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VOL. IV. v-' i CHAPTER: TRIOH R. A. OHAF . Y-. 19. id '.'.m at Trinn on (lie Friday ■ n.'i To ilin third Sunday in April, Jv ' i !'' Jn'v, Auirist, ami Sentem ! o 1 SttnrLv nisrht hefete the l). '- in i.i in O.itob'T. Nm-oinnor. J ! • ‘ilior, January, Felraarv. arid >1 iroli. <’ BRYAN, 11. I’. •: ‘I MVIIiIS, s t v(’y. ATTORNEYS: J. M. Robertson, A9J«rctt‘y at L;nv, aad Solicilor in Chancery. Chattanooga, - - Tenn. PR \CTIOE In Uhnncfiry, Circuit and Supreme Court-* of IVniu-ri.-cH uml U. >. District Court. AI«-« in adjoining c«iuuti«-K in Georgia, ill i Oil. I House. Robert N. IV. Glenn, Attorney at Law, LaFayette, ... - Georgia. WIMi PRACTICE in the Snpeiior Coutts oftlm iiOine and adjoining circuit*. Uwllections a #|un*ial>v Office ou corner opposite Urug >tore. * 3 35 3m. Juft* PUKLAN, C. I*. CuKBK. Phelan & Goree, Attorneys at Law, Boss Block, 24t) Market St., OBATTAWOnOA, ... TENNESSEE W. U. & J, P. Jacoway, Attorneys at Law, Trenton, - - - - Georgia. PRACTICE in the count!*;* of !>h !e. tt’.ilkrr ami Catonsa. and alj doingeountie-. ind in tilt* -*':i pr»»nj»» and Federal courts A so, Jackson, I elvalli an r* h-rokee, in North Alnhnnn, and elsewhere In epeeiai contract, epecial attention given to the col lection of claim*. W. M. Henry, Attorney at’Law, BuMMERVIU.E, - • - - GEORGIA. W ILL practice in the Home and adjoining Clr cuit*. Collections a specialty. J. C. Clements, Attorney at Law, LaFayette, - - - Georgia. Wl .1* practice In tlia several counties es the Home and Cherokee Circuits, and the supreme ttticrt aj Georgia. F. W. Copeland, Attorney at Law, I, Fayette, - - - Georgia. practice in the Superior Courts, of Rome VV Circu t. Elsewhere l»v special agreement. Col Ic-tions a sp'-cia ty. (Ofli :e in rear ol t.u.berson’s SU*re.) 11. P. Lmnpkin, Attorney at Law, LaFayette, - - Georgia. “Wf il l. give prompt a trillion to all business f V entrusted to him. Office at Sliuiord & Lumpkin’s store. DENTISTS: Dr. Goo. B.'Jordan, Resident Dentist, Rising Fawn, - - - - Ga. Offers hi•* professional service* to thr jvople of Pnde H. d ’.Vaik r miutU’S. Dental operations p<r f»rm»d in a oeat and kg 'tnniiii! miiir cr. Ai! work Warranted to give p.--:e«-i satisfaction. Will niukti a pr»!V*Mdtin:!l trip through VlcLe roarcs’ C*»vn, on tins of «•«< li rnontii. Dr. J. P. Fann, BSesidesat l>cnt£»<t. Dalton, - - Giorgia. T PREPARED wiill nil 111" /yC- *„-!* ; -a, Mo tern Imor »vcinents in in ?.t n BIXXLf f' i p ip;dianci‘s to turn out as good work ns nati h -iiim in the -to, mid at as low prices us can be dniiehy anv fir«tH:i-.s w.nkm in. (jrjM gu irmiiee a!i wo-k turned out to stand any nd til reasonable tests. Special attention given to earrec.inc irregularities in children's t*cth. {jr^»Ladi rt s waped on at (heir residence, wlien un able to visit t’tc office. A liberal share of patronnge solicited, (MK* ifficc: Up-stairs on Hamilton street, opposite N a Tonal Hotel. Will visit LaFavette, Walker Co., at Superior Courts August and February. HOTELS: , ?3i p '■> r n rhi iy tj iii uj ijM tJ GI tiii , J. WITHERS Proprietor, LaFayette, Georgia. r g -STTId above house is thoroughly fur nished and prepared with the very best accommodations, lor transient and local custom, and at reasonable prices. Satisfaction guaranteed to those who fa vor it with their patronage. iißdai''S. JE 1 isi «s La; J. T. REA©& M)H T Pro’rs, A. L. DeLong, Bookeepar- IVitt H. llamblbn, t t'liiiif l J. \. Wai.ker, < Day Si'lcrks. J. P. Bostick, ( t \igiit) Chattanoogn, - - - Tenn. Fronting Union Passengcar depot. g l tia hW «sii La Bh iJ k ua Bi-oad St., Roiiif, Ga. In Ten Steps of the Railroad. I\o OJIA’IZSUS A’EtSDED LOCATED in the Principnl Busins,s Squnrn nf tho City, convenient tithe Wharf, the Bunks anil the Post Office, null Is tlnmmalily renovated tun! repainted. J- L- *■ K.stes, proprietor. Hlfii-il H3TEL, ,1. (}. A. IdSiWIM, Frop-r. Dalton, - - - Georgia, This house is a large fmr-story brick, within a few steps of the Passenger de loABD PER DAY - - - $2.00 Polite and attentive porters at every train: pass them your cheeks, walk right aver and make yourself at home. W. M. LEWIS, Clerk. Walker Count y M rssr\ ger. Chattanooga JKdvertisemrnts. r' a... .ra t. •. -waw • x r cvßmmatsnmsmtj T. H. I-AYAE & €O., Siioecssors to Patton and Payne JOL SAiiS AN3 rtETAiLEiIS 0? Lciiool Kooks, Etatioa ery, Blank Wall Papar, Pic ture Framas and Moul dings . Our stock is complete in every line and prices B O r iT r r O i M. ON SCHOOL BOOKS, PATER, Envelops, Pens. Ink Pencils and slates. —:o: We make PSclkirc Frames of every discription and price. • ~:o: — The Largest stock ot S*AE K EIE2 in East Tennessee. CBOQIJS’iT Sets. The best 'and. cheapest ir.» <?»e markct al 81.10, 81.7«,89.- ©O, §8.50, BJI.CO. • ' VO. B<s.oOperset. Rnsc IsiSis and Lais of every description. Send for Sample and prices T. .3. S»\Y 3 & CO., Chattanooga, Tenn. A revolution A. W. JUDD, Portrait a esc! Landscape P2iQTOBBAPHEB, lias seenred the exelusive riaht for the city es Chattanooga to use the WONDERFUL AEOTYPE PROCESS. This is the process which hss brought about sue 1 ' a startling revolution in the manner of produ ing photcgra'J.io prints. The arntype prints are ninth with printer’s inks on a couir.ii n hand press, and are therefore absolutely per manent. The most remarkable feature of this improvement is the cheapness with which the prints can he produced We respectfully solicit an inspection of the rxon'site specimens of the work on exhibition2l2.Market street. Chattanoo ga. Tenn. Respect fitly, A. W. J UDD. ,J. H. CADY & : CO., 198 Market Street. CHATTANOOGA,TENNESSEE. —§o§ Keep on hand a full lino of Newspapers and Periodicals, Books and Stationery, Whole sale and Retail, Wall Paper, Variety Goods, Wrapping Paper and Paper Bags, School Books, -§o§- Will sc!! any Book published. If not in stock will order promptly. -§o§- Call and sec mo mo when you come to Chattanooga atid get bargains. RQB3BBOK WAQOH COMPANY MANUFACTURERS OF Vann & U/APfIMC Cpriu.g / imUIiO Buggies Cl Fkaetons. WE DO KOI WANT AGENTS! wf. npriut otiit STANDARD TRADE VEHICLES TO THE TPwADE. Wotk that has an established reputa tion, and that can bo 'Handled with sat isfaction. Loth to buyer and seller. Send for de-igns and prices to BOBINSON WAGON CO., CINCINNATI. 0- LAFAYETTE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 27, 1881. My Swim to the Tar get. BY AN ARTILLERY OFFICER. Few, perhaps, among the civilian population of England have any certain idea as to the whereabouts of Shoehuryness; fewer still, pet" hups have been there. To travel down from Fenchurch-strcct to the ex'roll i o end of London, Tilbury and Southend Railway is of itself a journey not to be undertaken wilhnn 1 someth finite object in view and when to this, added a tramp ol Some two miles longyielding sand and shingle, or, ns an alternative, about four miles of nnint resting road, it is easy to understand that few tourists are to be found ener getic enough to travel so far merely to see the place and return; for Stay there they cannot, there being no hotel of nny description in the lit tle place. Shoehuryness, then, for the bene fit of the uninitiated may be defined as “a little noisy place near South end.” As to its physical character istics, it is a heterogeneous collection of barracks, batteries, and sand banks. To the stranger approach ing it, it presents a most uninviting aspect, especially should the tide happen to he out. For then be c itnc apparent the interminable reaches of sand that stretch away out to sea for miles in their unva rying flatness, broken only here and there by the black form of a target or by the pegs driven into the very yielding soil to mark the ranges. Nevertheless it is this very dismal expanse that gives Shoe buryness its impoitancein military eyes, and that makes it what it is i—the great experimental and practice station for the British ar tillery. Everything is quiet enough there till eight o’clock or thereabouts. Then the observer Fees here and there a flag run up on the summit of a buttery or casemate, and the roar of the guns begins and lasts for two or three hours without in termission. Looking out to sea, one may perceive clouds of smoke rolling away, far up in the blue sky like white halls as the shells burst n the distance, and may hear the noise of the report floating lazily back after an apparently irttermina ble lapse of time. When it is re membered that, of the thousands of fuses of all kinds turned out of the Woolrich Arsenal some three percent, have to be proved by act ual experiment, one may form some conception of the appearance of Shoehuryness on a busy day. Enough, however, of the descrip tion for the present. I should not have ventured to intrude it upon my readers but for an adventure which happened to me there on one occasion, and which went very near to depriving the British pub lic of this interesting recital and the Royal Regiment of Artillery of the services of a “most promising young officer.” as no doubt the Times would have recorded. In the year of 187-I was going through what is technically known as the “long course,” a courriculum of instruction in gunnery theoreti cal and practical; the former at Woolrich, and the latter at Shoe buryness—each part lasting six months. We had been enjoying ourselves at our seaside residence for three out of the six months ex ceedingly; for we had been fortu nate to have gone there in the sum mer months; and, between boating and bathing and playing lawn-ten nis, in a modified form known as “sticky,” in courts constructed out of the old targets past work, the time had passed very pleasantly, It. was now August, and a very hot one; the sun burned in the heav ens like a red coal, and scorched up the scanty water that the sand beds contained, till we had to send miles away to fectch what was re quired for the use of the barracks. Work of any kind was an effort. One felt inclined to spend the day swimming lazily nbout, or sitting on a warm rock after the fashion of T unyson’s merman. It was one of these aquatic excursions, which got me into tlie greatest scrape I have ever been in, or that I ever shall be in, I hope, as the sensation j was anything but pleasant. I must premise that I wa3 a pret ty fair swimmer, having learned that art, amongst many other use ful things, at the Academy, and progressed favorably in it during n course of seaside fort residences. My great ambition had always been to swim round tho 2000 tar get Rome day when the title was in and at length I determined to make tho attempt. The feat seems easy enough, no doubt, hut I was r.o Captain Webb; and, amongst my fellow oflicers. there were few who would have attempted it, so I felt rather inclined to he able to say that I had been there. Con fiiiing my intention to ro one, I started one day from the gun-pier just before slack water, counting on getting back before the tide turned again. It was a hot day, as I have be fore staled, and I swam very slowly; however, I arrived at my d:*s!ina tion without much difficulty. The frame work, on which the target floated, offered a very pleasant rest ing place, and I lay down on it, la zily intending to take some five, minutes breathing time, and then strike out for horns. But alas for the feebleness of human resolu tions ! Between the long swim anti tho recumbent posture and the vfarm sun, I had not been there two minutes before I was fast asleep. I had a curious dream. I had been reading a rather wilt! book of spec ulative astronomy that morning, and had been struck by the writer’s theory, that the end of the world would come through the fiery vapor amt lava of the interior of the earth breaking through the thin crust thereof. I dreamed now that such a catastrophe was imminent, and that I was camly inspecting a pres sure guage, to ascertain how long the globe would yet endure. Fear lessly, as happens in dreams, I felt the increasing heat beneath me. Tremors and. indistinct rumblings came rising up from infinite dehths, until the ground shook and quiv ered under my feet. Higher ran the warning hand upon the dial, and at length, with a mighty crash, the world exploded, and J was hurled, not into chaos, but splash into the water oi the cstu ary of the Thames 1 Thoroughly awakened as the res der may suppose, I rose to the sur face, gulping down a mouthful of water in the surprise. As I clutch ed tho frame work beside me, I was conscious of a dazzling red flash like sheet-lightning, followed by » tremendous report and a ratling all about me, as though a shower of hail were falling. I had seen too much of artillery not to know that this astonishing meteor wa a shrapnel shell. Perhaps there may be some of my readers ignorant of what such a missle is; for, indeed, it is of some what late invention. Let them ira agin, then, a cylindrical shell of iron, containing as many bullets as it will convienlly hold, comforta bly set in a bed of rosin. At tne bottom threat is a small charge of powder, ignited l>y a time-fuse bor ed to burn an) required tirnp. On this delightful machine exploding, nut fiv the bullets, and, by the in extolerabie laws of dynamics, par taking of the original motion of the shell, cover the ground before4bem for hundreds nf yards with a feu d'enfer , ns of a whole regiment tir ing volleys. Such an implement of destruc tion is very well to talk about; but when its violence is directed against oneself, there is less pleasure in the contemplation. Clearly I had slept so long that the ordinary afternoon practice had begun, and irom two guns evidently, or tba one shot could not have followed the other so rapidly. Only a few seconds had I for these thoughts, ere I saw a red flash leap out from tlu flag crowned hatterry on the shore. In stantly I dived as deep as I could, and heard, deadened by the water above me, the sharp report of the shell. As I rose to the surface again, T saw white splinters on the wood work of the target, that show ed how true the aim had been. Scarce!) had I time to take breath when tho red flash leaped again, and again I dived. They were good gun detachments—not e better any, where; and the guns werolightones —lO-pounders. Often had I com peted myself in a raro with time, running the gun up again almost before the recoil had ceased, and ramming home shot end cartridge ere it had reache I its former posi tion again. Now no doubt my comrades were hart! at work won dering, perhaps, what had become of me. Eight separate times had I dived and my strength was failing fast. Even now there was a ringing noise in my heat! which almost stultified me, and was growing more painful every instant. If I stood up on the frame work and tried to signal to the shore, I must stand at least one shot, and that was almost cer tain deeth. Even in that desporato moment an absurd idea eame into my head, as such things will como some limes. I had read somewhere of an ingenious recipe for finding a safe place on ship-board in action bv putting one’s head out at a hole where a shot had come in, relying on the improbability of another entering at the orifice. There was one corner of the frame-work splin tered by several bullets; to it I crept, and held on desparingly. Another flash from the battery. This time I could see the she’i coming like a black speck in the sky. Anxiously I watched for the Imrst to come; hut this time it came not, and the shell plunged into the sea fifty yards short, throw ing up a mighty pillar of water, and ricoe.hetting away far over mv head. Was the fuze blind ? I asked myself. No; there was another n ,p 'h and another rush through the air, and euleu piunce in the sea be yond the target. Shrapnel prac tice was over, and they were firing plugged shell. Now rr never was my time. I climbed on to the woodwork, sprang to my feet, and waved my hands. From the shore I must have looked very much like a pict ure of Andromeda, chained to her rook. I was too late, however, to escape a shot. Once more the red flash spouted forth, and I heard the omnious rush corning nearer and nearer, till with a roar of an ex press train it rushed past my head, carrying away with it the left hand top corner of the target, and hull ing it far into the sea beyond. The concussion seemed to tear my feet from under me, and I fell striking my head against the frame work I had just, sense Cnoug to prevmt myself falling into tho sea. My last glance at the shore showed the flag hoisted half mast high; and then I mst have fainted away, for I remember no more till I found myself lying on my bed, with the surgeon-major applying strong am monia to my nostrils with marvel ous effect. I have little more to tell. Watching the effect of the shot from the battery, they had seen me standing there, just too late to prevent the gun being fired, had ceased the practice, and got the boat out without delay, though with a very faint hope of finding me alive. Cf course the story was made a standing joke against rne ever after, and I must own that 1 deserved it. Nevertheless, I have at least the saliabletion of consid ering that when we go forth again to fight the Russians or tho Ger mans,or whatever other nation may elect to try with us a game of war on a large scale, I am never likely to be much nearer “The straight and dreadful pass of [death” than I was that day on the sands ol‘Jhoohuryness. — London Society. Weather Sign*. There are certain weather signs that are a good deal fob" relied upon. If at night you observe a remarkabte clearness of the atmosphere near tne horizon, and an unusual brilliancy or twinkling of the stars, it indicates unu sual humidity in the upper regions of the atmosphere, and is therefore an Indication of approaching min. Dew and fogs are indication of tine weath er, and halos, corona;, etc., indicate rain or snow. When the outlines of cumulus clouds arc sharp, it indicates a dry atmosphere, and, therefore, fine weather. A light scud driving across hazy clouds indicates heavy wind and rain. When the upper clouds move in a direction diltercu: from that of the lower clouds, or that of the wind then blowing, i lie wind will soon change.— Chicago Tunes. Widow Jones’s Cow. Goodman Jones died at the nge of fifty, and was gathered to his fathers, leaving a widow about his jwn age. About the same time Aunt Smith died too, and her case was parra’lel to Goodman Jones’s in all except her sex; we presume she was gathered to her mothers. t*ho left a disconsolate widower over whose head just as many years had rolled, as the widow Jones had counted. This was allowed on all hands to be an astonishing co incidence. All the women pitted widower Smith, poor man, and all tho men commiserated with widow Jones, poor woman. Widow Jones had a large farm; so had the widower Smith. Widow Jones had a large dairy; so lmd the widower Smith. As to the acres of mowing, tillage and wood-land, each had an equal share; and in children Providence had blessed both alike. “Wlmt upon nirth” either could do with these vast posessions alone, the old women declared they could not tell. This difficulty suggested a ready remedy, and gossips_did not let the defunct man and woman get co’d in their graves belore they made up their minds the relicts should he yoked together, and the e-ae 1 , hereditamenti and property personal and real, be held in joint proprietnrstilp. Matches, they said, were made in Heaven; and that this was there made, they consider ed the essential preperation of wid owhood, in each case, positive proof. Widow Jones and neighbor Smith were not long in 'nearing what gossip was astit; and it had even been insinuated that each had arrived at the conclusion above named before anybo’y thought of them. It is certain that when each requested the prayers of the congregation that the bereave ment might he sanctified, widower Smith iooked pretty steadily over tlu rail of his pew at the seat of widow Jones; and then widow Jones moved her handkercbeif from her pye3 just long enough to see how her companion in bereave ment supported himself. After church they walked beside each otter so far as the roads lay to gether, and once during the next week widower Smith paid widow Jones a short, visit of condolence. So far so good—hut visits of condolence go out of dale like al manacs, and cannot be used as a pretext after a certain season. Some ot.hef arrangement must he trump ed up, and widower Smith was not long in finding it. His wagon slop ed one morning before widow Jones’s door, and he gave the usual country signal that he wanted to see somebody in the house, by droping the reinsand sitting double with his elbows on his knees. Out tripped the widow, lively as a criol e , with a tremondhus black ribboi, on licj show white cap. Good morning was said on both sides, and the widow waited for what was further to be said. “Well, Madam Jones, perhaps you don’t waul to sell one of your cows, nohow, for nothing, anyway, do you?” “Well, there, Mr. Smith you couldn’t have spoken my mind better. A poor lone woman like tne does not know what to do with so many creatures; and I shall be glad to trade if we can fix it.” So they adjourned to the mead ow. Farmer Smith looked at Roan —then at the widow; at Brindlc — then at the widow; at the Down ing cow—and then at the widow again;and soon through the whole forty. The same call was made every day for a week, hut Farmer Smith cold not decide which cow he want ed. At length on Saturday, when widow Jones was in a hurry to get through her baking for Sunday, and had ever -<> much to do in the house—as ail farmers wives and widows have on Saturday— she was a little impatient. Farmer Smith was as irresolute as ever. “That ’ere Downing is a pretty fair creature but ” He stopped to lot k at the wid ow’s face, ar.d then walked around her —not the widow, but the cow. NO. 26. '•That 'cro shorthorn Durham is not a had looking beast, but I duu no Another look at the widow. “The Downing cow I knew iorg before the late Mr. Jones boughs, her.” Here ho sighed at the allusion tor the late Mr. Jones; she sighed, and both looked at each other. It was a very interesting moment. !‘old Iloan is a faithful old milch, and so is Brindle—but 1 have known better.” A long stare succeeded this speech; the pause was getting awK ward, and at last widow Jones broke out: 'Law, Mr. Smith! if I'm, the cow yon want, do say so!” The intentions, of widower Smith and widow Jones were duly publish ed the next day, ns is the law and custom in Massachusetts, and as soon ns they were “out published” they were married. Some of Alex. Stephens’s Jokes oil Himself. ‘get up sonnfy.’ Mr. Stephens tells some amusing incidents of his own experience, ac cording to Mr. Speer, who had brought all the jokes away with him. lie was a delegate to a fa mous political convention at Charleston before the war, and put up at one of the best hotels, kept by an excellent woman. After din ner Mr. Stephen ! went in the par lor and lay down on the sofa. There were quite a number of gen tlemen in the parlor; and the bust ling landlady, looking* ufter too comfort of her guests, camo„in and, seeing his small figure reclining at full length, said to him with a shake by the shoulder, “Get up, sonny, and let some of these grown men sit down on that sofa.” Mr. Stephens said he without a word, but the way the story is told by others, the day afterwards, when he replied to some of the most famous men of the Carolinas and overthrew them in debate, the confusii n of the good landiaby was something wonderful. ANOTHER GOOD ONE. Another time Mr. Stephens was going to Cassville to speak. It was in the heyday of his fame and popularity as a stumper. lie stayed all night witli an old man up in Cass,now Bartow,county. Hedidn’t inquire the name of his host, nor did the host know who the guest was. The next morning, as he told his kind entertainer good bye, the old man told him that ha, would be up in Cassville after awhile—-that ho was going up to hear Stephens—and asked if his. guest had ever seen Mr. Stepheni?.. Mr. Stephens replied “Yes, I have seen him often, and expect to hear him to-day.” The good farmer was very much astonished when later in the day he saw the littlo man, but great comrnower, take the stand,to sustain the fame of per haps the hist orator in the coun try. The Columbus Ka'piirer-Sim saysr The follow ing Incident of the big snow and the wood famine may be of interests to some of your readers, and it is but just l i'lt such acts should be known, A certain poor widow always bought tier wood of a certain old colored man living a few miles from yodr city in Kus-tell county. This mail had but one poor little steer to draw his little fifty cent load, and that steer had been sick and in rather bad orde-, but when the widow sent word to him that had no wood, lie loaded Ids little vehi cle, and that site might not hick for kindling, he put in some bits of ligb wood, which had been stored away I the purpose oi‘ tar, and stalled on ft; errand of mercy. He and the tt ■ • slipped to their knees on the snow tee several times on the way. > ~r town lie was boseiged by people o;; ing him $1.50 for Ids load, win steadily refused until lie reached tin widow’s bouse, who insisted on '.i ■ taking a dollar, but be would ink;- ut fifty cents. This man’s iia.no is I' ter Evans. An ill-looking fellow was a. !;o' how tie could account for Natnr. forming him so ugly. “Nature w;u» not to blame,” Haiti he. ‘ for I was two monthsold, and was considered the handsomest chilti in the neigh borhood, but my nurse, to revenges herself upon my parents f< r some fancied injury at their hat ds, one day swapped vie away ftr another hoy belonging to a friend of hfci v whose child was father p'nin look ing.”