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VOL. IV. Advertising Kates. One square, first insertion $ 75 Each subsequent insertion 50 One square three months 5 00 One square six months 10 00 One square twelve m0nth5.,..,.. 15 00 Quarter column twelve months... 30 00 Half column six months 40 00 Half column twelve months 00 00 One column twelve months...... 100 00 lines or less considered a square. All fractious of squares are counted as full squares, NEWSPAPER DECISIONS. 1. Any person who takes n paper resru larlv from the post offiee—whether directed to his name or another’s, or whether he ha® subscribed or not—is responsible for the pavment. 2. If a person orders his papoi discontin ued, he must pav all arrenrnees, or the pub lisher may continue to send it until payment ii made, and collect the whole amount, vhether the paper Is taken from the office or n >t. 3. The courts have decided that refusing to take newspapers and periodicals from the povtoffice. or remnvioß and leaving them nn o a lied Tor, is prime facie evidence of inten tional fraud. TOWN DIRECTOR Y. Mayor —Thomas G. Barnett. Commissioners — D B. Bivins, R. R. James, (1. P. Birins. W. B. Pierce. Ci.erk—G. P- Bivins. Treasurer —W. S. Shell. Marshals —S. A. Beldine, Marshal. B. If. MeKneely, Deputy. JUDICIARY. A. M. Speer, - - - - Judge. F. D. DisuoEßj - - Solicitor General. Butts—Second Mondays in March and September Henry—Third Mondays in January and July. Monroe—Fourth Mondays in February, and August k Newton —Third Mondays in March and September. Pike—First Mondays in April and Octo ber. Rockdale—Third Mondays in February and and Aug nst. Spalding—First Mondays in February and August. Upson—First Mondays in May and No rember. CHURCH DIRECTORY. Methodist Episcopal Church, (South.) Rev. Wesley F. Smith. Pastor Fourth Sabbath in euch month. Sunday-school 3 p. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening Christian Ciiuroh, W.S. Fears, Pastor. H"oond Sabbath in each month. Baptist Church, Rev. J. P. Lvon, Pas tor. Third Sabbath in each month. DOCTORS |\R. J. C. TURNTPSEED will attend to -I * all calls clay or night. Office c resi dence, Hampton. Ga. 1v R. W. H PEEBLES treats all dis * ' eases, and will attend to all eails day and night. Office at the Drug Store. Broad Street, Hampton, Ga. EKE BILL, Rich visit, in dav, SI. Each visit, in night, $2. Mileage, in day. 50c. Mileage, in night, sl. Prescription $1 Obstetrics, from $lO to SIOO. Consultation. $lO. • DR. D. F. KNOTT having permanently located in Hampton, offers his profes* sionul services to tbe citizens 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 to the eitizens of Henry and adjoining counties, and will answer culls day or night. Treats a'l diseases, of what ever nature. Office at Nipper’s Drug Store. Hampton, Ga. Night calls can be made at niy residence, opposite Berea church. apr26 JF PONDER, Dentist, has located in • Hampton. Ga.,atid invites the piinlio to call at his room, upstairs in the Bivins House, where he will be found at all hours. Warrants all work for twelve months. LAWYERS. CW. HODNKTT. A'torney and Coun • eellor at Law, Jonesboro, Ga. Prompt attention given to all business, rn -C. NOLAN Attorney at Law. Me- J-* Donough, Georgia. Will practice in the counties composing the Flint Circuit ; the Supreme Court of Georgia, and the Uuited States District Court. WM. T. DICKEN, Attorney at Law, Me Donough, Ga. Will praatice in the counties composing the Flint Judicial Cir cuit. the Supreme Court of Georgia, and the United States District Court. (Office op stairs over W T . C. Sloan’s) apr27-ly GEO. M. NOLAN, Attorney at Law. McDonough, Ga (Office in Court house ) W’ill 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. WALL. Attorney at Law, A/amp* ton,Ga Will practice in the counties composing the Flint Judicial Circuit, and the Supreme and District Courts of Georgia. Prompt attention given to collections. ocs EDWARD J. REAGAN, Attorney at law. Office up stairs in the Mclntosh building. Hampton, Ga. Special attention given tc commercial and other collections. BF. McCOLLUM. Attorney and Coun • sellor at L-w, Hampton, Ga. Will practice io Henry, Clayton, Fayette, Coweta Pike, Meriwether, Spalding aod Butts Supe rior Courts, and :n the Supreme aod United States Courts. Collecting claims a specialty Office up s^.iaiqji^Mclnios^Bj^dm^, WEARY. Dear God, 1 am so weary of it ail, I fain would rest me for a little space. Is there no great rock where the shadows fall. Where I may cast me dewu and hide my face? I work and strive, sore burdened and afraid ; The road is flinty and the way is long, And the weak staff whereby my steps are staid Bends like a reed when bitter winds are strong. I shrink in terror from the endless task : 1 look with horror on the barren land ; I ask. as only hopeless hearts can Usk, The meaning of my davs to understand 1 The Urakeimn Who Went to ~ Church. This is from the Burlington (Iowa) Hawk eye, and must be trnr—'o some extent : To me comes the brakenr in, and sitting himself on the arm of the seat, says : ‘ I went to church yesterday ••Yes?’’ 1 said, with that interested in fection that asks lor more. “And what church did you attend ?” ‘•Which do you guess?’’ he asked. “Some union mission church ?’’ I hazarded. “Naw,” he said. “I don’t like to run on these branch roads very much, and when 1 do I want to run on the muin line, where your run is legular and you go on a sched uie time, and don’t have to wait on connec tions. 1 don’t like to run on a branch. Good enough, hut I doc’t like it.” “Episcopal?” I gue-aed. “Limited express,” he said, ‘‘all palace cars and $2 extra for a seal ; fast time and only stop at the big stations. Nice line, but too exhaustive for a brakeiuan. All train men in uniform, conductor’s punch and lan tern silver plated, und no train boys allowed Then the passengers are allowed to talk back at -the conductor ; and it mak s them too tree and easy. No, 1 couldn’t stand the paluce cars. Rii h road, though. Don’t often hear of a receiver being appointed for that line. Some mighty nice people travel on it, too.” •Uuiversnlist ? ’ I suggested. “ Broad-guage,” said the brakernan., “does too much complimentary business. Every body truvels on a pass. Conductor doesn’t get a fare once in fifty miles. Slops at ail fli.g stations, and won’t run into anything but u union depot. No smoking ear on the train. Train orders are vague, though. aDd the trainmen don’t get along well with the pas sengers. No, I don’t go to the Universal i»t, though I kuow some awlolly good men who run on the road ” “Presbyterian ?” I asked. “Narrow gauge, eb ?” said the brakernan. ••Pretty track, straight as a rule ; tunnel right through a mountain, rather than go ’round it ; spirit level grade; passengers have to show their tickets before they get on the train. Mighty straight road, but the cars are a little narrow ; have to sit one in a seat, and no room in the aisle to dance. Theo there’s no stop-over tickets allowed ; got to go straight through to the station You’re ticketed for, or you can’t get on at all. When the car’s full, no extra coaches ; cars built at the shops to hold just so many, and nobody else allowed on. But you dou’t often bear of an accident on the road. It’s tun right np to the rules.” “Maybe you joined the free-thinkers?” 1 said. “Scrub road,” said the br feemin ; “dirt road bed and no ballast ; no time-card, and no train dispatches. All trains run wild. Hnd every engineer mnkps his own time, just as be pleases. Smoke if you want to ; kind of a go-as-you-please road. Too many side tracks, and every switch wide open all the time, with the switchman soon I asleep aßd the target lamp dead out. Get on as you please, and get off when yon want to. Don’t have to show yoor tickets, and the conduc tor isn't expected to do anything but to amuse the passengers. No, sir, I was oflered a pass, hat I don’t like the line. I don’t like to travel on a line that has no terminus. Do you know, sir, I asked a division super intendent where that road runs to, aod he said he hoped to die if he knew. I asked him if the general superintendent could tell me. aod be said he didn’t believe they bad a general superintendent, and if they had, be didn’t know any more about the road than the passenger*. I ask d him who he re ported to, and be said ‘Dobody.’ I asked a conductor who be got bis orders from, and he said be didn't take orders from any liv'mg man or dead ghost.” “Did you try the Methodist ?” I said. “Now you’re shouting,” be said, with enthusiasm. “Nice road, eh ? Fast time and plenty of passengers Engineers carry a power of steam, and don’t you forget it ; jt&tfP-f aU?e shuwa a h lrulr«.l a*vt •nniwrh HAMPTON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1880. all the time. Live road ; when the conduc tor shouts ‘all aboard,’ you can hear him to the next station. Every train lamp shines like a head-ligh*. Slop-over checks given on all through tickets ; passengers can drop off the train as often as he likes, do the station two or three days and hop on the next revival train that comes thundering along. Good, whole-sonled, companionable conductors ; ain’t a road in the country where the passengers feel more at home. No ftee ia-9engers; every passenger pays full traffic rates for his ticket. Wesleyan house air brake on all trains, too ; pretty safe road, but I didn’t ride over it yesterday.” “Maybe you went to the Congregational church? ’ I asked. “Popular road,” said the brakernan, “8n old road, too. one of the very oldest in this country. Good road bed >ml comfortable cars Well managed road, too ; directors don’t interfere with division superintendents and train orders. Road's mighty popul ir, but it’s pretty independent, too. See, didn't one of the division superintendents down east discontinue one of the oldest stations on this line two or three years ago? But it’s a mighty pleasant road to travel on. Always has such a splendid cluss of passen gers.” “Perhaps you tried the Baptist ?” I guessed once more. “Ah, ha !” Slid the brakemm, “she’s a daisy, isn’t she 1 River road ; beautiful curves; sweep arotlnd flbything to keep close to the river; bat it’s all steel rail and rock ballast, single track all the way, and not a side track fiom the round house to the terminus. Takes a heap of water to run her through ; double tanks at every station, and there isn’t an engine in the shops tbal can puli a pound or ran a mile in less than two gauges. But it runs through a lovely couti try ; these river rOads always do ; river on one side und hills on the other, and it’s a steady climb up the grade all ihe way till the run ends where the fountain-head of the river begins. Yes, sir, I’ll tukc the river road every time for a lovely trip, sure con mctioDS and good time, and no prairie dust blowing in at the windows. And yesterday when the conductor came a-oond for the tickets with a little basket punch, I didu’i a.-k him to pass me, but 1 paid my fare like u little man—twenty-five cents for uu hour’s run, ami u little concert by the passenge rs throwed in. I tell you, Pilgrim, you take the river road when you want—” But j nst here the long whist ie from the engine announced a station, and the brake man hurried to the door, shouting : “Zionsville! This train makes no stops be tween here and Indianapolis !” Contentment. Be contented, my son. You need not be satisfi'd with what you are ; you don’t want to live without ambition; so long as yon live strive to be something better, aod higher and stronger to-morrow than jou are to day. but don’t worry; don’t fret. Wear your ready mule clothes with the air of a prince, until you can do better ; eat your twenty fire cent dinner with the manner of a man who is accustomed to fare sumptuously every ilay on coarse d oners, and I kes this sort of a thing for a change. Keep sunshine in your heart and it will shine in your face. The world is always grateful to a sunny-tem pr-red man, just because be is good enough aod gracious enough to live io it. Laugh, my son, if your stomach is so empty that you cannot tell whether the pain is in your liv er or your back-bone ; wear yonr hat jaunt ily if it Uso full of holes that yon can’t see the grease and weather stains that cover it ; speak cheerily, though you have to wear your overcoat every time your shirt has to go to the laundry. It won’t be an easy thing to do right a long ; the days will come when a good indulgence in the‘•bines’* would seem like a parad se ; there will be hours when you wouid rather growl and wail than look pleasaut ; there wdl be times when ic spite of your strength and manhood and res olutions you go away by yourself and groan and bury your faee m your bands and cry like a girl. I know it, my son. But don’t make a habit ol it, and don’t let any one see you do it. It is a dangerous luxury, and should only be indulged to at very long in tervals and on rare occasions. Cultivate contentment; if you have no gloves, put your bands iu your pockets ;if yoar coat is out at the elbows, back up against the fence ; if you have no hat you will Dover become bald. And when prosperity comes—not if, bot wb“n—you will be prouder of your good nature in the dark days of adversity, my son, than you can be of all the honors, aod all the fame and position that prosperity aod success can bring yoa. Never worry, my son, don’t fre*; it will make your face thin John Smith, T. I see from the papers that a discussion is going on touching the life and character of the ce'ebrated John Smith, T., or, a® he was generally known, Jack Smith, T. He was a very conspicuous personage in early days, and bad the reputation of being blood-thirs* y and dangerous I derived the most of mv information concerning him from Mtoouri miners who had gone to the Galena mines in eurlv times. I had heard so much about him that I availed myself of the first oppor tunity to make his personal acquaintance. This happened in the fall of 1834. I was returning home from Kentucky, where I lad spent the spring and summer of that year, The boat on which l was traveling touched at Cairo, and Smith and his negro servant came on board, going to Selma They were both armed to the lePtb, io fact, loaded down with rifles, pistols and bowie knives, and Smith carried a gun which resembled a huge walking cane. The cabin, in those days, od steamers, was on the lower deck, and as soon ns it was known that Smith was on board a hurried consultation took place among the cabin passengers in which they ile'ermined to make common cause, if any diffii ulty occurred between thm und Smith. I did not enter into the arrangement, as I had great desire to converse with him. lie seemed to discover at a glance that they looked at him askance. As soon as the boat started he pushed through to the guard be hind the wheel house, which was surrounded by a railing and was a pleasant place to stand or sit and view the scenery. I followed tiim in a few moments and tried to engage him in conversation. He at first seemed to regard me with suspicion, but finally became quite cord al and conimnuicntive, and soon remarked upon the manner of the passen gers. I told him they regarded him as a dangerous man and as having killed a great many persons. He replied that he had ; that circumstances had thrown him into the society of'lie most desperate and lawless men in the woild and that he was obliged to fight his way through, and in doing so he had endeavored never to allow anyone to get the advantage of him; but, mid he. very emphatically, “I assure you, sir, that I nev er killed a man without being aide to lay my b ind npon my heart and declare most sincerely before God that I was fully justi fied.” I wished to engage him in convocation in reference to his difficulty with Gen Jackson. He said that affair grew out of the circumstance of his contemplated entrv of some lands in Arkansas, upon which, I think, he said there were medicinal springs. He applied to the Commissioner of the Gen eral Land Office to enter them, ami was in formed by him that the lands were with drawn from sale. He further inquired at whose instance this wjs done, and was advis ed that it was at the suggestion of Gen. Jackson. Smith said that Jackson knew of his intention to enter the land ; thHt it had been communicated to him in confidence ; whereupon he sent a challenge to the Gen eral, who paid no attention to it, but pre pared him-elf for a street encounter. Smith having gone to Nashville in the meantime. One Sunday morning, when Jack“oi) was dismounting from his horse at the church door, in the midst of a crowd, one of bis pis tols went off, to the great consternation of the assemblage. Jackson was greatly en raged, and mounted his horse and swore by the Eternal that be would kill Smith, who hearing of the threat left town. I asked him why, if he hod gone to Nashville to have a fight with Jackson he left when he beard that be was seeking him. Smith said : “I wanted a fair fight with Jackson, but I knew after what bad happened that be would be upon me with bis myrmidons.” The matter ended here, but Smith said that he afterwards expected to be engaged io an affair in which Jackson would be ooncerned. He said he had some iuiportaat business to transact which required him to travel through a section ol country in which Jack sou’s army waa encamped, (whether it was for the Creek or Seminole war I don’t re member), but be said he was giving the eo campment as wide a birth as possible. While riding along a bridle path io the piny woods some two or three miles from where the array lay, be observed a mao ahead of him with his shirt sleeves rolled up, and a pistol in his hand. He instantly imagined that Geo. Jackson had got wind of big be ing on the road, and that the roan he saw was one of bis emissaries Bent out to kill him. He prepared himself accordingly, and upon getting a little nearer he discovered that it wa.- his friend Carroll, who he ketw was unfriendly to Jackson. He immediate ly rode up and was warmly greeted by Car roll, who informed him that be was tbeu practicing pistol ah"- 1 -- -£Ur../.ii.v-LW - 1 office of Colonel of one of the regiments at the encampment, and that Gen. Jackson wa® taking an underhand advantage of him in favor of Coflee, end that if he was beaten it would be through Jackson’s influence, and he had arranged to challenge Coffee, and a man named Douglas* was to challenge Jack son, and he desired Smith to challenge some other min (I don’t remember his name). Smith said he entered into the arrangement and got down, and Carroll shot with his pis tols, which were manufactured by his negro man, and he made splendid shots with them. He cut the string which wns the mark. It was agreed that he (Carroll) was to have one of his pidnU to u*e, if the duels came off; but the whole thing fel* to the ground, as Carroll was elected. I asked Smith about the man Douginas, of whom I had never before heard. Ht said he belonged to the Douglass family of Scot - hi d, and was a descendant of the celebrated Black D mgla®*. Ho also stated that he thought he was the bravest man he ever knew, and that he did not believe that D >ug lass ever saw the time when he would tarn on h's heel to save his life, if duty or honor prompted him. I asked him what he thought of Jackson’s courage, lie said if Jarksou was not excited he wa9 n >1 destitute of pru dence, but, suid he, if yon excite him nnd this earth was a magazine of gunpowder, he would hurl n firebrand into it and blow it to atoms to obtain satisfaction.—J. Gillespie in the Si. Louis Republican. Poverty and Marriage. It has been said of the late Pater Gwelet. who. like all bachelors, particularly when rich, wns frequently urged to take a wife, that he was wont to reply to his pragm itical badgerers that, in the first place, he did not want to marry, and that, secondly, he could not afford to. The former reason, though the best in the world, is, strange to say, sel dom regarded as even a tolerable reason. I he latter statement must have been deemed jocular, inasmuch ns the possession of an estate ol S2O 000 000 to $25 000.000 would be thought sufficient financial equipment for matrimony, even with ull the m idem im provements. But, in moat cases, such a response would be a very wise and a very strong argument, too, against wedlock. A great many men marry who have not the means to wurrunt them in taking the step, and regret it, conaequent'y, all their life long. It is the habit of a number of match-makers and pro-connubialists, generally women, to scout the idea Ihut any man is tuo poor to bo a husband, ar.d, in due season, a father. They huve a deal to say about the ability of two —the two are apt to become four or five, or more—to live as cheaply as one, wffich is, in general, obviousiy lalse, as they must know. There are at this moment thousands of couples in the city have had, and still have, a hard, continual dreary, hopeh ss struggle, because they believed in that mis chievous fallacy. Luxuries are not, it is needless to say, essentia! to matrimonial con tentment ; but a certain amount of money is essential—sufficient to be at least respect able. Neither man nor woman of any sen sibility can be at peace if they are cease lessly occupied with the question of how they shall get on, with carping thoughts of dollars snd cents. Sordid anxieties will in tim° wear them oat physically and mentally, and the mass of husbands and fathers are doomet to be tormented by them to tbeir grave. The bulk of educated, healthful, in dustrious married men io this great city car. barely earn, on an average, $1 500 a year, it so much —$1,000 or $1,200 would doubt leas be nearer the mark—and, with that amount, they will be lucky if they keep out of debt. M“at of them are on salaries — comparatively few men can push their own fortunes in any w#~ —and, if they are thrown out of a situation, as they are liable to be. they are in a desperate strait. A man alone io the world can manage to tumble oi crawl over rough places somehow, but as a husband aod father, the rough places tax his patience to the utmost Marriage is in some sense a luxury—it certainly is not a necessity—sod they who feel that they cannot afford it should wait until they can. If they shonld wait, they might find that they never can afford to en'er a st ale which is to ao extent a copartnership, aod which should not be undertaken without asse s proportioned to the necessarily many liabilities —Ntm York Times. Tis night. Two lovers lean , Upon ihe gate ; A nearing form is seen—■ R is their late. A pieremg scream from her The welkin rent. It was. as you toler. Her pa-n cut. The lover sought to scoot, Alas ! .tpo JgJfv, . _ A Smart Traveller. Shortly after the collapse of the Confed eracy an ex soldier, who had spent ell his pay in rioting and whisky drinking, found himself in Shreveport strapped and busted, yet full of expedients. Desirous of reaching his home in tins city he inquired the fare, and to hisdirmay found it be sls Now that amount was big ns $1 0)0 000, in Billy’s sight A fter casting about, he hethou.'ht himself of a scheme. The steamer Na tional was nearly ready to leave her berth, when Billy made his appearance on the wharf and sang out : “I say, captain, how much do you charge to carry a barrel of whisky to New Or leans ? ’ * Two dollars” replied the captain. “All right," replied Billy. “Send out a couple ol your deck hands and roll me ahoard ” Captain Hamilton saw the joke, and sent out the mud-clerk to take the marks, weight, etc , of the “freight” Billy was invited to a seat at the cabin table by the captain, and traveled to New Orleans in style ns a "barrel of whisky,” by which name lie was afterwards known New Oilcans paper. Confessing her Denomination. —One of the assistants at the post office happened Irt be standing at one of the delivery windows the other day when a buxom datn*el of eieh tcen summers stepped up and asked if stamps were sold ’here. Upon being told that they were, she said she wanted to buy one dol lar's worth. “One dollar’s worth,” repeated the smil ing ussis'unt ; “of what denomination?” The damsel showed swnptnms of embar rassment and hesitated to reply. She twirl ed her shawl fringe nervously, east her eye* about to see ii any one was near, moved a little closer to the window, and finally asked, in a timorous voice : “Do you lief to write it down?” “By no means," answered the courteous assistant, "that is not necessary ; hut I pre mium you have some preference os to the denominat ion ” "All —well, yes,” replied the stranger, hrr face turning ►curiet. “1 hev some. I gen erally go io (lie Fisc pal Methodist myself, hut the fellow I’m bayin’ the stamps for, lie’s a Universal Orthodox " “Men often jump at conclusions," say* the proverb So do dogs. We saw a dog at the conc'usi in of * cut, which w«9 stick ing through the opening of a partly closed door, nn I it erea'ed mo e disturbance than a church scandal. An exchange, telling of a fire, says •» tnan jumped Irom a window in his night dress,’’ and now the Boston Post desires to know what in the ini.-cbeif he hada window in bis night-dress for. During Gen Grant’s stay in Chicago the Tubune inserted a wood cut which is culled a portrait of the Get end. It looked like a cross between Blind Torn and a locomotive smokestack. A man named Snith died recently in Australia, leaving one hundred thojsandi dollars. If any person by the name of Smi*h sees this he may hear of something to bis ad vantage. The latest thing at ohtireli festivals is to serve a search warrant with the oyster soup. It doesn’t aid digestion materially, but R renders valuable assistance in finding the. oyster. Own of the grandest sensations which, thrills the bosom of a twelve-year-old boy is the one which is warmed into life as ha surreptitiously drives nails into a tree. “You promised to pay that bill yesterday, * said an angry creditor to a debtoi. “Yes,” culmly replied the other, “but to err is hu man, to forgive divine, and I forgot ii.” The Cincinnati Gazette thinks] women, will uol know what to do with the ballot, as it it not long enough for a belt aod not b g enough for a bustle. Willis asked his mother where the stars, came from Her reply was : “My son, l do not know.” “Well l do,” be remarked, “the moon laid ’em.” A missing man was recently advertised for and dt*ribed as having a R' man nose. He wont be fount]. Such a nose as that will never turn up. Pat— “Do you buy rags and boose9. here?” Merchant—“We dp, surr.” Pat — “Thin, be jabers, put me on the scblcales I” The Fret Press says that although fences do not walk they have a swinging gate. That is so goof a pun that we picket up. A pry dock— a physician going in ta. «»*♦-* drink. an. - I bo-la. wv« juaup.r - - NO. 33