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Citation for Letter* of AJinluistratlon anil
Al)l?i”*timi'fora l 'miu*lOTfroin Adnilulatratlon
‘tinurillanaliipaml Kxeontorshlp 800
Application for loavo to aell land lor one q r.. 5.00
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Estray notice, 60 days 7.
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* States of land. &0., by Administrators, Executorß
o r Guardians, are required by law to be held on the
virst Tuesday in the month, between the hours of
ten in the forenoon and three in the afternoon, at the
court House in the county in which the property is
’“Notices of these sales must he given in a public ga
oitoin the county where the land lien, if tlu re bo
am , and if there is no paper published in the county
hen in the nearest gazette, or the one having the
arrest geiidral circulation in said county, 40 days
proper,y must he.
mnst also be pnhlislicd 40 daj s. .
Kotice that application will be made to the Court of
Ordinary for Leave to Sell land, kc., must le fmbhali-
Crt oS.nrfo C fMtar. e o k Administrtion, Guardian
sbVp etc* must be published 80 days for HsiuissJon
fi om Arlurluistratiou, Guardianship and Axeeutorsiup
41 Kulesof Foreclosure of Mortgage must he .publish,
e.l monthly for four months—lor establishing lost
papers for tie full space of three months- tot com-
J,‘.hi,.,, titles from Executors or Admmi*tiatoih.
thWild Iras been giver, by the deceased, tin. lull
bepuhllslredtwiee.
publications w.ll alw ,y he eontiuued aeeo.a mg I"
these, the legal I'equlrcureuts, unlessothuwise u
dered. ______
Buena Vista Advertisements
NEW GOODS!
NEW GOODS!
,|nst Received By
I,awe & IfUtshto
W liicli They Offer at Bottom
figures.
They will also keep a line
of Fancy and Staple Gro
ceries.
Thanking their custora
ci s for past favors, they re
quest them to examine their
stock before buying.
They will give bargains,
and no mistake—Try them.
Oct. 4th ’76.
~~i\ L. ivisDon, ,n. I*.
BUENA VISTA, GA.
BgyCalls may he left at my resi
lience at a hours of the clay or
night."®?
DF!. E. T. MATHIS,
Buena Vista, Gai
Culls left at my office or residence promptly
attended. I)ec24-!y
B, B. liitiSon & W. B. Iliutou,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
BUENA VISTA, GA
EJlV'iirpvaeticein the Courts of this JStatee
and the District and Circuit Courts of th.
United States. mch3l-ly,
J'. Xj. O. K.err,
attorney at law,
JUIENA VISTA, CxEOIiOIA-
Mareh 10, 1876-1 jr
jeTm^butx,
ATTORNEY -A.T LAW,
BUENA VISTA, GA.
Marion Sheriff Sales,
WILL bo sold before the Court House
door in the town of Buena Vista, on
the firstTucsday in February next, the follow
ing property to wit: Lot of land number
21G, in'the 31st (list of Marion co, to satisfy a
li fa in favor Averrilla cKinny vs .Sarah
J Crawford, Executrix. Said fifa transferred
to James II Dunham; issued from ilarion su
perior court.
ALSO
At the same time and place, lot of land
number 258 in the 4th dist. of Marion county
as the property of John Mackey, to satisfy a
li la issued from Marion county court in favor
of J T Burkhnlter vs John Mackey—property
pointed out by plaintiff.
DN MADDUX,
dec 29 4w Dept’y sheriff
APPLICATION FOr 'dISMISsION
GEORGIA— Mabion County.
Whereas ,!ohn W, Slaughter, Admin’r of
Sarah Slaughter, has applied for dismission—
All persons interested are hereby notified of
ho above application and required to file
their objections within the time specified
by law. Witness my hand.
Jans 3tn Jas.M. Lowe
Ordinary.
in <fcOifftP erda y at Samples worth $1
$0 free. Stinson & Co.,Portland, Maine
SEND 6c. loG, P. K\N 10 1 < 0. , New }oik.
Pamphlet of 100 pages, containing lists of 15000
Newspapers and estimates allowing cost of auver isiug
THE BIIENA VISTA ARGUS
A. M. C. RUSSELL, Proprietor.
VOLUME 11.
Wilcox, Gibb & co.’s
G-XJ^dSTO.
TIIO’S B. LUMPKIN is ready to take your orders for the same.
CERTIFICATES FROM PARTIES IN THIS COUN
TY WHO USED IT LAST YEAR.
The best I have ever used. Jas. L. Baker.
Wilcox, Gibbs & Co.’s Guano increased my crop nl co'ton fully one-thir ;
ot more last year. Henry G. Jackson.
I used Wilcox, Gibbs & Co.’s Guano last year with very decided ben< lib
■ TltOS. L. ItOGERS.
I uscdjjlOOO pounds of Wilcox, Gibbs A Co.’s Guano last year on 5 1 2
acres of poor pine land, which I am confident would not have made 250
pounds ot lint cotton (the 5 1-2 acres) without the Guano, and I gathered
1085 pounds of lint cotton. G. W. I’OuL.
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rt rattss tow urn tnwum
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goods and prices,
Succefcsor to Kendrick & Wlicatley,
December 15, 18’76-2m Americus, Ga
Dr. Ei J. Eldridi
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Americus
DRUGS, PATENT MEDICINES, PERFUMERIES, TOBACCO, SPICES,
SOAP, STARCH, BRUSHES, COMBS, PAINTS, OILS, AND EVERY
THING KEPT IN A FIRST -CLASS ID JR, UrG
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DR, E. J. ELDREDGE’S DRUG STORE,
Public Square, Americus, Ca.
_A- DEMOCRATIC IE' 3SnE"WSP APER.
BUEN A. VISTA, MARION COUNTY, GA., FEBRUARY 7, 1377,
WIIAT WILL THEY DO WITH IT ?
“A baby I Lft on our doorstep,
too! Who dared do such a tiling as
leave a baby hero ?”
These wore the exclamations of Mrs
John Morton, one cold morning, as
tlio] servant girl bounded into the
dining-room with a bundle in her
arms, and made the announcement
that a baby had been left on the stoop
Of all th bundles that had ever been
left at John Morton’s house, this was
the most unlookcd for amkthe most
unwelcome.
‘Yon see, ma’am,’ siad Bridget; ‘I
went out to get the morning paper
and to sweep off the stoop, and I sees
tbis bundle lying on the mat. I went
to lift it in my arms, and it began to
move, and I says to myself, ‘what can
it be?' and when I opened the shawl
I sees a baby!’
‘What will wc do with if,” said
Mrs. Morton,
‘Send it to the police station at
once,’ replied her husband. ‘Here
Michael, take this child to the station,
and tell them that it was left on our
stoep.’
•Let me Jcok at it first,’ said Mrs.
Allison, Mrs. Morton's mother, as she
arose from the breakfast table and
approached the childish couple, who
were already bending over the little
waif. As the was tlnowu
off from the babe, like Moses in the
bulrushes, ‘Behold, it wept!”
‘lt is hungry,’ said Mrs. Allison.
‘How thin its little arms and hands
are. It looks as if it was nearly starv
ed. Let us feed it before we send it
away. ’
Bridget had been a child’s nurse ;
she had already prepared some food,
and was_briuging it into the dining
room. I ran through the yard,
ma’am, and got. Mrs. Worthingham’s
baby’s bottle, and she is coming right
over to see it.’
The baby took'its nourishment ea
gerly. and then fell asleep.
‘lts garments are very clean, al_
though very poor,’ said Mrs. Allison,
as she began to [examine the little
one’s wrapping.
‘Yes, and we don’t know anything
about the blood,’ said Mr. Morton,
‘I thing a great dc al of the blood.
One wants tojaiow what sort and
quality ho takes across his thres
hold.’
‘As to the sort,’ replied Mrs. Alii'
sou, in a low tone ol voice, ‘it is one
of those whom Christ took into His
arms and blessed, notwithstanding
the rebukes of His disciples—and as
to the quality, ‘Of such is the king
dom of Heaven.’
‘Well,’ said Mr/Morton, ‘you wo
men must do what you think best.
The car is coming, and I must go
down town. Michael can take it any
where you conclude to send it. There
is a home for the friendless, an orphan
asylum, and a half dozen other char
itable institutions, where they take
such things.’
As Mr. Morton passed out the door,
he encountered a number of ladies in
their morning wrappers, rushing in
to get a glimse of the wonderful ar
rival. The gentleman jumped on the
platform of the car with only a hur
ried ‘good morning,’ lest lie should
be overwhelmed with such questions
as, ‘What will you with it?’ ‘Who
on earth put it there ?’ etc.
‘Well, really/ exclaimed Mrs. Mon
tague, as she went into/he dining
room, ‘you arc in trouble enough.—
I am so glad too it wasn’t left at our
house/and the pretty little woman
shrugged her shoulders as she bent
over the little sleeper now lying on
the sofa. ‘I would not keep it a min-
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nto, the longer you keep,it the hard
er it wiil.be to "got rid of.’
‘What will they do with it ?’ asked
Mrs. Turner, of any one who might
choose to answer such a difficult ques
tion. ‘Mrs. Morton could not take
care of it, because she is not to
children.’
‘Oh, no, indeed,’ said bustling Mrs.
“’orthington. ‘l've had four chil
dren,! and know what it is to take
care of them. To be sure I’ve always
had a nurse for each child, and never
slept withfone a night. You know
my nervous system would not admit
of my having the care of them. I
love them dearly, but my nerves are
too weak to have them with me much
of the time ; but I seejhat they have
good nurses, and Ij can’t help the
rest.’
‘Yes,’ saidJiiMrs. Hartwell, who
hadn’t auy children, and hoped she
never would have, ‘you have been
married ten years, Mrs. Morton, and
you are such a nice housekeeper and
so precise in your living that a baby
would turn everything topsyturvey,
and you would have to work across
the grain all the rest of your life. I
never could take other poeples’ chil
dren.”
‘What will they do with it, Mrs.
Allison ?’ said another lady who had
stood by silent, and always concurr
ed in everybody’s opinion. The moth
er of thirty years ago was this good
old lady. She had brought up six
children in the days when mothers
were old fashioned; she never had a
nurse for one of them. Her own
hands made all their little garments
and her nerves were firm enough to
bear all their childhood grievances,
and to adjust all their young heart’s
troubles and differences. She had
heard this conversation, and her
good, warm, motherly heart felt trou
bled.
What could she answer ? If it had
been years ago, she would have tak
en the Lttlc wail into her own nest
and m tdo it welcome, and called it
her Off j. But alt® would not advise
her ’daughter ; she must act ac
cording to the dictates of her own
conscience, Mrs. Allison was too o'd
to share much in the care, though she
would gladly do what she could if the
baby stayed.
The ladies discussed the question
at heme, in each others’ houses, and
down town shopping. Meanwhile,
the baby slept on, as sweetly as if in
its own home, with a loving mother
wat cbing over it ‘He giveth His be
loved sleep.’ The Father was watch
ing with loving eyes over the little
one whom nobody ..owned, staying
where it was so unwelcome.
‘Mother,’ said Mrs. Morton, after
the ladies had gone out, ‘what shall
we do with it ? Do you think it is
our duty to keep this baby V
‘My daughter,’ she replied, ‘have
you no missgivings about sending it
away? It is one of Christ’s little
ones. ‘Feed my lambs,” she contin*
ued, as she left the room to ask God
what they should do with it.
After Mrs Allison left the room;
Mrs. Morton was left to her own
thoughts. To take a baby was a se
rious matter. She often been
asked to adopt a child, but she had
always said she’d never doit—but this
had been sent in such a strange man
ner. She began to weigh the fors
and against about keeping it. The
against scale seemed to go down a
great deal further than the other.
John would not want the additional
expense ol hiring a nurse, if the baby
stayed, she would have to take care
of it herself. This would debar her
from so many pleasures she enjoyed. -
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But is it. right to live only for your
selves? Did not the Master com
mand us to work in his vineyard ? and
if she sent the baby away, would Ho
not say to her, “Inasmuch as ye did
it not to one of the least of these, 3 0
did it not to me.’
Mr. Morton came home earlier
than usual that night. He found the
baby still there. He did not seem
much surprised; he, too, had been
pondering all day whether it was
right to send baby away. At all
events, they would not send it away
that night, and when morning came
the decision had been' made. Baby
was to stajx They named her Faith,
because they trusted the Father that
he had sent her for good, and not for
evil.
For days the neighbors in the block
heard the ceaseless music of Mrs.
Morton’s sewing machine, and if they
had looked in, they would have seen
numerous garments of soft muslin
and warm flannel under process of
completion into sundry garments.
Some of the ladies said Mrs. Morton
did not know what a piece of non
sense she had undertaken; others,
that she was so foolish to confine her
self at home so mucii, taking care of
some-one-else’s baby, whom nobody
knew anything about.
Baby did bring a great deal of care
with it, more than Mr. or Mrs. Mor
ton had any idea of, but they never
said or felt that they regretted the
steps they had taken. There were
so many stitches to take for baby
that Mrs. Morton had to take a great
many less for herself, and garments
that used to be trimmed and embel
lished, had to go almost plan, but
what matter. There are no ruffles
and puffs on the white robes up there.
Christ’s robes were without even a
seam. There were many wakeful
nights and wearisome days, but God
sent so much additional strength,
that what others called a blunder
was a blessing to them. It led them
heavenward, for it made them less
worldly, and they had the happiness
in their hearts which comes of work
ing for their Master.
‘When the little voice first uttered
“papa,” Mr. Morton thought that
baby was very forward, and Mrs. Al
lison smiled over the little x*ed
and white stockings she was knitting,
when he asked if babies, as a general
thing, were so cunning and pretty;
Years went on. Faith Morton’s
babyhood and childhood passed away.
Those that knew the circumstances
of her early babyhood had forgotten
it, and those who had never heard it
supposed that she was Mrs. Morton’s
own child. She had been the child
of prayer and religious training, and
when girlhood came, she was a de
voted Christian. Beautiful in person
and heart, she was beloved by all the
wide circle of friends who gathered
around her, and not only by them,
but by the many she sought out from
the poor, and befriended. The wed
ding day came, and Faith, clad in
the bridal robe, was more beautiful
and loving in her mother and father’s
eyes than ever before. After the bri
dal party had passed Into the church,
a woman, clad in rusty black, follow
ed on and stood in the aisle. Those
who saw her Weep, wondered why
she wept. What had she to do with
the bridal party ? When the guesls
had left Mr. Morton’s house and the
bride and groom had gone to their
own homes, the door bell rang, and
this woman was ushered into the pres
ence of the lonely father and mother.
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