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' Walker County Messenger. VOL. IV. CHAPTER: TRIO?! R. A. CHAPTER. No. 19, meets at Trion on tho Friday nii?ht before the third Sunday in April. May, June, July, August, and Septem ber an 1 On Saturday night before the third Sunday in October, Novemper, December, January, Fobuarv. and March, (!. 0. BRYAN, li. P. G. B. MYERS, Seet'y. ATTORNEYS: J. M. Robertson, Atlorney at Law, and Solicitor in Chancery. CtIATTANooGA, - - TeNM. PR\C!TICR In Hhanonry, Circuit itt.il Httprcni# Court* m* T* , nm , «nti« ami U. Dibiticl Court. |h adjoining count!** ill Uttorgia. Q&- 'lfice in Court House. Robert M. ff,' Glean, Attorney at Law, LaFayette, - - - - Georgia. WILL PRACTICE in the Supi'ilor Courts of the iioiuo ami iiiljtiiiil.l" circuit*. Collections a oprcialiv Office on cor.trr opposite Drujf .-tore. 3 35 3m. John Cuei.am, C. V. tioßii. Phelan & Gorec, Attorneys at Law, Puss Block, 249 Market St., CHATTANOOGA, - - - TENNESSEE W. U, A J. P. Jacoway, Attorneys at Law r , Trenton, - - - - Georgia. I>R \CTICE in the counties of Darin, Walker aim Catoosa, mi l it'ij iii;lr.|;ciuiiitlft*», nnd In tlm Sh |/**iti« and Federal rou.ts A ho, Jackson. I’cKalh an tfClirrtkae, in North Alabnmi, ami »*l>mwhere tijr special eontraet. Special nttniiioti given to the col lection of claims. W,]M. Henry, Attorney at Law, Summer viei. e, - - - - Georgia. WILL practice in the Rome and adjoining Cir cuits. Collections a specialty. J. C. Clements, Attorney at Law, LaFayette, - - Georgia. Wl .L practice in the seweral counties of the Rome and Cherokee Circuits, and the Supreme Court of Ceorgia. F. W. Copeland, Attorney at Law, L Fayette, - - - Georgia. Wif.f. practice in the Superior Courts, of Rome Circuit. Kl*c\vh**n» l*v special ngreement. Col lections a sp.cia ty. (Oltt:c in rear of Culberson's I 4 tore.) 11. P. Lumpkin, Attorney at Law, LaFayette - - Georgia. il.fi rivo prompt u l*iili<>ii to all busiu'es r entrusted to him. ft/- Otlice at Shuford k LutnpKin's store. ■■nnußHHßßßßUßiumhe mt rnr wa®»™a DENTISTS: Dr. Geo. B. Jordan, Resident Dentist, Rising Fawn, - - - - Ga. t iff -rs hi* professional services to the people of linde and Walk r counties. Dental operations per formed in a neat and substantial maimer. All woik wirranted to give pci fed satisfaction. Will make a professional trip through Mcl.e nmres* Cove, on the first of ea» It mouth. Dr.'J. P. Fann, Hlcsident Dentist. Dai.ton, - - - Georgia. It! T A M I’REPA'inn with all tilt ojy lMotWn Improvoinrnis In Dental vi j ‘ f Try to turn out as good work as can be ImU In the State, and at ns low prices as can be doneby anv fi rate lass workman. guarantee all woik turned nut to stand any ltd ill reasonable tests. Special attention given to correcting irregularities in children’s teeth. OT>- Ladies wai'ed on at their residence, when un able to visit the office. A liberal share of patronage solicited. Up stairs on Hamilton street, opposite Na ional Hotel. Will visit LaFavette, Walker Co., at Superior Courts August and February. HOTELS: GOREE HOUSE, J. WITHERS Proprietor, LaFayette, Georgia. r*p!lE above house is thoroughly fur •E- nished and prepared with the very best accommodations, for transient and local custom, and at reasonable prices. Satisfaction guaranteed to those who fa vor it with their patronage. THE ROME HOTEL, Stroud St., Rome, t»a. In Ten Steps or tub Railroad. Alt OMNIBUS NEEDED TOCATED In ih i Principal Businem Square of J the City convenient to the Wharf, tlm thinks and tin* Post Office, and is thoroughly-renovated and r* painted. J-L M. BETEd, Proprietor. NATIONAL HOTEL, J. If. A. LEWIS, Prop’r. Dai.ton, - - - Georgia, This house is a large four-story brick, within a few steps of the Passenger de- BOARD 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. LKWIS, Olferk. «T -A- SSMUBSp —DEALER IN — " Staplo Dry Goods, FANCY AXD FAMILY GROCERIES. All kinds of produce taken in exchange for goods. , . , \Ve keep the best wagon yard in the city, and feed stock at reasonable rates Our yard is free to all during the day (fhattanooQa Advertisements. T. H. PAYNE & CO., Successors 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: \Ye make Picture I'l’.niifs of every inscription and price. • -:o: — The Largest stock ot WALL PAPER in East Tennessee. CRtNfIET Si-In. Tiie best and cheapest in the market at sl.lO, $1.95*#1.30, $1.75, $2.- ©O, 39.50, SB.OO, $8.50, $.7.00 perset. Rase balls nnd bats of every description. Send for Sample and prices T. Bi. PAYNE A C 0., Ciia'l-tanooga, Tenn. A DEVOLUTION A. W. JUDD, Portrait and Landscape PHOTOGRAPHER, has secured the exclusive rivht for the city of Chattanooga to use the WONDERFUL AROTYPE PROCESS- This is the process which has brought about sue 5 ’ a startling revolution in the manner of producing photographic prints. The arotype prints are made with printer’s inks on a common 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 exquisite specimens of the work on exhibition 212JMarkct street. Chattanoo ga, Tenn. lie»poctfhly. A. W. JUDD. el. H. CADY & ;CO., 130 Market Street, CHATTANOOGA,TENNESSEE. -Soii- Keep on hand a full line ot Newspapers and Periodicals, Hooks and Stationery, Whole sale and Detail, Wall Paper, Variety Goods, Wrapping Paper and Paper Hags, School Books. -§o§- Will sell any Book published. If not in stock will order promptly. • -§«§- Call and see tne mo when you come to Chattanooga and get bargains. Til Apurrst and liest Medicino ever Made. AcoHpbination of Hops* Buchu, Man d radio and Dandolion v with all the beat and of all other Bitters, nakeßWthegreatest Blood Purifier, Liver u (V ator, an>l Lifo anil Health Iti ttoriuu A K'O > oonVMOW earth. So disease iwesibly long exist whore Hop Bitters are varied and perfect ar** their Tisy blkmwuVo asl vizer to the ased and iafira. To all whose e%»<» jToymcnts cause lrreffiilari urinary organa, or who rc quire an and mild Stimulant, H*»p Bitt-'ra arc without intox *<V- or symptoms are what the disease or a!lV l,:U ’“ i” U3e Hou Bit ters. Don’t wait until you am ,- e Hick hut if you only feel bad or miserable ,m use them at once. 1 1 may save yourlifc.lt has! aa v © d hundreds. SSOO will be paid for a cal se they wfll not cure or help. Do ait °**®tyoiir I nend Buffer,but use and urjre them% 10 UWJ Hop B JtrrneHiber, nop Blttere is ' drunken nostrum, but the n * M-dlcmeevermwle, the “IXValii>s^^ fk,od and HOPE" and no pereou or je should be them. EMMuA Jm D.I.C. is an absolute and irrcstlblc cum B BA H foi f>ninkcn'>s,u«eof opimn, tobacco and IIMH larcotics. All sold by .Void M r for rircnlar. Hep mitm i/v. I'o., kp Rif J Ib"'!icst<*r,N.Y and Toronto, < HM | LAFAYETTE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, MARC H 3, 1881. “When ?” If I were told that I must die to-mor row, That, the next sun Which sinks should hour he past all fear and sorrow For any one, All the light fought, and the short journey through; What should I do? 1 do not think that l should shrink or falter, But just go on, Doing my work, nor change, nor seek to alter Aught that is gone; But rise and move and love and smile and pray For one more day. And lying down at night for one more sleeping. Say In that ear Which hearkens ever “Lord within thy keeping llow should I fear? And when to-morrow brings Thee nearer still Do thou Thy will.” PROMISE. She came flying down the path, her long black hair streaming be hind her, and her great eves spark ling, the dark, thin, irregular f?at ur. s fairly alive with vivacity. She looked to the very life like the wild little creature of fifteen that she was, but into the face of the beautiful 1 fair-haired girl whom Nell Haviland was coming to meet th'r; flashed such a look of love that a stranger would have known that her girlish sister was very dear to the heart of Alice Ilaviland. The two were orphans, supported hy the industry of Alice, the oldest who was well known in the town as a skillful teacher of music. The younger was entirely a different na ture from the quiet, steady, lovable Alice. The townfolks said that the baptismal of Eleanor was altogether too grand and statclv for such a Itoydenish creature, and eo it had become shortened to the monosyl lable ‘Nell.’ ‘Alice,’ said Nell, ‘you cannot guess what I have done ?’ ‘Something impossible for any one else to do, I presume,’ said her sister, smiling into her eager eyes. ‘I climbed into the oak and tied my handkerchief to the top,’ said the girl, pointing triumphantly to the fluttering white morsel. ‘Did you?’said Alice absentmind edly. ‘Oh, dear!’ said Nell pettishly, 'you don’t hear a word I say. ] guess you are thinking of Goddard Tressel. I wish you were not en gaged to him, Alice for you don’t seem to cure a bit fur me now-a days. ‘Nellie,’ the love in the tones re buked the girl, ‘I shall ever love and cate tor you, darling sister, come what may,’ and putting her arms catTessingly around Nell’s waist, the sisters went into the house. The humble supper was over. — Alice was sitting at the little piano, weaving a sheet of harmony from the ivory keys, when she heard a step on the walk, which summoned her to the front door. ‘Alice!’ and h»r hand lay in the hand of her betrothed, Goddard Tressil. The tall handsome young fellow that stood before her was the heir of'The Cliffs,’ the great mansion, around which lay its extensive farms—‘the best place in the coun try.’ ‘lt is too fine a night to remain in doors Alice. Whatsay you to a row by-moonlight?’ ‘lt would give me much pleas ure,’ she said; and running up stairs for a shawl she paused a moment, and opened the door to Nell’s chamber. The sound of Nell’s low regular breathing satisfied her, and she went down stairs to rejoin her lov er. They walked slowly down the path, drinking in the intense love liness of the night. The moon was at its full. Great golden stars seem ed melting into blue ether, and white weird drifts, like fleets, float ed across the sky. The calm ocean ended theirwalk Each of its waves seemed dipped with a diamond crest, and the re flexes trembled in pearl oral azure, j Assisting Alice into the boo', Tressil pushed out so ns to clear the rhore. The little skill' rocked on the slow, faint swells of the outgo ing tide, and the oarssplashed with a musical rhythm very pleasant to hear. A silence fell over the two. It was broken hy Tressil, ‘Alice, I have somethin* import ant to say to you to-night.’ ‘What is it about ?’ she question ed wonderingly. ‘About —Nell.’ The words were said hesitatingly, as if he was nerv ing himseli for an effort. ‘About Nell!’she repeated in sur prise. ‘Yes; where is she going to live ufter we are married ?’ ‘Going to live? Why, with me of course,’ said Alice wondering what : would come next. ‘lt cannot be, Alice. She must be sent to a boarding school or somewhere else.’ ‘Why, Goddard, wl.nt put that into vo.ir min'd ?’ exclaimed Alice. ‘She would not stay at a hoarding school for one moment. It would kill her to separate us, for I am all she has in the world, and I prom ised mother when she was dying, that I would never leave or forsake the child sister entrusted to my care.’ ‘But, Alice, mother and Isabel said ’ ‘Goddard please tell me precisely what your mother and sister have said, so that I may know just how the matter stands.’ ‘Well they say that they can wel come you, very gladly, as a daugh ter and sister hut they can’t endure the idea of having Nell under the same roof, and she must abide somewhere else. ‘And you—Goddard ?’ said Alice imploringly. ‘What can I do, Alice,’ said lie, in a sort of helpless way that struck a chill to tiie girl’s heari. . ‘So it is a question of decision on my part between you and my sis ter Nell ?’ ‘Yes, Alice.’ Do not blame him too harshly. He had been much harrassed by his pr >ud haughty mother and sis ter concerning this disagreeable sub ject, and man fashion, he thought j that it could be arranged si it.ehow, I so that this troublesome Nell could be seiit quietly out of the way, and j he could et joy the society of the i only woman he ever loved in peace. Alice fought a desperate battle between love and duty. It seemed to her that she could not give up her betrothed for an other’s sake; that she cmtld not throw away her life’s happiness for her youngest sister, hut the stratum of loyalty to duty that ran through her nature like a silver chord, gave her strength. Soil was determined though it was a white face that met Goddard’s it was a reso’rute voice that Raid: ‘Goddard, I have chosen. I cannot leave my sister. He tried to break the decision hy passionate pleading, hut the tones were firm and unshaken as she said, at last. ‘Goddard it would be unjust to say that I do not love you, for you know that I do, but I cannot be false to my charge.’ And they parted —he to walk | home as it pursued by furies think- \ ing bitterly of woman’s obstinacy, j and yet in his secret. heart honoring j the girl who walked so unflinching- [ ly in the path of duty. Alice went up stairs, and bury ing her face in the soft cushions of I an arm chair, with the friendly j darkness around her, nature took j her revenge for the self control of I the last hour. Her eyes throbbed j and burned like balls of (ire; her j heart beat in high surging waves, j but her hand was icy cold that she | p ! aced over her mouth f : fear that J » cry might escape her lips which j would awaken Nell. But despite j all her precaution, there can ea 1 sound of bare feet on the floor, and j a little whur-robed form knelt I **• , , ! down beside, and the dark face w ith its weird eyes peered into hers. “VlialV the matter?’ ‘Why, Nell, I thought \ou were! asleep. Come dear, go back to bed; you w ill catch cold up I ere.’ 1 ‘I don’t want to go. What is the trouble, Alice?’persisted the girl, j And Alice told her all. Nell j kissed her sister passionately, then] clenching her litllo’bruwiYfists, she said fiercely : » ‘1 hate those proud women ! And I will pay ’em back for what they have said, for every word !’ “Hush, dear!' nnd Alice dried her tears hastily. “Nell, I want you to promise me something. Will you darling.’ ‘Anything I’ impetu ously. ‘I want you to promise me, that if it ever lies in your power to do me a favor for any of tho Tressil family 1 may depend upon your ; performance of that favor.’ ‘Oh! Alice! anything, anything, hut that!’ ‘Promise me, Nell’c!’ a ring of de j cision irulitr voire. There was a silence for a few mo ments. Then in subdued tones came the words •• ‘I promise.’ ***** The September" sun, f with its ripening tints of amber, lay warm and golden on the garden walk, and terrace of thecliffs. The waves of tiieocean crept slowly shoreward, drifting into fantastic shapes, and then breaking, scattered the pearly spray far up on’tlie land. *'Anther!' and Isabel Trt ssi! stopped before the open door of the pleasant sitting room. ‘I lost my bracelet down in the cove this afternoon, and I did not notice that it had slipped off until I got home. I must go and re cover it before the tide comes in.” ‘Cannot Goddard go for you?' said her m> ther. ‘I don’t know whore he is.” ‘Very well, he careful about tho tide,’said the mother, anxiously. ‘1 will lie careful,’ said Isabel, confidently. She went down to the foot of tho cliffs, winch gave her home its name, hy a broad, gently sloping path. Then her path lay along the sands to ihe cove. Two long, parallel walls of rock rnadeoff from the shore, and during h’gh tide the little cove thus formed was a mass of tossing foam, but now it was a long, narrow stretch of sand. Isa bel Tressil I at length reached the I •cove end began to search for the ! missing bracelet. It was a preseant. | from Goddard, and she valued it [ very highly. She was about giving it up for lost, when suddenly she caught sight of it, almost bidder hy a mass sea-wi ed. Isabel caught the bracelet up ha tiiy and turned to go, saying to herself; “I must hurry or he caught by the tide.” At the thought her eyes turned towafds the termination of tiie point ar(fund which she had to go Her heart almost froze with borrow at the sight (hat met her gaze. The wives curled at tho f.iot of the point, soft as ‘carded wool.’ ***** ‘•Help! help!” The cry sounded faintly above the heating of (he tide on tin rocks nnd reached the ear of Nell Ilavi land, who stood watching the waves as they slonly encroached upon the sand. “Some one in the cove,” said the girl, and, running along Ihe edge of the cliffs, she hi lit over the preci pice. She saw a woman, evidently half dead with terror, crouching at the foot of the cliff. “She will he washed away before I can get help. I tnlist help her my self,’said Nell to herself. There was an 1 1 most impercep'i ble path dotvn the prt cipitious wall. Though she was ns metl to climb ing as a goat, Nell found It no easy taMi to d> s< end. w ricn she had nearly arrived at the base she called "You must climb up this put! ; I will show yotv lioiv,” The woman, who lmd not heard I Nell before, turned at the sound | of her voice, and Nell Haviland j stood face to lace with Isabel l Tressil. ‘‘Oh, Nell, dear Nell, save me!" I she cried, clasping her hands im- I ploringly. A vow registered itself in N< UV \ soul. "I will /jeep my promise if 1 j drown." “Tn/.e lu,ld of that little hush.” site said, “and put your foot there,’’ j pointing to a little preject ng stone. ! Isabel's terror caused her to | catch tit the guiding band instead of jthc seemingly insecure bush, and her excess of weight caused Nell te fall downwards. A stone dislodged struck Nell’s foot, and to her dismay shi j’fouml that she could not walk a step. She braced heiself against tho wall and urged Isabel to attempt to scale the cliff. She tried in vain. The unused muscles refused to pealbrm their task. Then, with the cold, crawl ing waves around them, they screamed in unison. No answer. At last with a groan of utter despair, Isabel gave it up. “Nell, it is of no use; we have got to drown. But I cannot, can not die! Oil, God, liavj mere)!" and, in an nhnndonmei t of agony, she buried her face on Nell’s shoulder. Tho words of a grand old hymn she had often heard Alice sing came to Nell’s mind. Nell put Iter arm iirmird the trembling form of the terror stricken woman, and then the strong, voting voice sang out clear and sweet as a tingle call, flinging a grand defiance into the very face of death: “Jesus, lover of my soul, l.ot me to Tliy bosom lly.” The cold spray struck the tiraye voung singer harshly in the face, as if to stop utterance, hut the next s< com! the words: “While Hie billows near me roll, While the tempest still is high,” floated over the water. Strength came back to Isabel; her vuici joined Nell’s and steadfastly they awaited the ne i ingly inevitable. “Godda'ill” Tiie mix ous faced! his mother startled him as hr entered the hall. l 'D )gn and look for Isabel. She went down to tin cove and has not returned.” He waited to hear no more, hut in a moment was running in the direction of the cove. limb ! Aboviithe roar of the surge, steady and clear, sounded the death song: “Oil, receive my soul at last.” lie reached the cove and com menced descending the path at a 1 break-iiick speed as his Inmified gaze discerned two women at tin foot. They both looked up as lu cti lied; ‘Hold on for one moment.’ The pots 'bilily of leirgtaved took away Isabel TressilVstrength, and her horrifi (1 brother saw her fall forward into the embrace ol the foam-crested wave that jttsl swept up. But no. The pale face of Nell Ilaviland gleamed from the water, and the almost exhausted vuice said: ‘Tufce her, quid!’ Tressil snatched the senseles.- fortn of his si.-ter, and groaned aloud: “Oil, God! must I leave you to be drowned, Nell?’ ‘You cannot ln/je us both. Tel! Alice Unit 1 /jept my promise,’ and Nell turned her Gee away to watch with a curious sort of expectancy tl.e gigantic billow slowly crawling toward her. It swept over her. and then elm felt herself lifted up tfnd borne off; but to the benumbed stnse of heard g seemed a* if an agoniz 'd video called: 'Nell, my darling!’ Then dal /mess—not h bigness. Was it Providence that called Alice llaviliitid to the cliffs at that moment? But s'm bent over them just as Goddard Tressil began his aseent Wluit was that object buried almost in the water below him? She recognized it. 0;ilv an ungel could have steadied the feet of the light figure Hint swung ilself by Goddard and his burden. She reached the end of the path just as the wave bore away the form of her sister, and a gre; t cry broke from her lips: ‘Ni !l, my darling!' The covetous wave dashed the helpless body at her feet, and then strove to bear away two victims. But the soft arms of Alice Ilavi land seemed to have been endowed with the strength of cast-iron, for seizing Ntll in a strung embrace she fought the billows until they slmm/j away conquered by the power of line. Soon Goddard relieved her, and how, she never /mew, she reached the top of the cliffs, hut when there unconsciousness over took her. NO. 31. Slowly Alice drifted Luck to life. She found herself in a large, picas ant clmniher. •Where mn I?’she questioned. Oiiddard bent over her. ‘Von are at-the cliffs,’ he an swered. Recollection came bacK, and she said: ‘‘Where is my sister? I must go to her.’ "She is doing well, and mother is dividing her time between Isabel and sister Nellie; that is,” he added imploringly, ‘ she will be my sister if yon can ever forgive my coward ness of three months ago-” If we failed to surmise Alice’s answer, the wedding bells that rang so merrily six months after wards would have t Id us whether she refused to forgive him or not. There is a man wandering in Trinity bottom near Dallas, Texas, personating Christ. His nnme is unknown, hut he is sometimes seen wearing a genuine crown of thorns, flowing robes and sandals of plunk upon bis feet. He took to the woods out of a nest of Santifioa tii ni t‘ in Dallas and bilitves that he is performing heaven’s work in this world. The religious coterie of Sanctilicationists is made up of several simple minded men and women, who claim to be the holy family, descended again to the earth, to prepare mankind for the end which, according to their reve lations, is in the near future. They do not, so not so they say, eat food of the earth earthly, hut profess to he fed by invisible hands- They also claim to hear celestial lunec played on golden harps, end the voice of unnumbered angels etirnnl’y singing around the In-one. While they are visible on earth they live in heaven and their p ospiet for-, merry Christinas are brilliant. The people of Dallas are gr atlv interested in this holy fam ily and vi.-it them in droves, alter having driven them a little way out of '.own. — Waldron (Ark} Re porter. From parties living in Murray county, we learn that two men named Mt Entire and Orr, got into a dis, ute last week, which finally resulted in MiEntire killing Orr. The scence of the mur ler was at a distillery among the Cohuttah mountains in the upper end of Murray county and near the Gil mer line. The affair was very quiet, but withal enjoyable to the highest de gree. We refer to the nuptials of Mr. W, T. Jones and Miss Fannie Lassater, which occurred last Thursday, Rev. A. W. Gaston per f jrining the ceremony. Our thanks are due the happy couple lor a supply of delicious wedding cake. Here’s our best wishes, and ‘‘may they live long and prosper." — North Georgia Citizen. Galveston, February 10. —The News’ special says that seven American prisoners in jail at Paso Del Norte, Mexico, made a break this morning, shooting tho guaid dead and tunning toward the' American line, but were overtaken by guards, who fired upon them. The prisoners Lott g armed, return ed the (ire. Tone prisoners were killed, uud the others surrendered. Ttvoguards were seriously wounded The prisoners heard last night that they were to be taken to Chihuahua to.day, which, they beleived, meant 10 be simt. on the road. Ilence the attempt to escape. A clergy moo in Pennsylvania noted for bis line education and el oquence recently was attacked with brain fever. He recovered but had forgotten everlhing; could not'even read, lie is now studying the spell ing book. His name is liev. Mar cus Osmond, of Rushville, Penn. - A bosom friend —the liver pad. —[Lowell citizen. If that’s wher you wear your liver pad, you're as good as a goner.’ N > man’s liver can climb into his bosom even to receive the hem fits of a pad —Acta Ha ccn Register. The grand liable of the Kuighl’s of Honor in Georgia will neet in S..vau niili in Hiiiiu.il sgsiion in April.