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tining.
Sheriff Slof, I’Oi'li levy f t '.ill
Mortiwe 11 1- •'■“•li Urvy '■
T:ix Collvl'K.rV i-'.len. rncU l. v\ .... 4.<W
.Station for L''Ulth uf Aamliiintration and
Guardian uliil' *•* 1
Amilivuttouforaisiuisßioufi-mn AuniinutiaUun
(inardiimslMviaml Kx.aiuK.rahi]. J- >
Aimlli-atieu for loavo ... m-ll land lor oue Hi r.. ~n
Notifti to tlel.tora ami uiniUtnra 4 -illl
j ~m i Bales, latH|ilure, S4, eael; aiMitloual... am)
5.”,;, a oi pei'islialile iinnioity, jwr winaro *••*
I tr-iy uotit'.'. alays -a- •
Nr,ti• toivftVrt Horvico /
|;ulcs Hi si to I'orwloso iu<rlKtti*B Jm t sj r
Istiles to establish lost imimrs, per Hijuare
Rule* comiiolliw" titl.K.
Hulos to porfoid siwvjees iu divorao cases.... 1 .
Aiiplication for Homestead - "
All Leyul Advertisements must uc paici tor in ml
‘"sHlwoftaml. &c.. by Administrators. Exocntor*
*/., t "(tiii 11 s are require*! by law to beheld on tho
VT • Vi m sdiiv'iutlm month, between tho hours of
ten in the forenoon and three in tho afternoon, at the
I'iiurt !i ..use in tie-county in which the property is
'li. i's oftlicsr '• ■ must be itivon in a nnblic gt
_ tli. oimty win rt tho land lios. if thorn bo
Hliv.an.l if tho r• is '"> iiuycr imbiiali I m tlio ••••unt.v
bell in tin? naarost '('Zi'tt'. or t-.iu m:u lu\. m IF
* st ~: ii , tMibiiion in said county, 10 days
pr st!oogV.Vti'o'fpcraoiuil property mm l>o,
.irru’lii'liiio mam . -.on duyaprovimm to sal,. .ay
' \ * , Ukm'i! ' ..of meditora and au oatute
U Tobt Uial appllttiimwmirn made to tho Court of
Ordinary lbr lAi ;• laud, Am. must be pubiwb
' < oaat'i.mi'<r Lrtto" . f Adiuiniatratlon, Guapi m
sbio, t te., in a-1 he putdishcd 4U da.\ s—ioi Dimuls
(i one Xd niiiistr&tion.tiu'irdiaiishii 1 and/.xtcutor ..ip
4 ’ ttiik'.s of Foreclosure of Mortsjmo must bo publiaii
...l mmitlily for four months—for urt-ibli-i.iuo lust
aiHjrf..rtoe full sin* of thrw tnuu..; lor ••‘•mi
titles from Executors or Ao-irnn.-stratort,
• re bond hf.fi been given by the dec*.athe luii
oi three nionths. , ~. . ~
i•• ."deal ioii for Homestead must be pubusliedt.wioc.
, ' utiom will always bo continual recording to
...hi, legal requirements, unless other*vise or
d •' (!.
ximifiscmcHt,
HAEIOH SHERIFF SALES.
GEORGIA—Marion Cotnrar.
Will be sold before tin; court bouse doo 1 '
-iu the town of Bucini \ ista. on the Ist I ues
day in April next, under and by virtue nt
three 1 i. Eas.. is:;ued from the ('oimty Court
iu favor of W, 11. Haynes > C. 11. A John
IV. Epps, the following property, to-wit:
One black maie, levied on as the properly
of .John W. Epps.
ALSO,
_V t!i“ sam ■ time rnd pla ■i, 1 ie foilowuag
property, to-wit:
•>, >\ acres of lot ofland cr
acres of lot i umber Uil, ami Ji> acres ofl
East side of lot number All in the din
Jlistriet of s lid county. Also one hundred
buslte sof corn moj-e or less. All sold un
der and by virtu" of a Fi, Fa. is.ned from
t!:- Sttorrior Court of said county, in favor
of Susan I t lemolits ••. Tiles, i Ck-mcuto and
John VV. < leiiieu.s and Sarah B. Clements,
Executors. Property sold as tit. properly ...
John W. dements. 18. cuter of i. A. Cioni
,.„t<, <b eras. and. (here being o property of
said estate upon which io levy.
ALSO
At the same time and j lace, the following
property, to-wit:
(me "lswing taaoliine and fixtures, as the
property of John Cai'ianiter to satisfy a. cost
fi fa. iu favor of the officers ot Marion supe
rior Court vs. John B. Carpentir. Also, at
the same time and place uc pump and fixt
ures, as the property of the Southern Bump
and I’ipe Company, to satisfy ~ cost ii. fa.,
iu favor ot the officers ol Marion County
.Court vs. Southern Pump and Pipe ComiJa
ny.
ALSO. ;
At the same time and place, the iollovrtng
property, to-wit. -
140 acres of land, more or less, adjourning
tho lands of Joint F. Mollis on all tidi s . s the
property of . oel F Bushin, Sj „ and J. F.
Bushin, Jr., to satisfy a fi. fa. in fiwor of
J. C. Andrews & Cos., vs. Joel F. Kushiu Fr.,
and J. F. Bushin, Jr.
Aaid property pointed out by plaintiffs’
attorney, f/’euant iu possession notified.
D N. MADDUA,
J’eb. 27, ’77- Dept. Sheriff.
B. B. Billion &. W. B. Hinton,
ATTOSSI\ T EYS AT IIW,
BUENA VISTA. GA-
Will'pnicßcein the Courts of this ;Statee
aiut the District and Circuit Courts of th.
United States. iuoh3l-ly,
JT. Xjb. O. 25-orr.
attorney at law,
IHIfiNA VISTA, GrKOItOIA-
Mareh 10.1878-1 jr
Si. M. BUTT?
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
IlCE’t A VISTA. GA.
' I\~L. iW. V>.
BUENA VISTA, GA.
ftey-Calls may be left at. ■ . >'' ■
ioru-'e at a hours of the .
night.'lei'
DR. E. TANARUS, MATHIS,
Buena "Vista, O-a;
Culls laft at my office or residence promptly
attended. Dec2t-ly
SiMMOMS&SIMMONS,
attorney at law,
AMKIUCUS, GEORGIA.
March 10-1 yr.
THE BUENA VISTA ARGUS
A. Id- C- EUSSSLL, Proprietor. -A. DEMOCRATIC FA-Tv- ISTE'W'SIPFAp'ERi. Annual Subscription, $2,0
VOLUME 11.
Tli ffllllTM’S CIIOOI.
ini: who lj:\d run glojiy
or Tin:in countenance to
BVllCUAltlf,
Tfipidvorm .Toll a and flic llomlf—Syn
t:ix Kvai’is—Tliomjikoii, The Warblfr
Of the Wabash—Hiflmr/ the Hired Tol
it iciun—Wurlilte McCrary—Duvuns,
the Anti-ISutlerltc, ami David Mei
lgc Key.
WM. M. EVARTB.
Win. Maxwell Evarts, of New
Yoik, seerelary ot state, was Win
in Boston, Feß. 0, ISIS, Iris father,
Jeremiah Eva 1
fair practice ami goo I aliil.ty. He
entered Ya e Guliege at an early ...go
and was graduated in 1527. .S - ,'vi;
queuliy he studied lor i : .n s if..
the Harvard law school, u. ri s 1 ■
he located in New York city,
he immediately entered upon i. '
•practice of his prolession. In a few
tears his industry and fidelity, as
well as his ability as an advocate,
gained him a large clientage and be
fore lie was thirty years of age lie
held a high position in his profession.
In 1851 he was appointed United
States District attorney for the South
ern district of iSew Yoik. He was
prominently urged for U. S. Sena or
in 1 SGI, but was defeated by Ira
Harris, who was made the com pro
inise candidate. From July 15,
ISGB, until tho close of President
Johnson’s administration, lie was at
torney general of the U. S., and in
3 871, Ik. wrs selected by President
ia :nt as tiie counsel of tlic'.U. S. at
he Geneva arbitration. These are
the only public positions which he
! has vi r held, or to which lie was
supposed to aspire, and it is at the
bar where he gained his conspicuous
and distinguished honors. When
Mr. Everts retired from the district
attorney’s oil'c ?, in 1853, was form
ed the law firm of Butler, Evarts &
Soutlimayd, now known as Evarts,
Southmayd ic Choats, and it was as
a member of this lir.n that lie gained
his high place as a lawyer and pub
licist. lie was counsel in the great
Parish will case, in which an attv nipt
was made to break tho will of Hen
ry Pariah on the ground of the men
tal incapacity of the testator. Asti!
later case in which Mr. Evarts was
engaged was oue iu which th - wili o,'
Mrs Gardner, the mother of the wid
ow of ex-President Tyler, was con
tested on the ground of undue indu
• nee on the part of Tyler to obtain
the making of the will. Although a
Sialeu Island jury found against tue
will, Mr. Evarts finally gained his
case iu the court of Appc als. When
the articles of impeachment were
brought by the house of representa
tives against the late President
Johnson Mr. Evarts was called to
Washington as counsel for the de
fense, and his effort on this occasion
is almost as fresh in the minds of the
people as hi ; arguments in the Til
ton Beeclior case two years ago. Per
his legal championship of President.
Johnson he was rewarded wiih
place in the cabinet; as his reccn
i championship of Hayes before tin
j electoral friiumtd gi\ • im the ba
! place ii; tile cal ii t of the m v pros
I ideut.
JOUX SIiBK.MAM.
J . n Sherman, comes of a , :in
guisheu Cbuuectiont turn By, f.-auded
by a reiugee roundhead, of Essex,
England. His lather Charles Rob
ert Sherman, a lawyer, removed lo
Ohio in 1810, and became a judge of
the supreme court, tie marr.eu
young and had a family of eleven
children. Of the sons William Tecum
seh Sherman is the general of the
BUENA VISTA, MARION COUNTY, GA., MARCH, 91, *877,
■army. He was born at Lancliagicr,
Ohio, May 10, 1823, and received
his early education at Mount Vernon,
Ohio. At fourteen he was sent to
tue Muskingum improvement to earn
his own living and to learn civil eu
giuoerng. After two years, political
changes deprived him of his position
and lie began the study of law at
Mausliekl, Ohio, with his brother,
Chalts T. Sherman, afterwards U. S.
district Judge. 11c studied Latin,
and read largely of English Stand
ard am hoi s. Jle wa licensed to
practice law die nay after he became
ul'ttgc. Foi vi n y\ar.s he was a
partner with his older brut her.
-, 30.0i rod-- the circuits, it is ■ luted,
“Guild s mail, ged the uisincss and
<:< ii i;. !■ and hi ti:e Alice.
u memb-.r of the uation.d whig con
eii-iou Oi uii7 and I'AB ft ml in sue
latter year <v-o cuoseii a prcsidcntia.
eh cii r. in 1851 lie ran For Gongtc
in mi le; ui district i Ohio and was
oiec cd. Tn Iswa. ni wu.- hen ie
soiVid. lie uistiUgUisned iumscil in
the house oi representatives as a ilu
ent debater mid a man of affairs-
He was again dieted to XXXVtIi
and XXXVIth congiess. ILc was
the republican candidate for speaker
of the latter, and after an unprece
dented contest, wanted only oDe or
two votes to secure U s election,
During that congress he was chair
man of the committee on ways and
means. In 1 SCO lie was dieted to
the XXXVIth congress, but in Istß.
on the resignation of Senator ■ .‘nasc, |
he was elided by tiie Ohio iegt. iu-1
lure to the U. S. Senate and placed
upon its most important coaiinitcee,
that oi finance. He introduced and
pui he debate on the national bank |
bill and legal tender ads. ii was]
activ. iu providing money io carry
on the war and maintain the public
credit. In 1863 lie delivered decisive
speeches against the continuance oi
ihe state banking system and ill ia
vor ol the national banks. Iu the
XXXIXth congress ho introduced
abut io fund tho public indebtedness,
of which much was promised, but it
was mutilated in tue senate and de
feated in the house. He prepared
the substance of the reconstruction
bill u.ii. li was adopted. Iu ihe XLtli
congress he became chairman of die
finance committee. He reported a
bill for funding the national debt and
converting the notes of the United
States. It, was regarded by many as
just and wise, and was attacked by
others as a step towards repudiation.
Jlo supported the bill in a speech of
great ability. He served, during his
congressional career, on tho commit
tees on agriculture. Pacific railroad
judiciary and patent office, besides
the finance committee.
In person, Se.iator Sherman is tal
and spare, with brown hair, grey
eyes, a large head, and countenance
expressive of decision firmness and
self control. lie speaks without ef
fort. or oratorical display.
RICHARD W. THOMPSON.
Secretar of the navy, is a Vngin
by birth, and a whig politician pf
trie old school He was born in C-ul
■-upper county ott Jane 9, 1809, and
received a go-m ” , ical education.
If-, was fond of adventure, and long
i„d.-re lie was of age his face turned
toward ihe wild of Kentucky. In
1831 ho settled in Loui; ville as a
clerk in a small store. Subsequently
lie removed to Lawrence, Indiana,
where I c taught school lor a lew
months and then went into a store,
selling goods by day and studying
law by night. In 1831 ho was ad
mitted to the bar, and was almost
immediately elected to tho Indiana
legislature, lie was re-elected in
1835. and in the following year went
Lo the senate where lie served two
years, bring president pro. tern, of that
body. In the campaign of 1840 he
work&ri zealously for “Tippecanoe and
Tyler too,” being a presidential elec
tor and speaking constantly from the
stump. In 1811, lie was elected a
representative in congress. In 1844
he was again cho cn a presidential
cleelor, and in 1847 reappeared in
congress. President Taylor offered
an appointment of' charge d'affaires
to Austria, President Fillmore tiie
office, of recorder of the general land
office, bat he preferred to practice
his profession. In 1864 he was eiect
t"l presidential elector, and in 1868
vi u- elected a delegate to the r pub*
iu'Kii lmnonal coaveniion. iu poi'ti’
eat -uc-e- he has uis-; ivptK i ,on ..t
being an excellent piaiiorm maker,
and h s ij'.cud say that he lias Con
ti u ted mere party platforms than
any . ajliiic.au in tile west. The res
olutions adopted by the Chicago con
vention in 1860, were drawn up and
read by him. He was chairman of
the Indiana delegation at the Cincin
liatti convention last year, and voted
ior Mr. Morton until the break was
made for Mr. Hayes. Mr. Thompson
is a man of exceedingl ,• line presence,
tad, straight, with white hair, and a
countenance denoting great decision
•if character. He is considered one
ol . lie JujOsHun f orators in fad ana.
,M. KEY.
a Tenuos-ec neighbor of IP n. I)-
M. Key, now in Wasnington. I urn
ishes the following sketch of his ca
eer :
David M. Key, postm <ster general,
was boiii iu Green county, east Teu
nesec, in 1824. Lis father was a
Baptist minister, Young Key was
reared on a farm, and alter obia ning
a commoe school education taught
school himself to obtain means to pay
liis way through college. In 1850
he was graduated at iliuwassee col
lege, east Tennesee, studied law,
was admitted to the bar in 1853, and
settled in Chattanooga, where lie ev
er since resided. In 1801 ho joined
the Confederate army, entering the
service as a lieutenant colonel of the
43nl Tennesee regiment, served
through the war, and surrendered in
North Carolina under General John
son. In 1805 his old friend Andrew
Johnson pardoned him. He return
ed to his home in Chattanooga and
renewed the p.taeiice of the law. In
1869 ho was elected to tho constitu
tional convention, and wa3 earnest
in securing the rights of full citizen
ship to the colored people, with
whom he is very popular. Although
a democrat, his course has been so
liberal as to win tho respect, admi
ration, and ; .often the support of re
publicans. The county of Hamilton,
in which he resides is republican but
its niFinbei 8 in tho legislature were
his zealous supporters. In 1875,
Mr. Key vaa appointed by Gov.
Porter to fill the vacant seat of An
drew Johnson in tho Senate. He
was recently defeated lor election,
lacking ond three votes, but receiv
ing i very vito of both parties from
East TennJee, which gave Hayes
10,000 majority. lie also received
evciy republican vote in the Itgisla
tine. His deffat was due to the non
partisan course in the senate. He
voied for the Mississippi investiga
tion, and was the only democratic
senator wno did. At his home he is
regarded as a representative confed
erate, a just, liberal and houcst man,
who thoroughly accepted the situa
tion in 1865, and has done all in his
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power to nr-Unote gOod will and har
mony between tho sections. In 1870
he delivered an oration over the
gloves of the federal dead at Chatta
iioCtgfi, which touched the popular
heart, winning golden opinions from
tho soldiers of both sides. lie is a
man of imposing presence, and,
while not brilliant or showy, has sol
id qualities and sterling integrity,
which command respect. lie has
long been regarded as the leading
lawyer of East Tennesee, and from
1870 to 1875, when he was appoint
ed senator, was chancellor of the
Chattanooga circuit.
CHARLES DEVENS.
Gen. Charles Devens, attorney gen
eral, was born in Charlestown, Mass.,
April 4, 1820, entered Harvard Uni
versity in 1834, and after graduating
a its law school began legal practice
ai Franklin county, Mass., in 1841.
He served in the state senate in
1847-’4B, and was Unitfd "States
marshal from 1849 to ’53. While
holding the latter office, he offered
to pay the sum demanded for the
freedom of Sims, a fugitive slave who
nod been returned from Massachu
setts. Immediately before the war
Gen. Devens was one of the ablest
and most promising young lawyers
of Worchester, and had already dis
tinguished himse'f as an orator. In
the spring of 18G1, Devens entered
the army with the rank of Major.
Some months later he became colo
nel of the fifteenth regiment, which
took part in the peninsula campaign.
fi **
While before Yorktown, he was aj>-
pointed brigadier general. He sub
sequently served with great credit
in the army of the Potomac, and lost
a limb in battle. Since the war, he
has been most of the time on the
bench, and is now a member of the
supreme court of that state. Gen.
Devens represents the best element
in the republican party of hia state,
and is regarded.with confidence by
the reformers. He has, however,
been so much removed from active
politics as not to have placed himself
in open antagonism with Gen. Butler
and others of like character. At the
Bunker Hill celebration iu 1875. Gen.
Devens was the regular orator of the
day, and li s address
ed for its conservative, patriotic and
liberal tone.
GEORGE W. M'CRARY.
George W. McCrary, ol lowa, sec
retary of war, was born at Evansville,
lud., in August, 1835, and in the
following year removed to what was
then Wisconsin territory. lie studied
in the public school and was gradu
ated from an academy; then took up
law as a profession, and in 1856,
when 21 years of age, was admitted
to practice at Keokuk, lie took a
pronounced position among tho peo
ple of that city at once, and in 1857
was sent to tiie state legislature. In
1861 ho was elected to tiie state sen
ate, where lie served until tiie close
of tho war, taking an active part in
the legislation incident to that period.
He gave the remaining years until
1868 to the practice of his profession,
and was then elected to congress,
lie was there appointed one of the
committee on naval affairs, and also
served on the committee to revise
tiie laws, of which Mr. Poland was
chairman. He was re-elected to the
succeeding congress, receiving in
1874 11,384 votes against 9,521 for
Leroy G. Palmer, the anti mouopo'y
candidate. Ho wa3 not a candidate
for re-election last fall. In the for
ty-second congress, the familiarity he
had shown with election laws recom
mended him for the chairman of tho
committoe on elections. In tho fol-
shc §unui fteta
td coiuu-sriixnFXTs.
The Kditor eolirita thort, mU-written (\ui
tnunications, from all acvllmt* of the reentry, on
Agricultural, Political. Literary aml JJUrd/a
iuouh top let — also original Pacing L'ssai/s, Hi
oyraphiral Sketches, D cacti pitch*, Critiques,
and Short Stories. J/c also sidieti* account* of
Accidents, Ineidcntc , Marriage*, jJeath* and all
Interesting Occurrences happening in the comity
and section. All article* intuuLd forputUinUioW
should he closely studied, ear (fully and legibly
irrif.ten } and only on one side of the sheet, Tln
Kditor reserves the rialU io reject, any or a
articles submitted to him.
lowing congress lie was chairman of
the committee on railways and canals
and iu the forty-fourth served on the
judiciary. Mr McCrary is credited
with having taken the first step iu
the leg sbitiou which created the lato
electoral tribunal. On Ikecinber
7th last, ho introduced a resolution
provu.ing for a joint committee ol
of the two houses lo consider a mode
of counting the electoral vote. The
resolution was inferred to the judici
ary committee, of which tie was a
member. They reported it prompt
ly, and it was passed. Mr. McCrary
was one of the joint committee on
the part of the house, and when the
electoral bill was finally laid before
that body for action he was the first
speaker in its support.
carl schmiss
Carl Sehurz, who lias been so prom
inent iu public affairs, was born at
Livlar, near Cologne, Prussia,
March 2, 1829. He vras educated at
the gymnasium of Colonge and the
university of Bonn, which he enter
ed at the age of 17. At the out
break of the revolution of 1848 he
conducted a liberal newspaper, but
being concerned in an uusuccessiul
attempt to promote an insurrection
at Bonn, he lied to the Palatinate
and took part in the defense ol Baa
tadt. On the surrender of th
tress lie escaped to Switzerland. In
1850 he returned secretly to Germa
ny and effected the escape of his com
patriot, Gottfried Kinkle. Mr.
Schurz came to this country in 1852,
and soon after took an active part in
the anti-slavery injhe
northwest. lie was an influential
member of tie republican conven
tion in 1800, and spoke both in Ger
man end English during the canvass
which followed. President Lincoln
an pointed Mr, Schurz minister to
Spain, but he returned therefrom in
December, 1801, in order to enter
the army. He took part in the bat
tles of the second Bull Bun, Clian
ccllorsville and Gettysburg and retir
ed at the close of the war with the
rank of major general. In 1805-0,
General Schurz was Washington cor
respondent of the Tribune, and in 1867
he became editor of theW estliohe 1 ost
a German paper, published in St. Lou
is. In 1859, he was chosen United
States senator in Missouri for the
term ending in 1875. He opposed
leading measures of Gen. Grant s ad
ministration and took a prominent
part in the organization of the liberal
party, presiding over the convention
in Cincinnati which nominated Hor
ace Greeley for the presidency Ho
visited Europe in 1873 and again in
1875, being received with much con
sideration in his native country. On
his return he took part in the polit
ical canvass in Ohio, and by his elo
quence contributed materially to the
election of Gov. Hayes and the ove;j
throwjof inflation.
Columbus was the first man to es
tablish aa iron foundry in America. Ho
cast an anchor.
Spanish proverb: ‘‘When mothers
in-law fall out, then we get at the family
facts.’’
—A now Constitution can and will
lesson taxation.
—A new Constitution can give us
a cheaper and better public school
system.
—Whatever promises to pay is a favor
able omen.
—A counter Irritation —Short change
from a shopman.
—Doesn’t a man contract a debt when
he pays part of it?
—ln what place is two heads better
than one? In a barrel.