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No. 19, meets at Trion on the Friday
Bight before the third Sunday in April,
May, June, July, August, and Septem
her and On Saturday night befeie the
third Suaday in October, Novempcr,
December, January, Feb-uarv, and
March. C. C. BRYAN, H. P.
G. B. MYERS, Sect’y.
ATTORNEYS:
J. If. Robertson,
Attorney at Law,
and Solicitor in Chancery.
Chattanooga, - - Tenn.
PIACTICE in Chancery, Circuit ami Supreme
Courts of Tennessee and U. S. District Court.
Alsu in adjoining counties in Georgia,
fcy-ufiee in Court House.
Robert M. IV. Glenn,
Attorney at Law,
LaFayette, .... Georgia.
WILL PRACTICE In the Suptfllnr Court, of the
Uusie and adjoining circuits. Collections a
Mocialty. Office on corner opposite Drug store.
)U3m
f uular, C. P. Corks.
Phelan & Goree,
Attorneys at Law,
Foss Bloch,
249 Market St.,
WUTTAKOOOA, - - - TENNESSEE
W. TJ. k J, P. Jacoway,
Attorneys at Law,
Trenton, - - - - Georgia.
PIACTICR In the counties of Dade, Walker anti
Catoosa, and adjoining counties, and in the Sn
pruuis and Federal Courts .Vso, Jackson, DeKalfe
dCfeerokee, in North Alabama, and elsewhere by
•paolal contract. Special attention given to tiie col
loetioa of claim.
W. M. Henry,
Attorney at Law,
Summerville, - - - - Georgia.
WILL practice In the Rome and adjoining Cir
KBits. Collections a specialty.
J. C. Clements,
Attorney at Law,
LaFatette, - - - Georgia.
WILL practice in the several counties of th*
time and Cherokee Circuits, and the Supreme
Court #f Georgia.
F. W. Copeland,
Attorney at Law,
LaFatette, - - - Georgia.
WILL practice in the Superior Courts, of Koine
Circuit. Elsewhere by special agreement. Col
lentous asp« ciuity. (Office in rear of Culberson’s
•MTU.)
H. P. Lumpkin,
Attorney at Law,
LaFayette. - - Geoiigia.
WILL give prompt attention to all business
entrusted to him.
Ofhee at Shuiord fc Lumpkin’s store.
DENTISTS:
Dr. Geo. B. Jordan,
Resident Dentist,
Brai.NG Fawn, - - - - Ga.
Offer* his professional services to the people ol
Aids and Walker counties. Dental opera lions prr
ffinuod In a neat and substantial manner.
All work warranted to give perfect satisfaction.
Will make a professional trip through McLe
auruu’ Cove, on the first of ear h mouth.
Dr. J. P. Fann,
Resident Dentist.
Dalton, - - - Georgia.
T AM PREPARED with all the
1 Moilcru Improvements In !>• utrl
to turn out as good work
*• eau be had Id the State, and at as low prices as*
«sn be doneby an.v firutclass workman.
w-; guarantee all work turned out to stand any
ud mil reasonable teats. Special attention given to
correcting irregularities in children’s teeth.
Qo>Ladlei waited on at their residence, when un
able to visit the office. A liberal share of patronage
••llclted.
Up-stairs ou Hamilton street, opposite
JfaTonal Hotel.
Will visit LaFayette, Walker Co., at Superior
Cuurts August and February.
HOTELS:
GOREE HOUSE,
J. WITHERS Proprietor,
LaFayette, Georgia.
rgIHE above house is thoroughly fur
nished and prepared with the very
best accommodations, for transient and
local custom, and at reasonable prices.
Satisfaction guaranteed to those who fa
vor it with their patronage.
READ HOUSE,
J. T. READ A SO,K Pro’rs,
A. L. DeLong, Bookeeper-
WrLL H. Hamblen, < chief )
J. N. Walker, < Day J Clerks.
J. P. Bostick, ( Night)
Chattanooga, - - - Tenn.
Fronting Union Fasseogear depot.
THE ROME HOTEL,
Broad S]., Rome, Cia.
Ik Tkn Steps or the Railroad.
NO OMNIBUS NEEDED
LOCATED in the Principal Business Square of
the City, convenient to the Wharf, the Hanks
und the Post Office, and is thoroughly renovated and
repainted. J. L. M. ESTES, Proprietor.
NATIONAL HOTEL.
J. A. LEWIS, Prop’r.
Dalton, - - - Georgia,
This house is a large four-story brick,
within a few steps of the Passenger de
pot.
BOARD PEE DAY - - - $2.00
Polite and attentive porters at every
train; pass them your checks, walk right
over and make yourself at home.
W. M. LEWIS, Clerk, j
■Walker County Messenger.
THE MESSENGER.
LAFAYETTE, GEORGIA.
Thursday Morning, Out. 21, 1880.!
Rates of Subscription:
Twelve Months $1.50
Six Mouths..... 75
Four Months 5b
Siiutle Copies 05
Invariably In advance.
They have at last found away to
prevent sea sickness. Any passen
ger who is sick will be charged j
double fare.
A young lady fell overboard the
other day during a yacht race. —
She was picked up and they called
it a regotta.
A Philadelphia man was convic
ted yesterday of poisoning his wife.
This proves that a married woman
doesn’t have to swallow every
thing.
Another poet comes forward and
says : “And 1 hear the hiss ot a
scorching kiss.’’ Beats all what a
man can hear if he is only mean
enough to listen.
Apples can he cooked in seven
teen different ways, and cost twen
ty cents a bushel at that. This is
the country that lays over every
other country on earth.
The Baltimore News publishes
the following poetical paragraph :
“The heart that is soonest awake
to the flowers is always the first to
he touched by the thorns.”
A woman who can sit down and
have six teeth pulled out in suc
cession without taking gas or chlo
roform is braver than the man who
leads a regiment into battle.
A stay of three months in the
Sandwich Islands in the winter sea
son is warranted to make an Amer
can so fat and lazy that a boy can
push him over with a straw.
The Duke of Buckingham, who
has lame back, rheumatics cough
and throat disease, had decided to
wed a girl of 17 and see if lie can’t
forget that he is over 50 years
old.
If anybody attempts to organize
a “Ladies’ Deposit Company" in
your town, set it down as a plan to
cheat the female sex out of pin
money for the next five years to
come.
Peck’s Sun very drily remarks:
Near R> ading, Pa., the other night,
a college student was mistaken for
a burglai and shot dead. It was a
mistake that might happen any
where.
Miss Howard, of New York, can
awake, jump out of bed, seize a re
volver and capture a burglar in
just seventy seconds. She has done
it, and the revolver wasn’t loaded,
either.
What is the first thing to be done
in case of fire ?” asket Prof. Stearns.
“Sue the insurance company,”
promptly answered the boy at the
foot of the class, whose father had
been burned out once or twice.
Bill Arp says he is lecturing to
the biggest house and smallest au
diences he ever saw. He might
have added that he would proba
bly return from his lecture tour
with the largest pocket hook and
smallest sum of money he ever had
in his life.
We have time to laugh we have
time to cry ;
We have time to smile, we have
t'me to sigh ;
We have time for eating and house
hold chores,
But we haven't got time to talk to
bores.
The New York Sim of Sunday
said Jay Gould had bought the
New York World. The World of
Monday says Gould has secured a
controllii g interest in the Sun. The
truth seems to be that Jay has
made up his miud to own the uni
verse and so has bought the World
with the Sun to heat and illumine
it. Afterwards he will buy several
Stars and a planet, and perhaps our
new Michigan comet, and then start
jin business with a universe of his
I own.
LAFAYETTE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 21, 1880.
The People.
The American people, the most
free, generous and independent
people that adorns the face of the
great globe, will soon he called upon
to exercise a most valuable and sa
cred right; handed down by tradi
tion from our noble ancestry.
While many sections of the nation
groan beneath the oppression and
burdens of corruption; and the
'struggle for better administration
being warmly defended by the true
patriots of patriotism. We Geor
gians of the Seventh Congressial
District, should be vigilant in
watching our own interest. An old
adage of the ancients as pregnant of
truth as of the honors of age and
custom is ; “That a majority of the
people if left without the undue in
fluence of politicians would vote
right on all occasions.” But men
that come before the peop’e suing
for office oftimes use corrupt influ
ence. In their inordinate aspira
tion for success they abandon their
more effeminate and more refined
traits of chaiacter, and indulge in
unwonted vice and lasciviousness.
With high admiration we point
to the two candidates for Congress
from our district; as leading men
of Christianity. Dr. Felton a min
ister of the gospel ; the I-lon. Mr.
Clements a “distinguished laymen
of a Christian church.” But there
are a few questions pertaining to
the honorable candidates that may
he of interest to read; because we
are conscious that a grave respon
sibility rests upon our Congress
men now and for the future. Both
men are able and efficient; both
men have been tried : Felton six
years in Congress; Clements six
years as a gislator in our State
Legislature ;• four years as a repre
sentative, and two years ns a Sena
tor of his District. Mr. Clements is
about 32 years of age. In 1869 lie
began the practice of law in his
own county (Walker) and has met
with success as such. In 1878 he
was elected Senator from the 44th
Senatorial District. He is now be
fore the people of the Seventh Con
gressional District, as a candidate
for Congress. The people of Walk
er and the adjoining counties that
he has represented in the Senate
know and appreciate the powers
and energies of 6uch a mind. Wal
ker county for 30 years has had
no man in it to represent it in Con
gress. She put up M; Clements
with the voice of her citizens peti
tioning the Voters of the Seventh
Congressional district to lend their
support in electing her choice. She
has always cheerfully complied
with them. She has been consid
erate in her claims. She put be
fore the people a man of strong in
tellectual powors. fine attainments
and prepossessing appearance. A
native of her own soil; reared al
most to manhood in the corn and
cotton fields. But Ben. Franklin
said : “Give me the man that was
reared poor, for he never deserts his
poor needy constituents.” A great
truth. Mr. Clements is just enter
ing the prime years of Iris life. A
long and brilliant future awaits
him. A candidate with no higher
ambition that to comply yith the
voice of the American common peo
ple in making reform and reduction
of high salaries. “History repeats
itself.” The past political career of
Clemente, foreshadows a brilliant
future. The name of Clements will
be sung by our posterity in future
years from the Atlantic to the Pacific
shores, with the same feelings of
national pride, as the Romans did
the nanieg of Plato and Cicero.—
Your cause will he his cause.—
“Honor the youth by giving them
positions of trusts and new Jack
sons, Wehsters. Clays and Calhouns
will spring from their mien bir 1
South
An Interesting Letter from Observer.
To the Editor of the Messenger:
Last August court Dr. Felton had
an appointment on Tuesday to ad
dress the people of Walker county,
on the political issues of the day.
A committee, composed of three
gentlemen, waited on Dr. Felton,
and requested trim to divide time
with his opponent, J. C Clements, j
Dr. Felton refused on the ground, 1
that the people had come out to j
| hear him, and that his time was ]
too valuable to share it with his
opponent. Dr. Felton spoke in a
complimentary way of Mr. Clem
ents, thojght he was a very worthy
young man ; hut in substance, said
he would ignore him in this
race. Well, we all remember that
day. Dr. Felton made an able
speech ; although denunciatory of
some of our best citizens. His au
dience was large, respectful and at
tentive. So much for good man
ners in Walker county. The peo
ple of this county are noted for
their quiet and orderly conduct on
all public occasions. Such a dis
reputable thing as a km, was never
heard in a public assembly in this
county. Before Dr. Felton left the
stand, Mr. Clements was loudly
called for, and as he advanced upon
the stand and shook the hand of
Dr. Felton, the air was rent with
shouts of applause. Dr. Felton re
tired, and Mr. Clements made his
first speech of the campaign. It
was so characteristic of the peaker;
full (if good will und brotherly
bindness for all mankind. There
was not one harsh word in all that
he said.
3ince that time Mr. Clements has
been making speeches to large and
enthusiastic audiences, all through
out the district. And to my great,
surprise I hear that Dr. Felton has
concluded to recognize the fact tin t
Mr. Clements is his competitor.
He now proposes to divide time
with Mr. Clements. I’ll he scratch
ed if this isn’t a funny world, any
how. What is the matter? Does
Dr. Felton fail to draw crowds?
Does lie really think i* necessary to
notice the young gentleman of Wal
ker county? Does hereallv though ?
I don’t know. I just ask for infor
mation. Would it not be a re
markable coincidence, if these old
gentlemen as well as the young
men of Walker county should have
a just pride in their home talent
and walk right up to the ballot box
on the 2d of November and depos
it 1500 votes for J. C. Clements ?
Wouldn’t it he reo.arkable coinci
dence though ? But, nevertheless,
he will get the votes.
OBSERVER.
Correspondence.
The following correspondence be
tween Col. Clements and Dr. Felton
explains itself:
Caktersvii.i.e, Ga., Oct. 4th, 1880.
—Hon. J. C. Clements, —Dear Sir:
I am informed that you and your
friends are complaining that I de
clined a discussion with you at La-
Fayette and other places iri the dis
trict.
As I have no intention to give
offense in this matter, I cordially
invite you to all of my day appoint
ments throughout the district, from
this time until the day of the elec
tion. I will divide time equally
with you at these appointments, a
list of which you will see publish
ed in the Cartersville Free Press of
this week. Very respectfully, your
obedient servant,
W. 11. Felton.
I Marietta,Ga., Oct. lltli, 1880.—
Hon. W. 11. Felion.—Dear Sir:
Your favor hearing dale Oct 4th, in
which you invite me to all of your
day appointments through out the
district, uoiil the day of the elec
tion, was handed to me on the 7th.
In response thereto allow me to say
that after you unconditionally de
clined.joint discourse which I re
spectfully proposed before begin
ning the present canvass, I then
entered upon the same with an ar
rangement of appointments where
by l will be able to reach all par's
of the district within the time I
had. More than half this time had
been spent by me in pursuance of
this arrangement of appointments
before your invitation was extend
ed now you do not propose joint
discussion at times and places to
he fixed by you and me or our
friends, hut I am invited to attend
your day appointments to be dicta
ted by you throughout the district.
In order to accept the invitation I
would have to neglect a number of j
appointments which were publish
ed before it was given, and would
would be compelled by your ap
pointments as published in many
cases to go to places where I had
been to the neglect of other parts
where I had not been.
If your invitation was intended
only as a courtesy to me I thank
you for it. If it was intended to
create on the public mind the im
pression that you were proposing
joint discussion on fair terms I
must say it has not the semblance
of fairnes about it, I am quite well I
satisfied with the progress of the
campaign and the prospects and
will not now change the plan of the
campaign. Very respectfully,
J. C. Clements.
A Father who Melted.
The other evening a citizen of De
troit beckoned to his 12 year old
son to follow him to the woodshed,
and when they had arrived there
lie began :
“Now young man you have, been
fighting aga : n 1 How many times
have I told you that it was disgrace
ful to fight?”
“Oh, father, this wasn’t about
innrhles or anything of the kind,”
replied the hoy.
“I can’t help it. As a Christian
man it is my duty to bring up my
children to fear the Lord. Takeoff
your coat!”
But, father, the boy I was fight
ing with called me names.”
"Can’t help it. Calling names
. don’t hurt any one. Off with that
coat 1”
“He said I was the son of a wire
puller.”
“Whi tI what’s that?”
“And he said you was an office
hunter 1”
“What 1 what loafer dared make
that assertion 1”
“It made roe awful mad, but I
didn’t say any thing. Then he call
ed you a hireling.”
“Called me a hireling 1 Why, I’d
like to get my hands on him?’’
puffed the ojd gent.
“Yes, he said you was a political
lick-spittle 1”
“Land o’gracious 1” but wouldn’t
I like to have the training of that
boy for about five minutes!” wheez
ed the old man as he hopped
around.
“I put up with that,” said the
boy, “and then he said you laid
your pipes for office arid got left by
a large majority. I couldn’t stand
that, father, so I sailed over the
fence and licked him bald-headed
in iess’n two minutes. Thrash me
if you must, father, but I couldn’t
stand : t to hear you abused by one
of the malignant opposition 1”
“My son,” said the father, as he
felt for half a dollar with one hand
and wiped his eyes with the other,
“you may go out and buy you two
pounds ol candy. The Bible says
it is wrong to fight, but the Bible
must make allowance for political
campaigns and the vile slanders of
the other party. I only brought
you out here to talk to you, and
now you can put on your coat and
run along.” —Detroit Free l^ess.
A Fellow-Feeling.
The manager of a dramatic com
bination playing a recent engage
ment in Detroit, was approached
on the last day by a stronger, who
asked for a pass for that evening :
“Why should I give you a pass?”
was the blunt demand.
“On account of the fellow-feeling,”
was the serene reply.
“Sir, I do not know you.”
“Neither do I know you, but that
isn’t the fellow-feeling I had refer
ence to,”
“Do you belong to the profes
sion ?”
"No.”
“Then I fail to see how there is
anything in common.”
"You struck this town last Mon
day, didn’t you ?” asked the strang
er.
“Yes.”'
“So did I, and I’m going out of
it to-night dead broke,same as you.
That’s my point, may it please the
court."
The “court” whistled a melancho
ly tune, figured up the cash receipts
once more, and then wrote the pass
without further argument. —Detroit
[ Free Press.
A Texas clergyman, about to
! become chaplain of a penitentiary,
preached a farewell sermon to his
congregation, who had ill treated
him, from the following text; “I
go to prepare a place for you, so
that where lam ye may be also.” ,
“Jt.'cn town to Indian*.”
Yesterday forenoon when it be
came known around the City Hall
that there was a Detroiter in one of
the offices who hnd just got back
from Indiana, there was a rush of
politicians anxious to hoar how
matters stood in that State.
“How does Hancock stand?”
asked one.
“How’s Garfield t” queried a sec
ond.
Each of the dozen men around
him had some query pertaiuing to
politics.
"Yes, I’ve been down to Indi
ana,” calmly replied the individual,
ns lie tipped his chair back. “I was
in sixteen counties, and I heard a
great many opinions expressed.”
"What majority will Hancock
get?”
"Hancock 1 You mean Garfield,”
said the second man.
“Yes, I heard a good many opin
ions expressed,” continued the man,
“and the excitement in every town
was at fever heat.”
“Hurrah for Hancock 1”
"Hurrah for Gurfield I”
“Yes I heard a great deal of hur
rahing. You people up here have
no idea of the hard work being
done down there by both side. On
every tailroad train I found ”
"Fuund a majority I'orHat.cock!”
“For Garfield I”
“On railroad train I found
men canvassing the political situa
tion,” continued the man.
“Yes, but what did the leaders
seem to think ?”
“I didn’t talk with any of the
leaders.”
“Well what was the drift?”
“It didn’t drift.”
“What we want to kuow,” said a
ward leader us he pushed to the
front, “is your unbiased opinion,
based on what you beard and saw
down there as to how Indiana will
go next week.”
“Well, sir. I—”
‘ Keep still back there 1” yelled a
man.
“Keep still yourself 1” replied an
other.
“Wo want your unbiased opin
ion,” put in a third.
“Well, I went down to Indiana.
I saw my grandmother die. I bur
ied her. I was in the very center
of the political excitement, and I
heard prominent men in both par
ties say that ’’
"You heard ’em say what? Give
us what they said.”
“I heard them say that my grand
motlter made the first soft soap in
Central Indiana I All I gentleman
she was a good old soul, and you
who have had grandmothers will
surely excuse my emotion 1”
He put down his head to conceal
his tears, and thirteen men got out
of that on the gallop and left him
alone. —Detroit Free Press.
i m*
A Very Old Lady’s Letters.
Dr. Blackie, of Nashville, Tenn.,
recently received a letter from his
aunt, living in Scotland, written on
the one hundredth anniversary of
her birth. It is an excellent piece
of penmanship, written distinctly
and reads as follows :
“Edinburg, May 25, 1880.
“My Very Dear George: You
will scarcely wonder that I so sel
dom take pen in hand when I tell
you that this day, 1780, one hun
dred years ago, I first saw the light.
My sight und hearing are about
gone, and the body so frail that I
can only slip from one room to an
other. I am never sick, and can
enjoy my food. Os course, my fac
ulties are on the decay, especially
memory, but I can and do think of
all my dear ones, and pray that
they may enjoy the love and com
fort of our Heavenly Father.”
A Heap of Trouble.
A popular Macon minister re
cently passed the night thirty miles
below Americua with a backwoods
man whose house only contained
two rooms. The family, however,
consisted of twenty-one, though
owing to a dance in the neighbor
hood only seventeen of the children
were at home. The minister spent
the night with the father and seven
sons in one room, while the old la
dy and ten daughters occupied the
other. In the morning a junior,
member of the family, in response 1
VOL. IV. NO. 14.
to an application for a washbowl,
brought him an old rusty tin pan,
and after the face toilet was com
plete, hunted up about seven teeth
of an old tucking comb for him to
arrange his hair with. During the
progress of this important ceremo
ny the following conversation be
tween the two look place:
“Mister, do you wash every mor
nin 1 ?”
“I do.”
“And comb your hair, too?”
“Yes.”
“Well, don’t it look to you some
times like you is a heap of trouble
to yourself?”— Macon ( Ga .) Tele
graph.
Begged the Pardon of Both.
Rowland Hill was always annoy
ed when there happened to be any
noise in chapel, or when anything
occurred to divert the attention of
his hearers from what he was saying.
On one occasion, a few days before
bis death, he was preaching to one
of the most crowded congregations
that ever assembled to hi?ar him.
In the middle of his discourse he
observed a commotion in the gal
lery. For some time he took no
notice of it, but finding it increas
ing he paused in his and
looking in the direction id which
the confusion prevailed,he exclaim
ed : “What’s the matter ''.here 7
The devil seems to have got among
you.” A plain, country-lookifig
man immediately started to his fee£,
and addressing Mr. Hill in reply,
said : “No Bir, it ain’t the devil as
is doing it; it’s a fat lady wot’s
fainted ; and she’s a werry fat ’un,
sir, as don’t seem likely to come to
agair. in a hurry.” “Oh, that’s it,
is it ?” observed Mr. Hill, drawing
his hand across his chin ; “then I
beg the lady’s pardon —and the
devil’s too.”
A prominent candidate, living
not far from Galveston avenue,
came home on the other night from
the ward meeting in a rather de
moralized condition.
His wife remarked, among other
things:
“Just see how you soiled your
clean shirt bosom drinking beer.
Oh, you beast 1”
“Mistaken, my dearesht dar
lingsh ; tha’t beer I didn’t drink.
Do yer under-under-underland
whazzer shay ?”
Mrs. Gen. Hancock is described
as a lady who in conversation
knows how to put her caller at ease.
She is somewhat, saddened when
her visitors say that she may leave
Governor’s Island, which has been
her home, for Washington. But
she said to a lady caller, “I can do
ray duty ; I have always been a
duty woman.” She is greatly
amused by the humoig of the cam
paign, especially when a good thing
is said about the General.
Bill Arp says tha*. the boys and
girls don’t love each other half as
hard as they used to in old«>n times.
We don’t exactly know. This as
sertion is liable to make a fellow
feel like he had toid a lie to his
sweetheart when he informs her
that he loves her better than his
very existence. Bill is too old to
love now, and is not in our humble
opinion, a competent judge.—At
lanta Phonograph.
The gentlemanly caterer at the
camp-meeting, who charges seven
ty-five cents for a fifteen-cent break
fast, is requested to start for the
“anxious seat” before he is cut off
in the midst of his awful sins. Wo
notice that the ministers think he
is past praying for.
The Rev. John Morse, a clergy
man of Dexter, Me., has been sus
pended by a church council be
cauße of “his frisky and mulish
spirit of perversity.” This is sup
posed to correspond to murder in
the second degree.
The heroes are those who can sit
down and talk politics half a day
on the stretch never say an insol
ting word to their opponent or show
a bit of their temper when the oth
er fellow gets ahead in the argu
ment.
At a late Ohio camp-meeting.
Rev. Mr. Harrison, the “boy reviva
list,” who made such a sensation in-
Talmage’s tabernacle hist spring
prayed that the “closing hours of
the meeting might put hell in con
sternation,”