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TOWN DIRECTORY.
Mayor —Thotnos ft. Barnett.
Commissioners — W.W. runiipseed,r>. B.
Bivins. E G. Harris, E. R. James.
Oi.krk—E. G. Harris.
Trkasurkr—W.-H,- Shell.
Marshals— S. A. Bolding, Mflrsfml.
J. W . Johnson, Deputy.
CJIURCg DIRECTORY.
Methodist ffpisoopAi, Church, (South,)
Rev. Wesley F. Smith, Pastor Fourth
Sabbath in each month. Sunday-school 3
p. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday evoning.
Mrthodist Protestant Church. F irst
Sabbath in each month. Sunday-school 9
A> ..A -
Christian Church, W. S. Fears, Pastor.
Second Sabbath io each month.
BapttßT Church, Rev. .J. P. Lyon, Pas
tor. Third Shlibath In each month.
CIVIC SOCIETIES.
Pink Grovk Lodob, No. 177, F. A. M.
Stated communications, fourth Saturday in
each month.
TKES
“SOI TOH”
SALOON
(In rear of D. B. Bivins’,)
HAMPTON, GEORGIA,
IS KEPT BY
CHARLIE MCCOLLUM,
And is open from 4 o’clock in the morniog
until 10 o'clock at night,
Bqqs liquors of dl (trades
And at prices to suit everybody.
If you want good branch Corn Whiskey,
go to the Bou Ton.
If you want Peach Brandy, from one to
fire years old, call at the Bon Ton.
If you want good Gin go the Bon Ton and
pet a drink at 5 cents or a dime, just as you
want it.
If you want a good smoke go to the Bon
Ton and get a free cigar.
loe always on hand at the Bon Ton.
Nice Lemon Drinks always on hand at the
Bon Too.
NOT THE LARGEST, BUT THE
BESI SELECTED STOCK OF
LIQUORS IN TOWN.
I have just opened my Saloon and am de
termined to make it a succese.
Fair dealing and prompt attention, to all.
Call and see, call and sample, call and price,
before buying elsewhere.
CHARLIE McGOLLVM.
aug‘22;6m
WfE'S LIGHT.
On Western bills the day declines,
The sun sinks low beneath the pines,
And where the tost 'ay lingering shines
Tis softly fading into night.
The tender gloaming, shade on shad*',
domes darkling down on glen and glade,
What time, in beauty bright arrayed,
The stars bloom into sight ;
Then lotre takes np the evening song,
And memory, kindling warm and strong,
Recalls dead hopes in thickening throng,
And paints the past in raellaw light.
On eastern slopes the sunbeams wake,
'1 he soft rays, lighting lawn and lake,
On kindling earth and heaven break
In radiance touched with morning’s dew
The dawn’s young beauties, Ircsh and sweet,
In blissful union move and meet,
Whr.t time the passing shadows fleet,
Of night depart from view.
And love sing 3 soft the mntin song,
And hope purveys, on pinions strong,
The future's blessings, rich and tong.
And pamts their dawn with prescience
true.
Morning and noon and set of sun,
Through all the hours of the day that run,
The light from heovcD, at dawn begun,
The waiting earth with beauty fills.
And nature smiles, in all ler moods,
Through lawn and lake and winds and woods,
What time the heavenly lustre floods,
Aod all her pulses thrills ;
And loves takes up her joyous song,
And hope and memory, true and strong,
Present and past with raptures throng,
And light which heavep’s own love dis
tills! E S. Gregory.
Queen Christina and the New
Orleans Banker—Remarkable
Career of Janies Itobb and
His Daughter.
Queen Christina, the mother of Isabella,
the lat ex Queen of Spain, whose throne is
now occupied by her son Alfonso npoa con
dition that his mother and grandmother
should stay away from Spain, died some
months ago- Her will -taw lately been
brought into Court and its dispositions have
been under consideration. Iler principal
legacies are of large sums to pay for prayers
of her own and her husband’s sonl. Which
husband is not distinctly stated. There were
several who were assigned nt different periods
of her rather festive and eccentric life to the
very serious responsibilities of her conubial
partner. We presume that the will indi
cates which of thpm is meant.
Christina was a hard cose. FTer whole
enreer was one tumult of revolution and in
trigue. Her sonl needs very hard praying
to cleanse it of the sins with which it was
stained. We do not intend to inflict upon
our readers a recital of her long array of
vices, peccadilloes and of the disasters she
brought on Spain and on all persons who
were afflicted with her patronage and enrsed
by association with her. There was, how
ever, one of her victims whose history will
interest not a few of our readers, and will
convey a useful and impressive moral. The
story relates to a former distinguished citi
zen, and, for a long time, a very wealthy
hanker aDd gentleman of great enterprise.
He now lives somewhere in Ohio in reduced
circumstances, and with greatly embittered
reflection:- upon a series of misfortunes and
afflictious such as have rarely gathered
around a man who had acted so creditably
and meritoriously a part in his better days,
and had justly earned the favor of fortune
and the respect and friendship of a large
circle of friends. More than twenty years
ago this gentleman was very wealthy and
was the leader iD all great enterprises. He
was the auther and founder of our principal
railroads, the largest owner of stock io the
old gas company, and established the gas
works in Havana. His bank ranked among
the most substantia! in the city. He was
prwuinentJn the Legislature and in (be. City
Council, and was a most literal patron of
the fine arts, and was the foremost in alf
great schemes to advance the prosperity of
our city.
In obtaining from the Spanish Govern
ment the grant or charter of his company
this gentleman found it necessary to culti
vate intimate relations with Munox, Queen
Christina’s husband, and eventnally to admit
him as a large stockholder and partner in
the Havana Gas Company. The stock of
this company became viry valuable, and
added largely to the wealth of Cbristinv.
She, in gratltnde and recognition- of this
service, tended to our banker an invitation
to visit her at Madrid on the occasion of a
tour he was making of Europe with a
daughter' a young lady of much ambition
and persona! charms. The banker and his
daughter were greatly flattered by the at
tentions lavished upoo them when they vis»
Red the court of Christina at Madrid Plain
HAMPTON, GEORGIA,' FRIDAY, OCTOBER" 24, 1879:'
1 «s AM MUlft ID ffMNNMI Htf 1 W [ •trlf ftMtt O*
Republicans in New Orleans, they were b<*-
wifrlerrd by the splendor, pomp, flatteries
r and attentions of the"most prethntiatrs court*
'of F.nrope. The cunning and
Queen mother greatly nver-fbtsinied the
wealtlf of our banker, and set-to work'to"
negotiate a marriage between the yrtung lady
and one of her fnvoftfe aids and courtiers,
who ranked as a grandee so far as the title
was concerned, but was far from possessing
the fortune and income suited to his gran
diose position at court. The father encour
aged the proposition and promised to pro
mote il in evefy way. The young lad, how
eveV, was hot favorable. A lawyer of this
city, a handsome and. pgreeable young rpan,
had made the only impression ever made on
her heart. She repelled it first the overtures
of the Queen-mother and her grandee suitor;
but, when her father united his influence
with theirs, she at last yielded. There was
a brilliant marriage at Madrid of the rich
American banker’s daughter to the elegant
(Jen. Don St—, which wa3 honored by the
presence of the Queen-mother and her
daughter, Isabella.
The banker hurried homeward, receiving
unfavorable news of the conditiop of his
finances and to complete an elegant palace
to which he desired to welcome his daugh
ter and grandee husband. He had invested
a large sum in pictures, fuitjHure and other
articles of vertn. He bad dupkeated the
order of Queen Christiuu for wines to fill his
oi liar.
On reaching the city our banker found
that the unfavorable intelligence of the con
dition of his affairs bad not been exagger
ated ; that he had snuered enormous losses,"
depreciation of stocks, apd had bioorne aeri
ously embarrassed. The grand plan of his
costly residence was abridged «f several
stories of its intended elevation, and the
orders for its ornumentafion and equipment
were countermanded.- It became necessary
for him to haul in and trim his sails, to
economize and husband his resources, and to
gird up his greaXf'nergies and enterprise and
resume his IqJjors a= a hanker and operator.
Thus, even,with bis greatly reduced capital,
be would in a Ww years restore' - b|B fortwre*
’"and’'resume bis position in the financial
world.
But, alas 1 he had, in the confidence of a
father, informed his daughter of the change
in his condition and suggested a postpone
ment of her visit to her old home. The
young ludy did not act upon the hint, but
hastened to the city, where t-he surprised her
father in the midst of a manly contest with
his financial troubles. The daughter re
minded him of what great need she had for
large sums to maintain the high state into
which she had married. As an heir to her
mother, her claim was a large one. The
withdrawal of so large a sum would cripple
him and prevent the recuperation of his for
tune, and necessitate the sale of his elegant
residence and large domain.
The daughter, however, was inexorable in
her demands. It was through the father’s
influence she had married the Spanish graD
dee. lie had instigated her visit and re
quired her to exact from her father the
payment of the sum doe her. She became
his most importunate and unrelenting cred
itor ; placed her claim in the bands of a
lawyer, compelled her father to make large
sacrifices of securities, and finally to sell bis
elegant estabfishfndnt on Washington avenue,
with all its valuable pictures, precious ar
ticles of vertu aDd arr, and its unequaled
cellar of the heel wines ever imported. Thus
our banker exhausted himself to satisfy the
demands of his daughter, who returned to
Madrid laden with the remnants ol a once
splendid fortune, which she confided to her
Hidalgo husband. He quickly squandered
the same on his own pleasures, aDd then
growing cold and neglectful of bis wife, she
abandoned him, and returning to the United
States, has ever since lived in gloomy retire
ment and straitened circumstances. Tliuh
one of the most liberal and enterprising of
our merchants and bankers w«a driven from
our city. He fixed hia residence at the
North, engaged again in business, and in a
measure regained a high position in the
financial world. Wbat have been the vicis
situdes and incidents of his career for the
last fifteen years we are not informed, nor
are curious to know, since learning of bis
desolute and secluded retirement from the
active world, aDd bis reduced circumstaooes.
His elegant residence on Washington
avenue, with all its costly pictures and
highly improved grounds, is now occupied
by our wealthiest citiz n. a great planter and
merchant grid bachelor, who, having no re
lative? in the world and no creditors. Is little
disturbed with anxieties respecting the dis
position of his magnificent estate after his
death.— Seu' Orkana Democrat.
Whbn men grow virtuoas in their old
•ge, they art merely making a sacrifice to
(iod of the
**** The Ittident of T T |»snl;».
Mob. Mary Hokit;, in her i LUbfcof Fred
toica Bremer.” tells the following story,
pleasant that it ought
if<i? fef * ln «>
Tfcpre«»». b>-tt»' vartyynrtto tW* can-*
ftiry, h TFiwtlwp
**»n same:rtf= j* ctoUvfle tfmpnnjwnsj jm'4*
of the public klWllk»'4tf a toorov
,>l»|nf-af the geterenr ji gwW'vß r**i
tif-il giifl, was seen approach Ha them on her
""l ?•«*■*.
»4* v , T* 1
-&<ngenlp.|l|e f>uWlyrvlt
hi
taugh.il. tiepf to
+rn, s> .riAno—*»*» *
g“V>r.l ton ' fir**'
*a«r *4tirfei MW <*tl. «*» • mfl
*«m*i bwi* even «pture ttv purpose'if
***
(toa>W*d> ktwtto, Itowhf llMp
id tees-Klfe rkenv they wbi ltf «P
saij s[leaking to. the governor's d. ligh
ter,v , -®‘<
•‘lt entirely rests witbtprolten to maltetoy
fortni.e.”
■ ‘ Row So ?" demanded yibe, grHkrty amazed
* “I am a poor student,’* said he, ‘‘Hie son
a widow. If Frohca would condescend
tb (live me a kiss, I should win a large sum
of money, which, enabling me to eeutfrtue
Uiy*studics, would relieve my tnoiher of u
groat anxiety.”
*ii success depends on so small a thing,”
said the innocent gfrf, ‘‘l can but comply
and therewith, sweetly blu-hiug. hl>o gave
kiss, jwH as « he i*d bee brother.
** Without a thoojrht rrT wkhik iJoTug, TR2
young girl went to church, and afterwards
told her fattier of the encounter.
The next day the governor summoned the
bold student to his presence, anxious to see
the sort of person who hod thus dared to
accost his daughter.
But the young man’s modest demeanor nt
once favorably impressed him. He heard
his story, and was so well pleased that he
invited him to dine ut the cnstle twice a
week.
In about a year the young lady mnrried
the stndent whose fortune Rhe had thus tnado,
and who is at the present day one of the
most celebrated Swedish philologists. ILs
amiable wile died a few years since.
EsHity on Woman.
The following is from the Eureka (Ncv.)
Sentinel:
After man came woman.
And she has been alter him ever since.
She is a person of free extraction, being
made of man’s rib.
I don’t know why Adam wanted to fool
away his ribs in that way, but I suppose be
wns not accountable for all he did.
It costs more to keep a woman than three
dogs and a shot-gun.
Bat she pays you back with interest—by
giving you a houseful of children to keep
you awake all night and smear molasses
candy over your Sauday cont. Besides, a
wife is a very convenient article to have
around the bouse.
She is handy to swear at whenever you
cut yourself with a r»e >r, and don’t feel like
blaming yoarself.
Woman is the superior being in Massa
chusetts.
There are about 60,000 more of her sex
than males in that State.
This accounts for the terrified, bunted
down expression of the single mao who baa
emigrated from the East.
Woman is not created perfect.
She has her faults, such as false hair, false
complexion, and eo on.
But she is a great deal better tbau her
neighbor, and she knows it.
Eve was a woman.
She must have bepn a model wife, too,
for ;t cost Adam nothing to keep htr in
clothes
Still. 1 don’t think she was happy.
She couldn’t go to sewing circles and air
her information about everybody sb" knew,
nor excite the envy of other Ibdies by wear
ing her new winter bonnet to church.
Neither could she hang over the back
fence and talk with her near neighbor.
Alt these blessed privileges wete denied
her.
Witj flte Lamp Went Onitf.
Voltt time you go out on the Michigan
Qyntral railroad, take a <ei|t on the right
v h:*f>cj,side gf the car so that yoh mey Notice,
(vibg*t ten miWadown the read, a little old
jtfd (üßTttthonae. Th* Dnrt»i*s will b« down,
ItWiMM shot, and tall weeds ami rank .
mretpMMOl Qrei ills flying tfkwctk fin the
Mrwfcfwd-a dkammddtogw.'Knnrßoyssr* lived
■dMMg pMda# tedtplccadc »‘Wh‘ keeping of
wqpMs wsakidtaimd « wld*«r*rT sh»!
tffrOse wtw» burn il her were dot nworo «| they
fact. ; Sfce livid all atony, having tody a bit
lead,- Md beibg didwl l«y kinthtotiglibois
tte »istf.e»ongh to suppty her watks> ■h'V'Ti
IBweirttlJn'ars agacshitn her child felt home
to Vcret a Vkdrnf de**th 1 art the snrtu rond.
the men on rhe fads tiecamn- Inters ■ d in
Bid fafm-hmm H).m iflifli tktap)
saw Amtorighf tight oncmt thn lrtidows
>U««ppa arfiJwwdf ispHhtotoyHn ftowvretaigl^
totfhgpobi stlie VaMs*oWr wltigh He uhoel
xltoortcred; ami the engfurier Wtmitofe.
r4t»s#ml.x»l#fcg totup i*as*tkere "tkei next
wight, and tiro m xt. and h was never iiissed
-a sinffto tsrfght anSdi tow iwttdn# tfTftl
r Aon<44»fjov*i OMiNitob rtspdvedtrf*'huebiuid
1 awdtttil.lrelwtoplcbWlwriß faith i rtteydsTtffig'
tgtmw'toa Ikafr' tiiwßt«»' frail men
wlod found that tbMlahtphwon lor HlOl , cUT
[ tlgy staSctwiWbr M eve
. himl,
gt toa*gbri#r-;gWb« , illcW‘|’*irt»
dKeatoty-ibnmglotto dtortwoss , .
r HHuoil-rfight, oldf : NdnhyufcOpd
yoa W .anitilsup iidoa m* id |
Winter and shmmer the ifgHt was there
Winter and summer the train men
for it, and the more thoughtful ones oftett
left a bit of money with the itation men be
ynnd *t« help the oW woman keep the bright
rays shining. The* lamp wns not there for
one train, but for nil. am! all men understood
the sentiment and appreciated It.
One *da+k night not Inlig ago. when'the
wind howled arid tWfe kiln beat fiercely
agaitist headlight and cab, the «n«to<s.ra
again and again, as one suddenly misses »<i
old Innd-mark in a city, aid when they
failed to find it the hand instinctively went
up to the throttle, as if danger lurked on
the curve below. Fetch train aboard that
night looked lor Ihe signal, became anxious
at its absence, snd made inquiries at the
stations above aod below. Ntxt daymen
went down to the little old house, fearing old
Nanny might be ill. There sat the lamp in
the window still, bat the oil was exhausted.
In her bed, seeming to have only fallen
asleep, was the poor old woman, cold amt
deud. Life and lump bad gone out together;
and men of rough look and hardened heart
replied, as they heard the new* :
“Poor old woman! May her spirit rest
la heaven 1" Detroit Free Preu,
How Cortlu*ge Appears To-day.
The New York of Antiquity, as Carthage
may fairly be called, Is so essentially a thing
of the p»Rt that to approach it by railway
appears quite a solecism. Rome and Da
mascus are still living cities, and there i»
nothing onnatural in entering one by train
and the other by stage; but it certainly does
seem incongruous to rattle up in a well-cu h
ioned steam car, with a first class ticket in
one's pocket, to the site of a capital whose
independent existence ended 2,000 years ago
Nevertheless, the spot is well worth visiting,
if only lor the sake of the cordial welcome
and inexhaustible information given to all
comers by good Father Bresson, of the
French mission, whose neat little chapel of
St. Louis, with its low, white w»H am. em
bowering foliage, marks the spot where the.
last of the crusading Rings of France per
ished ruthlessly in 1270- From the central
point, ooce the oetual citadel of Carthage,
what is left pf the futnous city may be taken
in at a glance. In the gurdeti of the chapel
itself, a few uneven blocks of fire-charred
stone murk the site of the Temple of ACscu
lapins, which the last defenders of Carthage
filed over their own bead? when all was lost
On the summit of the same ridge one soli
tary fragment of crumbling masonry repre
sents the palace of Dido. I lie Temp e or
Jupiter, where Hunotbab-wore bis fatal oath
fit eternal enmity to Rome, shows its balf
deslroytd foundation through heaps of rub
bish, a little to the right; while all around
the buse of the hill he, thick as bail, the
smooth, round sling stones tb&t dealt death
among the Roman kgiouafies as they came
charging np the slope on a bright summer
morning in 146 B. U. Far out on the plain
the course of Adrian’s aqueduct is marked
by a line of broken arches, bin! a little Arab
village stands on the spot where Regulus
fought his last battle, while a vast hollow on
aiihej side otth- railway httWY'i Uw site ql
lie famonS riretf* Where Hartyrs of
durik»fr« -> died lor their faith. This smooth
plateau, sloping down to the are, so thickly
•trefn with rui#s Unit evory j stop crushes
some Iragment of the ancient city., was once
the fusfifonaWe quarter of the Panic bena
monde.tb'terser! by the (Tirflfligenfan Broad
way r toW T-iu Cre'•!«#,.lewteig to the great
•tneatqr.wfin*. vircula* -.bgseawnt is still
jjtp Jjfrypaiys of the
jrnm'V'qg'.. On the 0/ the hill above
atfU fiftgw o‘?ew trnces of the forV'thnt de
4wfle<winify»;* lost and
ecinßmT wi. aii, w >n»o rrservoir
rtvenlwdiwiug the
deep, still water beneath, have alt ttje efli-ct
of t a buijy qvej a Venetian
canal Foreign iMter. .rr Hm l
** fie fllmrintc 1
; wurried « farmygirl, with
whom he fell in love wttfle <f Itof worked 10-0i%in,.0
0i%in,. 0 irre g° lar
in his (tie, and rp the mo«t -e. ions
h) gonductiiig.Jps <iotney|ic auiirs.
Nfffon thn it eV ler of a country
-qaire, ai d lire.f sntlS* He
rhiffuffTwhile she
was a-Wy, Aknt'rf Wls, wlm could
naib d»re iho fewrttlnl Upon her;
sofßtoff separated-' Subsequently, however,
idto r.sbienfdjgijd-khcj filWi tfileiwble happy.
were
A”W x M*«e in the
vm#* *»^sf in ,hfl
innriiaf yiiws were, sacredly observed, and
.HToo
Sluikspeare loved and wedded a farmer’s
vows,
but w 8 isfitrM ? hAr.lly any fhe sAMiIV tlie
bard himself Like most of the grrttf poets,
lie sßoftol too little dHcrlmftiafion in be-
RtowtAgdKa-nfteoiihns on the other set.
Washington married a woman wKh two
children. It is enough to say she was worthy
of lorn and they lived aa married people
should live—in perfect harmony with each
other. „ .«*,// A
John Adams married the dapgUtgr of a
F’resbvterian clergyman. Her father ob
.jecjedngm account of Jofin being m lawyer.
He hud ii bad opinion of the morals of the
provision.
John Howard, the great philanthropist,
married his nurse. 1 She Was altogether be
neath him in social fife and Intellectual
capacity, and, besides this, was fifty two
years old, while he was but twenty-five He
wouldn’t take “No” for an answer, and they
were married and lived happily nntil she
died, which occurred two yearn afterwards:
Peter the Great of Russia married a
peasant. She made aa excellent wife and a
sagacious Empress
Humboldt married a poor girl becnp«e he
loved her. Of course they were happy.
It is not generally known that Jackson
married a lady whose husband was still liv
ing. Bite was an uneducated but amiable
woman, and was most devoutly attached to
the old warrior and statesman.
John C. Calhoun married his cousin, and
their children, fortunately, were neither dis
eased nor idiotic ; but they did not evince
the talent of the great Slate's rights advo
cate.
About Womhn or Twrsty-Fivb —The
man who meets and loves the woman of
twenty-five is truly fortunate, and she is
equally fortunate jo meeting and loving him,
says a writer in a feminine j urual. At
that age she seldom deceives. She may not
have, she is not likely to have then, her first
sentimental experience; but such experience
at such an ace is more than sentimental and
rarely ever fleeting. She looks back at the
youths she imagined she was enamored of
between sixteen or eighteen, or of'en twCnty
two, and they are more than indifferent or
fepeltar.t to her—they are ridinjloas, and io
jo me sort she, u« she then was, is ridiculous
to herself She cannot but be grateful to
her destiny that her sympathies and affec
tions have been reserved lor a' worthy ob
ject and a higher end. At twenty-five, if
ever, a woman knows and esteems herself.
She is less liable to emotional or mental
mistakes; far surer of her fortune, because
she f els that her fate is, to a certain extent,
within her own hands Not only is she love
lier and more lovable, broader and stronger
than she his been, but her wedded hap
piness and powers of endurance are In a
manO' r guaranteed.
The Rev. Mr. A—— was more eminent
in bis day for the brilliancy of his imagina
tion than the force of his logic At one
time he was preaching on the “ministry of
in the peroration he suddenly
observed : “1 bear a whisper !** The change
of (one startled the deabon. who sat belu* f
from a drowsy mood, and springing to his
feet, he said, "I guess it’s the hoj 3 ' u
na is