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W A. SINGLETON, Editor and Proprietor. VOLUME 111. Uiofcssional tends. K .n Bi rr. attobnkyat i^avv, lu re* A VISTA- OA. ” SIMMONS a. SIMMONS,' ATTORNEY AT LAW, w ’pW- : ' ■ ' W* AMKItIC.US. ClfcoßGlA. liarcti 10- 1 yt. WESLEY JEFFERSON, M D RED RONE. GA. *®i. Patronage solicited. Calls responded to promptly. -i©B WILLIAM 15. HINTON, AITOOeV AT LAW. BUENA VISTA. GA Will practice in the Courts of this State, ami tho District aud Circuit Courts of the United -States. .Special attention given to Collections, Cejveruui ing ud Bhnkrnptcy. feWi-ly F. L. WlDO!I, M. I). BUENA VISTA, GA. B®-Calls may be left at my resi dence at a hours of the day or liight.-af ~T. W. BEAD Y, ATTORNEY AT LAW, A MERieESs GEORGIA. Olllce on Lamar Street. Trompt attention given all business. Col -1 ctians muds. Will practice in the counties of Loe, Macon, Marion, Schley, Sumter, Web ster, Dooly, Terrell and Worth. DENTAL WORK Vi-Tf YOU WANT— Good Den tal Work Dr. BP. HI9M at his office oe r Davenport & Smiths’ Drug Store, Americas, tia. Bnj.t 11-1} i ■ F tltn EKi BEST Saloon & Restaurant, CENEVA, CA. w,.1. MINUET Proprietor. “Old Gid” will be pleaded to ?e* his old friends Jrom Marion and Sth ey counties in tke Real. Hituated at tlie end of platform ol depot. oct 17-Gras eTf7tiiob m ENA VISTA, GEORGIA. i I tender my professional services to the citizens of Buena Vista and vicinity. All work warranted, and satisfaction guaranteed. Ugl_ OiTice np stairs above Harvey it glory’s old stand. X. 6. CHEHNEY, DENTIST, ELLAVILLE, - - - GEORGIA gmmm.m yfc TENDERS his professional ser vices to the people ot Marion -Gif "m7:iii[l guirounding 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, </l _____ w. I J BURT, XXEISrTTST .A.TvffEIR'rCTG S, . GA Continues to solicit the patronage of the good peoplo of Marion. Satisfaction guaranteed, and at reaxonabl* prices. ... Speeiat inducements offered to those who will arrange to visit my offico to have their tions performed. PLUMS’ HOTEL Mrß. M. C. GRAY, Proprietress, 'Ovar 182 & 12 *-, Broad. St., COLUMBUS GA. BOARD and LODGING: StrrrEH. BREAKFAST AND LODGING tJ-JJO BOARD PER DAY SINGLE MEAL AS. L. B R ASINCTON, tail oh, BUENA VIST A, OA R'ould respectfully announce to the public and hie iriends that he is elill at his post; dy for all kinds f tailoring—Cut ting, Muk ; Repairing, Cleaning, etc. Those want ’measures to send fer suits can get th<-m m trST" Latest styles and fasliion- al- T ,“j on &■ JH. I, Bit ASI N OTON The Auous is r good ■wetkly newspaper. Jgc? | Instable Hopes. How transient are our fairest hopes, Delusive as the flower which opes At early morn / Opes ! but ere half the day ho past Each lo if lies scattered 'neuth the blest, Crushed 1 trampled 1 torn ! Behold the ocean’s face at morn, Clear, placid, not a ribble borne Upon its brow, — Dark lowers the sky! down sweeps the blast 1 The plow of heaven has o’er it passed 1 Behold it now! Hope fickle ns an April day, lieiuaive us the darling ray Of shrouded Sol 1 Hope soars exultant with the moon, Alas 1 ere evening to be torn Ear wide its foal! I've seen a lovely child at morn. Eie evening to the churchyard borne A withered thing,— At morn, hope filled the parent heart, Even thou, unseen, unsought, the dart Was on the wing. Men hurry on with eager eves To seize some long expected prize. Some glittering toy ! Brighter the wished lor bauble grows, He seizes ! nh, too late be knows Its phantom joys 1 Hope I what is hope 1 alas! ales ! A fair face flitting o'er tho glass .Of stable fate, An evanescont smile ! a tear ! A prizj, it ever doth appear, We reach too late. HOG CHOLERA. An Interesting Article <>u tle .Subject From Dr. 11. C.Sjiinks. Mr. Editor: —First, Is boy cholera a specific disease ? If so, is it con tagious ? It appears tho word hog choK-ra, as used generally, is a mis nomer, from toe fa' 1 t no matter by what disease the hog comes to his deai h, it is called hog cholera. There seems to be uneeitaiuty and confu sion as to the treatment of this dis ease. In order to treat this, or any oilier, disease successfully, it is nec essary that we arrive at a correct d-aquosis. Faring to do this has caused an endless variety ot remedies to be recommended as specific. In the first place, we wish to discover wnat vital organ is implicated ; whether it is the stomach, liver, lungs, or intestines, and whether or not. these vital o-guns are all more or less involved Perhaps we \'i ibe better able to arrive at a correct conclusion oil this point by a post mortem exam- inaiion. A gentleman in the sou hern pert of this county informed me re cently. that his togs died with cholera When asked the p evai.ing symptoms, nc said his hogs literally sera lied r rubbed themselves away; that the skin assumed a lumpy appearance, and that ihoy continued to scour, or r bb, against a fence or elsewhere, until death ensued. These symptoms cleaily indicated a skin oiseas ; ye:, he called it cholera. Another citizen, in the same n- ighborhood, sad Ins hogs diet! apparently from excessive purging anil \omiting, anti he caller! it cholera. Another said that the trouble with his hogs was a difficulty in breathing, succeeded by diushea. which terminael in and ath in a very short time, and he called it cholera. In all these cases a different line o it eatmm, won and seem to be indicated. Most of my neighbors have lost a p .it, ami seine all,ot their Logs during the past three months, as they say, wi h cholera. Being of a hoggish turn ol mind just now, I have spent sometime irying to ascertain, if possible, the probable cause of the ho-s dying, and have satisfied myself, at 1. asf. on one point, that this, the diseases which has ptevailed all around me, was not contagious. The hogs of a freedman on my place died; Mr. Morgan, liv ing within 200 yards of me, los- ad his hogs, as did several others living in less than half mile of me. lam inclined to l>el eve that il a hog is well treated from his pig slate, until he is ready to be slaughtered, he will not be apt to die with cholera. But, says one, <: my hogs died fat in the pen A DEMOCRATIC FAMILY NEWSPAPER. RUEVA VISTA, MARION COUNTY, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1878. almost ready to lie slaughtered." I admit that they do, but they were not kept in good condition during the summer mon Its. They were allowed to loot hog or die poor, and to gnaw net fI , pine roots, and other crude, indices ible trash. Besides tho un wholesome and unnatural food the! were compelled (o subsist upon, per-' haps, lice Mere allowed to gnaw their lank, long, bony skeletons, i ho poor hogs become confirmed dys peptics. Indigestion is evinced by the condition ol the li ces, which when raided,arc hard ami unnatural, hung* ing together by indigestible grass, and tLie like; showing that the vitality of <he digestive oi-gans are so much impaired by this unnatural treatment, that the hog is unhealthy, and il he is hog enough to live through the summer (many does net) tho Ist of October finds his hogship is a bare living,skeleton; his stomach weak and much contracted. He is turned out in the field m the fall in this eman cipated condition, hungry and glut tonous, he crowds his stomach ail at once to its utmost capacity, with peas, which are good loud, given in connection with corn, potatoes, ground peas, and the like. Generally, bow. ver, he has peas alone, more over, lit) often suffers lor the want ol water. This is certainly true, for many fie ds are d< statute of water in the fall season. In addition to this a large pir cent, of the pea crops is often rotten, and such food is very unwhole omc, to Siy the least of h. I think rotten peas have much to do in exciting disease iu hogs during f.il and winter. Although the hog may mend up in ti c fall, ow.ng 'o Ins glut lotions disposition, with his dis ci dered stomach and bowels, he was quite liabl - to take on di ease ot these vital organs, that, would produce death, though the hog was compara tively fat, unless proper remedies were administered. My father lost most of his hogs re cently, as he suppo-ed by c.oh-ra. Alter making special inquiry about bis hogs, 1 am satisfied it was not cholera. He let, Mr. Parker have three hogs in January. In a short time they a 1 died, but Mr. Parker's oilier nogs did not contra,-t the dis ease. This shows conclusively that iho di ease was uot contag ous; and I further learned teat his hogs had access to green cotton seed sometime n December, which was the exei ing, if not ti e prime can e of i is hogs dy ing. My bro her lost most of his hogs in January. They ran in t■ is when' field sometime, wurre he used cotton s, ed as a fertilizer. The green wheai and cotum seed were undoubtedly t o cause of ihe cholera, so cal ed, in Its hogs. Tney died with deraugt iii- nt of the stomach and bow. N, (diarhea.) H. W. Hi ltnan lost mo i of his hogs not long since. He in formed me the difficulty with his hogs was obstinate constipation; apt a ren-ly impacted excrement in the intestines. He failed to salt his hogs regular : y, unci they eat b-acki-.fi mar , or swamp mud, which and übtlesß caused the cholera among them. Many planters ft ii ks it is unmcei-sa ry to supply hogs wi'.li salt, from the fact that when it i* only given ocea si-naliy thcho.r will eat to excess, ami will commence to vomit in a short ti ne, but if tlicv have i-ab where il ey can get it at pleasure, they will only eat what their system requires. I keep salt nnd ashes where they cun get at it all tlie \ ear round. I can't tell the modus operandi of the salt and ashes on tlie hog’s nyst. ra. but I know from experience and observation,that when hogs are slaughtered their in testines me free Irom worms, and make much better sausages and chit terlings, than hog3 which Itav# crammed their stomaches and intes tines with brackish dirt. 1 know, too, that if hogs are supplied with salt continually tlrev will not eat dirt. I do not wish to be misunderstood, I do not Boy that tin re is no such discus as hog cho'era. but I have never seen a case, and I-am satisfied that much of die so cal Ad cho'era ra the l-e-ult ot lice, starvation and bad treattna.iit generally. But it any man in “these parts” can throw any light on this vexed question, tie 9 specially invited to the front without further ceremony. Respectfully, H. O'. Spinks. Tho little Drummer Boy- During the C vil War 1 noticed in a Louisiana regiment in camp near my place a boy about fifteen years of age. H • was a drummer, but a more attractive face I have never seen, — lair complexion, with short, curly cheseut hair, and brown eyes that sparkled and danced with rarth. It was pitiful to toe to see so young a boy in the army, and I often won d, red low lie got there. He had an unmistakable air of refinement, whim Seemed to eel him apait from his rougher companions. With whom, Lowever, he appeared to be a gnat favor tc. They used to mount him on a bar rel, where he would stand and i-ing to them lively or sentimental songs, but S'-ldom the rough camp melodies which were favorites in the army. His voice was clear, pure, and of wonder ful compass lor his age, and in spite of Lis flow of spirits, it was lull of pathos. H" came to the hmise on some er rand one day, and I determined lo gra ify my curiosity. “You are very, 'oung to be in the army,” I said. “1 am?” —with a shoit laugh, “i never thought I was I haven’t much to do, ma’am, you know, and the men arc veiy good to me.” “But how came your fat her and mother in allow you to join?” “I have no motlur, ma'am, my fa ther is Col. Singleton, of tin- 8 h Lou isia, aud he's been in Viiginia for over a year. He left me at school, aud oim day the large boys of the -culinary made up their minds to join the army. I wasn't going to be the only sneak among them. Every one of thi-m are in this regiment, and we have fine limes laughing over old Dr. Duclos’ lace, as it looked win n we marched in one day and told him we wi re go ng out.” “Docs your father know ?” “0, I guess so, by this time. Le - tors are very uncertain during the blockade, but, I wro e to i im the very day I join- <l, and to Eugc-c, too. “Eugene? Who is lie?” “O, nit eldest biother.” “He was at Princeton when the w r broke out, and lie’s never corn home He was to have graduated last year. I wish you could see him He’s a splendul fellow, and there’s noth ng lie enn’t do. He's as go and as he's handsome, too. But they say he is Union, and tb it is the reason he don’t come South to help us. But that is all nonsense, you know. Why, he is my own brother,” —as much ns to say, “That settles the question. “Perhaps ha is with your lather,” I suggested “I've thought <>f that. Anyhow, wherever lie is, he is sing t. Eugene couldn’t do wrong if he tried. “I wish he was here to advise you,” I said, my In ait yearning over the motherless boy, who, I saw plainly, had taken up arms jg avoid being called a sneak, not dreaming of the dreadful p. ssibili ies which lay in the war tiack bis young leet were tread ing. ‘•lndeed, my child, you are too young lor the life you have chosen. What is your name ? ‘•Ktnneth, maW; —oh, no, I am not oo young. Why, Col. Mills has prombed I shall be color-bearer iD a short time. Won't that be splendid ? "Splendid 1” Ah me ? how well I emembered one as bright, and more beloved than the boy before me, who went out in the early morning wi h i he Pelican flag waving over h e head’ and was brought back at noon with its bloody folds wraj pod around his dead body. . “You would not think it-splendid if you hadevti- been in battle,” said I. I’ve been in two sharp skirmishes— one at Yellow Bayou, and one at In glewood. I just longed to be in front all the time. When lam eclor-bssr er I promise you that the flag won’t bo in the rear. But I must go. ma'am,”—rising from his scat. “It seems like being at home to have n talk wih a lady, a .id to see pictures and books nga n. I’ve almost for gotten how they looked since 1 have been in camp.” He laughed gayly, touched his cap, and was gone. I saw a great dial of Kenneth flin glcton after that. I encouraged him to spend all his spare time at niv house, which he seemed glad to do. He found a listener for all the non detfnl tales he hud to tell about his ■ln ro Eugene, and I think that was what he most, desired. He never wearied talk ng about him. But at length the regiment to which Kenneth belong, and left the neighborhood, moving up the Red Iliver, aid for some months I heard nothing ot my little dt ummer. The Battle of Pleasant Hill was fought and won; the Southern forces fe I back, and one morning I rose to see the white tents of Col. Mill's reg linent pitched on their old camping ground, just outside the front lences ol Widow GLn. Kenneth will be hue immediately. I thought, gad at the piospectsol meeting him again. But the day wore a way,and no Kenneth appeared. Towards evening Col. Miiis rode up, and after the first greetings, I asked aboin my young friend. A grave expression settled upon the stern Lee of the soldier. “Ah, I remember, the hoy was a favorite of yours Poor little man, he fed at Pleasant Hill! He carried the colors. We bad sharp work fora few hours, and of course nobody thought ol the boy. Alter it was ovi-r, I licuro lie had been shot. But the ag never f li; for you know when out co or bearer falls, someone is always at nand to take his place. Poor ii tie fellow ! t was a sad thing, but every thing about this war is strange and unnatural. I Imd buried my face in my hands as the colonel spoke. I saw Kenneth before me, his bright, handsome fact aglow wish enthusiasm as he spikeo his beloved brother. I shuddered whm I thought ol the same face trampled in the dust, by horses’hoots, lint 1 must know all. “Did he die immediately ?” I asked when I could spenk. “N-; I ana coming to that; but you seemed so dis lvsscd, I thought i would wait before telling the story. W ien he baitle was over, he was found mortally wounded, with his arms around the neck of a dead Yan kee officer, in a lieutenant’s uniform —as tall and sp'endid a specimen of manhood as I have ever seen. We trii and to unclasp the boy's arms; bu he resisted. ‘IPs my brother—it’s Eugene,’—h cried. ‘Nr, no, don’t take him away from me!’ The m n nfted them together and they were laid on a in a negro cabin near by. l‘ve gone through a deal since this war begun,—l‘ve al most losi all sense of acute feeling but that scene wakened every spark that was left. The dy boy was delirious from his wound, but nevei loosen his g asp on bis brother, —for we karned afterwards that it really was his brother. ‘Don't try to move the corpse,’ tin surgeon said. ‘lt will only excite him, and he han‘t an hour to live.’ ‘So wc left Eugene near him. He would lay his head on the cold bn ast and babble of bitd-.nesting and trout fishing, and all the* little home sports I presume the brothers used lo enjoy together. Sometimes Kenneth s<em Lo know os, and once he said to me : ‘Colonel I did tny host with the tLg, but I raw Eugene just bi fore me, and somehow I got dizzy aud lost my hold. It wasn't taken, was it?” But these intervals of semi-con scionsnes were rare. M.-st of the time he was hugging his brother as tightly as his weak arms would let him, and kissing him. He never seem- and to realize that Eugene was dead—only sound asleep that he could not be wakened. lie tried to sing once, but broke down, and said he was too sleepy to ring well. He must have suffered, from the nature of Lis wound, but never even groaned. At I.*si he seemed quite gone, bu rallied suddi nly and said distinctly, ‘There is the bell, and my lessons not ready. Do help me Eugene to learn this one before I go,’ These words were uttered with his last garp. He had learned that cruel iesson of cleath, poor little man ! But it's tin* fortunes of war.” “Does that reconcile us to it?” 1 cried tlnough my tears. “Docs that make its horrors less, because its ‘fosiune’ bri gs son against lather, brother against brother?' Perhaps Kenneth fell by his b other’s hand ?” “No; I made special inquiries. The brothers were un wounded when they r< cogn zed each other. It. was in striving to get together that they fell, and Eugene was shot th'ough the heart. They were laid in the same grave. It is, as -1 have sad before, mi unnatural war; but the gray and (lie blue slumber peaceful together in many graves besides that of the two orotliers. Their father is to be pdii d.” Two years later I mure fully real ized what a blow had fallen upon the childless old man, as we stood to getlnr besides the last reeling place of Ins boys. He had had them re moved from Pleasant Ilill to his own family graveyard. A simple marble column rug.- above them, which bore their names, the date of their death, and these words: “Lovely were they in fheir liv-s and in death they were nut divided.” Maria JB. Williams. in Youths Companion. The Governor of New M.xico has deeply offended the ecclesiastics of m at Territory by vetoing a bill to repeal what is known as the “burial law,” which prohibi ed the burial ol the dead beneath the floors ol churches. Until the passage cf the act, two years ago it was the usual practice of the wealthy New Mexican Roman Ca holies to bury tweir deed in the churches. The price of a sen u chre ranging from $260 to SI,OOO according to proximity to the altar. When the ground under the floor was lull of dead bodies, they were exhum d, and reinterred elsewhere—a prac ice which has been twice repeated in the parish church of Albuquerqe. The bill was passed over the Gov ernor's veto by n almoitt unamiHOU.- vo:e, as was also another bill forever exempting the propeity of the iSoeie ty ol Jesus from taxation. For soma weeks Mr. Pierce, who lives in Geoigotown, lias heard a peouliai noise at night, and dircovered the grad ual loss of chickens. He came to the conclusion that it must be made by rats. Friday night ho and his wife were awak ened by a sharp cry of distress from the crib adjoining their bed, in v hinh their two-year old infant was sleeping. Mr. Peirce immediately sprang out and dis covered a weasel at his child's throat. Gab b ng the animal with his hand, he tlnew it to the floor, killing it at once. A few moments later, the Ihtle one would certainly have been killed, as a deep gash was already made in its throat.—[.Washington Star, Subscription, $2 00 The new Election law of Utnb i an improvement on the old, inasmuch as it provides for the tecret ballot at all elec tions, as well as a registration of voters. The registry agents, in person or by dep uty, shall visit each and every dwelling within their jurisdictions, and register tlie names of persons c.aiming to bu vo ers. Woman, as well as men, may register anti vote. The faw provides for the publication of the names of voter® registered,for the addition of new names, for the appointment by the county courts of three discreet and competent persons in each precinct (one of them to belorg to the minority party, if there be one) to be judge ofelections, for the counting of ballots, and the punishment of perjury, bribery, and intimidation. It is said that of two ol the children of a Pennsylvania blacksmith, “One is a girl of six years that weighs eleven pounds, and can neither walk nor freak. She was born without eyes no; eye lids, the skin being drawn tightly over the sockets. The other is a girl almost four years old, and is, also, very small, but a irifler smaller than her sister. She is similarly delormed, the principal differ ence that she has the partial sight of one eye. Their bearing is good. They are in perfect health, 6at as heartily as any of the family, and takes a great delight in being noticed. A telegram from Harrisonburg, Ya;, where Charlotte Harris, colored, charged with arson, was hanged ihe other night on a blackjack tree, by masted men, saya it took five men to bend the sapling down wl ich being accomplished, a rope suspen ded from the ttec was fastened to the wo man's neck, and t..e tree then allowed to go up again. The woman was tossed in the air and landed on the opposite side of the tree, which was propped lip with • fence rail, and there left hanging. This occurred Wednesday night last. The body was not cut down until the follow ing Friday afternoon. There is some excitement in Cedar Cieek Township, Allen conntv, Indiana, ove: a bold outrage committed there a tew days ago. Some tramps went into 'be house of Benedict Schlatter, whila his wife was out of doors, and took from he cradle her infant child about five months old. One of the btu.es took the baby in bis arms, but was pursued by the mother, who overtook him at the distance of about a mile, knocked him down with a club, and took her child' home. Mr. Ilham Lewis was riding on horse back near the Patrick school honse, a few miles from this place, on Sunday, ;he 10th inst., when the high wind that •vas blowing, at the same time blew down a pine tree which struck Lewis’ horse on the back and shoulders, killing the horse instantly. Mr. Lewis discovered the falling tree in time to spring from the -addle to the neck of the horse. Truly a narrow escape.—[Montezuma Weekly. Sab Death. This week it beemaa our sad duty to chronicle the death of Capt. S. G. Evans, which occnred at bis home in this county, on last Monday. The deceased, an hour before bia death, had carried a heavy peice of timber upon bis shoulder some distance, and it is sap posed that in throwing the wood from h : shoulder, he received internal injnriea, which terminated his life in less than an hour.— [Dawson J'urna ! . Mr. and Mis. Bai nes met in San Fran, cisco after a separation of twelve years, lie bad been seeking a fortune, with very modera e success, on the Pacific J 7 ' coast. She had been living in Pennsyl vania. D and they rapiuronsiy embrace at sight of each other? No! She drew a revolver and fired three tilm-s at him, and he knocked her down with a cans, it ge.ms that he bad desarted her, and nhe bad found him after a long searoh. There is a species of wood found no where in the world, go claimed, but in the Apalachicola river, in Florida, and it is said will never rot. The four post which supports tbo lamps on the Capital Square in Tal lahassee was made of this wood. No. 26*