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TOWN DIRECTORY.
Mayor —Thomas Q. Barnett.
Commissioners —D. B. Bivins, E: R.
James, (}. P. Rivins. W. B. Pierce.
Clerk— G. P- Rivins.
Treasurer —W. fl. Shell.
Marshals— S. A. Belding, Marshal.
B. H. McKneely, Deputy.
JUDICIARY.
A. M. Speer. - Judge.
F. D. Dismukk, - - Solicitor Genera!.
Butts—Second Mondays in March and
Septemher
Henry—Third Mondays in January and
July.
Monroe—Fourth Mondays in February,
and An just.
Newton—lTiird Mondays in March and
September.
Pike—First Mondays in April and Octo
ber.
ltockdale—Third Mondays in February and
and Aug ust.
Spalding—First Mondays in February
and August.
Upson—First Mondays in May and No
veniber.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
Methodist Episcopal Ohuroh, (South.)
Rev. Wesley F. Smith, Pastor Fourth
Buhbnth in each month.
r. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening.
Christian Church, W. S. Fears, Pastor.
Second Sabbath in each month.
Baptist Church, Rev. J. P. Lynn, Pas*
tor. Third Sabbath in each month.
DOCTORS
T\R. J. C.TURNIPSEKD will attend to
-I" all calls day or night. Office i resi
dence, Hampton, Ga.
liR. W. H. PEEBLES treats all dis
•J * eases, and will attend to all calls day
and night. Office at the Drug Store,
Broad Street, Hampton, Ga.
FEE BILL.
Kech visit, in day, 91.
Each visit, in night, $2.
Mileage, in day. .V)c.
Mileage, in night. 91.
Prescription. sl.
Obstetrics, from $lO to 8100.
Consultation. 810.
DR. D. F. KNOTT having permanently
located in Hampton, offers his profes
sional services to the citizens of Hampton
and vicinity. All orders left at Mclntosh’s
■tore will receive prompt attention. sp26
DR. N. T. BARNiUTT 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 can 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 Rivins
House, where be will be found at all hours.
Warrants all work for twelve months.
LA If r YER S.
CW. HODNEIT, Attorney and Coun
• aellor at Law, Jonesboro, Ga. Prompt
attention given to all business.
TC. NOLAN Attorney at Law, Mc
• Donongb, 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 Taw, Me
Dnnough, 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
atairs over W. C. Sloan’s.) apr‘27-ly
GEO. M. NOLAN, Attornet at Law,
McDonough, Ga. (Office in Court house )
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
“ T F. WALL, Attorney at Law, //amp*
J . 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 to commercial and other collections.
BF. McCOLLUM, Attorney and Conn
• aellor at L>w, Hampton, Ga. Will
practice in Henry, Clayton, Fayette, Coweta.
Pike, Meriwether, Spalding and Butts Supe
rior Courts, and in the Supreme and United
States Courts. Collect ing claims a specialty.
Office uo stairs in the Mclntosh Building.
CUPWS ARROW.
i
Young Cnpid went storming to Vulcan one
day,
And besought him to look at his arrow.
“Tis useless,” he cried, "you must mend it, I
sny I
Tts not fit to let fly at a sparrow.
There’s something that’s wrong, in the shaft
or the dart,
For it flutters quite false to my aim ;
Tis an age since it fairly went home to the
heart,
And the world really jests at my name,
n.
"I have straightened, I’ve bent, I’ve tried
all. I declare ;
I’ve perfumed it with the sweetest of
sigh 9;
Tis feathered with ringlets ray mother might
wear
And the harb gleams with light from
young eyeß;
But it falls without touching—l’ll break it,
I vow,
For there’s Hymen beginning to pont ;
He’s complaining his torch burns so dull
and so low,
That » zephyr might pufl it right out.”
nt.
Young Cupid went on with his pitiful tale,
Till Vulcan the weapon restored :
"There, take it, young sir ; try it now—if it
fail,
I will ask neither fee nor reward.”
The urchin shot out and rare havoc he mode,
The wounded and dead were untold ;
But no wonder the rogue had such slaugh
tering trade,
For the urrow was laden with gold.
Etna Cook.
Alec Stephens.
THE STORY OF HIS LOVE AHD SORROW.
We extract the following from n life ol
Hon. A. II Stephens, written by Mr. How
»rd Carroll, ot the New York Times, the
facts for which, says Mr. Carroll, ‘came
from the lips of Mr. Stephens.” The ex
tracts throw some new light oo Mr. Ste
phens’ life, and will be read with interest by
Georgians:
Entering college In this way, young Ste
phens was naturally expected to do well,
and he did not disappoint such expectations
His progress was rapid, his industry inde
fatigable, his record as a scholar most bril
liant Sometime after be had b&- n in the
college the project which his patrons had in
regard to his entering the ministry was dis
closed to him, but feeling that he was not
adapted for the pulpit, he declined to enter
upon religious studies. At the same time
he pledged himself to repay the money which
his kind friends had extended for his educa
tion. ‘•Subsequently he did to the last
penny.”
Od the lost Monday in August, 1832,
stili a child in s’ature, but with a well-stored
mind, a bright intellect, shining through
almost supernaturally brilliant black eyes—
eyes set in o face which had never known
and would never know the blush of health—
he graduated, taking with him the highest
honors of his class. His high standing won
him much renown in the village town, and
his immediate pecuniary necessities—he was
almost without a penny in the world—were
relieved by an offer which he received, and
accepted, to teach a high school at MadisoD.
in his native State. He taught for four
months—four months be still reealls as
the happiest and yet the saddest period in
his life—four months, during which there
came to him a sorrow that be will take to
his grave.
Among his pupils was a girl of great
beauty and gentleoess. With all the sin
cerity and earnestness of a pa a sionate and
refined nature he loved that girl. But be
was poor—poor almost to penury. The
curse of ill-health, which bad followed him
from his birth, clung to him still. He had
a great mind, but he was puny aod insig
nificant in body. He was assured by med
ical advisers, and believed, that death might
come to him ot any moment. He loved
with an earnestness, a loyalty, and unselfish
devotion which few men know—loved with
a love which in its tender intensity was
almost womanish. But for more than a
score of years he kept his secret to himself
No human being knew the cause of bis ever
present melancholy. Day by day and night
by night duriog that time at Madison he
pondered over the affection which he koew
could bring him nothing but sorrow, and at
last he determined to resign his position and
leave the place. He departed in the night,
and to his faithful journal—his only confi
dant—he imparted the fact that ‘ - on that
night I drove all the way to Csawfordville
1 had a terrible headache—a most horrible
headache.” Of bis wi etched heartache, of
HAMPTON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1880.
his despair and misery, the poor boy, even
to his confidential journal, said never a word
Years afterward, in writing to his brother,
he half drew the curtain that had concealed
his sorrow, and telling something of those
days at Madison, said further: "l am
tempted to tell you a sectet. It Is the
secret of my life, and I have never told it to
any one. but I will tell it to you, and I fear
you will not believe it, but it is true, and if
you have never suspected It, that shows how
true I have beeu to myself in keeping it.
The secret of my lift* has been revenge re
versed—that is, to rise superior to the neg
lect or contnmely of the moan of mankind
by trying to do them good instead of harm
—a determination to war even against fate,
to meet the world in all its forces, to master
evil with good, and to leave no one standing
ir, my rear. My greatest conrage bos been
drawn from my deepest despair, and the
greatest efforts of my life have been the
frnits of a determination and firm resolve
excited by so slight a thing as a look. This
feeling, this principle—call it what you will
—is the mainspring of my action. When I
have looked upon the world and seen in the
whole waste not one well of water from
which 1 could draw a drop to slake my
thirsting, parched soul. With all hopes
blighted, when I have been ready to lie down
and die under the weight, of that grief which
is greater than all other griefs—
‘“A young heart desolate
Id the wide world,’
‘‘l have often had my whole soul aroused
with the fury of a lion and the ambition of
a Cffi.sar by, I repeat, so slight a thing as a
look • What hnve 1 not suffered from a
look T What have I not suffered from the
tone of a remark, from a sense of neglect,
from a supposed injary, ao intended injury ?
But every such pang was a friction that
brought out the latent fires. My spirit of
warring against the world, however, never
held in it anything ol a desire to crush or
trample on those who did me the wrong ;
no, only a desire to get nbove them—to
excel them; to enjoy the gratification of
seeing them feel that they were wrong ; to
compel their admiration—this is the extent
of my ambition ; this the length, breadth,
and depth of my revenge.”
During Mr. Stephens’ Congressional ser
vice, and pending the campuign of 1848, he
returned from Washington to Georgia. Ho
was fresh from the great debates on the
acquisition of California and New Mexico
os United States Territories, and for having
taken, against the wishes of a majority of
the Southern members, a most prominent
part in opposition to such acquisition, he
was met with mnch adverse criticism Judge
Cone, who was at the time one of the lead
ing politicians of Georgia, wus particularly
severe in his comments upon Mr. Stephens’
action, and was reported as having publicly
denounced him as a traitor to the South.
Hardly had Mr. Stephens reached his
home when these aod similar reports were
conveyed to him. At first he did not credit
them, but as one kind friend after another
informed him that Cone had called him a
traitor, and advised, in the tine Southern
spirit, that he owed it to himself to demand
what is called “satisfaction,” the fires of
pugnacity in his nature, which are always
smouldering, blazed np, and be declared that
if Judge Cone would admit having called
him a traitor to the South he would ‘ slap
his face.” Not long after this he met tho
Judge at a numerously attended Whig gath
ering, and going up to him quietly, said :
“Judge Cone, I have been told that you,
for reasons of yonr own, have denounced rao
as a traitor to the South, and I take tbi*
opportunity of asking you if such reports
are true?”
“No, sir,” was Cone’s reply,“they are not
true." •*
“I am veryglad to beur yon say so.” said
Mr. Stephens cordially, and in the same
friendly tone couiiuQed : “Of coarse, I do
not desire to be in any way offensive
to you, Judge Cone, but in order that we
may have no further misunderstanding
through the misrepresentation of others, I
think it right to tell you that I have said f
would slap your face if yon admitted hav
ing used the language attributed to you.”
U|>on this the Judge again disowned hav
ing spoken disrespectfully of Mr. Stephens,
and bo for the time the affair ended. It was
subject of much discussion all over the State,
however, and the general verdict was that
Judge Cone, a very powerful man, by the
way, had shown the white feather, to “Little
Aleck Stephens.” In such a community,
no public man resting uader such a charge
could hope either for political preferment or
popular respect. Cooe, of course, knew
this, and very much heated and annoyed by
the comments which were beiug made upon
him, wrote to Mr. Stephens demanding an
immediate and public retraction of his threat,
in reply, Mr. Stephens wrote that the threat
of slapping the Judge’s face had been made
contingant upon the truth of reports regard
ing him which he [Mr. Cone] had pro
nounced to be untrue, and that such being
the case, there could be no cause for offense
or angry feeling on either side. Unfortu
nately, this letter was not received by Judge
Cone. Three or four days after It wa« writ
ten, however, be met Mr. Stephens on the
piazza of a hotel in Atlanta, and disregard
ing that gentleman’s friendly greeting, said
in a very eflensive tone :
“Mr Stephens, I demand that you make
an immediate retraction of your thraats re
garding mo.”
Sick and weak though be was, Alexander
II Stepbeos could allow no one to speak to
him in the fashion described Judge Cone
was a very giant in size and muscular devel*
opment, yet the frail man whom he address
ed, with aggravating politeness and without
hesitating a moment, replied : "Pardon me,
sir, I have already written yon fnlly on that
subject: I must declioe to discuH it fur
ther.”
“Am I to take this as your answer ?” ask
ed Cone, excitedly.
“It is the only auswer I have to give you,”
was the calm reply.
"Then I denounce you as a miserable lit
tle traitor,” cried Cone, mad with excite
ment. The last word had hardly left his lips
when a light cane wielded by the quick hand
of tbo ni-tn he bad insulted left its red icar
across his chrek.
Wild wilh pain and passion, without ut
tering a word, he drew a keen-pointed dirk
knife and made one furious thrust at his
weak little advereory’s heart. Instantly as
he did so, however, Stephens, seizing a stout
ombrslla ( which he held in his left hand, in
terposed it as a defen»e, and was able for a
moment to hold him at arm’s length. The
koile fell Rhort of its mark. Once more it
was thrust at Stephens, cutting a deep gash
in his urm but reaching no vital point ;18
times it cut deep into his breast, arms and
body, but still be did not fall. Then he
could on no longer. No courage, do spirit,
however firm and unyielding, could long
withstand such an attack. Cone was deter
mined to finish his work. He threw all his
great weight against the umbrella which
held him away from the man he had deter
mined to kill. It broke; Stephens, half faint
ing, fell upon his back. The giant Cone
was at his throat in a moment; his head, by
a grip of iron, was held against the cruel
floor; the keen and blood-dripping knife
was held aloft before him ready for the last
fatal thrust, but still the pale face of the
little hero was aet and d«fi*ut—hia black
eyes still flashed undauntedly.
"Retract or I’ll cut your cursed throat 1”
hissed Cone.
“Cut! I’ll never retraot I” gasped the al
most lifeless Stephens.
Like a flash the knife came down. With
an almost superhuman effort the prostrate
man caught it in his right hand I Clean
through the moscles. tendons, and boues oil
the hond it cut, then stack fast and reached
no vital part. With desperate strength, Cone
tried to wrench it free. Wilh a grasp almost
of death, the horribly mangled and mutilated
hand still held it fast. In the struggle Ste
phens was ouce more dragged to his feet;
the blood was gashing in streams from his
many wonudg ; bis bold upon the knife which
sought his brave heart began to relax ;he
was dying. But even wheo he believed the
next moment would be his last, strong men
came to his relief. The madman Cone was
secured and held fast.
TbeD quickly the wounds which Mr. Ste
phens bad received were examined. It was
found that one of them bad penetrated to
within a sixteenth of ao inch of his heart.
An intercostal artery had been cat. The
doctors declared that be would surely die.
Happily their predictions were not verified.
His life was saved by the unremitting oars
of a surgeon, his devoted friend, who, as
good fortuoe would have it, happened to be
in Atlanta at the time. When he recover
ed, with a magnanimity of which few men
aro capable even of understanding, he refus
ed to prosecute Cone, and that person in
stead of getting bis deserts in the dark cell
of a State prison, was fined 81,000, and with
his “honor vindicated,” he was allowed to
go free. To this day Mr. Stephens speaks
of him in terms of consideration and for
giveness; Not long ago, referring to the
terrible straggle I have attempted to de
scribe, and showing me the great hole in his
mangled haDd, be said, with a quiet and far
away look in bis di-ep, dark eyes : “Poor
Cone 1 I’m sure he’d be sorry if be knew
what trouble 1 have to write with these stiff
fingers of mine.”
A Maine roau who didn’t care two
shakes of a lamb’s tail about the newspa
pers, rode fourteen miles through a fierce
snow-storm to get a copy of a weekly that
■poke of him as a ‘pioraioeot citizeu.”
The Confederate Congress.
There was much Interesting matter devel
oped at the reunion of the Southern Histor
ical Society lost evening. The meeting was
held, as usual, in the gentlemen’s parlor at
the Galt House, and there was a large at
tendance, a number of ladies being included
among the audience. The business proceed
ing* of the society were dispensed with, and
President Dodd introduced Hon. H. W.
Brace as the speaker of the evening. Judge
Bruce explained that a mistake had occurred
in announcing that he would rend a paper.
He had informed the committee who re
quested him to prepare un address that his
official duties were too pressing to allow him
to write a paper, and regretted exceedingly
the misapprehension that had followed. He
could only recite to the society the recollec
tions of the Confederate Congress as they
recurred to his mind after the lapse of eigh
teen years.
After referring. In a general way, to the
causes which produced hostilities between
the North and the South, Judge Bruce said
that thero were many Kentuckians who felt
as did the lamented Col. Phil. Lee, who said
be was “for the Union ; but if tha Union
was dissolved, be was for Kentucky ; if
Kentucky was dissolved, be was for Bullitt
county ; if Bullitt county dissolved, he was
for Shepherdsville, and if Shepherdsv ille
dissolved, he was for his side of the street."
And believing thus with Col. Lee, many
Kentuckians had ca«t their fortunes with the
Confederacy. He then explained the steps
taken to admit Kentucky as a member of
the Confederate States, the first of whioh
was the calling of a convention, which met
at Russellville, Kentucky, on the 18th, 19th
nod 20th of November, 1861, when a State
governmont was organized, State officers
elected and commissioners'were sent to Rich
mond to form an alliance as an independent
nation with the Confederate Congreps.
The alliance was formed, and on the lftth
of December, 1861, the Confederate Con
gress admitted Kentucky into the Confed
eracy.
Ha then explained wherein the Cnnstitu*
tion of tho Confederate States differed from
that of the U nited States, the greatest dif
ference being in regard to public improve
ments —the Confederate Conutitntion pro
viding that no harbor should he Improved
at the expensff of the General Government,
but if improved at all, it should be by a
system of tollnge, thus destroying the ten
dency to the corruption by which such
measures are brought about. After Ken
tucky had boon admitted Into the Confed
eracy, two Senators wore appointed to the
Confederate Senate, and on the 18th of Feb
ruary, 1862, twelve Congtessuiop were
elected to the Confederate Congress, the
speaker being a member of the delegation.
After the Congress organized, he was ap
pointed on the committee to prepare for the
inaugural ceremonies which took place under
the Washington statue on the public square
in Richmond, and by which Jefferson Davis
was inducted into office as the President of
the Confederate States of America.
The speaker exhibited the autographs of
the members of both houses of Congress, and
detailed at length tba character and public
acts of many of them, both before and after
that timo. He spoke of the dislike Vice-
President Stephen! felt for the position he
htld, and h’S preference for a seat oo the
floor as a Senator, whore he could have free
rein to gratify his great desire to be heard
on all important questions. The speaker’s
delineation of the characters of the most
prominent men in the Confederate Congress
was very graphic and ot times amusing. He
made special mention of Vf. H. N. Smith, of
North Carolina, who was a native of Maine,
and who, it had been said, was really elected
Speaker of the United States Congress at
the session of that body in which the bollot
ing for Speaker continued from December
till some time in February.
The late Judge Elliott, a member of Ihe
Confederate Congress from Kentucky, was
also a member of the United States Con
gress at the session in which it was so diffi
cult to elect a Speaker- In the election of
Cbnplain at the same session, after listsning
to the eulogistic remarks that were made of
eminent divines, he placed in nomination a
Hardshell Baptist preachor from Morgan
county, Kentucky, and in bis remarks said
that although the mao whom he had the
boQor to nominate was not noted for varied
attainments and great learning, nor for u
very great amount of piety, yet he could as
sure the members that if elected be would
prove himself good enough to pray for that
House. In speaking of the firmness of Pres
ident Davis, which many called obstinacy,
he related an anecdote of Mrs. Gen. Heo
ingsen, whose husband, a Hungarian, having
fallen in disfavor wiih the President, lost
his position in iha>rnu*„»n<i «q entreaty was
strong enough to move Mr. Davis from bis
purpose. This so enraged Mr*. Heningseu
that she told some of the PresHent’s frien<ls
that if she had been at the battle of Bos
worth when King Richard 111 cried,“a
horse I a horse ! my kingdom for a borne V
she wonld have pointed to J-ffersoo Davie
and said, “There’s yonr mnle." Which say
ing became a byword throughout the armies
of the Confederacy. The speaker then re
'atpd nn anecdote of two m»n in a Mississip
pi regiment, command'd by Col. Stith, of
Baltimore. One of these men contended
that the Scriptures were of divine origin,
and the other said they were of hnman in
vention, and asked his opponent, in one of
the arguments which they were continually
having, if he believed the story of Jonah and
the whale, to which the other replied "Yes.”
"Do you ulso believe that the two He
brews passed through the fiery fnrnace with,
out feeling the heat?” persisted tho infidel.
"Yes,” came the answer again.
“Do yon believe,” came sharply, “that
Sampson slew all those thousands of Philis
tines with the jaw-bone of an atsf”
It wns just after the battle of Shiloh, and
the believers in the inspiration of the Bible
had just had s»me tough experience in lbe
difficulty of fighting only tour or five to one.
“Well.” he answered, hesitatingly, to the
last home thrust, “I—l—always regarded
that story ns a mere camp rumor!”—Cour
ier-Journal.
Judge Rice akd thr Connaught At
tachment —I met Judge Sam Rice, of
Montgomery, the other day, and asked him
what his political status was at present.
“I am,” said ho with that indescribable
look of humorous gravity, “a political free
denier on a Democratic basis, with Repub*
lican variations and a Connaught attach
ment.”
“What Is a Connaught attachment T" I
asked him.
“Didn’t yon ever hear of that? There
was an Irish company went out of New
Orleans into tho Confederate array. They
had been in camp a long time, and were
getting tusty for the lack of a fight. Oue
evening a shockheaded fellow arose, and
stripping off his coat, remarked, casually
that “the jintleman from Limerick cud lick
anything in the camp in the twinklin’ uv an
eye." In an instent a bright-eyed follow
was to the front, remarking “the jintleman
from Tipperary could walk through the jin -
tleman. from Limerick without the least bit
uv trouble.” At this juncture a tall fel'ow
from the outside strode in and stated po
litely that “the jintleman from Connaught
would like to take part the coming en
tertainment, and in order to save the jin*
tlemun already engaged from any embar
rassment, the jintleman from Connaught
would further remark that he didn't give
a d—n which side he fought oo I” ‘‘So,’'
says the Judge, laughing, “you cun under
stand what I moan when I say I am works
ing with the Connaught attachment.”
Sweet Consciousness or Duty Perform
ed. —The other day,over at the Alameda
baths, a timid and rrtiring-looking man
waited until the Superintendent was disen
gaged. and then said to him : “I do hate to
give any one trouble, hut have you a long
stick or pole of any kind you could lend
me?” “No,sir; I told yon so ten minutea
ago,” snapped the overdriven official. “So
you did,” replied the man ; “but I thought
I’d just ask once more. I guess, now, I’vfr
done my doty in the matter. Doo’t you
think so?” “Wbat matter? Wbat on earth
are you talking about ?” "Why, you see,
my mother-in- law dived off down there at
the deep end about half so hour ago, and, as
she hasn’t come up yet, I thought I’d like to
tell my wife that I had sorter jibbed round
on the bottom for her awhile, anyway ; but,
if I can’t, -by, 1 suppose I can’t, that’s all."
And pensively writing her address on a tag,
to be tied to the old lady when she came up,
the conscientious man walked thoughtfully,
away — San Francisco Pott.
“Josephine, you have altogether too.
many cousins for the family that are fond of
cold meat —you must look out for another
place." “Oh raadame, please” -“lt’s no
use—l give you warning." “AH right,
ma’am —I take your warniog, ma’am—
and heaven knows, ma’am—it’s glad Pll be
to get out of this UoHse, ma’am. There’s
not a living soul io it I’ll regret, ma’am,
except Pouto.” “Except Pouto?" “Y(K.
ma’am, except Ponto. The steps that dog
saves a mdy that has dishes to wash"
In one of the freedmao’s schools a lad was
to receive a prise banner for reciting the
tea commandments. He advanced to the
platform, and the superintendent asked him
hi» name. His reply was, ‘ Well, sah,
mas’r calls me Cap’u, but my maiden name
is Moses.” The school s»»ila<L. —**
NO. 34