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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, Published Every Friday. KATKB OF SUBSCRIPTION! including postaok. One Year |2,0 Of Six Months 1 00 Throe Months 75 Always in Advance. Country Prtdcrc I aim wlim fakcnlws cacn; 1 Pay Cash, Best Advertising Medium in tln is Section of Georgia. 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,’’