight. Office i resi dence, Hampton, Ga. YiR. W. H PEEBLES taeats atl dis- J * eases, and will attend to all calls day and night. Office at the Drug Store, Broad Street, Hampton, Ga. BR. N. T. BARNETT tenders his profes sional services to the citizens of Henry and adjoining counties, and will answer calls .day or night. Treats all diseases, of what ever nature. Office at N ipper’s Drug Store, iHamptoD, Ga. Night calls can be made at my residence, opposite Berea churcb. api26 JF. 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. Warrants all work for twelve months. LAWYERS. JNO.G. COLDWEIX, Attorney at Law, Brooks Station, Ga. Will practice in the counties composing the Coweta and Flint River Circuits. Prompt attention giveD to commercial and other collections. TC. NOLAN, Attorney at Law, Mc • Donougb, Georgia: Will practice in the counties composing the Flint Circuit; the Supreme Court of Georgia, and the tJuited States District Court. WM. T. DIC&EN., Attorney at Law, Me- Doonogh, Ga. Will practice in the ■counties composing the Flint Judicial Cir cuit, the Supreme Court of Georgia, and the United States District Court. (Office up jtaire over W. C- Sloan’s.) apr27-ly GEO. M. NOLAN, Attorney at Law, McDonough,Ga. (Officein Court house) Will practice in Henry and adjoining coun ties, and in the Supreme and District Courts of Georgia. Prompt attention given to col- Kctions. mcL23-£m JF. WALL. Attorney at Law, J/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. Speeial attention given to .commercial aod other collections, and cases in Bankruptcy. BF. WfcCOLLJjM, Attorney and Coud • sellor at Law, Hampton, Ga. Will practice in Henry, CkytoD, Fayette, Ooweta, Pike, Meriwether, Spalding and Butts Sape rior Courts, and in the Supreme and United j States Courts. Collecting claims a specialty. Office no stain in the Mclntosh Building. I A MEMORY. At noonday iu live crowded street I walked, with absent mind sod far— Coootipg-aught, til! sudd niy A lace flushed by me like a star. A moment seen— then swift the throng Cl<>acd jealously about its prize, And all the memory left to aw Was this—she bad bine eyes. A woman’s eye? 1 yon say. Not so. They were too shy, Too fntt of spring ; Aod in their timid depths I saw A girl soul’s April blossoming. I missed the face, but what of that ? i saw the face’s dearer part; Aod still, though lost to me, 1 k-ep Their color in my heart. Fouud. She looked up at him half lovingly, half angrily, and then said with a sigh : ’•Oh, Fraok, if you were only not such a blundering, awkward fellow J” “I perfectly agree with you, Bessie, and second the wish, still as you have accepted me for better or for worse, you must be re signed to the inevitable.” ' But you may outgrow it ; you don’t mean to tell tnc that there is no hope?” “I am afraid so, Bees; Irom my boyhood it has been ‘ever thus.’ I never dropped a piece of bread and butter but that it fell on the buttered side, aod I know that if I should fall on my back I would surely break my nose; so bear with me patiently, dear.” “A plensant prospect 1 have before me, surely; and, Frank, I do realty think that yon might improve, if you would only try, for my sake,” and again she sighed. She was a bright, pretty little woman, the only daughter of old Dr Langdon, and mo therless from her infancy. She had met Frank Howard at his sister’s house, who had been a echoolmute of her own, aod now married. He was a young lawyer with a future yet to make. They had known each other for mere than a year,and the acquaint ance hau ripened into love, and fond vows were exchanged, notwithstanding the re monstrances of his sister, who feared Dr. Langdon might blame her for her share in bringing them together, more especially as her brother had no wealth to offer, aDd Dr. Langdon was a very wealthy man. Still she was not heeded ■; the lovers met fre quently, trusting to Cupid and fortune to bring all things right. They were now walking alowsy through the Ramble, and Bessie’s pretty features were partially hidden beneath a thick blue veil, which Frank threatened to remove every moment. ‘•You look like sd Egyptian mummy swathed in those yards of blue stuff.” ‘•Another blunder. Why couldn’t yon hate said that I looked like a veiled eastern beauty, instead of a withered old mummy ? Ob, Frank, you have so many virtues—now, don’t interrupt me. You have graduated with high honors ; you are studious and am bitious; they say you have shrewd sense and keen judgment. You are honorable, gener ous, courteous; in a word, you are almost perfect, and then, besides, you love me so well.” “Ah, Bessie, dearest, bow unspeakably devo—” “Yes, I know ; you needn’t try to tell me.” “Without you—” “Yes, I know; life would be a desert. All this, I know, but I also koow that your helplessness and utter want of tact will gel me into trouble, and ruin my very best plans,” “But your quick wit ean always find a way out.” “Yes, but how long? My stock of ex cuses is almost exhausted, and my irweotwe genius isvanisbiug.” “Oh, Bess, you koow yoar resources are inexhaustible.” “I btg your pardon, sir. You are mis taken. My frieuds have all been invalids a sufficient Dumber of times. Four times I have been to the .dentist’s. Five times I have spent 'the afternoon at your sister's, and papa said the other evening that be thought tbe visiting was all on one side; and to-day, this is Ure seveutb birthday visit this year that I bave paid my old music teacher. If it wasn’t for papa’s forgetfulness of trifles, I should certainly be found out. Oh, Frank, I’m afraid you’ll Dever make a good lawyer ; see bow they have to plat, and deceive, and tell stories, aod you really are not equal to tbe most simple plot.; I have to contrive everything, and that, too, at the risk of hav ing everything upset by yoar awkwardness. If I tell you to meet meat the right entranoe of tbe park, you take the left, and so much time is lost UDtil we find each other. Then if I say four o’clock, you come at five.” “That only happened once, when I could not get away from tbe office.” Hampton, Georgia, Friday, july u, 1879. “That was a (light excuse; but lis’en. How precisely I told you the oiber day, that if the shade in my room was down at eight o'clock, I would be able to meet you the next day at Nellie’s, but if it should be op, that I would not come.” ••Certainly, that I understood.” “Yes; but what did yoh do? All you bad to do was to pass the bouse at eight, glance up at itty window, and go on. In stead of that, you awful fellow, what did you do hot come at abt o'clock,” “My impatience, dear!” “That’s very fine. If yon had even walked up and down; but.no You stationed your self opposite my window like a sentinel, and looked up so pointedly, that any of (hi neighbors must have noticed it, if they were at the windows. I saw you from the sitting room where I was reading to papa, and my heart thumped with fear. At Inst I ran up to my room and wuved my handkerchief for you to go away. Unhappy idea! It is scarcely to be believed, but you smiled and nodded so confidentially to me, that I could have shaken you to pieces, I was so vexed. Then I wuved my hand imperiously that you should go away, and a« you at last started I drew a long breath, when to my horror you deliberately took off your hat, smiling vweetly 1” “It's too bad in you, Bessie, to b° (6 hard Ofl' a fellow.” “Oh, my dear, I haven’t yet finished. You shall hear more of your blundeis. To con tinue : You lied gone. I was calm ; ate my dinner, and found out Irom papa that he was going to Brooklyn in the afternoon; then ran to my room and sat by the window until five minutes before eight, hoping to catch a glimpse of you ; you know the gas lamp is opposite. Then pulled down my shade and went down to papa, with the peaceful conviction that all was nicely ar ranged tor ilie afternoon. Now, sir, what happened ? Some one had blundered, for the next afternoon I was at your sister’s; but where were you ?” “But 1 understood your ‘imperious wave’ to mean that yea ens!d not come, and so I staid at the office aod read Imrd, thinking of you alt the time, while you and Nellie were probably abusing me.” “It’s too bad, Frank, but we cannot go on in this way. You must go into society, meet me somewhere, and call on papa.” ‘•Society ? Igo in your fashionable so ciety ? Impossible; I tremble on the thres hold of a stiange parlor. Not a chair, table or any article of bric-a-brac would be safe in my vicinity, and think how mortified you would be to see the cups and saucers of your friends in ruins. No, my child, you must think of some other plan.” “Then you must call on papa.” “You forget that you yourself told me that he euid you should not marry before you were twenty-five, and that he would have no long engagements, and as you won’t he twenty-one in six months, I should re ceive my dismissal und yen would forget me before your next birthday. Be patient; io a year or two I shall be in a position to ask bravely tor my little girl if she is willing to wait for me.” “I will always wait for you, Fraok. That is Dot it, but I want papa to know you and like yon. He is a little gruff, 1 must admit, to young gent'emen, but I know that he wonld like you. Haven’t you any acquaint ance who knows papa, some steady old law yer. Be careful or you’ll stumble aver that stone.” “Thanks, but I saw tie stone. The Bteady old lawyer I don’t see.” “Come with your sister.” “She will not bring me.” A silence. ‘Oh, Frank, i have it, I have it,” aod aha grasped her own arm excitedly. “How pro vokiog that I should have left it home. Never mind, I’ll send it to you to-morrow.” ‘‘What is it ? What do you mean V' “Listen,'” and she whispered something in ibis ear. “Do you comprehend ?” “Fally.” “ Ard will you play your role with au in nocent face?” “I promise you i will.” “Between Union Square and Thirtieth street.” '•You live?” “Oh, Frank, how stnpid. There it was lost. Ob, if yon blonder this time, I’ll never forgive you. To-morrow between four aod five. I will send it to yon.” '•All right, I’ll make no mistake this lime.” Soon after the lovers parted. The next morning Bessie kissed her papa with a very long face. “Now wbafs the matter ? Are you cross because breakfast is a little earlier this morning ?” “Oh, no, papa; only I’m afraid to tell o —tv— KVI.V A -■"■J.'A,. ram, ) “Out with it, child. Have yon set the cwrtains on fire, or whut 7” “No, sir; but you’ll scold when I tell you that I’ve lost my Roman bracelet." “Wimf, that expensive thing that you bothered me about lust Christmas?” “Yes, pupa.” “Where did you lose it ?’’ • “Between Union Square and Thirtieth street . You know where my old teacher lives ?’’ sorry, for you won’t get an other in a hurry. You mu9t be more care ful.” “Oh, papa, you will advertise, won’t you ? Some honest person may have found it,” “Small Chance. Honest people are not over plenty in New York. But I will try,” The next morning’s Herald contained the advertisement, and io the afternoon Mr. Frank Ileward’s card, lawyer, No. —, Nas sau street, was banded to the doctor in his office, and Frank entered with a slight air of embarrassment.’’ “Good-day, sir,” said the doctor. “Good-day, Dr Langdoo. I have been so fortunate as to find a bracelet.” “Ah, yes, the bracelet; that is fortunate. My daughter will be delighted.” Stepping to the door be called Bessie, who was, as can be imagined, not very far distant. “Mr. Howard, my daughter. is gen tleman has found your bracelet, Bessie.” “Ob, how delightful,” she said, clapping her hands, and making a demure bow to Frank. “I am impatient to see it.” Frank plunged his hand into one pocket ; it was not there ; into soother, aod another, but it was io none. “Oh, I have left it in my hat,” he said, and rushed into the hall. “Just like him,” thought Bessie, “A queer fellow,” suid her father. He came in with a package. “Here it is,” said be, nnd banded it to the doctor, who opeoed the paper. Who can describe the consternation of Bessie, the astonishment of the doctor, and The oesperation of Frank, when the doctor took from the paper Bessie’s Russia leather case marked with her name ! “Your case?” said the doctor, looking sharply at Bessie, -“how do you explain this mystery, sir ?” Before Frunk could reply, Bessie threw herself in her father’s arms, and between sobs aod laughter told him the whole story, and ended by sayiDg, “But, papa, did you ever hear of such a blundering individual ? J The sequel oue can foresee. The doctor forbade any more secret meetings, but al lowed Frank to visit the house, and in a year’s time consented to the marriage, os tbe condition that Bessie should not leave him, to which they both gladly agreed. “We’ll be married at home, Frank,” said she, “for I Dever would risk taking yon to churcb. You would stumble up the aisle, nnd respond ‘no’ when you were asked if you took ‘this woman tube your wedded wife,’ aDd I should die of shame." “Have mercy, thou woman full of guile, and be sure that I never would make that blunder. Only do let the service be short, please, knowing my impatience to call you my own little wife. After all, innocence and honesty have their own reward, for while you did not lose your bracelet, I have won a jewel worth ali the world, and, darling, you will at least admit that in laying you I have not been a blunderer.” Printers and Printing. —Many who condescend to illuminate this dark world .with the fire of their genius through the columos of a newspaper little think of kbe lot of the printer, who sits up at midnight to correct their false grammar and orthog raphy and worse puncloation. We have seen the arguments of lawyers, in high re pute as soholars, sent to the printer in th eir own handwriting, many words—especially technical and foreign terms —abbreviated, words misspelled and few or no points, aod these few, if any, certainly in the wrong places We have seen tbe sermons of emi nent “divines” sent to the press without points or capitals to designate tbe divisions of tbe sentences; also tbe letters of tbe po litical and scientific correspondents. Suppose all these bad been so printed—tbe printer would bave beeD treated with scorn and con tempt. No one would have believed that such gross and palpahle faults were owing to the ignorance or carelessness of tbe au tbor ; aod do one but tbe practical printer knows bow many hours tbe compositor, and after him the proof-reader, is compelled to spend in reducing to readable couditiou maousoript that often writers themselves would be puzzled to read. Trtth is stranger than fiction, bat then it isn’t so interesting. And then Dobody hWp«^*vr A ~a«r!»- A Wash Day Sketch. If there is any one thing more than an other calculated to make a wrong impression on tbe mind of the unsophisticated man. it is the picture of a woman using a patent washing machine. Tbe picture represents'a woman dressed in silk, trimmed with lace, having fall train, bustle and elbow sleeves cut on the bins. There she stands, a sweet sffllle illuminating her countenance. Her hair is banged and frizzed in the most ap proved fashion, and perhaps a jaunty lace cap surmounts her wealth of golden, red, brown, black or yellow hair, as the case may be. or the imagination portray. One hand grasps the machine lightly and the other is at liberty to arrange her hair or train. The clothes are in the tub—the other clothes— and are apparently being washed without the slightest effort on the part of the woman. The wall is covered with the latest and most approved style of paper, with dado to match, aod is huog with numerous pictures The floor is covered with body Brussels carpet and several children in Sunday go-to-meet ing clothes are playing about, just as though no washing were being done. All i* as serene and as clean and tidy as the salesroom of a millinery shop. Not even the faintest curi of steam arises from the tub. It is a very pretty picture, and perhaps the unso phisticated young man may think that it correctly represents the manner in which the average washing is done. But it is a delu sion and a snare. Tbe artist who drew it must boye depended on his imagination wholly. He should have been a married man and should have sketched the picture from life. He should have gone to dinner some Monday nnd foand the woman of the house op to her elbows in the washtub. Look at her : Her hair is wadded up in a little ball on the northwest side of her hend and several locks straggle down in several directions. She is clad in a dingy old calico dress, and a pair of uarpet slippers which are not mates. The scene is located in tbe back woodshed or “summer kitchen,” so called. The thermometer stands at ninety in the shade und in the wash-room it is ninety and nine. The woman's fuce, in color, resembles a boiled lobster. The perspiration drips off her chin, and her fingers, wli «h are parboiled, remind you of dried apples, bleached. Two of the children are making pancakes in their hats act of water and ,coel ashes. The third one has got stuck under the back gate in an effort to cruwl through. Just at that moment a small dog begins making faces at him, and the youngster, unable to wiggle one way or the other, sets op a yell which would put to blush a (Jom manche Indian. At tbe same instant one of the pancake makers slaps a batful of “batter" on the head of bis sister, aod run ning to escape the maternal slipper, which he conjectures will he forthcoming, fulls headforemost into a tub of suds. The last mentioned youngsters tune up and swell the chorus for the soloist under tbe gate. But we drop tbe curtain witfc simply the remark tbid at this juncture the sketcher of washing machine pictures should get his work in. A wood-cut of this scene from ewery-day life would take the romance all out of tbe popular pictures of washing machines. — Rome Sentinel. * —* Ttie Shu in the Desert. Alexander W, Kingslake in bis book “Kolhan” gives the following poetic descrip tion of the scorchiug effect of the sun upon the Oriental desert: “As long as yon are journeying in the in terior of tbe desert you have no particular point to make for as your resting-place. The endless sands yield nothing but small stunted shrubs—even these fail after the first two or three days, and from that time you pass over broad plains—you passover newly reared bills —you pass through valleys that tbe storm of the last week dug, and tbe bills and the valleys are sand, sand, sand, still sand and only sand, and sand, and sand again. Tbe earth is so samely, that your eyes turn toward heaven—toward heuven, I mean, in tbe sense of sky. Yoa look to the sun, for be is your task-master, and by him you know the measure of the work you have done, aod tbe measure of tbe wonk that re mains for you to do; he comes when yon .strike yoar teot io the early morning, «nd then, for tbe first boor of tbe day, as you move forward an your camel, he stands at tbe near side, and makes you know tb&t the whole day’s toil is before you ;* then for a while, and a long while, you see him oo more, for you are veiled and shrouded, and dare not look upon thegreatness of bis glory, but you koow where be strides overhead by tbe touch of bis flaming sword. No word* are spoken, but your Arabs moan aod your camels sigh, your akin glows, your shoulders ache, aod for sights you see tbe pattern and the glare of the outer light. Time labors oo —your skin glows and your shou'ders ache, your Atabg moan, your camelsstfcb.and yotf see the same pattern in the silk and tho same glare of light beyond ; but cooquei lag time marches off, and by-and-by the de scending sun has compassed tho heaven, anrf now soltly touches your right arm. throws your lank shadow over tbe sand, right along on the way for Persia ; then again yon look upon his face, for Ins power is nil veiled in bis beauty, aod the redtxaa of Samos has be come the iedness of roses; the fair, wavy cloud that fled in the morning now comes to his sighs once more—come* blnshing, yet still comes on—comes burning with blushes,'’ yet hastens, and dfingif to bis side. Francis Joseph in Hungary. Perth, May 3d—The Emperor and Em press, accompanied by the Archduchess Gis ele und Prince "Ludwig in Baiern,” the Em press's brother, arrived hare this afternoon io spend a wei k in this quarter during the races. It bad been intimated that no official reception was desired ; indeed, the day and hoar of tbe arrival only became known at noon. Yet, moved by one impnlse, the pop. ulation went out to welcome their King and Queen wilh a warmth and enthq-iasm eqcb as even tiere have been rarely witnessed". There was, there could be, no preparation, no consulting, no arrangement. By a sort of freemasonry, however, at half-past 5, every ooe was ready for the reception. High and low, official and non-official, all the in habitants, had ringed themselves in lines eg tending from the railway station to tbe royal palace in Buda. The national tri color waved on houses and balconies. Every one ransacked bis house, haogieg oat fes tively into the street whatever he hud of best in the shape of shawls, flags or flowers, till not a window or balcony appeared without its adornment. All along the line figured a holiday crowd. With tbe exceptiou of the few who on such occasions are there in tbeit official capacity—the Miaieters aod towq authorities—every one bad come out io tbe state iu which be happened to beat the time —the woikman as he had left bis shop, Except for a few mounted gendarmes to di rect tbe passage of the carriages, there was no policeman or soldier. The crowd kept good order. On tbe platform and ia the Imperial apartments of the railway station there was no disturbance. Every oue seemed to have access who desired it, being present at tbe arrival, and contumipg all along the passage through the town, across tbe sus pension bridge, and up the hill to tbe palace. All was joy and enthusiasm. Unrestrained! by considerations of etiquette, every one bqs seemed but to follow the impulse of his heart und to give vent to his abundant loyalty, Running by the side of the carriages, tbe crowd cheered and waved hats and caps, Her Majesty and the Archduchess Gisele were in a close carriage, but bis Majesty, with Prince Ludwig, rode in an open one, Some of the more staid people made an at tempt to prevent the crowd pressing too close; but his Majesty himself beckoned to them not to interfere. Every one seemed to consider their majesties as his own, claiming .the right of expressing to them the joy and satisfaction he himself personally felt at tbeir arrival, and there could be no doubt that the tender of affection was cordially accepted. Equally spontaneous with the reception was the illumination at night, which, blazing oat at first here and there, soon became uni versal, — London Times Ta« Future Queen ov Hpaw.—Tha Archduchess Marie Christine Desiree Hen riette Felicite Beniere of Austria, whom ru mor mentions as likely to be the second: Queen of Allonso Sfll. of Spain, is the only daughter of the Archduke Charles ruyid of Austria, (who died the ?oth of No vember, 1874), by his marriage with the Archduchess Elizabeth, the widow of Arch duke Ferdinand Charles Yictor of Modena. Sl»e was born on the 21st of July, 1858, and is consequent ly in year. The alli ance does not seem to have been, seriously entertained at Madrid until the condition of the lolanta Marie .Christine had; been pro nounced hopeless, but from more than ope point of view it joust be considered a far more suitable match fc* the King than one with his deceased wife’s sister. The Aus trian Princess is a few mouths younger than the King, wherefas the Due de Montpensier’s second daughter was more than .five years his senior, having been born on the 29th of October, 1852. Her death has dow left the Montpensier family without a marriageable daughter, and all the shuffling apd scheming of Douis Philippe to bring about bis son’s union with the lofaDta Louisa have ended with disappointment.—Puff Mall (laxtQf. XotjNo mea are mapping out short rouses M 6. {