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ATTORNEYS ATV LAW.
BUENA VISTA. GA
Will practice in the Courts of this jKtatee
ruul the District and Circuit Courts of th.
United States. mek3i-ly,
J. L. C. HLerr,
attorney at law,
HI!KNA VISTA, OKOROIA-
Marnli 10, IS7K-1 jr
JK.M.MUTT,
ATI’OBNEYAT LAW,
IS U EVA VISTA. OA.
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BUENA VISTA, GA.
tziri 'alls may be left at my resi-:
,vloiH’O tit a hours of the day or |
night.
and rTeTt. mat his 7
lSuonu Vista, Gu;
( 'alls left at my offico or residence promptly
*.tended. BociM-ly
bIMMONS SIMMONS^
attorney at law,
AMEItICUS. GEOHGIA.
INiarcu JO-1 vr.
IHEWICiL VOTK’E.
Dr. S. W, Woodruff will promptly atteDil
all calls in bis profession. Day or night.
Lie also continues to treat with bis usual
success, all kinds of flnronic diseases of long
standing. Female diseases will receive bis
special attention—hie remedies are mainly
Uken from the Vegetable kingdom, but in
Ids treatment of diseases, lie selects from both
Vegetable and Mineral, as may be most clear
ly indicated Dr, Woodruff does not, profess
to be able to cure all cases but will certainly
be enudid in giving his opinion in every case
ihatjß&y apply to him uud exert himself to
ttie utmost of his bkiil to care all who may
place themselves under his treatment. Dr.
Woodruff can be found all hours of the day
at hi* store, and .at, night at his residence
North East corner public square, unless ab
sent. on professional business.
STOStcii ”Tio tr sis,
(PUBLIC SQUARE,)
AMERICUS, GA.
JS. JASON, - - Prop ritcr
First Class accommodations, Tito Dollars per Day
No efforts will be spared to make the
“FbeNCH House” the popular hotel of Amer
icas. , best fare that the market affords,
polite and attentive servants and Comfortables
sleeping accommodations will always be
found at this House. Itisconveuiently situ
a*“d to the business portion of tho city, the
3 o t otlioo and the deiiot.
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ESTABLISHED 1866.
OppcxUe i'uaacugurDepot. .'1 It.to 11, Ga
Three Dollars Per Dav.
Meals 75 Cents, - - - Lodyings 75 Cents.
Thia Popular Hotel,- E. B. Brown A
Proprietors, after'a trial rrf twenty-years,ns “till
opened to the public, with all the modern im
provWnents aud increaspd facilities fur the ac
commodation of the traveling public
The proprietors rospeetfully return their grate
ful thanks for the very liberal patronage extend
ed the House for Twenty YeAP.s, aud assure
their many friends that they will use their best
endeavors for the future to give the same satis-,
factiou that they have iu the f at.
<7SB- Every attention given f? Indios and
laauilies.
THE BUENA VISTA ARGUS
I u. c. BUSSELL, Proprietor.
VOLUME 11.
Ifaetetf
HALF-WAY DOINGS.
BT EUWIN EV'H i”M,
Belubbe l fellow trabelers—in bold in forth
to-day,
I doesn't quote no special verso for what I
has to eav,
De Bermon will be berry short, am dis here
am de tex :
Dat half-way doin's ain’t no ’count for dis
worl or de nex.
Dis worl dat we’s lihbin in is like a c >tton
row,
AVliar every culiud gentleman has got his line
to hoe;
And ebery time a lazy nigger stops to take a
nap,
Do grass kecp3 on a-growia for to smudd.r
up his crap.
When Moses led the Jews across de water*
ob de sea,
Dey had to keep a-goin, jes as fas ns fas can
be;
Do you s’pose dat dey could ebber hab suc
ceeded in deir wish,
And reached the Promise Land at last—if dey
had stopped to fish?
My friends dar was a garden once, wbar
Adam libbed wid Eve.
Wid no one round to boddor dem, no neigh
bors for to thieve,
And ebery day was Christman, and dey got
dar rations free,
And eberythiug belonged to them except an
apple tree.
Eon all know bout de story -how the snake
come snoopiu roua
A stump-tail rusty moccason, a-erawlin on
de groun
How Eve and Adam ate de fruit, and went
and hid deir face,
2111 de angel obeseer he come an drove cm
off de place.
Vow, s'poie dat man and oomanhaduttemp
ted for to shirk,
But had gone about deir garden, and tended
to (leir work,
Dey ryouldut hab been loafin wlmr dey had
no buainess to,
And do debbil nebber’d got a chance to tel*
em wliat to,do.
No half-way doins bredren! It ’ll nebber do,
I say!
Go to your task and finish it, and dens de
time to play—
For ebeu if de crop is good, do rain’ll iqnle
de bolls,
Unless you keeps a-pickin in de garden ob
your souls.
Keep a-plowin an a-hoen, and a-scrapin ob
do rows,
And when the de ginnin's ober you cau pay
up wuac you owes;
But if you quits a-work’ ebery tune the sun
is hot,
Da sheriff's gwine to lebby upon ebery thing
you's got.
Whatober ’tis you’s dribin at, be shore and
dribe it through.
And don’t let nuffin step you, but do what;
you‘s gwine to do;
For when you sees a nigger foolin, den, as
shoro as you're born,
You's gwiue to see him coming out de small
end ob de horn.
1
thanks you for de.'tention you has gib dis
afternoon —
Sister Williams will oblige us by a-raisin ob
a tune —
1 see dat Br udder Johnson ‘bout to pass
- r aroun de hat.
And don't let us hab no half-way doib s
when it comes to dat!
THEWAR 3ER*S’ DAUeHTER,
Marion Hyde was a cripple, but
for all that she was beautiful. Her
father was a warder in a prison.
Among the prisoners was one at the
registering of who e name at his en
trance Marion bad been present, and
-A- DEMOCRATIC F.A.IIVEIILrS' NEWSPAPER.
BUEN A VISTA, MARION COUNTY, GA., APRIL, 4, .877,
something in Ills youthful though
sullen face ’ attracted her pitiful
glance. He had stolen repeatedly
lrom his benefactor, and finally had
admitted imo the house in the night
time a gang of burglars, who lmd
seeut ed considerable booty and made
off with it in safety, save one, after
severely pounding the proprietor ol
the house. This one who was not
able to escape betrayed the complic
ity of the young man in the affair.
He was tried, convicted and sentenc
ed.
There was no redeeming feature
apparently to the story, but some
how that face haunted the girl’s gen
tle thoughts. Perhaps it was bi
cause she had a young brother wh"
was a wild lad, wandering just in dis
grace, no one knew whither, and all
the more tenderly loved by Marion
because of his sad ways.
One day as she leaned on the win
dow sill, looking with a wistful sad
ness into the yard at. the prisoners,
one of them look and up, and, cLangi ri
as he was in every wan, thin feature,
she knew ag.au die black sudeu eye
that yet were som bow like an angry ,
obstinate child’s.
Her g.ance followed him as though
fascinated, and as he pass from sight
she sighed aofly and went iu to look
at the prison record for the poor lad’s
name.
It was Aymcr Preston.
The next she knew of him he was
in the tick ward.
For a few weeks she saw him
there, but the gloomy eyes never
softened, only gazed straight before
them from their hollow sockets, or
hid themselves obstinately behind the
wasted lids.
He never spoke, lie scaicely ate,
a d the prison pay ician told Marion
that lie w.is dying ot sheer inanition.
‘lt. is my opinion he is trying to
starve Liras It' to death,’ he said.
Marion drew near the sick ad.
She bent over hiai and spoke with
gentle firmness.
But she might as Well have talked
t) the wall, for all Mgn he gave of
having heard.
Marion left the ward with a shock
ed and anxious tace.
‘Let me know if there is any
change, or you thing of am thing
that I can du,’ she then said to tin
doctor.
But at dusk the doctor was called
away by serious illness in Ins own
family, and near midnight the assist
ant going his rounds, found Ayimr
Piestou dead n bed.
‘lt's either make believe or heart
break Dr. Putney said, when word
was brought him, and ha ordered
that Preston s body should be kept
wrapped in blankets and not remov
ed till he saw it.
The order was obeyed but when
three days saw r.o chauge in the form,
Pr. Putney having meunwhih exam
ined it, it was removed to the dissect
ing room.
Marion Hyde’s window command
ed a view of this misterious and hor
ror inspiring apartment. As shfe
stood at her window that n ght she
thought, with a vajfue thrill of pain,
of the one cold still tenant • of that,
terrible room.
S h e was not a timid, superstitious
creature, nor by < ny means given to
nervousness ;so when she saw ti e
window of the dissecting-ronn slowly
Hi;ed, and a gaunt, wild face appear
at the opening, instead
. o. screaming
Or running away, she stood still. Sh&
knew that her heart was throbbim
wildh, but she knew also that it was
no phantom she looked upon. Dr.
Tutnoy had heea right all the time,
lymer Preston ivue’ Jot abaci, and
hu lie was making one wild iffon
lor liberty. Minion Hyde stood and
watched him.
kho could mot have called out just
then it he had been’the most desper
ate and Imid ned criminal within
those walls. Besides, the |io >r
wretch wus only mocking himself.
Ho con not escape even now ex
cept i>y a miracle, sue Saw him stop
presently beside a window, which
opened into an upper hall, and af.er
a long effort raise it and slowly (Lag
himself through.
Obeying an impulse which she
could not at the moment contrail,
Marion sofily open, and her door and
passed out without her crutch for
tear ot tile noise. She reached the
hall just a this poor wasted creature
after a brief rest, was urging his
halt paralized limbs to renewed effort. 1
Al the sight ot her he gasped and
dropped it a swoon, and Marion hur
r.cd to his side. She dared not leave
him, so sl.e waited, rubbing his old
hands between her tender palms,
till lie at last opened his eyes and
site made tiiin comprehend that she
wanted lain to come with her.
‘I won't go back to prison,’ he
whispered between his set teeth.
‘You peed not,’ she said sirnpl,
and led him to her own chamber.
There was positively no other ~lace
that was safe from the strict search
hat she knew would be instituted as
soon as he was discovered missinir
She procured some garments which
had belonged to her brother, and as
she goi him such fwd as would be
safe for him so eat after ins long fast.
Ho regarded all her movements
with the incredulous wonderment of
a child.
‘What has been the matter with
me? 1 he asked, after awhile. ‘I could
not stir any more than though 1 was
dead, but I knew all that was going
On about me. Ugh 1 it was fiighttul
waiting there in tne dissecting room
I believe it was only the horror of it
h Iped me to break the frightful
spell.’
‘1 suppose you were in a sort of a
trance,’ Marion said thoughtfully.
‘What are you going to do with
me ?’ he asked again.
‘I don’t know, I am sure,’ she said,
with a sigh, ‘but you are safe here till
I can think.’ .
‘I don't expect you to believe me,
i ut I am as innocent of the crime for
w hich 1 was brought here as you
a re. ’
‘Guilty or innocen I pity you, you
are so young.’
Concealing him till the hue and
cry were over, Marion smuggled him
through the gates in a woman dress
with a basket of soiled clothes. And
so the escape of Ayiner Preston’s
escape remained a mystery.
The years moved on. Marion was
twenty-live. Her father was dead.
Hot idolized brother had perished in
a irrawl. She was aione in the world,
an invalid', living ou the merest pit
tance earned with her needle, but
'the same swe* t faced, sweet voiced
git I who had won the hearts of the
prisoners in the gloomy abode of
which her father had been warden.
One day she was sent to see about
some embroidery. She was received
by a young lady, aud something in
the young girls bright face drew Ma
rion gaze uuconc ous y. Where had
she seen those eyes, so large aud so
intensely black ?
‘Why do you look at me so?’ ask
ed the yo,uug giid) with naive eager
ness..
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‘Tou remind me of &mie one I
have known,’ Marion answered, shin
1%. . tPMXine,II
‘No one ever accused me df look
ing like anybody but Robert ibifbre,’
laughed the girl. ' of ©ld.t wf j
‘Ah, yb-s, you do’. I see the r&Mn.
hlauce now quite strong,’ arid Mari
on s face flushed with emtttidu.' “Per
imps yon nre related to him. His
'name was Aymcr Pivrton.’
‘Oh !’ cried the girl springing up,
and you are lame, and your name
is Marion Hyde. Tell me, isn’t, it ?
I knew it. Oh, Robert what will you
say V
She vanished from Marion’s aston
ished eyes, with (he words on h r
lips. She was back, however, in a
trice, and with her came a tall, dark
haired, heavily bearded young man.
‘Marion Hyde? Is it possible?’
ite exclaimed clasping both the little
trembling hands and putting them
over and again to his lips, which
were quivering with emotion. Sure
ly you know me?’
‘You—you are Ajmer Preston,’
stagmn i’ed Marion.
‘I was Ajmer Preston, I am Rob
ert Leisson. A rel. tire of my nu 1 1-
er’s left me his for.una on condition
of my taking his name. I have
seaah'd for you vainly, Marion
Hyde. My prosperity has been bit
ter to me till now I find you. Oh !
you sha 1 never touch needle or work
again ’
‘No, indeed, that you shalnot,’
chimed in she who had been the
means of this happy recognition,andas
she said it, both her arms were round
Marion's neck, ana she was
and kissing her alternately. Robert
always said he would never marry
anybody but you, and you’ll have
him won’t you, dear?’
‘I have proved my innocence of
that charge of robbing my guardian,
said Robert, gravely. ‘But it was
long before I could do so. Iti Low
ed up the man whose testimony con
victed me, till he la. dying, and gave
me a written confession of false wit
ness. My guardian paid him to in
jure me. He wanted me out of the
way. I will not be so abrupt as to
ask you to marry me now, but as this
rash sister of mine has said so much
I caD do no less than testify to its
truth. I have always loved your
sweet, dear, face, Marion. I shall
never cease to wish it my wife’s face
till that wish is realized.’
And thin ho left Marion to his sis
ters petting and soothing.
‘This morning I was alone—not a
friend in the wide world, and now— ’
A bust of tears came to hov relief.
She is Robert Leisson’s wife now,
and her beau iful eyes are as dove
like as ever with compassion for the
unfortunate,
“And what should you do,” asked
a rather vain lacly of her little
nephew, who had been assuring her
of ber of his unbounded affection for
her, “what should you do, Henry,
if your good aunt were to die, and
your uncle were to marry again ?”
“Why,” replied Henry, without the
slightest hesitation, “I should go to
the wedding of course.”
Indignant boarder to his landlady :
“Madam, if you expect lour buckwheat
cakes to go into five persons aud
lfiftVe auy remainar allow me to say
that you are decidedly out in your
ritbmetical calculations, for they
won't do it, I’ll trouble you for that
plate o? hot one you've got concealed
behind the sugar bowl.” He got
’em.
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Lemon Cake.— one
lmlf cupsfii 1 flour, fchnee Hygur.
two of butter, nine egg*, oe ten
spot nfui salaratna, ttvo lemon ,
gra! n ; the yellotv simhfcfctlidflour.
Squeeze the juitfe ißtn>a cup,
and mix the salaratus ih it. Stir
quickly fti the eake wlirile foaming.
College Pudding.—Half poiind
of bread crumbs, quarter of a
of a pound beef suet, quarter of a
pound of raisins, two ounces of cit
ron, half nutmeg, half of one lem
on rind cut thin, two eggs,
quarter of a pint of milk, quarter
pound of sugar; one and one-half
hours to steam in a well buttered
mold, serve with sauce.
The vapor of carbolic acid lias
been recommended to alleviate the
severity of whooping cough, in
cases where it has proved benefi
cial a teaspoonfnl of a strong solu
tion of carbolic acid crystals and
glycerine was well mixed in a
quart of water. From one to two
gills of this weak solution was
evaporated slowly over the gas in
the room where the children were
asleep or at play (with doors and
windows closed ) twice daily.
Indian Loaf Cake—One pound
of Indian ratal, one-fourth ponnd
of sugar, qu; rter pound each of
raisins and currants; cutup the
butter in the meal, poi r over it as
uiuviU oc will make a
stiff batter, beat the eggs very
light, and when the batter cools
pour them into it, add the sugar,
dredge the fruit with Hour and stir
into the hatter; bake in a moderate
oven two hours.
Fruit Cake—Two pounds raisins,
three pounds cnvrauits, one pound
citron, one pound bwtter,one pound
sugar, one and a half pounds pre
pared flour, oaa gill rosewater, ono
gill molassea and ten eggs; spice to
suit the tasde; line a pan‘with six
layers of paper at the sides aid
bottom; bake seven hours in a slov
oven; raise the pan about an inch
from the bottom of the oveD, and
placed a buttered piece of paper
on top to prevent scorching.
Black Kid Boots.--Put some
good black ink (not fluid) into au
old cold cream or pomatum pot;
All it about half full and set it in
a cupful of very hot water, so as
to heat the ink: melt down a com
mon tallow candle and mix thor
oughly to a smooth paste with the
heated ink. This may he rubbed
into kid with a piece of old flannel.
It makes kid boots and shoes very
durable, and the kids looks almost
new as long as it lasts.
A young lady writing to her swain,,
is said to have invited.: ’“Hear—>
—Come and see us soon. Wc have
just got anew lamp, that will turn,
down and make it dellcoilsly dark.
Your affectionate .
• ■ *•
Women are said to have stronger
attachments than men. It is oVinCed.
in little things. A mail is often at
tached to ail old hat; but did you ev
er know of a woman having ail at
tachment for an old bonnet?
‘Father, did jou ever have anoth'
er wife besides mother?’ No, my
boy; what possessed you to ask su<*>
a question?’ ‘Because I saw j- /j!
old family bible that you J .
Anna Domini, 1836; tu 1 '
mother, for her own* ’ , ttr