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W . A. INGLETON, Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. 11.
Curbs
It. It. Million ft W. U. Hinton,
A'I'TOKNEYS at law.
BUENA VISTA." GA
Will practice in the Courts of this Statec
Bl ,a the District and Circuit Courts of th.
United States. incli3l-ly,
UloAfeo HOuse.
Smithville, Georgia.
on the arrival of all tfcdW
|<’avc an good as the season affords.
I'l iee, 50 cents a meal.
elibutt,
attorney at daw,
IUIE\A VISTA, GA.
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81-ENA VISTA, OA.
etsrCalls moy bedeft at my
deuce at a hours of the day or
night .■*?er
BmTirTTwiATHIS,
jlu. im V istfti Oil
Culls left at my office or residence promptly
iT. tended. Uec'24-iy
~~ SIMMONS & SIMMONS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
AMKUICUS. GEORGIA.
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JAS L. e HASiNCTON,
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HUENA VIST ,V. and V |
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IV 111 i iei>|ieclfully aunnurce t> the pcb'ic j
uni) liis tr ends i Imt he i- mill Rt- hi* I”’.'!
ra ly f.r nil 1. . il ■* -f tail* l l ini;—C iitii jt. il.ili- |
iujf. Repairing, Oami'g. e:e. J’.!im . want i
iug measure.* ii s- i.d lot' eil.ls can get th m ;
„| him. Latest stales and fashion* i.l- ;
wave .’ll h-. Mil. .1 S. 1,. BK ASINI, ll)N j
MEDICAL NOTICE.
l)r. S. W, Wonnnnrr will promptly attend
Mil call* in l.i* pro:'ei*>n. Day it night
lie al*o continued in treat, with l.isii'tiil
PUccers ail kinds of Cnionie disease.-' of long
standing Fema’e diseases will receive his
special attention —his remedies are in.G.ilj
tjkeii from ti e Vegetable kingdom, but in
Ilia treatment of diseases, be selectsti "lit both
Yegetnble and Mineral, as may be most clear
ly indicated. Dr. Woodruff does not profess
to be able to mire all cases but. will ceitainly
be candid in givb g his opinio i in every case
that may upply to him and exert, himself to
the utmost of his skill to cure all who may
place themselves u. der his treatrqent. I)r,
Woodruff enu be found all heurs of the day
at Ida store, and at night at his residence
North Hast corner public sq> a'?, unless ab
sent on professional busines*.
FREIRCII ll® V 13,
(PUBLIC SQUARE,)
AMERICUS, GA.
JS. IASON, - - Prop ritcr
F!rt Class actimmoilations, Two Dollars per Day
t3J~No efforts will bo. spared to make the
“FklNch House” the popular hotel of Amer
icas. Tne best fare that the market affords,
polite and attentive servants and comfortable
sleeping accommodations wid always be
found at this House. ’ It is oonvenieptty situ
ated to the businassportion ol' tb*i city, tlte
post ollice and the depot.
sir
ESTABLISHED 1860.
Opposite t’assenger Depot. Slacou, Ca
Tlireo T>ollnrs Per Dav.
■tfewte tii Cento, - - - Lodvinya 7.7 Cento.
This popular Ilotol, E. E. Brown A
Proprietors, after a trial of twenty years is thill
opened lo the publio, with all the modern im
provements and increased facilities for the ac
commodation of the Traveling publio
The proprietors respectfully return their grate
ful thanks for the very liberal patrouagoexiend
td the House for Twenty YeAits, aud assure
tbeir many frionds that thoy will use their host
endeavors for the futuro to give the same satis
faction that they have in tho past.
say Every attention given to ladies and
•famlies.
N. G. PIDNCK, J. K. PRINCE.
IS. C. & 1. K. PRiCB,
umt @AS*I£
—AND-
Horses, Mules, .CmirilgW, Bag
gies, &c.
Horses, Buggica, Carriages and Hacks lo let
at reasonable rates —Good iSflteds and Lots
for Stouk Drovers.
Cotton Avenue, Americus, Ga.
VISTXV, MAEIOX COUINTY. GtA-., JTJISTE 20.1877.
DARE AND DC!
BY BEY. W. WKITFIBLD.
Why dost thou look where thou dost fear to
climb,
Why dost thou lovo what thou dost fear to
-win;
Why hope to dwell in some untainted clime,
Yet revel on in sin ?
At once, O man begin
To make thy life sublime/
Gaze with an eye of trusting faith above,
And turn lliy feet and climb the dizzy
height;
Look up to God, and looking, dare to love
With all thy soul and might ;
Muko Him thy heart's delight;
His promised blessing provo.
Live ns a dying mortal should, below,
Forsaking every tinseled joy of earih;
Chain down each passion as thou w. midst a
foe;
Let evil have no birth,
-ive life ulou? to worth ;
Do good where'er you go.
* 11 * * *
While count,less thousands, 'neath the wine
cup's spell,
Gc crowding yearly to a drunkard's grave-
Or grope, rum-blinded, to a fearful hell,
Hast thou no friend to save ?
O brother, quick, he brave 1
Him of his danger tell.
Let not thy tongue in guiity silence lie ;
A word may turn a mortal's erring feet
From downward paths to those that lead on
high,
Yea, to an angel's seatal
A word may make complete
Thy life sx ,e ‘k, ere thou die 1
J
Store well tliy mind with priceless gems of
th Ught;
Sterch Ih.iu f. v sden, he -no-■ * than j
gold—
’tis ;t nover .: T i 1)3 bought
And never can be sold;
Forever shu.lt thou hold
The joys 1 y wisdom bought.
Live thou for others not thyself alone 1
All men are brothers bo they bond or free :
Then be thy arms of kindness 'round them
thrown;
iSh. uldst thou the hel'Jee.- nec.
And (Soft wi 1 show to thee
Tho mercy thon has: shown !
Utica, N, Y.
a strangiTbird STORY.
From the San Jcso (Cal) dlercary.
I*. Pago and son, catling wood
near fan Jose, notice for several days
that a number of birds remained con
stantly upon a tree near them, some
going and coming from time to time.
Upon cutting down the tree thoy dis
covered a lirnl) with a hollow cavity,
some two feet in length ami three or
four inches in diameter, in wh cn
were two full grown birds of Some
goodly-sized species. There was a
small aperture through which the
birds were supolies with food from
their mates. The limb was cut and
the birds liberated. They were nei -
ther ot them able to fly, having evi
dently never bee out of Ihcir ii pros
onmetjt. llow they came in-ide is a
question. It is probable that the
mother bird was small, and though
able to make iter nest in the hollow
ot the tre • and rear her young, could
not ex ricate them, and they did not
gain strength enough to help them
selves until the hollow had so closed
that escape was impossible. Those
who examined the birds think they
are about two rear? old. They had
been fed from their birth by their fel
low-birds the through aperture in
the limb of the tree. A nobler in
stance of devotion even the human
family never exhibited.
'VVorlon the arbor for the Cen
tral Hairtp Ground hars emmer
ced. Tho arbor will ho speedily
completed by the contractor. Mr. P. hi.
Dennis. It will be 80x90 feet with only
four inside posts. It is to bo built for
ssoo.—jTal. Standard.
-A. DEMOCRATIC FAMILY NEWSPAPER.
FIVE DAYS HARD FIGHTING.
Heavy loa3 of Men on both Sides.
A correspondent of the New York
HcraM, of the 10th inst., reports as
follows:
‘‘A her making his dispositions
with great care, and seizing several
important positions in front of the
Duga Bass, Sulniiun Pasha advanced
with several battalions anti uiountaiii
artillery to force the and. file held by
the Montenegrins. There being on'y
or.e available road, and ih.it lcad.ng
through the Dnga Puss, too Turks
sought bv dint of sheer fighting to
sci/e the bonds of the road so as to
place their guns in position to sup
port the advance ol the head of their
column. The ground was favorable
for this plan of operations. Fvir the
first two days, the Montenegrins
slowly retired before the well dis
played Turkish line, until the nar
rowing of i he ground and the inciea*-
mg difficulties of the road forced the
Turks to reduce their front. Then
the concentrated fire of the Montene
grins delivered from every rock and
gully of the rugged mountain slopes,
j began to tell with frightful effect o
the Turks. Amid a perfect hailstorm
of bullets, the brave Turkish infantry
[struggled or.ward, encumbering the
| road with their dead ami wounded at
[every stop. The guns posted before
kiolia shelled the and file in advance,
but with little effect, as the Monte
negrins were well covered, aud suf
fered only when tho Turks desper
ately charged on them amid tile rocks |
and brushwood.
THE FIGHTING ON THE THIRD DAY
Was almost hand to hand, the combat
ants firing ia cao' 1 . other’s faces at a
few yards distance. But, although the
Turks gained ground slowly, it was tit
a terrible cost in men. Their supe
rior numbers euab cd them to push
up supports to take the place of the
slain, and it seemed as if the head of
the Turkish column of attack wa>
melt ng away as before a furnace.
Notwithstanding tho stubborn brav
ery of Suileman Pash-a's troops, tne
fourth day's fighting found them no
nearer tho key of the pass, and t c.y
had already lost nearly 3000 men.
Still they endeavored to maintain
po. scs.-i>ion of tho ground they had
gained at such a fearful cost, but the
effort was hopeless. The hardy Mon
tenegrins repulsed every effort to ad
vance, and it became now only a
question of covering the retreat of
the exhausted column. This was
commenced hy a furious oils aught on
the Montenegrins by the troops lur
thest in a vauee, but. wliicn was
quickly repulsed by a murderous fire.
The retreat now be am general,
and the vict lions mountaineers
speedily followed the retniug lurk •
reoccupying their foirner positions,
aud killing immense numbers. In this
prolonged and bloody combat, lasting
over live days, the Turks have losi
over 4,000 men and a quantity of
arms left on the field. The victo
rious Montenegrins lost 700 men.
The disproportion in casualties is
due wholly to tho natural strength
of the r position and the necessary
exposure of the Turks during the at
tack and retreat. The failure of the
Turks to force the Dnga Pass is be
loved here to inturo the capitulation
of Nicsics within a short time, but it
is liloiy that Snlieman Pasha may
again attempt to relieve the town.
DEFRAY OP THE RUSSIANS AT RUSTCHUK
The Herald correspondent at Bust
cli ik tßhgrnpp'that on Saturday
morning, a Russian f -rcc, number
ing ab hi, 25,100 men, attempted to
cross the Dmubc near Giurgovo, and
opposite Maretln, on the Bulgarian
shore. The low, osier-covered is
lands at this point were utilized by
l he Russians. la the attempt to
bridge sect ions of pontoons were em
ployed. The movement wars rapidly
xecut-'d in the early morning, and
under cover of the mists that hung
over the Danube and the Adjacent
marshes; but the Turks were on the
aleit, and the guns of the butteries
at Maretin opened on them promptly,
repulsing them with severe loss.
Reinforced the Russians aga'n at
tempted to cross the river, but were
driven back by the Turkish guns.
TELEGRAPHIC IMPROVEMENT,
A Wonderful Invention.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PROCESS.
Washington, June 9.—A patent
has just been granted fo Irving Pick
ering, one of the editors and propri
etors of the Evening Bulletin and
Morning Call, newspapers of Sun
Francisco, for a method of rapid tel
egraphing of fac similes of stereo
type p ates. It is claimed that by
h s proecV> as errtht page of a news
paper can be transmitted bv telegraph
iu from fifteen to thirty minutes, de>
liver mg the copy directly from the
instrument, in such form that it can
bo handed immediately to tile prin
ters. In other words, the copy will
ho a substantial reproduction of the
original, except that it might bo giv
en in a large size letter if so desired.
The stereotyped plate requires no
preparation for the purpose of tele
graphic transmission, other than the
filing of all Gems, depression or
s) aces bit ween the falls of tho let
ters with a non-condin ting substance
which maybe quickly appl.ed. The
faces of the type being lift clean by
ail equally siin.de process. The plate
ilius pn paieil is placed upon a cyl
inder arranged to revolve rapidly so
as .o present each successive letter
to a traveling frame. As the cyhn
der bearing the plates revolves, the
frames gradually advances by the
operation of screws, aud thus eacli
and every Ina is successively pre
sented to the fingers or magnetic
points air ady mtniiou.
Necessarily the circuitis open when
the po.nts are passing over the non
conducting sndace, bui as often as
the the in dal type presents itself to
sai 1 fingers the circuit is closed and
the magnetic points or pens at the
eeeiving stations make tho record
there in the same I 11 r as the origi
nal delineated in series oi *i ’ines
ii her upon chumif lly prepared or
ordinary paper, fixed upon a corres
ponding cylinder at said receiving
station.
A PLAGUE OF LOCUST.
London, June 13. --A Renter dis
patch from Malta savs accounts from
Tripoli and Barbary states tnat an
area of a hundred miles is devastat and
by locu-ts, and crops arc utterly de
stroyed. A famine is believed to be
imminent; severe distress already
prevails.
W. E. Arnett, an employee in the
Augusta postofficc, who las been
amusing himself by opening letters,
has been arrested.
THE LAST MAN.
wiiat is to decome OP Him accord
ing TO the scientific speculator.
PcicnMflc American.
What will become of the last man?
Various theories that have been se
riously maintained by Scientific men
are describ'd and we siiminar zo th in:
1. The surface of the earth is stead
ily diminishing, elevated regions are
being lowered, and the seas are fill
ing up. The land will at last bo all
submerged, and the last man will be
starved or drowned.
2. The ice is gradually accumulat
ing at the north pole and melting
away at. the south pole, the conse
quence of which will be an awful ca
lastrophc when the earth’s t enter of
gravity suddenly changes. The l: s
man will th- n be drowned by the
rush of waters.
3. The earth cannot always escape
aeomet, and when the disaster comes
there will be a minkling of air and
commetary gas, causing an explosion.
If tlie last man is not suffocated he
will he blown up.
4. Tlieie is a retarding medium iD
space, causing a general loss of veloc
i y in the pi uuets, and the earth,
obeying the law of gravity, will get
closer and closer to the s..u. The
last man wi 1 be suustruck.
5. The amount of water on the
earth is slowly diminishing, and aim
unaneonsly the air is losing in quan
tity and quality. Finally the earth
will be an arid waste, like the moon
The last mail will be suffocated.
6. Other suns have disappeared,
and our must, sooner or later, blaze
np and disappear. The iutense heal
of the conflagration will kill every
dving tiling on earth. The last man
will be burned,
7. The sun’s fire will gradualy burn
out, and the temperature will cool.
The earth’s glazial zones will enlarge,
drivingjour race to the equator, until
the habitable space will lessen to
n .thing. The laot man will be frozen
to d> ath.
A gradual cooling of the earth will
produce enormous Assures, like those
in the moon. The surface will be
come extremely unstable, until the
remnant of humanity will take ref
uge In Caves. The last man wi Ibe
crashed in his subterranean retreat,
9. The earth will at last separate
into small fragments, leaving the
people without any foothold, Tho
last man will have a dreadful fall
through space.
10. The tentn theory, providing
that there will be no last man at all,
is thus expressed : “Evolution does
not necessarily imply progress, and
possibly the race may have retrogat
ed until the human being possesses
the na urc of the plant louse, sueh
being the ease, tho single inhabitant
will spontaneously produce prosperity
of both sexes.”
THE NEW EGYPTIAN COTTON.
We ate indebtee to Mr. Edward At
kinson, of Boston Mass, for a small pack
age ot above seed, which we carefully
planted and will rcccord the results,
Tin plants are up, but it is too early
yet to discover any distinct features.—
We presume it is more closely allied to
Set Island than upland cotton—as is
the case with all other varieties of
Eyptian cotton we have ever seen.
A. E. Tarver of Twiggs county,
sold 11,500 pounds of Wool last
week, at 27 1-8 cents per pound.
J. M. Buchan, of Dodge county,
sold, 2,450 pounds for 26 1-2 cents
per pound,
Annual Subscription $2,00
INTO. 35
GENERRL NEWS.
Russians commenced bombarding
Rustehuk on lltb.
Softns- arc becoming troublesome
again in Constantinople.
It is said Russia is endeavoring to
subsidize the press—preparing pub
lic feeling for her occupancy of Con
stantinople.
Accounts received from Erzcroum
represent ilio Turkish army in Arme
nia in a sad condition, fed and com
manded. The Turks are rapidly re
treating before the Russians.
Erzeronm is not expected fo hold
out six weeks. Its occupation by the
Russians is a foregone conclusion. Tho
Turk are aware of this danger, but
it remains to bo seen whether they
can obviate it, and show sufficient
force to check tiie eventual advance
of the Russians.
Russians have evacuated Olti and
Peniok, at the foot of ihe pass over
Kanly range, leading to Ardnhan.
Both Olti and Penick woro rcoccu
pied by the Turks, who went m pur
suit of ihe Russians.
Possibly, after all, the Russiars be
fore advancing on Erzeroum, will
make an effort to bombard and re
duce Kars, so as to leave their rear
quite free
Attorney General Devens wrote to
Distiict Judge Dick, of North Caro
lina, asking how fraudulent papers
passed hia'conrt.
The pension agency of Virginia,
West Virginia, and North Carolina,
will probably be located at Knox
ville, Tenn.
Robert T. Clayton, of Georgia, ap
pointed Consul to Collao.
John T. Quaries, of Georgia, ap
pointed Consul to Malaga.
J. A. Ft gg, postmaster at Asheville
N. C., was to day suspended from
office on charges preferred against
him by special agent.
The signal reports at Washington,
indicate rain in South Atlantic States.
A disastrous collision between two
railroad trains on the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad, on the morning of the
12th inst. Both engines being in
moiion were crushed. Four persona
iustantly killed, 18 wounded.
A King Snake was sometime since
sent by mail trom Sail Diego to Cor
pus Christ!
From Teh & Mess, we learn, J. D.
Roddey, a gentleman from Georgia,
and his little son Bob, were drowned
on Sunday night, May 2Tlb, in Lee's
Creek near Baxter's Spring, Kansas.
Some heavy failures in Boston for
last ween are reported, ranging from
uno half, to one and a half. million.
One in New York for Lalf million.
Ia an engagement between six
Russians torpedo boats and some
Turkish ironclads, three torpedo
boats were destroyed, and ono iron
clad injured.
Es.-Gor. Smith, ou 9th inst.,
replied to Gov. Colquit as tho
author of A. 0. Garlington’s let
ter relative to the exorbitant fees.
Tell. & Mess, says: Governor
Colquit had on'y to remain still
and possess his soul in patience,
for all tho facts to come ont, and
triumphantly vindicate him beforo
tho people from the various damag
ing allegations and imputations
of his antagonist.
Indeed, Governor Smith’s labor
ed effort seems like the Eastern
bomerang to have doubled and re
coiled upon his own head. Ans,
in this view of the ease, "the press
is almost a unit.