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The courts l.ave decided that refusing to take newspapers and periodicals from the postoffice, or removing and leaving thpm un called for, is pnma facie evidence of inten tional fraud. 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