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ite im fteta Arjtts. w. A. SINGLETON, Editor and Pro’p VOLtllB 111. l; VI ES AWI) m i.ES roil I.KUAi *LVfiK TISEMKNTB. Sh.'vitT Salsa. eauli I<-vt M.Ttt!VI <'•>• •' T ? I'lAx.iioltoeSir’. wlvli l v > • • • * ,'ilition for pattern f Administration auJ Oiurdiatiahll' •■■•■• ,•••••• Ainitlna lion for dlHinlssionfroni Administration OuaniiansLip and Kxrcotor.snip ' V? AiinlirMlinu for luava to aril land lor ono an r.. i.w Notico to dabtora nod 0r0d1t0ra...... ••••••• *“ Q I jmd sslss, lt lr. *4. rash ddm ■'• •• *• Saks of pi rishsbU property, par q<w 2-W 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 {titles to perfect services In *Wor- cases... JO. ’ 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. IJi’ofcssioual jEJm. biutt, 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 ■—l I TOO WAXT-^ Good Dental Work ■ CALL ON Dr.D.P. HOLLOWAY at hi, affi.-e over Davenport & Bmiths’ Drug Store, Americus, Ga. eept U-lyr wT p. burtT 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. mis