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W A. SINGLETON, Editor and Proprietor.
VOLUME 111.
f f(ssi#Bal teds.
"" TbsiHLBL’TT)
attohnky at law,
BUENA VISTA. A.
SIMMONS & SIMMONS,
attorney at law,
amkkicus. Georgia-
March 10-1 Tr.
WESLEY JEFFERSON, wT D
RED RONE, GA.
Patronage solicit ed. Culta
responded to promptly.
WILLIAM B. HINTON,
attorney at law,
BUENA VISTA. OA-
Will practice in the Courts of thin Stto.
nJ the District ud Circuit Courts of the
L ' Special attention given to ColleeUone,
Conveyancing and Bankruptcy. lcLb-lj
nriTwisßOJi, si. r
BUENA YISTA, GA.
(©-Calls may be left tt my resi
dence at a hours of the day or
lght.-tiff
J. W. BItAD Y,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
A MKRICUSi GKOROIA,
Office ■> Umar Slrctl.
Prompt attention given all business. Col
lections made. Will practice in the counties
of Lee, Macon, Marion, Schley, Sumter, Web
tar, Dooly, Terrell and Worth.
DENTAL WORK
>— 1, TOC WANT—,
Good Dental Work
. (ALL ON
Dr.D.P. KOLLOWAY
at hi, office over Davenport 3s Smiths'
Drug Store, Amencuv, Oa.
pi 11-lyi•
FAHJaESStt’ BEST
Saloon & Restaurant,
GENEVA, GA.
W. 1. IdLIKM Prepriftor.
“Old Gid” will be pleased to see his old
friends I row Marion and Schley counties in
the Rest. Situated at the end of platform of
depot. octl7-6ms
IXfHOBMTOiV;
DENTIST*
BEEN A VISTA, GEORGIA.
I tender my professional services to
the citizens of Buena Vista an l vicinity.
All work warranted, and satisfaction
guaranteed.
Office up stairs above Harvey c
Story’s old stand.
T. 6. CHEN KEY,
DENTIST ;
ELLAVILLE, - - - GEORGIA
■ TENDERS hib professional ser
vice* to the people of Marion
UlXTfTTjaiid gui rounding counties, lie
will call at the residence of all parties desir
ing dental work done, when notified by m il
or otherwise. All work warranted. Terms,
cask.
wT p. buutT
DENTIST
AMEBICDS, - OA.
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 office to bar. their opera
tions performed. 11022-1
PLANTERS’ HOTEL.
Mrs. M. C. GRAY, Proprietress,
Over 133 Ac 13 1, Broad St.,
COLUMBUS GA.
BOARD and LOD &IN 3:
SUPrr.lt. BREAKFAST AND LODOINO sl%
HOARD PER DAT *•;#
SI SOLE NEAL ’
AS. L. B R A SI N CTO N,
U UEN A VISTA. Gf-V
Wotjld respectfully announce to the public
and his friends t hat lie i* still at his post;
steady for all kinds #f tailoring — Cutting, Vtuk
ng; Repairing, Cleaning, etc. Those want
Dg measures U> s rid for suits can get. them
him. K W~ Latest styles and fashions al
ava on hand. JAS. L. BHASINGTON
Abgos is ft good
weekly nwsf*peP. |
Oaf s of Youltl
Days of my youth, ye have glided away;
Hail's of my youth, you are frosted and gray;
Eyes of my youth, your keen Right is no more;
Cheeks of my youth l on are furrowed all o'er;
.Strength of my youth, your gay visions have
flown.
Days of hiy youth, I wish not your recall;
liiars of my youth, I’m cement ye shall fall
Eyes of my youth, you must evil h we scon;
Cheeks ot my youth, bath’d iu tenrs you have
beeu;
Thoughts of my yontli, you have led me astray:
Strength of my yomb.wby lament your decay?
Days of ray age,’ye will shortly be past;
Pains of my age, yet awhile ye cun last;
Joys of my age, iu true wisdom delight;
Kyi n of my age, bo religion your light;
Thoughts of my age, dread ye not th? cold sod.
Hopes of my age, he ye fixed on your God .
[George Tucker'
HARRIED IN SJtTTE OF HIMSELF
How a Western Doctor got Eis Wife
Dr. S„ having passed a very cred
itable examination before the inniv
med cal board was commissioned an
assistant surgeon ill the United States
army in 18 — and ordered to report
for duty to the commanding officer at
Fort MiKavett. Texas. There were
no railroads in the Western country
at that time, atul the usual way ol
getting to Texas was by the Misss
sippi river to New Orleans and th n
crossing the Gulf, to stage it np
through the State. Dr. S. was very
desirous of examining the Western
country minora,logically, so he up
plied for and received pet mission
from the War Department to gobs
the way of Arkansas and the Indian
Territory to iits post.
Ob his arrival at St Louis he shipped
the greater part of his baggage by
way if the river, and taking only
what lie could curry on horseback,
started on his journey. While in St.
Louis at tiie Planters’ he formed the
acquaintance of a gentleman, who,
learning where he was going, gav
hitn a letter of introduction to his
brother, who was a fanner, living on
his route to Arkansas. It is not nec
essary for us to follow him on Ins road
or tell what discoveries In* made for
tha benefit, of science; sufficient it
is that ono day towards dusk lie
reached the house of lh<- gentleman
to whom he had a letter, and dis
mounting knocked at the and or, and
presented'his letter to Judge,(even in
those days every one wu- a Judge in
Arkansas), who would i.ot •• ave tie*.-•!••<!
it to have accorded him an opt n
handed welcome, for travelers were
a Godsend, and news was its much
sought after then as now. Aft< r a
short visit he proposed to go on to the
uext town,a bout lour utiles off. where
he intended to put. r.p for the night.
But the Judge would not listen to is
leaving, and was so coidial in his de
sire for him to stay that he would li -v<
been rude not to have done so
The Judge, aftei directing one of
the servants to take care ol his horse
inviied him into the dining room,
where he was introduced to the wih
and daughter ol his host, and a sub
stantial Western supper, t.> which
he did ample justice. After supper
they adjourned to the parlor, and he
entertained his new made trien s
with news, from the outside world.
The Judge brewed soon- still' whiskey
punch, which our fiend, social y in
clined, imbibed quite freely. The ohi
couple retded and hit their daughter
to entertain him, and whether it was
the punch or what—at all events he
made love to her and finally asked
her to go to Texas wits him, to which
she consented. She being very un
sopliisl mated and innocent, took ev
eryth ng he said to down right earnest
and with her it was a cu.-e of love al
first sight. But 1 ain digressing.
During the night, our friend, tli
doctor, woke up and remembeied
what he had said, and it worried him,
but he said to himself: “Never mind;
I’ll wake it *ll right in the morning.
BUENA VISTA, MARIOV COUNTY, GEORGIA, 'TEDYESDAY, MARCH 6, 1878.
1 must have made a /o<J of myself;
wlmt must that girl think ol me?”
and ho rolled over and went to sleep.
M ruing came and upon going down
to the parlor he found the young lady
alone, for which ho blessed his stars,
and was just about to make an apol
ogy wit* u she said :
“I told mamma,and she said it w.m
ail right. Pp iis going to town this
morning, and you tide in with him
and ta k it over; but lie won't object.,
I know.
“But, my dear miss, I uas veiy
foolish, and
“No, you was all right.
“Weil, I will go to my post and
return for you, for I must go at one .
“No, 1 can go with you; p pa will
fix that; it wiil be such n expense
for you t<> come all way buck Iteic.
‘•But I have no way of taking you.
“I have thought of tliai; that does
not make any difference, father will
g ve us a team.
With nearly tears in his eyes iie
went in to breakfast, to which at that
moment they were bolh summoned;
bat, alas ! appetite he had none. P
was not that she was not pretty and
nice, but he thought what a con
founded ford she must be, not to see
i hat lie wanted to get out of it. But
it was no us y so when the Judge
started on ii s way to town, t.be doctor
was siting beside him. The Judge
s.iV.-d him the troub'c of broaching
the subject, by starting it biinse.f. t
“I always, young man, give Noi her
own way; so its all right; you need
not nay it word.
“But I have got to go on t >.dav.
The old Judge turned bis eyes to
ward him; he had an Arkansas bo*l
iu each boof, and one of those double
barr= i shot gun looks, aa he said:
“You ain't a trying to gft . i-.t oi i
it, are you ?
The doctor, taking in the situation, |
said, ‘'No, sir.
“That’s right. I will six. everything
for you; give you ; hat i.lack team c!
min ami a light wagon toCarr- tour
wife’s ih.ngs, anti a ■ house ml th-Uas s
as .1 (-tailor. You cun be mmri. <1
to-ingot an i In vc earl in the morn
tag. i'hat will suit you, won’ it.?
‘•Yes, sir.
“After you got fixed at y ur pos .
[ will c mo down .mi p y ■ ii a vis
it. I liitxe bet n thi- kino h r s i
tin e ;.b-u sel.ing out at and movi g '■
T.-xhk,
'i’liings ivtr. arranged asilie Jini. ; ..i
id. The miu rm .<■ rook ]:ina
tin a>my r.-reived an xiitiitioii to its
Indies in ilio person a: too A kun no
Judge’s daughter. She w ■ un ve
sally popul.-r, and ju !f uo, and \v
an acqui-d ion to any p-.-i
At Ii br< a king o tol tin war t .
doctor wen So-.th, tesiguing • is com
mission.
If ih< doctor did not 1 v. his -vile
at tir-t t-e .-.id ah> u I knew im, and
I am certain he nev.r regret ed tlu
obduracy of his fa her-m—law, or Hie
unsophi t cat cdness of Ids wife. —
[Washing!on Sunday World.
Coene l> Georgia.
We do not ask tor increase of pop
ulation in our cities, towns and vil
irges, but sober, industrious, oner
get.ic f-irmcrs are wanted all through
Ccorgia Farmers of the North or
West, will you com< ? There are
thousands ot acres of good lertih
land in Georgia which lies unculli
vatrd, and they are of as litde use as
the go and in the unwork* and mines of
Lumpkin county* Nature has hern
peculiarly kind to Georgia, in giving
prolific powers to her soil, and if ihe
lands were petted and courn and, as
they should be, they would return
the fifths of their admirers with a
liberal reward. —fix.
Bismark said of the English cry of
war aga nst Russia with her fleet:
“When have fish over been seen to
make war on horses?”
A DEMOCRATIC FAMILY NEWSPAPER.
Value of Experiment.
When I was a little boy on my. fa
ther’s fa mi, 1 ‘once made a litt e ex
perinitMi' on my own account, and
carried it through s crctly, lor the
purpose of enjoying t!..e emprise it
migi.t create. With th s view as Boon
as lather got through planting hi.-
corn, I selected and mitt ked off, un
known to him, a small space near th
centre of the fie and. To each stalk ol
Corn p.anted on place 1 gave spe
cial att> ution, lor the pimp. s<‘of find
ing out how much each grain planted
could be made io produce by giving
t extra manure and extra hoeing.
When the corn was gatnered thed.l
lerence between my p t. stalks and
rite rest of the field attracted my fa
ther’s attention, atuM remember how
puzzled tie was in trying to account
tor it. When at lengtu 1 disclosed
L, e secret, he instantly inquired how
much exira woik and manure I had
applied. Tell in ■ this exactly, said
lie, and I can ell t, e vame ot the
experiment. I told bint I had simply
doubled what lie had given t.be r< st
of the (idd. Abel' ex unining the re
sult. and comparing it t.c the rest of
the fn Id, tie found that Ins yield was
at. the mi of bu-hel-. to tho acre
and mine at the laie of G 9. Now,
,-ai l h , if extra extra
• ..nine is g.-..-d f>r single sticks, t
must, be go and for the whole crop.
So the next year be adopted my plan
fa- the whole crop, and h'-ipd teat
the gain was even hirgei- by several
bushels, thau in my expeti. u< <i i
he also feund that 1 lie e.isi of each i
basiit-I wa- teuucfde lto six c< uta- :
Co-.r.id Wilson.
The Keg'isb a mv-isus h-mr erjnycd^
tin: rei utetii.n of being the most, ex-
I>e:-ivelv fit •-I in K rone. Tin- I
‘ .. . '
most eat v miiform is t-t at -.f Sian ,
SfigCatit- oi 'he Foot Guards,>6 clothe
whom nt-i s upon F e country about
4
S7O p rannum, and the c'<-.ipo?i man
to equip is tin-> euro private of h>
We i India regiments, whose ur form
cost sl2 pet annum.
Fro-.- c ulture is tit latest Western
indiwvv, ad is h-itnr syHcma ically
c ridel 'ii in Minnesota. l! i* n sin -
ph* process. cor aiding chbflv in th •
protec inn of g < and tadpole from
hi-ds am! ■t r- etioini,. by means I
w : ® Borcc’-s The product thus far
rep fed am unis to 3000 dozen leg-,
of • Id' ll iw hires h've been shippe ■
to Si. L ui , where they bring
avcra-/e of 20 e~nls per dozen.
A New York sioiioMViphcr, xvle
and one bundled dollars ;n bank, com
initi'-d suicid la-other and; y bee u-e
• e was afraid lie might suffer want
Me ! rf a fiti rv letter, of win h the
fr>ll<)-- i-g is an ex rnc : “Perhaps 1
may find out that there is a hell,
ihoui.di I think we have 101 l rnou h
on earth wi'hotl’ nr-ntif chirbigone
for the hereafter. At any rate there
will be no wii ler there.” Ihe poor
fellow most have been remarkably
cold—bl odd.
-—**■ -A" •-
“Pull oat Bill j" s' ricked an engin
• cr's son to one ol his playmates, a
btakesmnn bov wlio vns in imminent
dan er of b- ing smashed by his
mother who was com np aflor him
“Git. on the main lino and give her
steam I lb re comes the switch en
gine I But before the juvenile could
get in motion she had him by the ear,
and he was laid up wi li a hot box.
The egg business of this country
hrs ris< n to an importance which f w
comprehend. The aggregate tran
sact ons in New York city alone is
about SB,OOO 000 per annum, nn 1 in
the United States $18,000,000. A
singe firm in that lin ■ of hnsines
East has handled $1,000,000 worth
of eggs within a year.
Take the ARGUS, you'J not
not regrets It. .Jiff
A I*ni-V3t Movy.
Two sailors, wi.o I,ad a parrot with
hem, went iu;o u magioianA show in
an upper room in -ome lotcign c.ty.—
The three constituted the r.udi. nee.
Alter e ch feat of the nmg eiau's otto
ol tin- sailor won and remark :
“T haf’jt pretty good. Wondor rlnti
tin y \i iii do next. ?”
Finally one ol the sailur. n-lred
pcruiissiou to smoke, which the ma
gician granted, forgetting that in the
room beneath was un immense quali
fy of pun powder. The Jack star is
and the parrot continued to enjoy the
s : *ow, one sudor added tha p.le.mure
o'- his pipe, and the oilier remarked
••filer cue.i t rick ;
“Ilia ’s preuy good; wonder what
they will do next, ?”
A spark from the smoker's pipe
chanced to drop thiough a cack in
fit- Hour, and s.auieTiing suddenly
occurred. Sailors, magician, parrot
and all “rose above party prejudices, ’
and were all blown to kingdom come,
ali except In troll parrot. lie landed
in a heap of bruised liesh ana burnt
leathers in a potato pa ck three miles
away. He was utterly demoralized,
it look some iiiumett's to collect him
self, and when In- had partially done
so he hopped liinpiagty upon a fence
rail, and remark and:
•‘Thai pret-.y good. Wonder what
they will do toxt. ?
Cow SE •.!: iSi.fo- Ssfso-*.
In England they are adopting a
horse shoe made <>f cowhide and
h o'iwii ns the Yates shoo, it is coai
!o-ed of three thicknesses of cow
hide compressed into a sue! mould,
and theu objected t > < < hemicid
ion. J. is claimed for is that
is lasts logger au t * ;-i £ t, s ouiy%n
fourth as much as ihe common iron
shoe, shat it will never cause the
jurious influence the loot, and it
requires no ea.ks, *<-n on asphalt
th hoof never sips. This shoe is
so ela.-tie that the hi use's step is
Hg itcr and surer. Ii adheres so
close y o !:. tot tli t ueittser dust
nor wat i can penetrate between the
shoe and hoof.
Asa party of Germans we c playing
ards in S . mouse, N. Y, on Sunday,
ihe oea er gave three cards to ont
player, arid live lo another. Some
body remarked upon it, when tho
den er said lie could no; s e, and fell
back in his chair o' ad.
Skeleton manufacture isihela'e. t
b nncli cl bu.-incHK in Chieeyo. The
di.-c: very thai an enterprising family
has lx* n eng; ged in this horrible
■ oil; for some lime past,boiling down
i m. human remains (or the purpose,
ims created a sensation even in that
ei'y.
‘■Hurrah I hum li!” cried n young
lawyer who had succeeded to his fa
ih Vs practice, “Ml settled that old
lawsuit at last. “Settled it!” ex
claimed the astonished parent “why,
we have su; ported ti.e family on that
for the last ten years
One pound of corn is eqnai in re>d
hod to a! out 3f pounds of potatoes,
or 114 pounds of white turnips, but
dairy stuck is often injured by the in
judicious feeding of meal. Meal is of
a very heating nature, and when fed
in considerable quantifies, is apt to
derange the animals health.
One (oil ol dried sea weed, made
into manure, returns to tiie soil three
times as much inorganic matter as
manure made from one top of straw,
or t! e fame an ount ol hay; and 20
pounds of dried or 80 pounds of fresh
seaweed contain as much nitrogen as
l JO 1 ouiuis of oat straw or ISO pounds
ot bailey straw.
The Buena Vista Augub
it a “newsy sheet."
? y Ail UlOnmlbo nrt CilUor.
An editor is the hnppiets lieittg on
lie hss little or nothing to do, nnd
his pay is sfi the heart "could wish. His
-anetntti,' with its Persian rttgs Rnd Turk
ish earpcis, its oostly rose wood furniture,
Its nrigii fioer.t mirrors, its beautiful pic
Hires, its complete library of
hound book, usjilvcf bell to snmauuq an
attendant, ajtu in short, wiih its every*
tiling th i b iin.in ingenuity can devise
lor nis comfort and pfoassre, is a perfect
little paradise, rrheta he sits or lounges
and isigns a young lord, with ihe world
ot fashion and pleasure at his feet. And
iheti anybody cg be an editor; co study
no preparation' no brains, nothing bu.
a little money to star; with, sad once
suited the money pours in upon you iu
a setady stream, and the chief labor Oj
your hie is to spend it. As for the labor
of editing a newspaper, that is mere
moonshine. A mere glance at the column
o; a newspaper is enough to convince you
that it requires no labor to edit it, aud
rss biains. It is certainly a g orious
iifo, that of sn editor, a hfs of luxurious
ease and elegant leisure —a life filled
ike that e! a yong lover in his first
dream of requitU-d lov, with rose
leave* and moonbeams. That all ir.er
are not editors is one of the stringent
things beneath the stars. True there
must be doctors and lawyers aod ahoe
maker.* and nut dealers and the like,
and all these callings must be filled bv
somebody, l>*it tkere Ere enough to fill
tliefu, <;. i why they don't become edi-
dors and lead the life of opulent prin
ce!*, is a thing that staggers ns. But
after all, it may be a mere matter
of taste. It m vbe repugnant to some
• atures to become editors. The life of
ease an I elegance and luxury, and ex
be omes a bore to him, and Jae would
spend ‘ais ’debts in dreaming of ploughs
am] pitchforks and reaping machines,
and squander bis days in devising some
•pan for swapping places with a black
smith’s apprentice or a street car driver.
[Louisville Courier Journal
feusJ AecidlciU.
Gwinmtt Herald Bays that Jona
than Maddux and Wrn. Taylor,youths
iv >out 17 years old, were hunting
rabbits. Maddox wss carrying his
gun on his shoulder cocked, and in
order to protect the lock from the rain
had thrown the skirt of his overcoat
over it. While walking along lie
polled the skirt down, its weight
passing over the hammer of li is rifle
jerked it down and fired the gun.
Looking mound, he saw young Tay
lor twenty or thirty feet behind him.
He asked him if he was hit, Taylor
replied yes, and immediately fell.
1 his was the last word he ever spoke.
Maddux lau to him, ami found him
a-piiig in the agon es of death. The
rifle ball had struck i*iai square in his
heart. The neighbors, upon being
notified by Maddux, gathered in, and
icing satisfied that it wag accident,
proceeded to bury him without hold
in an inquest.
This, from the Salt Lake Tribune,
s tinds queer to persons not versed in
be mysteries of Utah politics: “The
Bishops were out yesterday with their
teauiß hauling women to the polls to
lo vote the (Lurch and State ticket'.
Immediately after the ward meetings
had been dismissed the teachers (minor
officers of lire Merman Church) were
provided with the People’s, ticket, and
dispatched to circulate them among the
Sainis, whom they advised to vote the
straight Morman ticket, intimating that
very unpleasant results would follow
their refusal to obey counsel. Asa re
sult the female roosters came out in lull
rifa."
One thousand and seventy-eight
fires in New York for the nine
month of last year, ending with
September, is a rather heavy rec
ord.
Subscription, s2'oo
Hood Advice.
Raise bogs md make your own
meat.
llaisa corn for f >od instead of buy
ing-
Keep plenty of nows and make your
own milk and butter;
Do not ra se so much cotton : if
joniyisfa tb avoid the misfortune of
spending jour last moments in the
poor bousc-
Itnise joar bead high, and be not
ashamed of honest work . better lo
have the wrinkled and brown hands
of a farmer than the white Augers of
a thief.
liaise yonr boys for something
more useful than playing cards, tiivo
them an education first, then polish
them up with a trade. Thev will
know how to make their own living,
and will not bo burdens to their fei
lowman.
Teach your daughters that a wo
man in a calico dress is just as good
as a woman in silk, and that a pure,
noble, sensible woman, no matter
what her station in life, is univeisally
admired.
Farmers who raise the most stock
are most prosperous, provided that
tii® animals are of good blood and
worth the trouble of raising.
Every family should have a veget
able garden from which to supply the
1 aole with food. It cost nothing but
a few houra daily labor to raise veg
etables, and it affords a certain
amount of pleasure in knowing that
they are the fruit of your own exer
tions.
Talking to the Telophone.
When we begin to use a telephone
fur the first time, there i a a sense of
oddity, almost of foolishness, in the
experiment. The dignity of talking
consists in a listeners hearing, and
there seems a kind of absurdity in
addressing a piece of iron, but we
must raise our respect for the metal,
for it is anything but deaf. The dia
phragm of the telephone, the thia
iron plate, is as sensitive as the liv
ing tympanum to all the delicate re
finements of sound. Nor does it de
pend upon the thinness of the raetal
ci sheet, for a piece of thick boiler
plate will take up and transmit the
motions of the air-particles in all the
grades ot their subtility. And not
only will it do the same thing as the
tympanum, but it will do vastly more,
Ihe gross, dead metal proves, in fact
to be a hundred times more alive
than the living mechanism of speech
and audition. This is no exaggera
tion. In quickness, inaccuracy, and
even in grasp, there is perfection of
sensitive capacity in the metal, with
which the organic instrument cann* t
compare. We speak of the proverbial
“quickness of thought/, but the tele
phone tiiinks quicker than the nerv
ous mechanism. Let a word be pro
nounced for a person to repeat, nd
the telephone will hear and speak it
a hundred miles away in a tenth paid
of the time that the listner weuld need
to utter it. Give a man a series of
half a dozen notes to repeat, and lo
cannot do it accurately to save his
hfe : but the iron plate takes them up
transmits them to another plate hun
dreds of mile* off, which sing ahem
forth instantaneously with absolute
preision. The human machine can
hear, and reproduce, in its poce way,
only a single series of notes, while
the iron ear ot the telephone will bake
up whole chords and trains of music,
and, sending them by lightning
through the wire, its iron tongue will
emit them in perfect relations cf har
mony.
Scarlatina and diptheria are pre
vailing to an alarming extest in
Louis the state medical soeicty has
issued an address to the public nrg.
ing prompt and vigorous measures
ta avert an epidemic, £g|
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