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V? AV.SINGLF/TON, Editor and Proprietor.
VOLUME 111.
Ifwfwsional ©mils.
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EM.BCTT,
ATTORNEY AX LAW,
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BVfSIIA VISTA. OA.
SIMMONS & SIMMONS,
attorney at law,
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WESLEY JEFFERSON, Wl D
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? WTU.iIAM li. HINTON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BUENA VISTA. GA
Wfll’practicein the Court., of thiH State,
and the District and Circuft Courts of the
’ Baited States.
Special attention given to Collections,
Govevao‘*’U and liankruptcv. febO-l y
1\ L WISDOM, M. D.
, Bp ENA VISTA’, GA.
B®*Call& liwiy ho left at my resi
dence at a'., hours of the day or
bight.""®?
J. W. BRADY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
A MKBICUSi GKOH GIA,
Office on Lamar sirref.
Frompt attention given all business. Col
lection*, made. Will practice in the counties
of Mnoon, Miirrjii, Schley, Sumter, Wob-
Ater, Dooly, Terrell and Worth.
DENTAL WORK
* '—la TOC WANT— S
Good Dental Work
Dr.D. PBOLLOWAY
m hi# other v*r Davenport & Smiths’
l>nig Store, Am*ruu. la.
Bl>t 1 l-l jr*
FAHMERS’ HEWf
Saloon & Restaurant,
CENEVA, CA.
IL H. SfßlXiitT...iv....v.Prpprirtir.
• •Old Gid" will be pleased ta see his old
'fri'ertcis from Marion and Schley counties in
tk* Itest. Situated at the end oi platform of
depot.! *• ■ ■ octl7-oms
E. F. TIIOKXTO^,
. m&virmr,
BI KNA VISTA, CiEOHGIA.
1 tender my professional services to
,be citizens of Buena Vista and vicinity.
All work warranted, and satisfaction
K uii ran tofcd.
B®.. Office up stairs above Harvey and:
Story’s old stand-
T. G. OHEKKITT
DENTIST,
KLLAVILLE, - - - GEORGIA
m TENDERS his professional ser
vices to the people ot Marion
and sutrounding counties. He
wilt call at the residence of all parties desir
ing dental work done, when notified by m il
or otlwrwise. AM work warrant'd. Terms,
lUfi. *
W. P. BURT,
DENTIST
A.Ifcv'EEZRTC'U S s - Ok A.
Continues to solicit the patronage of 'ho good
people f Marion. Satisfaction guaranteed, and
At pfksei.
Special inducements offered to those who will
arrange to visit mj office to'have their opera
tiens performed. mjr22-tf
Mrs. M. C. GRAY, Proprietress t
(>rsriaa&ll>4, Broad Bt.,
COLUMBUS GA.
BOAED and LODGING:
SVIMR. BREAKFAST AND LODGING *IOO
HOARD rER DAY
SJ.SULE MEAL _ ■ SI)
AS. L. BRABINCTON,
tailor,
I*"IJ J 5 N A VI T A, OA
jpuuld rcspeotfblly announce to the public
•,.l hie irieride that lie i etill at bis post;
,ly Tor all kinds f tailoring—Cutting, Mak
' ItepairiDfe. Cleamng, etc. Those want
niet-iurcs io ssnd fr suits can gt them
jn. B#* Uteat and fashions al
i.n hand. JdS. L. BHA9INOTON
ite ftetw list* .
[WRITTEN EUR TIIK lIUKNA VISTA AROOI.]
Who are the Happy?
BY 1301. 1 NE.
If sent out to gather the. happy of earth,
Wherever, whoever, they be;
To search them through lands where the
suuboanis have birth;
Or gather from isles of the sea.
Ob, 6ay! would yon seek them beneath the
dark shades
Where lurid ambition doth reign?
Where all that is lovely must certainly fade'
And never awaken ugi.i i?
No 1 No ! You would turn to the poisonous
air.
To feel that n search there were vain.
That Might—like the Upas—alone could
dwell there.
Distilling its bittermost bane.
And then if to measure's gay mart you
should turn
To gather the happy and glad.
How many are there you would truthfully
learn.
Who smil; while in heart they are sad.
Oh ! no, if we really would know the full
worth
Of smiles that encompass us round,
We’ll guther the children—the sunshine of
earth
From them can the value be found.
For who would exchange (wore the test
but to come)
For jewels, or costly array.
The sweet, childish faces, that gladden the
home
Of many, who greot us to-day.
And were we to gather the happy of earth
The juv.inile faces would bo
Tne mirrors; reflecting sweet genuine
mirth,
That swell from a heart that ii free.
A Brave Boy.
4 bout ten years pern, a uian by the
name el Elknnah Flint, mov.d with
liis family front one ot the New Eng
land Suites to Hennepin county.
Minn., and took up land under the
Homestead Law.
Being unable, for some reason, to
ob pin a clear tide to his himl, lie
moved again and settled on the S’.
L,mis river, about thirty-five miles
nerthwost of Duluth. D was while
at Duluth that the writer was told
the following story:
••Flint’s family consisted, besides
his wife arul himself,of three cildren,
whose name were Jason, a toy ot 15,
a (laugh er, Abigail, two years youn
ger, and a litt'e gill but three years
old. whose name, I think, was Flora.
Their first"charing was made oil a
fertile wooded interval, on the right
bank of the river. About 100 rods
back from the stream stood their
house, built of cotronwood logs.
It was a wet season, and their lo
cation proved to be a damp one.
From 'his cause, probably, Mrs 1-1 tit
and her little ghl sickened from colds,
and both died of puuemonia. The
death of the chi’d occurred two days
aflerfhe death ol the mother.
All care of the household thus fell
upon Abbv. now in her 14th year, and
who seems to have been a very cap
able gil l. Her brother Jason was of
a different stamp, and rendered his
father but little help. He was at
tract* and by nothing but hunting and
scouting. Often he brought borne a
deer or a quarter of a moose, but it
was with the greatest relunctance
that he set himself to plowing or
planting.
To trap along the upper course of
the river was far more to Jason’s lik
ing than felling trees.
He was very adroit in trading with
the Indians, parties of whom often
came to the settler’s house. So sharp,
indeed, were his bargains in furs wbb
them that they had, within a year,
bestowed upon him the nickname
‘Taronch ta gippoo,’ which I should
translate as ‘Young Skinflint.’
It was not verv long afterward that
the memorable troubles with the Sioux
began, marked by those terrible mas
sacrees of the settlers in the back
counties of lowa and Minnesota.
During the first days ol June of
tlie* year of our story, Mr. Flint set
©fifin'lds “dug out” boat for the then
sum ! village of Duluih, to procure
some farming implements. lie or
dered Jason to rnraain close at home,
and set him to hofcing on a small field
of potatoes.
But Jason, whose mind was intent
on Indians, believed it necesmry to
make a scouting tour to a neighbor
ing settlement.. The trip occupied
tlie first day of his father’s absence.
The next morning lie set to work
on the potato patch—all the more
diligently* because Mr. Flint was ex
pected lion e that night—and, as was
not vciy uncommon with him, lie
coaxed Ins sister Ahby 10 leave her
work in the house and help bun.
Sprouts from the roots and stumps
of the lately felled trees had come Up
plentifully among the potatoes. A.b-
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BUENA VISTA, MARION UOUiYI’Y, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1878.
by wont ahead with a bush hook, or
bash-bill, and cut up the sprouts,
while Jason lollowed and billed up
the potatoes with a hoe.
But his eyes roved about a good
deni ns lie hoed, and for once, at East,
those sharp, wandering eyes of his
did him good service. Chancing to
look forward to the end of the row,
where the lorest bordered the clear
ing, he saw sn Indian in the art of
stealing lot ward from behind the
t runk of a great maple to a blacken'd
pine-stub, which had been burned
out hollow bv the recent, fires, and
which stood in the ou skirts of the
potatoes.
Boy though he was, Jase was at
no loss to understand til* movement,
of the s ivage. He knew that he was
only waiting there for his sister an
himself to approach nearer, when he
would probably shoot him ana end
deuvor to take his sister prisoner.
The distance to the [line stub was
eighteen or twenty rods —too far for
the red skin to shoot with certainty.
Dropping his eyes Jase hoed on with
apparent carelessness.
Abby had not seen the Indian, and
he dared not even whisper a warning
to her lest she should take fright and
thus bring the savage at once upon
them. Jase’s own gun, though load
ed, was at the house, which was out
ot sight behind the bushes.
With great presume of mind Jase
said to his sister:
“Don’t hurry so, Abb. It’s too
warm to hurry. I’m going to fetch
out some water.” And, setting down
his hoe, he strolled leisurely across
the p ece, whis ling as he went, half
expecting at every step to feel a bul
let.
Getting among the bushes, lie ran
to ihe house, and caught rb wn his
gun nnd powder horn, with the intui
tion of making a circuit through the
woods i.ml coining round in tnc ivnr
of the Savage, who, he thought would
b- int'nt. watcii ng hts sister.
But tne ie.tlieui p uicli which held
his stock ot bullets was gone from
the peg. Jo doing her work that
mo ning Abby had knocked it off,
and it had fallen down through an
opening in the floor.
In bmi'hle--<s haste Ja'On searched
the room over and over, but c mid
not find the pouch. Knowing then
was not a moment to lose he set. ot!
with bat the single charge in his uuu.
ID hail but just go' ou. of tne door
when he heard Abby scream. Then
there followed a smothered sound,
and then lie heard her try to cull .-is
name.
Even then the boy’s presence of
mml did not dei-crt him. lie knew
that il the savage were alone his sis
ter's sole chance ol life lay in the In
dian's not discovering that he was
pursued.
He rail to the edge of the bushes
that skirted the potatoes and looked
out. The red-kin was dragging Abby
after him by her wrists, and was just
entering Hie woods on the faither
side going out toward the river.
From Hits Jase concluded that the
Indian had come down the Stream ill
a canoe, which he had probably left
not far off. If the savage should re
gain his canoe, Jason’s only chance
would be to shoot him from the bank.
This he resolved to attempt.
Not much more than a mile above
the clearing the river makes a great
bend, and at one point is quite swift
and narrow. Making a c rcuit
through the bend Jason ran to inter
cept the Indian at the bend.
He was right in his conjecture, far
he hid hut just crept through some
thick alders on the bank, when he
saw a canoe coming swiftly up the
stream. The Indian’s paddle glitter
ed in the sun as he sat in the stern,and,
with quick, strong, strokes, propelled
the little craft against the current,
he could see his sister crouching in
the middle of the canoe, with her
head muffled in some coarse cloth.
Jase cocked his gnn, and, with the
greatest caution, brought the piece
to bear on the savage, determined to
fire the instant he came mar enough.
But the wary Indian either heard
some sound from the shore, or sus
poe.ted danger at this narrow point
in the channel, for, before he had
Come within range, Jase saw him
creep forward and crouch besides his
capt ive, in such a manner as to shield
his own body with hers.
Jasou saw the savage’s sharp eyes
scanning the bushes, but he did not
fire, lest he siiou'd slrnot bis sister.
Though baffled by this trick, the
bold boy was noi disheartened. Three
or four miles further up the river was
a rapid, where the channel was bro.
ken lv ledges and large bowlers,
against which, near the upper end of
the broken w.ncr, were piled great
heaps of drift logs and brush. Jase
1 had trapped liter-, and knew the
place Well.
There were three piles of drift in
the stream at that point—one near
the right bank, another on a ledge a
little further out aud a few rods nigh
■cr up, and a third one lodged against
wo enormous rocks sti.l nearer the
opposite bank.
It was between tlieflb banks nnd
the shore that boats and canoes go
ing up the river usually pnseed; lor
the current was here licit heir so
strong nor so swift, but flowed
smoothly over a pebb e bottom.
With a line a canoo or boat could
be pulled up against the curren', and
the water was not so dec. but that u
man could wnde ami a-ooat af
ter him. To ilioot at the savage
when lie drew 1 is canoe up the fupid
was Jasc’s next thought.
After a hot ruu he came out near
the rapids, nnd tasi'y waded across
to the first pile of drill. There were
rocks on which he was able to jump
to the second of the tiiree. But it
was only by wading that lie was ab'e
to get to the furtherest drift-pile, the
point he wished to reach.
Several times lie was nearly swept
away by stumbling over the slippery
rocks upon the bottom. But lie got
over, and, hiding himself partly un
der some of the brush, and behind an
old tilted up stump, he lay in wait for
the Indian.
From this lurking place be could
not see dow'n stream; but, in about
twemy minutes, he heard the Indian
wading in the rapid, splashing Ins
way up, puling his canoe after him.
A minute more and Jase caught
sight of him —bent over, as he care
fudy planted his moccasin feet among
the slippery stones on the bottom.
He had the line over one shoulder,
and the < anoe, with Abby, was ten or
twelve feet behind. Tne girl was
now soboing bitterly, quite despair
ing of e-cape oi' rescue.
The Indian had com° within thirty
or forty feet feet of Jase, but at that
moment his quick ear caught soiriC
s und from the diilt heap He stopp
ed and turned sharply round.
This was Jase'a chance. Before
the savage could stir, the young back
woodsman had fired at Lira Ami it
was a most fortun ite shot —for Abby,
at East.
Jus- had hit the Indian in a fatal
path Uttering a dreadful cry of pain,
the savege I t go Hie line and attempt
ed lo reach t;,e drill heap; but, he ng
so severely wounded, lit- lost l.is
loosing and rolled down the rapid.
The canoe, too, caught sidewise by
the current, was up-ct, and Abby,
clutching at the gunwale, which was
wound with basket stuff, '-'as carried
with it into an eddy beueuth the oth
er bank.
“Hang on to if, Abb F’ were the
first words she heard from her
brother.
Juse had waded in the stream, and
cross.ng over, he seized ho dol t lie
canoe; but, stepping into a deep hole
near the eddy, both lie and liis sister
sank completely out of sight. For a
moment they were rn-ar drowning.
The boy struggled out, however, and
pulled liis sister to the shore.
Neither of them saw anything more
of the Indian. Probably lie was car
ried into the do p water below the
lapids and was drowned.
I wish I had been able to learn
more of the subsequent cai cer of J use
Flint; but I could only hear at Du
luth that he had become an Indian
fight, r out West.
lie was certainly a cool headed
youngster—if i.ot a very good farm
er’s boy. I wish he could have been
both. But there is an old proverb
that ‘it takes a!! kinds of folks to
make up a world;” and, also, another,
“you cannot have everything in one
boy.” So, while we regret Jase’s
failings, 1 t us praise his pluck and
energy.— Youth's Companion.
An Interesting Young man.
A Physician well known hereabouts
was recently called to see a lady who
was repoited to be suffering wi'h tetri
ble pain. The Physician hastened to
the residence of the lady and found her
;n bed. He felt of her pulse, looked at
her tongue and commenced writing a pre
scription. She said to him: “Doctor, I
don’t think you undeistand my case.’’
“Oh, yes I do,” said be, “l understand
it very well.” Aftei a little while the
lady remarked to him again: ‘‘Doctor, I
don’t think you know what’s the matter
with me; that you understand my condi
tion.” The Doctor replied; “Oh, yesl
do madam; I have a patient up town, a
young man, just in your fix, suffering
will* the same disease.” An hour after
wards the lady gave birth to a ten pound
boy. llow the young man got along
our informant did not say.—[San Juan
(Gal.) Times.
During the year 1877, 43,250 pau
pers in Indiana were cared for at
the expense of the various countios
of the State, at a cost of $600,626.
A Pleasant Situation.
Our young friend Barker went
round the other evening to visit the
two Miss Smiths. After conversing
with them a while,Miss Susan excused
herself lor a lew moments and went
up stairs. Presently Barker thought
he hoard her coming, udJ, slipping
behind the door, he suggested that
the other Miss Smith should tell Miss
Susan that he had gone. But it was
old Mr. Smith in Lis slippers. As he
entered he looked around and said
lo his daughter:
“Ah, ha.! So Barker’s gone, has
lie ? Good riddance. I don't want
any suCli lantern jawed, red-headed
idiot fooling ’round here. He Hasn’t
got the sense of a rutabaga turnip,
or money enough to buy a clean shut
with. He gets none of my datigh
ters and I’ll shako the everlasting
life out of him il 1 catch him here
again, mind me!”
Just as lie concluded, Susan came
down, and, not preceiving Parker,
said:
“Thank goodness, he lias gouc.l
That man is enough to provoke a
sainb I was awfully afraid he was
going to stay and spend the < vening.
Mary Jane, I hope 3ou didn’t ask hitn
to come again.”
Their Barker didn't know whether
to stay there or bolt while Mary
Jane looked us if she would like to
drop in a cellar. But Barker finally
walked out, lushed to the entry, seiz
ed his hat, shot down the steps and
Went home, meditating upon the
emptiness of human happiness and
tyc unctrtanly of the Smiths. He
has not called since.—[Ex
HYDROPHOBIA CURED.
A Remedy Said to Have Eesn Success
fully Used in Pennsylvania-
I can give some facts which may be
o f use to somebody, the eby saving lile.
'['he time between the biting of an ani
mal l.y a mad dog and showing signs of
hydrophobia is r.ot less than nine days,
but may be nine months. After the an
imal has become rabid, a bite or scratch
with the teeth upon a person, or slobber
coming in contact with a sore or raw
placed, wouH pr >duce hydrophobia just
as soon as though he had been bitttn
by a mad dog. Hydrophobia can be
prevented, and I will give what is well
known to he an infallible remedy, if
ptoperly administered, for man or beast.
A dose for a horse or cow should be
about four times as great as for a person.
It is not too late to give medicine any
time before the spasm comes on.
The first dose for a person is 1| ounc
es of elecampane root, bruised, put in a
pint of qcw milk, reduced to one hal
by boiling, then taken all at one dose in
the morning, fastening until ahernoon, or
at least a very light diet after severe!
Lours have elapsed. The second dose
same as first, except take two ounces c>f
the root; third dose the same as last, o
be taken evety other day. Three dost 8
are all that is needed, and there need
be no fear. .Ties I know from my own
experience, and know of a number of
other cases where it has been th irely
successful. This is no guesswork.
Those persons I allude to were bitten by
■ heir own dogs, that had been bitten by
rabid dogs, and weie penned up to see
if they would go mad. They did go
mad and did bite the persons.
The remedy has been used in and
about rh lideiphia for foity years and
longer, with great success, and is known
as the Goodman remedy. I am acquaint
ed svith b physician who told me Le
knew of its nse for more than thirty
years, but never knew a case that failed
where it was properly administered.
Among other ones he mentioned one
where a number of cows had been bit
ten by a mad dog. To half of this num
ber they adrninistet ed this remedy, to
the other half not. The latter all died
of hydrophobia, while those that look
the elecampane and milk showed no
sign of that disease.— [Country Gen
tlemen.
HEW GOODS
at gold and silver prices*
The UnderbigNed jfA UK jVSt opeenkH thEtm stock or
Spring and Summer
€*i M M 2
And, tou) as Cotton is, DR\ GOODS , many of them, are tower thdn Coil on
ever was. We bought some Of them cheaper than ever, and will tell them at
GOLD and SILVER PRICES FOR CASH.
WE KEEP UP OUR USUAL STOeK OF
STAPLE DRY GOODS; I’OCKKf and TABLE CUrLBRYi
CLOTHING. UMBRELLAS,
CARPETS NOTIONS,
HATS, TOBACCOS.
SHdES; AC-, AC;
Softie Extra Fine Pocket Knives arid “Razdr Steel” Scissoid.
IN OUK
11EI8 GOOBS
We offer sbmc ENTIRELY NEW FABRICS, BEAUTIFIL IN DESIGN, and very
STYLISH as well as very CHEAP.
out ASSORTMENT of CLOTH IMG
Was NEVER BETTER-NEVER SO CHEAP- It consists of Common and Fine Costs
Bants and Vest, Linen Shirta and Collars, Gauze, and Check Mnslin Undershirts.
OUR “BON-TON” CORSETS
Have pfoveii to be VERY SUPERIOR, FITTING PERFECTLY tad GIVING SATIS
FA CTIOhf to all who have tried them.
-
X\7 E offer no INDUCEMENTS to purchasers by Belling a f’iW LEADING ARTI
v 1 CI.ES at LESS Til AN' COST, but we do, ftttd will satisfy all who take io'o consid
eartion the AVERAGE PROFITS we charge, that we sell goods as LOW as ANT
HOUSE IS South WESTERS GEORGIA.
44 22 1X fIEKII Y & BARLOW,
AmerlcuS' G-oorgla,
Latest War News!!
lias run down the prices of Dry Goods of ALL Kinds to figores never kndwn
before*
LOWI & aUSHIM
during Itoe panic bought a Large Stock of Dress Goods, in latest ttyieS;
STAPLE DRY-GOODS, NOTIONS, WHITE GOoDS
CLOTHING for HEN and BOYS,
SHOES FOR THE MIILTITHBE,
I ATS—GENTLEMEN & LADIES’,
HARDWARE, CROCKFRY, GLASS-WARES and
TIN-WARES, and
SOlLEfnilG FOR the HtfGRY
A REVOLUTION IN CORSETS I
The celebrated COltlk CORSET, recommended by Physicians, because it id
the most HEALTHY and COiWFOKTAfaLE.
LADIES AND GENTS’ £ID GLOVES, A SPECIALTY.
LADIES and MISSES DRESS SHOES, from the best Factory, mad©
to our order, every pair warranted-
We arc now receiving our SpriQg Stock, and fespcttfully ask our
friends, and the trading pablic to call and see us.
Buena Vista, Ga., April 3rd, 1878. LOW® & Rlishln.
THEBUMA VISTA
The exercises of this school will be resumed on Monday’, 15th Jan
uary, 1878. The Spring Session will close at the expiration of twenty
our weeks, and the Fall Session at the close of sixte.n weeks, making
forty weeks for the scholastic year.
The rates of tuition will he twenty, thirty and forty dollars fur the
year, unless an arrangement now inaugurated can be effected, whereby
we hope to reduce these rates from 25 to 30 per cent, the friends
and patrons of the Institution are vitally interested in this reduction,
we invoke their co-eperation in making the school as large as possible.
We are assured that board can he had in the best families at SIO.OO
per month.
Wc would urge upon patrons entering their children at the opening
of the session. DUNII ANI A DAVIS { Principals.
Subscription, f‘i DO
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