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VOL. IV. Advertising Kates. One square, first insertion $ 75 Each subsequent insertion 50 One square three months 5 00 One square six months 10 00 One square twelve months 15 00 Quarter column twelve months... 30 00 Half column six months 40 00 Half column twelve months 60 00 One column twelv# months 100 00 lines or less considered a square. All fractions of squares are counted as full squares, NEWSPAPER decisions. 1. Any person who takes a paper regu larly from the post office—whether directed to his name or another’s, or whether he ha?' sutiscribed of not—is responsible for the jiavment. 2. If a person orders hi« paper discontin ued, he must pay all arrearages, or the pub lisher may continue to send it until puyment is made, and collect the whole amount, whether the paper 1s taken from the office or Bit. 3. The courts l.ave decided that refusing to take newspapers and periodicals from the po«toffice, 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. I’urnipseed.D. B. Bivins, E G. Harris, E. R. James. Clerk—K. G. Harris. Treasurer —W. S. Shell. Marshals—S. A. Belding, Marshal. J. YV. Johnson, Deputy. JUDICIARY. A. M. Stkkn, - Judge. F. f). DiSHukk, - - Solicitor Genera!. Butts—Second Mondays in March and September. Henry— Tl ni£ Mondays in April and Oc tober. Monroe—Fourth Mondays in February, and August. NewtoQ—Third Mondays in March and September. Bike—Second Mondays in April and Octo ber. Rockdale—Monday after fourth Mondays in March and September. Spalding—First Mondays in February and August. Upson—First Mondays in May aud No vember. CHURCH DIRECTORY. Methodist EeisonrAt, Church, (South,) Rev. Wesley F. Smith, Castor Fourth Sabbath w each month. Sunday-school 3' p.m. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening., U kthodist Protestant Church. First Sabbath month. Sunday-school 9 1 A. V. Christian Church, W. S. Fears, Pastor. Second Sabbath it) each wonth. Baptist Church, Rev. J. P. Lyon, Pas ter. Third Sabbath in each month. CIVIC SOCIETIES. Print Grove Lodge, No. 177, F. A. M Slated communications, fourth Saturday in each Mouth. DOCTORS. *I\R. J. C. TURNIPSEED will attend to *J all calls day or night. Office i resi dence, Hampton, Ga. "jllß. W. H. PEEBLES treats all dis— J J eases, and •wiij attend to all calls day umd night. Office -at the Drug Store, Broad Street, Hampton, Ga. JIAR. N. T. BARNETT tenders his profes ■aJ sional services lo the citizens of Henry :and adjoining counties, and will answer calls iday or night. Treats all diseases, of what ever nature. Office at Nipper’s Drug Store, .Hampton, Ga. Night calls eaD be made at tmy residence, opposite Berea church. apr26 JF. PONDER, Dentist, has located in • Hampton, Ga., and invites the public to cull at bis room, upstairs in the Bivius House, where he will be found at all hours. Warrants all work for twelve months. LAWYERS. JNO. G. COLDWELL, Attorney at Law, Biooks Station, Ga. Will practice in the counties composing the Coweta and Flint River Circuits. Prompt attention given to commercial and other collections. 'IP C. NOLAN, Attorney at Law, Mc- Donough, Georgia. Will practice in cthe counties composing the Fliut Circuit; ihe Supreme Court of Georgia, and the Uuited States District Court. T. DICKEN, Attorney at Law, Me Donougb, Ga. Will practice in the counties composing the Flint Judicial Cir cuit, the Kupieme Court of Georgia, and the United States District Court. (Office up stairs over W. C. Sloan’s ) apr27-ly /3.K0. M. NOLAN, Attorney at Law, McDonough, Ga. (Office in Court house ) Will practice in Henry and adjoining coun ties, and in the Supreme and District Courts of Georgia. Prompt attention giv»n to col lections. mcb23-6m W ALL, Attorney at Law, f/ampv . ton, Ga Will practice in the counties composing the Flint Judicial Circuit, and the Supreme and DistrictCourts-of'Georgia. Prompt attention given to collections. ocs T7DWARD J. REACAN, 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. T) F. McCOLLUM, Attorney and Conn ( ■e'lor at Law, Hampton, Ga. Will practice in lleury, Ciavtoo, f avette, Coweta, Pike, Meriwether, Spalding and Butts Sape rior Courts, and in the Supreme and .United SPites Courts. Collecting claims a specialty. •Office un stun in the Mclntosh Hull drag. GIVE ME THE PEOPLE. Some love the glow of our outward show— Some love mere wealth, and try to win it 1 The house to me may lowly lie, If I but like the people in it 1 What’s all tlre gok], that glitters cold, When link’t'd lo hard or haughty feeling? Whnle’er we’re told, the tiobhr gold Is truth of heart and manly dealing ! Then let tin m 9cek, whose minds are weak, Mere fashion's smile, and try to wiu it; The house to me may lowly be, II 1 but like the people in it! A lowly roof may give us proof That lowly flowers are olten fairest; And trees, whose bark is bard and dark, May yield us fruit, and bloom the rarest ! There’s worth as sure, ’oeatb garments poor, As e’er adorned a loftier station ; And minds as just as those, we trust, Whose claim is but of wealth’s creation 1 Then let them seek, wbo«e minds are weak, Mere fashion's i-mile, and tiy to win it; The house to me may lowly be, If 1 but like the people in it 1 Great Atlanta. “X. I. E.,’’ the humorous correspondent of tbe Telegraph and Mcsse)iger, gives the following glowiDg description of the Capital city : Here I am in Atlanta ! Atlanta the heau tifnl! Atlanta who sits among the hills clasping to her inoiherly bosom the infant Custom House, lest by chance it slip down aud wet its Icct iu tl« sud salt sea. Glorious Atlanta ! 1 never realized that I had thoroughly arrived until 1 stepped Irani ilie train otid a vandal robbed me of two dollurs which l guve him to have charged, and for whose return I waited, and am still waiting—thenT it flashed upon me that 1 had surely Come and was face to face with the Queen of tbe Hills. My first impulse, after rubbing my list 3 into aiy eyes awhile, was to look round me. I obeyed the impulse, nod loumi myself shel tered by a building of gigantic dimensions ; it was the depot, the lurgest in the South, and the magnificence ol the architecture overwhelmed me; coming as 1 did fiom Macon, a way station on the Central Rail road, lately moved by the Commissioner of Agricultute into South Georgia, I was not prepared for such a surprise, and with beads of perspiration encircling my brow sank down upon my carpet-sack speechless with rapture. While thus sitting a man ap proached me. He had a born under his urm. I u.-lud, in a whisper, pointing up wards ; “Is this tbe work of man ?” He smiled, and replied ; “No ; it is the woik of men, Atlanta men,'’ und raising his born gave a blast so long, so deep, that 1 regarded him with admiration. I was al most convinced that Roland had returned from Ronoevalles and was present in person. I besought him to show me an inn where I might refresh the inner man, telling him that I was a stranger and had already been “taken in.” He guided me to tbe mouth of the depot, and, striking a tragic attitude, bade me look up. I looked up and immediately sat down (the shadow of grandeur always weakens my knees.) Did mortal South Georgia vLion rver encounter such stupend ous magnificence ? “That,” he said, “is the nigh KimbaU House—tbe largest in the South.” He then raised his horn and blew a second blast, while I sat lost in wonder and udmiraiion. When my first surprise wore away, I had strength enough to look around, and per ceived another gigantic structure at tbe end of tbe street. “And that,” he exclaimed, ‘‘is the celebra ted Markham House.” The plan of the city then flashed upon me : Atlanta was built in the shape of a triangle; the High Kim ball, the depot, and the Markham were built at the angles, and the city was within. Pleased at my discovery, and perceiving that, no one seemed astonished at seeing ink, I picked up myseif and carpet-sack, and, fol lowing *»y guide’s advice, made my way into the nigh Kimball. One thiug struck me as peculiar ; every man. woman and child 1 saw had a born s'ung under ’.he arm, and this they proceeded to blow whenever any one asked a question about the city. I asked the hotel clerk about the health of the place, aod he blew a blast shook me to the very foundation ; 1 ivked the bar-tender if it was ever hot, and he gave me another that rattled every tooth, fc B y head, and so on everywhere. 1 Having secured the finest breakfast in the South, L forth to view the new Capitol, a building erected by the city in fulfillin' 0 j a constitutional promise when the S wa 3 looking around for a location HAMPTON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1879. out difficulty, und for the third time my knees gave way. Words would (ail iiip should I attempt to portray my feelings upon first beholding it, and I shall simply describe the buildii gas it appeared to me after the novelty bad woro away. The massive piece of architecture known as the new Capitol is situated on a com manding hill, just outside the grand triangle, anil 1 can truly say that the eye of a South Georgian never before beheki such a build ing. From a foundation of solid granite, a* marble pile pioudly rears its hend to the clouds and is surmounted by a bronze figure of a woniun some 26 feet high. This woman represents Atlanta. In her right hand she uplifts a gigantic bronze horn, the smaller end of which is fitted to her mou h ; in tier left, she extends a gna burner into the air. By an ingenious arrangement, steam can be forced through this horn and made to pro duce a sound that can be heard ull over the land. At night a stream of gas is turned into the burner, which, when lit, is visible from four States. I did not learn the namee of the States, but suppose that Expectation, Sensation, Insolvency and Agitution were tlie ones referred to, us f met more people from these States than any other. Tire western wing of the building has a portico of pure white marble, and overtire row of columns, eighty-four in number, which supports the roof, nmy be seen marble statues of Ben llill, High Kimball, Mar cellus Thornton and Joe Biowo, engaged, apparently, in animated discussion. Bullock is not there, but an open door in the rear suggests the lact that be has just retired The eastern wing is similarly constructed, except that the columns are made of bine marble, front Lynch’s quarry, in ‘he city. The figures above this portico represent the directors of the State road, seated about a broad table dividing the earnings of the road equally between themselves and the State— twenty-five thousand apiece all around. Be tween the wings is the main building, a princely dome crowned by the broi zc figure before mentioned. In this dome ure won, detful pictures set in the wall, each of them twenty feet square, and the figures itr them life-size. These are the finest in the South, and were all painted bv Atlanta artists. The first picture to the right as you enter is a faithful representation of the Atlanta Rolling Mills in full operation ; the figures of the workmen, grimed and blackened, are life like productions, and in the distance some forty-odd freight trains grow dim in the perspective as they bear away the manu factures of the works j by a simple contri vance, drops of water fall into the dust at the base of the picture, representing the sweat—the largest in the South—dropping from the brows of the workmeu. The deception is complete. The second pictuie is a representation of the Atlanta Ice Works. The blocks of ice look so temptingly cool that hundreds of visitors linger around it constantly. They linger longer there than at any point in the South. The third pic ture repre-'en's a scene at Ponce Do Leon Springs, the principal watering place of the South. Crowds of travelers flock to the registers of the various hotels, where an armed guard is maintained night and day to prevent too many guests from registering. The figure of the warlike guard, with foot upon the inkstand and gun at ‘ charge bayo nets,” presents a striking appearance. In the distuuce may be seen thirteen street cars stalled by heavy loads of passengers, while near at hand the health officer is removing the bodies of a score of horeep, killed the day previous by overwork. The fourth picture shows a convention of Atlanta editor* seated in a semi-circle, each with a horn at tils mouth—excepting Grady ; be is a little in the rear, embellishing the life of some prom inent Georgian at 810 a column, with the most eloquent pen in tbe Bouth. The fifth picture represents the established trade of Atlanta. Ao elegantly dressed merchant sits in his couDting-rooin with bis foot on the mnntel and thumb in the armhole of his vest while hundreds of anxious-looking cus tomers lean across tbe counter offering biro every variety of bills iu exchange for his goods—goods which he will not sell until be lias finished smoking (be finest home-made cigar in tbe isou,th. Mingling with tbe crowd may be seen dirummers from Macon, Savannah, Augusta and other Georgia villages offering tbeir goods in vain. The sixth and last picture covers the ceiling of the dome, the highest in the South. In tbe center is a bird's-eye view of Atlao'a, from whch leads out a railroad that looks somewhat like a gigantic spiral watch spring. On this road, which circles around Atlanta about ope hundred times, the towns of the State are represented by dots. Tbe entire building is finished in tbe high est style of art—the highest in the South. cooled in summer by cold air—the hottest and coldest, considering the seasons, in the South, and lit by thousands of gas i ts. Here our overburdem d legislut irs may work in comfort and security ; the cracked wails of the Opera House may crumble in ruins, but the walls of the new Capitol will ;; ver fall—never! —that is, hurdly soon ; at any rale they will never fall upon any of the present generation. Such is a brief description of the Capitol built by Atlunta to accommodate the Leg islaUreof Georgia; it is “as good as the old one, in every respect, as every one who sees it will acknowledge, and is said to have cost two hundred thousand dollurs.” In these •days of broken contracts, it is refreshing to see a city fulfill so liberally her promise ; we lmve now a castle for the liberties of the people thnt reaches to the clouds, and when we remember that Atlanta did it all with out help—that the building has not cost the State u cent—we do brag a little. On reaching my room at night, I was worn out with excitement and fatigue; I could scarcely believe I had seen so much I felt like one of Bret Harte’s characters, who exclabned : “Do 1 sleep ? do I dream ? Do i wonder in doubt ? Are tilings what they seem Or are visions ulaiut ?” Piobably the largest vision in the South. X 1. E, Home of the Bronte*. Anybody coming here umler the belief that he woold fiml such a village hb Mm. Guskell has desciibcd in her admirable Life of Charlotte finite, would be wolully di-up pointed. But then it must be remembered that the people of Haworth have ulways in sisted that Mrs. Haskell's pictuio of the place was grossly inaccurate and exaggerat ed- “I think she tried to make us all appear as had as she could do.” was the declaration o! Charlotte Bronte's fat her to one who spoke to him on the subject a lew years before bis death} and certainly uow there is but little Cither ot the picturesqm-ness, or the squalor, nr the savuge abandonment puiuted by M rf ’- Haskell, to be seen in and around Haworth. The change that has taken place in the vil lage street is reproduced in the world-fumed church and parsonage I have just visited the former for the first time for several years, and Gnd that some of its most distinctive features have already been removed. The gallery over the ultar has been swept away, and though the old “three-decker” pulpit still stands, the bottom seat, where Mr Bronte’s clerk droned forth the responses in former days, has been taken down. Of these changes one Cunnot, perhaps, complain ; though even will be heard of with a pang of regret by many who have seen the church io former times. But what is to be said of another change that has been made under the inh-lligeni direction of the Rev. Mr. Wade? lie has insisted upon the re moval of the Brontes’ p»w! That qmint “rquare pew," of h ty j>e now rap illy vanish ing, had held more than one famous person age in tlie days T n Oorrer B -ll win In her prime. Tlmck -u; and Miss Martincun and George Lewis, a»*J rum.? another distin guished author, might from time to time be seen seated here listening to one of Mr Bronte’s vigorous sermons on the religion of common lile and common sense. Iri one corner—not a foot from the'spot where her grave now is—Charlotte Bronte had hertTwn seat, and there, Sunday after Sunday, with uodi viating regularity, she was to be seen, alike in the days of her obscurity and her fame, with her eyes fixed upon the book held within a few inches of her face, or upoo the pulpit which father or bosband occupied In the opposite corner was Emily's seat, Kmily sitting characteristically with her back to the congregation, intent upon her own thoughts and upon the distant view through tbe window of those moors which she loved so passionately, rather than upon tbe utter ances of the preacher. Well, the pew is gone. \\ as it in the wuy ? No, not even that poor excuse can be made, for its site has been merely thrown into the aisle It was swept away some ytars ago, before the iconoclasts of tbe Bronte worship bad dreamed of going so far as to ilatrcy tbe church itself. Ah 1 well; one cuo still stand at the altar where Charlotte stood oa that early sommer morning when she gave her band to tbe mao .who bud loved her and served for b r as long and faithfully as Jacob for Rachael. And standing there, looking at tbe lit{le tablet with that long array of the names of the de:d children of “The Rev. P. Bronte, A B-i Minister of Haworth,” the lettering of which is already being ob scured by tune, one can still (eel with awe and revereuce that beneath our feet lie the two women who, with Mrs. Biowning, II—IT bump’s warm and generous words. This satisfaction f snv. is s! II within our reach. But in a short time that, also, will be taken from us ; for surely in <he brand-new Gothic church of llaworth there will be no room for the memory, hard'y any even for the bones of the Brontes. The Wades and sueh like personage* will be enough to fill it! The quaint old shrine, where so many generations of villagers have worshiped content, ami which has been glorified by the presence of so rare and extruordmury a genius, and pnri by the memory of a yet rarer virtue and courage, is doomed ; snd the day of its dis appearance will not now be long delayed London Standard. Putting on a Collar. At this time of the year almost every man purchases some new style of Piccadilly col lar. As the heat has an alarming tendency to make the average collar wilt and look mean, he gets some with ns muny pys as possible What he wants is a collor about as thick as the wood which is used for mnk ing cigar boxes lie succeeds after a diligent search in getting just whot he needs, and in the evening before calling on his fair one he thinks he will put on a new collar and a white necktie. Tills is how ho does it, according to the New York Star': He goes to his room and selects a collar and buttons it on behind ; then he fastens one of the ends in frout, and iu doing so he is compelled to look up iu the air like a chicken swallowing water, audio moke fnoial gyrations which would bring him n fortune if be could execute them on a pantomimic stage. After a sustained effort, which brings forth tears and perspiration, he manages to button tbe first end, and takes a breathing spell be fore essaying to fasten the second. He is in a stuteof desperation now, for, unfortunately, he has but two hours since cut his nails so short that he finds it utterly impossible to pinch the buttonhole around his collar but ton, the inside portion of which occasionally grips him like a vise, und can set him to pucser up his lips us though he hud just eaten a green persimmon, and to close one eye as though about to glance over a gun barrel at a decamping cat. It is a terrible ordeal for him; he turns around on his heel, und sways his left arm to give impetus to his short nails, but it is all in vain ; that collar seems more perverse and fixed in its intentions every moment; and the man feels as though he would like to grasp the unbuttoned end, and with one effort yank himself off'his feet. He oow grits his teeth and takes hold with both bauds, und after a desperate encounter of three minutes the collar is on. After a breathing spell, be bends the ends over, and a sort of psycholog ical rainbow ennincD his features. The next thing on the programme is to get out a white necktie, which he does, and soon has it around his neck nod fastened in a bow* which be thinks will find favor in the critical eyes of Angelina during the evening. By the time he has donned his coat and has picked up his walking stick and silk hat to sally forth, he happens to notice in «he glass that his cravat bow his peregrinated arou id to th" portion of his collar located directly under his left ear In an instant his coat and vest are off and lie puts the bow in place, and takes a pin from bis bureau to la-deo his necktie to his collar in a maimer which will make its shifting from a fixed po sition au utter impossibility. Ho he cranes his neck forward for the operation- The collar is so thick that the feat of penetrating if with a pin is no easy mutter. This be discovers after he has made a few desperate but imffictual lunges in vain. Every time he presses his thumb against the pinhead he imagines it is nbout to run up into him and shoot owt somewhere be tween bis wrist and knuckles ; so he puts the back of bis brush handle between his tbuipb and the pin, and after having it slip off and scratch his Angers several times, the pin is finally forced through with a velocity tbat carries it into bis neck. Then be whimpers some, and grasps the biusb again tm drive the pin from tbe inside to the outside of bis collar, and thus have everything fixed to-bis satisfaction, 'Hie pin then bends out of shape, and he is compelled to throw it on the floor and jump on it for revenge. Going to the eusion for another pin, be discovers there is not one in it; so be picks the bended one up off lire floor aud straightens it out with bis teeth. In Older to fasten that necktie to bis col lar, without Laving the trouble he experienc ed in his first essay, he removes it hom his neck and soou has tbe operation performed. He then has to button it oo bis shirt again. Alter tugging at the buck button for a few minutes that valuable member tpes off, and with an expression more forcible than ele gant be comes to tbe conclusion that be will NO. 5 vius and after he dons the fresh sbtrt he elides around to her house only fo discover thnt the objeel of his affections is laid up with chills and can’t be seen. At this junc ture his feelings beggar description, so the reader will please endeavor to imagine tbeui. Little Johnnt’h Story of Ole Gafekr. —And now for a story about oie Gaffer Peteis: One day Jack Brily, wich is tbe widked sailer, who swears and everything, he wnu goin by ole Gaffers house, and lie fown him digin a well, and a boy was pulin up the rocks in a bucket with a winlass. So Jack he giv the boy 2 bits, and sed : “You go und git sum candy, and I’ll pull up for you tell you get back,” and the boy done it. Then Jack lie puis his bull dog in the bucket aud let it down, and the dog it jump out in the well with Guffir, which hollered wild, and iho dog too. Then Jack he cot ole Gaffe rues cat and pitch that down too, and the dog luckled the cat between Gaffcrses’ legs, and the eat it run up Guff r like he was a tree, and all yellin' like Injena ; there wusent never such a fite 1 After a while Jack he let the bucket down and huufed ole Gaffer op with the winlas, look in m.ty beat and his close tore bad. Fore Gaffer cud get his breth Jack sed : “Tell you wot, Gaffer, if I (indent come ulong yude hud a pretty rough time of it I gees, cos that boy 9 gone for a other cat.” Then Gaff r ho helped Jack git the dog out wieh had kild th" cat, und Jack and tbe dog ihay went a way, and wen the boy come in site Gaffer he met him morn halef way and licked him til he was rick a bed. — San Francuco Argonaut. —— The Land oe Midtan —The words “iMidian" and “Midiunites” are, of course, fumilior to every reader of the Bible ; even the little schoolgirl knows that it was to merchants of this nation—lshmaelites—that Joseph was sold. But we doubt many per sons who ure not advanced geographical students have at all a clear idea of tbe actu ation of this country, and still more, whether they know that it was in very ancient times resorted lo by Egyptians for gold and oop per und for the highly-prided “blue-green stones”—t. «., turquoises. Midinn, the Madyan of the Arab geographers, is that part of the Arabian desert which lies to the east of the northern portion of the Red Sea, u narrow strip of country extending length wise fiom the head of the Gulf of Akaboh to the flej.iz. It is mostly barren and mountainous, and, although under tbe domiq T ion of Egypt is still in the possession qf the children of ishmael, the wandering Bedouin, The Spectator. Petrarcu’s Word —Petrarch wag a poet whose home wus in that soft and sunny called Italy. One day be wag suuuuoued to, court a 9 a witness in q trial On entering the witu ss box he (yepared to take tbo usual oath, when the judge, closing thp Holy Book, said, “As to you, Petrarch, yoajr word* is sufficient ” Wasn’t that a fine compli ment to the poet’s character ?• He had al ways been so careful to speak the truth that his bare word was considered equal to other men’s oaths. Hhall we uot all seek to bs_ like Petrarch ? Mrs Uoooinutuk's grandson graduates to day, and tbe old ludy is quite beside her self with joy. She told us the other even ing, as she fanned herself with a feather fuu that she has cherished, as she says, “nigh ooto forty year,” that “the dear boy is »• member of the sinner class, and’Bhe ia going; out to see him gravitated by his alum mar tyr.” She said she hoped it wouldn’t hurt the dear boy mash, for if anything serjous should happen to him, she added, “I should never forgive myself for letting him go to the universalidt at ulkr he’d better hose no edification at uli."— Boston Transcript. The White Mountain hotels are full of Massachusetts school' ma’ams, who act as waiters. When one of them looks at a guest through her glasses and asks him if he wilf have another plats of bu«b, ia six languages, be is nearly paralyzed, and doesn’t recover his appetite for uesriy two days. Rat her culture- and education don’t daHorb tbe equanimity of a country editor.. He replies in Sanscrit, and she looks inquiring!/arojpxL and fingers her bangs io u meditative manner. The editor enjoys her confusion, and expluins his answer in Greek Npnisioion Herald. Sl jnißß has advanced' upoo us like a smil ing fairy, and all its opulent charms greet u* at every point. It bae brought us many thoughts yyt fancies which cheer oor souls and make as feel better. Tbe mats reason lor our happiness is, bowtrar, that oo