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THE MESSENGER.
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A. MclUn, Editor.
£. A. Melius, Pub, ami Pro.
LAFAYKTTK GA., Dbc. 9, 1880.
Congress met Isst Monday.
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All the new solicitors will assume
their duties on the Ist of Janu
ary.
A Sumler county man killed 200
blackbirds the other day in four
■hots.
Massachusetts contains 858,521
males, 924,565 females: femule ma
jority ,66,044
One of the San Francisco hospit
als contains 17 lepers —16 Chinese
and 1 white.
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It lias cost the government about
•25,000 to investigate and recount
toe population of St. Louis.
President lla>e» will sail for Ku- ,
rope neat May. The republicans
meet hut will not miss him.
Atlanta is suffering from a cobl
famine. The rolling mill has stop- |
ped for want of fuel, and 500 men
are out of employment.
Frincc Bismarck is now in better
health amt spirits thun for a long
time past; his country life has built
up his strength wonderfully.
Stuart Robson used to be a page
in the United States Senate, but
lias turned over a new leaf since
then, lie is ar. entire volume now.
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Colonel Fred Grant's pa had bet
ter see that n padlock is put on the
young man’* mouth before the
chances of 1884 are utterly ruin
«d.
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Now is the time to interview Ju
piter if you want to. He is nearer
the earth than he will be for twelve
years to come, and ho has all his
moons with him.
A North Carolian woman Blab
bed the man who attempted to
bug her. This proves that all wo
men are not enthusiastically in fa
vor of a free press.
In the Georgia penitentiary there
are 1186 prisoners, 31 females, 1
white; 114 white males, 1041 ne
gro males ; 50 are in for murder,
40 for rape, 120 lor liurglarljr, 270
for larceny, 40 for misdemeanors.
The company that preposes to
build the Rome & Chattanooga
railroad, is also looking after the
Marietta & North Georgia road,
proposing to have toe cars running
over it to Murphy. N. C., in u few
'months.
In Quincy, Mass., grammar lias
been excluded from the schools,
and daily lessons in taking and
writing put in. As a result the
children learn how to write nnd
speak engliah quicker and better
thun in tho old manner of groping
through grammar und failing to un
derstand it.
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Samuel 11. Irwin, of Ute Creek,
Colfax Co., New Mexico, savs:—
The “Only Lung Fad” has done
more for my wife than all the gal
lons of Cod Liver Oil, French or
American, she has taken, or all the
Doctors Medicines she has used. —
See Adv.
In a bar room in Augusta, n
pickpocket feigned drunkenness in
order to “hug up” with another
drunken man and thus relieved
him of a gold watch and his pock
et book. The saloon keeper saw
him, and gave him his choice to
hand them over or take a bullet in
his brain. The thief forked over.
French marriage laws require cer
tain formalities which most other
countries dispense with. A French
man who marries in another coun
try and returns to his own, rnny
claim that the ceremony is null be
cause these lormaliliesare not com
plied with, and the law will sus
tain him.
Samuel H. Irwin, of Ute Creek,
Colfax Co , New Mexico, says: —If
my wife would quit work us she
should at her uge (61) she would
live years a monument to the mag
ic influence of the “Only Lung
Fad.”— See Adv.
The Louisville and Nashville
ltond moved out of New Orleans,
East and west, during the month of
October last, 10,000.000 pounds of
freight, as against 4,700,000, an in
crease of over 100 per cent. The
same road has moved into New
Oi leans, up to the Ist inst.. more
cotton from Nashville and Tennes
see than was brought in over the
road during the entire last year.
MCIOIIHORIiOOl) NOTES.
Gathered From All Sources.
The young men of Chattanooga
are organizing a gymnasium.
The hotel at Cedartown was burn
ed on the 26th ult.
Dalton ha« shipped 7,000 hales
of cotton this season.
Died near Rome, last Sundav,
; Mr». M. J. Derry, widow of James
E. Berry.
Judge Lester will re-enter the
practice of law with the beginning
of the new year.
Dultnn Citizen: Rev. S. M. Mer
rill. pastor of tiie Thornton Avenue
church, has accepted an appoiul
j ment from Fresident Hayes.
Cornelius Willingham,oftheCar
. tersville Free Press, was married on
Thursday to Miss Ella Green, of
that city.
Oil Wednesday last the cotton ;
men «f Rome were busy hauling 1
their cotton to a place of safety, for
fear that the river would overflow
its ban ha.
Further evidence against Harris,
the Marble ILdl murder, was oh
tained last Saturday, in finding Mr-
Brown’s overcoat at the home of
Harris’ mother.
Cartersvillo Express : J. W. Har
ris, jr., our new solicitor 1 general was
27 years old the day of his election.
A right nice birth day present,
Watt.
Summerville Gnze'te: Willie
! Johnson, colored aged 11, son of
| Dick Johnson, who lives with John
Jones, in Dirttown Vulley, was
killed on the 27th ult. hy his head
being caught in the running gear of
Mrs. Jones’s gin.
| Dalton Citizen: It is thought a
colony will be established hy north
j ern people soon, on the lir.o cf the
Selma, Home and Dalton railroad,
some twelve miles above Dalton.
The location is an excellent one,
presenting every natural advan
tage.
Gordon county has thirteen law
yers, fifteen doctors and one den
tist.
Calhoun Times; It was So cold
last week that the mercury in John
Kiker’s thermometer crawled out of
the tube and sat on the hearth to
keep warm.
Correspondent Calhoun Times:
Reeves Station has never produced
any poets or writers, hut it can pro
duce a white man with the biggest
| foot in North Georgia. His feet.are
i actually so large that he has to
drag them along behind him. He
| originally came from Rabun coun
ty-
The town of Dalton wants more
things thun a petted child ever
dreamed of. Among her needs, as
mentioned by the Citizen, are mn
! cadumized streets, a hook and lad
der company, a new depot, a cotton
compress und a colti n factory. We
| trust she may get all these and
many more good things.
The introduction of poison into
the food at the late wedding at Col.
Dail’s, near Kingston, from which
five have died, is yet a mystery.—
Col. Dail and others of his family
are positive that no arsenic or other
poison had been ir. the house for
thirty years, and it is now thought
it was placed there by some enemy.
! Eight out of nine physicians agree
that it was not arsenical poison.
) 'Calhoun Times: Wanted, at this
office, a oentennial-excelsinr-dou
j ble-barrel-back-action-shell-extract
j ing-nutoma tic-stein winding-breech -
] loading-self-cocking-non-explosive
j nitro-giycerone-repeater, to put he
j hind the door and shoot every man
1 who comes in our sanctum on cold
| days and leaves the door open.
Calhoun Times: Mr. L. M. I.it
i tlefield's steam gin was burned last
\ Monday evening, together with fifty
j hales of cotton and fifteen thousand
bushels of cotton seed. It is gup
j posed to have caught from a mute
'in the cotton. The loss is eetimat
; ed at eight thousand dollars, pro
vided the engine is not damaged.
No insurance.
Calhoun Times: Lou Clarke (col.)
! shot and killed a negro man named
! Hurt, near Fetersburgh, Sunday
night. He was coming towards
her iiouse in the night, and she
halted him, whereas he made no
answer, nnd “she let fly” a double
barrel, the load taken effect in
his breast, killing him instantly.
She was arrested, and is now in
jail at this place awaiting trial. She
has employed Col. Joe McConnell
to defend her case.
Chattanooga limes: A difficulty
recently occurred at a commissary
store on tlie line of the Cranberry
1 branch of the nsw N. C, Railroad,
iii Curler county, Tenn., between
Boston I*. Sony, formerly of Knox
ville. nod man named Stillings,
' employed on the road, in which the
latter received seven shot* from n
revolver, from which he died in
stantly. Sony made bin escape to
wards the mountains of North
i Carolina. It is said there wan an
old feud existing between the two
men, caused by jealousy.
Summerville Gazette: James
Wade, living with his uncle on
IVter IJenlz’a farm, was out Hunt
ing on the 24th ult. In setting
down his gun, the hammer struck
against some brush, tho gun was
discharged, and tho whole load
passed through his arm. The hone 1
above the elbow was so biullv shut- ■
tered that amputation wns neces- .
SHry. I>rs. Bryant. Calhoun, Shaw
and Smith, were there to attend to
him. He is doing well.
Summerville Gazette: On the 24th
ult., J. I lirewtnn, who lives some
six miles south of town, went to !
the cotton field with several of his
children. His daughter Lily, about
9 years old, went to the fire to warm
her fingers: her dress caught fire!
and she was terribly burned. Her 1
father commenced tearing off her
dress, hut in her flight she broke i
away from him and ran some thirty
yards before tie could catch her. —
He finally extinguished the flames I
by throwing her down and rolling ;
her over on the ground. Dr. J. J.
Thomas wus called in : we learn
that she is riproving, but will lie
confined to the bed for a month or
more.
NEWS IN GENERAL.
Clipped With a Sharp I’air of Scissors.
New Orleans is already preparing
for Mardi Gras.
There is almost a coal famine in
Huntsville, Alabama.
Tbe orange trade of Louisiana is
increasing in extent and value.
A six-legged sheep is one of the
attractions of Rio Grande City,
Texas.
A new and fatal hog disease has
broken out in the lower part of
Kentucky.
The Catholic fair at Montgomery
Alabama, reiilzed $2,500 above ex
penses.
The increase in the valuation of
property in Texas since 1879 is
eleven million dollars.
The Tennessee legislature will
meet January 2d.
Hogs are dying at a fearful rate
with cholera in some sections of
Virginia.
Louisiana has as many inhabi
tantsns Maine and New Hampshire
combined.
Texas has more inhabitants than
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont
and Rhode Island together.
Greensboro railroad company of
Alabama will extend their road to
some point on the Alabama Great j
Southern.
I
One Experience from Many.
“1 had been sick and miserable
so long and had caused my hus
band so much trouble and expense
no one seemed to know what ailed
me. that I was completely disheart
ened and discouraged. In this
frame of mind I got a bottle of
Hop Bitters and I used them un
known to my family. I soon be
gan to improve and gained so fast
that my husband and family
thought it strange and unnatural,
hut when I told them what had
helped me. they said “Hurrah for I
Hop Bitters ! long may they pros
per for they have made mother i
well and us happy.”—The Mother.
Home Journal.
Walker Sheriff Sale
GEORGIA. WALKER COUNTY. \
Will be sold on the Hist Tuesday in
Januaiy next before the Court House
door, in the town of Lafayette. Walker
county,Georgia, w ithin the legal hours j
of sale the following property to-wit:
Ten acres more or less of lot No. 181, I
In the 12th districtand 4tli section of,
said county, as the property of E. E.
White, auii on which lot is situated the i
residence and lanyard, of said E. E. I
White, and known as the lanyard loti
of said White. A description of which ,
is more fully described in a deed from
AV. I>. Gray to K. E. White on tile in
the Clerk's offlee Superior Court of
said county. Levied on ns the proper
ty of said White to satisfy an execu
tion from the Superior Court of said
county in lavor of W. 15. Gray vs E.
E. Witito. This 2nd day of Dec. 1880.
G. W. Patterson, Sheriff.
Saylors & Co.,
—PLACERS IN —
Fill'lTS, NUTS,
(A\lili>, FANCY
GROCERIES, CI
GARS and TOBACCO.
Chattanooga, - - * Twin.
Important •
To the Citizens of North Georgia.
.Is 15. PVIK >i\,
Proprietor of II c
“GREAT ONE PAIGE GASH
20.1 and 207 Market .Street,
CHATTANOOCiI, - TENNESSEE;
ha* for wpvcral irs earnestly enfrii"* *in fmiMinar up and pfirfbetiner hn
“I* MPOKIUM,” and h>Hnow iirmlv e?*fiil>li>ht*d bi> On is I'rick <'akii System
of iiointi btiMtipM. So that vth< n the people of the various sections adjacent ro
t’hunanooka cone in o trade, they cun buy goods juAt a« cheaply as the most ex
pert “city shopper.”
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Exhibits fur the Vail and Winter of 1880, a Mammoth Stock of
DRV GOODS, CLOTHING, SHOES, HATS, SHIRTS,
NOTIONS CARPETS, FRENCH MIL FIN
ERY and DRESS MAKING.
The largert stock hy far ever shown in Chattanooga. The entire building (3
stories high) being filled in its aiino-t canii'dlv.
When you want to buy goods ai Rock Hottom Prices, and in a s*ore where old
and voting, licit and poor, are sold at exactly the same prices, without a single
exception. Go to
V
J. B. PYIION,
203 and 207;.Harket Street,
CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE.
P. S. Especial attention paid to filling orders.
■Bgf i ■ 111 'limminilll uni v * JUW< n.iwiijwwa
ATTENTION BAPTISTS.
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limn Iter of
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And weekly In Sulimniters thereafter.
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DENCE NEWS AND NOTES RIIIEE
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To Baptist everywhere, we appeal for patronage
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NEW PREMIUM CORN SHELLER.
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~T\X\ f i*k lh; con, l' 1 ' lor .helllnf com for pon!-
A £?' ,or m V ’ * h\*h nHrod Fhellers 1:«* may liave.
A Igffl W iTwiHPny'For itoiif many *tme*
MA< &£s&■ PT.pvir?rnKN O SHAx?iu« to beromo tto
Y_.— -S »Mlcr will I he warned. ''Awirrs WAVTKI) J every roomy.
p —r\ *(p Arrlcnltnrml Implement*, Am TMJiiPjA. .. Ig. Addrea®
* a »sMASasiw'te^
At the Balloon! At the Balloon I
H m paper Palferns ■ |f
FOR LOW PRICES
CHEAPER THAN THE CHEAPEST.
Ertrjlhing guaranteed a« represented or rnoucf rt*
refunded.
Sine* we have decided not to so 11 out, our New York buyer ha, been piling &.
the good* by the car load, until every corner is full and running #tc/
WITH BARGAINS ALL OVER THE HOUSE,
Dress Goods, IVotions, Pane}' Goods, tlillisier) Goods,
Cassimcres, Jeans,
Coltonades, Prints, Domestics, Ladies Linen Suita.
THE ACT. COUNTER IS FULL OF NEW AND USEFUL ARTICLES
at a much le?s price than you can get them elsewhere.
THE lOCT. COUNTER HAS NiANY ARTICLtS THAT WOULD,
cost you 25 to 50cent at other places you will save money by making year »w
chases at the BALLOON.
THE SEWING MACHINE DEPARTMENT.
The largest variety of first class Machines in the State, aaeh u,
The Eldridge, Whue, Royal, St John, Weed,
Victor, Remington Domestic, Ameri
can, Davis, Singer, and Wanzer.
The Wnnxer and Singer are our cheapest machine?. Persons wishing oheap 2nd
Hand machines, can always find a rood assortment. Exchange new ma
chines for old ones. Sell ior cash an on monthly payments.
Don't fall to call at the Balloon before buying anything in our line.
H. H. SOUDER,
Chattanooga, Tennessee.
. F. WARDLAW. K. 0. JONES.
WARDLAW & JONES,
At the Old Stand of Reece Bros., in DeSoto,
Dealers in all kinds of
FANCY AND FAMILY GROCERIES,
ALSO BAGG'NG AND TIES,
and all kind of supplies, usually kept in a first class grocery store.
We have a in connection with our store a large commodious stable and wagon
yard.
The trade of Walker and adjacent counties especially solicited.
©aJ-We pay the highest market price ibr all kinds of country produoe, and sell
our goods at '‘rock bottom prices,” WARDLAW & JONES.
VEAL & SON,
DEALERS IN
I CLOCKS. CLOCKS, f
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WATCHES, JEWELRY m SILVERWARE.
ROME, GEORGIA.
Seud for CIRCULAR.