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A. M. C. RUSSELL, Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. 11.
Bates and Buies for Legal Adve.t
tising.
SI we riff oftcli levy.*.'. %t 4*flQ
Mortgage fi fa sales, each levy 7.00
Tax Collector’s Hales, each levy 4.00
Citation Tor Tetters of Admlnistraflon and
Gua/mawmip........ t ... ' 4.00
Application for (liHinlasionfrom Administration
Guardianship and Executorship 7.00
Application for leave JO sell land lor oue-sq’r.. 5.00
Noticerfo debtors amr creditors 400
hand sales, Ist square, $4, each additional... 3.00
Sales of perishable property, per square 2.50
T>t ray notice. 00 days 7.00
Notice to perfect service 7.00
lUilcH ni si to foreclose mortgages per sq’r.... 3.50
Patios to establish lost papers, per square.... 3.50
Kules compelling \ 3.50
Nulrs to perfect services'it/ cases 10.00
Application for Homestead 2.00
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J&es of land. &c. w by Administrators, Executors
or Guardians, are required by law to be held oil the
l irst Tuesday in the month, between the hours of
ten iiYthe forenoon and three in the afternoon, at the
Court House in the county in which tlio property is
bituat'd.
Notices of these sales must be given in a public ga
zette in r the couhty where the land lies, if there l>e
anv, and if there is no paper published in the county
licit iii the nearest gazette, or the one having the
argent general circulation in said county, 40 days
previous to the day of sal**.
Notices for the &al <5 of personal' property must he,
given in like manner ten days previous to sale day.
Notice to the-debtors of creditors and an estate
unlst also be published 40 days.
’Notice that application will be made to the Court of
Ordinary for Leave to Sell land, Ac., must be publish
ed once a, week for 4 weeks.
Citations for Letters of Administration, Guardian
ship, etef, must bo published 30 days—for Dismission
fioni Administration, Guardianship and A’xecutorsiiip
40 days.
tfules of Foreclosure of Mortgage must be publish
ed monthly tt>r four mouths—for establishing lost
papers for trie full space of three months—for com
pelling titles from Executors or Administrators,
where 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
thee, the legal requirements, unless otherwise or
dered.
L. ■>. milium tv . ii. lliiKoii,
a'I'TOUNGYS at law,
ETJENA VISTA, GA-
Will practiceiu tlie Courts of this Statee
and the District and Circuit Courts of th.
United States. mch3l-ly,
J. Xj. O. KerrT
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
I >ll EN A VISTA, GEOROIA.
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JE7M. Jf
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
ItUEVA VISTA, GA.
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BCKJJA VISTA, GA.
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ileuee at a hours of the day or
jiisrlit-i-Yti’
DR. £. T. MATHIS,
iillCllH \ istll, Ijrli
(.lullsleft at my office or residence promptly
attended. D< c24-iy
SIMMONS & SIMMONS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
AMKItICUS. GEORGIA.
IN.;ucii Jo 1 vi.
pDIdCNOTICE.
Dr. S. W, Woodruff will promptly attend
all calls in bis profession. Day or night.
He also continues to treat with his usual
success, nil kinds of Chronic diseases of long
standing. Femalf diseases will receive bis
special attention—his remedies are mainly
t.ken front the-Vegetable kingdom, but in
bis treatment of diseases, he selects from both
Veuetafde and-’Mineral, as may be most clear
ly indicated. Dr. Woodruff does not profess
1o be able to cure all cases but will certainly
lie candid in his opinion in every case
t hat may apply" u> him and exert himself to
the utmost of his skill to cure nil who may
place themselves under his treatment,. Dr.
Woodruff'can be found all hours of the day
at his store, and at night at his residence
Jiorth East corner public square, unless ab
sent on professional business
11UBSCH HOUSi!,
(public square,)
AMERICUS, GA.
JS. EASON, - - Prop ritor.
First Class accanilaudations, Two Dollars per Day
tyNo efforts -will bo spared to make the
“Fkench House” the popular hotel of Amer
ious. The best fare that the market affords,
polite and attentive servants and comfortable
sleeping accommodations will always be
found at this House. It is conveniently situ
ated to the business portion of the city, the
pod office and the depot.
' BROWN S HOTEL,
ESTABLISHED 1856,
Opposite fusseaigerDepot* Jttftcon, Ga
Throe Dollars Per Day.
Meals 75 Cents, - - - IjOilyinys 75 Cents.
This Popular Hotel, E. E. Brown &
Proprietors, after a trial of twenty years, is still
opened to tho public, with all the modern im
provements and increased facilities for the ac
commodation of the Traveling public
The proprietors respectfully return their grate
ful thanks for the very liberal patronage extend
ed the House for Twenty Ycaus, and assuro
their many friends that they will use their best
endeavors for the future to give the same satis
faction that they havo in tho past.
Every attention given to Indies and
fain I it* .
BtIKN-A. .ViefcA, MARION (WUNTY. GA, APRIL 35-1877.
ifnetrij.
WITTBH TOR THE BUENA VISTA ARGUS.
The Fair Unknown;
A LOCAL ROMAUNT.
BY PHILO MAIZE.
CANTO ONE.
I
001. ltnssell, (please excusetlie pseudo-title,)
Herewith you will find a desultory trifle,
Indicted to kill ■ ennui —a simple story,
All scarred by tangents, but mainly amatory,
’Tis thrown on your mercy, who’ro the kind
est creature
Iliat e’er dabbled in ink or soiled a good na
ture,
By writing of politics and other bad evils.
For good of the State and pAnishing uncivils.
Touch lightly my rhymes with your critical
scalpel,
For my poem’s been seen by Sir Randolph
Battle,
George Munro,’Putnam Stevens and minister
Merit,
Who think it might pass, if of faults I would
clear it.
I I.
I sing—why not? Didn’t Homer, Horace,
and Tuppcr,
Byron, Mongomery, Longfellow and Cowper,
iShakspeare, Moore, Tennyson, Chatterton
and Bryant,
Sing themselves poetically hoarse—and I
can’t ?
I’m told Tom Rogers, when younger lisped lo
measure,
Hal Miller has written the like at his leisure,
And Edwards, of Tazewell, indited a sonnet,
When hardly eighteen, to his lady-love’s
bonnet.
So I’ll sing myself, like Lowe at the melodeon.
Though my voice is cracked and my harp an
accordion.
I sing loves and a maiden, armed with her
| graces,
j And different topics in various phases.
I II
Her hair was like hone}', and liuo in its
tresses.
As skeins of spun silk or a spider’s frail
meshes.
Her beaming eyes twinkled and sparkled like
Stella’s,
The goddess of stars, or like Fannie’s or
Bella’s,
Or brightest of Marion’s blue-eyed fair
daughters,
And blue as the depths of mid ocean’s pure
waters.
Though their witchery’s mischief toman-kind
that view ’em,
We see the pure beam of her spirit shine
through ’em,
Her genius and talents, her temper’s rare
soveetness,
And heaven-breathed nature in ull its com
pleteness .
Now since I’ve seen ’em, to Pleasanton’s as
serted
Flue-light catholicon I’ve been converted.
IV.
I lovo blue eyes! In my early adolescence
My soul grew purer in their ruagicai presence
And since I’m older, of their beauty I’m
filler— i
The longer I view them, I lovo them the
s.ronger,
They are love’s strong castle, affection’s cit
adel,
And windows of souls that are puro and affa
ble.
The black eyes have pierced mo, like an In
dian arrow,
And conquered mo too, —but I’d escape on
the morrow.
But not so tlio blue eyes—they capture by
stealing,
Like day-break impalpable —their pow’r oon
cealing,
Till the in n-ning’s ablaze and tho sun new
risen—-
Our souls all enamored and our hearts in
prison.
V.
Oh! glittering black eyes! so resistlossly
charming!
Your conquest and carnage are truly U inn
ing !
The ravishing blue eyes melt hearts like a
DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER.
shower—
A* the mild sunshine’s their permeating
powef.
But yours is tbo cyclone, tho continent
sweeping
With power omnipotent, pilingjind heaping
Four prostrated victims by thousands in
valleys
Of love and sentiment, Oh ! Katie’s, and
Salley’s
Lucretia’s, and Minnie's and Data's and
Willie’s
The greensward of love ia now strewn with
your captives.
Though fitted for conquests and conquering
only,
Without you this would boa desert most
lonely.
m
VI.
Complexion ! Why bless you, tho whitest
white lily
That blows in the the borders of Marion so
hilly,
Couldn’t bleach to her whiteness in summers
a hundred !
Don’t doubt it, dear sir, or you’ll think it has
thundered,
And lightened and struck you, for 1 won't be
doubted
In a town like this, where Howell Ifollis has
spouted
And Edgar, and Franklin and David can
rattle.
Unquestioned their stories of six gallon cat
tle—-
Bnt by Prudencia I’m cautioned emphatical,
Not to threaten the Russell alphabetical,
VII.
His sanguinous whiskers show fierce mood
gener’ly.
Mentioning red heard reminds me of Ken
nedy.
He’s itching for war and craving a cap
taincy—
The first ho can t get, the last—he lacks
competency.
To be a good captain needs talents for
cursing,
Which he’ll ne'er possess without years of
good nursing.
Sweet peace has been given us by a Democ
racy,
Wl'o’d rather be slaves to a vile oli-ocraey,
Controlled by tho oligarchs, W jlls, Hayes
and Bradley.
Impersonations of gaunt Fraud, Lies and
Pcrj’ry,
Thau conquer a peace and have liberty
righted,
Which a Grand High Commission of Fraud
has blighted.
VIII.
Columbia! Alas! from thy heights to thy
valleys.
No freeman is found who to liberty rallies.
No bosom is filled with heroic defiance.
When freedom’s menaced by a hell-bred
alliance,
No uprising of heroes is seen in thy borders,
When a graceless usurper promulgates his
orders.
But a nation of cowards, in their deprave-
ment,
Bernl a docile neck to the yolk of enslave
ment.
And the proud independence that inspired
our sires,
Is known but in memory's unquenchable fi res,
The instincts of manhood’s nobility's driven
From the land, whose chains a Washington
had riven.
I X.
When millions permit a vile usurpation ;
When Perjury installs a chief o’er a nation ;
When apathy deadens the instincts most
simple;
When patriotism dies in the hearts of the
people ;
Whon the flames have been quenched on. lib
erty’s alters;
When truth is disgraced and pure honesty
falters;
When Hatred is crowned and governs the
hated;
Farewell to hopes of a land thus degraded.
Debased is her prestige, revolting her story—
Enslaved are her children —departed her
glory,
‘•And the siar spangled banner forever shall
wave,”
O’er the land of the cow’rd and the home of
the slave.
JL x.
Ravolution’ry fathers! Heroes of Heroes!
Asleep in your sepulchers! Othos and
z Nor os
Have manacled tho land and leveled the
j, ‘ alters,
Baptized with your blood and your lachry
mal waters.
Gone is that bravery and pure patriotism,
Which shivered the shackles of Britain's d.:s
potism—
Gr,:.. like the sunset’s glorious refulgence-
When succumbs the last ray to night's black,
insurgents.
Ihe bold independence that nerved you to
action,
Is extinguished under the gross stupefaction
Of mammon and greed, that possesses th;
creatures,
Who claim you as fathers, but have not your
natures.
XI.
Xo more do the legends of brave men’s de
votion
Arouse in the people, one spark of emotion
For iYeedow or Country. No more the ap
pealing
Of justice awakens an impulse of feeling.
Forgutten’s Valley Forge, Bunker Hill,
Bennington 1
Unheeded the memory of Ciay, Washington!
The principles are dead our fathers defended,
Tho empire’s risen, the Republic is ended,
And devotees of Freedom see her fair pinions
Transport her to purer and nobler dominions.
But politics, avaunt! Let’s back to my
beauty.
Ami leave .the lachrymose for pleasanter duty.
XII.
In : Jfcqva'ly cheeks- so lovely and tender,
ThutuMi Veitost brute would love and .defend
her,
Were the lutes of the rose, from its faintest
blushes
To the deep carcation of red blood when it
gushes;
Her lips, quite as crimson, were iieachy and
pouting.—
A man couldn’t kiss them for his life without
shouting.
(I might just as well, while I’m writing, put
this in,
You couldn’t look on them without thinking
of kissin’.)
And in each of her cheeks there rested a dim
ple,
As roguish as could be—but • nary” a pimple.
Her skin was transparen tas that of a baby.
(The comparison’s f lain—l learn you’re a
daddy.)
XIII.
Beneath the thin veil of her soft epidermis,
Appear the blue courses of her veins at their
service.
The vermillion blushes, reflecting her feelings,
Oscillating like waves to wind in its reelings,
I could see coming and tremulously going,
With her variable thoughts; now mild and
now glowing,
Like the transitory flashes, in climes hyemal, ;
Of the grand and brilliant Borealis Auroral,
‘Tis this bright rubescunce delightfully mov
ing.
That takes the soul captive and sets the heart
loving.
But sallow hue changeless gives one the
emetics;
Why I advise Lewis "Webb to the use of cos
metics.
XIV.
Her teeth were white as white china, or a fox’s,
And regular as buttons done up in red boxes,
And so cunningly even, all fell behind hers,
And sound as a dollar from fiont teeth A©
grinders.
Her neck—alabaster was putty, beside if.
Her breast —being modest her boddice diet
hide it.
But, hidden as undoubtedly ’twas in this in
stance,
Two palpitating knaps disclosed its existence.
And her waist tapered down to the belt—of
course it
Was the smallest tint e’er felt arm or tight
corset.
So lovely her waist that, when viewed by the
glances
Of Richard E. Butt, his arm curved to his
fancies.
XV.
The poets have ever from th’ remotest cent’ry’
Described the ankles iu their beauty’s ia
vent’ry,
But I must decline in this poem to draw ’em
My gir Ind doubt had ankles, hut I ne’er saw
’em.
So modest she was and so long were her
dresses,
I scarcely saw her toes mark this, my (fear
misses.
She wore number ones. Should you doubt
my word on
A matter like this, go and ask Rube Jordan,
J Who sold her the gaiters, and knocked elf a
dollar,
j For her beauty.—Bnt his pericardium’s
‘•boiler;”
For his chest may move and his arteries quiver
But his corculum is gone and that forever.
XVI.
I Her form was so perfect, so nearly ideal,
I She seemed not of eartfihut of regions aerial
Like leaflets air wafted or wavelets on ocean,
Meandered her footstep, and glided each
motion,
So willowy graceful, bowitcbingly pretty,
Twas most like to thine, bright, modestly
shy Netty.
Her voice, eoliau in sweetness immortal,
| Resembled the music that escapes the gold
portal
! Of Heaven, when angels, in infinite charity,
Descend to raise mortals from earth's gross
parity.
To environ the simile within our town’s pres
ence,
Twas Gussie's and Carrie’s refined to one
essence.
XVII.
How light her body 1 oiten had wondered,
Till I weighed her at Hamp’s She drew a
plain hundred.
She questioned the figures, in ripples of
laughter.
Weighed she net a hundred I’m a fool here
after,
But then she wore her talma, her gloves, her
bonnet,
j The confections Rol erfs gave her, my worst
| sonnet,
j Breast pins, ear-rings, finger-rings, a lov e
letter,
That Lord McCcrkle sent. He thought that
would get her,
j But he's mistaken—as probably I may be,
| For none can presage the whims of a young
j lady.
| But win I or lose f, this comfort’s collected,
! -Toe Rogers proposed and was promptly re
jected.
XVIII.
I said her avoirdupois was gross one hundred'
Including the diff’rent items just now
numbered,
But sans ct celeras, she is not so weighty,
For I think her net weight is not over eighty.
(But Kerr and I may differ as to the latter,
Being both great men in brains and fat y
matter.)
I am so particular in this one item,
Because I have reasons, and I will indite ’em—
Yes! I have reasons, logical and rational,
Comprehensive, direct, genera! and personal 1
Enough to convert a hungry Patagonian,
Or change the settled views of Epps Cicero
nian.
[CONTINUED.]
Death of Bill Arp.
The Fort Worth (Texas) Daily
Democrat has the following telling o*
the death of this noted personage :
•‘Bill Arp, late of Georgia, the
man who furn slied the witticisms
and odd sayings, which Charles H.
Smith prepared and published some
years ago, was accidentally kill near
this place (Decatur, Tex.,) on March
sth. He fell from a wagon loaded
with corn the wheels passing over
his neck killing him instantly. When
he left home in the morning be told
his family he would never again be
i permitted to enter the house alive;
j and strange to say, he was within
fifty yards of the house, on his return
when the sad accident occurred
which terminated so fatally. He was
a remarkable man, perfectly illiterate
but replete with original ideas and
witty sayings, ho rarely ever spoke
i without saying something pithy.’
Annual Subscription 33200
HE WANTED ADVICE.
An exemplary minister of tbo Gos
pel Avas busy at his sprnion the other
evening, when a caller came to dis
turb hila. It was a stranger, arid
lie said his name was Dolsocker. II a
extended his hand for a shake, sat
down as if in his own house, and
presently began :
‘I call and to sea if you would give
mo a little spiritual advice.’
‘Certainly I will, and bo glad to,’
| was the reply. ‘Are you a profes
sor?’
‘No.’
‘Then you are thinking of turning
your feet into good paths I hope V
"Well —perhaps,’ was the hesitat
ing reply.
‘Don’t you want to be a Christian?’
asked the good man.
‘l’ll tell you how it is” said tho
stranger, after quite a lengthy inter
val. ‘l’ve got a ticket in a lottery,
and I wanted to ask you if you
thought it would stand any better
chance of striking the big prize if I
was sort o’ good, than it would if I
kept on being sort o’ bad.’
The clergyman didn’t labor with
Mr. Dolsocker very long.
A Blue Dress Cure.
A .young man in Dqbuquo, lowa,
went on /Saturday week to a country
dance and did not return to his homo
until the church bells were ringing
i tbo next morning.—His father told
him he must go to meeting, and ho
went. Before the minister had fin
ished the opening pray the young
reveler was sound asleep arid dream
ing oi the dance. An old lady who
sat next to him tcuebed his hand to
arouse him,, w lip re upon be seized her
wrist and shouted . ‘‘All join bands
and circle to the left. Swing tbe girl
with the blue dress on.”
Wants to be an Editor.
A young man writes to the Graph
ic that lie wants to be an editor, to
which the Graphic editor replies:
“Canst thou draw up the leviathan
with the hook thou lettest down ?
Canst thou hook up great ideas from
the depths ol" thine intellect., and
clean, scale and fry them at five min
utes notice? Canst thou write an
i editorial to fit a three-quarter column
of the paper which shall be ill length
twenty-two inches, of the fine senti
ment four inches from the beginning,
and niiif) inches of humor in the mid-,
die, and an. outburst.of maxim and
precept, nine and three quarter inches
long ?”
Id the time of the Rebellion of 174 j,
Duke Hamilton was extolling Scotland
to George 11, to such a length that tho
King could no longer hear it. “My
Lord,” said his tnsiesty, “I only wish it
was a hundred thousand miles oil, aud
that you was kiug of it,”
A religious old lady, when asked her
opinion of the organ of a church, the
first time she had seen or heard one,
said; “It's a vera bonny kist fu’ o‘ whis
tles; but, oh, sirs, it‘s au awfu‘ way o‘
spending the Sabbath-day !”
Few things are impracticable in them
selves; aud it is for want of application,
rather than of means, that men fail of
success. — Bochefohcavlt.
A locomotive engineer, who was
discharged lor some cause last week,
gave vejit to his spite by saying
that it was about time ho left tho
company anyhow for the sake of his
life, ‘there was nothing left of tho
track but two streaks of rust aud
the right of way.’
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