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Kstray notire, 60 days.
Notico to perfect nervine
{tales 111 si to foreclose mortgages per sq r....
Itiiles to establish lost papers, per sqnure.... J
liules compelling titles
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’ AvpU stion for Homestead •••••••
Alt Legal Advartiseeieatornußt be paid for n
-**t^es^flend. lie., by Administrators, Execute™
or ileardians, are required by law to be Uelrt on tha
EirotTeeeday in the aiontli, between tha hoursi o
ten to the forenoon and three in tbc aftei norm, at tbs
lionet House In tbs county in which the property ts
" notices ef these snlea most be given tn a onulic ga
zelle iu the county where the land lies, if there be
mir and if thera ie no paper published in the county
ban in tha nearest gar,U. ar tha ene having tha
argest general eirrulation in laid coenty, 4 days
i-rcviona to the day ef aale. , ,
Noticseforthe tale of personal property must bo.
given in like manner ten daya prowmns to sale day.
Notice to the debtors or creditors and an estate
must also tia published AO days.
Notice that application will be made to the Court *1
Ordinary for leave to Sell land. Ac., must l> publish
ed onceVweah for A weeks.
Citations for Letters ol Administration. Ouardian
s rip. etc., mnat bepnblishrAi Wdays-for Dismlss on
fi out Administration,(4 nardianahlp and
4 * ff uies*ef Foreclosure of Mortgage mnee be V*bllh
e,l monthly for four month*—for establishing lost
papers for tie full space of three munths—for com
pelling titles from Executors or Administrators
wtiere bond has been given by the deceased, tlralull
apac* oftbre* taonta* ..
Applioaliou for Homestead naastbpublih*<l twice,
publications will alw .ya be continued according to
llicsa, the legal requirements, nnlesaotherwise or
dt-rod.
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ATIORNKYAT tAW,
fiUEIA VISTA.CA.
OR. E. T. MATHIS,
lia. iul Viit*. GtJ
( nils left at dt ofliea r residence promptly
A'.te.ukd. .
SiMWCKS & SI*MS.
ATTORNEY - AT LAW,
AMKIUCUS. OLOROIA.
Ilhm-i. iu-l W<
F. L. WI>DS, Jtl. .
bcena vista, ga.
ttfr-Callis nt i? be left at my resi
dence at a hours of the day or
night.- I **
it. B. Hinton Jk VP. B, liiuton,
AITOKiIiKTS AT LAW,
BUENA VISTA. GA-
Vi ill practice in the Courts of this State,
,i l( l ilia District nud Circu.t Courts of the
l ulled bt.tes. mcMI-ly.
J, W. BRADY,
attorney at law,
AMKKIOUS; GICOKGIA,
Offic. an, tapur Street.
Prompt attention given all bnsiness. Coi
tions made. Will practice in tha counties
1.00, Macon, Marion, Schley, Sumter, Web
r, Dooly, Terrell and Worih.
DENTAL WORK
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Good Dental Work
■ CALL ON
Dr.D.P. HOLLOWAY
at hi, affi.-e over Davenport & Bmiths’
Drug Store, Americus, Ga.
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DENTIST
AMERTCTI S, . <3- A.
Continues to solicit the patronage of the-good
people of Marion. Satisfaction guaranteed, and
at reasonable prices.
Special inducemeßts offered to those -who will
Arrange to visit, my offioo to have their opera
tions performed. my 22 tf
4 A6. L. B RA SINCTON,
tailor,
BUENA VIBT A, GA
Hiuld respectfully announce to tha public
and kis lriends t hat lie is still at bis post;
ready for all kinds af tailoring—Cutting, Mak
ing; Repairing, Cleaning, etc. Those want
ing measures to send fer suits can get them
of him. *3T I-ntest styles and fashions al
ways on hand. J.\S. L. BKASINGTON
BUENA VISTA, MARION UOUNTY, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1878.
WITH THE CUIVALRIC
A Florida correspondent ol tlio
Philadelphia Times writ** ns follows :
‘1 wassitliug one night m Brown's
Hole!—it fam us old lendrzvous of
forty tears s anding—p ckling my
self in ormigc brandy and munching
soaked biscuit, when a riniffliDg old
fallow approached inn. I recognized
him as Mr. Zabian, a ragged po.st
aerpt to the life of a gentleman, en
gaged at the time in the lismble bui
i espect.alile business of washing
dishes at the hotel. “Do you see
that ranged hole up there over the
I Hitler tty brush, ’’ asked ike old man
Upon my replying to the question,
which ready did not requira an an
swer, but whs thrown out by the old
gabbler as a lasso, with its interrog
ative loop at the end, lie refl* ctively
wt uad his cup towel about him and
siting down remarked: “Well, sir,
it all the blood that was shed in the
quanel in which that bole was mad
was smeared on the-e walls it would
redden up this whole room, I can tell
yon." The sanguinary S' duction the
old fellow had put into his story, ami
pushing him a gla a of brandy, 1 ask
ed him to tell m all alxmt it. Then
and there, in ihat inu-ty, uu 1 hall
mined hotel, full of if wild and riot
ous memories, the old fellow told me
a story that lor fierce gal witness and
lecklf-ssness puts fiction to shame.
The actors in it, of sunny and heroic
temper, of large wealth apt! lustions
lineage, are dead. Their descendants
yet ive and stand high among the
highest. Ol coins ,it is impossible
to avouch the particular correctness
of the details of this story, but the
general points are believed i0 be just
as written.
‘ln the Seminole war,’said Mr.
Z ibran, evidently ambling down a
well w rn groove of conversation,
‘Govt rnor Call, of this tit ate, com
mantled a crack regiment. One n orn
mg he received a not- announcing
ihat liis ife was quite ill. He at once
repaired to ler bed-side. During his
ahseencn a battle was fought. Snort
ly afterwards an article appeared in
the Chronicle and Sentinel, ot Au
g ista, insinuating that Gov. Call had
purposely absented himself Iroin the
battle. The paper containing ilii
cruel article reached the camp and
was at once the subject of continent.
Lieutenant Augustus A'ston deter
mined, iu the ibscence of his Colonel,
to protect his honor, mounted his
horse end plunged through the woods
for Augusta. Reaching that city he
made his way to the Chronicle office
and demanded to know the author ol
the offon-ivo article. It turned ou
that it was Gov. Reeil, of Florida, for
a long time a bitter pelitical enemy of
Call’s. L cut. Alston at once sent him
a peremptory challenge. Gov. Reed
replied tbat’iie would be happy to ac
commodate Lieut. Als'on with satis
faction as soon as he had concluded
an affair wish Lieut. Williams, of
Call’s staff, who had already lavored
him with a note on the same subject.
Alston thereupon had to content his
soul in patience until the affair with
Williams was over. A meeting was
soon arranged between Re<-d and
Williams, the conditijns of which
were that they were to fight with
bowie-knives, until one or the other
should bo cut down. At the meeting
the men came upon the ground stripp
ed to their shirts. They advanced
until they met each other. 1 hey then
clasped their left hands together in a
firm and dead game grasp, standing
toe to toe. The keen and shining
knives were then placed in their
right hands. At a signal they were
dropped perpendicularly along thoir
legs. At the next word they were
raised into the air, and then the ter
rible fencing began. It was a brief,
strenuous struggle. The long knives
cut and gashed and wheezed through
the flesh of the combatants, and
clashed and sparkled against each
other; now buried in vital tissue, and
now whipped out with a dim, bluish
moisture veiling the blades, until at
length Lieut. Williams fell, hacked
almost to pieces. Gov. Reed escaped
without disabling injury.
“He then turned his attention to
Lieut. Alston. Being the challenged
party he had the choice of weapons.
He selected a murderous weapon.now
happily obselete, but then of common
use and known as a yager. It was a
broad mouthed, funnel shaped,
smooth-bore gun that carried a hand
ful of shot, aud was warranted to hit
everything in the neighborhood of its
A. DEMOCRATIC FAMILY NEWSPAPER.
aim The duel was a mod unfortunate
one in its direct hnil retno e results.
Captain Kenon was Lieut. Alston’s
second. The principals were posted
with their backs to each other. A*
the ‘wheel’ was called, it. is claimed
that Als on slipped and stumbled.
The comm ml, ‘Fire —one —two —
three!’ 10l owed almost immediately,
and before be cou;d recover, his gun
wfiut off into the air. Gov, Reed took
cool aim fired prompt'y at the maul,
and Lieut. Alston dropped dead.
Thus two gallant fellows hail
already fallen in dolense of the honor
of an absent comrade. But the cruel
(ued was hardly opem and. Col. Willis
Alston, th n living in Louslana, heard
of his brother's death, and became
imprcß-icd wi h the idea that he hud
nut b:-en fairly killed. He claim and
Ihat. Gov. Reed should have with
held his fire when ho saw his brother's
gun spring aimless toward the sky.
Indeed, L is said that a sister of Col.
Willis Alston had the lead taken from
her brother’s body and anew bullet
moulded, which she sent to Col. Wil
lis Alston aud demanded that he
should come and avenge their
brother's death. Col. Alston came
as fast as pes.-dble to this hotel. Gov.
B own met him as hs role up to the
piazza, and at ones d.vinod bis pur
pose. ‘You have coma her to chal
lenge Retd?’ hi asked. Col. Alston
assented. Gov. Brown then begged
him to be very deliberate aud cool,
and quiet about it. On the very
night he got here, he was sitting near
the fi e place yonder, with a large
cloak around him.and his bend bowed
upon hi* ha and. He hud been sitting
th. re only a few moments wheu some
ounbr.isLed past him rather ronghlv.
Raising his head he di-covered that
it was Governor Rood, the very man
he had traveled so far to challenge
in deadly combat. In an iustant he
was all ab!a:a with excitement, and
rising, exclaimed : ‘Yon have mur
dered my brother, sir, anil now do
y a presume to to insuli me? Draw
aud defend yourSi-lf, sir. 1 As quick
as thought Reed drew a six barrel
pistol and fired,tearing away Aston s
third fingm-, just as the latter poured
a broadside into him from a horse
man's pistol, lodging a ball in lbs side.
The fire was repeated, each man re
ceiving another bullet. Col. Alston
was then out of ammunition, having
only two horseman’s pisto s. Throw
ing back his long cloak however he
drew hie boivic-kuife an 1 closed with
his antagonist. In a few seething
strokes Gov. Reed was cut to the
floor and his opponent sank iu n faint
ing fit. It was in that melee that,
that bullet hole was made up there.
The two men were taken to their
beds, and for several weeks were con
fined to their rooms. Col. A'ston
was the first to recover. He was
very embittered by the contest that
had taki-n place, and said he intended
to kill Gov. Ileed on sight. A few
days afterwards he met Gov. Reed
on the streets. He went home and
loaded a double barrel shot gun, put
ting in one of the barrels, it is said,
a bullet that his sister had moulded
with the lead taken from his brother's
dead bodv. Seeking llcod agam, he
fired at him on s ght, tearing away
his shoulder with the first barrel ami
riddling his heart with the second.
This recontre created the inlensest
excitement and led to some legal pro
ceedings against Col. Alston, which,
however did not result in anything.
Col. Alston shortly alter this went to
Texas. He had baen there but a
short time, when ho learned that Dr.
John McNeil Stewart, a man of prom
inence in Brazoria, had commented
disparagingly upon his affair with
Gov. Reed. Meeting Dr. Stewart on
the prairie a tow days after this report
had come to Ins ears, he handed him
a letter containing the offensive lan
guage and asked if he was responsible
for it. Pending tneir discussion of
the matter at isme they lell upon
each other with great fury, It ap
pear* that Dr. Stewart was armed
with a pair of Colt’s pistols and Col.
Alston with a bowie-knife and shot
gun. When found by their friends
Alston wu* lying at the root of a
large tree, with four bullet holes
through his body; Stewait was lying
near by, with two load of buck shot
in his heart, stark and stiff. Col.
Alston was so badly woundod that he
could only be carried in a blanket
slung hammoekwise between two
men. As be was being borne into
the town in this manner his friends
ware met by a company ol armed
men, who fired one hundred shols
into the blanket, killing Col. Alston
Sihiic tiling Itcmur kitble
Ih March lest, whiic the ill fated
United States Steamer Huron was ly
ing in the harbor of Port Rot al, S. C.,
Limit. Arthur U. Fletcher, her exec
utivo officer, left the vessel on a twen
ty lour horns’ leave of absceuce, and,
failing to return at the expiralion of
that time, the ship sailed to another
port without, him. A few days pre
vious Mr. Fletcher had reported to
Commodore J. 11. B. C itz, “senior
naval officer present,” and stated to
Imu that tor some time past he had a
presentiment that it he went to sea in
the Huron for the purpose of finish
ing the ernise (two years) he would
be wrecked. This feeling took c m
plete possession of his mii.d, and he
used every means to be detached; but
the Navy Department refused to or
der it without a better reason. When
he found that ell his efforts had fail
ed. he left, the Huron iu the manner
stated, with tha intention not to re
turn. For this he was placed under
arrest and tried by court-maitial at
Washington Navy Yard, in August
last. In defense bo made a statement
in substance as above, and called
Commodore Clitz, Commander G. P.
Ryan, of the Huron, and other offi
cers to prove that before leaving the
ship he hud told them of the dread—
iu fact, horrror—he had of finishing
the cruise in the vessel. This is a
matter of record on tile in the Navy
Dapanment, and, though such a line
of defense was laughed at when made,
the fate of the Huron will cause many
superstitious people to think that Mr.
Fkteller’s premonition was fully pro
ven to be a truvone by the wreck off
Kitty Hwk, N. C. —Washington
Republican.
Age of .Man.
Believers .in the Mosaic account o
of the antiquity of man may derive some
comfort from the fact that the ab’est ge
ulog sis and antiquarians have vaiied in
their computation as to age of man, no'
less than 600,000 years. Sir Charles
Lye!l first placed the appearance
of man on earth about 800,000 years
ago; his latter computation redu ed
this period 600,000 years; others form
erly assigned 1,000,000 of years as the
age of man; more recently the supposi
tion of many scientist reduced this to
•20,000 years. Dr. Fowler’s Red Indian
found buried sixteen feet in Mississippi
mnd, was believed to be 57,000 years
old, but Mr. Fontaine found a skeleton
in the same neighborhood under fifty
feet of earth,which had been buried only
four vents! United Slates Engineers
by careful calculation find that the whole
New Oilcans delta to the depth of iorty
feet is the product of a little more than
4000 years. Prof. Andrews gives the
probable glacial age at Lake Michigan
as about 5000 to 7000 years, which
other scholars are adopting as the antiq
uity of the “ice age.” Man, according
to geologists, came after the “ice age.”
Scientist have altcady come near enough
to the Mosaic account to quiet the most
nervous Christian. — Sunday School
World.
A Wonderful Cave.
A gentleman Darned Graut, an ex-
Confederate soldier, aud a graduate
of Harvard College, from Barboun
county, Ivy., returned home from
the war after the surrender and found
his home burned, and learned that
his family had been brutally mur
dered about one year before.
After weeping for the loss of his
loved ones, he left for the Western
wilds, where he has led the life of a
hermit, respected and honored by the
red and white men who knew him.
Recently he has reported the discov
ery of a cave in Nevada of fabulous
richness, and of the grandest beanty,
and of the sublimest displays, of nat
ural wonders. He says there are
thousands of tons of gold and silver
ore, wrought in the most fantastic
shapes. Chambers, domes of archi
tectural designs, wonderful avenues
and lakes, in which fish abound, and
every color of the rainbow is exhib
ited in gorgeous grandeur. He says
however fabulous, the whole is true.
GEORGIA NEWS.
Harris county has determined to
have a fair.
The Odd Fellow of Atlanta ate
flourishing.
Earnest Crawley, of Fayetteville,
was killed on 27th ult., by being
caught in the gin gearing.
J. 11. Harris, of Lee county, lost
his gin house and five bales of cotton
by fire on the 2d inst.
Last year there were 212 vessels
cleared in Darien for other ports,
against 222 during the year before.
Henry R. Goctchius, assistant edi
tor of the Columbus Times, is a can
didate foi Clerk ot the House of Rep
resentatives.
The number of marriages in Mad
ison county for the last four years
have ranged from 325 to 372 per year;
tbe total being 1,396.
There are 212 diplomatic appoint
ments in (he gift of the President,
of these Georgia has received only
three—one Minister, and two unim
portant.? Consuls.
There were a meeting of the stock
holders of the Central railroad on the
7th inst., and 13 directors and a pres
ident were elected for the present
year.
The town ot Norcross has a
15 year old boy who is 5 feet and 7
inches high, weighs 127 pounds,- and
has never eaten any animal food,
drank liquor nor used tobacco.
A strange case of paralysis hap
pened in Augusta recently. Mr. G.
A. AVilliams was paralyzed in his legs
and arms for twenty-four hours, after
which time he became as well as ever,
It is reported that the reason why
the Albany & Brunswick railroad has
not been transferred to the English
Corapany’ts because of the unwilling
ness of the New York bondholders
(o sign the papers.
The Commercial and the National
Exchange Banks, of Angnsta, have
each declared a dividend ol per
cent. The Grantsville Factory has
declared 4 per cent.
Mr. Wm. Summerford, of Dooly
county, killed three hogs 18 months
old, which weighed 970 lbs. Mr.
Swearingen killed two which weigh
ed over 700 lbs. Mr, G. AV. Bateman
six which averaged 250 lb*, each.
Mr. Seabron Mosely, of Lincoln
county, had a gin house and thre*
bales of cotton burned. Supposed
incendiarism. Mr. John Matthews
of the same county had his gin house
and 14 bales cotton burned.
In Hall county last j ear there were
246 marriages. There were also 957
mortgages; 147 deeds recorded; 31
convicts were turned over for hard
labor, and 35 paupers supported by
the county at the rate of $2.25 per
month each.
According to the Comptroller’s re
port the value of city and town prop
erty in Georgia was greater in 1876
than in 1869 by 22 per cent. The in
creased value of improved lands is
21 per cent greater. The unimproved
lands are worth 20 per cent. lass.
The Calendar Clock Company’s
Agent undertook to cross the Savan
nah River at Stony Bluff a few days
ago, and drove his team with wagon
loaded with clocks into the flat, and
left after loosing his mules for the
nearest house. When he returned
all, boat, team, wagon and clocks were
gone. It is very mysterious, and it
is thought that the flat either broke
loose or was turned loose from its fas
tening, and floated down the river.
Subscription $2 00
lloxv a Ilorse Kept Warm.
The Meridtn (Ct) Republican tells
this story : “One cold morning last
week Dr. Wilson drove up to a house
on Crown street and left his horse
without hitching it. The horse wa t*
ed a few moments, and, his master
not returning, he began to dance a
double shuttle, presumably to get his
1* et warm. Finding this rather moo*
otonous, he started up towards Olive
street, keeping np a kind of Ken
tucky break-down. When he had
gone several rods, he cramped tbo
buggy back, and turned around as
neatly os though guided by a skill
ful driver, and pranced back to the
hitching post. Here he waited about
five minutes, and then started toward
Main street, going through several
kinds of paces. Near the corner he
stopped and turned aronnd as skill
fully as before, and frightened a boy
who bad tried to stop him, almost out
of his wits, by pursuing said boy with
open mouth and bent back ears, as
though liia habit was to eat every
small boy that he came across. Ho
then continued his antics until be had
reached the house where he had been
left, and, when Dr, Wilson came out,
he was standing at the hitchiDg post,
as demurely as though he had never
thought of leaving it;
The Washington Post tells the sto
ry as a literal fact that a member of
Congress told a colored boy that had
charge of his room to take a lot of old
papers and sell them, and promised
him that he Should have half the pro
ceeds. The boy obeyed and returned
with nine cents as gross receipts.
The member pocketed five and gave
the boy four cents.
A policeman was trying to arrest A
man at Ilanley, England, who had been
charged with a felony. The man dart,
ed into a church which was open for
services, aud made his way np to the
top tower with the policeman at his
heels. lie jumped over‘.he parapet, and,
sliding down the lightning conductor,
at the risk of his life, escaped.
A rich man in Sutton, Mass., lately
deceased, bequeathed to his daughter,
■‘four of the best hedge-hogs on his
mountain lot;” to his first son, living in
in the West, fts, in case he never re
turns to Sutton to live, and to the sec
ond and third sons $20,000 and s3o,
000 respectively; the latter awards to go
to the town if they die without issue.
Tommy came home from school and
handed his father the teacher’s report
on his progress during the month.
“This is very unsatisfactory, Tom; you
have a very small number of good
marks. I’m not at all pleased with it.”
‘I told the teacher you wouldn’t be,
bnt be wouldn’t alter it.
Though Americans make the beet
brushes ia the world, they import the
bristles with which they make them
from Germany.
lie who lives for himself alone, livC 8
for a mean fellow.
Overwarra friendship,like Lot potatoes,
are quickly dropped.
Snow has fallen in Virginia in sufS
cient quaatity to stop the cars.
The revenue receipts for December
are $418,000 less than in November.
In this cruel world every rose has its
thorns, but not every thorn its rose.
There are in Pennsylvania seventy
eight railroads, of which thirty-three
pay dividenß.
It is claimed in Raleigh that there
are now eighty-one gold mines in oper
ation in North Carolina.
The highest railroad bridge in the
United States is on the Cincinnati
Southern line across the Kentucky
river.
Military history developes the fact
that the world is indebted to Fiiar Ba
con for gunpowder, and pig iron for
cannon balls.
In France, the great poultry-grow
ing nation of the world, it is said fully
oue-kalf the eggs are artificially
hatched by means of incubators.
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