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324 and 32® Perrl St., New York, *T BEND FOK CIRCULAR. I»« unrivaled organ* Oq the KAPT PAYMENT mrwtem, from •** per month tm. 100 styles, *23 to *9OO. BeudforC/ alogue with hdl particular*, mailed free. UPRICHT PIANOS, Cbnatructed on the new method of strlnultogk fimiUr tenus. Send for descriptive Catalogue. I MASON & HAMLIN ORGAN AND PIANO CO , Boston, Now York, Chicago. _ MRS. JANE WEAVER, 18 EAST EHJBTH STREET, - CHAMMOOIU, FASHIONABLE MID DPSSipm^ NOTIONS AND NOVELTIES. MATERIALS FOR All KINDS OF EMBhOIDERT, m i Jill —^ HiSN HV . .-—Wholesale and Retai Ocokstller ail Music Desk tssareggerr- p'. 1 .«>» Shades Klc. Also A*«»l tor iiTTlii! „ ,ATfmtoj.nlv» MBcßmjlßoyli. when charges amount »6 00BOX 4Pi. -—^rr=r—. l^r H.p. LUMPKIN F. WALTON, Napier, Lumpkin l Wahon, real estate agents. Bt* AKBISBIIFAKnIM! AXD ..IMEBAL ill din ing tbr next ao’days offer some OF THE FIHEBT LASBS IS ™ IS DO YOU WANT A FARM? IF SO WE CAN SUIT YOU. 00 YOU WANT TO SELL? IF YOU 09 WE CAN MAKE A SALE. TVrite XJ® Now! i Napier. Lumpkin & Walton. LaFayette Ga l i . in. ...1...1. ' Stock! i Addles ! harne!|| g | Their I nterest to Orclei* "jaTip^Y^ sc c<>., " - Tennessee. thatta 00g^ BBERB retailers in Beds, Mrosrj, Wall Papa PICTURE FRAMES AND MOULDINGS. ..k. n u and buvers generally will find cat f r,bt largest and most complete in the state, a u< 2 l«s box'om ol Wall paper ma.led wfccu desired* _ PAYNE, 6r CO. 823 Market street, Gbattanooa, Tennesw Walker County Messenger. VOL, X. LAFAYETTE, GEORGIA. YVEDNESDAY, APRIL 27 1887. “ COMMUmOAIED. ON ST.JOHN'S RIVER. Will you be so kind as to allow me space (or a short letter from Fa. in our columns. Again 1 am at the fast growing city of Jack sonville, Fla. I left home on the mcning of the sixth; arrived In re on the 7th, at 7:35, p m.,amidst the roaring of boats and steam car whistles, with loud yells from drummers for the best hotel and boarding houso in the city which a most deafens one's ears, or doses one to hear that’s deaf. Thi - city is composed mostly of Northerners with much wealth, and business is on a large boom. I came down so quick from the valleys and mountains with their frosts and freezes, that 1 could hudly realize the distance of over lour hundred miles. Yet when I find every thing green in its full ness, with most all kinds ot vege tables it makes it like the land of summer, with nice showers. Now here comes the ice peddler, dealing it out to mix w ith the impel feet water. Every sweet has its bit ter. I must tell you of the wharf down there among the boats both gteani anu sail Many were load ed with vegetables and most all kinds ol friuts known to the world, just arriving from the islands and lands where the frosts and winters are unknown, here to deal out the sweetest fruits to the mixed multi tude of the traveling word. Yet no one satisfied with the fullness o' all. There is a great move back north this spen d summer. This is ol.e way our sourtlmrn land is going into the hands of northern capitalists. No one has the remotest idea of the of our lovely southern lands that are going, and fast going into the H inds of the so called loan associ ations. No one, nor newspapers could have told me of the amount, only from the hundreds of agents I have met with in my travels hrougli Georgia and Florida fo il ve months past. I fear it’s rap id y increasing. Is.there no liel] lor remedy? It appears like n onsuining fire destined to leave th usands homeless without a hope. When traveling down through the low, flat, wet, p:ney .vooos of Georgia and V orida, w’a re the scrub palm leaf, and gall berry grows, just here one an c mmcnce putting a value on i North Georgia home,yet through dee many good people live, 1 nave often met numbers of child ren *1 rough there. About one third in number would be bloated with a dropsical appearance w ith out color of blood, often many men the same way. Os course ludhs always look well and better. Oh, listen at the fire bells and whistles, crying for help. The gr, at and grand c d city of Si. Augusti’’e is burning down, d wu! The lire is raging in the top of the old venerable and ancient Span sh Cathedral, has tl rown from its top t e telling clock for past ages, to tick no rr.< re. At halt past five this morning, we learn only ore wo nan was consumed in the fl mt-s, who was hired at one ho tel. Only ft few days ago I hail the great and highly esteemed pleasure of visiting and viewing this granu old ancient ci'y, which history can only tell of its numerous years, of 315. What a proof the aged jewels must fall, yet bright and inu-li loved. I had the pleasure of visiting mv father at h is home a few days ago, in bis BGtb year, with his wind as bright as bright as bright could be. What a a gift to have a father, and. ob, a mother. In my roeetin.. thousands of men, I have met only one ma”. for the six past months, older than my father, lie was in his 92nd year, and lived near Columbus, Ga. He wab quite a stout man, living with bis tecond wife, w ho is 83 years old. I am thankful for the privdege of enjoying the climate south this past wmtar, which is attributable to the kindness of my children. o obn B. Alexander. April 12tb, 1887. ' - '» BEAR CREEK, TEX. I iuj poie ycur friends want to hear bowl we are getting along ! Here inj he|graiid_old 4 state of Texur. I Well lam not prepared to boom her up at present, as it has uot rained hero s nee I wrote you over two mouths ago, Creeks as large as the Armuehce are as dry as dust, and the little rain we had did not du much good. The ground is opening in large deep cracks, and as the drouth has con tinued so lung, and it being near the hot season, it makes quite a gloomy prospect. Funning has been at a stand still for u time. Hired farm bauds have been turn ed off, or pa> stopped till it rains. Some are leaving the country, and others a ill iu a few days if the drouth continues. We were in tho edge of a light shower yester day, though it bar dly laid tho dust. Corn came up badly, and was damaged by the cold wave As it is so dry and inviting to the chinch bugs, they are fast killing the corn, who it and oats, an lin a short time everything will bo dead if there does not come rain io kill them out, Some stockmen are carrying their catt e to the Nation. A short distance from hero they had no rain last year nor up to the pri sent. They aro in a de plorable condition, especially the poor class. The government is issuing thorn scant rations for the present, and s tould that stop they would be compelled to starve, for they could not get away without railroads would give free transpor tation That llioy would not do. for you know corporations have no sympathy, nor even a soul Many of your r aders wo .Id like to know why it is that the news papers in Texas never give any discouraging news from this slate I can tell you. All towns where papers are printed have land ; gents that advertise iu them, so only the bright side is shown to the public. There is a vast amount of school land west of here that can he had on 30 years time, and very rich. But it is a 1000 miles from any where, and seldom eve” rpius ex cepl in the winter, and if you don't believe it just go f ml see. I know a party that has been trying to farm it out west, and bus inado but one crop in 14 years, and is yet hopeful that the Alurgbty will make him prosper there. 1 think he is either boring in the wrong place oi has a dull gimlet. This is fine country, large bod dies of Vo”y rich laud, easy culti vated, plenty of railroads, hardy to muk'et, schools, &c., but the rain, it just wont come. There are many clevsr people and I hope sum; Christians here, but tboro is more prolanity in Texas than ' any o' the 14 states that 1 have been in And considering that there is a kind of loom regard for ibe subbath, &c , were it not for the cattle, &c., it might not raiu at ul., and should it uot rain soon I' wi'l have to leave Imre for a more con genial clm.o. J. L. Neal. April 15th, 1837. - lIAB. liSHAM COUNTY. in son e respect this is a go d count y. Situated as it is on the foothills of the Blue ltulge, it can’t be surpasse; f t its beautiful scenery, good wat t, and prf•< t health. There are some good lands ou the rivers, creeks and brunibts. We have the Soquee River, that runs almost through the own of Clarkesritle,on which there are some fine lands that produce well. The principle crop is corn; some wheat on the uplands Rye, clo ver, and grass al. do well on the bottom lands. The country is finely adapted to raisiug stock, espeedy cattle, as it is an easy matter to save enough hay to winter them. Then when turned on tue range, they are soon ready f ur market, »ay from the first 'of July to November. They are ' diiven from all the upper counties }of the State and the Western Ipoiticn of North Carolina, and shipped South. Seme horses and mules nr*' also driven from these seetious N'outh at romqwrutive prices. No corn Las been shipped from the West to this point since l have been here, a period of fifteen months. The people for the most part are clever amt law abiding. V great deal of produce is sold hero from all purts Atest and North of here, even into North Carolina, consisting of eggs, chickens, butter, meat, lard, hides, furs, skins, wal nuts, and popcorn; some wheat,rye, oat ), beans aud poas Wo blbo have quantities of apples in the fall and winter. Winter before last the best sold at 40 cents por bushel. Last winter they were higher owing to the failure of the crop in the mountains. The apple .jure f ir superior to anything 1 ever saw in W.ilker County 1 his it one of the most wonder ful sections I ever knew for its wafer power. There are iu three miles of this place two wo. 1 u factories, ono of them large, und built iu 1883. They require no dam, and but a short race as nature formed the dam with the solid granite, and to groat is the fall thatiu one hundred feet tney bare forty feet fall. There are numbers like ibis on the Soque River and they are also found on almost all the smaller streams. A cotton factory is now iu the course of erection. So you sec that though we are in the mountains, yet there arc vim aud enterprise in ihe peo pie. This c’imate is very healthful, and iu the summer wo have a great many visitors from the lowlands. Numbers of persons who live iu Augu-ta, Charleston aud Savannah have residences in this section und come lioro to spend the s minor. Tue health of myself aud family has been tolerably good since we hare been here. Hat there has been onsiderable sickness in this tc:- tion this winter and spring, mostly measles. Several have died. V7i ~ad measles last year. T. H. 101 wards. CHINA MISSION. Dr. W. A. Park, of the China tfiss'on of the M 10. Church South has cha'go of the hospital jstab'isbed by the Mission U >pri it Sue ow, China. The followin extracts f'om the report of th< Cummi tee on the s ate of tin ll.urcli made to the Co. fercuc ield Shanghai, will show how ill! pcrlant is the iveik he is doing. “I 1 is with intense gratilicuLioi dial' wo have noted <he stonily advances of our medical work making its way, as it has, tlivougl in ny difficulties, until at lust w.i lind developed in our Sucho Hospital one.of our inoit effective agencies for carrying on mission work During the lust year a desiraU addition lias been mad i iu die way of a ref idoueo for the native mana ger, thus lillipg up the comple rn nt of bail lings needed for ihe present use. 1307(1 is tlie total number of pa tients treate I during the year. Os t.iis “number 5(1 were opium pa tients. We (ind most gra'itying evidence of ihe carefulness and skill of our medical missionai ies in the fact that of (he 23 important surgical operations peiformed during .he year all are reported as having boon successful, tiood work has bjn done in the way of training natives to be helpful assistants iu our mod ieid department. During the year eight students have been in regu lar attendance at lectures and clin ics, ami from the reports of their progress we feel justified in hoping that in the near future we shad through their agency be able to ex tend the beuefils of our medical work to other parts of the field occupied by us. The idea ol self support seems j to have ben kepi l enetantiv in ! view. All who arc t.eatsd pay a small consul mg fne, nlmi iv pay for their ine.ii lu -s a > w. 11. itjj«, opirii unljr iu C ..uuiiuce tho e having the rare o our in- d a. work would do web to advacce along this line as rapidly as tney No. :>8 run without injury nt ether point . No lent lire c ft he report in more ; giaifying than that indicating the ! ready ancu-s given to I lie people by our hospital work. They come in great numbers seeking health for tlioif l> .dies mid thus oppor j tumty is given us lo point tueiu to i the great Ileal r of H mis. Respect u ly submitted, 0. F. It hid, ) D. B. Andf.uson, vCou. A. I’. I’.lßKHlt, ) TACI'. One of the most dramatic events in the oratorical career of Henry Ward Beecher,” said Mayor (Jni ringtou, of Richmond, Vi., to a Wo. Id reporter, “occurred iu Rich raoud live yea s ago tins Spring, during his lecturing tour through the South. Tue announcement tli it he was to lecture at Mozart llall >»n the ‘North and Sou U’ tilled tnoold building. it wus h s first aopearancc in Richmond since the war and lie was rather doubt ful r bout tho kiud ot reception he would get. When ho walked out on the stage ho saw before him several of the loading genera's on the losing side In the fourth row of the orchestra sat Gen. F.tzliugh Lee and just behind him Genera' Rosser, while near by wore ex- Gevenor ‘Extra Billy’ Smith and Goveuor Cameron. No applause greeted the great preacher as he stepped before the footlights. Tue ladies leveled their opera glasses at him with cold curiosity and the tnon looked coolly expectant: s nne hissing from a crowd of tow dies iu t! e gill ary did not toud to disp.l the ehi.iiuoss of the recep tion “Mr. Beecher surveyed the au lionce calmly fora nl 'limit, uo«l then, stepping directly in from of General Bee, he said, ‘i have seen pictures of Gen. Fitzliugh Bee, md I judge that you are tliu man; tin I right? ‘The Generd, slightly taken aback by this direct addrets, nod ded sliilly, while tho audience bent forward breathless with curiosity as to what was going to follow. “ ‘Then,’ Haul Mr. Beecher, h s face lighting up, ‘1 wan to offer /ou tins right han I. which, in its >wn way, fought against you and vouih twenty five years ugo, hut vhjch I would now willingly sacri ice to matte the sunny south pies lerons and happy. Will you take h, General r* ‘Toeiewasa moms.it's liesita ion, a moment of deathlike still toss in the hall, and then Fitz liugh 800 was on bis feet, his hand was extended across tho footlights nd was. q.tickl j mat by the warm grasp of (he prei clioi's. ‘At first there wus a murmur, half jf surprise an I half of doubt u ness, from the audience; thou tiuo.'e was a hesitating elapoing of •an s, arid before Beecher hod unloosed the band of Urbert K. Bee’s no, hew—now Gov rnor of /irginia—there were cheers such is were never before heard iu old Mozart, though it hud hieatlie scene es many a war an i political noeiiug. “Well that was only the begin uing of the enthusiasm. “When the noise subsided Mr. Beecher Continued: ‘When 1 go hack homo I slut 1 proudly teil that I have gr»S| e I the bond of the nephew of tho groat Southern chieftain. 1 shad ;oil my people thiti went t< the 0 n ode ate .apoal with a heart fid ol love for the people w.ioiu my principles j nice obliged ura to oppose, and ' that 1 was met half way by the I brave Boat theme is who can for give us well as tbay can fi H ht. “Fite minutes of applause fol lowed, and th n Mr. Beecher, having gained the hearts of his audience began the lecture and wus airplane 1 to the echo. That night he entered his carriage aud drove to his bote 1 ail sio its such as had never greets i a N o to. em man in Bi luin.nd siuee thi war/” In Atlanta tue Department of Agriculture displays as! ingle made of ueorgia pine in 1785, wiii ti, n twitlistoi ting its service o 1 1- tsa s n i s a v.c ho se roof iu i,*vb c ujiiVjKafj u .i‘d aud bOUii 1. B -foro the wedding day she w.»V dsar and lie was her treasure, bait afterward she became dearer and erf trenail er. A Jity of Bi .mil 111 I Wttoipfi, Detroit, Mich., is noted for Its' healthy, I umlsome ladies, whits r t e leading physicians and drug gin s there attribute to the aeueruf use and popularity of DV. Il uaerh Iron Tonic. »—■—- ————— ■ ■ Marslui IC. Griffeiti was p'.ow ing in his field in Dooms county,' with his gun resting on the piow dock. The plow stiUCk a rock* causing the stock to bound and tho g' nto d.scliarge. The load entered the loft arm of Mr. Grif feth between the shoulder and the elbow, making a fearful woend. Mr, was taken to his home and n e iical attention called, it wuft at once decided to -remove tbs wounded l.mb into which the shot had plowed wiib cruel laceration. Saturday evening Dts Elder, Gwiuu and Carithers amputated the arm at the shoulder. Mr. Grif fuili was doing well.. Ho was one of the strongest men in Oconew county, ail i will doubtless survive this affliction. It will not disappoint you. ft is the best article known for puri fying the blood and building up tie health and s leugili. For 2.5 years ago erysiplelas broke outiii blotches on my f ce: 1 found no euro until I used I’irker's Tonic two years ugo, Il is lha medicine for me.—Fl G. H. Miscellaneous AJsiitsintent H P. lUMFKiN, ATTORNEY AT LAW lai’uyettc, ■ • t.cergla Will practice ill nil th# roiirls ’ronipt and careful atteiilton given ~i Hisiliess. MONEY LOANFJ OS I,VI rlt if VI.1) I k HUM IV I. onus can he negotiated f«: iiiiyiinioiiiit that c.ui lie secured, on nun one m live years time H. P. 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