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■ty. A. SINGLETON, Editor and Pro’p
VOLUME 111.
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attornkyat law,
BVKNA VISTA. GA.
SIMMONS & SIMMONS*
attorney at law,
A M KlllCtiS, GEORGIA.
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r. Ij. wisdom, m. and.
BUENA VISTA, GA.
{©-Calls may be left at my resi
vlenee at a hours of the day or
night.-'tfip
15. It. Iliiilon &. W. It. lliuton,
attorneys at law,
BUENA VISTA, GA
VV ill practice iu the Courts of this State,
ft 11,1 the District and Circuit Courts of the
United States, wcli3l-ly.
J. W. BRADY,
attorney at law,
A MERICUSi GEORGIA,
Office on Lamar Street.
Prompt attention given all business. Col
ections made. Will practice in the counties
Lee, Macon, Marion, Schley, Sumter, Web
r, Dooly, Terrell and Worth.
DENTALWORK
H YOU WANT—%
Good Dental Work
CALI, on
Dr.V.P. HOLLOWAY
nt his office over Davenport & Smiths'
Drug Store, Americus, G*.
eept 11-lyi •
W. P. BURT,
DJEISTTIST
S, . GrJ±
Continues to solicit the patronage of the good
people of Marion. Satisfaction g uaranteed, and
at reasonable prices.
Special inducements offered to those who will
arrange to visit my office to have their opera
tions performed. my22-tf
JAS. L. BRASINGTON,
T AIL O XL,
UUKNA VISTA, GA
M ould respectfully announce to the public
and Wis friends that lie in still at bis post;
jeady for all kinds .ftsiloring—Cutting, Mak
ng; Repairing, Cleaning, etc. Those want
ing measures to send fer suits can get them
ol him. tar Latest styles and fashions al
ways on hand. JAS. L. BUASINGTON
N. tt. PIUNOB, J. K. VBINOE.
N. C. &J. K. PRINCE,
umv, mu
—AND—
FEED STABLE
DEALERS I*
Horses, Mules, Carriages, Bug
gies, Ac.
Horses, Buggies, Carriage* aid Hacks U let
at reasoaabla rates—Good fiheda aad Lots
tor Stock Drovem.
Cotton Are me, Americus. Ga
FBESCH HOUSK,
(POBUC BQUaBB,)
AMERICUS, GA.
i ■ EASOIT, .... Propritor.
first Class iccoßmodatiws, In Mars per laj
efforts will bo spared to make tho
‘FbeNch House” the popular hotel of Amer
i cus. Tho best fare that tho market affords,
polite and attentive servants and comfortable
sleeping accommodations will always bo
found at this House. It is convenient ly situ
ated to tho business portion of tho oity, tho
post office and the depot.
”w. H. SAULS,
Manufacturer Wholesale Dealer
CSCIAI3,
172 Broad Street,
COLUMBUS, CA.
Jtt' Under Balford Heuso 00l 77 ly
B( E\i VISTA, H A 15SOY (OIYTY, GEORGIA, WEDYESDAY, JANUARY 2?, 1878.
Blaine's Reconciliation with Conklin
“I’ermit me,” iuterposed Blaine,
Betraying his vexation,
• •To close this Conklin business with
A word of explanation.
Yon see, I'll run for resident.
Some three years hence, or longer,
And every foe whose gun I spike
Must make my cause the stion 0 (r.
For this I stood l>y Conklin’s side,
And aided his endeavor;
But as to friendship ’twixt us two—
It never can be — neve# 1
True to his swelling self-conceit,
As to his lust the cobbler,
He still remains a pampered sort
Of human Turkey gobbler."
Books and Papers.
The Southern Christian Advocate, in
commenting upon the meago support
given to books anJ papers by the South
ern people it) comparison to ilmt given
by the people of the North, justly says :
“The war should not be urged too
confidently as an explanation for our
present status. For, unfortunately, this
much to be deplored stale of things ex
isted before the war. Furthermore, the
war, so far at least as newspapers are
concerned, added immensely to the in
terest of the people in them. Nor will
it meet the case to rest our defense in
high prices. After comparing prices of
the same class of papers in both sec
tions, and demonstrating that northern
papers of the same class are much mote
liberally paionized, ask, how about the
circulation of any given book of general
interest, acceptable to both sides—there
and here? It may be a reprint—an
English book, pel baps. They buy many
more copies than we do. Our post hel
ium property does not serve us in de
fense, for our ante bellum wealth diJ
not lea l to a different result.
Pet haps our best apology is found in
tbe fact that our Southern population is
cboifly rural. But even this we should
not urge over much, for the worst use we
can make of our best excuses is to fon
dle them til they induce a resignation
that issues in satisfaction with ourdelin
quences and failures. That is a veiy ,
unfortunate explanation ol an avoidable
evil that induces contentment in its en
durance. Certainly no explanation or
apologv should leave Southern people
satisfied to he forever behind in the cir
culation of good papers and useful
books.
liuiglai ics.
Everywhere tve hear of burglarie
which for boldness and reckless pre
sumption are uncqualed. From Tal
botton, Hamilton, Geneva and other
towns the alarm ot burglary comes
up to warn us of danger. Buena
Vista has had more than her propor
tion of this Worse of villiany. Can it
be that there is an organized band of
the knights of butglary in every com
munity, and each band having regu
lar communications wi;h some central
organization 7 That such burglaries
have been committed as those re
ferred to above, proves two things :
that there is organization among
burglurs.and that they are presuming
very much upon the improbability ol
legal conviction.
In our own community the discov
ery of Hal Brown, at 2 o’clock in the
night, with his wagon loaded with
seed cotton, peas, corn and potatoes,
belonging to Mr. Munro, and the dar
ing burglary committed two weeks
ago in broad daylight by entering tho
house of Mi. B. F. Rice, admonishes
us that there is a dangerous combi,
nation in our midst which should be
broken up.
The Arabs Coming.
The Rev. J. L. Lyons, of Jackson
ville, Fla., has received a somewhat
remarkable letter from parties in the
Turkish empire, who, weary of Turk
ish tyranny and oppression, desire to
emigrate to the United States. They
ere from the ancient and interesting
city of Damascus, Syria. They rep
resent that they have a few thousand
dollars in gold, and’several thousand
in Turkish consols, which, However,
they deem worthless. They would
like to go to Florida, ns the climate
is similar to that of their own native
land. —[Tel. & Mos.
It ie said “that Georgia’s future is
in the hands of the sheep. By this I
mean that in nltei p raising will Geor
gia achieve the greatness lor winch
she is so admirable fitted. The time
will come, and you will live to see it,
when the cotton crop of Georgia will
be secondary to the wool crop.”
A. DEMOCRATIC FAMILY NEWSPAPER.
Gordon.
Stnator Gordon was born in Upson
county, Georgia} iu 18 12 and comes of
a ffgb ting slock. Ilis grandfather en
listed at the age of lourteen and served
through the revolutionary war; a broth
er of that grandfather, at King’s Moun
tain, cha'g and up to the British lines ami
seized an English officer by h'.s queue,
liau ed him ilowu the hill a pt isoiier.
Gordon was first Colonel of the Sixth Al
| shame, which at Seven Pines weut into
battle with 000 men and brought out
204. All other regimental officers fell;
Gordon's hoi so was killed under him
and he had throe hullet holes in his
clo Birig. Ua-sed to the command of
a brigade at Malvern Hill, he left ball
of his men on the field; oue ball carried
away the butt of his pistol, a second
pierced his canteen, a third tote his
coat. At Sliarpsburg bis old regiment
| was nearly annihilated; two companies
were reduced to six men. General Goi
j doti received two ballots iu the leg, one
| in the arm, oue in the shoulder and one
jin the right cheek, besides getting a
Ibiuiseon tbe breast from a spent ball,
j while two others pierced bis clothing.
It was long before he recovered, but he
lived to light at Fredricksburg and Get
tysbuig aud iu final campaign under
Ltio*
A Child Born in a Grave.
A horrible occurrence is reported
from Castcl, Italy. A poor woman,
near her confinement, was seized with
a fit of catalepsy, which the surgeon
| who was called in mistook for death,
iHe gave a certificate accordingly,
! and twi nt v-four hours later tbe wo
; man was burr and in the common grave
ol the cemetery. A few days after
wards, on the grave being opened lor
another interment, it was rcmaiked
that the body of the worn .n had been
disturbed. On examination the eyes
were found partially open and dis
torted, the bandage in which the legs
had been swathed was burst asunder,
and a child had been horned. The
| doctor and the president of the com
mune have been punished by impris
onment for thiee mouths.
ftuinine Tree.
The Cinchora tree, from which qui
nine is made, grow tall. Ihe bark
has a silvery exterior, the leaves are
large, and magnolia shaped, the flow
ers are white, with rose and purple
tints, and smell Ike lilac. Iu gath
ering ihe bark, which is gathered in
long strips, it is dried in rolls if thin,
but in flat strips ! f thick. There are
several kind of trees, which have dif
ferent special qualities. The c in
rnerciai products are of three classes,
yellow, red and gray bark. The val
ue of the bark depends upon the al
kalies: quinia, cinchonia, quinidia,,
cinebonia, quinidia, cinchonidia, qui
nicia and clnehonicia. The bark con
tains gum, starch, ligninc oil, color
ing matter, kinic amt kinonic acids.
The English government hast suc
cessfully introduced its cultivation in
East India, Java, Hindostan. Re
cent experiments prove a strip tak
en from a tree and covered with moss
will head and produce anew cover- 1
ing of bark without injury to the
tree. It is thought, too, that in the
United Slates places favorable to its
growth can be found, aud thereby
add another source to our wealth and
independence.
Agents of the Russian and Turkish
governments met by chance in the
Bridgeport Steel Works the other day
whither they had gone to con true l
for bayonets. One ordered 300, hOO
and the other 600,000.
The total exports from Califonia to
Australia for the first ten months of
1877, amounted to $707,000, against
$313,000 for the same period ol the
previous yeai, and the total to New
Zealand, 131,000 against SIOB,OOO.
The New York Sun in referring to
the current controversy about the
existance of a hell, says: “It is worth
considering whether, if hell goes,
heaven will not nexr. follow, and the
logical sequence is the denial of im
mor tali y itself.”
It is estimated that 400 immigrants
from Texas passed through Little
Rock, Ark., daily in December
last ou their way back to their old
homes. All in a worst condition than
when they passed through going to
Texas.
Laughter.
There is not the remotest corner
or little inlet of the minute blood-ves
sels of the human body that docs not
loci some wavelet iron* the convul
sion occasioned by good, hearty
laughter. The life principle or the
(•OiitroJ man, is shaken to the inner
most depths, sending new tides of life
and strength to the surface, thus ma
terially tending to insure uood health
to the person who indulge tberciD.
The blood moves more rapidly and
: conveys a different impression to all
j the organs of the body, as it visits
them on that particular mystic jour
ney when the man is laughing, from
what it does at other times. For this
reason every good, hearty laugh in
which a person indulges lengthens his
life, convoying, as it does, new and
distincts stimulus to the vital forces.
Doubtbss the time will come when
! physicians, conceding more import
ance than they now do to the influ
ence of the mind upon the vital forces
of the body, will make up their pre
sciiptions more with reference to the
mind and less to drugs for them; and
will, in so doing, find the best and
most eff't ctive method of producing
the required effect upon the patient —
[Science Monthly.
Horse Shoeing in Various Countries.
In the United States, England and
France, the horse shoer simply takes
the horse’s foot on his knee to shoe it.
This depends to some extent on the
nature of the breed of horses, which
in some countries are, on the average
more shy, and most of them could not
well be treated in this way. Thus in
the Netherlands, aud in parte ot Ger
many, tue horse is placed in a nar
row stall, where short chains are at
tached to the uprights; then one ot
these chains is placed around the
hor e’s ankle and the foot lifted aud
tied'up to a convenient height for the
smith to do his work. In Turkey and
Serviathe horse’s head is held by oue
man, another holds the leg on-his
arm, white the third operates on the
foot. In Russia the horse is placed
iu a square cage made ot rough wood
en planks, and is strapped around the
belly’ with wile leather straps at
tached to cross bos ol the frame
work; his head is also safely tied, the
foot is fixed on the stake in the ground
and held by the assistant, while the
stnitr. nails on the shoe.
Hartwell Sun : Oue day last week
Milton Fuller bad four heavy bales
of cotton on his wagon, and had
crossed the Savannah river in a flat
boat. On ascending the second bill
from the river his oxen turned (the
cotton luckily fell off) and ran into
the river with the wagon. When
about the middle of the river the
wagon became uncoupled and the
oxen came out on the Georgia bank,
about three hundred yards below the
regular landing, with the forewheeis
and tongue all right. Milton had the
lines in his hand when they plnnged
into the river, and when he reached
the bank threw them after the oxen,
stuttering out, as usual, “There,
d-d-damn you, g-g-g-go.”
From the Washington Post we learn
that a prominent Georgia lawyer was
arrested in Washington city on Christ
mas day bv the police, and received
such severe blows on his head as to pro
duce fears of his death. The physicians
are attending him reglarly.
The preachers in the Alabama Con
ference received $60,000 in tbe aggre
gate. The Conference Las 197 preachers,
29,403 white and 23 colored members,
and $4,200 were collected for superan,
uated preachers, widows aod orphans.
The Marvin Memorial Association
designs raising a fund sufficient to erect
a monument al the grave of Biahop
Marvin, in Rellfontaine Cemetary, Mo.,
and purchase a residence for his family.
Three white men garroted the
Post Master of Ilenando, La., and
robbed him of $630 of government
and personal funds.
There are about 70,000 orange trees
in bearing m Louisiana, yielding over
300,000 oranges annually which are
worth on the trees about SIOO,OOO.
The American public use in paper
cellars eight tons of paper daily and
over 8,600,000 yard* of muslin annu
ally,
Homestead,
Col. M IT- Blatdford, of this city, is
one of the leading lawyers in lb it State,
a one-armed Confederate and cx-Con
gressmsn. Reading much of this home
stead, and hearing some views be ex
pressed regarding it, which appeared
novel to us and to many others, we
yesterday briefly interviewed him. The
suggestions are certainly worthy of at
tention as they came from a keon lawyer
of wide experience.
Reporter—Have von seen articles
written on the homestead and exemp
tion under the Constitution of 1877 ?
Answer—l Lave.
Reporter—What do you think as to
debt contracted since the adoption of
the Constitution of 1877!
Answer —I have given this matter
very serious consideration, and I think
that as to all debts contracted since the
adoption of the Constitution ol 1877 the
debtor cannol claim any exemption or
homestead that may have bsen allowed
under the Constitution of 1868. The
homestead and exemption allowed by tbe
Constitution of 1868 only applies to
debts contracted after the adoption of
tbe Constitution of 1877. And if a per
son contracts a debt since the adoption
of the Constitution of 1877 he may by
the present Constitution waive or re
nounce his right to exemption, snd this,
in my opinion, as to this class of debts,
will operate to make any property liable
which he may have had set apart under
tbe Constitution of 1868.
R—Well, then, anew debt is better
than an old one ?
A.—lt is. A debt contracted after
1868, and before 1877, is governed by
tbe Constitution of 1868, but one con
tracted after the Constitution of 1877, is
governed by tbe latter alone, and not
in the least affected by that of 1808;
and as the Constitution of 1877 author
izes a debtor to waive or renounce his
exemption, a debt contracted after 1877
will have to be paid notwithstanding
any exemption or homestead that may
be allowed under the Constitution of
1868.
It—Are both words used ?
A.—No. In the Constitution of
1877 the word exemption only is
used. You must remember that
homesteads and exemptions are
granted to citizens not as a matter
of right but only as matters of pub
lic oolicy, and no one can have a
vested tight in the homestead or ex
emption as to debar the power of
granting it from taking it away.
R.—Then it would be better to take
exemptions under 1877, if the fellow
dosn’f want new debts to go back on
the old homestead ?
A.—lt would prevent a law suit.
We had many other questions
trembling on the tongue, but just
than a big client came in to talk
about “that ease,” and we bowed out.
We leave the suggestions with the
law; a.s. —Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
A Lung Tester.
We don’t want a Moore township
girl for a lung tester. At a singing
school up there the other night a
young man was bragging on tbe
strength of his lungs and invited a
girl in tbe company to hit him in the
breast. She said she was left-hand
ed; had been washing that day and
was tired, and didn’t feel very active
but at his urgent request she let go
at him. When his iriends went to
pick him up he said he thought he
would die easier lying down. He
bad lost all recollection of having any
lungs, but the young woman consol
ed him by admitting that she didn’t
hit him as hard as she might have
done because she rather liked him.—
Easton (Pa.) Free Press.
Postmaster General Key rcporls that
the postal business of the country Jus
fallen off siuce 1876, owing to Jke doll
times. Sales of cards, ate., de
creased $427,585, issues pf money,
orders, $4,215,000. The'* h"* been
economy in all branches of tbe service,
and the expenditure* Were $3,353,483
less than the estimate therefor. Mr.
Key thinks that the department will
eventually be a source of revenue to the
government. The mail services to South
America is reported a inadequate. Mr.
Key urges legislation to compel rail
ways to supply better facilities for carry
ing the mails.
The government barracks at Hunts
ville cost $30,000, and Gov. Chapman
recently bought them for educatioaal
purpose* for $1,850.
Subscription f‘2 00
GEORGIA NEWS.
Dalton, Uu., has a female black
smith.
Burglars pafctjjitheir respects to
Box Springs lust Sunday night.
Retail liquor license in Gr iffin this
year hasj been put.at $300; payable
quarterly.
A recent sale of $25,000 of Maoon
bond* were taken by the citizens of
that city.
The tax on telegraph companies fn
the city of Macon is $750.
Thomasville City Council has grant
ed SIOO in aid of the Thomasville
Immigration Society.
Tha Augusta Factory completed oa
he 4th iast the shipment of 2,000 bales
of goods on order to Af:ica—soo baits
shipped on that day.
At a sheriff sale in Tabotton, on the
Ist Tuesday of this mouth, 270 acres of
land broght SI,OOO, aad 86 acres
brought $290.
There was a rice conflagration near
Savannah, last week in which a large
quantity of rice was consumed on the
farm ol Mi. Wenkler.
Gov. Colquitt has offered a reward
of SIOO for the apprehension of the
negro who shot Mr, Cumming in
Griffin.
'1 he Savannah postal receipts for
1877 were $47,271.60. Theexpensee
were $24,528.29. Net income $lB,-
643.41.
On Wednesday last in Dablin, Pu
laski county, a blind barber by the
name of Thos. Bannon, blew his brains
out with a Bhot gun.
On the 13th inst. burglars entered
the store of Mr. Drew, at Baughviilo,
8 miles west of Talbotton, and took
money and tobacco.
Maj. G. W. Maxson has resigned
the Presidency of Levert College. He
has been called to the churches at
Bainbridge, Griffin and Bellevue.
Maoon has taxed all salaries 1 per
cent, on tbe SIOO to the amount of
SI,OOO and the people protest against
it.
Mr. James Hamilton killed a gray
eagle, recently, measuring seven feet
and three inches from tip to tip of its
wings.
John S. Owen has been appointed
Index Cleik at the House of Represen
tatives of Congress.
The barn and 2,000 lbs. of forage,
belonging to Thos. C. Howard, at
Kirkwood, Fulton county, was de
stroyed by fire on Tuesday night last,
the work of an incendiary.
A duel was fought near Bavannab f
about 10 o’clock, on the 12th inst., by
Robt. Fishbarne and W. S. Harley
of Walterboro, S. C., iu which Harly
was mortally wounded.
Mr. A. L. Hatton, Tax Collector of
Telfair county, has vamoosed, leav
ing his sureties to foot the executions
to the amount of $2,800, issued
against him by the Comptroller Gen
eral.
A convention of railroad men was
held in Macon on 14th inst., ia which
it was decided to place on sale excur
sion tickets, at all points west of Buf
falo and Pittsburg, to Jacksonville,
Savannah, Charleston, Nassau, Ha
vana and other points.
The towing of the monolith, Cleo
patra’s needle, which Is at Ferol,
Spain, has been resumed, and the
United States are requested to tele
graph weather indications to Spain
as a guide for starting with tha tow
to Suglaad.
Georgia has 1,364,440 hogs, and
1,254,240 inhabitants. One hog for
each man, woman and child, and 200
over. If eqially divided, and tha
hogs were fat, it would about furnish
the entire population with bacon and
lard.
The Spring meeting of the Georgia
gtate Agricultural Society will be
held in Americas, beginning on the
12th of February. Capt. John. A.
Davis, of that city, has been invited
to deliver an addi ess on the peculiar
advantages of Southwmtsrt Georgia
a* a farming Motion,
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