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V. A. SINGLETON, Editor and Pro'p
VOLUME ill.
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ATTOUNKYAT law,
llt'KN A VISTA. C*A •
SIMMONS & SIMMONS,
attorney at law,
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BUENA vista, ga
\\ ill practice in the Courts of this State,
all> l the District and Circuit Courts of the
United States. mch-ly.
I\L. WINDOW, ffl. I)
BUENA VISTA, GA.
BtSrCalls may be left at my rest
donee at a hours of the day or
night.“W
.T. W. BRADY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
A MERICUSi GEORGIA,
Oftlce oi> Lamar Strut.
Prompt attention {riven all l>u4iiess. Col
ections made. Will practice in the counties
Lee. Macon, Marion, Schley, Sumter, Web
r, Dooly, Terrell and Wor h.
DENTAL WORK
V—D row WANT—,
Good Dental Work
DM). I*. HOLLOWAY
at his offi. e over Davenport & Smiths’
Drug at..re, Americas, tia.
sept 11-1 yr*
FA SBM2E’ It.E i T
Saloon & Restaurant,
CENEVA, CA.
W, u. umn rri'priciiir.
“Old Gi(l” will be pleasod to se: his old
friends iroin Marion ami Beh-ey comities in
the Kest. Situated at the end of platform ot
( 1,-pot. octl 7-Gms
JB. F. ril#B.tTS,
OEMTIST.
11l ENA VISTA, GEORGIA.
I tender my professional services to
the citizens vi Buena Vista and vicinity.
All work warranted, and satisfaction
guaranteed.
ge-?,.. Office up stairs above Harvey &
Story’s old stand.
T. G. CHEMNEY,
DENTIST,
ELLAVILLE, - - - GEORGIA
.in. TENPEKS ms professional ser
vices to the people ot Marion
HTxjJClTand suirounding counties. Ho
will call it the residence of all parties desir
ing dental work done, when notified by in il
or otherwise, and do work at the following
reduced prices fur the cash:
Filling teeth with gnhl sl.@s2.sft
Filling teeth with amalgam $1 .@51.5(1
Extracting teeth of upper and lower jaw $5
Extracting one tenth sl.
Clensing teeth sl.@s.l.
Malting upper and lower teeth S2O.
Makitig upper teeth sls.
Making Partial sets ss.@sl2.
W. I*'. BURf,
IXENTIST
AMERICUS, _ G-A_
Continues to solicit the patronage of the good
people of Marion. Satisfaction guaranteed, and
at reasonable prices.
Special inducements offered to those who will
arrange to visit my o flice to have their opera
tions performed. my22-tf
PLANTERS’ HOTEL;
Mrs. M. C. GRAY, Proprietress,
Over Sc 121, Broad St.>
COLUMBUS GA.
BOARD andLODGING:
SVrrEK, BREAKFAST AND LODGING SI.OO
BOARD PER DAT I.M
SI SOLE MEAL ,50
BUENA VISTA, MARION COUNTY, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JA'UIRY 30, 1878,
The Newspaper.
Turn to the pf.ots, its teaming shoots survey,
Big with the wonders of each passing dnv;
Births, deaths and weddings, forgeries,
Arcs and wreck',
Ilarangn sand hailstoi os, brawls and
broken necks.
Trade hardly deems the busy dnv begun,
Till his keen eye along the sheet has inn;
The blooming daugther throws her needle by.
And reads her school-mate’s marriage with
a sigh ;
While the grave mother puts her glasses on,
And gives a tear to some old crone that s
gone.
The preacher, too, his Sunday theme lay s
down,
To know what last new folly lilts the town:
I.ivel\ or sad, life's meanest, mightiest things.
The fate of fighting cocks or fighting kings.
Char let Sprague x < 'urioxity.
,*hat is it but a map of busy life
Ilsflnctua ions audits vast concerns ?
Coir per.
Newspaper 1 who has never felt the pleasure
that it brings?
It always tells us of so many strange and
wondrous things!
It makes us weep with tales of woe—it fi Is
oar hearts with mirth—
It tells us the price of stock—how much pro
duce is worth—
And when, and where, and how, and why,
strange things occur on earth.
Has war’s loud clarion called to arms ? —has
lightning struck a tree?
Has Jenkins broken his leg?—or has there
been a storm at sea ?
Has the sea-serpent shown its head ? has a
comet’s tail been seen?
Or has some heiress with her groom run off
to Gretna Greeu?
All this, and many wonders more, you from
this sheet may glean.
71 Watxon.
IlOliKGib■: PI-EVNA.
A lloitiiißLE Story—Without a
I’arai.lel. ik Modern Warfare.
The correspondent of the London
News at Plevna scuds a terrible story
of the slate of things prevail ng in
and around ibe ca itnred town. Be
fore the recent great s'o. m I’ i-vn
ivas .‘imply a churn 1 house. Mod
ern warfare lias no j urn lei f r it , and
is horrors can only be compared with
those which follow, and in the wake of
Genghis Khan or Tiiuonr, as their
savage Tartar hordes swept over and
and. vastated Asia,
The famished dogs, of which there
are always large numbers in t very
Turkish town, were lending on the
corpses of the dead, and the bodies
of the still living wounded. The sav
age howls of the greedy brutes as
they tore the putrid flesh off Tie dead,
or crunched the bones between their
teeth, the cries and groans of the
wounded as tlu-y vainly struggled
with the dogs, might be heard for
miles arouud.
Birds were picking at the skulls,
hopping about from body to body
with beaks and plumage besmeared
wnh human blood, and screaming
with fiendish delight. The dogs
fought among themselves, and bird
fought with bird tor the possession
of a morsel ol human flesh.
In one house alone, thirty-seven
dead and three wounded Turks were
found, sojne of the former in a half
decomposed and putrid state, and
the wounded in a condition that can
be more easily imagined than de
scribed. Some of die wuuuded were
ab’e to crawl about, and clutch at
odd morsels of fo,id that were found
in the hands of the dead, devouring
it with feverish avidly, but thou
sands of thorn were utterly helpless,
and awaited death or succor with a
listless fatalism.
One thousand person were huddled
together on the bank of the Ved, and
thehor.ors of llnir position equaled
A DEMOCRATIC FAMILY NEWSPAPER.
thosetif ili great plague which ravfig
ed Europe in the fourth nth century.
L ving ami itea’ll were piled t get her
pronmei 'ltaly in heaps like wood and
cariod atvuy. There we e only three
carts a nilablc f.>r this work, and the
confusion was indesenbab’e.
Osman's braVtiV is stained and
blacken dby his treatin'nt of the
Russian wounded that lull into his
hands. The Bui chares* cot respond
ent of the Herald says that a f'-arlul
retribution lias overtaken a pan ol
0.-man's army, which was caught on
the march by that theadful snow
storm. F te seems to bo seeking
vengeance lor the slaughter of toe
Russian wounded, whose corpse lie
unburied on the the hill around
P evtta.
Another T-i;> -l-mice Lecture*
out ot K< ;<I Life.
In Syracuse, N. V., there stood before
the bar ol justice, a man who p'eade.l
gii.Uv u;ion five iitcliennen s for forgery,
.nil received the sentence of t!>© coin,
which consigned him fur fifteen years t"
Auburn Prison. He was a mu forty
eight years of age, of most respectable
family, and of excellent preptra orv ed
ucation. He had been admitted to the
bar am! bad fair professional prospects
when tli© war of the lebellion begun,
lie entered the service as a Lieutenant,
and left w.tb the rank of Major. II
was appointed Provo t Marshal of the
Onondaga an 1 Cortland Districts, and
fu filled the duties of that responsible
position faithfully and well, Ten years
ago be was elect and Tr a nrer of Onon
daga c-uuty and. retired at the end of
h s term without ny stain upon hrs
nffi ial reputation. During that time,
however, he became immoderately ad
(feted to tire use of intox : <*atiiig liquor-,
and his car eer since has been stea l ill
downward, lie stood tire o:h r dry
b-fore die c oin utter 1 y broken, plrysi
eallv, mptr’ally, ami morally. For him
self, lie add, when asked why sentence
siioiih! not be pronounced, he little
cared. TANARUS! o li'e inside the prison was
better for him than the one he had
led outside; but for the sake of his
family he would prefer a light sen
tend*. There were no mitigating
circumstances wh ch could induce tin*
Judge to list n to Iris prayer, and the
terrible sentence was pronounced
which, at his age, probably condemns
Inin to a lilo imprisonment.
ft is announced from Sr. Petersburg
that the Czar lias called for anew
levy of 480,000 men. One hundred
and sixty tl or sand of these are to
form what will be known as t lie army
of the Baltic. This is designed as an
army of p.o ection for Northern Rus
sia aga n-t the possible bos'dity of
England. This makes the draft ior
a single year of 600,000 men. Rou
mania and Servia, allied to Russia,
have at least 40,000 men in he field
Russia, therefore, with these new
levies added to her former standing
army, will have at least 1,t’00,000 of
soldiers in the fled by June, 1878.
She was never better prept red to
make on advance upon Constanti
nople. Her clearest headed states
men perci ive the long desired oppor
tunity, and they now believe they can
drive the Turks out of Europe even
though England should add her mili
ary resources to those ol Turkey.
The United States Supreme Court
has rendered a decision affirming the
validity <;f tl e Cochrane patent on
the “New Process Flour.” This com
pels every miller who manufactures
this kind ot flour to pay a royalty to
the patentees.
7 GEORGIA NEWS.
<r
the appropriation by Con
gress tLe work of cleaning out the
Oomtilgee river is going gallantly on
anTTiibpes are'entertained tlmt navi
gation will soon be opened to Macon.
There is a negro in Glascock county
about fifty years of age whose face,
and hands, feet, and most of his body
have turned completely white. He
as once black all over, said to have
been very black. When a boy, a
white spot appeared on his body, and
since then he has been gradually
tu ni eg from Ethiopian to Caucissiau
color.
The bir h rate in Georgia since 18GG
among tin* whites lias been a little
more than thirty percent., ml among
the blacks a i;t;e more than filly.
Vr. Wm. L. Landers, aged about
28 years, and Miss Annie L. Nietos,
aged 11 y ara end 5 mon bs, of Mad
,son county, [harried a few days ago.
A Cobb county girl worked the
motto “I need thee every hour,” and
pres ntt dit to her chap. He say she
can't he p it. It takes him two hours
to talk, and fed the pigs mottling
and night, and business has got to
be attended to.
I Rome a hotel, two stores and
theMa-onic Hail, the office of Dr.
Beady, containing $3,500 in green
backs, and he office of Joel Conyers
containing SI2OO in cash and a vacant
dwelling wars bn ned a few days ago.
Some livery stablws were burned. All
the work of an incendiary.
Gov. Colqtii t has endorsed the
bonds of the Noth Eastern Ra broad
Brunswick pays her marshal $720
and fees.
Savagery of the War.
A London newspaper correspond
ent describes the execution of a Bul
garian td Constantinople, ii one of
the most crowded thoroughfares of
the capital. The gallows consisted
of two upright posts, which were
hast ly pitched in >he ground, and
stood about ten f< et from it. They
supported a rough cross-beam, from
which hung the latal rope. The cul
prit was led uitri sis'ingiy under the
cross-beam, the nose was adjusted
to his neck, and then two or three
soldiers getting a goal round turn of
the rope across the beam, pulled him
off his feet. The rope was t lien made
fast, and he was left dangling with his
ffet scarcely three inches above the
ground. It is needless to say that
his death did not take place quickly,
’flic man executed was an exception
ally bad character, who gleefully
confessed to having violated and sub
sequently murdered five Turkish
girls; to haie killed with his own
hand some fifteen or eighteen Turkish
children, and that he and some com
rath s had collected the blood of these
vi tims in a pitcher, broken into the
synnagogue ot the village, and forced
the wretched Jews who had taken
reluge in ihe synnagogue to drink the
contents of the pitcher.
A young genilemau in New York
has bit upon a very funny sort of
amusement. He sprang the fire
alarm as a kind of pastime, and the
way the engines came dashing out
and got fooled seemed to him one of
the most comical hits of the holiday
season. Bat alas, bis joy has sped.
It fled with the dying year. He
spends the first ninety days of 1878
in the penitentiary, where fire doth
not alarm, aud the roar of the coming
engine disturbeth not the peac i there
of'
Morrow is a town of some importance
about forty miles from Cincinnati!. K
new brakeman on the road, who did not
kuow the names of the station, was ap
proached by a stranger the other day.
Straofter —“Does this train go to Mor
row to-day.’ ‘No,’ said the brakeman,
who thought the stranger was malting
game of him; ‘it goes to-day yesterday
the week after next.’’ “You don’t un
derstand,’ persisted the stranger, ‘I want
to go to Morrow.’ Brakeman—'why
don’t you wait till to-morrow, then, and
uoteome bothering around to-day; you
can go to-morrow, nr any other day you
please.’ Stranger—‘Wont you answer a
civil question civilly? Will this train
go to day to Morrow ?’ Brakesman—
’Not exactly; it will go to-day, and come
back to-morrow. As the gentleman who
| wanted to go to Morrow was about to
leave iu disgust, another employee, who
knew the station allnded to, came along
and gave the desired information.
I A young gentleman, of Prairie
j Grove, Texas, proposed to his lady
love, but was gently refused He
went a second and a third t me with
the same result. But at length he
rode over one evening ar.d told her
I he would neither eat, si ep nor speak
j until site consen'ed to become his
| bride. Site invited him in to dinner;
I lie slrock his head, She talked on;
he merely looked dejected. Then
she requested him to take supper. A
negative shake of the head was the
! only reply. Slie played, ch itted ar.d
| sang until bed Time, wheu a servant
| alio wed him a room; a negative shake.
jShetrirped away to her chamber;
lie sat determined still. About 12
o’clock she came back and said “I
don’t wish to cause the death of u
goood officer, so t will marry you."
The released one rose, and with
an earnestness said, “My dear have
you any cold victuals on baud?”
Senator Patterson, oubeiug asked if
lie intended to resign replied: I shall
not rettign under any consideration.
If I am to be sick.jl shall be a fool to
resign, because I can lie here and
draw my $13.00 a day. No, sir, I
authorize you to say that I will not
resign, anti those fellows down there
wi 1 not rob me yet of my seat. The
New York Tribune editorially says
that if he is really shamming it is to
be hoped tie will keep at it, adding
that the country won’t grudge the
$13,00 if lie will stay in bed.
They tell a good story of ponderous
Senator David Davis. When Senator
Maxey was speaking, the other day,
Davis left bis own seat to get nearer
the Texas Senator. He took the
chance of one of the ordinary Senate
chairs 'holding him. The result was
that he had no sooner got well seated
in it, than the cane seat, as well as
the underpinning, gave way, and
dumped the distinguished Senator on
the floor in a very undignified bundle
Rats may be banished by covering
the floor near the rat hole with a thin
layer of moist caustic potash. When
the rats walk on this it makes their
feet sore, these they lick with their
tongues, which makes their mouths
sore, and the result is that they not
only shun this iocality; but appear to
tell all the neighboring rats about it,
and eventually the house is entirely
abandoned by them.—Ex.
Rev. Mr. Talmage, D. D., says that
to edit a newspaper requires one to
be a statesman,essayest,geographer,
statistician and encyclopcdiac.” It
is gratifying to know that one man
at least is willing to accord to the
hard-working editor the recognition
of true merit so justly his due.
Subscription s‘l (JO
Wit and Jjfuma#;
An old bachelor in Boston says ha
wtni'B to adopt a g rl baby about 18
years old.
An experienced school boy says ho
regards hunger mid the master’s
ratan as about, the same thing as they
both make him holler.
"Mamina, where do the cows get
inilk ?” asked Willie, looking up from
the foaming pan of milk which he
had been intently regarding. "VUd re
do you get your tears?” was tlqj
answer. After a thoughful silence hat
broke out: “Do the cows have to
be spanked ?
He waltzed out of the frontdoor,
followed by a washboard and Wo
oars ot soap; as he straightened him-'
elf and wa'ked firmly and ,wn tire
street, he remarked: “A man must
draw the line somewheie, or he can’t
be boss ot the hi-use; and I’ll bo
hanged if I will pump more than on#
tub of water for no washing;and there
ain't, a woman that can make me, un
less site locks me in.
The old gentleman went into the
parlor recently,a* the bewitching hoar
of 11:45, and found the room un
lighted and his daughler and a dear
friend occu tying a tete-a-tete in a
corner by the window. “Evang. line’’
ihe old man said sternly, “this
is scandalous.’’ “Yes, papa, she
answered, sweetly, “it is candlelcss
because times are so hard and lights
cost so much, that Ferdinand ami I
said we should try and get along with
the star light.” And papa turned
around in speechless amazement and
tried to walk out of the room through
a panel in the wallpaper.
“Who is your warmest friend ?”
asked the teacucr. “My mother,”
veiled one of the bois. “Your
mother 1” ,“Yes, she ‘warms’ me'
every day.” The teacher has given
up her missionary work.
A Minnesota farmer stood beneath
a hollow tree, all hollow, hollow, hol
low, and cut it!]down. It contained
twelve live sknnks, all hollow, hol
low, hollow. And the farmer “hol
lowed,” too.
“I do not think, madame, that any
man of the least sense would approve
of your conduct,” said an indignant
husband. “Sir,” retorted the better
half, “how can you judge what any
man of the It ast sense would do.
A New York court has decided that
a wife has£a right to ask her husband
for a kiss, and if he refuses she can
hit him in the face, and he can’t have
her fined for the blow.
A Lancas'er county man saved the
ife of a mule that was dying from
colic, and the mule returned the com
pliment by enabling the man's wife
to realize on his insurance policy- .
“You wasn’t around when they
dealt out bair, was you?” said a red
haired man to a bald headed one in
a railroad car. “Yee, I was there,”
said the man with a bald head, “but
they offered me a handful of red, anil
I told them to throw it into the coal
huttle to kindle the firo with.
“It is well to leave something for
those who come after us,” as a man
said when he threw a barrel in the
way of a coustable who was chasing
him.
Women seem in a fair way to get
their rights in Kentucky. A poor
deceived man, whose innocence was
ruthlessly imposed upon, has sued a
mature maiden off rty summer- f r
a breach of piomise. None but die
brave deserves the fair, and fbe fare
in this instance is set at one thousand
dollars.
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