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MXT'iram erf, straEWR. The Inst freeze was damaging to the remains of the fruit crop. Tennessee will pay her debt in full, with three percent interest. An earthquake in Ohio Island destroyed S.COJ lives That great Jew, Beaconsfield, bos been dangerously ill, but is better. Gout and asthma. Printup and Branham have been employed by the depositors of the Bank of Rome to look after their interests. One of the prominent Georgia editors, Jewell G. DeVotie of the Columbus Enquirer-Sun, died April 4th. On Tuesday th<s sth a backing train on the Western & Atlantic railroad, Chattanooga, demolished a wagon. Driver and driven es caped. Loughbridge, the colored lawyer from Dalton, was not a silent mem ber at the present term of the Rome Court. As attorney he had the floor. A surveying party to locate the ship canal across Florida has left Jacksonville. It will pass through the Everglades. The capital of the company is $30,000,000. The State Treasurer, Speer, has been in Rome to look after the frag ments of the Bank. The State claims a preferred lien which will claims the depositors will resist. Two miles below Rome, lying on top of a pile ol driftwood, the body of Dick Griffith, the miesing man, was found. A S2O gold piece was on his person. No marks of vio lence. At the Foster place on the Coosa below Rome, where as much as five acres in one place of the surface was cut away by the current, a great many Indian bones and relies were uncovered. , Some of the beads were as large as hickory nuts. Up or.e side and down the other. In the late elections the Republi cans carry St. Louis, a surprise, while the Democrats recapture Columbus, Ohio, carry Chicago, and elect their ticket iu Omaha, Nebraska. Cockling, the leading Republican of New York, lias fallen out with the administration on aec mnt of the nomination of Robertson for tfie important position of Collector for New York city. The papers are trying to furnish Garfield an un limited supply of backbone. The Cotton Exposition, in Atlanta, this fall, under ttie Presidency of 11. I. Kimball, has become a cer tainty. Its aim is to enlighten all, who are interested in cotton, upon every process connected with itfrom the cradle to the grave, from the seed to the fabric. This section should send many an inspector. Tiro Bank of Rome has suspend ed with liabilities amounting to over $200,000. Private depositors have at stake $28,000, stockholders $50,000 and the State $53,000. 'i he claim of the President, C. G. Samuels, is that the Bank had ad vanced on cotton, which was after wards damaged by the overflow, and could not be shipped. Hence the suspension. But if this should not he true, and he has abused his trust by using the funds of the bank for private purposes without proper security, then he is crimi nally to blame. No man lias here tofore stood higher than its Presi dent. The Senate has been ir> execu tive session since March 4th. Their business is to pass upon nomina tions made by the President and to make treaties. But there’s a little scrap of a Brigadier from Virginia, named Mahone, whose presence has changed the programme. The line Democrats of Virginia were in favor of cutting down the debt one-third, as Virginia by the taking off of West Virginia, had lost a third of its territory and population. Ma hone’s party, the Readjusters, be lieved in a heavier, but different scalp. The Republicans had out a candidate, hut in the three-sided race for Senator, Mahone went in. Had Mahone, in the Senate, sided with the Democrats, they would have been in the majority and would have controlled the commit tees. But the little man, by going over, gave the Republicans the lead and they are trying to use it to put in new officers. Whenever the chance is given, the Democrats turn loose on Mahone and he kicks back. To prevent the Republicans flora carrying their point, the Democrats resort to flllibustefing, or motions which consume time, Things are at a dead-lock. Walker County Messenger. VOL. IV. Katie's Answer-. * Oeh, Katie’s a rogue, it is three, Cut her eyes, like the sky, are so blue, An’ her dimples so-swate, Ail’ her ankles so mite. She dazed, an’ she bothered me. too Till one niornln’ we wtnt for a ride, Whin, demure ns a bride, by my side. The dnrlint, she sat, Wid the wickedest lint, ’Neath a party girl’s chin iver tied* An’ 1113’ heart, arrah, thin how it bate! For Kale looked so temptin’ an’ swate, Wid cheeks like the roses, An' nil the red posies That grow in her garden sonale. But I sat just as mute as the dead. 't ill she said, wid a toss of her head, “If I’d known that to-day, You’d have nothing to say. I’d have gone with my cousin instead.’ Thin I felt myself grow very bowld, For I knew she’d not scold if I towld, Uv tlie love in my heart, That would never depart, Though I live to be wrinkled and old. An’ I said: “If I dared to do so, .I’d lit go uv the baste, and throw, Botli arms round your waist, An’ he stalin’ a taste, Uv them lips that are coaxin’ me so.” Then she blushed a most litigant red, As she said, widout raising her head, An’ her eyes lookindowb, ’Neath her lashes so brown, “Would you have me to drive, Misther Ted?” A FALL FOR LIFE. The merchant ship Druid, from Bombay for London, lay becalmed off the west coast of Hlndostnn. ‘lf the wind does not rise before tomorrow morning we will have to anchor,’ said the captain to Robt. Winfield, a handsome young naval lieutenant on leave ofabscence from the frigate stationed at Bombay. ‘I don’t want to lay the ship’s bones ripen the coast, nor do I like to get too near it. I have heard bad stories of the natives there. Bell Uptor., daughter of Major Upton, who was on his way home from his India regiment, on sick leave; heard the words, and, shud dering, drew closer to her invalid father. A quick glance was exchanged between her and the young naval lieutenant, whose reassuring look seen ed at tnce to dsp 1 her fears. Major Upton, noticing the glance, frowning, said to his daughter, ‘Come, Bell, let us go below.’ Winfield had been a suitor of Bell’s since she came to visit her fa tiler at Bombay, some months be fore. The girl favored him, hut not ro the Major, who wanted her to choose a wealthy lover. Bell was beautiful, with a form of unrivaled grace, brown eyes, a clear, pearl white skin, with little color, and dark golden hair that fell in ripling masses over a pair of magnificent shoulders. The lieu tenant watched her admiringly until she disappeared in the cabin. ‘No harm shall befall her, not while I live,’ he thought, ns he now glanced uneasily towards the coast. ’We have arms aboard, have we not?’ lie added aloud to the cap tain. ‘Ay, ay, sir; but it is not likely that we will be attacked. We are full two leagues from the coast, and before we are near enough to he boarded a breeze will spring up, I have no doubt.’ A few hours later night closed around the ship. The sky was covered by thick clouds which ob scured the moon and seemed to be token that a breeze would spring up before long. Meanwhile the ship having drift ed a league nearer the coast, the lieutenant thought the capiain very careless not to have more than this one lookout post furward oil so dark a night. Before eleven o’clock the quarter deck was deserted by all save the officer of the watch, a lazy fellow who was now. stretched on the car penter’s chest, half asleep, while the watch forward, as Winfield (who stood looking over the rail amidships) could perceive by the light ot a lantern in the fore rigging, lay reclining on the hatch, some of them snoring. Not feeling sleepy, the lieu tenant resolved to go aloft on the LAFAYETTE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1881, mizzen topsail yard and watch for the first Bign of a breeze. Arrived on the yard, the gloom was so in tense that be could not see the wa ters below, altough he still gazed in that direction. Was it reality or imagination? He thought he could detect the dim outline of something shooting around the ships stern. He was about descending, when, the moon parting the clouds, a flood of silvery light was poured down on the ship and water, re vealing a sight that filled the young man with horror—a scene so sud den and unexpected that his heart seemed to stand still. While lie was aloft Bell Upton had cotue out on the quarter deck, and now stood with her hack to the rail, about two feet froimit her head bowed as if in deep thought, so that her beautiful white face t-hoen like polished ivory in the bright moonlight. Then unseen, unheard by the young girl, a Hin doo, with a long lithe body, naked to the waist, had clambered up the side from a large canoe containing a half a dozen of his companions, and had contrived to glide, serpent like, on the outside of the ship un til he had gained a position direct ly behind her, when he drew a large dirk, which he was now on the point of plunging into the snowy neck of the fair passenger, that she might not give an alarm 1 The lieutenant’s hand clenched the yard like a vise, as he beheld the young lady’s peril. He must save her —he would save her he thought; yet, how was it to be done? To give alarm would only hasten the girl’s doom; to descend,no mat ter how quickly, by means of one of the backstays, would be of no use, as she must perish before he could reach the deck and attempt to stay the deadly hand. There was no time to lose. In three seconds the dirk would de scend, and the girl would be kill ed at one stroke; so that the mur derer’s companions, who Lad al ready begun to ascend the vessel’s side, could pounce on the male oc cupants of the deck, and, slaying them, make themselves masters of the ship almost before a warning could be given. Like a lightning flash, the in stinct of love, the resolution to save Bell in some way trorn his imme diate attack, sent a sudden thought through the brain of the agonized spectator. The Hindoo murderer, in his po sition on the outside of the ship, was under the yard, although about forty feet below him, while the giri, standing two feet from the rail, wus within easy reach of the native, whose arm and lady, as already stated, were drawn back from the bulwarks to give force to the blow. The young man, therefore, deemed it would be an easy matter to reach the Hindoo in the only way it could tie done with suffi cient rapidity to prevent the ac complishment of his deadly pur pose —away at once novel and des perate, and which would, perhaps, involve his own destruction. In a word, not hesitating to risk life or limb for the woman he loved. Lieutenant Winfield resolved to drop down from near the mizzen topsail yard upon the Hindoo, for ty feet below, and dash him from the rail into the sea, perhaps kill ing himself, ere he could deal the fatal blow with the uplifted dirk. He would utter a shrill cry—a war ning to the crew—as lie cleaved the air, thus rousing them,perhaps, in time to meet the attack of the robbers, and ensure the further safety of Bell and the ship. The emergency admitted of no delay. The young man, clutching the yard-arm near the end, hung by it a second to make sure he was in a line with the Hindoo beneath, then, just as the dirk was about to descend, he let go of the spar with a long wild cry that p’eroed every corner of the ship, and down he went, cleaving through the air with terrible velocity. There w.va whirl ing, rushing sound then a loud thud as the heavy boot-heels of the fall ing body crushed upon the head of the native ere he could use his knife, dashing him from the rail into the sea, and killing him in stantly. The watch heard the warning cry of the lieutenant, atui before the natives could recover from their surprise ut the occurrence which had so suddenly ami unexpectedly hroken upon them, the decks were alive with the whole crew, and the entire gang of robbers beat a hasty retreat. Meanwhile 801 l Upton had been so bewildered by that sudden, fear ful cry she had heard, and the sub sequent splash ot the bodies in the water, that not until the boat was lowered and the lieutenant, who had been struggling in the sea, was brought aboard and into the cabin, to explain in a faint voice how In* had saved her life, did she clearly comprehend all that} had hap pened. Then she threw herself down by the prostrate form of her lover, and lnir.g over him in agony, f >aring that he was fatally injured. Soon, however, the doctor gave chering information to the contra ry- The young man had sustained a fearful shock from his contact with the Hindoo's body, but as that body had offered little resistance to his downward progress when lie struck it, being simply driven be fore him into the sea, his lower limbs, although partially paralyzed for the time, were not broken. lie had, however, fallen dangerously near to theraii. A roll of the ship to the other side, ere he could let go of the topsail yard to descend, would have caused him to fall on the bulwarks, when, of course, he would have been killed. ‘N-iver before,’ said the doctor, did I hear of such a daring per formance.’ ‘Ay!’ exclaimed Major Upton, God bless him 1 Mere, Bell, he shall have you, girl; he has earned you.’ He put both hands rtf liia daughter in the lieutenant’s, and turned his head away to hide a few tears upon his bronzed cheek. Immediately after the voting man had been brought aboard, an off-shore breeze sprang up, enabling the captain to head seaward. In due time the vessel reached her home port, when the lieutenant, who by this time had fully recov ered from the c-ff cts of Isis fall, claimed his beautiful a;.d willing bride. Isro. Warduer’s Lime-Kiln Clnb. ‘Drant be too good,’ said the old man, as lie crossed his hands under his coat-tails. 'I advise you to be good, but not goody-good. When a man reaches a part in line of good ness he Will have de respect an’ esteem of all who meet him; orfuns will bless hitn nn’widdera will pray fur him. When he crosses ober dat, line lie will pray fur de poo’ wid one hand an’ lend money at 15 per ceir* wid de odder. He will shed tears fur his naybur’s woes, but. leave six inches of snow on his sidewalk furde public to wade frevvi His chin will quiver when lie men tions de poo’ heathen in Airica, but his own hoys play base ball in de alley on Sunday. He will weep oberde mod of mo’orfuns asylums, but he won’t put. down a shilling in money. He will talk charity by de hour, and charge a hoy 50 cents for breakin a two s’ illin pane ol | glass. I doant want nuffin to do wid a too good man. When a man is wicked, I no how to take him. When I no him to bes goody-goody man my only safety am to let him alone. When you meet a man who am distressed ober de ginera! wickedness el de world doant von lend him any money without pood security. When you meet a man who says ‘ah’ an ‘urn’ an rubs his hands together and tolls up his eyes, doant cfiallengo him to trade horses. Find me a man who weeps becase de world liuin t better, an I will show you a man who makes his awn home unhappy. “It am de belief of a man who has put in 02 y’ars of life on dis planet dal it uni wuss to be too : g.iod dan it is to be too bad. De iaw will soon gel hold of de too | bad, but de too good can’t be cotoht. ! My soit of a good man am one dat respects de church, but am not canid away wid it, who will give dollars to his poo nayhurs, but not a cent to de heathen, who never sees de need of reform widout re formin’ his own habits to be begin wid, who borrows money in a busi- ness way an lends money on de i same plain, w ho speaks wi ll of teli gion, but who bates de hypocrite. Gin me a man who pays his debts I speaks ile (rut in his ilcalius, lets whisky alone, uses his latnily light an takes de side of ile old an poo, nn de young and weak in de battle of life, an I doan kcer what his religious faith urn, nr whither he has any at all. Ue’o de man to tie to, and it he doant reach Ilenhen all odder sorts o’ men will stand a mighty stim show.’ — Detroit Free l\m. Translated Scraps* in ,r. j. s-. “Whenever I find n girl who Ims ! the A B O’- combined in her, I will make her my bride,” said a young man who was bantered about his remaining single ao long. ‘ And what is combining tiie A 1 B C.i,” said his friend. “Well, she mini possess amiabil ity, beauty, charity, devotedi-ess, energy, fidelity, giuce, honesty, intelligence, judgment, knowledge, love, means, neatness, obedience, patience, quietness, reason,soft tem per, truthfulness, understanding, virtue, wisdom, youth, and zeal to become tny wife.” J Teacher—“ Suppose you can get j two apples for two cents, but you have five cents and spend the whole of it, what do you get then?” Boy—“ I’ll get a flogging at home.” Star Gazing.— A number of Indies visiting nn observatory, each in turn applied their eye to the monster telescope, exclaiming, “Oh isn’t that grand!” “supurb!” “hea venly!" “wonderful!” ‘ Now ladies, if you please, I will remove the cap from the end of the instrument, and it will be ready for observations,” said the profes sor. Housekeeper—“ Tut! tut! why are you making a noise as if you were tearing -Jown the house; you possess great assurance for a beg gar ” Beggar—“ Excuse me, madam, I thought there was nobody at home. Very Domestic. Meyer—“ Well Levy, is you wife very domestic in her habits?" Levi —“Oh, she is ut home in every accomplishment. In music, in literature, in art; in short she is at home ii. everything.” Meyer—“ls she iu now?” Levi —“Dear me,no. That’s just the place Where she is least at home.” Bound to Dm-Tcu. “Have you seen the two wonderful dwarfs y ct?” “Oh, ves, but they are nothing extraordinary. 1 have seen much larger ones.” Sharp. ■ ‘What kind of bo tied beer have you?’ ‘Well, my No. 1 is very good, but ladies will not drink it, because, as they insist, it is too hitter. Mv No. 2 is excellent and they are very fond of it, and I am sure it will please your good lail.y.’ ‘Well, send me one dozon No, ] as a sample.’ Good for Weak Eyes. ‘Doctor, I fear my daughter is going blind, and she is just about being married, too.” Doctor—‘Let her get married, by all means, for if there is anything that can open her eyes, it is getting married.’ Waiter girl (to theentering guest) —‘What will you have,sir?’ Guest —‘A kiss from you, my fair one.’ "Warier girl—“ You can’t have that, sir.’ Guest —‘Well, then, uiye me a ham sandwich; it’s ail the same.” Seprration gives pain, anil yet many lawyers live by separation suite, ar.d it don’t seem to give them pain either. One of our exchanges lately con tained the fnllowing: ‘lf Charles Frankei berg* r wril come to, or ad dress No. 2‘d Paradise street. Liver-1 pool, he will hear Femetiling V :ry j cheering.’ Pis wif- was dead. Daughter— Mother, send for_our j doctor’s assistant, l have pal pita- 1 ! tion of the heart.’ Mother—‘Oh, that will pass off again without a doctor.’ Daughter—Yes, but it’s so te-j dious.’— Courunt. NO. 37. Badly April-fooled. I One of the bad boys of Home’ (there area few Midi in the city) y» sturdy : “unrated” the following April fool 1 1 incident to us: j He und several congenial spirits seeing an old campaigner, In whisky drinking, come staggering j down the street, imu edi.itily fixed 1 1 up an April fool on the old chap. { “Hollo, friend,"one of them remark ed, "wouldn’t you like to have a drink this morning?’ Old Tope ac knowledged that his liking strongly leaned in that direction. ‘We'll come in here — we've got a new kind of wine—one of the best you ever tasted.” And leading the be fuddled old gent into the saloon, they handed him a glass of pure water, telling him to shut Ilia eyes, and drink it down, and see if he couldn't tell from the taste, what kind of wine ’twas. The old man swallowed the beverage, smneke s bis lips, looked thoughtful, as if vainly trying 10 remember a for gotten name —just as you’ve seen a person meet an old, old friend, whose face he knew, hut couldn’t recall his name—and then quietly remarked. It’s the best wine I ever drank in my life. Tears to me, I’v tast ed it sometime before in my life, but that’s been long ago, when I was able to buy the best brands . of wines. It’s mity good, and it lias a sort of old taste ’bout it.’ As ridiculous as the above may seein to some, there’s a vein of pathos running through, and a lesson taught by it. — Rome Rulldin , Unfortunates. ’ Some time ago a man who owned -e house and lot wished to change his place of rigidence. He annoue ' ed that bis house was for sale. The i house was soon sold for eight hun dred dollars. As lie w ished to look about awhile before purcliashing another home, he deposited his eight hundred dollars in the IS ink of Rome, until he could find a house that suited him. In the mean while the hank failed and left him w ithout home or money. A man had bought a faun from Mrs. Doason—one of the suriiiet on the Bank of Rome bond—for which he was to pay three thou sand dollars, at the rate of or>e thou sand a year. lie had made one payment of a thousand dollars when the crash came. lie now loses his thousand dollars and also his land —the latter having been levied on hy the sheriff to satisfy a li fa., against the securit»s of the Bank of Rome. — Rome Ilulldbi. Scream. Yesterday Gilhooly visited a fashionable tor.sorbd arena on Gal veston avenue for the purpose of getting shaved. The razor was dull and the barber had heyn at the Sons of Zion temperance meeting the previous night. The result was that several chips were sliced off Gilhooly’s upper lip, and there was an ugly cut made on his chin, j ‘Can you give me a glass if water?’ asked Gilhooly. "Certainly, sir. Do you feel faint? said the barber, as lie handed the patient a shaving mug fu'l of ice water. “No" no,’ replif d Gilhooly, “1 just want to find out if my mouth leaks.” aCE * A Grand Reputation. Warner’s Safe Kidney and Liver Cure has reached a reputation that j is not limited hy the confines of section or country. There are no j injurious substances nor false and temporary stimulants in the prepa ration. It is purely vegetable and : compounded under a formula that lias passed severe tests and won endorsements from some of the highest medical talent ill the i country. —New York World. - Profit, lit 1,200. ‘To sum it up, six long years | bedridden sickness, costing 8200 | per year, total gl,2oo—all of this j expense pas stopped by three bi t ! ties of Hop Bitters, taken hy my j wife. She has done her own house work for a year since, without the j loss of a day and I want everybody jto know it fur their benefit."—JY. 1 E Farmtr. The true wea'th ot ty lies in the impgriff****™——■ sens, and its chief from the possession 01 truo men. A Troy lawyer asked a •ICS II i n the witness stand her age, ■R Em | die promptly replied: l I sold mire j for you to drink when you were a j tiuby, and I haven’t got my pay j yet.’ There is nothing that makes life sweeter, nothing that give one more encouragement in the midst of hard work, than a loyal friendship. It is that makes it a meanness un speakably huso to put on the dis guises of friendship in order the hcl'.e to serve personal ends. “At the recoi t opening of tiib Nevada Legislature an Eastern minister was invited to perform the religious service. He accepted the call and closed the ceremony with the Lord’s | layer. When !.e had finished State Senator Doolan said to Senator Ilammond,audibly: ‘He s ole that prayer, and I’ll hot on it. j I heard it almost word for word in Eureka nt a funeral over ten years ago.’ ’’—Sun Francisco Star. Red ns a Rose Is She. Several gentlemen were standing on the corner of Galveston avenue, when one of t' e most fashionable ladies of Galveston passed on the side walk. ‘Ah !' exclaimed ono of tho gen tleman, ‘what a complexion 1 there is nothing to beat i in Galveston. I am proud of that woman, I am.* ‘Are you her husband ?’ asked a stranger. ‘No, sir.’ ‘Her fatlirr, then ?’ ‘No, sir; I am no relation of hers; hut I am proud of her complexion I am the druggist that sold it to ter. I make it myself .'—Galveston hem. A Rahy Carnage in th* llitll, A baby carriage in the hall. The happiest piece of furniture that any house can boast, always making an honorable exception ia favor of the cradle. That baby carriage means a home. Without it only a place to stay in. It means a “dear little dimpled darling"—that makes sunshine ail the time—when it hasn’t got tho colic. It means a happy mother, whoso life is filled with all tender care, all sweet n sponsihiiites, all wonderful hope for the future. Ji o,' ahs a fstlur who holds his head up among men with the grandest dignity that any man may know. To no.ther it is “Baby.’ To fuiiier it “Aly boy.’’ Ttiat Oaliy cariiage in the hall means all Hie wealth of rosy hours ss n'-otlier sings lullaby songs -per Imps, •11 toll my ileal - , lie still and si amber, llo'y angels guard tliy bed.” When all the time she is tho angel that God appointed to guard it, us none of ail high heavens host could do. It meui Bft world of plans and projects which all center in that m e iittle life. it means u father that studies his built: balance with wonderful diligence, for “My son must have a good start in life,” you know. And he goes home and catches the laughing toddler up and red. dens the dimples with his whiskers, and then putting sturdv little twelve month’s old on his sees, sets him at his a, b, cos walking, ad dressing him with comical dignity •Well, Governor, where shall wego now?” And although he only calls him “Goverior.’ the mothers heart says —and the father wouldn’t denv it were she to put it in words—that more likely it will be President, in that dim, beautiful and eertainly very grand future. Her choice, though, would be that he should he a good man and a happy one. Between them both they parcel out for his manhood’s years all that makes life worth the living. That baby carriage in the hall means a goog deal, does it not? It means everything to the father and mother. It means more than can he told. If you lnivo sucli a piece of fur niture in use you know all ibiut it. If you havn't it’s ft waste of raw material to bother with you.— Wheeling. Longstreet will be marshal of Georgia.