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FRIDAY M OHM NO, JANUARY 7th, 17.
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paper. While we are assured that
such will be the esse, yet for the pur
pose of attaining a largo circulation
outside of the county and securing
three thousand yearly subscibers,
paid up cash in advance, we have con
cluded t.o offer, with the paper for one
year, the following
UXTRAOnUtNARt PREMIUM
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corespondents?, t his premium is sufficient
to furnish them with stationary for
one year.
Address all letters and communica
tions to A. lb C. Russell.
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Jan. 7th, 1876. —tf.
Thß Hew Year—lts Responsibilities.
1575, with all its cares, sorrows
and joys, reverses, successes and
triumphs, has faded away and become
a thing of the past, remembered only
as the cause of present circumstances.
The New Year is upon us, with its
responsibilities and expectations.
The experience of the old year
should teach us how to avoid in the
future the errors of the past. Scan
each transaction of the last year and
note its result. If this is uot done
the dead past will not be of much
value, for by the past we must leant
bow to utilize the present.
This new year is one of unusual
importance to every American citi
izert. Being the one hundredth year
of his national independence he feels
that he has cause to rejoice- He
breathes the air of freedom, and is
jircteefed in all his rights and privi
leges. lie can retrospect the past
and be proud of his forefathers who
won, by their blood and heroism, his
birthrig lit of liberty and Republican
government. As he meditates upon
the advance in civilization, arts, sci
ences and government, he is admon
ished that there are duties incum.
bent upon him which he must dis
charge faithfully. The first is that
he be a good citizen, performing all
the requirements ol his government,
which is said to be the best that the
sun shines upon.
Another duty he is called upon to
sacredly discharge, of equal force
with the first, is to exercise all his
influence and ability in securing for
government wise, faithful and capa
ble officers and an honest administro
tion. The elective franchise was not
delegated to him to be exercised
wantonly or in his own individual in
terests or favoritism irrespective ot
the welfare of the commonwealth.
Tie is expected to vote and labor fur
the election of those best adapted, by
reason of sound principles, superior
judgment, fine mind, pure motives,
high moral character and unimpeach
able integrity, to sustain the stand
ing and dignity, make and execute
the laws and abide by the Constitu
tion of his country. To properly
discharge his duty as a voter, he
should qualify himself to distinguish
the qualifications necessary lor a
statesman or an officer to possess.
He should be able to read, write and
think forbimself, to receive advice from
men in position to give, and to act
upon that that is good, and reject
that that is bad. A third duty,—and
the most important of all—is that he
make good, honest, industrious, law
abiding, citizens of his children. Of all
the duties and responsibilities of an
American citizen, this is by far the
most binding and important’ This
is the only means of perpetuating
good government and human free
dom. Whoever is careless or dere
lict in raising up his children “in the
way they should go,” is traitor to his
country "and unfaithful to tho great
trust confided in him.
These are the three great respon
sibilities of an American citizen to
day. There are macy others but
those are of the utmost importance,
in respect to the government and its
perpetuation,
This year tho heavy responsibility j
of electing president, vico president j
members of Congress, Coventor,
members of the legislature and all
county officers, rests upon tho shoul
ders of tho pooplo. It is one in which
the lives, liberties and property of all
citizens of tho United St ates are in
volved. Let the people prepare
themselves to discharge this duty like
men, exchanging the present corrupt
and rotten administration, for one
pure, sound and reliable.
Correspondence of the Argus.
Macon, Ga., Jan. 1, 1870.
Dear Argus:
Wo write you from this city, after
a sojourn of a week and more. The
Southwestern train brought the wri
Ur here on Wednesday, the day af
ter the adjournment of the South
Georgia Conference, at Amcricus.
We had a pleasant ride on that
smooth ruuning track, and, finding
ourselves at the spacious Passenger
Shed, just before night-fall,, we made
our way, as usual, to the justly cele
brated traveler's home, tho Brown
Hotel, immediately opposite. Au
examination of the Register, before
retiring, disclosed to us the names of
fifty arrivals that day, which did not
indicate but a slight falling off' in the
travel of a year ago; and since we
were here last Winter there have
been several new eating houses open
ed near by, and in the same block of
buildings with the hotel,
Wc find the trade ol Macon uni
versally and 11, and many croakers
afloat, without remunerative employ
ment. But who will say that croak
ing and prophesying of evil improves
the forbidding aspect of the ever
hanging clond ? Hoes it not, rather
make bad matters worse f Your cor
respondent, having visited the coun
try adjacent; and conveised pretty
freely with the people with who in he
has come in contact, is of the opinion
that, both agriculturally and com
mercially, this section of the State is
in a far more hopeful (.condition than
poor cotton-ridden South Western
Georgia! We have not heard of a
single fanner who has lost his land
and stock, his inability to meet his
mdebtedness to Warehouse mer
chants. There has been a partial
failure of crops this year and a conse
quent strhigencj r in money masters,
but Lhe people are neither broke nor
within the encircling rings of that
engulfing maelstrom. Indeed, there
are evidences of prosperity to be
seen, bere and there, in the
1 * i
erection of new and costly residences,
in tho city, and repairing of fences
and faun houses, in the country.
We regret to learn that a mania
for fashion and worldliness prevails
to an alarming extent, here as else
where, among many of the professors
of the religion of the meek and lowly
Jesus of Nazareth, as well as others
of the church-going men and women,
of this city. So much so that many
arc detered, on that account, from
attending divine worship. Two
Methodist ladies, one of whom is con
nected with one of the first families—
so to speak—and the other with no
mean family, informed the writer that
they were too poor to afford the nec
essary apparel to attend church. One
of them bad not attended the house
of God (?) in three years, the other
n two-, and the children of
one of them (the other did not inform
us) were taken away from Sunday
School on the same dep’orable < x
cusc. While it. is doubtless true,
these absenting ladies will find,
should they persist in disobeying the
Almighty by neglecting His house,
that their excuse will not be accept
ed in the great day, the writer is dis
posed to fear that pride and partial,
ity have far more, to do (if not with
the pastors,themselves; yet with the
people, in this city, ihan accords
with the will of ihe Master, who will
oave the whole heart or none ot it,
and who has declared that, ‘‘Ye can
not serve God and Mammon.”
A visit to the Orphans’ Home, near
his city, will afford matter for an
other communication. Suffice it to
say, that at this time, that without a
more general interest is taken by the
Methodist people within the bounds
f the South Georgia Conference in
behalf of this glorious institution, the
Home will soon go down with its
precious freight of twenty-five father
less and motherless children, whom
we have invited to trust in our Chris
tain liberality and sympathies. Alore
anon. Yours, &c.
Quinxet.
GEORGIA NEWS.
Prof. George T 5. Atkisson, tho new
ly elected President of Lumpkin Ma
sonic Female College, arrived in
town, with his family, on Wednesday
last. The exercises of tho College
will begin on Monday tho Stli in
stan t.— Lumpkin Independent.
Died, At Weston, Webster coun
ty Georgia, on the morning of tho
26th ult. of consumption, Mrs. L. E.
Huff, wife of Dr. J. A. Hull.—Lump
kin Independent.
Wc heard it stated yesterday, says
the Columbus Times, on the authori
ty of a gentleman who had taken the
trouble to ascertain the facts, that
tho money value of the whisky receiv
ed at the depots in this city during
the year is at least equal to the mon
ey value of all the corn received dur.
ng the same period.
Mr- James Powell, of Sumter coun
ty, wno has been blind for the past
six years, has had bis eyesight re
stored.
The Legislature meets on the 2nd
Wednesday in January.
Two Atlanta firms killed 4,150 hogs
last week.
The Houston Home Journal fig
ures up the coct to the county of the
late eight days session of the Supe
rior Court. It is as follows: Jury
$409, taking testimony $25, witnesses
r;m otter counties $32; bailifls S7B,
Solicitor General’s fees $5lO. Clerk s
costs $l7B 50, Sheriff's costs sll2.
Total $1,314 50.
We regret to learn, says the Au
gusta Chronicle and Sentinel o:
Thursday, that the health of Hon.
Alexander 11. Stephens, in- toad of
improving, as we had toped, is grow
ing worse. A gentleman just from
LibertvHall informs us that he is con
fined to his bed and threatened With
pneumonia.
The Griffin News has the follow
ing:
Riley Hays, a young man 18 years
of age, a son of Air. Washington
Hays, who lives near Roach's Mill,
on the Ocmulgee, in Butts eounty,
accidentally shot and killed himself
on Christmas day while out hunting.
He was standing in a stump reload
ing one barrel of his gun, which he
had discharged, when tiie gun slip
ped and, the hammer of the loaded
barrel coming in contact with the
stump, discharged the remaining
load into h's abdomen, inflicting a
far fui wound, which caused his death
in three hours. This is the third son
of Air. Washington Hays who has
come to his death by accidents from
gunpowder.
The following dispatch to ttic Gal
veston News, from San Marcos, Tex
as, the 27tb, may be interesting to
someone in Georgia:
A young man of good personal ap
pearance, and not mote than 21 years
of age who arrived here on the 23d
inst. ■ nd registered as Charles DeLeo,
of Georgia, committed suicide at 9
o’clock this morning by shooting him
self through tie heart.
Maj. R. M. Orme proposes at an
early day to commence the publica
tion of a morning paper in Savannah,
to be called the Free Press.
Wednesday night 118 whiles and
negroes, mostly the latter, left by the
Western train for Mississippi and
Texas. Another large ; arty of col
ored people left yesterday. It will
not be many months before they will
wish themsc ves back in Gto-gia.
Mrs. Elizabeth Ward, of Stew
art County, is dead.
TSie United Friends of Temper
ance held a convention at Provi
donee, on Friday, Dec. 24th,1875,
which was a grand success.
Mr. Dav'd Th Gawlev of Colum
bgs, is dead.
Congress met again last Wedr.es
j
day, much dilapidated in appear
ance from the effects of Chrismas
holidays.
Rev, E. J. Ifentz will arrive
and enter on tho discharge of his
pastoral duties today.
We notice some Macon Drum
mers in town this week. Macon
merchants would do well to con
sider the claims of the Auers to
advertising patronage.
Buena Yista is nearly equally
distant from Columbus, Amcricus,
Geneva, Butler, Lumpkin and
Preston.
A good modiurn wo think.
H Sf Q WIM!
Your Dwellings
Your Stores
Y our Stocks of Goods
FTour Gins and Gin Houses.
From, loss by Fire.
General Insurance Agent,
ggu _ —!-i- ^g
S'Jjf Jgst {£niiip allies gUp^entdl,
Settlements glade and j§?aid at my (Office
NEW IDfERTMIENTS,
BUENA VISTa
Hip-li School
o
The Spring session of this school will begin
on Monday, January Srci, hddolose onTlmrs
day. July ISth, with a public examination,
(• inert and exhibition, embracing two
a3. The Fall session will begin on Monday
■September 17th, (tnd close Friday Decem
ber Ist.
RATES OE fciTION PER ANNUM.
I’rimany Class $20.00
Intermediate Class So.oo
Advanced Class 40.00
Music on Piano Forte, with use of
instrument 55.00
Board can be procured in the most respect
able families at from 10 to 12 dollars per
month. Tuition has been reduced to the low
est ante bellnuT 'rates, to meet the stringency
of the times and the poverty of our people,
so that nil who attach any value to education
may avail themselves of its advantages. It
is believed that the rates of tuition in this
school are less than in any of like pre
tensions in the State. The Principals are
southern men, of large experience, well
known in Middle and South West Georgia
as faithful and efficient instructors of youth,
and are determined, in renewing their old
positions here, to make this Seminary second
to none in the State or country, where the
young of both sexes may tie thoroughly pre
par and for any class in College or any pursuit
ui life. J. M. Dunham,
IP. W Kennirly,
I Tiucipals.
Burma Vista, Ga., Dec. Ist, 1875.
PEA COCK'S S UPE KICK
asl €3.
I received a single 801 l of Cotton from my
•Son in C'dnniluiN four yeais since, it ij- of green
or brown seed variety. I have planted of them
ever since .*nd believe them to be moie prolific
than any cotton I ever planted. I sold a few
bushels of them last year, I can spare this win
ter 100 Bushclf and will .sell them at Two Dol
lar per Bushel if called f<r by the fu st of Feb
ruary. I have made on one extra ace this year
two thou.-and pouiidg seed cotton, and I will
>fiy this, that I have faith t‘> bulimic that these
end are so far ahead of any I have planted
that I an willing to pul in $25.00 with any num
ber ol men who will plant any oilier variety of
seed -n one acre of land, and the one making
tho in .st take all the money.
liKNAJAU PE ' COCK.
Four miles Westofßuena Vista, Matioa Cos G i.
Sioicl AdrcrtisruirntN.
H. L. Fi i > < it. J. S. Eason.
FBENCH H 077 U,
Pabiic in*, iliner
French & Ea*on, Proprietor.
Firs 4 Class Accommodations. Two Dollars per clay
" ‘ : '>* S® : ---V 7 -’ - '
Mo Afco House
Smirhville, Georgia.
je@-ATcals on the arrival of all trains
Fare as good as the season affords
Price, 5o cams a meal.
’ EMMiSlSste&r
COLUMBUS, - - Ga
CORNER NEXT BELOW WATT & WALKER
First Class A ccbinmofiations
Supper, Lodging and Breakfast *I,OO
Single Meal, 50c, tied, 50c 1,00
Board per fifty 1,50
Board per week 7,00
at all kour.s"ftS:
i Sa ffi J -
140 & 112 Broad Street,
COLUMBUS, - - GEORGIa
MRS- S- F. WO L DHIDGB,
PROPRIETRESS
Boarfi per clay, - - S2 00
Single Meal ... ,50
Lodging, ’ - - - - ,50
Xov. lily L. I. HAKVZY, Clerk.
Welcli’s
piimiH
lifilHT,
M.AKOR jB-EAST.
Always Alleviates and General!)
Cares
RHEUMATISM. SORENESS and
S H r ELLIEU, of the Breast, PA IE
and WEAKNESS in the. t Hack and
Joints, The severest BURNS can
Speedilij he cured and should he
Applied i t tuned it i tel y.
Pm Horses & Sales,
IT STANDS
WITHOUT A RIVAL!
And Speedily Cures Most, of their
Diseases requiring a Lminiment.
•u s ;b r a
And you will Never he Without it.
Ask your Merchant for it. Sold by
Sealers 1m Brags,
And By
L. E, & H- E, WELCH,
Sole Proprietors and
WI TOL LTSA LJ 7! DriiKffists
N >v. AJGBAKY, GEORGIA.
MASON WOEK
I hike this method of informing the
eitize„s of Buena Vista and Marion
county, that lain prepared to do any
hi mi of mason work, such as plastering,
brick laying, building chimneys or
brick houses, any kind of stone work,
the
I am prepared also to do any kind of
work on graves, as walling them up with
lirick, e'e.
LEONARD C'UQUILLARD j
BiiiMih Vista, l)cc 2tih 1875
1876. THE 1876.
KiLLIMUif i il miK
Located Near
TALUOI TO.\, GKOUGIA.
J. T. McLAUQIILIN, Principal cfe Proprietor
G. \V. MAXON, Associate Principal.
Graded High School for 13oys A; Young Men
Spring Term begins Jan. 17th, ends .Tune 30lh
Fall Term begins August Ist, ends Nov. 17tli
Tuition in Piim<uy Department, per year, $20.00
“ Intermediate “ *’ 00.00
“ Grammar “ “ 40 o 0
“ High School “ “ 60.00
Incidental Fee. per month, 25r 250
Hoard paid in advance.for the Term, per mouth 10. no
All expenses for Six Months, including Hoard, Tui
tion, Washing fud Incidentals. SOG, $92 or 98. For
One, year, paid iu advance, sllO, !SI6U or SIOO, accord
ing to Class. Dec. 24-1 tii*
,0^" 1875 1876 ’’
OUR Scholastic year is divided into three terms!
beginning September 20th, January 3rd. April
Ist, and closing Commencement Day, liio last
Wednesd2y iu June.
CHARGES PER TERM.
Board and Tuition $f9.00
J/usic aud use of Piano 19.00
Payments in advance or monthly.
A. ii. FLEWJSLLEN, President.
CHEAP ffil,
~f„ /a? _• I A Up 9
W. tSJVSLEY,
DRUGGIST ft GROCER
61 KM tM l. Cl.
DRUGf? i MEDICIWB
KEROSENE, PATENT MEDICINES,
POTASH, SOAP,
STARCH, COLOGNES,
FANCY SOAP, PAINTS,
OILS, GARDEN SEEDS,
PIPES, CIGARS, ~,4
TOBACCO.
STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES,
WINDOW GLASS,
CONFECTIONERIES, BACON,
FLOUR, LARD,
WEAL, CHEESE,
STTOAR, COFFEE,
CRACKERS, SALt, Ac., fta.
l .rmjed
Ilf H S SI M IHMB,
Am 9
Hats, Boots, shoes, Tinware, Hardware,
Cutlery. Crockery, stationery, and ■<
Notions Generally. <t
I have removed from my former stand, South of the public square, to
Wiggi&’s 0 cl Stand, West of FuMe Sfuit
where I will be pleased to serve my old friends and as many new ones M
wid favor me with their patronage. I have made a change in my business,
discontinuing the sale of some articles and substituting others in their places
—have ordered a line ot loading articles of Staple Dry Goods — all of which
I intend to sell cheap.
J. W. ANSLEY,
Oct) ber 15th, 18i5.-ct Buena Vista, Qt.
file Place to Buy!
We keep on hand and are constantly receiving from liasterh and Wnton
inmkets all goods usually kept iti a first-class House Furithisg
nods E-i tablishment.
I?ITT> 'VITIT l? P
r umNll UivJi.
PARLOR SUITS, EASY CHAIRS, LOUNGES, *e..
Dressing Case Suits Cojmnxsn: Bod Room Suits,
at Prices from SSO Up/zards; Dining Room
Chairs, Tables end S?ifesi Office Desks, •and "i
Counter and Desk Stooi3 and Chairs.
Chair?.' Fine Cane Seat, Wood Seat and Cottage; Wash Stands, Table#, B*
reatts, Bedsteads, Lounges, Malttesses: Spring Beds, Feathers, &c.; Ba#k*
best assort in cut ill the city; Brushes: Ilai. Clothes. Shoe, Dusting and Shaving;
Brooms: 1 oni or Sweeping, He alth and WhWk; Upholsters Goods: hair, doth,
reps, buttons, gimp, tacks,ike.; Picture Frame?: picture frame moulding, im
frames made any size desired; picture cork, nail? ari l tamels;
' ISA 131' CAKmACHE3;
Looking Glasses, Looking Glass Plate in piece, Window Shakes, decorated and
lain; Window shade goods, various widths, and colors cut and mado to fit ony
window.
CHINA. CROCKERY i GLASSWARE,
China, dinner find tea sets; china by piece or dozen, decorated or plain; lamps
lanterns, chandeliers, wicks, chimneys, kerosene oil and lamp good# generally;
Fancy and holiday goods, fine variety; Cutlery: table and pocket, fine assortment
imported and American, both direct from manufacturers, and sold very low.
Spoons, forks, castors, Ac
BITEIAL GASES & CASKET
4
Metallic aid Wood, all sizes, at prices ranging from six dollars to two hubdro r
dollars; full lino of cheap wood coffins always on hand, for ladies, gentlemen o
children; Buriol robes, and unkertsktrs harkware. next door north
of Waxelhaum <k Gyles’, Cotton Avenue. Residence close to store in bourn of
Judge S - S. Boon, Calls night or day, by telegram or otherwise, attended
faithfully.
S. Anthony ft Sons,
§h'OteioMl €mh.
D3?. E. T. MATHIS,
IJuena Vista, C*a-
Calls left at my office or residence promptly
ti ended. Dec24-ly
a
-
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BUEVA. VISTA, GA.
F. L. _ WTs,D
BUENA VISTA, GA.
fi©“Calls may bo left at my resi-j
lonce at all hours of the day or
night.“©a
October Sth, 1875.—1 y |
6T& *QT
¥1 EffIFUGE.
A safe and sure Cure, for Worms.
Harmless in its effect on the system*
and sure to improve the condition oj
the Patient.
Sold by dealers in Drags aid Med
icines and by T. F. HENRY, CU&-
RAN & CO., 8 College Place, New
York.
I. K & H E WELCH.
WHOLESALE DRVITB,
Kov. D.-lf AI.BJ.yr, GA.