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BY A. & E. A. M C IIAN, ***'»s: CHAPTER: TBION B. A. OHAPTEB. No. 19, meets at Trion on the Friday sight before the third Sunday in April, May. June, July, August, and Septem ber and on Saturday night befete the third Sunday in October, Novemper, Doeember, January, February, and March. C. C. BRYAN, H. P. G. B. MYERS, Sect’y. ATTORNEYS;. J, M, Robertson, Attorney at Law, «ad Solicitor in Chancery. Chattanooga, - - Tenn. PRACTICE in Chancery, Circuit and Supreme Courts 01* Tennessee and U. S. lUstiict Court. Ain* in adjoining counties in Georgia, fcf-ottce in Court House. Robert M. W. Glenn, Attorney at Law, LaFayiittk, - - - - Georgia. WILL PUACTICE in the Supeilor Courts of the lloint and adjoining circuits. Collections a apceialty. office on corner opposite Drug store. S 36 3iu. Je«u Phklan, C. P. Gokke. Phelan & Gorce, Attorneys at Law', l’ess Block, 249 Market St., OHATTANnOBA, ... TENNESSEE V. U. & J. P. Jacoway, Attorneys at Law, Trrnton, --- - Georgia. f>IACTICE in the counties of Dade. Walker ano J| t’atoosa, and adjoining counties, and in the t*'u pretno and Federal uourts A’so, Jackson, DeKall) m Ui:h«rokee, in North Alabama, and elsewhere by of ratal contract. Special attention given to the col iaatlon of elation. W. M. Henry, Attorney at’Law, Bummervii.le, - - - -.Georgia, WILL practice in the Rome and adjoining Cir cuits. Collections a specialty. J. C. Clements, Attorney at Law, LaFayette, - - - Georgia. WIi.L practice in ibe several counties of the Rome and Cherokee Circuits, and the Supreme Court of Georgia. F. W. Copeland, Attorney at Law, LaFayette, - - - Georgia. WILL practioe In the Superior Courts, of Koine Circuit. Klsewhere by special agreement. Col Icjtioas a specialty. (Office in rear of Culbi-rsou’s ■ lave.) H. P. Lumpkin, Attorney at Law, LaFayette. - - Georgiy. ■'ITT ILL nive prompt a teution to all business Yf entrusted to linn. £/» Office at Siiuiord fit Lumpkin’* store. DENTISTS: ■tfi. ■ Dr, Geo. B. Jordan, Resident Dentist, Rising Fawn, - - - - Ga. (ifers iii* professional services to the people of Bad* and Walker counties. Dental operations per fanned in a neat and substantial manner. All work warranted to give perfect satisfaction. Will make a professional trip through McLc uauroa’ Cave, on the fir«d of each month. Dr. J. P. Tann, Resident Dentist. Dalton, - - - Georgia. T AM PREPARED Willi all the A Modern Improveinents in Dental to turn out ns good work as can be had In the Htate, and at as low prices as uan he doneby nnv firstclass workman. {»qM guarantee all woik turned out to stand any ml ill reasonable tests. Special attention given to correcting irregularities in children’s teeth. (C7»Ladies wnlied on at their residence, when un sole to visit the office. A liberal share of patronage solicited, {jQF-Office: Up-stairs on Hamilton street, opposile Dfa.ional Hotel- Will visit LaFayette, Walker Co., at Superior Courts August and February. HOTELS: GOREE HOUSE. JT. WITHERS Proprietor, LaFayette, Georgia. r m ‘SHE above house is thoroughly fur nished and prepared with the very best accommodations, for transient and local oustom, and at reasonable prices. Satisfaction guaranteed to those who fa vor it with their patronage. READ HOUSE, J. T. READ & SOA Pro’rs, A. L. DeLong, Bookeeper- Will H. Hamblen, { Chief ) J. N. Walker, < Day >Clerks. J. P. Bostick, (Night) Chattanooga, - - - Tenn. Fronting Union Passengear depot. THE ROME HOTEL, Broad St., Rome, Ga. In Tkn Steps or the Railroad. WO OMNIBUS NEEDED LOCATED in the Principal Uuslneia Square of the City, convenient to the Wharf, the Hanks and the Fuat 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 Hoard peb day - - - $2.00 Polite and attentive porters at every train; pass them your checks, walk right jvor and make yourself at home. W, U. LEWIS, Clerk. Walker County Messenger. THE MESSENGER. LAFAYETTE, GEORGIA. Thursday Morning, Nov. 25, 1880. Rales of Subscription: Twelve Mouths .«»#..#LSO Six Mouths 75 Four Months 50 Single Copies 05 nvariably in advance. 1 lIHII ll—■——l—!■■■■ I Ifllll Gen. Ga.-field is enthusiastically fond of base ball, and in the game just played made one of the best two-base hits on record. V The loser in a Memphis bet is to stand on his head five minutes, in a public square, with a Garfield ban ner suspended from bis feet. ■—— A young mar. of St. Raul died of heart disease while asking his sweetheart to marry him. No timid damsel was ever known to perish during a crisis of this kind. A woman in Marshall county, Kansas, who is enjoying her fifth husband, lost her first two by hang ing through vigilance committees, a third was sent to the penitentiary and the fourth committed suicide. It is about as hard to find a girl whose marriage is announced in the newspapers who isn’t “beautiful and accomplished” as it is to find a man who has just died who wasn’t “honored and respected by all who knew him.” “You haye always had the repu tation of being an honest man ; liow does it happen that you have been guilty of theft?” “ii’s the fault of the age in which we live. The man who wants to make an honest liv ing nowadays can’t do it unless he steals.” A colored man applying for a marriage license in Cincinnati was asked if he and the lady was related. 1 Yes, sah,” he replied. When ask ed how, he answered : “I thought you deluded to de tenderrelashuns ob luv what prevails between us de present moment.” Eleven children at four births was the feat, as Mrs. Scannel Hick son, of Shamrock, Mo. First birth, three ; second and third, two each, and at the last interesting occasion there were four, all the latter being alive and doing well. Ten out of the eleven are alive. In response to a note purporting to come from her new lover, a Richmond (Ind.j girl pal on her best bonnet and went to meet him at a designated street corner. There she found a female; rival, who pounced upon her furiously, snatch ed the bonnet from her head, and tore it into hits. Mr. Henry Glover who resides near Americus, recently lost a fine cow which was apparently in a splendid condition. The cause of the animal’s death remained a mystery until a post mortem ex amination revealed a lady’s hair pin buried in her heart. How in the world did it get there ? is what Mr. Glover would like to know. A couple of old darkies met the other day and began talking over matters and things. “How is ole Col. Jones comin on, what used to own you before de war? He is sooie lie must be get tin’ to be childish and losin’ his reasonin’ powers.” “Don’t know nullin’ about him —hain’t seed him since befoah last Christmas.” “Why, what’s de matter ?” “Ain't got no use for such old gemmans. Last time 1 was dar I fetched him a big redfish I had cotched. f tole him es he would girmne a table knife I would scrape an’ clean de fish. What do you s’pose he sed ?” “Asked yer to come in and get a dram, and chat awhile about ole times on de ole plantation.” “Nosah; lie tole me iflcouldn’t borrv a table knife from some ob de nabors dat he would rudder clean de fish himself. I s’pose he was afeard I’d be keerless in hand lin’ de knife back when I got done wid it.” The other darkey rubbed his chin and remarked* “I see by dat dar dat de ole man’s still got de use of his reasonin’ powers.” LAFAYETTE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 25, 1880. An Old-Fashioned Girl. •Still a bachelor, Claud ? I’m ashamed of yon, and, I declare, half regretful that I did not capture you myself.” So spoke pretty little Mrs. Shel don, as she sat one evening on?the piazza of the Ocean House, looking up smilingly into the face of the handsome man who bent over with such rare, debonair grace. He laughed aloud at her mock petulant speech. “You should not blame me then,” he retorted, “for what you must hold yourself accountable. You see, ever since Dick cut me out witlijyou, I have been wandering around disconsolate, trying to find a second edition to yourself.” “No. no I That won’t do. All the admiration was on my side. Still, I must coufess that dear old Dick answers my purpose very well so well that only one thing is wanting to insure my happiness, and that is to have you take possession next winter, of a charming house next ours in town, and let me claim your wife as my dearest friend —” “As you have been to me all these long yearp, Ella, the dearest woman friend I ever had; but Dick has no cause for jealousy for all that. Shall I, then, tel! you why I have never married, though my thirty-fifth birthday is looming up startlingly near? I am in a confi dential mood this afternoon, and you shall hear. It is not because I do not want to marry. Sometimes the picture of my own home and hearthstone shapes itself before me until life seems hardly worth the living without it; but it is an ideal picture my fancy paints. It is not a house but a home. It, is not the rustle of silken trains through its halls. It is not the sunshine of a woman’s smile. It is not the threshold.of society, but society is left upon its threshold. It boasts no richer, sweeter music than the happy voices and laughter of little children which God may send to fill it! You know now why I have never married, although the world calls me a rich man, and I am free; but Ella, girls nowadays are not fitted for such homes. They are society dolls. I want an old fash ioned girl, and as they are out of fashion—unless I go regularly in search of one in some curio ity shop where she is labelled and laid away on a shelf—l shan’t find her ; and even if I made the rash attempt I shouldn’t like to have had to order my wife like a bale of goods.” “You’re ail wrong, Claud,” an swered his friend. “Girls hearts nowadays are just as warm and true as they were a century ago; but—” “Oh, Ella —” interrupted a fresh girlish voice, as a young lady step ped through one of the long dress ing-room windows on the piazza, a faint rose flush tinging tier cheek as she saw too late that she had come upon a tete-a-tete. She was a beautiful girl dressed in the very height and extreme of fashion, from the tip of the little boot to till crown of the flower wreathed hat. “My friend, Mr. Arnold, Maud. Miss Kingsland, Mr. Arnold.” So this was Cluud Arnold, whom she had heard of all her life. She was not sorry for the interruption after all; still, stealing only a glance) at the dark, handsome face, over which all women raved, and deliv ering the message which had brought her, she disappeared as she had come. x v “Who is she?” queried the gen tleman. “Ralph Kinpsland’s daughter, and an heiress. I'am chapeiouing her for a few weeks us her mother is an invalid. Not at all the sort of a girl you are in search of. So see to it that you you do- not trespass upon my manor in search of amuse ment.” Notwithstanding which kindly warning, it was straight to Miss Kingsland's side that Claud wended his way, when about nine o’clock that evening she entered the ball room. He had watched her as she cross ed the hall on Mr. Sheldon’s arm, and was fain to acknowledge her, the most beautiful girl whom New port ever boasted. She was exquisitely dressed, too, in some soft, flimsy fabric of white, gracefully draped over snowy satin, her neck and arms hare, and void of ornament except two glistening jewels in the pink, shell-like ears. “Not at all the woman for a wife,'' he mentally soliloquized ; hut ns a partner for a dance, enough to make one the envy of all the fellows in the room.” “May I have the pleasure'.of the next waltz,*-Miss Kingsland?" he said, bowing low before her. “Thanks,” she answered, in low, musical tones, “hut I have not an empty space to-night. I am pas sionately fond of dancing, and my friends are kind enough to see that I have no lack of partners.” “Os course an entirely unselfish action on their part,” was his reply, with just a suspicion of pique in his tone. Heretofore, with Claud Arnold, the desire was simply fathei to the attainment, and now he must wait twenty-four hours ere he could clasp this girl’s waist, and feel her hand in his as they floated through the room to some of Strauss' drea my music. “Well, then,” lie continued, “shall it be to-morrew night, and will you put me down twice?” “With pleasure,” she said simply, as her partner approached to claim her. Somehow it was all stale and un profitable to Claud that night, and when he retired, rather earlier than his usual custom, the thoughts which mingled with the smoke from his fragrant Havana, as lie sat by his window, listening to the ocean’s roar, were if anything a tri fle more cynical than his usual wont —nor did he sleep as soundly as usual. * I need a walk,” heusaid to him self next morning, and started off about nine o’clock for a solitary stroll. In this however he was doomed to disappointment, for, turning a sudien angle on the beach, he came face to face with Miss Kings land. “What unexpected good for tune 1” he’exclaimed, duffing his hat. “I did not dream you were such an early riser,” looking is he spoke, at the blight color the morning breeze had brought into her'cheek, and the dark eves so frankly uplifted to his own. “Frightfullly unconventional is it not?” she queried with a little low, fippling laugh. "But one must be alone sometimes, so I am driven to do it in self-defense." “Rather an unfeeling hint that my morning’s trespass must not be re peated,” said he, ruefully. “Oh, no indeed ! We would not be iikely to meet again in any case. Besides ttie beach is public proper ty.” Again that uncomfortable Bense of piqne - pervaded her listenfir’s flame. Really it appeared .a matter oLmost sincere indifference u liotjier or not h? appeared upon tliFlgbno of actipn. ■ ‘■Bather a pretty costume you have, to he donned solely for the admiration of the sea-gulls,” lie continued looking down at the dainty dress, so perfect in all its belongings, with the eye of a man who considered himself a connois seur in feminine apparel —albeit inclined to use his taste for its con demnation. I dress for myself, Mr. Arnold. I am passionately fond of pretty things, and fortunately am able to gratify myself. 1 have often won dered how men, who are so severe upon women for their love of the beautiful, would like to have their wives appear in ill-fitting garments, or as slatterns. By-the-way, did you ever see a man who did not re turn straightway to his tailor a coat which had in it a crooked seuin or an ugly wrinkle?” “I can’t say that I ever did,” he replied, laughingly, while he sud denly remembered that, in all his imaginings, the old-fashioned girl who was his ideal, had never pre sented beiself in old-fashioned gar ments. The hop that evening Mr. Ar nold yoted a success, though he usually regarded them us necessary bores. Miss Kingsland h id made danc ing an art. He could have wish'ed the music to last forever, as she floated through the ball-room on his arm. She was like some beauti ful fairy. Os course he decided mentally. Carry her .into the walking realities of life, and you would destroy the charm. Still, there was a freshness, a piquancy, in her conversation, which not only attracted, hut held him. To come into her presence was seeking a more braceing atmos phere, and ere many days had fled, Claud Arnold found himself count ing the hours not spent with her as wasted hours. Yet, that there was any danger to himself or her, he never dreamed. He had made for himself an ideal, to which she was in every way the opposite. Fashion and luxuries were to her necessities. The wo man ho married must have a rninj above such frivolties. Meantime the ideal for the pres ent was set aside, and the glittering, alluring reality enjoyed. Three weeks had passed since'he had met Miss Kingsland, when standing one morning on the piazza, waiting for her to join him for a promised drive, and the morning papers, just delivered at the hotel, his eye fell on the startling announcement of the tem porary, hut it war feared permanent, suspension of Kingsland & Co., New \ r ork’s great bankers. These were troutdous times, when the weak and strong tottered to gether. Their failure would cause a loss to himself of several thous ands; hut to this Claud Arnold never gave but a passing memory. His whole thought was filled with the girl on whom the crush ing blow was to fall. “How pale you look !” said a sweet voice beside him. “Are you not well? Shall we not go !’’ He turned toward the speaker. How lovely she looked —lovely not only with nature’s loveliness, hut all the accessory of public taste added to make a perfect whole. Her dress seemed moulded to the exquisite form, her glove to the ti ny hand ; her hat resting graceful ly on the small well-poised head. Rob this girl of all externals, and she would still he beautilul; hut it would be like robbing the lose of its dark green leaves, which seem to belong to it by right. How would she hear poverty and failure ? She should not if lie could save her from them. In that mo ment he knew how false were his sophistries, and how unconsciously he had learned the lesson Love on ly teaches. At first they were both silent on their drive; then she turned toward him with a sort of silent sympathy in her voice. “Tell me what troubles you?” she said. “Only,” he answered, "that I am awakening from a dream, and it is for you to decide whether my wak ing shall he of earth or heaven. — Maude, I love you! The dearest wish I have would tie to make you my wife. Darling have I been too abrupt?" A bright blush mantled her cheeks, as she raised her dark eyes to his. “I will he fra’nk with you Mr. Arnold,” she answered. “Had you spoken yesterday, your words would have given me pleasure — now they bring a mingled pain ; for I cannot give the answer rny heart prompts. I am no longer rich, Mr. Arnold. My. father is threatened with failure. While he j is in trouble, I cannot think of my j happiness. My place is near his side. 1 intend returning home to night. I meant to have told you in any case, but I hated to spoil our drive by dragging in my trou bles.” In utter amaze, Claud listened to j her words. She had known of her j father’s threatened ruin, and yet 1 had smiled so cheerily, and had found time to sympathize with any misfortune she fancied might come to him ; and now she could so quiet ly lay aside all thought of self, in thinking of her father and his dis- j aster. A great wave of tenderness swept ] over the man’s nature, and with a respect almost holy fur tho girl whom lie had judged cnee with so narrow a judgment. “My, love," he said, “I will wait for you, will serve for you, as Jacob served for Rachel, hut I will never give you up.” And drawing her to him, he seal ed tlie words with a lover's ki°s up on the young lips, which made no resistance to his touch. The suspension of Kingsland & Co. was hut temporary after all.—- The pretty house next to Mrs. Sheldon found tenants in the early winter, such as she had so ardently wished. But Claud declares, in spite of the fact that his wife's trosseau came direct from Paris, and is the envy of all feminine Gotham, that he re alized his two ideals—he has found a homo, and lie lias married an old fashioned girl. A Joke on a Horse. One of the commission houses on Woodhridge street lias a horse which was the terror of every pedes trian who got within three feet of his head. The animal lad teeth like a shark, and up to n few days ago he’d bite everything within reach except a pile of grindstones. Whipping had no effect, mid he would get rid of muzzles as fast as they wei;e put on. The firm had paid out considerable money to set tle for his bites, and was wondering what they could sell him for, when along came a man who guaranteed a cure for $5. He was told to go to work, and his first move was to get an old suit of clothes and stuff it witii straw. The horse was driven down tho street, and the suit was tied to a liitching-post, back to the street. A full pound of Cayenne pepper was then rubbed into and sprinkled over the garments and the straw stuffing, and the joke was ready. The horse came jogging back, and the driver left him standing within six feet of tho man of straw. The old biter’s eyes had a twinkle as he saw a fine chance to use his teeth, and as soon as left alone lie began edging towards the post. When ready for business he made a sud den lunge, and caughtthe“man” by the shoulder. That old horse meant wickedness, hut he hud a surprise in 6tore for him. As he lifted the figure off its feet and gave it a shake it fell apart, and his mouth, nose and eyes were filled with the smarting powder. Great tears rolled down his long nose, he sneezed and snorted and coughed, and he was just as chagrined at the general laugh on him as a man would have been. He hacked away from the remnants, opened tiis mouth to cool it. and hung his head in shame. He did not cease weeping for half a day, hut when he got so that he could look the public square in the face he was a changed horse. Anybody can pull his ears or rub his nose now with impunity. In fact, he courts cares ses where he defied them, and on the approach of a stranger will shut his eyes and mouth as if fearful of another dos e.—Detroit Free Press. He IlimeSt. Be honest in your dealings; take no advantage, even of a child. Be conscientious in your bargains.— Have a single eye and a eingle heart. Seek not to be shrewd. Be not ashamed to he called simple. And let me tell you a secret, seeing it is written in the Scriptures, that your whole body will then be full j of light, and this in every kind —| You will actually see further and see clearer than shrewd and cun i> og men ; and you will he less lia ble to he duped than they, provid ed you add lo this another part of the character, which is proper to an honest man —namely, a resolu tion to protect honesty and to dis countenance every kind of fraud. A cunning man is never a firm man; but an honest man is; a double minded man is always unstable ; a man of faith is as firm as a rock. I tell you there is a sacred connec tion between honesty and faith; honesty is faith applied to worldly things ; and faith is honesty quick ened by the Spirit to the use of heavenly things. VOL. IV. NO. 19. Where He Missed tt. A Woodward avenue merchant) who has for two or three years past employed an ancient darkey to'da odd chores about the store, was yesterday asked for a few minutes’ private conversation, and when the request had been granted the old man began: “I wanted to ax fur a leetle infor rnashun. Las’ nite when I was gwino home I met ole Ebeneezei' Wright, one of de pillars in our church. He's bin n leetle aglewise to me chef since do Ins’ donushun party, but I nebbcr saw a man melt down as he did. lie called me an agitator. What does dat men*? I know it’s sunt'liin’ good, but I can’t ’zactly git de full meanin’.” “Why, he meant that you were kicking up a fuss.” “Did he? Fo’ de Lawd, but I took it de odder way 1 Den’ho said I war’ a truckling. Did dat meat! I owned trucks?" “It meant that you truckled.— You’ve seen a dog skulk along be hind his master after he has been kicked, haven’t you ?” “In course I have. Did he reail ley mean dat 7 De old woman an’ I couldn’t make it out, but we fought it mils' be sunthin’ sweet. Den he remarked that I war' a bigot. Was dat abuse ?” “I should say so,” “Did he mean bad when he call* ed me a fawnin’ sickerphant and a fossilized corruptionist?” “He certainly did. Many men have been knocked down for saying less.” “Fo’ de Lawd 1 but how ye talkl Am it possible dat I stood dar an’ took dat all in an’ Htniled an’laffed an actually asked de ole man to step in somewhar’ an’ have a glass of cider? Why, sail, if I’d had de "slightest hint of what he meant I’d have crushed him to pulp in two ininits, sab—de worst lokin’ pulp you ever sot eyes on I Lawd, sab, hut what a chance I did miss !” Detroit Free I*resß. —-♦———— Southern-tltiCS. Among the most instrumental in creating the immense Radical majority the North gave at the re cent election, were the manufactur ers and merchants of that section, who, by threats of discharge in case their employes did otherwise, in timidated them into voting the Re publican ticket. As the puissant North has not yet enacted a law compelling the South to trade with it, the Southern people should avail themselves of this grace and form at once direct trade relations with foreign ports, and sell their products to and buy such articles as they conr.ot manufacture themselves from those who, no matter what they think, at least don’t publicly proclaim them thieves, robbers, rebels and murderers. The pro ducts and the trade of the South have been the real causes of the re vival of business and the financial success of the United Stabs Treas ury in this country ; but while the South has reaped little of the ac cruing benefits, the North has grown lusty and waxed fat there from. Let the Southern money now invested in Northern stocks be withdrawn while bucli stocks are high and he put into manufactories and importing houses at home, and as the Radicals will not permit ships to be brought in the cheapest markets, let foreign associates be formed who will buy with it cheap Clyde steamers and establish direct lines between Southern and foreign ports, and it will not only return larger dividends than it is now do ing, but will make the South rich and prosperous and at the same time bring her implicable enemies to a realizing sense of their folly in killing the goose that laid the gold en egg. — Alexandria (Fa.) Gazette. ■ An aged and wealthy Milwaukee widower found a wife by a queer method. In a coffee grinding mill i in Chicago a female packer placed ; in several bundles of coffre a card ! sayir.g that any gentleman matri monially inclined might address I her. This widower found the card while preparing his lonely break* | fast after a quarrel with his bouse i keeper, and now the Chicago girl is | Mrs. .