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THE LOST, LOST DAYS.
Avn, happv ore the nodding flowers
That tn«sel!ed hang from yonder tree;
Their lives ail beantv. wear their gold
In Sommer crowns of purity.
Bnt man, O man, what costly tears
BoddW thy cradle, as thy grave ;
What griefs enseam thv conrse of years
And break the rest von vainly crave.
I fain wnntd be the nodding flower
Which one bright snmmpr morn arrays,
Than in a wintry noon ol life
Sit down to count the lost, lost days!
Panse. listen to th.it singing bird.
Re trills not for a vague applause;
He bnt obeys his Master, God.
And sings In cadence with His laws.
I hate the bitter lies of art,
Melodious frand that fill® our cars :
The servile school where men are taught
To mould in song pretended tears.
1 fain would be the bird who sings
With fen Hess throat his honest lavs.
Nor heeds nor knows to-morrow’s dawu,
Nor yet regrets the lost, lost duys.
Aye. hnnpv arc thp bursting hnds,
A ve, happy are the birds of song ;
*Tis only man whose discontent
D's'nrhs the earth with railing tongue.
He mourns for childhood's artless joys,
And youth's and manhood’s visions fled ;
While by the embers of old age
He mumbles only of the dead.
Whence is it that frail man alone
Should 611 the earth with grievous lays?
Always a story of retreat,
And wasted Life—the lost, lost davs I
—John Antrobui
JS
The South's True Course.
General Gordon arrived here last night
from Genrgin, and was p'esent in It's sen* in
th’ Si nate to day. The Senator comes here
In a very earnest frame of mind, and in this
and in liis purposes he represents those who
have rami’ to bp known as the conservative
men of the South. “I came here," he said
“to do wh.it I can to prevent the keeping
alive of sectional animosities, the stirring up
of sectional strife and the discord that pre
vailed at the last session and will prevail so
long as this ‘Southern question’ is kept alive.
1 am indeed a Democrat, and 1 believe thor
oughly in the right of local self government.
I think the people in all the States, North as
well ns South, believe in that, and not one
S'ate fn the Union would surrender a single
right for which I would contend. Why I
wonld not have it spoken of now, however
is because it is covered over and blackened
by the lenders of vhc Republican party in
(jnngre-s. and made to be equivalent to I tie
deud and buried issues of »cession. 01
course you know and they know that our
doctrine of Stste rights has nothiug of the
old dogmas nbout it. It is precisely whnt
the citizens of everv State believe in, but
the Demncralic party a'tt"d* by what I con
sider the constitutional right of the States,
while the Republican party is drifting from
it and towards centralisition. No," hp said
in answer to a question, “1 have no sympn
thv with the ery that the Republican party
wants to change the form of government;
that is, the masses of the voters do not. The
tendency of the party is in that direction,
how. vet, and V|m> tendency of th*’ D mo
cratic party is the other way Therefore, I
■ni ■ Democrat I heliev thit when the
air Is cleared of passion, und when this
Southern question is taken out of politics
we shall have the sympathy of the North in
our political noti. ns. The people ol the
North do not hute us. It is only the men
here in Congress who hate lb. und they hate
ua because they fear thut the Democratic
jarty is about to turn them out of their
places here. We of the South know that
the people of the North are intelligent and
virtuous and honest and brave, and they
know that the people of the South are
tqtmlly so. Wbat makes them distrustful ol
us is that they think us rash, and they think
so because of the utterances of a few ini n in
Congress who permitted themselves to be
dragged into a personal controversy with
men who deliberately set traps for them for
unpatriotic and partisan purposes.”
Gen. Gordon contended that what the
Southern members ought to do was to si'
still and not answer «nv charges that might
be made against them or Bny attacks that
should be made od the South He instanced
the speech that the late Senator Morton
made on the Louisiana ease a® an Ulus' ra
tion of the great good thut Southern mem
bers of Congress might do their own section
and the entire country by remaining silent
under the most bitter provocation. That
speech was the bitterest attack the Senator
ever made on the South. It was not only
filled witti bit eruess, but in it Morton at
tacked the States separately. Bnd culled on
the Senators to answer him if they could.
The character of the speech had been known
to the Southern Senators long before it was
delivend, and when the day came they had
determined to make no answer to him. In
vain Morton stormed and called on the
South to defend itself. Ttie Southern Sen
ators made no response. They even relused
to answer his questions, and they left him
the po<>r consolation of quarreling without
an opponent. Motion afterwards said that
he had never beeu so badly whipped in his
life, and Gen. Gordon declared it to have
been overwhelming in its effect. He would
have his friends m Congress maintain this
altitude now. He bolds that the only way
to bring aboot peace and to bring Congress
to its proper work of legislating for the
whole country is to put an end to sectioual
strife, and this can only be done by putting
an end to sectional discussion. — Washington
Special to Philadelphia Times.
The Blue Ilaze of Indiau Sum
mer.
Mr. Joel Benton has recently published an
elaborate essay combatting the popular no
tion, which also has a quasi -scientific sup
port. that the blue haze of Indian summer is
the product of ordinary smoke Irom fires
He argues fird that the well-known heha
vior of smoke is not consistent with the va
rious phenomena of the bine haze. After
describmg this he says. ‘ If it Irniokcj ever
seems to wilt or attenuate in some secluded
valley, it is never still; it does not even ap
proximate quietude sufficiently to cheat the
eye; it is not part of the air, but rather a
piaanger upon it, and subject to every hre. s
’ hat blows or summer zephyr that dallies by
the attitude of a good many
wrigglin'** and active transform'd ions, or in
its complete repose, that un'que enchantment
wh'eh is wrought by the Indian summer
haze." If this haze i« the product of smoke
from fire, “there should be,” be says, “an
alarming number of them in the full of the
venr ” Bnt neither the annual fire statistics
nor the newspaper reports show this. Mr.
Ben'on says the heaviest autumn fires occur
at the end of the hizv season, which would
make the haze precede the fires, and cease
after 'he u«a:il mountain fires have begun,
which consecutive facts he has noticed Re
sides, all the woods of the Hudson Rivpr
counties, if they should be on fire at once,
would —if emnkp could cause the haz
make no appreciable part of it; and the si
mnltnnoons appearance of it over a whole
continent mikes it impossible to be caused
by smoke from any fires that were ever
known It reaches from the Arctic Circle
to the Torrid Zone. Its occurrence in the
northernmost region, if it is caused bv smoke,
conld not happen there except through a
‘■conflagration of icebergs."
Blacksmith's Snop at Ntoht.— Novem
her twilight spreads its hlaek wings nhiuptly
over its vast brood of hunri’n beings and all
the s'ars of beauty and distinction are
abroad. Hurrying homeward for warmth
and cheer are the crowds on the sidewalks,
and all the great wholesale houses are dark
and hushed for the night. But down on the
lower streets can still be heard the ring of
mighty blows, delivered with many a pant,
alternately, by mightv and swarthy smithies ;
ami look there as we live, a huge hot anchor,
with throbbing flukes, like the fins of a fiery
fish, flung across the roadway. Well, well,
but it is not the real anchor. It is the re
flection. tossed over the black shouMers of
the night, hk n a scarf of living scarlet.
There is the great, g'owing anchor it self in
side the eavernons blacksmith shop. Four
men are pounding it with pondmns sledges,
as i( the anchor were Hope iLelf instead of
its emblem, and they were bound to have
something out of it And so with many a
sigh of wrought up strength Ihejr-rwing their
bull-nosed sledges until see ! * e I tbe sparks
about their brawny arms as if Hope had
hurst beneath the blows of iron fa'e into
golden tears and was herrelf inconsolable 1
Ah ! <hia is an admirable sight to see, when
the coals barn blue and green and the bel
lows i 9 distended with a windy tempest, when
fantastic eh tdowp frolic on Hie grimy walls
and all the horse ahoes in the bright illumi
nation hung like golden half moons to keep
abroad the wi'ches of darkness. ‘Six,” cries
the friendly clock from the far up tower.
The smithies throw aside their nprons. Tbe
fire is quenched in ushes. The bellows give
one gasp a:ui breuthu no more. The shop
is dark and still The great glowing unchor
ol Hope is dead and death holds sway undis
puted.—Providence Journal.
Niagara.—The depth of the water in the
gorge below Niagara falls has just been
measured for the first time Tne swiftness
of the stream buffi d all previous efforts, but
a corps of government engineers accom
plished 'lie feat. They embarked in h boat
not fur below the (alls. An old guide ac
companied the party. With great diffieit lly
they approached within a short distunee of
th" American lulls, which darted great jets
of wuier on them. The rour was so terrible
tlmt uo voice or sound could be heard. Th"
leddsman c.st the line, which rapidly passed
down eighty-three feel. This was near the
.-hore. Passing out of the friendly eddy
which had enabled them to get so near the
falls they shot rapidly down stream. The
next cast ol the lead told off one hundred
feet, deepening to one hundred und ninety
two feet a little further down. The average
depth to the Swift Drift where the river
suddenly becomes narrow, with a velocity
100 great to be measuied—is one hundred
and fifty-three feet. Just under tbe lower
bridge the whirlpool rapids set in, and so
violently are the waters moved that they rise
like oceun waves to the height ot twenty
leet. At this point they computed the
depth at two hundred and ten feel.
Not That Kind or a Gun—ln a corner
groctry in the western part of the city, the
other day. a boy was buying shot and get
ting ready lo go hunting. 11 is old gun was
lying around rather loose, and tbe grocer
nervously remit lied :
“Boy. I wish you’d take care of that gun
—l’m afraid of an accident.”
Tire boy stood it up agaiust a barrel and
went on telling how many rabbits he meant
to pepper, and pretty soou it came vety near
falling to the floor.
“I tell you that inhrnal thing will hurt
some of us yet! ’ exclaimed the grocer us be
jumped aside, and the boy leaned it against
the counter and said he’d never lake a buck
seat for h bear —never. As he reached over
to look at some buck shot down tambled the
gun and off went the churge. sending about
lorty duck-sbot iuto a teu gallon oil cau in
range
“There she goes—there she goes!” yelled
the grocer as he danced around. “Didu’l I
tell you that infernal guo would go off?”
“And did i deny it?” promptly retorted
the boy. “Do you
go out to hunt rabbits with brass knuckles
or a bean- shooter ?"— Detroit Fue Pi ess.
Got Something Fbi«kt.—"Got something
frisky ?" he asked as he walked into a livery
stable and called for a saddle-horse; ‘some
thing that will prance about lively and wake
a lellow out of his lethargy ? lusd to ride
the trick mule in a circus, on’ 1 rtekon I can
hack anything that wears hair.” They
brought him out a calico-colored beast , with
a vicious eye. and he mounted it and dashed
off Before he had gone two blocks the au
imal bucked, crushed through a high board
fence and plunged into • cellar, tossing the
rider over tbe top of an adj'Ceot woodshed
uod lat ding him on the ragged edje of a
lawn-mower. They bore him borne, straight
ened him out. and .three surgeons came iu and
reduced his dislocations and plastered him up
with raw beef. A few weeks later he called
at the stable and said if they bad a gentle
saw-horse with an affectionate disposition, a
bridle with a curb bit and martingales, and
a saddle with two horns and a crupper to it,
be believed he would go up iu the haymow
and galktp around a little where it was soft
nnd it wouldn’t hurt him if he went to sleep
and fell off. as he did the other daj.~Balti
more Bulletin.
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ES. T. W. SANFORD, 11. 0., iSwYOMomfi
\ ANT DKIGGIHT WILL TKLL YUI ITS RKPVTATIOX. *
NEW! NEW!
Never Before Have the People
HAD SUCH AN OFFER!
nWIVG now on hand a new stock of
Good*. I can safely say that I can sell
them as cheap as any one in the town of
Hampton Now, Ido not pretend to sav
that these Goods have all been bought in
New York, a® some do, from the fact that it
is unnecessary for me to do so, when Allan's
can lay them down just ns cheap. Much
Goods as I can lay down from New York
cheaper than from Atlanta, you bet I get
them there. If yon will come to see me 1
guarantee we can trade.
I am now in the central house of the new
building koown as Ceotral Block Be sure
and don't forget to see me before buying
elsewhere.
H. P. Mclntosh.
Hampton, Ga.. March 2I;ly j
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mdkB I^ITERS
IRON BITTERS,
A Great Tonic.
IRON BiTTERS,
A Sure Appetizer.
IRON BITTERS,
▲ Complete Strengthened
IRON BiTTERS,
▲ Valuably Medicine.
IRON BiTTERS,
Mot Sold u m Beverage.
IRON BiTTERS,
For D.lic.l. rimila.
" Th« Beat Agricultural Journal Published ta
the South.”
THE SOUTHERN
run urn?.
i ip. A LARGE QUARTO of S 3
_— pages, handsomely print
ed, filled with choice read
log ot Internet to the <hr
mer. «ith an lllu.trued
fashion department for the
ti a year, $l a! % year. Sample eopr IS cento.
Addroaa: J. H, ESTILL,
- S Whitaker street. Savannah, Ga.
SdmpV copy of "The Sannmah Weekly .Voce,” j min
aott S-ptipc neuepapeT, or of Uu -Daily Uieunf
Ae*«," (Ac leading cuniy of the Souihead. sent o»
noetpt qf fteoru tuunp. Adcb-et o> jtmee.
TTT . 1 A LIMITED NUM
inf nnt nfl her ac, ‘ ve < energetic
is nillliHlI < ’ ,invftascrs io en -*s e * n a
TV UlUUUUp'eastot and profitable bus
iness.
Good men will find this a rare chance
TO MAKE MONEY.
Such will please answer this advertisement
by letter, inclosing stamp for reply, statmg
what business they have been engaged in.
None but those who mean business need ap
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Highly recommended
to the public for ail dis
eases requiring!* certain
and efficient TOXMCt
especially in Indio ra
tion. ftp mp epaia,
In (riuilu.nl Fm
rer», H'nnl of Ap
petite, 1.000 of
Strength, t.aeh of
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riches the blood,
strengthens the mus
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to the nervea To the
aged, ladles, and chil
dren requiring recuper
ation, this valuable
remedy can not be too
highly recoin mended,
It netm like a eharen
on the digestive organs.
A teaspoouful before
meals will remove alt
dyspeptic symptoms.
TRY IT.
Sold by all Druggists,
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BALTIMORE, Md.
ALWAYS
AT Til BOTTOM
In Prices!
And at the Top
fPITH AN UNTARNISHED
Reputation for Fair Dealing!
THIS may be Idlled a fine speech by those
who have never token the trouble to
mike my acquaintance, or to smdy mv mode
of doing business. Still, 1 don’t ask any
body to take my word, or in fact to be influ
enced in any way by a mere advertisement,
bnt cordially invite all to cull and investigate
lor themselves, feeling sure I can prove thut
I mean business and every word I say.
Fair dealing helps trade better thin fair
weather. Nothing but steady, low prices,
year in and year out, will create and mai,n
tain a trade such a® I have had since 1 com
menced business. No need of argument—
prices alone tell tbe story.
I have now in stock, and will continue to
keep such articles as
DRY GOODS, GROCERIES,
BOOTS. SHOES, HATS, CAPS,
PLANT A l ION SUPPLIES,
And a varied and choice assortment of
GENERAL MERCHANDISE,
Thinking my friends and patrons for their
former liberal support, I hope, by keeping
the best and selling as low as the lowest, to
merit a continuance ol the same.
S 5. T. Manson.
Hampton, Ga., March 21-ly
MORNING NElf'S SERIALS.
A New Stary
BY A LADY GF FLORIDA.’
SOMBRE MONDE;
A Novel.
BT MART ROSK FLOYD.
THE SAVANNAH WEEKLY NEWS
Of November 29th will contain the opening
chapters of un intensely interesting and
charmingly written serial story, entitled
“Sombre Monde,” writ'en expressly for the
News by Miss Mary Rose Floyd, of Daly
Grove, Fla.
In presenting this new serial to onr read
ers we feel that we run rto risk when we
promise the lovers of pleasing and well
wrought fiction a rare literary treat. To in
dieate its merits lure would be. in a measure,
to forestall tbe interest of the reader and thus
diminish the pleasure which its perusal can
not fail to impart.
The new serial will run through some
eight or ten numbers of the Weekly. Sub
scribers who desire to have the story com
plete should 9end in their subscriptions at
once.
Subscription $2 a year, $1 for six months.
Money can be »< nt by Money Order, Regis
tered Letter or Express, ut our risk.
J. n. ESTILL,
Savannah, Ga.
Tf*HE WHITE'
I Sewing Machine
mfi BEST OF AI.U
Unrivaled in Appearance,
Unparalleled in Simplicity,
Unsurpassed in Construction,
Unprecedented in Popularity,
And Undisputed in the Broad Claim
or atwi thi ■ (
VERY WEST OPERATING
QUICKEST SELUNG,
HANDSOMEST, AMD
Host Perfect Sewing Machine
IN THE WORLD. .
The area t popularity at »o White It the m«*t «*-
Vtncinn tribute to Its excellence and superiority
over other machines, and in submitting ft to the
trade we put It noon its me*tts, and in ne Instance
has it ever yet tailed io satisfy zcy recommendation
In its taver.
The demand tor the White has Increased to such
an extent that we ore now compelled to turn oat
A Coxxxsplmtm Sarvlr*g Mnetlxlyim
Svvry bkxxmm •*** - y-, ’■ iv
the a.a.y to suppiy
«2xe demaaal
Every machine is warranted for S years, sod
•old tor e-sh et liberal discounts,or upon easy
payments, to suit tbo convenience ol customers.
aw-Asms waste w rawconiD txssitobt.
WHITE SEWJmTmACHINE CO.,
■l 158 Avt, PtYtlind. OMt,
NEW FIRM!
Copartnership Notice.
In A VE this dav sold n half interest in my
business to G F. Turner, and the rame
and style nt the firm will he known in future
as Harper <fc Turner. R. T. HARPER.
January 9th, 1879.
We respectfnllv solicit a share of the pub
lie patronage, believing we can show as fine
and well asserted stock of goods as will be
found anywhere. Our stock of
DRY GOODS
Is complete in every pnrtienlar, and includes
a fine assortment of Ladies’ Dress Goods.
Linen®, Blenching®. Domestics, and Fancy
Notions of all kiuds.
ClotHing !
A new and elegant lot of t’lo'hing, of even
style and quality. Gents’ Underwear a spe
cially.
BATS AND CAPS
To suit the tastes of the masses, uuti at prices
that will meet the requiieuicuis ol the trade.
BOOTS AND SHOES!
Our stock of Boots and Shoes, having been
bought at a bargain in the Northern mar
kets, we can afford to sell cheap, and are pre
pared to offer extra inducements to tbe trade.
Furniture 2
We have also a large lot ot Furciiure—Bed
steads, Bureaux. Wasbstands, Wardrobes,
Tables, Chairs,,’ etc—which we will sell at
extremely low figures. Bed room setts a
specialty.
GROCERIES.
1 Special attention is called to our stock ol
I Groceries, which is quite large, and com
prises every article kept in that iiue.
Our Btock is being constantly replenished
with Goods that are carefully selected by ex
perienced buyers, and are bought lor cash
from first hands, thereby enabling us to set! to
j advantage—both to ourselves and customers.
I With all these facilities we are prepared to ex
hibit at all times a complete general stock,
and parties wishing to buy can always find
some specialties at very low prices at our
Give us a call.
i _ Harnar & Turner.
Bottom Frices
REACHED AT LAST t
To the F&mors ot Esarjr
And Adjoining Countiesf
n -VYING just opened a large stock of
Dry Goods and Groceries in Hampton,
I desire to say to the people ol Henry, Butts,
Clayton, Fayette and Spalding counties, who
visit this city, and desire to examine or pur
chase goods, that I am prepared to supply
all their wants at as low prices as can be
had anywhere. My stock is large, ample
and well-selected, and consists of everything
usually kept in a strictly first-class
Dry Goods and Grocery Store-
Rpcogniabig the demnnds of the times, I
have marked my goods down to the lowest
living figure, und shall have but one price"
for everybody. An experience of several
years has enabled me to understand the
wants of the people, and I shall be prepared
at all times to meet them with such articles
as DR Y GOODS, GROCERIES, BUOI S r
SHOES. HA'IS AND CAPS FARMING
IMPLEMENTS. and Plantation Supplies
of all kinds. Give me a call.
O-. E. Wise.
Himptnn, Ga., Feb. 28;ly
IF YOU WOULD ENJOY GOOD
HEALTH, YOU MUST USR
PURE WATER!
The Improved Water
Mkratar and Purifier!
It is the simplest structure for raising wa
ter ever introducer). It is easily adjusted to
any well or cistern. Adj person can put
one up in fifteen minutes. a« it ha« no attach*
ments to any part of the well below the plat
form. Jt is very durable. The endless chain
is composed of alternate flat and ronnd links
made of the best iron, aid strong enough to
bear ten times the str.in required. The com
plete chain and buckets being galvan zed nf
ter const met iotv, it never corrodes, it hue
none of the objections common to pumps. Tt
has uo wooden tubing to wear out, decay and
pollute the water, no iron tubing to rnst, no
suckers or valves to wear out ; has no wood,
leather or rubber in coutuct with the water
to contaminate it. ai’d von do not have to
pump out a pail lull ol water to get u fresh
ili ink. tor every cup goes down full of air to
the bottom, and fills with cold water as the
air estap s. One of the Elevator* can be
seen at the store of Harper k Turner.
HARPER k KIMBALL,
Agents lor Henry county.
For Sale.
PURSUANT to the will of Q. R. Nolan,
deceased, and fur the purpose of a distri
bution of the estate, I ofLr at private sale a
valuable plantation lying on Flint river, in
Payette county, Ga. It is situate one fourth
ol a mile trum North's grist mills, four miles
from Fayetteville and seven miles from
Uainp'on, on the Macon and Western Rail
road. It has 100 acres in und
about 100 acres of good bottom, woJl ditched
and in cultivation. The entire tract consists
of 432 acres. A ne»t four-room dwelling,
plastered inside, has been ereeted upon the
premises within the last 12 months. I2»ere
are lour good tenement houses. %ith rot%
chimneys,on the pi ice. The well wik.er is as
good as any in Miditle Georgia, ff pur
chased by 15th of February arrangementa
col be made to deliver piissession in time for
planting a crop ; if after that time, the place
will be turned over next fall Any person
desiring to purchase such a place on reason
able and accommodating terms will commu
nicate with me at McDouough, Ga.
T. G. NOLAN, Kx’r.
SA W3ON.
BEST CIGARS!
FINEST WINES!
PURESTLIQUORS i
CINCINNATI BI'.ER ON DRAUGHT.
BILLIARDS AXD POOL!
fet>2Btf
R-. B. JOIVES,
REPAIRER OP W.
Watches, Clocks and Jewelry,
HAMPTON, GA.
I am prepared to do all work in my line
in the best workmanlike manner t and upon
tbe most reasonable term*. All watch and
clock work warranted. Corn, wheat, hides,
and all staple articles of country produce
taken in exchange for work; otherwise,
strictly for ca*b. Can he fonnd in brick
store opposite O K Wise’s. Oct 3-tf.
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