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CORRESPONDENCE. WALKER’S CEEK. Mu. Editor: —As you was so kind as to print our litt'c bits of news before, and as my wife, “Jerusha Jane,” has been in a good humor the past week, owin’ to tho “big mootin'’ and a now cal¬ ico dress, I feel sorter inspired in my ex¬ uberance of spit its, to write some more. Yes, big mootin’ at Providence has broke. They had si real good time 1 guess, so my wife sind daughter, “Pa l ienee Ami,” says. 1 didn’t git to go any myself. I had to stay at homo with the kids. • The preacher said once when lie came home with Joriuslia Jane that hi) thought a man ought to stay at home so., e times and let his wife go to ineetin’., I 1 bought, though, that he onghten’t stay at home all the time and lot his wife i un around with the preacher, hut I didn’t say so, as Jerusha Jane was by and i knew better. I tell you, Mr. Editor, Jerusha Jane and my oldest daughter, Patience Ann, don’t treat me right. They a re just always scoldin’ except when the parson is by, then they are mighty kind and lovin'. Why.Mr.Editor, I went up to town tother day and when i got back I \\VUS kinder weak and shaky in my knees. I guess it was beka.se I was tired and not feelin’ very well, but they up and says I was drunk. And then they let in to .scoldin’ and crying like hurley, and the old woman banged me over the head with the tongs. 1 tell you, Mr. Editor, I wasn’t drunk at all. 1 went into a place with a friend and got some eider. It was a lit¬ tle strougish, Out the man said it was ci ider and I guess it was, but 1 know I wasn’t drunk. I was just tired and fcel in' bad. Now, Mr. Editor. Jerusha Jane and Patience Ann says if I don’t stop givin’ ’em away in the papers, they are going to write you a letter to be published and tell just what for man I am. If they do, don’t you print it, bekase they are prejudiced against me. Their opinion is biased. They won’t tell the truth aiul the people will think I am a holy tenor on wheels. Don’ t you print it, Mr. Editor, please .don’t. • Don’t you have anything to do with ’em.. You don’t know ’em like I do. Why, nieetin’ won’t be over a week till they will lose all their religion. They may not cuss any, but they will talk aw ful rough.. Patience Ann is an awful purty gal, just like her ma was, and she’s got a temper just like her ma, too. The young sprouts of boys aie all goiifi crazy arter Patience Ann. Well, I hope some of ’em will git her and take her oil my hands, and maybe when they are as old as I am, tlicjCjl have more experience than the’ve got now. Purty gals is all right as long as they’re not vour wife or daughter. My expe¬ rience with ’em has taught me to exclaim with the poet : Oil, boys keep away, From the gals I say, And give them plenty of room, For when you are wed, They will bangyou till you are dead, With the ball-headed end of a broom. Mr. Editor, I think that poet must have had a wife something like Jerusha Jane, or he never could have been inspired to write such sublime and glorious lines. Mr. Editor, I think some times I could write poetry. IIow is this: My wife she is dead and for her I do yearn; for 1 know she’s with tlic angels now, she’s too tough to burn. I don’t expect that will hardly do, as Jerusha Jane is a most too lively fora dead person, and then if she was dead 1 don’t think I’d do mflcli yearning, but the rest of it is about true I think. I guess I’ll try and write you some poetry some other time when 1 feel more inspired, I "Ties - I’ll have to stop as I hear Jerusha J.ine callin-fm-stt-vewood. MM it, 1 don’t see why she couldn’t cut it her a0 f. Jakk Tatti.br. Mr! A. B. Laforme, Boston, Mass., says : I ordered and distributed one do zen large bottles Bradycrotine among my friends afflicted with headache and in every case it has afforded almost instan¬ taneous relief. DEMOCltAT’S REPLY. Mb. Editob.—I am glad to seo tho peo¬ ple expressing their opinions so freely upon the groat issues of the day. It shows that the people are taking an in¬ terest in what concerns them, and that they have been studying on these ques¬ tions and forming opinions for them¬ selves. This is, as it should be. I tkac much pleasure in perusing their letters and from them obtain many new and val¬ uable ideas. But I notice that “Moses” and “Old Boh” have misunderstood me, or they have willfully misconstrued my meaning. They seem to think that I am bitterly opposed to the Alliance. I am not. I never have said one word against the Alliance. I have spoken against tho sub-treasury and I firmly believe what I said is true. I don’t care whether it is constitutional or not, that makes no dif¬ ference with me. I belive it to be ruin¬ ous iu its tendencies, and to the poor la¬ boring classes of our cities I know it would be ruin and starvation. “Old Bob” classes Col. Brock and myself together as politicians. Now, I assure friend Bob that he is doing me too much honor, as I am not a politician and never expect to be, but am an humble laborer and eat my bread by the sweat of my brow. God forbid that I should ever say one word against the pool laboring classes, of which I am one, but I have an opinion entirely my own and I have a right to ex press it and stnud by it. “Friend Bob’’ also states that he is satisfied Col. Brock and myself will each contend that our vespeetive parties have fought all the hard battles, wou the bloody victories, etc. I say Col. Brock may do as he pleas es, but as for me, I make no such claim. What is a party? My idea is that it is the people composing the party. Then if a party win the victory, it is the peo ple composing the party who win and is so understood. I agree with the Alliance in all their demands except the sub-treas ury. When it couies to that I say in God’s name, give us something better, As for the rest of their demands I advoca ted them before the Alliance ever did. And now as to the third party. I again repeat I*see no use or call for it.“Moses,” says the democratic party is corrupt and that they, (but he don’t say who “they” is) have tried the democratic party and found it wanting. Now, I have this to say, and no intelligent man will deny it, tliat oppression and monopoly is tlie off spving of the late war. That it has been fostered and nursed by the republican party until it lias grown fat and become a giant. And every intelligent man knows that the democratic party has been lighting it for thirty years, and they aiso know that the democrats have not been in power in ail that time, and con sequently could not make a change. It is true that once iu a while the house was democratic, but there, in their path, like a wall of adamantine rock, stood a republican president and a republican senate. Once, for four years, we had a democratic president and a democratic house, but the senate was republican. Now, 1 say the democrats have had no i show and I don’t feel disposed to c(m . | demn them because they have not as yet j j gained the victory, for 1 know they j fought a noble fight. I have the same j faith in the democratic party that “Old Bob, y> t i Moses” and others have in the third party. I never shall forsake her, or see any need for a third party until democracy has had the power to re¬ deem her promises and refuse to do it. Exclusive of the sub-treasury, there is but very little diffmmcc between the democratic party and the third party. It is just as reasonable to suppose tho dem ocratic party to be honest and earnest in their demands as the third partyites and if so the benefits accruing therefrom would be the same and would bo as will i»S for lb. anybody else. “Moses” would like to know who I am. Wei;, “Moses,” I shall hereafter sign my own name. Will you do the same? You talked mighty * big in your letter and danced , , and , pranced , around ... “rough , shod ’ but that don t make any difference with me, as I always consider the source, and not hold people responsible when I seo they don't know any better. Now, Mr. Editor, I hope you will ex¬ cuse all mistakes as I am in a hurry. I have plenty of work to do and no timoto spare. Cuai:i.ks Cbkmkan. A LADY SPEAKS. Mr. Editor. —Please allow me space for a short letter in your paper, as I have never written a letter before, thought I would write a few lines. I think Buchanan is a lonely place to live. I think Buchanan has some good mar¬ ble players. They play from morning till night—it seems as if they were making a living at it, blit I think it would boa poor living. The ladies would like them much better if they would employ the time that they play marbles working and fixing nice side walks It would look much better. What will you all think when you see ladies coming through tho mud oi dust, ruining their new shoes ami nice dresses? I don’t think the' young mill have much respect for tho ladies, or they would quit playing marbles and goto work on the side walks. A Lady. Watchman, What of The Night. yin. Editor. —Crops in this part are good as the land can make them. There is some corn here that promises fifty or sixty bushels per acre. Fodder pulling is ripe and cotton picking will soon be. Watermelon eating and selling is clos ing out. Hoad working has been on the rampage for some time. Protracted meetings have been an ah absorbing element in society .Neal Mun roe once said that they always flourished most of a good crop year. One in Alabn ma about twenty-live miles ftom Home, Ga., has just ended with washing their catch. On the 5th .Sunday, nit., and Saturday night some parties went from meeting to the house of one that is commonly styled “old Holcombe,” who has some women of ill repute and a fusilade was gotten up some how and shooting of a very grave nature was done. One it an named W. J. smith was shot in the breast with a toad of buck shot, and Tims. McCormick was shot three times with i pistol, twice in the breast and once in die back, but in the ribs. There was a rucus there last wiu ter some time, and now the people say ohl Holcombe must leave the country, Tho shooting above named was done by one Bob Beall. No arrest at this writ lug. Morality on the face of this earth is at a very low ebb now, deplorably so. Poor recommendation, when young men, sur rounded as they are everywhere at this day with religious opportunities and Sunday school literature, pursue drunk eness, pistol carrying and card playing. Nice young men, with Sunday school lit¬ erature in one pocket and a pistol hid i:i one and a deck of cards concealed in an other. What is to become of our couit w the future with such as that in the »«ing generation? Who is to blame? Is it the courts, the preachers, tho teachers, t,: the publiclie generally? What do our landlords care for the moral condition of their tenants and employees if they can do the manual label? Their morals may go to the ducks. They don’t associate with them no how. Remove money from off the face of the earth and that upon which the hearts of all men arc set is gone, and the material world would be as insipid as dish water. But w.’ i get through our part of it by ami by, and then we will not he concerned about how it may go. Simon Cordwood. Good Looks Good looks are more than skin deep, five, you have a billions look, if y, m aU)macll l)(3 dN ,, nlovod h , vc dyspej tic i 1)uk an d [-■ yom - kidneys be affected you have a pinched look. 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