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The courts l.ave decided that refus'inEr to take newspapers and periodicals from the post office.-Or removing and leaving them un called for, is pnma facie evidence of inten tional fraud. J L - 1 "■ V ■ "“! TOWN DIRECTORY. Mayor —Thomas G. Harnett. f’osnttsstoNF.RS —W. W. Turnipseed,D. B. Bivins, E (4. Harris, E. R. James. Clerk —E. O Harris. Treasurer —VV. S. Shell. Marshals—S. A. Belding, Marshal. L. H. M oore, Deputy, JUDICIARY. A. M. Hperr. - Judge. P. D. Dismuke, - - Solicitor Genera!. Batts—Second Mondays in March and September. Henry—Third Mondays in January and Julv. Monroe—Fourth Mondays in February, and August. Newton—Third Mondays in March and September. Pike—First Mondays in April and Octo ber. Rockdale—Third Monday* in February and and Any nst. Spalding—Firßt Mondays in February and August. Upson—First Mondays in May and No vember. CHURCH DIRECTORY. Methodist Episcopal Church, (South.) Ret., Wesley F. Smith, Castor Fourth Sabbath in each month Sunday-school 3 r. u. Pruyer meeting Wednesday evening Mkthooist Protestant Church. First Sabbath in each month. Sunday-school 9 A. M. Christian Church, W. S. Fears, Pastor. Ke«ond Sabbath in each month. Baptist Church, Rev. J. P. I.von, Pas far. Third Sabbath in each month. DOCTORS. T\R. J. C. TUUNIPSEED will attend to ■l' all calls day or night. Office i resi dence, Hampton. Ga. ItR. W. H PEEBLES 'treats all dis -1 * eases, and will attend to all calls day and night. Office at the Drug Store, Broad Street, Hampton, Ga. BR. D. F. KNOT!' having permanently located in Hafhptoo, oilers his profes sional service* to theoitizens of Hampton and vicinity. All orders left at Mclntosh’s store will receive prompt attention. sp26 DR. N. T. BARNETT tenders his profes sional services citizens of Henry nnd adjoining counties, and will answer calls day or night. Treats all diseases, of what ever nature. Office Stpre. Hnmpfon, Ga. Night (Sajis can be made at niy residence, opposite Berea church. T F PONDER, Dentist, has located in w • Hampton. Ga., and invites the public to call at hfe room, upstairs in the Bivins House, where he will fie fonnd at all hours. \Varrantßall work for twelve months. LAWYERS. CW, HODNE’IT, Attorney ard Coun • sellor at Law. Jcthtobnij Ga. Prompt attention given to all bosioeas. JNO. G. COLDWELL, Attorney at Law. Brodks Station, Ga. Will practice in the counts composing the Coweta and Flint River Circuits. Prompt attention given to commercial and other collections, m C. NOLAN Attorney at Law, Mc- A • Donongh, Georgia. Wilt practice in the counties composing the Flint Circuit; the Supreme Conrf of Georgia, and the Uuited States District Court. WM. T. DICK.EN, Attorney at Law, Me Dohougb, (4a. Will practice in the counties composing the Flint Judicial Cir cuit, the Supreme Court of Georgia, and the United States District Court.. (Office up stairs over W. C. Sloan’s.) apr27-ly GEO. M. NOLAN, Attorney at Law, McDonough, Ga. (Office in Court bouse ) Will practice i« Henry and adjoining conn ties, and in the Supreme and District Courts of Georgia. Prompt attention given to col lections. mcb23-6m JF. WALL. Attorney at Law, f/amp . ton.Ga Will practice fn the counties composing the FKnt Judicial -Cirenit, and the Supreme and District Courts of Georgia Prompt attention given to collections. ocs T?DWARD J. REAGAN, Attorney at ■P law. Office np stairs in the Mclntosh building. Hampton, Ga. Special attention given to commercial and other collections. BF. McCOLLUM Attorney and Conn • seller at L*w, Hampton, Ga. Will practice in Henry, Clayton, Fayette, Coweta Pike, Meriwether, Spalding and Batts gape rior Coarts, and tn the Supreme and United IRISH LOVE-SONG. Ah ! swan of slenderness, dove of tenderness. Jewel of joys, arise 1 The little red laik, like a rosy spark 01 song, to his sun burst flies ; But till you are risen, earih is a prison, Full of my captive sighs. Then wake and discover to your fond lover The morn of yonr matchless eyes. The dawn is dark to me ; bark, oh ! hark to me, Poise of my heart, I prny, And gently gliding ont of thy hiding. Dazzle me with thy day ! And oh ! I’ll fly to thee, singing, and sigh to thee, Passion so sweet and gay, t he lark shall listen, and dew-drops glisten, Laughing on every spray. Alfred Perceval Graves A Poet’s Tribute to a Poet. James F. Field*, the well known literary man. in the course of a lecture on the be lov-d poet, of Scotland, paid this tribute to the author of -‘Auld Lang Syne :’’ In Robert Burns, said he. beat one of the larg est and warmest hearts the world has ever known. Just as Cowper in England, Bnrns in Scotland restored the natural emotions to the lives of the people. His was a rare career—crossing the extremis of fighting against poverty to day at the plow, and handing a duchess to dinner to-morrow. His poetry is to-day the flower of Scotland’s song, and he stands pre-eminent among its lyt'ic bards. His eyes opened upon poverty nnd sorrow, but he mingled much with ele gance and all the titled honor of his time. So I uman, so un f ordmate and so full of genins—what wonder that we so admire the poet while we may not commend the man. His was a hymn, we learn, that awoke his life to poetry. It is not true that he grew up entirely ignorant of bonks, for he had around him in that humble Highland cot tage Shakespeare, Ramsey, Furgnson, Young’s Night Thoughts, and much from which he most have drawn youthful inspira tion. In the i-Am nces upon the early life we must not forget old Jennie Wilson, with her weird, strange stories and ballads of the fairies, and elves and witches that lived nowhere in particular and were consequently, very suspicious personages. Mr. Burns’ poetry and love broke out together in his fifteenth year. Whenever Barns fell in It4ge—and he was constantly doing it—he never stopped half way. There seems no end to the catalogue of his fair ladies Miss Alexander passed by in silence the verses he addressed her ; but she lived to consider the lit.es the greatest honor to her name. The story of Mary Campbell, one of his humble loves, although, perhaps, the most beautiful, is a most pathetic one. His Highland Mary, forever after her untimely death, was buried in his heart. For nearly a hundred years his songs have been humanizing the heart, not only of the people of his native land, hot almost every English speaking nation If you have ever experienced a convivial party that did not know Anld Lang Syne it is more than 1 have. You can count on your fingers the songs that live with the people. Thpre are many poets, hat few song writers. Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, like Burns, were not only poets, but song writers. Song is the very essence of pfietry, and carries by storm the hearts ol the people Borns’ face was like a piece of good news. Judging from his early pictures he must have been beautiful. Sir Walter Scott says he never saw eyes that so literally glowed. Hi* voice was deep and low and full of sympathy, and be was agile and fond of feats of strength and skill. Everybody fell in love with him, and he in torn also fell in love with everybody I have no desire to conceal his errors. Men like Burns show ns the weakttess ol human nature by the bright ness of their genius. There are always moral bosybodies who constitute themselves pablic prosecutors of snch men. Let as not con demn without weighing all sides of a char acter J>ke bis. His heart, let me tell you. was very reverent, and althongh he was prond at times and intemperate and very miscellaneous in his loves, let us not forget that ha was “a man for a’ that.” A man who sat op fnnr nights wre-tling with it. asks this conundrum : “What is the difference between a sailor and a fi e man T” Now, hold yonr breath. ‘-One plows the water and the other hose the wa ter.” A map of this joke will be famished to each new subscriber Whrn a newspaper aragreph opens in laogo.-ge as soft as the bosom of love and as sweet as the tinkle ol a woodland bro«k, it is a'ways safe to conclude that the virtues of ' ■ ——i HAMPTON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1879. The Tzar, We have received from a soflree of which the authenticity is beyond question the fol lowing curiously interesting information respecting the present personal condition of his Majesty the t'ztr of Russia. Our infor mation is not second-hand. It comes di rectly from one thoroughly informed in his own person of the facts which he has com municated to us. The Czar, for some time past, has been a prey not only to constant apprehension* lor life life, but to feelings of remorse for what he has done, and of fear for the punishment that awaits him after death. He has endeavored in vain, by the study of modern philosophy, to free himself front the belief in the immortality of the | soul ami in the punishment that awaits the wicked in the *orld to come. His mind has refused to accept the negative conclu sions of the modern skeptics whose works he has read or with whom he has personally conversed, nnd he is to-day, even more than , he was in his earlier years, a thorough be- j liever in the orthodox doctrines of Chris- J liauity held in common by the Greek and the Roman Church He believes that he ' has led a had life, ar. extremely had life ; and he despairs of finding means for the : atonement of his evil deeds, even had he the moral strength to accept these means, which he does not possess. The thought of abdi cation often possesses hint, and at times he seems to have made up his mind to cut the j fatal knots which surround him, and to make j his escape to England or to France, leaving Russia to such fate as might befall it after his departure ; hut the irresolute'elenmnts in his character always counteract this impose, and he remains drifting on from bad to worse. Within a recent period he has sought re lief from his anxieties and fears by excessive indulgence in strong wines and in spirits Not nnfrequently has his Majesty been so intoxicat d at an early hour of the day that lie wa9 incapable of transacting any basin' ss, and could only he taken care of and induced to slumber. Upon awnkenii g from one of these unnatural sleeps, the Czir presents a pitiable appearance ; his checks are sunken and haggard, his eye? are bloodshot ; his expre-sion is that of one who anticipates a terrible calamity which may fall upon him at any moment. The precautions taken for his safety, not only when he goes outside of the walls of one of his palaces, hut even while in the supposed sanctity of his own apartments, are curiously minute and counter-checking 'There appears to be no absolute trust re posed in any one. Every one about his Majesty’s person is watched hv some one else, and even his most confidential attend ants feel that they are under the most vigi lant, unceasing, and suspicious espionage. When the Czar chooses to drive through the streets of hjs Capital, when he makes a rail way journey, and even when, as now, he is supposed to be enjoying him«e!f at Livadia, he knows that he is surrounded by a corps of persons specially detailed to watch over his safety ; and yet he fears that in any one of these be may find an assassin thirsting for his blood. When the Czar visited London immedi ately after the marriage of his daughter to the Duke of Edinburg, it was remarked by those who came closely in contact witji him that a more sorrowful and anxious person h d rarely been seen. In the midst of all the festivities which had been arranged for his delight and honor, he sat like a ghost at the banquet, or appeared as a criminal who was awaiting the moment when the execu tioner would appear to lead him to the scaf fold Every subsequent month has deepened the anxieties, griefs and remorse which pro duce upon his Majesty's countenance these signs of a restless and fearful soul. There are some reasons for believing that his mind has given away under the terrible pressure which it has been compelled to undergo, and that at times he is scarcely responsible for his actions. He takes the most extraordinary likes and dislikes for persons and lor animals. His favorite for the time being, be it man. woman, dog or bird, is petted to an extent that is at once ludicrous nnd melancholy to observe. V\ ben be was last in Paris he heard a young pianist whose execution de lighted him. He at once took measures to b.ive this young man retnrn with him to his Capital, and there, for a long time, nothing Charmed the Czar so much as to lis en to the playing of this- youth, to converse with him, to caress him, and to load him with every imaginable mark of favor and distinction. Again, he concentrated bis affections upost a spaniel-dog, for which he conceived a vio lent and uncontrollable passion. The Czar and his pet dog were for a white ; f y- should be brought to him. It was at this time that a dispatch was received announc ing that a son of the Czar was on his death hed, and that it the futher wished to see him, the greatest haste was necessary. A special train lor the Emperor was immediately ordered ; everything was arranged ; hut, as his Majesty was about to enter the cars, he diseoveipd that the dog was absent. The animal had taken an exceptional freak ; he had escaped from the grounds of the palace, add had gone of! to amuse himself elsewhere. •Tbe/'tnar, notwithstanding that he knew his favorite sun was at the point of death, and that every moment of delay might prevent him seeing him before be expired, refused to stir from the palace until the dog was fount). The palace was in an uproar ; servants, sol dirrß, civil officers, and volunteers were sent in hot haste after the missing beast; but four hours elapsed ere he was found, captured and returned to the embrace of his Imperial master. The relations between the Czar nnd his wife have lung been of an extremely melan choly character. They live as far apart as possible. When they meet it is only as foes between whom exists an armed neutrality ; and, while the Empress for her-vlf has pre served the virtues with which she was adorned when she liecame the wife of the Czir, she is not at all ignorant of the num berless and constant infidelities with which her Imperial master has vainly attempted to divert his mind, and to win himself from the mental agonies which make hi* life a real torture. —New York Graphic. —r- Her Mind was Changed. A Chicago noon was engaged to a Cleve land girl, when she suddenly took a notion to break it off. She sent for him, and he found her in the parlor with all his presents bundled up. ready for removal. Hbe told him : *‘! have consulted my heart seriously, and discovered what 1 have often suspected—that we are not fitted to make ench other happy It is belter that we should purt—oar en gagement is at an cud.” lie felt had, but he looked provokingly cool, and finally exclaimed : “Hurrah ! You’re the hulliest girl in th n universe. I feel as though the whole Palmer House had been lilted off my mtnly bosom." Then she wanted to know what this meant He told her that he had been trying to muster up courage to propose to break off for Rome time, hut hadn’t because he ‘ knew that husbands at this period of com mercial depression were hard to get.” This made her mad as hops. Hhe pointed to his presents and demanded hers, lie said : “I’ll send yon all of ’em I can find, but I guess our cook carried off your Tennyson with the marked passages in it—l lent it to her—and some of your locks of hair and pressed rosebuds, and things, I" burned when I was cleaning up my room the other day, and us for your ring, I dou’t think Cora will give it to me ” The C’evelaod girl now wanted to know who Cora was. Hhe was told : ‘•.She’s the girl I’m in love with, and that I’m going to propose to this v»ry evening, as soon as you give me that package of pres enls and let me go. I hop'* you didn’t for get to put the diamond earrings I gave you into it. I’ll give them to her and be 8200 ahead.” The Cleveland maiden glared at him life*: a tigress as she inquired if Cora was good looking. The bad Chicago man told her that Cora was prettier, smaller waisted, smaller footed and superior in a variety other respects to her. The Cleveland girl now became excited. “Augustus," she remarked solemnly, “if you attempt to go ont of this house before one o’clock to-morrow I’ll scream. And I want yon to understand that our engagement is to hold, and if you don’t marry me by the first of next month, which will be as soon as I can get my tro*soan ready. I’ll sue you for breach of promise, laying the damages at 8500 000 ” The Chicago Tribune must have been correct when it said yon 'Osn’t get ahead of a Chicago mao, lor Cora had oo existence whatever. “Those suspenders, madam, are long enough lor the shortest boy or short enough for the longest man; they will jnst fit your fine-looking youngster,” "Perhaps so ; but I don't want to sew buttons on bis hoot legs. I want them to hold his pants on Them suspender* is long enough for the Colossus of Rhodes.” “Just so, mad am ; I sold old Coloss a pair out of the same box yesterday.” Very innocently an Irish newspaper con cludes its acc iUnl ol A Dare-Devil Jehu. Buffalo Bill tell* a good story about a party of Englishmen traveling on the phtin* before the Pacific railroad was finished They came rumbling into Laramie, abusing the driver nnd the coach and the “blarstpd country" generally, hreansr, they averred, there was no ‘‘coaching or dr ving ouMdeof England " Their contempt of all things American was shown in the most offensive manner to all the people standing around as they alighted It happened that Bob Scott, the finest driver and most reckless dare-devil on the plains, was to take the coach tnthe next station, eight miles westward from Laramie, and as that gay Jehu heard the remarks of the Britishers he slowly made up his mind to give them a specimen of purely American coaching The stable boys led ont six colts that looked as if they had never heard nf a stuge hefore; they reared and snorted, plunged and kicked until the noble Briton* were quite delighted with the antic ipation nf a fine drive. “Now. driver, yon know, just give ’em their heads and let ’em go ; don’t you be afraid my boy." “Yes,” says another encouragingly, "my good fellow, just go ahead." Boh monnted the ho* slowly while n man h“!d each horse; he gathered the reins and said quickly,“Let ’em go." And they did. and the colts plnnged and reared, but Bub’s iron grasp held them in. With the aid of the California brakes he held them down to a walk for three miles, while the passengers blasphemed at him for a “cad" and a sneak. At the end of that three miles they got to the top of a hill, and one Briton poked his head out of the window and began to say something, but ns he did a wild unearthly yell waked that vicinity, and at the same time Bob threw all six lines down. The coach seemed to lift from the gronnd, and those six colts started at the very best speed they could make. Another yp|l from Bob, and they seemed to increase it; then to help matters he drew his revolver and begun fir ing over fbe homes’ heads “Great God," cried the Britons, “we've got in ! o the hands of a blnrsted lunatic!" -•‘Stnp. stop I” they shouted ; but the msd team nnd cruzy driver tore on faster and faster, while the stage w.’nt bouncing over the rocky road in a way that threatened to pound the passengers to pieces. Bob craned hia neck over and yelled into the window : ‘ Gents, I’m just getting ’em started; they’ll do better after a while.” And he took out the lamps nnd hurled them at the leaders with a wild Comanche war whoop 1 The affrighted passengers presently saw the station in full view; the question was how was that team to be stopped. They gave themselves up for gone, and linng on despairingly to the seats. It seem" that the horses were accustomed to go right into the Rtable, conch and all, and np they came to the open door at full speed There was a yell from the assembled stable attendants and tavern loafers, then r frightful crash, as the whole top of the coach went off, throw ing three Britons out nnd breaking two arms and a leg, besides other slighter accidents. Boh came out of the stable smiling, picked up an Englishman and said : “Never mind, sir ; we’ll have a real nice drive to the next station. I was obliged to take 'em along slowly over that ere bad road. Boys, put in the other team in a fresh .couch, and give me a couple of cock tails. Its dull, driving so doggone slow, and I’m powerful dry." Those Englishmen waited and sent for a doctor, but they did not put down anything in their note-book about Ameiicau driving. Washington Capital. ‘ Ot n G“ffer\> son I will not wed, And don’t forge* it 1" loud she said. “Stibnld every living creature die, And none be left but Jim and I, I would not wed ol I Gaffer's son The bow-legged, wall eyed son of a gon l" “The swao,” she said, “the lake’s clear breast May batter for a ground hog's nest; The Awe’s fierce stream may backward turn, The good priest yell, May I be durn ! But I, were ail these marvel* done. Would never wed old Gaffer's son The knock kneed, lop eared son of a gun ’’ Still where the bull-frog lay? her eggs The swan still laves her purple legs ; Still downward flows the Awe’s fierce river, And will, no doubt, fl >w thus forever; But Nora’s heart is lost and won— She’s wedded to old Gaff-r’s son, The ring horned, spavined son of a gnn, And they have seven children. “The Emperor of Germany reads the Bi- Tlie Rank of England. Bounded on all fnnr sides by the street, all its windows prodenilaliy open into a central court, and since the riots of 1870 it has been occupied by * night detachm nt cf soldiers. Its business requires a working force of 1 200 men. notes are printed within the building. The same note is never paid out ovt the counter twice. The new bill that Is issued this tnuiniug is retired a* soon as it retains, no matter if the same man pays it in again in the afternoon without g wrinkle in It. It is allowed to issue note* to the amo i.t of jEI 5,000.000 on the *ecor ity of its standing loan oi a mnch larger amount to the Government, which consti tutes a part ol the public debt. For ever / note issued above that—and it has a circu-* lation of over £l9 000,000— bullion of an equal amount must he paid into it* tressary, i»ud mtNt he kept there for the redemption of the note whetl if returns. The traveler on the continent often finds its note* at a premium in gold. No not* is issued of a denomination lower than £~t. Every not* is numbered, and the name of the party to whom it is paid out is carefully recorded. The practice of keeping a memorandum which will show from whom he receive* every bagk note that parses through hi* hands is common, also, with the painstaking London tradesmen It proved a fortunate thing for a friend of mine on one occasion. He had given his wife a ten-poond note. I hcir little child got hold ol the portmooais and destroyed the note—os they supposed, by throwing it on the open fire. There wonld have been no hope of realizing on a green back under such circumstances. But 850 is worth trying for. The number of the note was ascertained ftom the parties through whose bauds it came to my friend, a sworn statement of the facts was 6!ed at the bank, and after a year or so had passed without its having I torn presented for redemption, the bank paid over the money. The bank takes in and pays ont its gold coio by weight. Hornet imes it sends out a sealed package and receives it aiain before the seal is broken, and yet deducts quite a gum from the amount at which it paid it out, to make good the loss—detected by the unerring scales— which occurred by the abrasion of the coins in transportation. Effect of a Lecture. Miss Corson's lecture on cooking had a singular effect upon the wife of a gentleman residing in Washington. The gentleman was awakened from a sound sk*ep about two o’clock in the morning by a flood of gaslight in the chamber, coming from the jets in the chandelier, burning at full heads. Standing over him, < vidently in a sonambulistic state, and in a pose clo«ely resembling that of the late Charlotte Cushman in the celebrated sleep-walking scene of Lady Macbeth, stood* his wife, while in either hand, and ominously flashing in the gaslight, she grasped*' the mammoth carving-knife and fork. Carious to know what was going to be the denoue ment of this singular seme, he kept quiet, while 'he lady soliloquiz'd s “Hold the carver in an easy position in the right hand, thus,” and she dipped the point of the huge knife as gracefully as a fencing master in the broad-pword exercise, “Then,” continued the culinary student, “bend slightly the left wrist and in e er* the fork in the breast of the turkey, one prong On either side of the breast bone ” and suiting the action to the word, she was about to plunge the fork into her husband's anatomy, when he caught and dis arm'd her She dew back and glared aT him for a moment, and then, poshing bade the sleeves of her robe du nuit, pointed her finger toward him and exclaimed, in a loud, theatrical manner: “The only way to reach your husband’s heart is through his stomach. 1 ' Since that night this gentleman has slept in another apartment, with the door bolted and a stack of trunks piled op against it. A oonorroatjor, anxious to get rid of their pasior, were considerably perplexed how to do it without hurting bis feelings. After considerable trouble they concluded to inform him they were obliged to rediM)» bis salary. A delegate pas appointed to wait on and notify him of the Tact, , •'brethren, ,r was the reply. “I bar*. beet., with yoa in prospetijj and I will s«vtj desert you in adrersity.” . . . ’ ” 'AWtpMg Ml fOI xtXngn A bashful young man eaeocted an eq ially basldol young lady to bar borne. As they approached the dwelling of the d.msel. sbesaid entr«*tiog*y, -StAil, don't tell anybody you saw me home." “Sary,” said be emphatically, -dbn’t yon mind; I am as much ashamed of it as yoa art I” A proper conclusion for the marriago NO. 22