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VOL, XVII NO 7.
good crops ■nTTM A NfT\ m PLOWING
good plowing JJJIiMAiN plows
Make 1894 a successful year on the farm by
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WHENyouwantit. '
the wiard hillside plow
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plow is needed. It is different from any other
Hillside PI9W and superior to them in almost
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Cooper Heights.
This year we besran to sow oats
the 24th of January and finished
the 3rd of February. We find it
most always pays to sow early.
Uncle Drury is well pleased
with the perfect hillside ditching
he had done on his land. Not
one of them broke over during
the recent heavy rains.
Last fall in a large oak board
tree the Fowler boys traced what
we call a wood worm 48 feet in
the trunk of the tree from the
ground, where they found its re
mains and the hole it made was
an inch in diameter.
Accidentally, Walter Johnson
got his knee badly cut with an
axe. He is now up on crutches.
Squire Bud Johnson is visiting
with his family at the Heights.
Aunt Eliza Singleterry is not
expected to live many days
longer. '
Mrs. Morrisson in her dotage
has lost the use of one of her
arms. It is thought to be rheu
matism.
Ed, Bud got the sausage and
you will not bo charged up with
it. It will not be lost. It is in
good hunde. A. F. Shaw.
Feb. 12.
The *IOO,OOO bond of the First
National Bank of Cartersville as
a state depository, has been ap- J
proved by the governor.
Take the Messenger.
Walker County Messenger
Lisbon.
H.
The Methodist people have in
process of construction what will
be when complete, a splendid
house of worship. God bless
these faithful, these few faithful
men, who have under the most
unfavorable circumstances push
ed this God ordained enterprize
until success is in sight.
Some very desirable additions
to the citizenship of our village
are in the families of Maj. Buck
and Dr. Bush.
Maj. Buck is an experienced
teacher and will build up a fine
school, having the besthouse and
appliances in Walker county.
Dr. Bush comes amoug us
bringing with him the endorse
ments of the best people of the
country where he has lived.
The Sunday school at this
place lived and prospered through
the entire winter and is manifest
ing new strength each succeed
ing Sundav. All honor to Rev.
G. W. Mocre, E. K. Carlock and
a few other faithful men and wo
men who have nursed and watch
ed over this Sunday school with
as much earnest solicitude as a
mother would over her sick babe.
Truly they will have their reward.
Obscurity.
A Card of Thanks.
Mr. and Mrs. James Eaton re
| turn many thanks to the good
I people of Villanow and Concord !
i for their kindness toward their
i daughter Mrs. Emma Holcomb
i during her illness.
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LAFAYETTE GEORGIA THURSDAY FEBRUARY 15 1894-
TORTURED BY ROBBERS.
AKentuckian Gives Up His Morrey
After Being Fatally Injured.
BarboursviUe, Ky., Feb. 9.—On
Leatherwood creek, Cumberland
county, Wednesday night, throe
men entered the home of James
Clayton, who does not believe in
banks, and, after gagging the
family, proceeded to compel him
to tell whore his money was hid
den. They fired pistols close to
his head, choaed him, burned
him with hot stones and finally
stuck his feet in the fire, holding
them there until they were burned
to a crisp. This finally conquer
ed Clayton, who told wnere the
money was. The robbers got
11, and then escaped on three
of Clayton’s horses. Clayton will
probably die.
Joseph V. Dory, of Warsaw,
111. was troubled with rheuma
tism and tried a number of differ
ent remedies, but says none of
them seemed to do him any good;
but finally he got hold of one
that speedily cured him. He
was much pleased with it, and
felt sure that others similarly
afflicted would like to know what
the remedy was that cured him.
He states f'>r the benefit of the
public that it is called Chamber
j lain’s Pain Balm. For sale by
i all medicine dealers.
i
A CREDITABLE RECORD.
Faithful to Duty in Every Station.
Gen. Evans was a Stewart
county farmer’s son. Reared
among pioneers, brought into
daily contact with thorough und
rugged toil of rural life of fifty
years ago, he has never forgotten
the class from which ho sprung.
His ancestry on his mother’s side
was Irish, the Bryaus of Ulster, a
family famed throughoyt the
green hills of old Erin. His great
grandfather on the paternal side
was an officer in the Revolu
tionary war, and his grandfather
was wounded while serving under
Andrew Jackson against the
Creek Indians. His veins are
coursed by heroic blood which
has come down unblemished
through generations.
At eighteen a lawyer, at twenty
two a judge, at twenty-five a
State senator, and at thirty-one a
major-general; all these he hum
bly laid aside to become a ser
vant of God and bis fellowman.
In the vigor of young manhood
he willingly renounced a crown
of civic and military laurels never
before attained by a Georgian so
early in life, to become an itiner
ant preacher in the rugged hills
of Bartow county. While other
leaders of the fallen Confederacy
accepted and enjoyed the emolu
ments of public office conferred
upon them by an admiring peo
ple, he “went about doing good.”
Twenty-one years after Appo
matttox General Evans was called
to preach at a great meeting at
Johanna’s Heights in Pennsyl
vania, near one of the old battle
fields. Five thousand Northern
people Hocked to hear the great
Southern Soldier of the cross
proclaim peace on earth,and with
streaming eyes they crowded
about him to shake his hand. It
•vas a glorious day for the re
united Union. A few years since
when the strike of the cotton fac
tory operatives in Augusta threat
ened a prolonged and disastrous
conflict between capital and la
bor in that city, Gen. Evans
threw himself into the breach.
Bv patience and kindness bis
efforts resulted in a compromise,
and the operatives went back to
their work. Thus a great loss
was saved to the mill owners, and
the people were spared from
want and suffering. While pas
tor of a mission church in the
same city, the Savannah river
overflowed its banks and many
of iiis flocks were deprived of
work, and their homes and lives
were imperiled by the flood. Al
though ill and advised to keep
his bed, and forbidden by his
physician to leave his room, Gen.
Evans dressed liimßelf, took a
canoe filled with provisions and
worked day after day in feeding
the needy and rescuing those in
danger.
A native to the soil ho is in all
respects atypical Georgian. That
persistent energy and steadfast
conservatism which has marked
our State from the days when it
was the infant of* the colonial
family, finds no truer embodi
ment than in the person of Clem
ent <k. Evans.—Ex.
A frightful accident occurred
nine miles north of Mount Ver
non, in Montgomery county, in
which William Adams was killed
and Riley Adams seriously
wounded. Riley Adams owned
a steam grist mill and had Wil
liam Adams employed to help
him run it. At 10 o’clock the
grist-wheel burst, and fragments
of the rocka were sent flying in
every direction with great force.
One fragment hit young Adams
in the forehead, breaking bis
skull aud killing him almost in
stantly. Another fragmeut hit
Riley Adams, owner of the mill,
in the breast, and made a scrions
though it is not thought a fata)
wound. It is not known what
caused the wheel to burst.
N. E. Bahkrii, 8. R. Rrad, W. A. Hadd, B. W. Barr,
President, Vice-President, Seo rotary, Cashier.
ghattanooga pavings fan'll,
Cor- Eighth and Cherry Sts., Chattanooga, Tenn-
CAPITAL SIOO,OOO-00- SURPLUS, $12,000.
This institution pays per cent, interest on deposits, and confines
its business strictly to the receipt and care of Havings and Trust
funds.
Certificates of Deposit issued at following rates:
Certificates payable on demand . . - 4 per cent.
Certificates payable in fl months . - - per cent.
Certificates payable in li months ... 0 per oent.
Xen Wheeler, 1). M. Key, .T. P. Srnartt, -T. L. Lombard, A. 3. Ochs
Willard Warner, 8. R. Read, N. E. Barker B. Lombard, Jr., W. A. Badd
Rev. J. H. McMullau, who is
specially fine on a reminiscence,
Bays that manv years before the
war, a Hart county ’squire by the
name of D—, was frequently em
ployed by bis subservient neigh
bors to plead in their behalf, aud
that his fame for logic and good
sense had goue out into the ad
joining couuties. At one time a
neighbor who owned a large
tract of land in Lincoln county,
came to him in great peril and
distress, stating that he feared he
would lose the title to his tract
of laud, that another party was
claiming it who had a deed much
older than his, that strong coun
sel had been employ'd aud ho
had great fears of the results of
the investigation aud trial. The
squire gave him to understand
that he would look into it. The
case from some cause was carried
to Augusta for trial, aud at the
appointed time it was sounded in
the superior court. Squire D—
was there and announced ready.
The claimant’s attorney made a
simple statement that the case
was so plain that no argument
was necessary on their part, that
they would simply introduce
their deed, the faith and genuine
ness of wliieh they wore able to
prove by the justice of the peace,
wno had written it and witnessed
the transaction. When this was
completed they closed. Old
Squire D— had carried his com
pilation of law and decisions with
him, and with it he arose before
the court in a very diguifiod, but
crude aud uncouth manner, and
perhaps there never appeared in
court a truer symbol of the sub
lime and ridiculous than was
witnessed by contrasting such
lawyers as Gen. Toombs, Judge
Cone and old Squire D—. Uow
evfer, the old ’squire opened his
great code and commenced by
saying: “May it please your
honor, the justice of the peace
yiat wrote this deed was one of
the smartest fellows I ever knew.
Why, may it please your honor,
he knew before the legislature
passed the bill that Georgia
would have a county by the name
ofLiDcoln, and that it would be
located on the south side of
Broad river, and that this tract
of land iir dispute would be in its
borders.” This was said in the
most ironical manner and awak
ened considerable anxiety and
excitement. The claimant’s coun
sel called for the deed which the
old ’squire held in his hand, but
continued, “yes, this very ’squire
knew many years before-—” At
this point the court called for the
date of the act that made Lincoln
countv, and also the date of the
deed. Upon investigation it was
ascertained that the deed was
many years older thun the county
that it was represented to have
been made in. The claimant's
counsel at once saw their ridicu
lous aspect before the court, and
retired under the greatest humil
ity of defeat, but never forgot the
ingenuity of the crude old ’Squire
l) —. —Hartwell Bee.
For Sale,
For cash, one good pair horse
mules; medium size; eisrht and
nine years old. Will soil at a
bargain. Also new Center k Mize j
tw<> horse wagon Address or
call on Clarence Pearson,
LaFayette, Ga.
SIOO PER YEAH
Kensington,
All the farming lauds of the
Kensington Laud Company are
being fenced and turned and
fixed ready for farming. It will
soon have the appearance of old
times.
Dr. Cowan the other dav was
driving along on a sidling place
in the road, and a hooked stump
caught over the feller of the upper
fore wheel of his buggy and broke
every spoke out of both front
wheels. He escaped unhurt.
The Handle Factory is a month
behind with their orders.
Misses Attic us Kirkes and
Laura Bryden, of Cassandra,
visited relatives and friends at
Bronco Monday (5), and returned
Tuesday.
Mrs. J. E. Sanders visited
relatives at Fliutstone Monday.
Mrs. Fleming arrived last
Saturday.
Miss Maud Lilley, of Attalla,
Ala., spent several days with Miss
Lettie Brooks last week. Several
of her friends were grieved to see
her leave so soon.
Rev. Mr. Griffin of Sherman
Heights, Teun., preached very
impressive sermons at New Pros
pect Sunday and Sunday night,
and left appointments for next
second Sunday at 11 o’clock and
Saturday night before.
Dock Morrison is in the fight
at last.
The Now Prospect Debating
Club is going to meet again next
Saturday night. Everybody
should attend.
E. W. Kirby was called last
Sunday to the bedside of his
brother-in-law—Mr. E. Mauos of
Sherman Heights, Tenn.
Sam Hall says his best girl has
gone back on him, but I guess it
is all imagination.
Some boys wentjto Mr. Peftey’s
Monday night and threw towards
his house, and he went to Esq.
Hall’s early Tuesday morning to
get warrents for them. W.
Lookput Mountain.
The little church recently
erected in the community of
Squire G. W. Brown’s residence
has proven to be quite a success
religiously. Soon after the
churcli'was completed a Sunday
school was organized and is in a
flourishing condition. Preaching
is conducted every Sunday in the
little place of worship, by Rev.
Mr. Drenuon. Miss Stella Brown
was appointed Treasurer of the
Sabbath school and Miss Jennie
Carruth was appointed Libra
rian.
Miss Gussie Jackson is teach
ing a literary school. The citi
zens could not have made a wiser
selection for a teacher.. The as
sistance rendered by Squire G.
W. Brown should not be forgot
ten, considering he differs relig
iously with the majority of the
people in this community.
He is a firm believer of Swed
enborg’s writing. How can a
person condemn anything they
are perfectly ignorant of? This
will apply to a great many peo
ple in this community in regard
to Swedenborg’s writings. -The
writer has not had the pleasure
of visiting the church only a few
times. He would attend mere
frequently, but is afraid he would 1
be called on to lead in prayer.
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