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Till- MESSENGER
A. Mi II AN, Editor.
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I.AFAYETTB G.V., Si-p 30. ISSO
KOI? PRESIDEST:
(if JVinisvlviliiln.
FOI! VU'K-I’I’I:>I HUN T:
WILLI AH EL E\GLI*2I,
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rvfcsiOKMiAi, ki.i;cioiis.
Fur the Shite nt Ihivi'-C. ('.
Black nml It. E. Ken pop. Alter
natea A. I*. Ad miis anil I, S. (Ili'iiii.
First district—S. I>. Ilraswell, ol
Liberty. Alternate Josephus
Camp of Emanuel.
Second district —\\ . 1, linn
inond. of Thomas. Alternate —\\ in
Harrison, of Quitman.
Third district—C. Snitli, ol
Telfair. Alternate—.lames Bb'uip,
Jr.. ( f Dodge.
Fourth district —I. I!. Ilav, of
Coweta. Alternate—ll. C. Camer
on, of Harris.
Fifth distri t —John L. Hull, of
Spalding. Alternate—l). I’. lliil.ol
Fulto _
Sixth liisiriit i!. N. NUhit, of
Putnam. Alternate —F. F. Duhig
non, of P ilQwin.
Seventh district —T. \V. Akin, of
Bart la Alternate—l*. \V. Alex
ander, "f t ilili.
Eigth il,strict—Seaborn Reese, of
Hancock Alternate—James K.
Jlines, of Washington.
Ninth oistrict —W. E. Simmons,
of Gwinnett. Alternate—M. G.
Boyd, o, White.
rov t'ONRKKSS ;th DISTRICT :
Judsou C. Clenirnts.
Os Walker County.
•TATE DEMOCRATIC TICKET:
FOB OOVFIt.NOIf:
ALFRED 11. COLQUITT,
run skciiki (iiv oksi ath:
K. C. BARNETT, of Baldwin.
rod COM PTROI.I.LU IIKNK.RAI.:
WM. A. WRIGHT, of Richmond.
l'oi! Thkasi; i:eu:
1). N. SPEER, of Tump.
FOIt ATTOUNKV OK.NEIMI,.'
CLIFFORD ANDERsON. -if Ril-h.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS.
For Senator 44tli District:
KiMioni.n, (fa., July g I, ISSIi.
1 niinomiee myself a eamliilate to
represent tlit* lllii Senatorial District
Ju rile next (.eneral Assemble of (.enr
eis. A. T. H ACK K I T.
For Representative:
I hereby announce mysdf a enn
didate foi Representative of Wiiik
• r county, at the election to lie held
on Wednesday, the Ctii dav of Oe
tober. 11. I’. LUMPKIN.
Pla'stead’s election is conceded
by the Republicans in Maine.
Bell, it is said is making things
lively for Speer in the Ninth.
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Shakspeare iiad only 1,500 words
in iiis vocabulary. But lie knew
how to arrange them.
NVlio will write the obituaries of
Atlanta Phonograph and Post-Ap
peal after the election next Wed
nesday.
Gen. Lawton in a speech in Ath
ens, a few days ago announced him
self a candidate for United Shales
Senator.
General Toombs, who is hig as
ever in his antagonism, s i s "I'm
tiled of seeing these little
court points made against Col
quitt."
Os the many charges brought
against Governor Colquitt by the
“gallant minority, ’’ they have only
proven two, namely : That he at
tends Sunday-schools and preaches
to negroes.
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The government, insl, ad of being
for the people, seems to lie mainly
run now in the interest of the Re
publican party. This is not exactly
carrying out the ideas us those who
founded it.
It is said the Republicans in
Maine are about ready to concede
tiie election of the Democratic pres
idential electors in November, they
jtißt as well as they will have to do
so, sooner or later.
Much of tnc excitement and bit
terness that characterized tbeguber
natorial contest in the beginning
has died out, and the people have
nbarP-ujfldo up their minds as to
whom ihev « Il support.
This will tie the last, issue of the
MessENCIICK, before the October
election, and we wisl to state as we
have done before that none of the
cliargs* .against Alfre.4 H. Colquitt
Jiave been sustained, by facts or evi
dence.
A reporter in the Atlanta Conali
lU ion publishes Jill interview In
recently had with Sam Hill, hut he
promisi il to keep out of | l int until
Hill was far wav from Atlanta and
safe from the dutches oflaw. Hill
told the n potelr that he mnile his
' escape from (he lunatic asylum by
1 opening the leeks i f seventeen
heavily bolted doers with a stele
, toll key which lie had made out of
an old rniilli. He sues thill since
his escape evervone he has met has
treated him tindlv and shown him
much sympathy, lie came to At*
i laota to see his wife, hut would not
till where he intern eil logo It is
lielii"’e.l, however, til it lie is lilillnd
for New (b'leaiiH
Georgia nai I during the fiscal
year which ended June 30, 1880, to
the internal revenue olfi.-isis. $322,-
074. Os this amount sl9l 550 was
collected frimi spirits. $74 j (7 from
tobacco, and $12,729 Irom li rment
ed liquors. In the same year $ I 35,-
■S'JII .vis collected in Alabama,Blll,-
Ittiil in S.iiith Girulina, 8201 ,7'Jt) jn
Florida, nod 81,003.725 ir. Tenues
see. The total receipts of the yeas
wore sllO 848.219.
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“Absolute acquiescence ! n the
decisions of the majority is the vi
tal principle of republics Irom which
there is no appeal hut to force.
Should we wander from these piin
ciples in moments of error or alarm,
let us hasten to retrace our steps
and regain the road which alone
leads to peace, liberty and safety.—
T/wiiiaa Jeffi rsori.”
Tanner's failure as a lecturer
seems to be complete. At Hart
ford, Conn., last Friday night his
1 agent sold only three tickets for a
lecture which had been announced,
and consequently the doctor did not
Appear on the stage.
nkwsTn general.
( lipped Willi a Sharp I’air of Scissors.
! The University of Georgia'will
open Outlier Oil).
Texas lias 250,000 children with,
in the school age.
.Seventy candidates for the eighth
soliciloTship in Alabama.
Texas diapers report considerable
sickness throughout that Slate.
The Govingloii Star says: "There
was a slight frost about Gnvingtoii
on the morning of the 16th of Sep
ti mber.
A lump of gold being two and j
(ine-huJf pounds lias been taken out
of the Christian mine, in North 1
(larolina.
The colporteurs of the American
Bihlo society have distributed 10,-
253 Bibles in Texas during the last
lour mouths.
It is reported that Justice
Swayne, of the Supreme Court will
l.e retired alter the session of the
October term of the court.
An elephant travelling in a car
next the locomotive on an Indiana
railroad, opened the tank, drank all
the water, and so compelled the
train to stop.
If some of the young mm could
pick cotton os last as they talk pub
lics, idere would lie more money
in the land, and less noise in the
air.— Milleiliiriillc Jlcconler.
The recepts of cotton at New
Orleans fur the past twelve months
aggreguiefi7 4.757 386pouniDagainst
574.772.557 in 1879. showing mi in
crease ol 99 094 827 pounds.
Tiie imports of collie into New
ti leans in 1.350 show 30.667.469
piiuniTs ; fur the year before 22 752 -
399 pounds were received, being an
inereio, ! 7 914.079 pounds.
The Georgia Stock Fair and racis
will open at Atlanta on the JBth,
ol October next, and continue dur
ing the week. Thujnihtary reunion
will take place at the Anne time.
Gov. Colquitt Inis rib red a re
ward of two bundled dollars for the
arrest of Andrew Yarbnngh:, the
murderer of Edwin Williams,Nn
Dodge county, on the 4th of Sep
tember last.
A German life insurance com
pany called Die Le.bensverischer
ungageßcllsehr ft, complains of the
irregularity of the mails. Out ;
would never suspect it of wanting
any more lett* is.
Gov. Colquitt has ofl'erd a reward
of 831 X) for the arrest of unknown
parties who Killed W. 11, Waldroup
in Spaulding county last August.
The father of Waldroup has added
S3OO to tl.e reward making it 8(>00.
The Atlanta Ow*tilutioH of the
22ud ihst., was an eight-pace trade
issue. It whs filled with advertise
ments, and claims that the past was
a year of prosp .ity and progress
umqoaled in ne history of the
1 Gale City.
MM Ml .Mil. . . ■»» I
Jesse Grant, third son of General
17, S. Grant, and Miss Lizzie Cliap
■ man, daughter of IV. S. Chapman,
1 of San Frimeisco, were married at
I Sill Francisco, Tuesday. There
was i:o great display, although the
apartment in which the nuptial
knot was tied was handsomely
decorated with flowers.
A correspondent from Jnhnato >
.Station, Mclntosh enmity, writ's
that politics me raging in I. at
county, and is i von nttiicking the
ladies. One lady friend nf his
went so far as to say that she hoped
he Would lie sick on tin Otll of Oc
tober, so as to prevent him from
c isling his vote for Colquitt. She t>.
; an enthusiastic “Norwood man. ’
Solomon Terrell, colored, has the
present year been running n two
horse farm on the plantation of Dr.
.1 i). Mitchell, in this county, from j
which he has already picked 2u
bales of cotton, and if no disable:
befalls bis crop will get 15 or 20
naies more. In addition to this, he 1
has made 75 bushels of corn and a j
large crop of peas and potatoes. :
Who can heat it ? — Jltilla' Herald.
Tiie city of Memphis presented n |
gala spectacle 22nd imst., it being a j
thanksgiving celebration gotten up
by the merchants for tin- continu
ed good health of the city and the
restoration of its commerce and
trade. Tiie procession was three
| miles long and the city was gaily j
decked with arches, transparencies
and other insignia of joy. One con
spicuous arch was built entirely of
cotton bales. Among the distin
guished personages present were I
the Governors of Tennessee, Ken
tucky and Arkansas.
An Age of liiqiroveiaeat.
W’e live in an age of improve !
menU as is evident to all when we
consider the wonderful discoveries
which are coming to light day by
dity. One of the latest and most
wonderful is the discovery of Ken
dall’s Spavin Cure, which will cure
a spavin, splint, curb, callous or
ring-lione, and remove the
luyn*. without even blistering or
Causing a sore and it, has recently
tieen tested for deep-seated pains,
heilmatisrri, enlargements and ma
ny similar difficulties on man as ;
well as beast, and il has heel, found 1
In ivOrlt so well that it is now be
lieved to tie the very best liniment j
lor external use on man, that has
ever been discovered. It can he
used full “trength at all seasons of j
the year with perfect safety, lleai! ,
the advertisement f r Kendall's i
Spavin Curt*.
Tv.i'-'tti .;A'.DYK:ii(T>i:.tßFs4n7'Rir>i?.
If HiOHGIA , WALK I.I! COC.XIY.
Whereas Win. L. Ihuman administra
lor of William C. Lee late of said
county deceased, lias applied for leave
to sell the real estate of said deceased.
This i- to rite all persons concerned
kindred and creditors in show cause if
any they can, why an order should not
he granted on the llrst Monday in No
vember next, allowing the idministra- j
lor to sell the property as prayed for.
This September doth. ISSO.
Mit ton IL ssi i.i, Ordinary.
annua [a , walker county.
ily virtue of an order from the court j
of Ordinary of said county will he sold
on thcll M Tuesday in November next,
between tin* le**al hours of sale, before
ihcComt I louse door in the town of La- ,
Fayette, the follow in# property 10-wit:
Lots of laud numbers I. 1(5, .Ti, ,*i(i, .’l7, IIS, •
and 17, and eighty acres of number 21,
and |orl,\ acres of number UJ, in the 7lh
Oistrict and till Section; and lot num
ber St, in llih I>ist riel and li h Section : 1
and iiiimher.TJd,in 12th Distriel ami lih
section, all in said State ami county; !
and tin- following town property, in
the town of La Fayette, (La., to-wit:
Lots lyinp; North of the road leading to
the \ ard, and Last of the proper
ly of d. t . (dementsand IL L. Mire.
Town lots Last of the stables of A. Shaw
and adjoining A. \. Simmons on tin*
North and Mrs. Still's on the East.
Owclliui: lion »•. store bouse, A:e., and
the lots on which they are situated, all
under one leiie ■. Sold as the properly
«»l A. Shaw, deceased. Terms: Two
equal payments of >ix and twelve
months from date of sale, with interest
from dale of sale.
JOHN Sil AW. \ditiiu. of
Aii:\. Siiuv. Deceased.
(iblOlUiIA % IfVI Lh'KJt COU.XTY.
Hy virtue of an order from Hie court
at*Ordinary ofl’atoos.t eeu >iy will he so o
on the first Tm sda\ *n N ' end*er tu x'
between the U jjal Toms nT sale hefor*
the emir house d tor in La Fa e'te. T e
* nth half of lot number 129, in tin*
Distri *t aodddi section of Walker eoun
•y. Sold as ihe property ol i’alviu (J.
Tor the hr... lit oT < . ir> ami er**t»i '
UMS. T*»»■'*'* dr, one-halt cash, the
balance in so notes due twelve mom Its
with interest ti.un date. Koud lor title
s?iv*n to nimdn e> Thi- S. premi er
tsso. \\ M SMTUI. Admin, of
( . 1». wSu ii h, deceased.
u..%"«VnT() sellu
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CHEAPER THAN THE CHEAPEST.
I'lvrrylliing gcarniilri-c! ;!■< rcprt'M'itft'd or asonry re
rriiiiiriri!.
Since we have decided rot to hi-II nut, our Ntw Y..rk buyer has hcen piling in
the goods by (he car load, until every corner is full and running over
WITH BARGAINS ALL OVER THE HOUSE.
lioliasj*, E’asjpy <»o»c>*, 33 iUiticry s*oo<lm,
<’:jrs« tiiaeivx, .fe'c.Ws,
CoUnandcs, BVshS*, ii>o*9K-«sit«, Bsaciie* Lt»rti Ntiiii*.
THE .»cr. COUriTES b FjLl GF PIEW m USEFUL ARTICLES
at a much less price than you can get them elsewhere.
THE b«GT. COUfiTEB HAS IVSAtiY ARTSGLtS THAT WOULD,
cost you 25 to OOeent at other places you will save mnnty by making your pur
chases at the balloon.
THE SEWING MACHINE DEPARTMENT.
The largest variety of first class Machines in the State, such as,
The Eldridge, Whi e, Royal, St John. Weed,
Victor, Remington Domestic, Ameri
can. Davis, Singer, and Wanzer.
Tliq W. ra *r and Singer arc our cheapest machines. Persons wishing cheap 2nd
Hand rnn« hir»'s, can always find a pond assortment, ftxcfiance new ma
chine.* for old ones, fc’ell lor cash an on monthly payments.
Don’t Pall to call at the Balloon before buying anything in our line.
11. E. SO IREK,
Chattanooga, Tennessee.
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*' Is 3 SUuC CJPI' fv ?!l ihs Disew* f:r v.h!ch It is rccemncndedv
jT , “ ! and is ALWAYS PI.f:?EC7LY sAf£ In the hands of
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WILL DELIVER A MACHINE AT YOUR #'• ti'
RESIDENCE. FREE OF CHARGE,
SUBJECT TO APPROVAL. 11o ‘ J CLOSED -
Address WILSON SEWING MACHINE CO.
129 & 131 State St., Chicago, Illinois. U. 8. A.
i Sale L> .1. .li. K«'«! A ('<)„ Itomo, (Li. j
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He ttsSi llir (ii'»( wed. in January (§Bl (Sir iirif
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Tlig baptist
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r i lie Pulpit,
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sliop,
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iiient,
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| and desires of the denomination, that the publication of a cheap, live, newsy,
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