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BY A. & E. A. M C HAN, WWXS&jffiSW* : CHAPTER: TEION :b. A. CHAPTER. 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,”