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guemi Wijsta A.. TVE. O. BUSSELL, Editor & Proprietor. 5,-riiiKof Iflvortirilug the < listin'..' cm tab tslunl by the /*i',-ss Association of Georgia for tile Country /"ress. Bills for advertising are duo on tho first appear nee of the advertisement, or when presented, cx pt when otherwise contracted lor. Rate and Rules! or Legal Advor tising. Sheriff Sales, ninth levy... * ' , Mortgage II fa sales, each levy■ - ' (() *l'ax Collector's sales, each 10ry...... Citation for U-.Uors of Administration and ( ((| AppHeatto'n for dismtaalon from Administration 11 Guardianaliipand Bxecntorablp • Applleation for leave lo sell land lor one sq r„ #. Ou s!.les of perlgi.ablo property, per sijuare Kstray uotieo, <><• days ■ Notice to perfect service..., Kolos nl l to foreclose mortgages per taj r a..,) Kolos to establish lost pspers. per square.... a.SU KuKh to’pirfeet services in (iivorso cases.... lU.OO A Tin‘galAdvS , :rt,;nU.i-p.id-for' in “ad-’ IM *‘Odcs of land. Ac., by Administrators, Executors or Guardians, arn required by law to be held on the Firt Tuesday in tho month, between the hours ot ten in the forenoon.and three in the aAaruoon. at the Court House in the couuty in which tho property is '“Notires of tlioac sales must bo given in a public ga zette in the county where the land lies, if there be u„v and if there Is no paper published 111 the county hcii’ in tho nearest gaz-erte, or the one having the X-t “SUSScSfcutatlon in said county, 40 days '“NoHeoshir the sale of personal property must be, trlvon iu like manner ton days previous to sale day. Notice to-Iho debtor#of creditors and an astato must also be published 40 days. .... _ ... , Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary t or Leave to Bell land, &e., must be publish* “’cKaU.mfff Gb.rdi.n s.d , et . must hfpubSshed M and v-t'or Dlarnisslon hem Administration, Guardianship *ud Executorship ‘' wulos of Foreclosure of Mortgage must be pnhll sh ed monthly for four months—for establishing lost papers for too full space of three months—lor com polling titles frem Executors or Administrators whore Inind has been given by the deceased, the lull forHomestcad must be published twi Publications will always be couUnued according to these, tho legal requirements, unless otherwise or dered. Buena Vista Advertisements. B. B. Hinton & W. B. Hinton, ATTORNEY AT LAl^, BUENA VISTA. GA IN ill practice in the Courts of this Stffltee an,l the District and Circuit Courts of th. United States. mchdl-ly, J. x*. O. Kerr. ATTORNEY AT LAW, JHi'fiNA VISTA, GBOKOIA- March 10, 1876-1 jr Ibmbctt, attornevat law. JJBUEWA VISTA, GA. DR. e 7 T. MATHIS, Buena "Vista., *Oo, Calls left at my office or residence promptly . attended. I>ec24 -'- Y 'YTl^ wisdom, mT and., BUENA VISTA, GA. o* jgy-Calls may be left at my resi -41 >nce at all hours of the tlay or ‘lUJjllt.“®B October Bth, 18“5.-ly gin as^&iaifts DON EJ The undersigned takes this method ofm forming the farmers of Marion and adjoining <. ian ties, Hint he is now ready to repair Gins, iu the best manner, at the most reasonable races ami to the entire satisfaction of custo mers Orders left at the Auocs office, or sent to iny address through the mail, will he promptly ‘attended to. Tour patronage re apaJtfuliy solicited. A. C. Adkins. 1 CERTIFICATE. I certifytthat Mr. A. 0. Adkins lias repaired div urn and given entire satisfaction. Ile commend him to all whose gins need repair ing A - W - I)AVlS eeferences. P js. (Stevens, J A Story, i J Bclk, M J Harvey, A W Davis, J L Matthews. ftUg. 25—‘2ms. A fpT” NEW GOODS! NEW GOODS, Just Received By Ltrwc & JjUtshfo Which They Offer at Bottom Figures. They will also keep a line of Fancy and Staple Gro ceries. “ Thanking their custom ers for past favors, they re quest them to examine their stock before buying, i. They WiH giv6 bargains, and no mistake —Try them. Oct. 4th ’76. THE BUENA VISTA ARHUS A. M- C. RUSSELL, Proprietor. -A- DEMOCRATIC FAMILY NEWSPAPER. Annual Subscription, $2,00 VOLUME 11. A Chinese I‘arable. A lady has taken tho trouble to translate from tho Ghinose the fol~ towing, which points a moral that may teach a valuable lesson to the Oc cident as we 11 as the Orient: Fold, in the couiro of his wander ings, coming to a village, knocked at tho door of a rich woman, and beg ged permission to euter. “What!” said she, “do you think I receive in to my house every roviug vagabond ? No, indeed, it would be unbefitting a respectable woman, go your way !” Then be went to the cottage of a poor woman, who at once kindly beg ged him to enter. She sat before him the only food she had, a little goat’s milk, broke a piece of bread in to it, and said, “May Fold bless it, that we both may have enough I” She then prepared for him a couch of straw ; and, when he fell asleep, perceiving he had no shirt, she sat up all night and made him one out of some linen ohe had made by her own hard labor; in the morning she brought it to him, begging he would not despise lier poor gift. Afier breakfast, she accompanied him a lit tle way ; and at parting, Fohi said, “May the first work you undertake last until evening i” When she got home she began to measure her linen, to see how much was left; and she went to measuring, and did not come to the end of it un til the evening, when her house and yard were full of liuen; iu short, sh" did not know what to do with her wealth. Her rich neighbor, seeing this, was sorely vexed, and resolved that such good fortune should not esoape her again. After some months, the travelar cam : again to the village; she went to meet him, pressed him to go to her house, treating with the best food she had, and in the morning brought him a shirt of fine linen, which she had made sometime before, but all night she kept a candle burning in her room, that the stranger, if he awoke, might suppose she was mak ing his shirt. After breakfast she accompanied him out of the village; and, when they parted, he said, “May the first work you undertake last thl evening!" She went her way home, thinking the whole time of her linen, and an ticipating its wonderful increase; but just then her cows began to lov. “Before I measure my linen,” said she, ‘I will quickly fetch the cows some water.” But when she poured the water in to the trough, her pail never emptied; she went on pouring, the stream in creased, and soon her house and yard were all under water; the neighbors complained that everything was min ed; the cattle we-e all drowned, and ; with difficulty she saved her own life, for the water , never ceased flowing until the setting of the sun. FOUR THOUSAND MIGEIONS SPENT BY GRANT. From March 4, 1789, to June 30, 1861, or 72 years, the entire net ordinary expenses of the Govern ment were 151,506,706,i95; from June 30, 1861 to June 30, 1875, or fourteen years, they amounted, exclusive of the public debt, to $5, 220,250,759. The total expenditures of the six years of president Grant’s admin istration, ending with June 30, 1875, $4,008,438,461. —A Minnesota juror addressed a note to tho judge, in which he styled him as “Onorblc jug.” BUENA VISTA, MARION COUNTY, GA., OCTOBER 20, 1876, A 'S'laiu in C'olliNion with i;i— P till IIIH. Big stories come from big lands — take the land of Niagara for an cx ampe. The land of the Himalayas, too, has its sensational narratives on a grand scale; and these, with the spread of the Anglo-Indian press, are obtaining wider notoriety. The sea serpent of American waters lias a rival in the gigantic octopus of the Indian ocean, which the other day dragged down under water a schooner in full sail, the Cap ain ot which presumed to fire at the floating monster. Butthe latest anecdote from India, though sensational enough, is thoroughly credible. It resembles closely an incident which is well known to have occurred several years ago, when the railway from Madras to Shorauore, on the Malabin coast, was first open out for regular traffic. This time however, the scene is laid on a railway in India. Asa train was proceeding at a fair speed the engine driver noticed a herd of elephants advancing toward him along the line. He immediately sounded the whistle and his assist ant put on the brake. Tn an instant, however, they were into tlie herd. The leading elephant, a huge tusker, was apparently only enraged by the whistle, and charged the advancing train. There was a tremendous con cussion, the elephant was knocked off to one side, mu Hated and writhing, and the train, after a series of vi<>. lent jolts which nearly threw it off the line, came to a standstill against the bodies of two other animals of the herd. There was not a great deal of l damage done, but the passengers were much fright end, and the engine was considerably baitured about the front. The tusker was dispatched by an English gentleman who was travel ing in the train, and his tusks secur ed, after which the train proceeded on its journey. The remainder of the herd scampered away, and turned when about a mile off on a knoll, looked in a dazed stupid kind of a way at the train as it moved off. “I met a poor man the other day and he began to speak about politics and die hard times. When I said it was the nigh taxes that made the times so bad, lie said, ‘flow can that be, when I don’t pay any taxes at all?’ ‘Don’t you?’said I. ‘I suppose von sometimes have to buy clothing, don’t you?’ ‘Oh, no,’ he said, ‘1 cant afford to buy clothes.’ ‘But you drink cof ffec or tea?’ ‘Oh, no; I’m too poor to drink coffee or tea’ [Laughter.] ‘ vVell, then perhaps you buy a drink of lager once in a while?’ Oh, no; I would like a little, hut I can't buy it. [Laughter] And, after saying this, he put his hand in his pocket and pulltd out an old wad ot tobacco, and with a self-complacent air, as if he had cornored a man that thought himself smart, he proceeded to take a quid. ‘Ah,’said I, ‘you use tobac co. Don’t you know that the gov ernment collects more tax off from that article than almost any other?’ I had him there, and he looked as if he wished he hadn’t taken that chew.” Judge Barnard, of New York. A doting mother of a waggish boy, having bottled a quantity of nice preserves, labeled them, •‘Put up by Mrs. Doo.” Johnny, having discovered the goodies, soon ate the contents of one bottle, and wrote on the bottom of the label, “Put down by Jahnny Doo.” Origin r I lie Nutmeg is the kernel ol a small, smooth, pear-shaped fruit, that grows on a tree in the Molucca Is lands and in other parts of the East. The trees commence bearing in their seventh year, and continue fruitful until they are seventy or eighty years ohTi Around tiia nutmeg or kernel is a bright brown shell. This shell has a soft, scarlet covering, which, when flattened out and dried, is known as mace. The best nutmegs are solid and emit oil when pricked with a pin. Ginger is the root- of a shrub first known iu Asia, and now cultivated in the West Indies and Sierra Leone. The stem grows three or four feet high, and dies every year. There are two varieties of ginger—the white and ttie black —caused by ta king more or less care in selecting and preparing the roots, which are a ways dug in winter, when the stems are withered. The white isjthe best. Cinnamon is tho inner bark ol a beautiful tree —a native ol Ceylon— that grows from twenty to thirty feet in height, and lives to be centuries old. Cloves —native to the Moiucea Is lands, and so called from resem blance to a nail. The East Indians call them “changkek”—from the Chi nese “techengkia” (fragrant nails.) They grow on a straiidit, smooth barked tree about forty teet high. Cloves are not fruits, but blossoms, gathered before they are quite unfold ed Allspice—a berry so called because it combines the odor of several spi ces—grows abundantly on the beau tiful allspice, or bav-berry tree, a na tive ot South America ami the West Indies. A single tree has been known to prod .ee one hundred and fifty pounds of berries. Tney are purple when ripe. Black pepper is made by grinding the dried berry of a climbing vine na tive to the East Indies. White pep per is obtained trom the same berries, freed from their husk or rind. lied or cayenne pepper is obtained by grinding the scarlet pod or seed-ves sel of a tropical plant that is now cul tivated in ali parts of the world. Possibilities of ait Acre. No man knows what these are. We know that two hundred bushels of corn were once grown on one acre, and that five bales of cotton have been made on the same acre of soil, but we do no! know that the limits of production were reached in either case. We should try to find out that not merely how much of any given crop can be produced on one acre of land, but how cheaply it can be grown. A big crop may not, in all cases, be a profitable one. It may cost too much to make it. The greatest yield with the smal* lest possible outlay of capital and labor is what we aim at. Our far mers are often too poor, not so much because their crops are small— and small they are compared with what they might be—as because it costs too much to make them. We must learn to make larger crops with less labor. To do this, we must go over less ground, and make science and practial skill properly supplement muscle and machinery. —Ex NUMBE R 4 From tho Bin Antonio (Texas) Herald. Is a Paint .tin to a Ilorsc? Nothing is more remarkable than the facility with which the colored population becomes acqnain'ed with the forms of law, and the practical management of a case in court. There was a striking illustration o* this fact in the Recorder’s Court the other morning. The prisoner was accused of.riding across one of the bridges at a gait walk, and the proof was that he gal loped a paint mule over the Hudson street bridge, lie managed his own case; His Honor said; “I think I’ll fine you, Johnsing. “May I ax a few questions ?” “You may.” “Isn’t tbar a sign over dat bridge, warning people how dey must ride ?” “There is, and that makes you all the more guilty.” “It does, does it? Now, Mr, Re corder, is dat sign what I has to go by ? Is dat dc law ?” “It is.” “Well, den, dat sign reads, ‘Walk your horse or you will be fined.’ Don’t it—don’t it, boss?” “It. does, Johnsing” “Well, de proof is, I was gallopin’ a paint mule, wasn’t it, boss?” “Y-e-s, I believe so,” replied His Honor, beginning to smell a rat. “Now, your Honor is willin’ to ad mit data paint mule ain’t no boss, I’ll rest de case heab, because you see de law is I shall walk my boss, and it was a paint mule. Dat is fatal in de indictment. You is a lawyer, and you ought to know de points most as well as myself.” Recorder—“ Ahem ! for the purpose of this suit I’ll regard that paint mule as a boss.” Prisoner —“Your Honor will please note my ’ception. I jess want to make one more point. Allowin’s, tor the sake of argument, data paint mule is a lioss, de sigh reads: ‘Walk your lioss.’ Now I has de witness here in the court to prove dat paint mule lioss was not my hoss at all. Do law says walk your hoss.” Ilecorder—“l’ll fine you $lO, John sing.” And as Johnson was conducted to the lock-up he expressed great sym pathy for the taxpayers, as ho in tended to bring a suit for SIOO,OOO damages for false imprisonment. He is now, however, at work on the street. To iHuke Cows Ciive Milch. A writer who says that his cow gives all the milk that is wanted in a family of eight persons, and from which was made 260 pounds of but ter iu the year, gives the following as the treatment: “If you desire to get a large rich milk, give voir cow three times a day water slightly warm, slightly salted, in which bran bas been stirred at the rate ot one quart to two gallons of water. You will find, it you have not already found it out, that by the daily practice of this, youi cow will gain 25 per cent, immediately under the effect of it! She will become so attached to the diet as to refuse to drink clear water unless very thirsty, but, this mess she will eat most any time, and ask for more. The amount of this is an ordinary water pail, full each time, morning, noon and night.. Your animal will then do her best at discounting the lacteal. Four hun dred pounds of butter is obtained from good stock, and instances are mentioned where the yield was even at a higher figure. j <£he §ufmi Wjsttt $. Published Every Friday. JIATKK OK SIIIIHf'UIPTIONi INCLUDING POSTAGE. Ons Year $2,00 Six Months 1 00 Throe Months 75 Alwava in Advance. Country Produce (alien when Subscribers cannot Pay Cash Best Advertising Medium ni this Section of Georgia. WHITTEN TOW THE BUENA THfTA AIIOUX SIMPLE HEART RHYMES. by timon timothy. (BAUD or FIB* KNOT) Editor Argus: [At odd times 1 have composed aimplcrhyraes expressivo of my feelings at tho time of tboir composition, which I will offer for publication in your valuable paper occasionally, as I tran scribe them, and you have room. X do not claim any merit lor these little emenations of mine—not even that of poetry. They are only heart-rhymes, net originally intended for the press, but written to and of such lady friends ns moved in me a young man's “fancy lightly turned to thoughts of love.” If the “Pineville a, “Union’s” and “Tar.cweU’i,” find discrepancies and departures from established rules in them, they need not become offended and write long criticisms—l am too incorrigib'e for correction. Ido not expect to ingratiate myself with tha critics or the unsentimental. If any of your readers have heaits like mine, they will be pleased with these unpretending, heart-felt lines, and in their pleasure will I be recompens ed TihonToimtht. Marion County, Oct. 1876" ‘‘l LOVE.” The strongest passion that is known, Which binds two sep’rate hearts in one. That keeps the inanlj bosom true, And nerves the maiden heart to do; That doth the soul of pleasure prove, Is best expressed in this ‘illoyo." Of Chrtstain faith, the corner stone, Tho living lightithat erstwhile shone, From tear-stained, bleeding Cavnry, Across time’s restless, storm-tossed sea, The only pledge of joys above, Is saving, infinite, “I lore.” The potent charm of earth and skies, The only joy that never dies, The sweet sesame that opes the doors Of mansions, bright with golden floors, Which Heaven’s boundless kind nose prove, la Gods-crcatci, pure, “I lave." It brightens life, makes sorrows less, It is the sun of happiness. So lot thy heart, sweet maiden, say, “I love! I love!” from day to day. Then in thy gentle eyes will shina A tender radiance divine. To Cora of Upafoi. A BLACK HILL JICIDEST. He was coming down Main street the other day with revolver in each, bootleg, and just a little topheavy, when a man happened to rub against him in passing. Our bloodthirsty he ro of the boots jumned oft the side walk, and flourishing a pistol aloft, yelled: “Now, look yer, everybody in this yer gulch; lookgat me and crawl ! I’m Wild Cat Tip, from Bear Gulcb, I didn’t come to Dead wood to be insulted, so git out here a half dozen of yer sons of guns at.d iorm a line of battle, ’cause I can't hold onto this yer hammer much lon ger so trot ’em out.” About this time someone in the crowd fired a pistol in the air, and simultaneously a rotten egg struck “Tip” between the eyes. Dropping his revolver and throwing both hands in the air, he yelled “I’m murdered,” and fell heav ily to the ground. After be realized just what had happened, he straight ened up, and looking around, ex claimed, while he wiped the decom posed egg from bis face, “Now, boys, that’s a rough joke, but I’ll stand it!” I’ll take it all, only let me see the calibre of the gun what shoots eggs.” Not gaiuing the desired infonnation, he silently stole away.— Black Hill Pioneer. The people are indebted to a democratic congress for the know ledge they possess of corruption in big i places of the government. The work of exposure has only just commenced. Shall it be continued'? —Albany Argus.