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BY A. & E. A. M' H AN, ( HAPTKIf: tRIOtf K A. CHAPTER. No. 19. it'ivts ;it Trion on (ho Friday nialit before the third Sunday in April. Mav, June, July, August, and Septem ber and on Sutnrd night helete the third Sunday in Onmiter. Novemper. Do somber, January, Feb uarv. and March. BRYAN I! I’. O I? MVKIiS, Sect'v. ATTORNEYS: J. M. Robertson, Attorney at Law, and Solicitor in Chancery. Chattanooga, - - Tfnn. IJRACTICR in Ch.iftfery, Circuit mnl Courts of r»’iHM*ssi?it ;tim! M Distiicl • tiurl. Also in adjoining cnijml«*» In Georgia. (A7- ffiee in Court House. Robert M. W. tMmm, Attorney at Law, LaFayette, - - - - Georgia. WILE PRACTICE in tli« Supnior t oun* ofiln* .mutt mill ndjoiuiti!! circuits. llcctiot.> i Otlijc on cor.i< r op.n.-itc iJrug "tre 3 35 3iii. Joa.t TIIELAN, C. F tioRKK- Phelan & Goree, Attorneys at Law, Posit Block, 24!' ’da. be! SI., UHATTAKIXVjA, - TENNESSEE — - ~alli""il w. U. & J. P. Jacov...? Attorney * at La i > Trenton, - - - - Georgia. T >R ACTICR in Hu* countios of D.Tilp. U’.ilk* r-.tini 1 > i'.'.'SO, and si'ij'ilniiigpoitnlit'S, ami in tin* v *l t.r -.it* 1 .‘.ml Feiicril « oiii’ts v so, Jacl»>on, cKml l nn «*'!t -rtikcc, in North \]al>nm . and *-ls. were in . fiec i ti contract. tiptcinl ut'iution given to the ejjl lection of claims. % W, M. Hours’, Attorney at Law. SUMMERVILLE, - - - - GiCORGIA. WILL practi-o in :iiv l.’omc and adjoining ‘‘ir cu ts. Collections a specialty. .1. C. Clements, Attorney at 8, taw, LaFayette, - - - Georgia. AlT'l L practice in tli*'several ooui.ti< s of iln y \ Romo and Cherokee Circuits, and tin* mi; rene Court or deni-gin. F. IV. Copeland, Attorney at Law, LaFayette, - - - Georgia. -nr | LI. practice in the Superior Courts, o' Kmn T T t'ircust. Kluewlli r«* hv special :i"r»:pm«*nt. Co Icefions asp cia.ty. (Olfi-re in mar of J uiht rsonV K : t«*r«.) 11. P. Lumpkin, Attorney at Law, LaFayette - - Gboiigh. Al7 ILL give prompt a tcnti'oi to all l-usiii'-ss t T entrusted 10 him. Oiltce at Shutord St Lumpkin’* store Ft '»iw'i i i iihitw jH-.wpaarsßtgaßtßair.fi m DENT ISTS: Dr. Geo. B. Jordan, Resident Dentist, Rising Fawn, - - - - Ga. Offers lii< professional services to ihe people m Dado and Walker counties. Oenlal opera lions per form, d in a neat ami substantial main er. All woik Warranted to give pe feel satisiaetion. Will make a professional trio through >leLe mores* CnVc, on the tir-i of ea ii mouth. Dr. J, P. Fana, Resident Dentist. Dai, ton, - - - Georgia. g ?r! w" TrN A 1 »*REP \' Es) with all lib * Modern Impr'veinents in lontm to turn «mt as good work sw can be had in tile -tt-de, and at a- low prices as can he doneliy anv firstria** w>>rkiino. (S/-I guiranne all wmk turned out to stand any nd til reasonable tests. Special attention given to correcting irregularities in elilldren’s t*eth. 3t/-Lad|es vvni'ed on at their resi 'em-e. when tin aide *.o visit the office. A liberal share of patronage solicited. {jQM HRee: Up-stairs on Hamilton street, opposite Na.ioiial Hotel. Will visit LnFavette, Walker (Jo., at Superior Courts August and Fehruary. HOTELS; GOREE HOUSE, .1. IYITIIVKN Proprietor, LaFayette, G eohgia . above bouse is thoroughly fur * nished and prepared with the very best accommodations, lor transient and local custom, and at reasonable prices. Satisfaction guaranteed to those who fa vor i- with their patronaee. READ HOUSE, J. T. READ & SO A Pro’rs, A. L. DeLoag, Bookeoper- Wilt. If Hamblen. £ liief ) J. Walker, \ Hay ", lerks. J. I*. Bostick. ( sight ) Chattanooga, - - - Tenn. Fronting Union Rassengnar depot THE ROME HOTEL, Broad *t., Rome, tin. In Ten Htei" 4 ok tub l< aii road. AO 0.11 A I Ill>> AEIiDLI) LCU; \TEI) In ii»« Principal Busings .square of the City eoiiv* nient M the Wharf, the Hank and Hie Post Ossie, and Is thoroughly renovated and lep.ainted. J.L >!. ESTES, Proprie tor- NATIONAL HOTEL, J. <l. A. LliWl*, Trop'r. Dalton, - * - Georgia, This bouse is a lartre four-story brick, within a few steps of the Pa .-sen per de not. BOARD PER DAY - - - $2.00 Polite and attentive porters at every train; oass them your cheeks, walk rialit averaud make y .urselftit home. W. M. LEWIS, Cleik. j Walker County Messenger. HIE MESSEN(i ER. i.AFAYETTE. GEOIKiIA. TiiumDAY Morning. N 'V IS. DSSrt. Kates of Subscript lon : Twelve Month* #l-fih iA Mouths . 7ft Four Monihs • r »° *nn.de Copiei... OS nvolahly n ntlvnutn*. “'Siletit Jnps the ynller leaf” is the first iistal lin t-n t of lull | oetry received by one of our Stale ex chnnges. John Lneaii is to t>e made Secre tory of the Interior, and Gen. Grunt is to succeed him us Senator from Illinois. - ♦ m - - Muiinolia.Coliimhin county. Ark.. Inis a wool factory, cotton ein and iirist mill till combined, and the Banner savs its a great convenient', to tile people. Men tire so fearful of woundine ,• woman’s vanity that they rareh remember she may, hv snttie possi hility, possess a jjrain or two o ts nitnon sense. Now let the southern p.ople tout i l.eir attention to o ak toy Lit: crops, i erecting cotton inannf ctnl'ies, am! j miftts>ih|! wealth. Polities may j lake a four years' list. V liiitjhni j Slur. Some feelde mimleil imlivnlua suggests that the D’ liioctai're t tee tors vote for Grunt, snpytstitiy. ii that case, that Cookline eouid con trol enoujih Repuhlican Voles !• elect Grant instead of Garth In Snowflakes.—ll nicnck eanieii Galena by 802 majority. Grant was away at a wedding. Rev. I <is. K. B'-ecJtei was beat en in the Eonin district hv 1,200 majority Gen. Weaver’s county gave Mat - cock four majority. — (hicaga 'Hairs A valuable l eilei belonging to 'armer near Northallerton, in Eng land, recently broke its lee, and i' tut.l to he amputated. The animal lias since been fitted with a wooden leg, on which it move- about with utmost ease, which proves the ab surdity of hastily ordering the des truction of animals that meet with such accidents. The Rev. William li. Felton, of Georgia, makes his final appear; nee in the present Congress. It. tin nexl he will he replaced by a dem ocrat, tl man who, it is Imped, has enough moral courage to adopt a line of political policy for his guid ance, and having adopted it, to fol low it. — Washington Bust. It is nmv reported that Dr Fel ton is going to contest the Congres sional election in the Seventh dis trict, and lias employed Col. Amos T. Akerrnun as his attorney. Con testing elections before a Radical J Congress Inis been n favorite past time of ilte defeated opponents of the Democracy ever since the war They not only have strong hopes of being seated without rey-ird to rig t j nrjustic”, hut if they fail they lmp< ' to make a nice bttle sum out of the National Treasury in the way of an appropriation to defray the expen ses of the contest. Its a dead up n and shut game.— Savannah Morning Mews. ■ - ‘TI. W. G.” thinks that the tie feat of Hancock will prove a bless ing id disguise if it only turns the Southern people from polities to work. He says, very sensibly ; "We | arc able to do w ithout Federal pitt- I ronage. The defeat of Hancock will I he a blessing in disguise if it only I : tends to turn our people from poli ■ tics to work. We have the best j country in the world. The sun i ; shines on us kindly, the soil \ie|i!s] us abundant crops, the earth gives J us gold, iron and coal at every fi-- i | sure. How much grander a mis- i sinn it is to develop this section in- I to its full power nod production ! than to win a shale of public pat ronage. What we need is fewer stump speakers and more stump pullers less talk and more work — fewer gin mills and more gins— ! fewer men at the front and more at the Ime. One pi ugh is worth , twenty politicians.” ( LAFAYETTE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER IH, 1880. The Sewing Girl’s Dream. Outside the great silvery snow llakeM were swarming through the ! purple dust. ! Within, the last expiring Coal moldered to gray ashes on the hearth. It was a small white-wash ed loom wit a green painted iron cot in one corner—the tinev coal stove epnoeile —a square shuttcrless window with the frost rapidly con- I gealing on the panes, and a rough I table before which a fair, girlish creature was standing as eitli c .Id, blue hands she folded into a bundle a finished garment of dainty etn t roidered cambric. She smiled softly to herself, th s beautiful young seamstriss, as she thought of the crazy lire and deli cious suppet she had coined that night at least. And poor, patient \\ ill, ie*r crip pled invalid friend below stairs, and his weary, uncomplaining mother should share her fire, her supper and her delight. Ev" H; zelton's delicate, sad face grew radial.t as a star, as she pic tured toe plea-eti surprise with which Will Thurston would turn his hi :, solemn eves upon her, tts file put Iti I Is wasted hand tht wine anil the fruit, a <1 the nutri ums -telicaeies so t.ieessirv h t ftmu. hut, alas! so unattainable. She ilp \V her thin, faded shawl o'oiitel her graceful shoulders, and ■ sing her precious him.tile, locked i r door behind her, and ran lighl v down the tincarpeted stairs. She tapped sultlv at a door that pencil front the cheerless hall, n il was admitted into it I rg>- hut dre-.n room. O i a lounge, drawn closely before me grate, where a hiindful of coals was smoldering lava manly young lellmv of twenty, who turned Ids handsome face eagerly toward her as she entered. The pale woman who sat by the invalid looked up anxiously front her hov’s ihreadbare coat, in which -he was deftly sewing another need ful patch. "Is my girlie going nut io the storm alone!" she inquired afloc innately. ”1 have just finished my work, unity, and you know Mrs. De Roe promised to pay me to night. Won’t I we have a feast when I get hack,” | -be answered gaily. "You think of us before you j think of yourself, Eve.” answered i the pale woman, brushing a tear from her withered cheek. "Never mind me, aunty dear I am young and strong; and maybe when Will gets well and into a place, he will bring me something nice occasionally.” “That I will. Eve, something you j don’t expect."said the voting ntan, | looking at the wan, sweet face with | glistening eyes. Will Thurston was thinking of; the fortune he meant to win, and j lay with his heart at her feet. Alt! j only for that terrible fall when he ■ was searching through the ware j houses for the employment he nev- I er found,this sweet child would not be dependent upon the greedily given charity, needle work of a haughty, heartless woman ! “What will you give me, Will ? j If I guess it will you tell me?” "Never mind now, Eve, it is get- i ting dark, and you will be afraid I out in the streets alone.” "Good-bye then, for an hour, aunty and Will," said the lovelv girl, t lipping nut of the room, and hke a gleam of sunshine, leaving it more dreary than before. Eve went up to the steps of Mrs. De Rue’s grand mansion w ith a glad expectant luce, and was immediate ly ushered into the presence of Per proti l, aristocratic employer. Tl >e lady took the rich fabric and critically examined the beautiful needle work. Something in the expression of her severe countenance sent the ea ger blond front Eve’s young face, cold and curdling to the heart. "I am sorry for you. Miss Hazel ton,tor you have spoiled your work. llow did you stain the embroidery so badlv ? ’ Eve thought of her long da" of toil and lasting in her tireless room where her numbed and lacerated j fingeis had plied the needle faith fully, despite her htinge'nnd weari ness, and a choking sob was her onlv answer. “You t eed not erv. Miss. Os i course, I shall not charge you for the gii'tm-.td, hut you can’t expect any pay nr any more work from me,” said the purse-proud, pitiless j woman, in a voice that plainly meant instant dismissal. S i Eve went out in the storm, and turned her Wan, desparieg face homeward. "Oh. Will? Oh, aunty!" she chied.“l didn’t get any money, and Mrs. De Rue was displeased with mv work, and what will become nf os all?” “The Lord will provide, girlie” replied Mrs. Thurston, smoothing Eve’s tawnv curls that bun over her worn shawl, wet and heavy with the clinging snow-flakes.-- "Take a sop nf tea, mv child, at d a hit of our bread and meat, anil than go to lied.” Eve swallowed the cold insipid beverage and a morsel of the crust and scrap, at d then crying softly to herself, went up to her ro on. Wet and shivering, and Inurl sick, -lie threw heist It into a tail hacked. rocker, the only semblance nf luxury sio po-st-ssed, and gave wav to her grid and disappoint ment. What had she <!• il ll- that life must lie s i hard and hopeies-? " is heav en just tn lei a pour, helpless girl who had never done conscious burin to any living creature stiller hunger, and toil, and sot row ? Still trioiti iug and sobbing she ! fell last asleep. The storm had ceased outside, and the full, coni mono shone no the frosty window and filled, wit It a pale, iev light, t o room in which she sat ahipe. "like a preciou- -tin g, set ill the heart ni the cavern gloom.” And while site slept, the angels | came, and people I the gloom with i visions of delight. Toe hare walls “-Hr iclu-il away i no *.»ni«-ly l»ii!l«,” The dead latlor to il the dead mother Wt re there, and the hist ba by sister ai d the good old grand mother. At d good Mrs. Thurston | Wt s tin re. no longer ; n her sad gat mf-nts of rusty mourning for the loved husband who sailed away on cruel s> as that never ) I relight lio-k his Inst ship, hut | robed in dazzling splendor. And ! kind handsome Will w„s there, erect | and proud, ai d oh! so luippy and ! tender. And he tunk her hv the hand and called her his bride, and she leaned on his arm and went fourth into the midst of them all, dressed liki a queen. The mother smiled, and the father blessed her. and the saintlv grandma her kis-< d her, just as she had done yt ars and years ago, when Eve was (t careless I joy ful child. A smile of heavenly sweetness | and rest lingeted tin the rleeping ■ girl- An ! that visioned reunion of the i happy living with the happy dead was infinitely natural and sweet ! And then sue awoke from the delicious splendor of her dream to ! feel the iev niotnibeiints on her ' cold face, and (lie frosty, midnight | air upon her wet. freezing garments, 1 as it crept wailing through the bro- : ken windows. She shivered and moittnd, and then sat upright. Oh, heaven? was it only a dream? Must she still, toil stliv". hop* and Sillier ? And Will—poor, dear, unfortu nate Willi Would he ever lie well and strong again? Anil would somebody give him and her a place among Die world’s workers w here j they might earn tin ir lire anil bread ? Sue threw ntt her garments, still with tne fin/, ii (limpness, and crept into her meager lied Oil. hmv Per lingers stung and ached with the awful Cold! Oil, how her heart throbbed with its hitter disappointment! It was high noonday when she was awak-nt.d from her heavy shunt er hv a loud knocking at llie-dnnr. "Eve —Eve! Will wants vnu to come down to breakfast ’’ cried the voice of Mr.-. Thurston ; and it had been a weary time since Eve had heard that dear voice so eager and cheery. I W liere bad her unfortunate friends found the wherewith for a break fast ? Had she not broken with them tin ir last scanty crust ? So she went down, her sorrowful brown eyes full of wnudet, and her Inva Iv, disordered hair twined in a coil of rebellions ringlets about her graceful head. She paused at the door opened so blithely ft r her, with a quick, glad cry of childish iimulb’ment. i A great bed of red-hot coals blazed ■ and crackled in the grate, and the purple and scarlet Haines leaped upward in delirious frolic. In t lie centre of the room the ta ble was Itiit I for breakfast, with a dazzling burden of such delicacies as she had nut tasted for months. And Will, with e happy Hush on his wasted cheek, and an cag< r, Ir jtiiiilousjny in his handsome eyes * at at the least proud as a cnnqocr i nr. "Am l tlrean ing yet ?” asked Eve, dizzv ainl bewildered by t!.e I set-tie. "Oh, aunty. | can’t hear j this —I can’t awake again to the cold, trouble and hunger!" You ueetl not, dear," suit! .good Mrs. 'Thurston, taking the gitl in her arms, as she struggled forward, weak with sorrow and long fasting. "We tire rich now —mv tey and I. Look up, darling. Will’s father wants In speak to you.” Ai tl then the bewildered creature lioea me conscious tjJ! the presence til a tall, handsome, bronzed and bearded man —the pi rfect prototype of manlv, noble Will. "1 don’t understand,’' murmured E e, while her lovelv eyes tvauder ,l ed over the faces ;f the happy [group "I thought Mr. Thurston I " ' IS | "Ai dso did we all think he was : dead," ii.ttlJUpteil the joy ful wo man, anil then she hurst into rap- It ti rolls tears, and then running | tnieli to the returned wanderer, she i clung t ti him fondly crying and j laughing in a breath. ‘ You see. Miss Ha/elton, I did I'otue hack after mv shipwreck and seven years’adventures, like Enoch Arden. I returned to bring quite a handsome twmpetrnce to this pa ! rent, true little woman, and this ; gootl sun who u I would know any i where was mv own." Ami Eve still wondering if she was in a dream, drew tow aril Will, trembling and smiling. '1 am so glad for you and aunt y,” l she sail l . "1 know vnu wi'l let too | Slav with you until ” Will’s arm was around iter waist. ! and liis voice was whispering in her ' ear a different ending to her broken [ speech. "Until you are Mrs W ill Thors- ; tun,” lie said. "Wake up Eve. Don’t i look so unitized. There is no more | work for these little l ands, and no ; ! more trouble for this little head.— j Didn’t you promise me once that when ws were rich enough you j would lie my wife ?” “I think I did.” answered Eve j softly. "But I airt mil rich.” "Allow me to nsnire you differ I rntly mv little dalighler-10-he,” nli [ served Will's father. "Ytitir Uncle ! 1 I ft a sung little stun in niv hands ; for von. Eve. But it was almost in j 1 the hour of mv disastrous voyage ! I that lie died, and you all know in Imw unfortunate a stale mv affairs iwi re left. But little Eve believe j me. Will's wife will hcagl'litc tilt j i • >1 heiress. b i !•)!• dream of that hitter mid- 1 ! night was not all the mockery of a j i troubled slumber. For Wi'l grew well and strong i with astonishing rapidity. And Eve became his wife, and; | they were all happy as mortals iiitietiirio are when the storms til I fife exhaust thenisel res, and fair i fate smiles propitiously. An exchange contains an article . beaded "A Newspaper Man’s Sail Fate." It is pretty sad when a i news aper man loses bis railroad ; pass when he is 200 miles from | Inline. Somebody in new Milford hits’ found nn umbrella, and announces J that the owner can have it by call- j ing, which shows quite conclusive ly what sort of an umh.clla it is. The Democratic roosters need air I and exercise. 1 A PRETTY STORY. The Queen its Italy Adopts Two Or phan Children. In Naples the papers tell n very pretty stuiy nf the Queen of Italy. It appears that as she was driving to the royal wood of Liealo the coachman mistook the road, and one of the gentlemen asked a conn- . tryinan the way. The man, seeing [ the line carriage and horses and the servants’ livery and til! the gay I co ■ puny, thought lie was being ; fouled. ‘‘As if you did not know !” he said with a big grin The Queen laughed, and assured him that they were lost. Then only did thecoun trvir.iin condescend to point out the j wa v, after which lie walked off as ! j if fearing to lie laughed tit again. ‘ Give him twenty francs for his j trouble,” said tint Queen tn one of! i tier iseort, who, going after the! ■ countryman, said: “Hen. my man, is a little present from the Queen of Italy, who thanks you.” "The Queen 1” cried the country nine, returning to tho carriage, j • Forgive me tlint I did not not j know thee. But I had never seen thee before. Thou art as btantiful J its a May ruse. God bless thee.” and the carriage drove nil'. Nmv the countryman, who had once seen Ihe Queen, wanted to see her pretty face again, and the | following day he presented himsell , at. the palace. "1 know Iter, you know.” he add ed mysteriously. "1 spoke to her j yesterday, and want to speak to her I - ii again. Thinking he had to do with a mad man the porter was about to i have the poor fellow arrested, when j the very fellow who had givt n him I the twenty francs appeared, and, j recognizing the .man, told him to j wait, lit; informed the Queen of j his presence. ‘ Bring him here by ail means,” ■ was lit r answer. When the man was for the second , time before the Queen he said : "Yes, ’(is thou. 1 thought I had j seen a fairy. Thou art just an an gel. I did not tell thee yesterday that 1 have two little ones without a mother. Wilt thou tie their mol her ?” ‘•T:rat I will," saitl the Queen. *■ Then there's the twenty francs thou gavest me yesterday. I thank thee, hut I want no money.” And he went away, crying and smiling like a chili). The Quetn has adopted the two little ones, and they tire in an in stitution under her special patron age. A MAN IN THE KKlb A Kl iiitl-Ciinllhig Episode tluf Star lit tl a Texas C(iiaiiiuail) . A lady residing on Fourth street, and who had licet) temporarily left at home by her husband, who was away from town nn a business trip, was shucked on going into her room an evening or two since to discover what appeared to be a ma:t stretch ed prone upon her bed, with the cover drawn close about him. Her first impulse was tu flee,screaming, fra mi the room, hut a second thought came, and with it nerve enough to (nit the thought into execution. The lady stepped noiselessly into an ad joining room and armed herself with a club. She returned with it and touched the object of h“r fright. There wits no sign of life. She touched it again, and still harder, Imt still the object did not move. Stic now thought the man was alee; ing. Ami a third thought came. Hurry ing iti to another room she prneurtfi a bottle of chloroform, saturated a cloth with a drowsy drug, crept hack to the bedside and spread the cloth over the sleeping man’s face. When it had been there a minute or two she knew her fee was vanquished. She now ran o t and told her neighbors' of what had occurred. Men armed themselves with guns and sticks j and marched in solid phalanx to w here the interloper lay. The cloth , t and the bedclothes were carefully removed and the object beneath them was plainly revealed ‘.o sight. It proved to tie nothing more than a stuffed dummy with a lalse-face upon it. The lady’s young son had fixed it up, thinking to give his VOL IV. NO. 18. mother ;i ware, '■'ho didn't scare though, worth iicpnl, and her bravo conduct Inis made !it*r Hip heroine of the neighborhood. W'c have told tr is shin- just as it was related in us. - H un; ( Tex ) Exit miner. FI N' DOWN’ son H. A Prograwlvr liaee. | An ei.ler|irisi' g darky, of a calcu lating turn ol mind, called a few days since on a genlieman who • • owns a garden in the western pelt of the city, am) represented that the pardeii was partly growing lip with irrnss, which, if left to go to ! seed, would render it impossible to i grow vegetables on the spot next ! year, and proposed to cut it down lor a certain sum, which the gentle* j man agreed to pay. Me then went | t.n the gentleman who had recently | rented the premises and made him j the same proposition, which wow | again accepted, the latter not know ing', of course, that the owner had | agreed to pay,for the work, as the J darky had studiously kept that to | himself After cutting the grass and collecting pay from hoth gen tlemen, onr hero proceeded to the owner of a cow, sold the grass for ! double what he charged for cutting it, pocketed four times as much money as the work was worth, and I went on his wax humming, “Jesus I |my all to Heaven is Gone.” Now, ; who savs the African is not a p:o --[ gressive race ? TaUakam* Flori dian. A Conscientious Texan. About 4 o’clock on Saturday ev ening, the Dili inst., Mr. 1,. S. Woodward, a venerable Texan of threescore years and ten, with his daughter in a wagon drawn by two mules, attempted to cross the In ternational rairoad about ten milts ■ north of Austin, when to his terror and astonishment, just as the mules were fairly on the track, the loco motive dashed by on a down grade cutting off arid taking with it one of the wheels of the wagon, the tongue and the two moles, but leaving Mr. Woodward and daugh ter tu.hurt. As soon as lie could, the conductor stopped the train, found both mules dead, inquired tne names of the unfortunates, and promising to make it all right, came no to the city and reported the acciileot. Mnj Hoxir, who rep resents the International Railroad Company, called to pay the dama ges and tendered Mr. Woodward S-100, w hich he refused, saying: "()ne hundred and seventy-five dol lars' will pay fur the mules, and that is all I want.”— New Orleans Democrat. An Amusing Incident. In a liille village in Virginia there lived a family named Ransom. They were not very pious people, and never want to church. Once, however, during a revival, the fami ly were prevailed upon to attend preaching. When they had made their reluctant and tardy appear ance the services had just begun, and when they had scarcely taken their seats, the minister gave out the first hymn, raiding it some what thus: “Return, ye ransom sinners, home.” ‘All right! cried the head of the Ransoms, getting up in i rage, and clapping his bat on his head. “Come along, old woman and gals, we’ll go home fast enough, and everybody in the old church linows we didn’t want to gome.” Gem Garfield must l e the child ol fort tine. Never were so many political honors piled on one man’s head in this republic, lie is now Representative in the House till re xt March, Senator elect, and, by the people’s voice. President elect. If tinder our Constitution, anything more could he added probably it would drop on him. — Cincinnati Gazette. The West Point l‘ir*.i tells how a young lady of that place who had been deaf for several years was sud denly and singularly restored the other day She had been under treatment for her deafness for about a year, and, while chewing sug.-.r cans, heard- a territilo crashing in her ears. As soon as it subsided .-he heard very distinctly. ♦ mm Wh.itV l I’Couic of tiie word boom?