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THE MESSENGER. - ~ " - ~~ A. MclUn, Editor. £. A. Melius, Pub, ami Pro. LAFAYKTTK GA., Dbc. 9, 1880. Congress met Isst Monday. i ttm ——— 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. —a 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. - ■ tm • 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. !■» II ~ 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. as ♦- —■ - 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.” r JTiie One l*i-iee 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. AVc will issue the iirsl week in January 1881 the first limn Iter of Tlie JSTJUNT, And weekly In Sulimniters thereafter. 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Agents are requested to report names and post office address of subscriber* taken, twice a month. Ssiiit>!SCi*iptioii I*:riee: In order to meet the. views of a large number in our church, and find our wav in a weekly visit in’o hundreds and thousands of homes that are now des- ! titiitc of Baptist literature, we have concluded to put the price of The Sun at j i variably in advance. At which price it w ill be the cheapest denominational ] paper published In America, if not in the world. To Baptist everywhere, we appeal for patronage and a hearty co-operation iu establishing THE NUN. .Address ail correspondence to E. A. McHAN, Publisher, LaFayette, Georgia. CSSS nu^ A . . ,(*S3“ MARCHAL & SMITH ORCAN CO., (Cfl *7 «—rtJTJS-i»yn'iWWSi?Soou iWmW “■•KSBtf.'«sTßwia2s?ffli' NEW PREMIUM CORN SHELLER. dffiWlfMrfr ■««Mi i|B ‘ =IPM|\J jffJSSS&MSES*. ~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 % > WATCHES, JEWELRY m SILVERWARE. ROME, GEORGIA. Seud for CIRCULAR.