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TOWN DIRECTORY.
Mayor—Thomas O. Barnett,
flow mission kbs —W. W. Turnipseed, D. B.
Bivins, E (>. Harris, E. 11. James.
fh.RRft —E. G. Hnrris.
Trkasprkr—W. S. Shell.
Marshals—S. A. Belding, Marshal.
L. H. Moore, Deputy.
JVDICIARt.
A. M. Spkkr, - - - - Judge.
P. D. Dismukk, - Solicitor General.
Batts—Second Mondays in March and
Stpfttbber.
Byiy— Third Mondays in January and
Monroe—Fourth Mondays in February,
Mid August.
Newton—Third Mondays in March and
September.
Pike—First Mondays in April and Octo
ber.
Rockdale—Third Mondays in February and
and Aug qst.
Spalding—First Mondays in February
and August.
Upson—First Mondays in May and No
vember.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
Ghobcit, (Snnth.)-
Rev. Wesley F. Smith. Pastor Fourth
Sabbath in each month. Sunday-school 3
r. h. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening
Mrtnooist Pkotkstant Church. First
Sabbath in each mouth. Sunday-school 9
A. M.
Christian Church, W. 8. Fears, Pastor.
Reoond Sabbath in each month.
Bavtist Chiiroh. Rev. J. P. Lyon, Pas
tar. Third Sabbath in each month.
DOCTORS '
BR. J. C.TURNIPSEED will attend to
all calls day or night. Office i resi
dence, Hampton. Ga.
"IYR. W. H PEEBLES treats all dis—
M' eases, and will attend to all calls day
and night. Office at the Drug Store.
Broad Street, Hampton, Ga.
DR. D. F. KNOTT having permanently
located in Hampton, offers his profes
sional service* to the citizens of Hampton
and vicinity. All orders left at Mclntosh’s
■tore will receive prompt attention. sp26
DR. N. T. BARNETT tenders his profes
sional services to the citizens of Henry
and adjoining counties, and will answer calls
day or night. Treats all diseases, of what
ever nature. Office at Nipper’s Drug Store.
Hampton, Ga. Night calls caD be made at
my residence, opposite Berea church. apr26
JF PONDER, Dentist, has located in
• Hampton. Ga.,and invites the public to
call at his room, upstairs in the Bivins
House, where he will be found at all hours.
Warrants all work for twelve moDtbs.
LA IVYERS
CW. HODNETT. Attorney and Coun
• sellor at Law, Jonesboro, Ga. Prompt
attention given to all business.
JNO. G. COLDWELL, Attorney at law,
Brooks Station, Ga. Will practice in
the counties composing the Coweta and Flint
River Circuits. Prompt attention given to
commercial and other collections.
TC. NOLAN. Attorney at Law, Mc
• Donough, Georgia: Will practice in
the counties composing the Flint Circuit;
the Supreme Court of Georgia, and the
United States District Court.
WM. T. DICKEN, Attorney at Law, Me
Donougb, Ga. 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, Attornkt at Law,
McDonough, Ga. (Office in Court bouse.)
Will practice in Henry and adjoining coun
ties, and in the Supreme and District Courts
of Georgia. Prompt attention given to col
lections. mch23-6m
JF. W ALL, Attorney at Law, Hamp
ton, Ga. Will practice in tbe counties
composing the Flint Judicial Circuit, and
the Supreme and District Courts of Georgia.
Prompt attention given to collect ions. ocs
EDWARD J. REAGAN, Attorney at
law. Office op stairs in the Mclntosh
building, Hampton, Ga. Special attention
giveo to commercial and other collections.
BF. McCOLLUM, Attorney and Conp
• sellor at Lhw, Hampton, Ga. Will
practice in Henry, Clayton, Fayette, Coweta,
Pike, Meriwether, Spalding and Butts Supe
rior Courts, and 10 tbe Supreme and United
n. - . a_ rtAIIAAtS-si aUiw* -
BLOSSOMS.
They met while yet the year wss young,
And ’mid the blossoming boughs they sung,
Like other birds, their tale of love.
Like other birds they wandered free
In tender shade of bush or tree,
Or sunlight of the sky above.
They wandered free, and loved the dawn,
Brushed with their wings the dews at morn,
And Innocently sped the days.
Like other birds, when sutumn came,
Sure it conld never be the same,
They went alone tbeir separate ways.
With half a smile and half a sigh,
When, as the winter hours go by,
Comes, like a melody's refrain,
A scent of blossoms, softly flung,
They murmur, ••When the year was young
Twas sweet. 'Twill never come again.”
The Duelist’* Fate.
BY COLONKI. PRKNTIBB INGRAHAM.
Not many years ago, when dueling in the
Southern States was legalized by public
opinion, there lived in New Orleans a man
who was feared by nearly every one who
knew him.
A splendid epecimen of manhood in ap
pearance, tall aod well-formed, and possess
ing strength that was marvelous, he was yet
as quick as * tiger in bis movements, and
had a nerve of iron.
Leon Rudolpho was his name, and having
served in the early troubles between Mexico
and Texas, he was called "Colonel,” and was
generally dubbed by his associates as “Col
onel Leon,” and by others as “The Card
King," for he was never known to lose a
game.
Who he was in reility, none knew, for
little was known of his antecedents, except
ing that be eaid he had served iu Texas, was
a Mexican by birth, and bad been educated
in Europe.
His debut in gambling was made on a
Mississippi steam-boat bound for New Or
leans, and upon his arrival in that
took elegant rooms and parsed his time
iqunlly opoa the river and in town, for after
pach trip to Vicksburg and back he would
“lay ofl" for rest, be said, though his resting
spells were invariably passed in the gambling
hells.
One night, upon his second trip down the
river, a planter came on board at Grnnd
Gulf, who asked to have some one engage
with him for a pleasant game of cards, in
which the stakes were very high.
“Colonel Leon” at once consented, and the
two played until a late hour, the planter
steadily losing.
At last, as the Colonel raked in a large
winning, the planter remarked :
“I am considered a good hand with the
cards, sir, and as I have to-night not won a
■ingle game, and you look like a professional,
I am inclined to the belief that you are a
togue.”
All around was intense Interest at once,
and every eye was turned upon the gambler,
who smiled as sweetly as though he had re
ceived a compliment, yet said in a certain
tooe that bad a brassy ring to it:
“No man ever insulted me, sir, and lived
Let us continue our game, if you please, and
then settle the matter as you prefer best.”
“I will play no longer with a villian, sir,
and am wholly at your service for tbe insult.
Captain, will you land us on some conven
ient spot, and as it is a bright moonlight
night, we can easily have a duel.”
Tbe planter was as cool as the gambler,
and tbe captaiD of tbe ateam-bcat sayiog he
would bood land to take in wood, it was
agreed to have tbe duel then, and each man
chose a second from the passengers.
Tbe steamer soon after pat in at a wood
yard, aod tbe crowd went ashore, the dis
tance was paced off, and tbe pistols placed
In the hands of the duelists.
Then the word was given, and tbe two
pistols Sashed together.
Without a moan the planter fell in his
trseks, and tbe gambler was seen to step
quickly backward ; but he said quickly—
“l am not hurt, aod he is dead.”
It was true, for the planter bad a bullet
wound in tbe centre of bis forehead, and was
borne aboard tbe steamer, the gambler coolly
following, and asking several gentlemen to
join him in another game of cards, which
they did, aDd tbe game went eo until after
midnight.
Upon seeking bis state-room Colonel
Leon tbrsw aside bis clothes aod took from
a wire shirt that he wore a flattened bullet,
imbedded in tbe fteel netting.
“He was as cool as ice, and he sent his
ballet straight to tbe mark,” said tbe gam
bler, as be bathed a blue braise over his
Heart
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HAMPTON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1880.
renown, which was greatly increased, when,
three weeks after, be billed the brother of
the planter, who bad challenged him to re
venge himself upon the gambler.
And thus it went on for several year*, the
g.imbler winning large sums of money, living
in great magnificence, and "killing his man”
every lew months, until a dozen names had
been registered in bis book of blood.
So cool was he in all of bis duels, that he
was wont to bet heavily npon his success,
and ir.variably he woo, always sending the
bullet in the brain of bis adversary, if be
fought with pistols ; or running through the
heart if swords were, the weapons usjd, for
he was also a master at fence.
Once rifles bad been selected by bis foe,
and yet here also had the gambler proven
his skill.
Thus it was that he became a perfect
terror, and won the title of "Captain Death,”
along with that of ‘ Card King.”
At last, so much was the smiling, hand
some devil feared, that several young men
were so anxious to distinguish themselves
end rid the city and river of such a nuisance
and dread, as to challenge him.
In each ease the Colonel acespted the
challenge with perfect indifference, and the
fool hardy youths met the fate of many men
before them.
Then the gambler Had all bis own way,
aDd in his calm, courtly way, showed to all
that be knew his power and now greatly he
was dreaded—in fact, many men persistently
avoided him, fearing trouble that must end
in a duel, the result of which seemed a fore
gone conclusion.
At length there arrived in New Orleans a
young Mississippian—a handsome, dashing
fellow of slender, graceful form, though be
low the average height.
His hair wa9 golden, and bung upon his
shoulders, while bis eyes, eyebrows aDd mus
tache were a dark brown.
He seemed very gay, possessed a good
income, was accompanied by an old negro
servant, and took life easy, though some said
there were in reality
"Tears in the heart
While smiles were on the ffp,"
for ibere was a certain sadness way back in
his eye that was discernable to a close ob
server.
When questioned about his young master
the old negro said be was from the northern
part of the State, and bad been left a for
tune ; also, that he was only twenty-two
years of age, aod the past few years had
been traveling in tbe United States and
Europe. His name he gave as Willis Dun
bar, and he became a general favorite in
society, especially with the ladies.
One day Willis Dunbar expressed hi* de
termination to run up to Natchez, and his
friends immediately cried out against it, for
they said:
“You are food of card-playing, Dunbar,
and will surely be inveigled into a game by
Col Leon, and you know the result if you
refuse to play with him, or if you refuse to
allow him to cheat you.”
“That decides it. I shall go, and will
also play cards with ‘Captain Death,' as
they call him.”
And having made tip his mind he told old
Joe, bis servant, to find out what steamer
Col. Leon Rudolpho took up tbe river on
bis next trip, and to get a state-room on it
for him. Three days after the elegant
steamer moved oot from New Orleans, and
thousands were on the levee to bid farewell
to Willis Dunbar, whom they looked upon
as a dead man, for bis intention had become
generally known—in fact a number of gen
tlemen took passage on tbe steamer to see
tbe result of tbe young man's rash act.
“A game of cards gentlemen, let us b ve,
and for high stakes—will you join me, my
boy f”
Tbe speaker was Col. Lood, and it was
evident that be had beard of tbe resolve of
Wiilis Dunbar, for be bad addressed him
patron zingly as “my boy.”
It was several hours after leaving New
Orleans, and tbe lamp were brilliantly light*
ed and an eager crowd gathered round, while
Willis Dunbar quickly replied :
“Yes. I’ll waive your being a black-leg
and morderer, and play you a game.”
All were startled by tbe coolness of tbe
yoong planter, and It was evident now that
he sought trouble with tbe gambler, while
that individual's face paled slightly with au
ger.
Yet be made do reply, and the two sat
down to table.
“Will any other gentleman join os?” ask
ed tbe colonel, politely.
•‘No, I insist that tbia be a game between
you and I, Capt. Death,” and tbe Mississip
pian laid peculiar stress upoo the oame giv
en the gambler.
At once the cards were shuffled, the irara
t-» M , r t -*■—
•rom me saloon and the windsighei^tfnllv
The first game ended with the Mis-nssip
plan being the winner of the stakes, aod the
second, third and fourth games likewise were
won by the youth, until the gambler slight
ly lost his temper, and said, qu'ckly :
“How is it you beat me I cannot under
stand.’’
“Perhaps lam ‘fighting the devil with
fire,’ " was the cool retort.
“As how, sir ?"
“Cheating you, as you always do.”
In an ioatant the gambler was on his feet,
hie face white with rage, while be cried :
"We will play another game, air, and see
if you can beat me at that.”
“Very well sir ; what weapon will suit
you best ?"
“It is for you to name them,” smilingly
said the gambler, gaioing his composure
once more.
“Pistols !’’
“Very good. When shall it be?”
“Upon our arrival at Baton Rogue. We
will remain over there.”
Everyone on board was now intensely ex
cited regarding the affair, and «8 a score of
gentlemen expressed a determination to step
off at Baton Ronge, the Captain said the
bout would be detained there for an hour or
two, giving ample time.
It was just day-break when the etedmer
landed at tbe wharf, aDd tbe few hacks at
the latiding.were quickly filled with an eager
crowd, and rapidly whirled theit loads out to
tbe edge of the town.
Here the ten paces were quickly stepped
off and the two men were placed, pistols in
band.
“Gentlemen, are you ready t" cried the sec
ond of Willis Dunbar, wbo bad won tbe
word.
The gambler smiled and bowed, while hia
finger clutched his pistol butt closely.
Willis Dunbar whispered to a friend
near—
•‘l’ll stop hia cord playing for awhile.”
Then be called out in distinct tones,
“I am ready."
“Fire I”
M tbe word there was a commingling re
port, but the weapon of Willis Dunbar ex
ploded a second before that of the gambler,
and that destroyed his aim. while the pistol
dropped from the shattered hand of Col. Leon
and a bitter curse broke from his lips.
“You have ended his dueling, too, Dun
bar,” cried a gentleman in high glee. “You
have torn bis hand to pieces.”
"I meant to ; hut it is his left hand, which
he always osps in firing a pistol, whiie hie
right was his sword arm,” said Dunbar calm
ly. referring to a peculiarity of Col. Leon's
which no one had before noticed.
Bleeding profusely, the gambler was at
once hurried into town and placed in the
hotel, where a surgeon was summoned, while
the remainder of tbs party, excepting two
of the colonel’s friends, returned to the
steamer, which at once stood on its way up
the river, with Willis Dunbar tbe hero of
tbe hour.
On its return, all rejoiced that Col. Leon’s
arm had been amputated below tbe elbow.
Arriving once more in New Orleans, Dun
bar was “tbe lion” among his numerous
friends, who hoped to bear no more of the
gambler. But they were mistaken, for,
though be could not play rapidly, be succeed
ed io playing a winoiog game, by tbe aid of
a box be held iu his lap under the table.
Nor was be much sal>dued by bis former
detest, but insisted his time was yet to come
with the M isgissippian, -
This threat, of course, went to Willis Dun
bar, sod again old Joe engaged a state room
for his young master, and once more tbe
two men sat at the card table together,
just six months after their last game.
And again Willis Dunbar woo steadily,
until Col. Leon cried savagely •
“You are a cheat, air."
“Were yoa Dot a cripple, I would slap
your face—as it is 111 consider tbe source
from whence comas tbe insult,” was tbe cool
leply
“My right arm yet remains, sir, and if you
are not a coward you will meet me with
swords,” hissed tbe gambler.
“Assuredly, upoo our return ta New Or
leans,” and thus tbe matter was decided
upon.
Ten days after tbe two men once more
met upon tbe dueliog field, and numbers
wers present to witness the affair, while tbe
ladies prayed in secret at home for the tri
umph of Willis Duobar.
A master of tbe aword himself, it was
evident at tbe first pan or two that Col.
Leon was surprised at the strength and skill
of tbe slender form that opposed him, and
he pressed him with all tbe power he could
bring to bear.
D-t thfinah
movement brought his nlade across the face
of the gambler.
Instantly the blood-blinded man sprang
towards his youthful antagonist with a cry
of rage, but he was met by a blow in the
face that felled him to the ground, and then
th- extent of his injury was seen—his nose
had been taken clean off.
And once more was Willis Dunbar a hero,
for all knew he was simply playing with the
gambler, and could have killed him at any
time he desired in his two former meetings.
It was a long time before 001. Leon
Rudolpho again appeared in puhlie, and then
he wore a large patch over his disfigured
face, and every eye fell before its barning
look of hatred, for the gambler made no
secret of a determination to kill Willis Dun
bar at sight.
At last the dreaded meeting oume. Each
entered ths saloon of the Hotel St. Louis by
a different door at the same moment, and
their pistole flashed together and both fell.
A dozen men at once sprang to the side
of Willis Dunbar and raised Him up, when
a discovery was made.
The ball had glanced on the forehead, just
above the temple, inflding only a flesh
wound, yet stunning him momentarily ; but
close inspection proved that the golden hair
was false—a wig, in fact, beneath which
clustered masses of dark-brewu hair.
"A woroun, as I live I”
It was the surgeon who spoke, and he also
took iff the duik mustache, so ingeniously
fastened on.
“A woman did yon say! Held me up
that I may see her face.”
It was the gambler who spoke, for he wsi
dying, the bullet having penetrated bis neck j
he turned hie eyes upon his enemy, at the
same moment that she regained conscious
ness.
“Ell* Dunbarton 1 I believed you dead 1"
•nd the gambler closed his eyes aa if to shat
oat some phantom of the pest.
Instantly the woman arose to her feet and
said in deep, rich tones—
“ Yes, I am Ella Willis Dunhsrtoo, and
not dead, as you had believed and hoped,
Leon Rudolpho. for 'huugh I attempted to
suicide, I did not die, bet have lived to
revenge my poor old father whom you
robbed ol his fortune, and now dwells in his
desolate home, believing me in ray grave.
No, I did not die. but lived to avenge my
brother, wboui yon killed for defending my
honor, and my mother, who died of * broken
heart. Hal be 1 b*l lam happy now, my
gallant Captain Death, for I have sent you
to Satan, your master, and I will now go
back to that old home of my girlhood, and
cheer the last years of that aged man who
has known so much of sorrow through your
act.”
Without another word the disguised
woman turned and left the saloon, just ns the
gambler fell back in the arms of those who
supported him, and breathed his last, a curse
mingling in tbe death rattle in his throat.
Then the accrq) was out. and many sought
the rooms of tbe ooe who had been known
as Willis Dunbar; but she refused herself to
all visitors, and the next day left the city,
accompanied by tbe faithful old servant, Joe
In a comfortable, easy chair, within a
once elegaot home, but upon which negleet
was rapidly telling, aat a man who had
passed three score years.
A book lay upon a table near him, but
bis thoughts seemed far away in the past,
and a look of settled grief rested upoo his
face.
“Here's de mail, massa,” said an old negro,
entering tbe room and placing several letters
in the band of bis master.
Tbe old man took them, aod then be
started, as bis eyes fell upon the writing of a
letter addressed to him.
“Great God I that is her hand-write, and
yet it cannot be, for she is dead ; it is only
a startling resemblance,” and with trembling
hands be broke the seal, and then there came
to bis lips, as through his inmost soul, two
words : “Thank God I”
With eyes dimmed by tears, and bands
that shook as though palsied, he read aloud
“Mt Fathbr —As though from tbe grave
I write yoa. for I know that you have long
believed me dead. No, I live, aod I am
avenged upon tbe mao who brought ruin
and death upon our once happy home, for,
in the attire of a man, 1 have sought him.
punished him. and then brought him down
to die by my hand.
“But I will tell you all when we meet,
which will be soon, as I follow this letter,
which ( send that the sudden sight ot your
daughter, whom you mourned as dead may
oot break your dear old heart with joy.
Your devoted daughter,
Ella Dunbarton ”
The mails had been delayed, and hardly
had Mr. Dunbarton finished reading tbe
letter when there w«« Heard the rumbling
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NO. 27
of joy he drew bis darling to hie heart, and
from her lips learned the strange efory
alrenly known to the reader, of her terrible
revenge upon l.ieon Rudolpho.
Years ago I stopped *ll night, while
traveling through the northern part of
Mississippi, at a handsome plantation, aod
ask“d for shelter and food.
The request was granted by the owner,
an old maid, whose faee showed signs of
having been beautiful in the long ago.
Aod, in that quiet, sad-foced old woman
I saw the one who, as Willis Dunbar, had
broken a score of fa : r hearts in New Orleans,
and visited such a terrible reveoge upon
Captain Death, tbe gambler of the Missis
sippi-
Sorrows of Genius.
Homer was a beggar.
Spencer died in want.
Cervantes died of hunger.
Terrance, the drainitist, was * slave.
Dryden lived in poverty aod distress.
Sir Walter Raleigh died oo tbe scaffold,
Butler lived a life of peoury and died
poor.
Bacon lived • life of meanness and die
tress.
Plautus, the Romm comic poet, turned a
mill.
Paul Borghese had fourteen trades, end
yet starved with ell.
Tasso, the Italian poet, was often dis
tressed for five shillings.
Steele, the humorist, lived * life of per
fect warfare with bailiff*.
Otway, the English dramatist, died pre
maturely, and through hunger.
Cbath-rton, the ehtld of genius and mis
fortune, destroyed himself at 18.
Bentivoglio was refused admittance into *
hospital he had himself erected.
Savage died in a prison at Bristol, where
he was confined for a debt of 840,
The death of Collins was through neglect,
first causing mental derangement.
Goldsmith's “Vicar of Wakefield” wa*
•old for a trifle to save him from tbe grip of
the law.
Fielding lies in tbe burying-grouod of
the English factory at Lisboa, without a
•tone to mark tbe spot.
Milton sold his copyright of “Paradise
Lost” for $75, at three payments, end finished
his life in obscurity.
Camoens, the celebrated writer of tbe
“Lusiad,”the great Portugese epic, ended
his life, it is said, in an almshouse, and, at
any Tate, was supported by a faithful black
servant, who begged in the streets of Lisboa
for him.
Thr MoTiiKßLiag.—They are motherless !
Oh, gently keep back those bitter words.
Avert that cold, cruel stare ; see you now
the tearful eye? Alas I that sorrow should
ever make a child's heart its home I
They are motherless I Strange hsods min
istering to their daily wants—strange heart*
wearying of irksome duty.
No fond, sweet kisses of warm embrace I
No gentle words of comfort, and lore I No
soft folding of little haods in prayer I No
mother I
Miming the low, sweet cadence of her
voice ; missing that good night I seeking,
seeking alt in vain, that aik for the weary
dove—a mother’s heart.
Draw the little forms near to your heart.
Pillow tbe aching bead upon your bosom.
Think of your sonny childhood—your moth
er’s love, her gentle care, her patient forbear
ance, her precioos forgiveness Then only
in kindness let your band rest on each hon
ored little bead ; only iu love reprove the
little flock.
Oh 1 let yoen be the baud that will lend
them in the greeu pasture, and the still sta
ters of tbe precious Baviour's love I Let
yours be the blessed benedictioo. “Inso
much as ye have done it to the least of these
ye have done it to me. ” Remember that
aogels do always behold tbe face of our Fa
ther in Heaven. Then it may be that a
child’s bsnd will lead yea to that heavenly
home—e child's hand place the crown upon
your bead.
A lady of the West End, with rather re
markable ideas for a Republican country,
remarked tbe other day at a little dinner
that she should like to see this country a>
monarchy, and that she wished tbe people
might bsve titles, as in foreign lands. “Yet.”'
gravely replied tbe youth to whom she spoke,
aod who happened to be a Michigander, 1 *!
should like to be Duke of Poetise, and M
my mother Duchess of Kalamazoo.”
It Is now announced on tbe of an
'‘eminent physician" that no* healthy to
rise before 8 o’clock ii*ffiJB >orp ‘ l lg
war him us wc jjgg..... ay-'"'