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VOL. IV.; Kates. Onesqttare, fifcst insertion $ 75 finch subsequent insertion 50 One square three months n 00 One square six. months 10 00 One square twelve months 15 00 Quarter column twelve months... .10 00 Half months i.. 40 00 Ifn'n colrfmn ftot , lve l "W>hihs , ....'.. 60 00 One column twelve months 100 00 o£j?“Ten lines or less considered a square. A II 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 whethiM" he fig* subscribed or not—is responsible for the payment. 2 If a person orders his paper discontin ued, he must pay all arrearages,, or the pub lisher may continue to send it until payment i« made, and collect the whole amount, whether the paper Is taken from the office or n >t. 3. The courts have decided that refhsimr to take newspapers and periodicals from the postoffice, or removing and leaving therfi un-‘ culled for, 1s 'pftma' facie evidence of inten tional frand. 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