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©he §uemi 3ttota Jiegtto.
-&/L. a. RUSSELL)
ftditor & Proprietor.
Circulates in the Most Solvent
anti It el table Portion of the
State.
Terma of Jdvarttaing the same as tlioso outab
fatiod by the fVoaa Association of Georgia for the
Country Proas.
Mills for adverts ■ititf are duo on tho first appear
unco of tha advertisement, or whou presented, ex
cept when-otherwise contracted lor.
Rato ft and Rulosf or Legal Adver
tising.
BhorW Sale?, each levy $ <- un
Mortgage fi fa sales, each levy 8.00
Tax Collector’s sales, each levy 4.00
Citation for Letters of Administration and
Guardianship 4.00
Application for dismission trom Administration
Guardianship and Exueutorstaip - 000
Application for leave to sell land lor one sq'r.. 6.011
Notice to debtors and creditors 4.00
Land sale?, Ist Bquare, $4, each additional... 8.00
Halos of perishable property, per square 2.50
Kstray notice, 00 days 7.00
Notice to perfect service
Rulob ni si to foreclose mortgage* per sq r 8.50
ltiiles to establish lost papers, per Bquare.... 3.50
llulcs compelling titles. 8.50
2tules to perfect services in divorse cases 10.00
Application for Homestead ;■••••••. i - 0 , 0
AH Legal Advertisement* must be paid for in nd-
Sales oflabd. &c., by Administrators Executors
or Guardians, are required by law to be hold on the
Firnt Tuesday In the mouth, between the huura of
ten in the forenoon and throe in the afternoon, at tho
Court House tn the county in which the property is
' U Notfee* of these sales must be (tiven in a public pa
jette in the county where the land lies, if there be
auv, and if there is no paper published in the county
Jjoii iu the nearest gazette, or tho one having the
argest general circulation in said county, 40 days
previous to the day of sab'.
Notices for the sale of personal property must be,
given in like maimer ten days previous to sale day.
Notice to the debtors of creditors and an estate
must also be published 40 days.
Notice that application will he made to the Court of
Ordiuary for laud, &c., must be publish
ed once a week for H^^eka.
Citations for Letters of Administration, Guardian
ship etc., must be published 30 days-for Dismission
i'rorn Administration, Guardianship and Axecutorship
4U i?u\es of Foreclosure of Mortgage must be publish
ed monthly for four months—for establishing lost
papers for toe full space of three muiiths-tor com
pelling titles from Executors or Administrators,
whore bond has been given by the deceased, the lull
space of three months.
Application for Homestead must be published twice.
Publications will always be continued according to
these, the legal requirements, unless otherwise or
d red.
gtof clonal
attorney at law,
AMEKICUS, GEORGIA.
Marc ti 10-1 yr.
JB. IS. llili(ou& w. JS. HiiUim,
ATT'OIL\EIS AT LAW.
BUENA VISTA, GA
Will practice in the Courts of this Stotee
tinil the District unit Circuit Courts of th.
United States. mc.i.ll-ly,
J\ X*. CD. BLori*.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
J3l'lilNA VISTA, GEOIIOIA.
Mitreh 10, 1870-1 S'-
ATTORNEY AT I, A W,
BUENA VISTA, GA.
DR. E. T. MATHIS,
lluem) A ista,!GHi
Culls left at my office or residence promptly
attended, Dr'C-4-ly
i\ lTwiTdom, m. and.,
BUENA VISTA, GA.
B@“Calls may be left at my resi
dence at nil hours of the day or
night.*®#
October Bth. 1875.-ly
"Hotel Advertisements.
MASKS AM HOUSE,'
ATLANTA, CA.
JAS. E OWENS, -• •• Proprietor,
Immediately at the Passenger Depot.
PARTIES aud Familial wishing a cool and
comfortable Hotel for the summer should
.Biop at the “Markham.
pgr Special rates by the week and month.
PEABODY HOUSE,
CORNER of LOCUST and NINTH ■STS.,
JPHII.AOJEI.PHiA Pa.
Convenient to all places of amusement aud ear lines
In the city. No changes to and from the Centennial
-rounds. Col. Watson, proprietor of the Hknkv
ifonsß.Clucinnatti for the past twenty years, and lias
luwly furnished anil fitted it throughout. He will
keep a strictly first-class house, aud has accommo
dation for 300 guests. TernlH, outy 13 per day.
Col Watson is a native of Virginia, and probably
the only Hotel Proprietor iu X'hiladelphia from the
houu,.
Brown’s IloteJ.
Opposite Dasscnyer Depot,
\1 .V C O V . G- EORGI A.
This first-class and well known Hotel has been
Kiitircly Reuovaftd anil KelUtetl,
in the most elegant, style, and is raenured with every
facility to accommodate its old friend* and flic public
‘'“"’centrally located,
and——
Immediately OppWk ti Garni Passenger Depot
This Hotel presents unusual advantages to viators
to The rooms are cons*meted and fitted up with a
ffiew to the comfort of the guests, and the table isal
wra vs supplied with o the season
' * ry E. BfiOfN & SON,
#cpt24-lyr fS,. *
fl. : L. ffcWCB. *• S. Eas N.
FRENCH HOUSE,
Square, Americas, Georgia.’
French & Eason, Proprietor
HoAfee HOuse
Smirhville, Georgia.
ngjyMeals on the arrival of all trains
Fare as good as the season affords.
Price, 50 cents a meal.
A. iff. C- BUSSELL, Proprietor. -A- DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER. Annual Subscription, $2,0 3
VOLUME X.
<£tommuu tout tons.
WRITTEN FOR THE BUENA VISTA AItOUS
Answer lo <S. VV. C, ill’s Inqui
ries.
Tazewclt,, oa. |
August 22p.<1, 1876. }
Mr. Editor:
In your issue of the 18 th inst. I
sec a letter written by G. W. C, M.
upon Publius. He finds fault on the
ground, that I advocate bi-annual
elections and bi-annual meetings of
the legislature, &c., and a change in
tho per diem they get. lie is oppos
ed to a change in either.
Now I think I can show good rea
sons why bath should be altered. It
they were bi-annual it would save the’
State half the expense, and we would
be better acquainted with the laws.
I would add if they were to meet
oneo in lour years it would be better
still, for all classes, except the law
yers. The more complicated the
Law, and the oftener it is altered the
better for the lawyers, but not so for
the common people. And as for the
per diem, the pile is large enough to
make the greatest money and pleas
ures lovers push themselves on the
countiy. Such men care nothing for
the interest of the people. All they
desire is to fill their own pockeis, and
to smoke fine segars and drink the
best brandy. Just put the per diem
down so it will not warrant such ex
travagance, and then the office will
seek the man, and not tho man the
office.
The gentleman says, ‘‘have 12 ol
the wisest men in thu country to rule
all local matters,” Now, sir, I pro
test against any such law, rule or
regulation. Say there are 100 vo
! ters m this district or any other dis
trict; shall 12 men say we shall or
shall not retail anient spirits? Not
only in this but any other local mat
ter of interest that, may come before
us. Now, for 12 men to rule from
SOO to 1000 citizens, is much to be
borne. He further says the man who
j.snot worth as much at home, as the
per diem, has no qualifications to
make laws. I would first inquire il
he makes that much, if he does he is
the only man in this county that
does. If this erroneous idea was the
test by which the people were to be
represented, there would not be six
counties represented in the State.
If there is a man in the State that '
makes that sum it is his capital and
not the mgn by his own labor or ex
ertions/
In answer tobjs inquiry of Publius,
I would answer ; To restore confi
dence among the people, to make all
persons liable for their contracts, as
long as they have any property to
levy and sell, is the only way to make
men guard against going in debt.
I would ask G. W. C. M, if be has not
gone in debt since the Homestead
and Relief laws have been -in force,
if not be is the only man, compara
tively speaking. In the second place,
the Homestead was not made for the
poor nor the honest. Ido not favor
any law that does not provide and
protect the poor man. In the third
place it has been the cause of
such high charges for goods and pi o
visions. It is the reason of having to
pay 2 1-2 per ceut per month. It
puts the poor white man on equality
with the freed-man. I think if he
had lost as many debts as I have, he
would bo opposed to it himself, if
there was not a strong probability of
its being a benefit to him. Ido not
think any man will build a shelter,
1 and see a storm approaching and not
BUENA VISTA, MARION COUNTY, GA., SEPTEMBER 1,11876,
get under it. If there are any other
questions he wishes to ask 1 would
be glad to hear them. I will answer
them to the best of my ability.
G. W. C. M. t where are your re
publican principles? Don’t let this
great per diem delude. For you
can’t pass the board on that scale,
we want economy, and not men hir
ed to represent us, so we will leave
you out in the cool.
And hope when we call you on some future
day, .
All this extravagance you will bo able to
pay.
And never get behind the homsteud for your
debts iu the past,
For if you do, Publius will blow it to the
last.
Publius.
BI .FA JUHING.
A gentleman wlu cauie down
irom the North Pacific the other
day gives to tire St. Paul Pioneer-
Press the following interesting
notes in relation to Dalrymple’s
great wheat farm: The amount
of ground sown to wheat this
Spring was 1,1100 acres. Harvest
ing commenced on Monday, with
nine self-binders. The machines
are run fifteen hours without rest,
except the ordinary stops for oil
ing, lunch and dinner, and the re
sult per day is ISO acres. One
man is employed to eacli team,
and twelve men follow the ma
chines, shocking the wheat as soon
as it is cut. The entire 1,300 acres
were to be cut and shocked during
the' week; stacking and threshing
will of course follow. Dairy in pie
is harvesting his crop for about
one-fifth of the cost required under
the system in vogue ton years ago.
At the time harvesting commenced
it was estimated the yield per acre
from the entire tract would not be
less than twenty bushels to the
acre. The farm on which the crop
was grown consists of 30,000 acres
the sod of it having been broken
this season, Mr, Dalrymple had as
limb as one hundred teams at
work. The furrows turned were
six miles long, and the teams made
but two trips a day, traveling with
each plow to make the four fur
rows 21 miles. The location of
this farm is eighteen miles West
Moorhead, Minn., in the proposed
new territory of Pembina; and
this is not the only big farm in the
vicinity, but is the “boss” farm of
a dozen or more running from five
hundred to several thousand acres.
When a young man in Patago
nia falls in love with a girl he
doesn’t visit her six nights in a
week and twice on Sundays, and
feed upon lasses candy and gum
drops and sit up until 2 o’clock in
the morning burning the old man’s
ile, and that sort of thing. Not at
all. Courtship in Patagonia is
much "more simple. He lassoes
the girl, drags her home behind
his horse, and that is all the mar
riage ceremony necessary.
Out of twelve thousand white people
in Troup county, there aieouly three
hundred and fifteen white farm laborers.
Thus the Valdosta Times: The “in
dependent” spirit is cropping out, more
or less, all over the State. The trouble
is too many people are independent ol
principle.
It is announced that Prince Milan has
sent a portion of the Servian crown
jewels to bis "Uncle” inSeivia,
A IXiUMtH.
A young man who thinks that he
can lead a reckless and piolhgate life
until lie becomes a middle aged man,
and then repent and make a good
and steady citizens, is deluded by the
devil. He thinks tii.it people are ah
fools, dc.itiiuto of memoir. 7/e con
cludes that when he repents every
body will forget that howas a diss,pit
ted wretch. This is not the case, people
remember your bad deeds and forget
your good ones. Besides, it is no
easy thing to break up iu nildd e age,
bad habits’ that have been formed in
youth. When a horse contracts 'the
habit of balking, he generally retains
it through life. He will often per
form well enough until the the wheel
gets into a deep hole, and then ho
stops and holds back. Just so it is
wiih the boys who contracts bad hab
its. They will sometimes leave oil
their bad tricks, and do well enough
until they get irno a tight place and
then they return to tho habit. 01
those boys who contract tha bad hab
it of driiii lcennoss, not one in every
hundred dies a sober man. The only
way to prevent drunkenness is never
to Contract it. The only wav to pre
vent drunkenness is never to drink.
THE JPBESIHENT Oj\ THE
SPEAKER’S HEATH.
Long Branch, August 22.—The
following lias just been recieved
from the .President:
“It is with extreme pain that the
President announces to the people
of the United States the death of
the Speaker of the House of Rep
resentative — lion. Micheal C.
Kerr, of Indiana. A man of great
intellectual endowment, large cul
ture, great probity and earnestness
in his devotion to the public in
terests, lias passed from the posi
tion of pow r and usefulness to
which he had been recently called.
The body over which he had been
selected to preside not being in
session to render its tribute of affec
tion and respect to the tpernory of
the deceased, the President invites
the people of the United (States to
a solemn recognition of the public
and private worth, and the service
of a pure and eminent character.
[Signed] . U. S. Grant.
By the President ;
Jno. L. Cadwaladek, Acting Sec
retary of State,
Washington, D. C., August 21,
1876.
Iliiinan Haiui'c ia Senbutu
If, C.
It is the same here as in Cairo or
New Jersey, Tito other day when a
Tarheel with sunken eyes and high
cheek hones sat down on the steps of
a grocery beside several others, he
sighed heavily and asked:
“Gentlemen, if any of you found a
five on the sidewalk, would you hunt
lor the owner ?”
“I would,” came from each indi
vidual with promptness and dis
patch,
“Havn’t any of you lost a five,
have you ?” anxiously continued the
man.
“I have," answered one, and the
echo went all along the line.
“Describe her, gentlemen,” ho re
marked.
One said his had a figure ”5” on it.
Another said his had a picture of De
bo to discovering the Mississippi riv
er. A third said the words U. S.
were plain to be seen on tho bill that
fell out of his vest pocket.
NUMBER 48.
“Gentlemen, thi ß five dont tally,’
mournfully remarked the Tarheel.
“None of you have hit the descrip
tion within a unlo and a sand bar.”
“Let’s see it,” asked two or three
at once.
“It's a five and I found it on the
sidewalk,” he whispered holding out
his hand.
The five was a nickel. Some of
the crowd leaned back and held their
hands on their outraged hearts, while
others rose up carefully brushed
their coat tails and said it was time
to go home. Only one of the victims
seemed to appreciate the situation.
He chuckled and gurgled and gasped
and asked the stranger what he
would take.
“Whiskey straight,” was the
prompt reply.
“So would I if I ever drank,” said
the citizen, and he lounged down
town to get up a bet on the weather.
— From, the Daily Nut Shell,
Death Scene of Speaker Kerr.
Rockbridge, Alum Springs, Va.,
August 19.—Speaker Kerr died at
7:20 this evening, calmly and with
out pain. At the sotting of the sun
he went quietly to rest, so quietly
indeed that Ur. Pope, who was not
ing every change, had hardly time to
summon the anxious watchers in the
room to his bedside.
Though it had long been evident
that the only relief from his suffer
ings would be death, his noble wife
who, through that long illness had
tended him with untiring love and
devotion, could not realize that the
awful moment of parting had inevita
bly come, but with streaming eyes
and breaking heart, besought him not'
to leave her. The Speaker’s son, a
young man of some 21 years, whose
affection for his father has always
been marked with the most touching
devotion, citing to the cold hand of
the dying man with the silent anguish
of despair.
The death scene was one of pecu
liar pathos and solemnity. The eyes
of the Speaker rested with a look of
yearning tenderness, infinitely soft
and inexpressibly sweet, upon his
stricken family, and then wandered
slowly around the room as if with a
last farewell to those present. Hon.
S. S. Cox stood near the head of the
bed and was deeply affected, The
Speaker’s secretary, Mr. White, and
Mr, Scudder, his clerk, were also
with him. At an early hour this
morning it was thought by the phys
ician in attendance that death was
near, but the tenacity of life in the
emaciated body of the sufferer exci
ted the wonder of all and set at defi
ance tlie experience of the medical
world. Before 10 A. M. there was no
perceptible pulse in the wrists or ar
teries of the arm, and yet the limbs
seemed under perfect control.
DETAILS OF HIS ILLNESS.
The condition of emaciation to
which the Speaker was reduced by
the ravages of his disease, can only
be expressed by saying that his body
presents the appearance of a skele
ton. Every bone ia distinctly per
ceptible under the thin, tightly drawn
skin, while even the line ofthe spinal
column is visible through the collaps
ed walls of the abdomen. For more
than sixty hours before death he took
no nourishment. The disease that
baffled the medical skill of the coun
try was consumption of the bowels.
during the DaT
the Speaker lay in a somi-lethargic
condition, with eyes somewhat iatro-
I verted, and half covered by the lids,
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occasionally vailed by a sudden start,
as if from sleep, at which time the
intellect woujd be again thoroughly
aroused. He suffered paroxysms of
Intense pain, which were rendered
visible by the knotted dftfda of the
muscles of the neck and limbs and
contraction of the nerves of the face
and eyes, though there was but little
audible indication of his suffering
save an occasional hollow groan. He
seemed at times to make painful at
tempts to express himself audibly
without success, and could only irrdr
cate by KesUires or an occasional
spasmodic whisper his wishes. His
mind was clear to the last. He rec
ognized the lion. Montgomery Blair
and othei-3, who spoke to him, and
shortly before death indicated to Dr.
Harris, of the Methodist Church, his
readiness to dio and hopes of a future
life of happiness. About noon his
son read a letter from a friend in In**
diana. Tie listened intently, and his
mind evidently wandered for a time
to the past. He made a faint gesture
of pleasure when allusion was made
to his vindication from the cruel
charge recently made against his ho
nor and the handsome tribute paid to
his sterling integrity in Mr. Carpen
ter’s late speech before the Senate.
The Republicans, remarks the
Courier-Journal, would like very
much to disturb the peace and pros
perity of the State of Georgia, which,
having disposed of the plunderer
Bullock, settled down at onco into
peace. Since the carpet-baggers and
Grantism have taken thoir departure
the colored people have accumulated
property to the amount of three mil
lion dollars. They were mercilessly
robbed by the philanthropists of the
Freedman’s Bauk, but are rapidly
making up their losses under Demo
cratic rule, and are gon the most
friendly terms with the whites. Ad
joining this prosperous Democratic
State is poor South Carolina, govern
ed by aliens under orders from Wash
ington, and crushed by intolerable
abuses.
Further Developments of the
Bayonet Plot. — A Washingtou spe
cial to the Cincinnati Gazette says:
“Active measures are being taken
by the Attorney General’s office to
strictly enforce all the provisions of
the national law, not only in the
South, but iu every part of the coun
try. Great care i3 to betaken in the
selection of Supervisors, and all the
officers ofthe United States respon
sible in any degree for insuring qui
et, and euforce a fair election, are to
receive specific instructions through
the Department of Justice. A circu
lar on the subject w ill be issued iu a
few days. Prosecutions are to be at
once instituted in Alabama against
those who perpetrated frauds in tho
late State election, and others who
were prominent in exercising intimi
dation at the polls in various parts Of
the State. Special counsel have al
ready been appointed to assist in tha
work, and arrests and trials will take
place at an early day. Steps are al
so to be taken immediately to give
greater efficiency to the United States
Marshal’s office in the several South
ern Slates. Some changes of princi
pals and quite a number among the
deputies have been ordered.”
A young gentleman, after fiaviDg for
some time paid his addresses to a lady,
popped the question. The Indy, in a
frightened raauner, said. “You scare
me, sir.’ - Tho gentleman did not wish
to frighten the lady, and consequently
remained silent for some time, when sh?
exclaimed, ‘‘Scare me again,’’