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BY A. & E. A. M C HAN,
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t ::) ■ B A. CHAPTER.
Nn. 10 meets at Ti inn nn the Friday
aivlit hnfnro tlw third Sunday in April,
M»v, June, duly, Aaipi-t, and St'iiteiu
nt»r mvl on Svurl v niirht the
third Sunday in October. Nnvomper,
Dt'jcnhor, Junuirv, Fehuarv. and
March. (V (V HItVAN, H. P.
G. 15. MYRRS, Seet’y.
ATTORNEYS:
J ■ U. Robertson,
Alloraey ai Law,
»ml Kolirilor in CSinncory.
CHATTANitOOA, - - TfiNN.
PHVTICB in I’hnimery, Circuit niul Suprem«
Courts of ami U S. iiisitlci Court.
Ain*! in » joining ('••Unt**-« ill Georgia.
CUT- Hi e« ill > oil'i llousi*.
Robert M. W. Glenn,
Attorney at Law,
I.aFaYKTTE, - - - - GKOBUIA.
’’tlTl'.l. »* It \i TICK in |ti« -tumiior ‘ 'oun* oft lie
YY otiio ami iuljoiitl'Ml ciroull*- • VHrctioim :
•p.-fi;tl’y I'lfi mi ciir.ior o|i,.<wito Drug .-lore.
3 3.» 3ni
Julia i'liKl.AN, C. P. CORK*.
Phelan & Goree,
Adomrytt at Law,
Pihs Block,
249 Market St.,
OH*.*’ r ANnt-tj \, TENNESSEE J
W 0. & J, P. Jacoway,
Attorneys a! Law,
Tin:,NT'in, ... - Georgia.
PR M 'TI ■ ’ Pi m t*»e i ou lit ins of Fla<le. Walker anil
i.t . ... , t »tj liiiingimuotirs. inti in P*tt'
l>roinn and Fodfrai • •ms-/'. ' »o, Jackson, -Tr K-tlb
•av - n rt»kf*, in Nori t* V •;m , and .•ist-w'ier*' l»v
npeoiai »-oiitr*i-i. .Sjn-eiai at', ntnni given to the col-
Icrtion of cl wins.
77. SI. Henry.
Attorney at Law,
Sumherviixe, - - - - Georgia.
Al7 11,1, praoti eln the Home and adjoining Cir
\ V on I*. • ollertions a apnclalty.
.1. C. Clements,
Attorney at Law,
LaFayette, - - - Georgia.
tit| b iiractieo in iht: Bcveral cou. ti m of t lie
VY Home and Cherokee Circuit-:, and tin: Supreme
Court ni Ceorgia.
F. >V. Copeland,
Attorney at B,aw,
LaFayette, - - - Georgia.
W>i,l, practice in the Superior Courts, of Home
Circuit. Kl-ewli* re In special ngrceiuent. Col
lections a>p cia tv. (Office in nar of « iiibi-non’*
► tore.)
I!. P. Lumpkin,
.Attorney at Law,
LaFayeTte - - Georgia.
Wli.l, *iv- prompt attention to ail business
entrusted to hint.
office at Shuford & uumpkin’* store.
DENI ISTS:
Dr. Geo. B. Jordan,
Resident Dentist,
Rising Fawn, - - - - Ga.
()fl*-rs his profeesi mal service* to ill** people o!
Dade and V«lk r mi tics. Dciiml operation* |n r
tvin il in a neat and riunst intial man- «-r.
All work w irramed to give p<- feet si.fisini'tion.
Will in ike a pr*».‘ession.il • ri*» VcLe-
Diiiri'S* C«*ve. on ill** tir-t ofen li month
Dr. J. P. Pann,
itrsiilinl Dentist.
Dai.ton, - - - Georgia.
f iv''e-r\ f «M t'HEPA Ell with all the
I \f«>«»rn linpr’Vements in Dental
! P dianc. sio turn out ns good work
as can h a.i in the >t te, and at as low prices as
can be doneby nni firifiais w. rkiinn.
trfjm j guirm'ee all wmk turned mil to stand any
nd ill reasonable tests, -p •-l.nl attention given to
ctwrecdotf irr gill »rili*-s in children’s t‘ elli.
(R/-L Hies wa) ed on at ihfiir residence, when un
Hbie to visit toe office. A liberal shore of patronage
solicited.
(KJ-Hfi e: ITp-stairs mi Hamilton street, opposite
Na ional Hotel.
Will Visit I.nFn • tt». Walker Co., at Superior
Courts and Fenrunry.
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HOTELS:
.iUSE, -
J. W1 LiIEStS Proprietor,
LaFayette, Georgia .
IK ttbovp lirniso is thoroughly tur
nishod and prepared with the very
he*tt accQtuiund ifi«»ns 0, ‘ transient and
loe;i) cU't in, an I at r<*asnmißle pritutfi
Satisfaction mara'itentl to those who t.i
vor i‘ with their pair triage.
J. T. itil 1» A s»t>A Pro’ll,
A, L. DeLoag, Book'ejer-
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J. \. Wai.kkk, < Day > lerks.
J. P. RiimTICK. frig'll)
Chattanooga, - - - Tom.
Frmni'nr U lion Fa'-sencear depot
THE BUIE HOTEL,
Iteoad Mi., Dome, <«a.
In Ten Stkf- of tiie K*i* road
AO VLEiDS.D
Lot' - I'Ell in li)o I'rioeip.il Hm-iii 'S square of
tuet’iiv Hint' ihcul t ■ the 'Vliar*'. the i««nk
aud Ihe Foil 1 1 Hi e. Hod IS iloiroii-rlilv r-nov.it*,i hii»
r*-pa;iited. J. I. M E 4 I’ES, I'roprieior.
NATiaaAL H3TSL,
J. «J. A. LiAVls, Prop’r.
Dalton, - - - Georgia,
Thin hou-e is a large liui'-sfoiy hricl,, j
within a few steps of the Pa m o lot <le
pot.
BOARD PER DAY - - - $2.00
Polite ami a'lentive :k> let. a ■ ■■■en
train; pass then V"C.r k., *.va!k lici,'
tiver and mali-' c If o hnnie.
VV. Ai. Jj&Wk), Citrk. j
Walker County Messenger.
(i'haUanooga Advertisements.
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Chattanooga, Tenn.
* REVOTjttion
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Portrait and Landscape
PHOTOGRAPHER,
’ as cpptired fh<* rijht fnr the
vi v r,f f’lv,frnnnr>'”i lo (ho
WONDERFUL AROTYPE PROCESS.
This is the process which has brought
nut 'uo' a startling revolution in lilt
i .*! j ;ghu nut | •(
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\ JL CADY & CO.,
198 Market Street,
CH.VTTANOOGA, TENNESSEE.
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Periodicals, Looks
and Stat ionery, Whole
sale and Retail, Wall
Paper, Variety Goods,
Wrapping Paper ami
Paper Bags, School Boohs.
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Miscellaneous Advertisements.
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LAFAYETTE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER HI, 1880.
rilK MESSENGEii.
juAFAYETTE, GEORGIA.
Tiumisday Morning, Dec. 16,1880.
Kates of Subscription:
Twelve Mouth* sl.s<i
►ix Mouth 7o
Four Mouth* •*"
siuui»* t,; ’
iivnriahly In ndvnuec.
Free of charge —An nupiv gun.
Bad buy words—Charge it to
u,e.
A sensitive reporter is the write,
'win in the write place.
U - ♦ -
“’Tis sweet to 1 e remembered.’'
as the man said when he got a cork
leg.
— ♦ 0m
Fly time —When yon hear er
father’s heavy cane thumping along
the hall.
How to turn people’s heads—
Come to a concert late in a pair of
squeaking lmots.
Men are like pins. One with a
little head may he just as sharp ns
one with a hig head.
The old maid who exclaimed
“Mv life has been a deserted "'ai-!
can readily he heliejed.
arp --
Pe<-pit «■! n never borrow trouble
sometimes have a good deal of it
stored away in the house.
Goethe says a roan must be either
an anvil era hammer. '<t how
many are nothing hut bellows.
The New York Picayune thinks
that a man, like a razor, is made
keen by being frequently strapped
T.ivcs there a man with sou! s
It';. 1 he never to himself hath sen :
Here are live dollars which I thn l
! wid it,vest in printers ink
An editor out West uasin prison
for libelling a Justice of the Peac
and when he def arted the jailer
asked him to the prison a
puff.
Sarah Bernhardt's first words m
•>n landing in Ai were; *T
Henrv Ward Beecher or Roscia
Conkling comes near me I will
scream.”
♦
A bankrupt was condoled with
the other day for his embarrass
ment'. ‘'Oh, I’m not embarrassed
at all,” said he, “it's ray creditors
that are embarrassed.”
In Texas there is a township
called Gin, and in it a town called
Brandy, and the name of the post
office is Rummy. No Jtate could
ask for anything better.
Express trains are fastest in Eng
land. The average speed there is
50 miles per hour ; in Belgium it
never exceeds 41 ; in France about
39, and in this country probably
less.
A young couple were found out
at the front gate locked in one an
other’s arms. They said the com
bination was lost, and they could
not get, it because the janitor was
asleep.
A little girl read a composition j
before the minister. The subject
was ‘‘a cow.”’’She wove in this |
complimentary sentence: “A cow.
is the most useful animal in the
world except religion.”
A stranger asked an old resident
of Chattanooga, how malarial fever
could he distinguised from vellow.
“As a general thing,” was the reply j
| “you can’t tell until you have tried I
| it. If you ain’t alive, then it is j
most likely yellow fever.”
Little Neliie was looking at some
! pictures of w ild animals when Mr. |
Jerkins called she appealed to that j
i gentleman to explain one of the
, pictures to litr.
“That is the wild hour,” said he,
| an/1 the little lady looked at it:
| thoughtfully and replied:
i “It doesn’t look like you, doe- it, j
Mr. Jorkins 7”
j “I hope not,” responded the
guest. “Why?”
•‘Because,” said the artless infant,
“mamma said when your card was
sent.‘There is that old bore, Jnr- j
kins here again.’” I
J. Fate.
A dismal autumn day, that was
all the drearier because yesterday
had been so bright with sunshine
and sensually lovely with a ha I inly
southwest wind.
To-day the sky looked as hope
less as it only can look when, a
wretched storm is pelting down,
lowering and leaden-liued.
The thermometer had tumbled
down to fifty-four, and the rawest
of east winds was blowing in damp
gusts, bringing misty sheets of rain
against the window-panes in Jack
.Jerome’s office, with a miserable,
wailing little noise that was only
equaled in gloominess hy the ap
pearance of tile slowly tinkling riv
ulets of the rain-drops as they
dripped down the glass.
As dispiriting as ever a day was
or could he. Jack tin tight, as l.e
closed his day-hook with a hang,
and sauntered across the dusky lit
tle office to the window, to plunge
Iris hands in iris pockets and look
out on the gray, sodden, weeping
world.
And not so very much more
cheerful inside,either. Jack thought,
as he turned disgustedly away into
the little room again, with its stove
in the middle, that stood there per
petually, its time-tables of a dozen
roads tacked on the walls, its railed
oil' ticket-office with the telegraph
apparatus, whose monotonous click
clickety-elick had come to be a pos
itive haunting horror to Jack’s lile.
And not much wonder, seeing
that he was obliged to listen to it
thirteen hours out of the twenty
four. and to attend to all the other
duties of the station agent at Ibis
lonesome little out-of-the-way de
pot in the suburbs and all lor the
insignificant remuneration of 140 «
month —Jack Jerome, college-hied,
strong-limbed, handsome as a
vnuug Apollo, and proud ns—well,
brave and proud enough to (ill the
the detested position w< 11, since
nothing else yet had offered.
lie had always meant such grand
things when college days were over,
lie had fully decided to study law
—to make a name for himself that
should bring coy Fume and (icltle
Fortune to his side.
There had oeen plenty of money
in the Jerome coffers, then and not
until a week after Jack had carried
off the grand honors did theeudden
appalling crash come, in which ev
erything was swept hy the hoard,
and the handsome, ambitious
voting fellow found himse'f w ith a
fine stuck of clothes and an A1 ed
ucation, in a place where a beggar
could not be chooser.
Os course lie had tried other
things, hut other things were not j
available ; and then this had been j
offered him. and he had taken it j
and fulfilled I.is duties well, and i
loathed it equally well.
lint to-day lie was not thinking j
so much of that as of one other (
tiling, that naturally led him to des
pise the future of his position. He
was thinking of the soft, velvety
gray eves that he had seen once or
twtice too often for his happiness— j
a fair-faced, proud-stepping young
girl, whose name he even did not
know, hut who had made an im
pression upon him that lie could j
not shake off.
“But what good would it do, ev- I
en if I knew her, and if a mutually
delightful acquaintance ensued?’
he asked himself bitterly, as he
leaned against the big- desk and i
and looked moodily out into the j
disconsolate day. "A poor devil
with 810 a week is not an object of j
much interest to one of the fair
ones, to begin with; and to venture
to build hopes of a future —”
An imperative summons on the
telegraph instrument dissipated his
thougfils, and hy the time he had
taken his orders,and seen to one or
two details, the down train cnir.e
in, and while it laid off' on the sid
ing, waiting for the Eastern Ex
press, Ivfank Wheat came in, chee
ry and' good-natured as ever, as
well-paid and gentlemanly passen
ger conductors, usually are.
"I suppose you-have heard the
latest, Jerome?” he said, with 'just
the least little deprecation in his
voice.
“No. What is it?’’he asked, in
differently. i
I “Bather a departure, and prelts !
rough oil you fellow* ; but the so- J
periutendeni's going to put hid\
telegraphers it. Jail along I lie branch
rfiad.”
Jack looked incredulous.
“It’s a fact,” Wheat answered,
“and a shame. You fellows gel lit
tle enough now at double duly.”
Jack Hushed angrily.
“Then you mean," he said impel
uouslv, “that they intend to dm k
I our pay ?”
Wheat nodded.
“I’m sorry for you, I declare,
Jerome."
Jack was thoroughly angry now.
“It's an outrageous shame! I
suppose the company w ill save one
per cent, hy the innovation —so
much for the beautiful equality of
th sexes ! Well, let ’em put in a
slip of n girl.if they want to, and
reduce my immense salary in pro
portion, ltut 1 can’t hi lievt
Wheat.”
The whistle of the Eastern Ex
i rcss sounded lugubriously through
the misty air, and Wheutjhud only
time to answer a word.
“Yeti’ll s e, Jerome!”
Well, twenty four hours ':it r, Je
rome did "see”—an autograph let
ter from Superintendent Di Bo.vn.
staling that Miss Alma Barry would
take charge of the telegraphing de
partment in his office, between tin
hours of eight a. m and live p. m
! that his pay would be reduced
well, so materially, that Jack at once
resolved to quit the place entire
; and, so strange in hntiiunjluiture,
i." Hally with II feeling i f -liar;
. r.-t at ti . I- •- of tl • situali.-i he
a e despised rot an hour b. for*
' 'll Aim Br.. !’ ii- quo
,t. - i tl-*- i..,ng, poor, lonely t- I low
-■ he posted Up hi accounts, hi f I
' sing Up for the v'.i ; and I •
oed-i' ll if sb( i ceded pit
aoc“ l.e earned as much as hi
lid.
That night he was miraculously
unlucky. He went to a score of
places to find work, and failed
every time, and the next morid'v
went down to the office more nt
| telly desolate and discouraged than |
j ever he had been in all his life be- i
fore.
Precisely at eiglr o’clock, S uner
intendent I). Bonn’s representative
appeared, escorting a young lady
-light, graceful, modest in her gray
| d.i-ss and v< iI and introduced
j them —Miss Barry and Mr. Jerome;
j and as the veil went off, Jack m-.-ir
| ly lost Ids self-possession to see the
exquisite gray even, and rippling
dark hair, and grave sweet mouth
lie had been hopelessly in love with
for months.
A faint little (lush made her'
| cheeks prettier than ever, and Jack
j wondered wildly, what mysterious
j fate was in it. all.
Then Miss Barry laid off her
i saeque and hat, and gloves and sat
| down to her duties at the instru
i ment ; so fair, so sweet, so dignified
' and thoroughly lady-like, and so
j perfectly a mistress of Imr business,
too.
While Jack managed to attend
i to his duties, with a very vague
I idea that he was somebody else,
j and u very bewildered person at
that.
Until late that same afternoon,
| when Miss Barry addressed him
| for the first time, unsolicited, all
that day, Jack’s heart wa3 in his
throat as he walked over to her.
Her clear, calm eyes were wistful
i and so exquisitely beautiful.
“I have been thinking-about it
all day Mr. Jerome ; it dor n’t jn-em
! right that votl should he obliged to
give so much of your position tip.”
What could lie sai toiler? lie j
found no reply, and Alma wenton. j
softly, regretfully :
“I urn so sorry. I know from
experience, what it is to be out of
employment, and I am so troubled
about this.”
So this lovely gray-eyed little
girl was poor and a worker like
; himself! The common place fact
was somehow hewilderiugly pre
j cions to him.
"I will he as honest as you are,”
he said, after a moment, looking
frankly down in her face. “I need
ed the place verv much indeed,”
Sin- flushed him back a look that
was a half a stni'e, half a pleading
l deprecation. I
“And so did I, Mr. Je.-ome, It
| is so hard for us women to find
positions to decently support iih ”
She was poor—oh. it was rsp
tui-osly sweet to liini to hear her so!
If she had had been rich —this love
ly little gill
jack controlled a certain auda
cious hope that leaped Up in his j
heart, hut did not take his eyes oft |
her.
“1 don’t approve of women be
ing employed in places ns public
as this, Miss Barry.”
She (lashed aid.let.ly, hut an
sw< red gravely ;
“Nor do I, Mr. Jerome. But
what are they to do?”
“Slay at boo e, and make it (lit
heaven on earth for the husband
who loves them. Let him work in
Kuril a place ns this—she in her
own sphere.”
A delicious little flush crimsoned
her luce as she drooped it away
from his eager eyes.
“Yes,” she answered, softly.—
“Some women arc so blesssed, but
not all.”
He leaned forward toward her,
the auilacinus hope past control
now, the sweet, sudden passion
that had been growing for all those
months springing up like a surging
sea that would not he stayed.
“Not all; but will you not make
me so blessed? Alma, you have
been my love for mouths ; is it pos
sible—ean it, he possible, that you
will be my wife ?’’
lie had said it, and with a sol
emn, wild-eyed look in bis honest,
handsome face, Alma answered him,
very quietly, but with a little catch
of her breath, and a little thrill in
her tone:
“I think it might be —some
time.”
And Jack was a resolute lover,
and in just six weeks’ time they
wi re married ; and they are so hap
py, so constant and Alma manages
the money in away that it marve
lous to her adoring husband, while
there are excellent grounds for the
rumor spread about among the rail
road et’icials, that, young Jerome is
to given a very superior | osition in
the employ, where his salary will he
quadrupled.
But Jack ami Alma will never be
any happier, neeiu.se they tire ar
happy as they can he now, and
Jack never ceases to bless the day
when the superintendent put lady
operators on the branch line.
A Few l i arcs.
A man walks 3 miles an hour; a
hnr-'c trots 7 ; steaii'lmats run 17 ;
sailing vessels make 10; slow rivers
flow 4 ; rapid rivers How 7 , moder
ali- winds Plow- 7 ; storms move 80.
♦
hurricanes 80; a rifl<- bull 1,000
milis an hour sound 743; light
190000; elecliieitv 280.000 A bar
mi as Hour weighs 190 pounds; a
barrel of pork 200; a barrel of pow
der 25; a firkin of butter 50 ; a tub
of butter 84; wheat, beans and clov
er seeds (14 pounds to the bushel;
corn, rye and llax seed 5(5; buck
wheat 5‘2; barley 48; oats 35; course
salt 85; 60 drops drops mane a
drachm; 8 drachms multi- 1 nz ; 4 ez. i
mince a gill; GO drops maict* a lens
pootiful; 3 teaspoonful. a table
spoonful .1 of ati ounce; 4,840 squire
yards ini'ice an acre, 209 feet on
each side, ounce a square at re with
in an inch. There are 2,750 lan
guages, One person dies at each
pulsation of the heart; a generation
is thirty years; average of life thir
ty-four years.
Make a lie;;link nr.
Remember in all things, that, if
you do not begin, you will never j
come to an end. The first weed !
pulled up in tiie garden, the first
seed in the ground, die first si il
ling put in the saving hank, and
the first mile traveled on a journey,
are all important things: they
make u beginning, thereby n hope
promise, pledge, as an assurance,
that you are in earnest in what
you have undertaken. How many
n poor, idle, hesitating outcast it is
now creeping and crawling on bis
way through the world who might
have held up his head and pros
pered, if instead of putting oil his j
resolution of industry and amend-;
ment, he had only made u begin
ning.
i An expreostnau's sish —(J. 0. D. ,
VOL. IV. NO. 22.
But Ills Arm Aioitml Her.
Tim other iluy several men were
Standing on a sin et corner, when a
handsomely dressed lady passed.
"You may not believe me,” said
a men named Spriggins. "hut I
have had iny arm around that la*
i
"You are a vile slanderer,.sir',”
■ exclaimed young Mr. Paperage,
and drawing off, he struck Mr.
Spriggina a heavy blow between
yes. Both parties were in
stancy arrested, and when Mr,
.Spriggins requested that the lady
be summoned, a policeman caught
up with her and requested her
presence in court, which had just
convened in alternoon session.
"Judge,” said Paperage, "while
several acquaintances and myself
were standing on the street talking,
this lady parsed. Then this man,”
pointing to Spriggins, “remarked
that he had put his arm around
her. The laily is nothing to me,
Judge, but my mother is a lady,
and my sisters are ladies, and I
have always made it a point to
chastise a man who speaks ill of a
lady.”
"Mr. Sprigging,” remarked the
Judge, “did you say that you had
put your arm around that lady?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Then the gentleman did right
: n striking. Ladies arc not safe in
Little Rock so long as such ruffians
are allowed to insult them.”
Judge allow the lady to speak,”
requested Spriggins.
* Certainly, you will make your
statement.”
“I didn’t hear the trail when he
said that he had put his arm around
me, and as I passed on I do not
know what occurred,”
"Excuse me for being blunt, but
1 —but—”
"Do you mean to ask if the man
i ver put his arm arrund me?”
' “Yes.”
"Then I must say that he has.”
For a lew moments there was a
a deep silence, only disturbed by a
hov who [licked at the plastering
with a horseshoe nail.
“What right ha! lie to put his
arm around you ?”
"Because,”answered the woman,
"lie is niv husband.”
When the court adjourned the
men took beer, and "the court ad
journed.—Little Hack Gazette.
“Fellow Copy.”
Printers have a role that pvery
compositor must follow the copy in
printin'.' any hook or paper. A
short time since a lad in a printing
office received from his master a
list of scripture questions and an
swers to he set np and printed. In
the progress of the work the lad
turned aside and asked the fore
man if lie should "follow copy
that is. set up just as it was written
"Certainly,” said tire foreman •
"why not?” 'Because this copy is
not like the Billie, and it professes
to he the language of that book.”
"Iloiv Ho you know it is not like
the Bible?” "Sir, I learned some of
these verses at ii Sunday-school
t
ten years ago, and I know that two
of them are not like the Bible." —
"Well, then, do not ‘follow copy/
hot set them np as they are in the
Bible.” The lad got the Bible and
made it "the copy”—his guide and
pattern.
"Follow copy,”children, wherev
er you find it nccordr g to the Bi
ble. hot do not stir a step when you
find it differs. Through nil your
life make the Bible your one “copy.
Look to your words, your actions,
[ your doctrines, and your practices;
J see that all are according to the Bi
ble, and you will he right. Take
nothing for y nr rule, either in re
ligion or in daily life, hut what is
like that great unerring and divine
ly written cope.— Children'h Almen
(jer.
A voting man in Macon was
awakened by a sharp pain in the
face from a sound sleep a few nights
since nnd found a rat clinging to
his nose. The sharp teeth of the
rodent had completely penetrated
his nasil appendage.
After a Texas jury had stood out
for nim tv-six hours, the judge got
; a verdiet ou' of them in two in:n
utes by sending them word that a
i c reus had arrived in town.