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VOL. IV. SRWEX.LAUK W (fjnuas: CHAPTER: TEION :r. a. CHAPTER. No. 19, meets at Trion on the Friday night before the third Sunday in April, May, June, July, August, and Septem ber and on Saturday night befeie the third Sunday in October, Novemper, December, January, February, and March, 0. 0. BRYAN, 11. P. U. B. MYERS, Sect’y. ATTORNEYS: J. M. Robertson, Attorney at Law, •od Solicitor in Chancery. Chattanooga, - m - Tenn. PRACTICE in Chancery, Circuit anti Supreme Courts of Tennessee uml U. S. District Court. A1h«» iii adjoining counties' in Georgia. COM iffiee in Court House. Robert M. W.; Glenn,; Attorney at Law, LaFayette, - - - - Gkokgia. WILL PRACTICE In the Supeiior Courts of the Rome and adjoining circuits. Collections a ■penally. Office on corner opposite Drug store. fejp.3 35 3m. J«aa Puri.an, C. P. Uorbi- Phelan & Goree, Attorneys at Law, ■ Poss Block, 240 Market St., MATTANOOUA, - - - TENNESSEE W, U. & J. P. Jacoway, Attorneys nt Lai*', Trenton, - - - - Georgia. 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EJJordan, Slesitleni Dentist, Rising Fawn, - - - - Ga. offers his professional services to the people ot Dade and Walker counties. Dental operations per formed in a neat and Kulistnutinl maiiiivr. Ali woik warranted to give peifeet satisfaction. Will make a professional nip through McLe moree' Ceve, on the first of cat It month. Dr.!J. P. Tamil Resident RcntiM. Dalton, - - - Georgia. T AM l-HEPAUEU will, all the jMmctSSBS I \T"l*tii Imprivenients in lieutn! to turn out as good work as can he had In the State, and at ns low prices as can be doneby a»v ft rate I ass vv.uk man. {t£M guarantee all woik turned out to stand any nd all reasonable tests. Special attention given to ■errecting irregularities in children’s teeth. Ladies walied on at llieir residence, when mi able to visit the office. A liberal share of patronage solicited, {K?»Office: Up-stairs on Hamilton street, opposite Na.ional Hotel. Will visit LaFayette, Walker Cn., at Superior Courts August and February. * HOTELS: GOREE HOUSE, J. WITHERS Proprietor, LaFayette, Georgia. rg'MIE above houso is thoroughly fur nished and prepared with tho very best accommodations, for transient and loeal custom, and at reasonable prices. Satisfaction guaranteed to those who fa vor it with their patronage. “read houseT J. T. READ & SOU Pro’M, Ai L. DoLong, Eaokeeper- Will H. Hamblen, C Chief l J. N. Walker, 4 Day SClerks. J. F. Bostick, ( Night ). Chattanooga, - - - Trim. Fronting Union I’assengcar depot. THE ROME HOTEL, Rroad §t., Rome, Ga. In Ten Steps or tiie Railroad. NO OMNIBUS WEEDED. LOCATED In the Principal Businers Square of the City, convenient M the Wharf, the Hanks and the Post Office, and is tboroiijthly renovated and repaiuted. J* L. M. ESILS, Proprietor. NATIONAL HOTEL, J. Q. A. LEWIS, Prop’r. Dalton, - - - Georgia, This house is a large four-story brick, within a few steps of the Passenger de pot. BOARD PER DAY - - - $2.00 Polite and attentive porters at every train; pass them your checks, walk right •vor'and make yourself at home. W. M. LEWIS, Clerk. Walker County Messenger, (fhattanooga JtduerJiacmcnts. T. H. PAYNE & CO., Suooossors to Patton and Payne JOBBERS AND RETAILERS OF School Books, Station ery, Blank Books, Wall Paper, Pic ture Frames and Moul dings. —:o: Our stock is complete in every line and prices BOTTOM ON SCHOOL BOOKS, PATER, Envelops, Pens, Ink Pencils and slates. —:o: Wo make Picture Frames of every discription and price. -t-:o: — The Largest stock ot WALL PAPER in East Tennessee. CROQUET Sets. The best anil elieapest in the marketat sl.lO, $1.25,51.50, $1.75, $2.- 00, $2.50, $3.00, $3.50, $5.00 persel. Rase hails and hats of every description. Send for Sample and prices T. 11. PLYE & €<>., Chattanooga, Tenn. A REVOLUTION A. W. 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If not in stock will order promptly. -§o§- Call and see me me when you come to Chattanooga and get bargains. ROBINSON WAGOBJ COMPANY MANUFACTURERS OF f p a ™ g & WAGONS Buggies & Phaetons. WE DO KOI WANT AGENTS! WE OFFER OUtt STANDARD TRADE VEHICLES TO THE TRADE- Work that has an established reputa tion, and that can be bandied with sat isfaction. both to buyer and seller. Seud for designs and prices to ROBINSON WAGON CO., CINCINNATI. o. LAFAYETTE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 13, 1881. Galloping Off With a llaby. COMI’I.ETK IX TWO CIIAI'TKttS. CHAPTER 11. "Now,sir,’’said liis lordship, after the formalities were over, "we will hear the statement that you have to make. "Good, my lord,” was the re sponse. "Snail I reply seriatim to the questions asked me, or to save the time of your lordship, and that of the jury, shall I first state what 1 have to say, and then answer any questions that may be suggested by the evidence I offer?” “We will hear,” said the judge, “your own statement first. This man is charged with murder, and. he tells us—he pleads an alibi — that as he lay in a ditch on Futse Hill on the night in question, dis abled by a fall, a man on horse back passed him, and he had a baby with him; for he, the prisoner heard the baby cry. Now, you say you were that man, and that you carried a child. Will you give us the date of it?” "It was towards the close of November, my lord; the last week in it. The day, I know, was Tues day; the last Tuesday in the month.” “What date was that?” asked his lordship, turning to the counsel for the defence. But before he could reply, his opponent, the counsel for the prose cution, said: “The twenty-fourth, my lord; a date that differs from the prisoner’s statement.” “Will you tell us, doctor,” re sumed die judge, not heeding the remark, “what time it was when you rode up the hill —can you re mem her?” “Yes,” my lord, I can. It was two o'clock, for I heard the dock strike as I galloped up it St. Michael’s clock, that is just across the water. It was a damp and chilly morning—cold and foggy.” “Do you mean Tuesday night—or rather, Wednesday morning?” “No, my lord; Monday night— two on Tuesday morning. It was during the night of Monday—the twenty-third.” “And how were you mounted?” “On a thick, stout cob,” said the doctor; “my niglil-horse.” ‘‘Go on, sir,” said his lordship; as the counsel looked at each other. “I had been to a case, my lord, and was coming from it—'" “Yes,-yes; just so,” said his lord ship. "But about t liis child. 'Tell us, will you, how it was, that on this cold, damp, foggy morning, in the dreariest of months, you were out in the open country galloping home with a baby?” “Not home; my lor J, not home; hut off for the foresh” “Why?” “To prevent a murder.” “Explain yourself,” said the judge and a buzz went round the court, and the people looked at each other. “An attempt bed been made, my lord, on the life of that child, which I frustrated; hut ns I knew the youngster would he settled es soon as my hack was turned, l galloped off’ with it to save it.” “And quite light, 100, doctor,” his lordship raid. “Now give us the circumstances; and give them in your own way.” And as the one counsel looked confident, and the other bit liis pen, Ralph, the prisoner, drew himself up like a man who felt that he should be righted, and the evidence was continued: “On Monday night, the 23d of November. I was sent for,” said the doctor, "at six o’clock, 1o go up in the forest to see a child; a child two months old, who died while I 1 was there. I left at eight. As 1 got. down into the valiey, and,clear of the long steep hill, was trotting on for home, three miles from there, I thought 1 heard a moan, ant, stopping, listened. A moan it was, my lord; so I went on through the fog to where I heard It—a lane near by that turns off from the road, just by the mile-stone—and there I found a woman, a tramp appa rently, who bogged that I would h lp her to some cottage, for rea- sons which she gave mo. ‘Cheer up,’ I said; ‘I am just the man you want, for f am a doctor, and can see to you.’ "A little way hevor.d us was a hut —a tumbled down affair, hut it was that or none. The one who lived there—a vile old hag and a reputed witch —refused us entrance. I forced it, told her why, and did my duty. In three hours a child was born. 1 saved the child, hut could not save the mother; she died soon after.” "Died from exhaustion?” "Yes, my lord; though not as you infer. It was, in fact, one of those unfortunate cases which we have oceasiona’ly to encounter, whereas too often occurs, it is as much as we can do to save the child. Had she been a lady in her own home, it would have been all one with her; she would have had no more chance. As the child’s life dawns the mother’s ebbs away. “Well, my lord, the child was living, and the mother dead, and the old hag sat and cursed me, and refused to touch the child or to do one thing, though first I promised payment and then threatened her, for she said the brat should bundle out before morning—she would not have it there. So finding after re peated entreaties, that there was no time to be lost in the matter, and disgusted ' ith her heartlessness, I got the cob out of the shed, and away I went to a cottage on beyond, about a mile off, and knocked them up. The woman, a workman’s wife, got up at once and came to take the child and lay the body out,and I rodeback. Unfortunately in my haste, I had left on the table —in the hut, my lord—a little case I carry containing drugs we very frequently want, amongst them laudanum, which I had to use. As I came by the window from the shell, I saw the old hag stooping hy the child, and in her hand a bottle. The truth flashed on me and 1 rushed inside and knocked her over. The bottle was my own —the laudanum one —and thecork was out. I was just in time; for the contents, instead oT going down the child's throat —when it would have died instantly—weut over me, scattered as I Sint her flying.” “A most providential circum stance,” said his lordship. “The w’ckedness of some people is per fectly frightful.” “It is, my lord. Well,”continued the doctor, “wfnyi the old hag picked herself up out of the corner where I had sent her, I told her my mind as to her villainy pretty plainly; and she whined out some thing about ‘going to wet the poor thing’s mouth to comfort it.’ But I knew heller; it was too palpable. Besides she knew it was laudanum, and must have known it would kill- It was a decided case of attempted murder; and so I told her. With that the woman name, and she was as good a sou! as need he; hut she said that, as she had to go to work at seven o’clock, and her neighbors, too, and her husband went at six, she would have to leave there at five to light the fire and call him up. So there was no chance in that direction, and I decided, until we could see what could he done, I would have it well wrapped up in fi an nel—i t’s moth er's pelt icoat—and take it myself to the work-house. But after we had got it swaddled tip comfortably, 1 remembered that there was no case in the house just then, no suckling mother. A friend of mine, Mr.- Grant, has the care of it, my lord, that and some parishes; and he had that day mentioned it ta me as an unusual occurance. It would therefore be better I thought for the lime being, to take it to the one who had just lost her own — the one I had come from, an old servant of our family when we lived elsewhere. Added to which, it wa3 five miles to the work-house and less than three to her; and even in that short distance it wasagicat risk, as the cold might kill the child. Still it was a chance for it; and slight as that chance was, it seemed to me, my lord, that it was better to take it than to risk the child being again left with that horrible old woman.” “Decidedly, sir,” said the judge. 1 You acted wisely, and, I may say, nobly. Many would have left it there.” “Then they would not have done their duty,'said I lie doctor. ‘Leaving the woman there to see to things, j and paving her for her I rouble, I told the old one that I would, in the morning, make the necessary arrangements with the parish authorities for the removal of the body; arid then,” continued the doctor, “I started, with the child under my cloak, wrapped up and warm, one‘arm round it and my other free, and with a shake of the rein awav I went, full gallop; back up the hill again for the house in the forest, the one I had come from, my lord, where the child lay dead.” The total silence that had pre vailed in the court while the doctor made his statement, was here again broken by his lordship. “I see,” said lie; “and did you notice any thing on tho hill as you went up it?” “No, my lord,” was the reply “nothing." “Nor heard anything?” ‘A shot, my lord; I certainly heard a shot. Some fellow out there poaching: but I took no need of it.’ ‘ls it such a common thing, then, in your neighborhood for shots to be heard at night?’ ‘Very common, my lord; po much so that I always ride with a tight rein when I am out after dark; and I then had the cob well in hand.’ ‘Forfearhe might shy—for safety’s sake?’ ‘Yes, my lord; and he shied then. I was nearly half way up the hill when I heard it, and 1 was going at a good hat, loo; and he turned short round with me, for the shot was near and loud.’ ‘What diii you do then?’ ‘Put the spurs to him, my lord, and went on at a hand gallop.’ ‘Didyou say anything? Did you make any remark or excl tmatiou? Can you remember?’ ‘Yes, my lord, I did. I said. ‘Confound the stupid fool!’ for the child woke up and ciied.’ As there was a buzz in court for ! a moment, as the people made half- j audible comments and looked at each other, his lordship inquired: ‘Was that all you said?’ ‘I believe so, my lord.’ ‘You have no recollection of any thing beyond that?’ ‘I have not, mv lord.’ ‘Nothing about ‘poor little wretch’?’ ‘Oh, yes, my lord, I did; for as the child cried, I thought of how I had saved it; and that if f con! 1 hut get it housed quickly, it might even yet live.’ ‘Just think, doctor,’said his lord ship, ‘and see if you can give us the exact words. It is important.’ After considering a minute or two —during which time one might have heard a pin drop—the doctor said: ‘I tnink it was this, though I could not swear it: ‘Poor little tv retch 1 but it’s a chance if we can do it;’ meaning, my lord, if I could reach the forest without the cold a'r striking the child.’ The judge laid down liis per. and sat back in his chair. It was as good ab over! There was a -tir in court, and a moving of feet; a great feeling of re lief in the minds of those assembled, causing a change of position; but it was but momentary, as the coun sel for the defence at once rose, and said: ‘I have no questions to ask, my lord.’ ‘But I have,’ observed tho counsel for the prosecution, as he gave his gown a tug, and got up hastily. ‘Now, Rir,’ lie began, looking fiercely at the witness, ‘I wish to ask you a question. We have all heard this extraordinary statement of yours, and of course we believe it; hut you will tell me, please, why —yes, why, sir—you have thus de layed coming forward until the eleventh hour, when the man is all hut convicted? It seems strange to me, I must confess. Perhaps you will explain it?’ ‘Certainly, sir, I will. I was not aware,’ said the doctor, ‘that the I events of that night had any bear- ing on tho case.’ ‘You lutd not? Indeed! And ; vet, ns it appears that the prisoner is a man from your own neiglibor j Imod, you must have known all | about the ease —all about it sir !’ ‘I did; in commo'i with Mil those | who keep their ears op n, or who | read the papers.’ ‘Then why, sir, may I ad:, did you not speak out ?' ‘Because, until I came into court to kill time, 1 luid not the least idea that I enuid ho v f anv use in it. I knew no more than that tho defense was an alibi. But when I heard what his lord ship said when he was summing up, that night came to me, and I at once spoke out.’ ‘I need scarcely remind you said the judge to the counsel, ‘that it was not until you had made your speech, and I was proceeding to sum up, that the facts came out.’ ‘That is so my lord,’ replied the counsel as he felt lie was sat upon. But returning the attack lie resum ed,‘Then your coning here into court nt the last moment was pure ly acidental ? Do you really wish us to believe that?’ ‘I have no wish in the matter,’ was the response, ‘one way or the other, I simply state a fact. Will you be good e nough,’ said the doc tor .talking a paper from his pock et, ‘to hand that to liis lordship? and giving a telegram to the usher, it was handed to the judge. ‘As this telegram, gentleman, lias been given to me, I wil l read it to you, though Ido not,’ his lord ship remarked, consider it necessa ry. It is dated to-dav, March sth; and it is from Miss Minnie Brown, Paddington Station. She says, So sorry papa. Missed my train. Shall take the 2 15, and car on. So don't wait. ‘With love.’ ‘That is the throtigli-tr.-iinfbr our line, my lord—the Severn Valley— I came on here to attend a meeting Had she come ns arranged by the ten train, I should have met her at the station; and we would have been at home by now. The delay seems providential.’ •Just so,’ said the judge. And the telegram was handed to the ju | ry and pas.-eJ on to the ’octor. iltll the counsel determined to make a last struggle, returned to the charge. ‘Tiie prisoner was in your em ploy I presume? lie shod your horses ?’ ‘No lie did not,’was the replv. ‘I wish lie had; hut lie lived too far off unfortunately.’ ‘Still you were acquainted with him ?’ ‘Not (lie slbblest; no more than L am with you.’ ‘Are you a hunting man ? ‘I hunt, as every man should do who can keep a good horse and ride him.’ ‘Then as this man,’ said the conn se! ‘was a runner with hounds you mu-t have me*, him frequently?’ :[ have seen him olten; and I have heard him too.’ And he has been of use to you, 1 pre-nme on many occasions, in shilling hurdles and making gap.?' ‘Gaps!’cried the doctor, who was a known good goer, ‘I never wail lor gaps, and Hy the hurdlts. I always lake it si might !’ As a litter ran lluotigli the court at (lie doctoi s enswer, the foreman of the jury stood up, and turning to the judge said : ‘Unless your lordship eossidera that further evidence is necessary, we are satisfied and can give our verdict.’ ‘And that —’ ‘ls Not guilty, my lord.’ As the verdirt was given, a loud cheer that could not he suppressed j rang through the court; and hi* 1 lonlslip turning to the prisoner | said : ‘Ralph Perks, you are a free man and you leave this court w ithout a j slain on your character. After the ! unexpected statement that has so entirely corroberated your own statement, it was imposible for the i jury to have come to any other con ; elusion. We must therefore ns your name alone was mentioned, ae the cept the theory for defense : that | the cause of that man’s death was ar. accident and not a murder. But t forjvour own well-known presist- NO. 33. once in poaching, eirctinislniitial , evidence would have been lens strong against y«u. Lot it fbo a warning to you,ami at once give it it|>, or some day it may go hard with you. Dr. Brown, but for yo.ir evidence, justice might have mis carried. U’e have to thank you.’ And as the clock just then struck four, the court hrohe up. ‘N’..t guilty, not guilty !’ was tho cry, as Ralph's many friends pour ed on to those outside. ‘llurah for Brown the doctor I’ At six the doctor was at the sta tion, and a demonstration awaited him; for IVrks and his friends were tiierc, waiting the arrival of the same train —the through train from London to take them also to their destination; and as the train came up, and tho busy porters hustled about during the ten minutes’stop page, the cheering was incessant. ‘Oil, what a, noise papa?’ said Minnie Brown. ‘Why they are cheering you! What is it for?’ Whatever have you done?’ A‘ good day’s work, my girl,’ war his reply. ‘I have proved the in nnocence oflliat man there —Ralph Perks, the poacher.”— Tinsley's May nine. — JOHN NEWTON’S TWO;|HEAPS. ‘‘l see in the world,” said good old John Newton nearly a hundred years ago, ‘‘two heaps,one of misery the other of happiness. It is but little I can do to take from the one heap and add to the other, but let me do what I can. If a child hns lost n halfpenny, and by giv ing it another. I can wipe away its tears, I feel that I am doing some thing. 1 would gladly do a greater thing if I could, hut let me do this thing.” In all this, John Newton was just following his Master, who ‘‘went about donig good.” Let us all seek to have the same spirit in us. Who is this younggirl, so gently helping the poor Jan:e hoy down the steps at the .Sabbath school door? We do not know. But we think we know something ab< ut her. “By their fruits ye shall know them,” —and wo know her by her fruits. 3he has the opportunity, and is doing a little deed of kindness; so we ars sure she lias a kind heart wiiliin. That is the root, and this is the fruit. Perhaps there are some of our readers [arc you one of them?] who never did a kindness to anybody in their lives. They think of no thing hut self, —their own praise, their own comfort, their own pleas ure, their own profit. But there are others,'we know, who try, like John Newton, to he always taking a bit from the heap and adding it to the oilier. Among their brothers and sisters at home —among their companions at ncliod!, — wherever they go—they are always trying to he of use, and to show kindness to others. Which of the two lands of boys and girls is the happier?— Children's Record. HOW IIE TREATED A HOUSE. It was necessary, on a certain occa sion in court to compel a witness to testify ns to lire way in which a Mr. Smith treated liis horse. “Well,sir,” said the lawyer, with a sweet and winning sodh—a smile intended to drown all suspicion as to ulterior purposes—“how does Mr. Smith gen erally tide a horse?" The witness looked op innocently and replied: “Generally it-straddle, sir, I believe.’’ The lawyer asked again: “Hut, sir. what gate does he ride?*’ The imper turpable witness answered, “He never rides any gate at all sir, but I've seen Ids boys ride every gale on the farm." The law yer saw lie was on the track of a Tartar, and Ids next question was very insinuating, “llow does Mr, Smith ride when he is in company with others? I demand a clear an swer. ” “Well, sir,” said the witness, “lie keeps up with the rest, if Ids horse is able to, mid if not he falls behind.” The lawyer was by tills time almost beside himself, and asked : “And how does he ride when lie is alone?” “I don’t Know,” was the reply; “was never wiilt him when tie was alone,” and there the ease droped. “My case is just here.” said a eit zen to a lawyer theoilnrdav. “The plaintiff will swear that I hit him. I will swear that 1 did not. Now what cac you lawyers make out ot that if we go to 1 1 ini ? ' “Five dol lars tipice” was the prom; t r ;