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TOWNDIRECTORY.
Mayor—Thomas (3. Barnett,
Commissionkrs—W.W. rnrnipseed,D. B.
Bivins. E. (1. Hnrris, E. SI. James.
Ci.sbb—W. G. Karris.
Tkiasckbr—W. 8. Shetl.
Marsuai*— B. A. Beldmg. Marshal.
J. W. Johnson,Deputy,
CHVRCH DIRECTORY.
Mitt* odist Kpisoopai. Church, (South.)
Rev. Wesley F. Smith, Pastor Fourth
Sabbath in eacn month. Sunday-school 3
r.u. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening.
Msthodist PaoTicsTAtCT Church. First
Sabbath in.each mouth. Stlnday-scbool 9
A. V.
Umristian Church, W. S. Fears, Pastor.
Second Sabbath in each month.
Baptist Church, Rev. J. P. Lyon, Pas
tor. Third Snbbath in each month.
CIVIC SOCIETIES.
Pm* Grovr Lodob, No. 177, F. A. M.
Stated eommunicatioitt, fourth Saturday in
each month.
THE
“SOI TON”
SALOON
(In mr of D. B. Bivins',)
HAMPTON, GEORGIA,
18 KEPT BY
CHARLIE HOQOLLUM,
|l)kWhltvlß<wTl
And is open from 4 o’clock in the morning
nntil 10 o’clock- at night.
Sood Liquors of all (kudos
And at prioee to nit everybody.
■ •Pif * . M f
w w * s s** *
If yon w»nt good branch Oorb Whiskey,
go to the Bon Too.
nt,yen want Peach JJr*ndT, frpm one to
(Ira years old, call_at tha Bon Tot).
If you want good Gin go the Bon Ton and
gat a drink at 5 coots or a dime, joat aa you
11 yon want a good smoke go to the Bon
Ton and gat a free cigar.
lea alwaja on band at the 800 Toe.
Nice Lemon Drinks always on hand at the
Bon Too.
HOT THE LARGEST, RUT THE
RES! SELECTED STOCK OF
LIQUORS IS TOWS.
I bare jost opened my Bclooo and am de
termined to make it a success.
Fair dealing and prompt attention to all.
Call and see, call and sample, call and price,
before haying elsewhere.
CHARLIE McCOLLUM.
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|'f i *w-*«». qcandal.
A woman to ttir holy father went,
Confession of sin qas her intent ;
And so her misdemeanors, great and small,
She faithfully rehen rued them all;
And, chiefeat in her catalogue of sin.
She owned that she a Tale-bearer h*d been,
And borne a bit dt scandal np ahd down
To alt the long-tongued gossips in the town.
The holy father for her other si*
Granted the absolution artked of town ;
But while for aH the rest he pardon gave,
He told her this offense was very grave,
And that to do fit penance, she must go
Out by the way-side where the thistles grow,
And gathering the largest, ripest one.
Scatter its seeds, and that when this was
done,
She must come back again another day
To lell him hfs command she did obey.
The woman, thinking this a penance light,
Hastened to do'MrVill that very uight,
Feeling right glad she had escaped so well.
Next day but one she went to tbe priest to
teUv
The priest vat still and heard her story
through,
Then said, *‘There’B something still for you
to do ; ‘
Those little thistle seeds which you have
sown,
I bid you go regather every one.”
Tbe woman said, “But, Father, ’twould be
vain
To try to gather up those seeds again ;
The winds have scattered them both far und
wide
Over the meadow, vale and mountain-side.”
The futher answered, “Now I hope that
from this
The lesson I have tough’ you will Bot miss;
You cannot gather back the scattered seeds,
Which far and wide will grow to noxious
weeds,
Nor can the mischief once by scandal sown,
By any penance be again undone ”
—Mary E. C. Johnson.
General Robert E. Lee.
When the army of General Sherman was
making its lemons homeward march to
Washington it rested for a few days in the
falleo Capital of the Confederacy. While
there a chaplain visited General Robert E.
Lee and bad an interesting conversation with
him, and this conversation sees print for the
first time in to-day’s Commercial. The
writer says:
Accompanied by General Geary, after
wards Governor Geary, of Pennsylvania, and
provided with a ietter from General Haeen,
who knew General Lee at West Point, I
was admitted to the presence of the illustri
oas commander. General Lee was erect and
handsome. His easy smile and simplicity of
manner did not speak of disaster. He was
very positive in his convictions, bat in our
long talk always weighed every sentence.
President Lincoln's assassination was upper
most in ail our minds Gen. Ice said: -The
death of that eminent citizen has filled me
with horror. If theie were blemishes in his
character, bis life exhibited some splendid
and rare virtues. He was one of the most
extraordinary men that ever lived in oor
country. His heart was grand and large.
He was constitutionally pensive. Had be
been spared, the South would be treated
with honorable propriety and with a gallant
generosity ; that good will and friendliness
would have marked bis treatment of the
people of the South.” General Lee now ad
verted to the character of Grant, of whom
he spoke in the most friendly words and
terms. He ascribed to bim the possession
of the noblest attributes of Amcricaa man
hood, and that be possessed ali the requisites
and talents for the organization of armies.
‘‘l wish,” mid General Lee, “to do simple
justice to General Grant, when I soy that bis
treatment of the Army of Southern Virginia
is without a parallel in the history of the
civilised world. When my poor soldiers,
with famished fhces, had neither food nor
raiment, it was then that General Grant im
mediately issued the humane order that foity
thousand rations should be furnished to the
impoverished troops. And thst was not all
of bis magnanimity. I was giving directions
to one of my staff officers, when making oat
the iist of things to be surrendered, to in
clude the horses At that moment General
Grant, who seemed to be paying no atten
tion to what wae transpiring, quickly said :
"No, no, General Lee. not a horse—not one
—keep them all. X oßr people will need
them lot the spring crops!” It was a scene
never to be forgotten to watch Lee’s manner,
when, with a spirit Of chivalry equal to Us
skill and gallantry, be told, with moistened
eyes, this aod many other instances of the
magnanimity so nobly displayed %j bis il
lustrious rivsl. I asked bim who was the
greatest of the Federal Gei>eTalß.‘‘lmieed
HAMPTON, QEORG4-A, 'FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1879.
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Grant. Both as a gcntlemao and an ur
gan’t r of victorious war, General Grant has
led nil ypur most noted soldiers. He ex
hibited more true courage, more real great
ness of mind, mors consummate prudence
from the outset, and more heroic bravery
than any One on your side.” The conversa
tion turned to General Sherman, of whom he
spots* ms follows: “As • strategist and
commander of men Sherman ha* displayed
the highest order of military genlns.
Throughout bis recent campaign, when he
hnd to paaa through am unknown country,,
cross riyers. support his troops, etc., he Cer
tainly exhibited a singleness of purpose, a
fertility of resource which wio* him a high
place among tbe famous soldiers of history.
He seems to be cool without apathy, cau
tious without being dilatory, patient without
being dispirited, personally brave, but never
rash. Judged by Napoleon’* teat, ‘Whodid
all that ?’ he is In my Opinion, among tbe
most successful of the Federal officers who
have played a prominent part in the history
of tbe war.” In tbe course of conversation
be spoke of Sheridan as a most brilliant and
magnetic commander.
Tlien as we talked of the causes of the
war we drifted to the oM statesmen. Gen.
Lee referred despondingly to the country’s
lack of statesmen. Speaking of Webster,
he said : “l never saw a more striking ob
ject thap Webster in the Senate. The ef! ct
of his fine figure and princely air, when
speaking, was like that of a livid flash in the
midst of darkness Wbat Paganini was in
music, that Webster was in oratory; the
one charmed Europe with one string, the
other electrified multitudes with his elo
quence. He once complained to me of tbe
wrongs done him by the reporters, but in
vain ; the world would read whatever bore
his honored name, and the grub worms were
evpr ready to gratify the desire t>y fragments,
or rather caricature*, of his mighty elo
quence. Hie speeches indicate the powers
of the great orator ; they are lofty but not
impassioned, correct but not fluent. Henry
Cluy was every inch a patriot and an orator.
I heard him on British aggreraion. Never,
certainly, had I ever beheld so powerful on
exhibition of natural oratory. The grace of
the attitude* into which he threw his flex
ible future, the striking gestures of his arms,
and. above all, tbe fire which shot from bis
brilliant eyes, imparted an effect to the con
tinually changing accents of his voice, of
which the most accomplished orator might
be proud. At one moment leaning forward
when staling circumstantially the grievances
of which the nation complained, and then
standing bolt upright, with clenched hands
anJ a countenance distorted with passion, he
poured out a tirade of invectives. Tbe effect
cn his audience was electric—one and all.
they stood regarding him with sparkling
eyes and trembling limbs, as though they
were listening to the inspired voice of a
prophet. Henry clay was the greatest ac
tor of the stage. Calhoun was the favorite
o{ the Sooth. Morally, he is to be rated
higher than either Webster or Clay. He
was keen in tbe observation of whatever was
minute. He was attraced by the lofty and
ideal. Similarity, resemblance, pictures and
analysis caught his eye. They were seized
and secured and thrown down upon his page
in gorgeous groups and splendid coloring.
Ft in logic was compressed and concealed ;
the train of reasoning beseemed to be pur
suing might be clear and contiooons to his
own mind ; all its facts logically articulated
from end to end ; bat it wa* only indicated
to the audience ; it wai like a stream of
water working its way underground, that
showed itself now and then, or by a success
ion of openiog* and jets, tbe one apparently
deep, the other light and sparkling. He was
distinguished for his power of condensation.
Metaphors, tropes and figures of all kinds
were never found in his speeches. His. elo
quence and logic set on fire- I heard him in
one of bis altercations with Clay. I was
surprised that Mr. Calhoun’s eloquence did
not produce tbe least reply. It fell like a
thunderbolt upon an iceberg, glanced aloog.
hissed and was extinguished.”
Jefferson Davis, Yancey, Brack ioridgeaod
Toombs, whose names be mentioned, as well
at a set of equally prominent men in tbe
North, General L e cbaracterixed as “poli
ticians,” and •‘they,” said be, “brought on
the war.” He went on to say : “X was op
posed to tbe war at tbe outset, aod X wept
when I beard of the bombardment of Fori
Sumter! I soogbt retirement so I
niigbt not bear or see any of tbe poliiical
leaders, the great end aud aim of whose
statesmanship was to precipitate tbe havoc
that subsequently swept their fields and cities.
But when Virginia, my native State, seced
ed, there was only one course lor me to pur
sue, namely, to follow her fortunes.”
A Hints
An Editor’s Valedictory.
llis editor of a New York State journal
or laying down hit professional labors, em
braces the occasion to give o'terance to
some sentiments *hich are applicable tbe
world over among newspaper renders :
Having for nearly seven years been a
weekly visitor at your homes, kindly sharing
the hospitality, and, we hope, contributing
somewhat to Hu asm fort of thomow, ii oMp
remains to shake hands all around, tnke an
affectionate aod heart-breaking farewell, and
come no more, probably, forever.
Good-bye. Lt has beon spoken oyer the
dead lying in their coffin. It ha* been spoken
when an ocean wns to roll In between part
ing hearts, but it never i* spoken with *ucb
pathos and unction as when a country editor,
with a memory of bis hard grabbings upd
his scant comforts pressing upon him, bunds
hi* valedictory over to the compositor, puts
tbe stub end of his worn out pencil into his
breeches pocket, and shuffleg hi* rheumatic
legs down stairs, to go no more back for
ever.
“We part upon the square." W* pro
claim general amnesty all around. We ex
pire forgiving our enemies, and shall haunt
those who obstinately refuse to forgive us
We arc bound to be forgiven.
Farmers, good-bye. You rirfe the dorsal
column of the country editor’s subscription
list. It could not stand erect withouiyww
help. May the time *oon come when n®
mortgage, like a great morass in the center
of a pleasant meadow, shall obstruct yotr
prosperity. Have yon ever given ns wood
of scrimp pattern and.liiglily perforated
cordage? The act is forgiven Have yon
ever given 11s butter of most unhallowed
flavor ? We hope, after a little, to forgive
even this.
There is a particular class of patrons
whom every departing country editor re
members with special gratitude. It is the
substantial, thoroughly steadfast, patrons—
the men who are never bio wo out of favor
with him by the light gn»ts of ill wind. They
are the men Who cash their bills with thor
oughly professional honor and promptness.
We remember all such men in Groton with
downright aod uncompromising gratitude.
We count their name* with thankfulness.
They are like the brick walls which bold
this office above the dust that vexes tbe
street below.
Support the new management. A country
newspaper needs friends, and cannot afford
to have enemies. Don’t get mad if some
thing fails to suit, and stop yocr patronage.
Don’t prattle all over tbe village about tbe
shortcomings of the editor—co-operate with
and encourage him. Help him to get news,
and see that be has his share of your money
to do business with. Don’t loaf around his
office and steal bis time. Don’t give him
too much good advice. He knows njpre
about his bu«iness, probably, than you do.
Help, but don’t hinder. Again, good-bye.
M'hr Mm Die.
An indignant subscriber to a newspaper
went into the office a fee/ days ago and
ordered his paper stopped because he differed
with the editor io his views on subsoiling
fence rails The editor conceded themin’*
right to stop his paper, and remarked coolly,
as lie looked over the list :
“Do you know Jim Sowers, down at
Hardscrabble?”
“Very well,” said tbe man.
"Well, he stopped bis paper last week be
cause I thought a farmer was a blamed fool
who didn’t know that timothy was a good
thing to graft on huckleberry bushes, and
he died in less than Tour hours. ”
“Gracious! is that so?” asked the aston
ished farmer.
“Yes ; and you know old Geo. Erickson,
down oo Eagle creek ?”
“ Well, I’ve beerd of him ”
“Well,” said the editor gravely, “he
stopped bis paper because he was tbe happy
father of twins, and we congratulated him
on his success so late in life- He fell dead
within twenty minotra. There’s lots of
similar cases, bat it don’t matter ; 111 just
cross yoar name off, though you don’t look
strong, and there’s a bad color on your
nose.”
“See here, Mister Editor,” said tbe sub
scriber, looking somewhat alarmed, “I be
lieve I’ll just keep on another year, because
1 always did like your paper, and, come to
tbink about R, you're a yoong man and some
allowances orter be nude,” and be departed,
satisfied that he bad made a narrow escape
from death.
Thrrr is probably nothing in this transi
tory world that will yield larger and quicker
returns oo tbe amuuDt invested, than poking
a wasp with your finger to see if he feels
“Whoa, Bill!”
The fir«t letter of his name is John SUtel'l®.
He’s a white-eyed party, .and k*rs over in
Cherokee county, Ale., at Newberry's«Hl.
John wa* horn for n newspaper reporter, but
tailed to get a call to »*ch wotk. When a.
♦•uth, John spent a year with an old gen
tleman in the neighborhood a* a boy of ad
work. In the fall, after crops bad been
bp,”, the aid rnaq took ill Xfttfcbi* fcaad
to clean out an old wall that bud gone into
disuse in his pasture-field. He and John
tdnk what ntonsils they expected., to u-e and
went down to the well. They soon cleared
away tbe rails nod bru-h that covered it,
and the aid gent was let down ialp it to
begin operations. XJpAP getting down it.
occurred la him that there was an implo
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meat back at tbe bouse which he could use
with more cose than any they had brought,,
and he dispatched John tor it. About a
hundred yard* from 'he well he passed an
old blind horse, “BHJ,” that was grating in
the field, with g bell uliont his neck. A
happy thought struck him. ne stopped,
communed with himself a moment, walked
np to old “Bill ’ unbuckled tbe bell from hi*
neck, and sauntered leisurely back toward
the well, rattling the bell as much after the
manner of old “Bill” as in hiirr lay. Old
gent hears the bell approaching and recog
nizes it as old "Bill's.”
“That old blind devil will stumble right
In here on me, I'm afraid,”
Bell draws nearer.
In an elevated key :
“You Bill I blast your everlasting liver,
where are you coming to!”
Bell stops a moment, then draws nearer.
In a Hupplieative tone :
‘Oh merciful Lord of heaven and earth,
do, 0 Lord, turn that old blind fooi away.”
Bell comes nearer.
With energy aud emphasis :
“Y-o-u, B-ill—•devil take your old rotten
bide of you, where are you going to ?”
Bell halts a moment, then oomes so near
that old gent, hears “Bill’s" hoofson the
turf above, and even sees tbo dirt crumbling
from the mouth of the well overhead. Breaks
out: . '
"Y o-u, B-ill (oh, precious Saviour) go
back (have mercy) you old dev-it (or lam
killed) O-b, Jo hn, (oh. good Lord) come
b-e-r-e (do help me) and take this internal
(or I perish) eld horse (for Jems sake do,)
away (rom here 1 H-l-i-j—base mercy—
ho-fi-h V.
John rightly concluding that this was
about as much as human nature could bear,
trots away, replace tbe Ml and is back in
a twinkling with the tool. Old guot is sit
ting io tbe bottom of the well wet with
perspiration, and ell in a tremble.
In a faint voice : “Draw me oat, John,
I’m sick.” voaod *ht
Draws him out. Old tellow sees “Bill” io
tbe distance. Shakes his fist at him, and :
“That old blind idiot like to have been
tbe death of me, John, as sure as you are
born.”
A Smart Boy.
A young man culled on bis intended the
other evening, and while waiting for ber to
make her appeurance, he struck up a con
versation with hi* intended brotbcr-iu-law.
After a while the boy asked :
"Does galvanized niggers know mach ?"
"f really can’t say,” replied tbe much
amused young mto.
Aod then silence reigned for a few rao
meots, when the boy resumed hi* conversa
tion :
“Kin you play checkers with your nose?”
“No, I have Dever acquired that accom
plishment.”
“Well, you’d better learn—you hear me !”
“Why?”
“Cause Sla says that you don’t know as
much as a galvunized nigger, but yer dad’s
got lots of stamp* and she’ll marry yon any
how ; and she said when she got a hold of
the old man’s sugar she was a-going to all
of tbe Fourth of July percesbuns and Ice
cream gum-sucks, and let you stay at home
to play checkers with that hollyhock nose of
youro
And when Si* got her hair banged and
came in, she fooad tbe parlor deserted by ail
save her brother, who was innocently tying
the tails of two kittens together, and oing
ing : . . ~ S,Z. nu»AiUij*T /
“0)i, I love the gjbbath-scboo).”
Wlv*s of great men oft remind us
We should pick our wives with ease;
So wo may not leave behind no
Half our natural crop of hair.
— Stw York Graphic.
“Poor mao 1” said the old lady, "and so
he’s really gone at last9B waa he ! Dear,
dear 1 to think bow that if he’d lived two
sTfiifVTftn iurwumi
“New Zealand Cbwruiea.”
Yesterday a fruit dealer on MtuFft etrfwt,
..iqeensed at the Hheiiii* taken Nggfft* leafrvw
with Ms wares displayed at the door, placed
a half gallon of Cayenne pepper in * basket,
labeled U “New Z-aland Cherries,’’ and. linng
it io a conspicuous pl.ice in front of his
stand. In a few minutes the next door
mercflunt sauntered up, Inquired how traffe
was, picked up a New Zealand ch»rrf,
placed it in Ms month, wwd- SwsHeAf IWV &
attend to a customer. The Rev. Dr. Bolly
nexg rbonded to,: obsevued that the yeWn#
fever new* from Memphis was not very
encouraging this morning, andr-ab { ii bad
been years since he had eaten a New
Zeeland cherry ; whereupon he a'e one, re
marked that it wus superb, wined his weep
ing eyes on his coat sleeve, supposed that
New Zealand was getting warmer every
year, wished the denier good- mnrnlbfr, end
departed, lamenting! he growh-.g Weakness
of his eyes in the snnlight A chronic cfcwh
bent the* came up. took n mmibful of cher
ries, spluttered them out, with M-mpreou
tioo, ail over the fruit, stuffed u pear, a
banana ' and a bunch of grape* into his
mouth to lake out the taste, informed the
dealer that he would have him prosecuted
for keeping green fruit, and went down tbe
street to the pomp.
A lady with two children next appeared,
slopped to admire the eherrierf, asked if she
mightn’t just tnsie of them—ah* RM tfever
seen any before—supplied tliu children aod
walked away—walked a wag with a Bee
firry with scorn and anger, while 'be cbd-*
dren set up a howl that brought all the
people to tbe doors ami windows, and drove
all the policemen off the street.* Thus the
fun went on all the morning. The froit
dealer never laughed so much in his life.
The oecopants or the adjacent and opposite
stores and a shoal of small boys soon IHtrned
what was up, and watched and jninetfftffc
ringing roar as e®ch new vietim tried cbere
ries. Finally a solemn-looking countryman
lounged up. inquired tbe price of them ’ere
New Zealand cherries, invested io a pint,
put one in his mouth, took it out aguio.gave
the fruit-dealer a lingering look of mild
reproach, pulled off fiis coat, and “waded
into” him. When “he lelf, the fruit-man
with tendencies to practical jokes had a blue
eye, a red nose, a purple face, a *p?alhed
wrist, and several bushels of fruit scattered
around among the small boys, while the
same ringing roar of laughter was going up
from the lookers-on.— LouitviH* Camrkr-
Joumal.
A Good Woman.— A good woman never
grows old. Years may go over her head,
benevolence and virtue dwell in - her Thcart,
she is as Cheerful ns when the spring of Fife
first opened 10 her vie#. When vie look
upon a good woman, we never,think o( her
age—she looks as charming ns When the
rose of youth first bloomed upon her cheak.
'l'hat rose hav not faded yet ; 1t will never
fade. In her neighborhood st£ n tbe friend
and benefactor, in the church *he devour
worshipper and exemplary Cltrietiao- Who
1 does* not love and rrspect the woman who
has passed her days in acts of kindness and
mercy—who has been the friend of man aud
God—whose whole life has been a. scene o(
kindness aod love, a devotion of lov# and)
religion ? We repeat, such a woman cannot .'
grow old. She will always be fresh and.
buoyant fn spirits, and aptiye in humble
deeds of mercy and benevolence. if the
young lady desires to retain the bloom and)
beauty of youth, let her not yield to the
sray of fashion and folly ; let-her love truth
aid virtue; aod to tbe close of lifb she wlty:
retaifi these feelings which now matte life
appear a garden of sweets ever fresh and*
ever new.
Ths rustic whose ginger-bread is annually
stolen by the elephant was at tbe circus lasi
week, and this time whet) tbe apetiaing
combt was suddenly snatched from bis band
he shook his fist at the huge thief yelled,
while the tears coursed down bis cheeks,.
"Darn yer F—ye double-tailed tool—give that
back here ar 111 knock yer two front teeth
down yer old throat 1”
A Canadian girl carried a twenty-foot
ladder one hundred yards, placed it against
a burning house, clirab-d up and— Well,
she didn’t pat out the fire. She fell back
ward oo a man aod nearly killed bin*.
Thk fact that George Washington’s wife
never asked where he bad bean when be
came home late at night, goes & great way
towards accounting for his extremd truth
fulness.
A xotmo lady receotly dropped one of bee
false eye-brows in a church pew. and it so
badly scared the youog man at her side that
be fainted. He thought it was his mou*-'
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