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TOWN DIRECTORY.
Mayor —Thomas G. Rarnett.
(Commissioners—W.W. Pnrnipseed, D. R.
Bivins. E G. Harris, K. It. James.
Clerk —E. G Harris.
Treasurer— W. S. Shell.
Marshals—S. A. Beldiog, Marshal.
L. H. Moore, Deputy.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
Methodist Episcopal Church, (South.)
Rev. Wesley F. Smith, Pastor Fourth
Sabbath in each month Sunday-school 3
p. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening
Methodist Protestant CtiUßcn, First
fiabbath in each month. Sunday-school 9
A. M.
Christian Church, W. S. Fears, Pastor.
Reoond Sabbath in each month.
Baptist Church, Rev. J. P. I.von, Pas
tor. Third Sabbath in each month.
CIVIC SOCIETIES.
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fitated communications, fourth Saturday in
each month.
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THE
“BOH TON
SALOON
(In roar of D. B. Bivins’.)
HAMPTON, GEORGIA,
IS KEPT BY
CHARLIE MCCOLLUM,
And i* open from 4 o'clock in the morning
until 10 o'clock at night.
Good Liquors of all trades
And at prices to suit every body.
If you want good branch Corn Whiskey,
go to the Bon Ton.
If you want Peach Brandy, from one to
five years old, call at the Bon Ton.
If yon want good Gin go the Bon Ton and
get a drink at 5 cents or a dime, just as you
want it.
If yon 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 band at the
Bon Ton.
AW THE LARGEST, BUT THE
BEST SELECTED STOCK OF
LIQUORS IN TOWS.
I have jnst opened my Saloon and am de
termined to make it a success.
Fair dealing and prompt attention to all
Cali and see, call and sample, cAI and price,
before buying elsewhere.
CHARLIE McCOLLUM.
OUR EARLY FRIESDS.
Flow sweet to have our early friends
Keep gentle, fond and true ;
Belter to ding to one old friend,
Than find a d> *>n new ;
Our early friends, if lew and far,
Can bless our hearts muc h more
Than newer friends. i( true they are
Till lift’s brief day is o’er.
Our early friends to us exptess
The happiness they feel,
And only hide the bitterness
They tremble to reveal ;
The holy sympathy they leave
Our anxious thoughts employ ;
I'd rather weep with those I love,
Thau share a stranger’s joy.
In ihe grand ages yet to be,
Wlieie faith finds sweet repose.
Fond friendship in full constancy
Shall blossom as the rose !
Oh, who would love for self alone,
Or for one’s own sweet will ?
A heart congenial to our own,
All aching voids must fill !
Our early friends are always best ;
They shared nur morning days—
Their welcomes ever sweetly fall
We love their words of praise 1
For fame is hut a scentless flower.
Though it be crowned with gold ;
But friendship like the sweetest rose,
Hides perlunie in eoch fold.
Old Uncle John Rosser and fl:e
Billy Goat.
Speaking of these individuals, it occurs to
me that the latter, the genus we mean, has
never been rightly appreciated. Billy (or
William, us he should more properly be
culled, from the gravity and respectability
ol his appearance and manner) like many
other meritorious individuals, has been in a
great measure overlooked ; and yet he is a
character of no mean pretensions and claims
to respect. Observe him. What a stately
part—how dignified—how decisive and sol
dierly in his movermots —not a bully and
popinjay strutting and puffing about like a
cock, nor chattering and gimcracking like a
baboon, nor putting on ponderous airs of
dignity like that overrated eid fogy snob,
the lion ; permitting no unbecoming or un
seemly liberties, yet familiar enough in his
way when he likes to be, and preferring civ
ilized life arid neighborhood to the savage
habits of that old hermit of tire jungle
Docile and tractable, too, is Billy, “except
when roused,” and even then carrying his
indignation only to Christian extremes, and
not tearing out entrails and beating out
brains like a filibuster or one of your fash
ionable herots See bow domestic the old
fellow is. How he puts himself at the head
of the harem and orders things about wi;lt a
sedate and self-appreciative authority, like
a gentleman at his inn, aod keeps his wives
straight, but in a quiet, patriarchal, Turk
like way ; never leaving his own family for
a friend’s, and never soepect'ng fidelity—un
like biped specimens of the gender who wear
horns. To be sure, William, like every
other fine gentleman, goes perfumed, and
there may be some questions of taste as to
the kind ; but dc gustibos aDd so forth, as
Governor C****** would have said if he
had put him in bis last message. Then look
at his eountenonce. Did you ever see any
thing more grave or full of respectability?
Did you ever see more elegant repose of
manner? And his beard, does not the cut
and make of that remind us of some of our
most valued and fasb'onable acquaintances ?
A braver fellow than William never lived ;
for. consider, that like some of our politicians
and generals, his only armour is the thick
ness of his skull. Who of them can make
more out of the hardness of his pate and his
horns than Gulielmus? Washington City
can't show one.
But it was oot of the genus but of the
particular individual we designed to speak.
Billy Rosser—as be was named after his
owner—was somewhat peculiar, as much so
as the “charming Miss Julia ” He had got
to be a punlic character, and, like other
public characters, he was a little spoiled by
tbe attention he received. lie was naturally
a fellow of very good parts, and of excellent
disposition; but he bad been so pelted and
deferred to—the little negroes, dogs and
“other varmints” on the plantation had so
flattered his prowess, by retreating before
him and letting him have bis own way, that
he had run himself down to the level of a
regular filibuster, pitching into everything
and everybody that be couid get to ; and
th.ts not only at home, but “be quit bis own
to stand on foreign ground ” He o-ed to
come to the grocery bard-by and, not stand
ing on ceremony, would walk straight in,
helping biroself to bits of cheesejttLiii^iiMMfr
HAMPTON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1879.
tried to teach him to drink H e heeltap® in
'he glasses and to chew tobacco ; but it is
only justice to Billy to say he was too much
of a gentleman to indulge in such practices.
Billy—like another Rilly we wot of—be -
longed to tbe “Pilch-in school,” and made a
puss at everything that was going that
promised benefit or amusement. His pranks
were sometimes very diverting : fot instance,
at the cninp-mecting, where William came
walking up, and seeing worthy old brother
Alla n, on.a hot ev ning after o hearty meal,
seated under a tree, nodding under the
sedative influence of the Rev. Bawl’s dis
course, took it for n banter; and, m .king
tin to him. hit him such a spat between the
eyes as made him think another set of lulling
stars had come down
Old Uncle John Rosser was as full of fun
a® Billy. He whs culled the laughing phil
osopher. This designation whs given him
in consequence of his having » disease—a
laughing mania—a cacoetbes ridentis ,• he
“took on” us if possessid by a laughing devil
—would suddenly be taken und shake him
sell all over until he fell down in a fit of
laughing. He whs always carrying on jokes
and running rigs, verbal ur>d practical He
was a large, fat fellow ; bat nntil tbo event
we shall pioeeed to relate, (if we ever do get
to i') rather a good looki■ g man for his size.
Two humorists cannot get along in the
same neighborhood any more than two
country doctors ; indeed two rivals of any
sort (duellists excepted ; they ate always
triemls,) in a country neighborhood are
always sure, sooner or later, to have a falling
out. So it was with John and Billy. Divers
w r, re the schemes and tricks tried by Rosser
on William—such as filling c.pplrs with
Scotch Bimfl and giving them to Billy until
he hud taken us much of the savory weed
into his mouth us your regular lover of
Cavendish or Honey Dew.
Uncle John’s jovial features were com
manded by a nose which was the delight of
his life. It was a regular cut water. The
style of its architecture was half Dutch, half
Roman, none of your little stock-up, turn
ups, a a if ashamed of, or too proud for bis
mouth—nor one of your angular, thread
paper concerns, sticking to a round face like
the shadow-caster on a sun dial ; but a nose
that was a nose—strong, well defined, well
ent out, well hollowed, well proportioned,
and well set on the face. He was fond of
stroking and caressing it, arid, being of a
mu-icul tn.ii, would blow out a cisrou on it
occasionally, that could bring the boys to
dinner like a cow’s horn. Ah me, pride will
have a fall and so did that nose. But lam
anticipating.
On a ci rtilin Sunday morning, Uncle John
had gone to his blacksmith’s shop to do a
little work on a wagon which be had m-g
lected the evening before, in consequence of
a call he had to a shooting match—an inno
cent pastime which be much affected. He
was enjoying alone his felicitations, with
which he was regaling bis mind at that calm
period, over the good fortune he had met
with in winning a quarter of beef, by a sho'
that had covered the cross and knocked the
black out of tbe mark ; aod no doubt felt
piously grateful for the success of his adven
ture. lie had nearly finished the job—there
being but little work to be done on the tire
—fixing a nail or two or something of the
sort. As the work was lying on the ground
in the shop, he had got down on his knees to
it, and was bending over it, habited in his
red fl innel shirt which Uncle John used to
wear of hot days under the idea that it was
cooler—by making him perspire freely.
Billy was, about the sumu time, walking
leisurely around the premises, observing
what was going on, and picking up such
items of interest as might present themselves
to bis notice Seeing the red shirt, Billy’s
anger grew somewhat ii.fl,lined ; for nothing
so arou-ed William’s combative propensi
ties as tbit martial color. He did not
wait to see whether there was a man in
it; and probably if he had, it would no!
have altered his purpose. So beckoning
and nodding his signal to the object, ai d
viewing only the rnovoaj.'mts of Uncle John in
return, which be construed to be a challenge.
Billy came up to withio a few feet, backed
a step or two. und then taking aim. catnr
clalteriog on towards the object of assault.
Uncle John had only time to get btmsel!
half straightened before Billy took him a
clew on the side of the bead which sent him
reeling back, and would probably have
kuocked bim seoseless. but that, fortunatel.,
his bead fell into the water trough behind
Billy, seeing what he had done, bleated out
his surprise, and retreated in great haste
to a sate distance from hi» irate foe.
As soon »s the stars hud ceus»d falling,
and Uncle John had satisfied himself that
it was oot the devil that bud come after
bim lor breakiug the Subbulh.Uncle John
Uncle John action stood close to resolution.
A® the old hunter said of General Jackson,
when it was objected to the hero that he
had ordered a f.-w Indian women and chil
dren to be shot one morning. Uncle John
w.is ‘a ponetil mao.” As to cudgelling
t\ iliiatn—thnt was out of the question;
for William contumaciously refused 10 come
widen cudgelling distance—hut bore of?
keeping a vague watch on Uncle John’s
movements, but as if he were going about
bis busiuesa and preferred staying where he
was—and was not at all alarming or afraid
of Uncle John—aa many other would-be
great, fighters before and since have done.
Alter divers abortive efforts to bring
Billy within striking distance, u brilliant
iVa illuminit'd John’s understanding. He
be had in the shop a kettle, or pot. kept
there to be repaired ; it just aboot fit bis
head by moving the hair from his tem
ples: Uncle John thought if he could be
guile Bill to 'cake aooiher butt at him he
would, by suddenly dneking his head, bring
Billy’s head io contact with the iron legs
of the pot ar.d damage his countenance
eons durably ; so covering up his face px
cept the eves, taking of! his red flannel shirt
and barging it In-fore him he got on all fours
and approached his enemy. Everything
soceoedcd admirably. Billy came op and
reconnoitred—Unde John shook the red
at him in the most provoking style; he
tsonlrd and tantmiz d him until no goat on
earth eonld have stood it.
Billy, like other bulliei, though as brave
ms common, whs no bre.ver. He was a little
dubious. He wanted to S“C whether his
challenger was anxious to fight before he
concluded whether he wauled himself to
fight—for there's a great dca' of human na
ture in h goat Uncle John pretended to
retreat, and began backing. Billy straight
way found himself very pugnacious. He
advanced—ieared up bleated backed—
and nodded and writhed his Deck and put on
terrible swash-booklet airs, as if he were go
ing to fear op things and do wonders Uncle
John still made pretence of backing oat, and
Billy, nerving himself lor h vigorous onset,
c.nne charging. Just in time Uncle John
threw down hi? heud and let Billy drive at
the spikes a plorob. It was a dead level
shot. Billy bounded hack, bleated, shook
bis head, dropped his tail and galloped off.
But what Iteeame of Uncle John? Unfor
tunately the shock knocked the pot down over
his ears—tbe run breaking his nose as it
Came down—nod sent him reeling back on
the ground He tried to ;1 up, and par
tially succeeded ; but how get the pot oG ?
It wouldn’t come back any more—it was a
tight fit and a fixture. Ids wos nearly
smothered No one was near. He couldn't
see how to get away, and lie couldn’t holler
II- laid there for several hours nearly dead.
At length a negro came along and gave the
alarm Some of tbe neighbors got together ;
but they could not get tbe pot off; they
stretched Uncle John’s neck until he used to
say it wur as long as tin Indian heo’s —but
it would not do No farther time could be
lost. So they raised him up, pat his bead
on .the anvil, und with the hammer broke the
pot; but the blow knocked Uocle John into
the middle of the next wek—at least it was
then before he found himself in his senses
When he ctttr.e to In: m ide signs tor them *o
take the bandages off his face ; they had
splintered his no j « —the backbone of it and
some of the ribs having been broken. As soon
as this was doue he commenced shukmg tli
over and laughing all over. When be bad
got to the first stopi ing place they asked
bun what was tbe matter —what was he
laughiog at ? Said he: “H-I haw! lie I
I am—he! he! I'm a laughing—haw !
haw! he!—at the way—he! haw! he!—
the way 1 fooled that goat! He! he! haw !
—cite haw ! Liws-a-mercy !”
A Novel Idea—\lr. J. B. Aken, of
Franklin, who is responsible for a great
many new and valuable ideas, hands the
Merrimack Journal a slip on which is
printed a novrl method of arranging words
in printing books, etc. We rcprlut the
slip, which is its own explanation. Read the
first lioe from tbe left to right, the second
from right to left, and so alternately, and just
see how much time you save iu reading it:
“The way I would propo«“ is simple,
those to acceptable he would think 1 aod
gtveo to study or much reading. I have
or page the aoioss lines when noticed
columns are of considerable length, that
trace to eye the to tiiesume more is- it
its way back across tbe page or column
; line preceding tbe read to was it than
besides, it takes t iiae to do ;t. Tbe way
first the Let : this is suggest would 1
line be printed in the ordinary manner,
the io as then .right to lefi from reading
Hebrew, commence tte reading on the
I -at oo so ami .left to right from line next
t Nnj)o!eon’* Captivity.
In Fulton county, Git., there is now liv
ing an old imn who enjoys the distinction of
having guarded the great Napoleon during
hi* short captivity on the Bif'lpoiphon, pre
vious to his departure for St Helena. Mr.
Gregg, for that is the name of ihe old inun,
is now fighiy-five years of nge, but he is
still in the enjoyment of good health, and
h’s memory seems to be unimpaired. In the
course of a conversation with the veteran
some time ago a few farts were elicited
which will doubtless be of interest to the
ronnv admirers of the French Emp n ror.
Gregg, according to hi* statement, ws®
one of the British in»rine« on the Bclle
rophon. After the Emperor Napoleon, or
Gen BonapartP. as he was stndiously calk'd
by the officers of the vessel, came on board
and surrendered himself to Uapt. Maitland, j
claiming the hospitality of England, he wn® i
assigned a rabin end one of the marines was
always od duty at the door. This post fell j
to Gregg’s lot a number of times, and he
soon began to feel a friendly interest in the
illustrious prisoner.
“How did B naparte look and net ?” I
asked.
“He wa» *hc grandest looking man 1 ever
saw,” replied Gregg. sHe had a splendid
head, dark brown hair and a face like mar
ble. His eyes were light blue, und when in
high spirits his smile whs the sweetest imag
inable.”
“He was chetrful at all times, was he?”
‘Oh, yes; some times he would speak to
me and to the common smlors »r pleasantly
a® you please lie would utter a lew wordi
of English, and then ask if what he said was
correct, aod when we would point out Iris
mistakes as well as we could, he would laugh
like u boy: and then he would turn the
tables by picking fliws in our French. Oh,
he was a rare one, sir.”
“Always in good humor, then?”
“Well, no, sir. Some times he was very
blue, aod then again he would get mud, and.
Lord, sir, how he wouiu swear ’*
“Swear f The great Napoleon swear!"
“Yes, sir, that he did. He would swear
by tbe hour at anyboiy or anything that
crossed his path.”
“How did he pa®® his time ?” I queried.
“He read so ne. and talked with the offi
cers a good deal, and then he was very fond
of pacing the deck. Sometimes he would
shot him-elf up io his cabin all day, but
generally be was walking üboo*, noticing
everything. Nothing seemed to escape him,
and he was in the main very willing to talk
to anybody that came along. Hornetim‘-s
he was very nnassnming, and then again,
considering his position as a prisoner, and all
that, it did look us if he was a little too
hanghty.”
“Did he ever appear at all cowed ?”
“(lowed! Not a bit of it! Why,sir, he
walked the deck as if he owned the vessel
and everybody on it. He would get blue
and mad, as I said before, but he always
carried himself grandly, and everybody, from
the Captain down, showed him the greatest
possible respect. In fact, we all took a
lik : ng to him. and that’s the truth übout it ”
‘‘What w is Napoleon’s height, as near as
you coil'd guess ?”
“Well,” replied old Gregg, meditatively.
“(Lev tel! me that he w»» a little man. hut I
did not think so when I saw him. It was
became I was a raw youth, I suppose, and
the sigh* of the greatest man in the world’s
history dazi'ed me. But, then, his manner
was olwuys so dignified and impressive that
we never thought of hi* small statnre ”
“What was the opinion of those on the
Bellerqphon in reference to the Emperor’s
future 1”
“Why. sir. we all thought that lie wonld
be received as England's guest, snd by some
provision in the treaty be allowed a pension, j
on condition of not again taking up arm*.
Wg bad no idea of anything else, aod. sir. j
our men shed tears of humiliation when they
learned that BonapartP was not to be per
mitted to land on English soil—they did. sir.
arid oar officers, too, were a good deal ruffl'd
—tod they felt that the British Government
j-wo# doing s<rnie(hing that wr.s mean, petty
j and Wpious ’’— Detroit Fret Press.
The Passage of the Red Sea.
R j etir.g the theory either that the Bed
Sea extended at thin time us 'ar aa tbe Bitter
j Lakes, or that tbs Israelites crossed by the
j Serhoinai) box, (Ijrngsch’a theory.) Dr.
1 Bartlett identifies wi'h the Pthahi
; rotb of the Bible contends that the He
j brews crossed the Rt;d Sea south of Sues by
1 a passage fordable tyi low water. In pre
paring this passage lor bis people God
worked through • 'falural agencies.” Let ns
; hear wtiat he savs/concerning the effect of
nia; > of the Ikai
by many witnesses Tfehendorf mentions
how the ebb is increased by a northeast
wind. Wellsted says that the rise and fall
of the water In the Arabian Gulf is nowhere
so dependent upon the wind as at .Suez: that
when a long-continued northeast wind is
followed by a southeast wind the watpr sud
denly rises more than six feet, and the north
ern ford, which previously eonld he crossed
on foot, liecomes impassable even for camels.
Schubert mentions that the water north of
Suez is driven so much to the south by a
strong northwest wind, that the gulf can th'n
he ridden through. M de Le c seps mentioned
to me the extraordinary of!‘cts of this win 1
which he had witnessed in such storms ns
occur only at intervals of fifteen and twenty
years. Ho had seen Ihe northern end of tbo
sea in places hlown almost dry, and again
h id °een the waters driven far over the land
toward the Bitter Ltk"S. But the most
d eisive testimony was found on the elabor
ate map of the Maritime Cana! Company,
whieh. while giving the ordinary difference
between high and low tide in a calm at only
eight-tenths of a metre, also states the differ
ence between the highest and lowest known
seas at 324 metres, or ten feet seven inehes,
an amount that more than meets all the
exigencies of thp biblical narrative und forms
a remarkable coincidence with it in regard
to ihe effect of powerful winds on this arm
of tbe sea.
Suppose, now, this strong northeast wind
of extraordinary power blowing Ihe waters
all night, it would make “the sea dry land”
along the shallower region or line of the ford,
leaving the waters still standing io the deep
er places north and south of the shoals; and
so “the waters were divided. And the chil
dren ol Israel went into the m dst of the sea
upon the dry ground,'' etc. That the wind
afterward changed to h different quarter for
the destruction of the Egyptians, though not
asserted, is obviously involved in the method
pursued, and is, perhap*. implied distinctly iu
the statement that in the morning the Isra
elites “saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea
shore.’’ that is, naturally on the eastern shore,
on wh ; ch they themselves were, whither they
wonld not have been driven by an east wind.
The progressive nature of the catastrophe aa
the wuters returned is indicated in the state
ment that the Egypt ians drove their chariots
' heavily, snd attempted to flee before they
were overtaken by the final destruction.—
from Rev. Dr. Bartlett’s New Book
Degenerate Manners.
The “old school" of manners has fallen
into disrepute Sir Charles Qmndison is a
comical rather than a courtly figure to this
(feneration ; and the man whose manners
may be described as Grand isoni an is usually
called a pompous and grandiloquent old prig.
Certainly, the elaborately dressed gentleman,
speaking to a lady only with polished cour
tesy of phrase, and avoiding in her presence
all coarse words and acts, handing hpr in the
minuet with inexpressible grace and defer
ence. and showing an exquisite homage in
every motion, was a difl'rent figure from the
gentleman in a shooting jacket or morning
sock “chaffing” a lady with the freshest
slang, and smoking in her face. They are
imdenyably d IT rent and the latter figure is
wholly free from Gr»ndi«onian elegance and
elaboration. But is he much more truly a
gentleman T fs he our Sidney, onr Chevalier
B ayard, onr Admirable Crichton ? Is that
refined consideration and gentle deference,
which i« the flower of courtesy, ao old-fash
ioned tolly f
The overwrought politeness is made very
ridiculous upon the stage, and Richardson is
undoubtedly hard Trading for the general
consumer of novel*. It is true, also, that
fine morals do not always go with fine man
ners, and that Lovelace had a fascination of
address which John Knox lacked. The chuff
and slang of the Bayard of to-day are at
least decent, and his morals probably purer
than those of the eourtly and punctilious old
Sir It >ger de Coverleys. Possibly ; but it
has been widely said that hypocrisy is the
homage paid by vice to virtue. The good
manners of a bad man are a rich dress upon a
diseased holy. They are the graceful form of
a va*e fnll of dirty water. The liquid may he
pois- nous but the veoel is beautiful. Some
of the worst Isith oioe in the world have a
personal charm that is irresistible. Many a
sta'ely compliment was paid by a gracioady
bowing satyr in lac d velvet coat and periwig
at the court of Louis the Great, and paid
1 for the basest purposes; bot the grace and
the courtesy were borrowed, like plumage of
, living hues to deck carrion. They were not
a part of the baseness, and you do Dot escape
d'rty water by breaking the vase. If the
I older morals were worse than the new. and
the older manners were better, cannot we
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