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W A. SINGLETON, Editor and Proprietor.
VOLUME 111.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BURMA VIBTA.UA.
SIMMONS & SIMMONS.
attorney at law,
AMKKICUS. OEOHGIA.
March 10-1 ir. __
WESLEY JEFFERSON, M D
RED BONE, GA.
WG- Patronage solicited. Calls
responded to promptly, “©a
WILLIAM B. HINTON,
attorney at taw.
BUENA VISTA. GA-
Will practice in the Courts of tliis State,
mJI tkc District and Circuit Courts of tlie
United States.
W, Special attention given to Collections,
Oonveyansing and Bankruptcy. fcbu-ly
F, L. WISDOM, HI. P
BUENA YISTA, GA.
SOf Calls may be left at ruy resi
dence at a. hours of the day or
night.-®?
J. W. BE AD Y,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
AMERICUSi GEORG X A,
omrf on l>nm*r Street.
Frompt attention given all bnsiueHM. Col
lections made. Will practice in the counties
of Lee, Macon, Marion, Schley, Sumter, W eb
ater, Dooly, Terrell and Worth.
DENTAL WORK
'-—I, TOC WANT—,
Good Sental Work
CALL on
r.D.P. HOLLOWAY
t hit office ever Davenport & Smiths’
Drug Store, Ameruuv, G*.
Sapt 11-lyr-
Mark B. iLAKrotH. Leis p. uataiu'
BUfiFORD & 6ARRARD,
ATTORNEYS A COUNSELLORS AT LAW
Ottoe N. tl, Broad Street, (ovet Wiitich &
Kimol’e Joweliy Store,
COLUMBUS, - - GEORGIA’
w ILLTpay ipccial attention to all cafes in |
Benkrtitcy Will obtain discharges for Bunk
rapt*, and iecure hoineM eada in Barrkiujdcj
under the Constitution of 1868. Will inuku spe
cial contracts with persons desiring t> avail
themelve of the bmefiU of the Bankrupt act,
conditioned on the results obtained.
p&~ All letter* answered.
E. F. THORITOf,
BI'EiVA VISTA, GEORGIA.
I tender my pro fens ion a I services to
the citizens of Buena Vista and vicinity.
All Work warranted, and satisfaction
gut) ran teed.
K&_ Office up stairs above Harvey ct
Story’s old stand.
I. G. CHEHXEY,
DENTIST,
EI.LAVILLE, * - - GEORGIA
TENDERS his professional scr
vices to the people ot Marion
surrounding counties. He
will call at the residence of all parties desir
ing dental work done, when notified bv ui il
or otherwise. JIU work warranted. Terms,
A.
w. P. BURT,
DENTIST
AMEBICB S, . O-A
-Cuwtinues to solicit the patronage of the gooii
people‘of Marion. Satisfaction guaranteed, and
at reasonable prices. ..
Speciai induoements offered to those who will
arrange to visit iny o ffice to have their opera
tions perforated. my22-tf
L. BRASIfICTO N,
tailor,
HUKNA VISTA, O A
Mould respectfully announce to the public
aetl his friends that he is still at bie post;
ready for all kinds of tailoring—Cutting, Halt
ing Repairing, Cleaning, etc. Those want
ing Measures to send for suite oan get them
of him. Or L*t at stylo* nd fasliione al
ways ea hand. JAS. L. BKASINOTON
B B Hinton, Attorney and Conncelor at
T„vw" Amaricus, Go , w “ ow prepared to pro
■ are pensions for the widows ot soldiers ol
ba war of 1813, as veil as pensions for sot
t -'an. £* war ' g. B. HINTON,
tf.
A Gentle Word is Never Lost.
A gentle word is never lost,
Oh ! never then refuse one;
It cheers the heart when tempest tossed,
And lulls the cares that bruise one;
It scatters sunshine o’er our way,
And turns our thorns to roses;
It changes weary night to day.
And hope and love discloses.
A gentle word is never lost—
Thy fallen brother needs i ;
How easy and how small the cost,
With peace and comfort speed it;
Then drive the vhadow from thy cheek,
A smile can well replace it;
Our voice is music when we speak
With gentle words to grace it,
His Elopement and What
Came of it.
lam on old inan now. Folks med
to be more romantic when I was
young. They used to fight duels in
stead of going to law, and they used
to elope instead of waiting and watch
ing until they got sick of waiting and
giving up and marrying to suit the
old folks.
It wasn’t so curious about, Maranda
Bates eloping, but the things that
came of it were funny.
You see, Grandfather Bates would
not have anything to say t" Jeremiah
Jones when he asked whether or not
lie could have Miranda. And so she
packed up her bundle and he was to
have tlio carriage wa ting at the gaie
at twelve o’clock to carry her oil' to
the parson’s.
Well, she w’as all packed up and
ready in a big cloak and hood, and
was creeping down stai s, when she
perceived another person stealing
down ho hi in I her.
It was her grandmother, old Mrs.
Bates, going to pick herbs. Some
herbs which folks knew in those dys,
wouldn’t, do auy g od as medicine if
they weren’t picked at midnight.
So that was her idea; but, of course,
Mi i an da was seated back and hid i>c
him, the door, and old Mrs. Bates
went po taring about looking out her
herbs, and up drove the carriage.
She didn’t, bear; she was deaf as a
post; but it so happened Grandfather
Bati s did, <hl up \v, tit ins window.
“Who is thw !’ bellowed he, and
Jeremiah Jones, scared to death,
and taking old Mrs. ISa'es tor Mi
randi, jumped out,caught her by the
waist, crammed her in the carriage
and was driven away like one mad.
Mirandi saw it all, and so did Bates.
Miranda shrieked; old Bates bellow
ed; down stairs Le rushed and met
-iiiranda coming up.
“Who was at the gate ?” lie yelled.
■“Oh, grantlj.a,” screamed Mimimu,
“Jeremiah Jones Las carried off
grandma.”
Mow Mrs. Bates had been very
pn ity, and oid Jiaies hud be< n very
jealous, and it ali came back lie
stormed iind swore ami got his pistols,
and would not listen ;o a word Mi
randa said, and nurtured his horse
and rode alter the carriage.
Inside it was pitch dark, and Mis.
Hates was deaf as a post, and thought
rubbers had carried her off.
Jeremiah kept her wrapped in her
cloak, and called her, his sweetest,
and his dove, and all the time she
thought he was threatening 10 kid
her, and didn’t dare to speak, only
sobbed and cried; and when thov got
out on the road apiece, clatter, clat
ter, came a horse’s heels bei iad them,
and—
“ Stop - ’ yelled old Grandfather
Bates. “Stop] I demand that lady l - ’
Jeremiah looked out the window.
“Never!” said he.
“We’ll see,” said old Bates, and
fired at him. The ball missed him.
“Drive faster!” said Jeremiah to
the coachman.
“Don’t weep, Miranda," he said,
lie shull not take you from me. Oh,
that it was daylight, that I might see
your face."
“I liam’t get any money with me,”
sobbed the old lady, but he didn't
bear her.
On they drove faster, and after
them rode tbe old man, faster and
faster, too. At last, on the high road,
in a lonely place, with nobody near
and the parson’s house miles away,
off came one of the carriago wheels,
and over went the carriage all on one
side, and there was an end of running
away. As soon as he found there
was no help for it, Jeremiah jumped
out of the carriage and shut the door
on poor Grandma Bates. Up came
the old gentleman, more furious than
ever, and jump down from his horse,
and stood facing him witli a pistol.
“Viliiau!" cried he, “I demand
that lady."
“Sir,” replied Jeremiah, “she is
mine. I respect you, but I will nev
er yeild.”
“Wait a moment. Docs she go
with you of her own free will ? Don’t
dare to lie 1”
A. DEMOCRATIC FAMILY NEWSPAPER.
BUEVA VISTA, MAIUOY COUNTY, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1878,
“Yes. sir. of her own free will and
cl\o ce,” replied Jer- miali. “Do you
think mo a highway man, to carry off
a lady against her wish ?’’
And now they were yelling so loud
ly that even deal' old Grandmother
Bates, who hail manag'd to get the
window down, board every word.
Out cutne iter head above the door.
The hood of the cloak had fallen off,
and under it was her cap. I don't know
what the moon had been doing before
but now she shone bright and clear,
and everything was as plain to be
seen as at noonday. Out came the
old lady’s head in the moonlight.
“That is a dreadful falsehood,”
she said. “I did not come with him
of my own accord. He picked me up
and carried me off while I was pick
ing herbs in tne garden for the lotion
for your rheumatism, Squire, I’ve
been screaming all the way, and ko‘s
been kissing me, the wretch, To
think this should have happened to
me at my age, when I have been so
properly conducted all my life !”
“Lord have mercy on us all!” said
Jeremiah, “is that you Mrs. Bates?”
He lie tv to the carraige door ami
opened it.
He said to the Squire, “I am willing
to meet you wherever you please.
You have the right to challenge me.
I have insulted you—l have insulted
this lady; but unintentionally, sn. I
begjteu thousand pardons. I believed
that I Lad carried off your grand
daughter, Mi'S Miranda, who has
promised to be my wife.
Just then up rattled a little gig,
driven by the hired man, with Miran
da in it.
“Olt, thunk heaven!” site cried,
“no ohe is killed. Oh, dear grand'
ina—oh, dear grandpa, forgive me.
Jeremiah—Mr. Joues —I trust you
have explained all.”
“Madam, I have,” said Jeremiah,
bowing.
Now it seemed to the voting folks
that the end of all things had c> me,
but it was just the happy turning
point
The old gentleman liked a joke,
and here was a good one; and the
old lady was very much pleased at
bring mistaken lor a young lady ot
eighteen.
“Husband,” she said, “tucking her
hand under bis arm, we were young
ourselves once, and you know you
would have run off with me if you
could not have had me otherwise.”
“So I would, indeed, you weie
twice as pretty as Miranda in those
days.
“Well, perhaps I was,” rep'ied tire
old lady “But now, my dear, to
please me, let Mr. Jones know you
will consent to his marriage with Mi
ruudu.”
And with that the old gentleman
offered his hand to Jeremiah, and
there was a wedding there before
Christmas day.
A matrimonial market.
A young stranger called on Dr.
McC., one evening, while lie was
pastor in New York city, to en
gage liis service in the perform
ance of a nuptial ceremony.
“I wish to make a bargain with
you, doctor,” said the young man.
•■I think the girl that L am going to
marry vliili make a first-rate wife.
If you will wait a year for your
fee, and she turns out as well as I
think she will, I will then give
you titty dollars.”
They agieed, the young couple
were married, and the accident
passed from the doctor’s mind. At
the end of the year, at the same
time in the evening, the young
man called a aim The doctor did
not recognize him at first.
“Do you not remember the bar
gain we made when you married
me a year ago ?”
“Oh, yes,” replied the doctor.
“Well” said the young man, “she
is twice as good as I thought she
was. Here is one hundred dollars
for you.”
Axaetly the opposite of this is
the following :
A clergyman, in one of the
Hudson river towns, united a Ger
man couple in marriage. When
the knot was tied the bridegroom
said:
“Dominie, I’ve got no monish,
but Dll send you one leetle pig.”
It was done and the circum
stances forgotton by the clergy
man. Two years afterward he
met the German in another town,
for the first time since the ceremo
ny was performed.
“Dominie,” said the German,
“you remember you married me,
and I giv’ you von leetle pig.”
“Yes.”
“Well* if you’ll unmarrv me I
vill giv’ you two loetlo pigs, pi
shimmy 1”
licit ii lifii I Tlioiiglits.
We should use a book as a bee
does a flower.
The beauty of the body is for a
day ; the beauty of the soul is for
eternity.
Pm your heart into you-r work,
and your hands will follow with a
will.
Life is the jailer, death the angel
sent to draw the unwilling bolts
and set us free.
He submits to he seen through
a microscope who suffers himself
to he caught in a passion.
Square moments are the g dti
ll list of time. Of all the portions
of our iife, spare moments are the
most fruitful in good or evil.
Men are more mindful of wrongs
than of benefits, and it is hut just
that it should be so; as he who re
stores a deposit deserves no com
mendation, but he who detains it,
blame and punishment.
Flattery is a safe coiu which
our own vanity has made current,
and will never be out of credit as
long as there are knaves to offer
it and fools to receive it.
A writer has compared worldly
friendship to our shadow; .and a
Better comparison was never made,
for while we walk in sunshine it
sticks dose to 119, but the moment
we enters the shade it deserts us.
The sweetest, the most clinging
affections are often shaken by 7 the
lightest breath of unkindness, as
the delicate lines and tendrils of
the vine are agitated by the faint
est air that blows in the summer.
The Way Opt. —A farmer friend
had occasion to write the editor of
a local paper a note, lie said :
* Urib, can tell me the way out of
the present hard times?” Of
cottfre we can. Keep pegging
away, live within your income and
save a little for a rainy day, sell
your surplus stock and grain, if
you can’t get your price take what
you can get, take the money and
pay your honest pebts and if you
owe no debts put the money at in
terest. and don’t give credit ! fly
more, work st-.adily, be economic
al and make no bad or foolish
trades, and you'll be sitting up
crooss—legged with peace and
plenty.
Now wo have told you the way
out and if you don’t go, it is your
own fault.
Geraniums will Drive off
SnAkes. —Every species of snake
may be permanently driven away
from an infested place by plant
ing geritims. In South Africa the
Coffir people thus rid their premi
ses ot snakes. A missionary of
South Africa had his parsonage
surrounded by a small belt of ge
raniums, which effectually protect
ed the residence from any kind of
snake. A few yards from this belt
a snake would occ sionally be
found. It is well known that the
whole geranium genius is highly
redolent of volarile oils —lemon
scented, musk scented, and pep
permint scented. What, therefore,
is a very pleasant nosegay for man
is repugnant to the serpent tribe.
Misfortunes never come singly.
The other day a man was walking
along Washington street with a
paper of tac-ks in his coat-tail
pocket, a basket of eggs on his arm
and a tall ha! on liis head. When
he sat down the tacks stuck in him
and the egs broke and ran over
him. When lie tried to get up his
hat fell off, and he sat down on
that, an and just as he ventured one
little oath Ills minister come along
and overheard it.—[Vicksburg
Herald.
The Grocer's Gift to His Preach
er. —The Coviugtion (Ky.) correspond’
toils this: “A country merchant visited
the city and purchased from a dollar
store a table castor, which he took home
with him,” and after putting a tag on it
marked “$14,” marie a present to a
Metlioilist preacher, whose church his
family attended. The reverend old gen
tleman took the package homo, opened
it, and examined the contents. The
next day he brought the castor (with
tags attached) back to the grocery man,
and said to him: *T am too poor in this
world’s goods to aftord to display so val
uable a castor on ir.y table, and if you
have no objection I should like to return
it and take sl4 worth of grocenes in its
stead.” The merchant could do noth
bnt acquiesce; but fancy his feeling.
Don’t put the end of your lead pen
cil in your giyuth. The frequent
practice has in the ruin of
health, and in,|sany cases in paral
ysis ond death. * Besides it is a vul
gar habit*
Hard Times.
“Hard times !” is on every lip and
breathed from every tonguejthe banks
are cursed by one and all, the aged
and young. The merchants has to
close liis doors, and throw his ledger
by; such times lie vows were never
seen .by any mortal eye. The shop
men quit the counter’s side, for cus
tomers are f w; the times are so very
tight it makes thorn all look blue.
The citizen in vain essays to make
more than his bread; a pound of
which he declares won’t weigh a
pound of lend.—There’s not a day but
someone fails—some bouse that goes
to smash; and nnmes that once stood
high on .‘Change’ are out for cash.
Those supposed to be millionaires,
and rich in shares and stocks, their
million heirs now disappoint, they
fail nnd leave no “rocks.” “Hard
times! hard times! were ever seen
Mich times, so hard as these!” This
is the cry from morn till night, in
which each .one agrees.—A remedy
(how do you think this one will do?)
Pull off your coat, roll tip up your
sleeves, and work tbc hard limes
through.
To Girls —Never marry a man
who (ms only his love for yon to re
commend him. It is very fascinat
in'.-', but it does not make the mar.
If he is not otherwise what he sliou and
be, you will never be happy. The
most perfect man who did not love
you should never be your husband.
But though marriage without love is
terrible, hive only will not do. If the
man is dishonorable to other men,
or mean, or given to any vice, the
time will come when you will ei'her
loathe him or sink to his level. It is
hard to remember, amidst kisses and
praises, that there is anything else
in the world to be done or thought
of but love-making; but the days of
life are many, and the husband must
be a guide to be trusted—a compan
ion, a friend, as well as a lover.
Many a girl has married a man whom
she knew 7 to be anything but good,
“because he loved her.” And the
flame has died out on the hearthstone
of home before Ion;-, and beside it
there has been sitting one she could
never hope would lead her heaven
ward-or who, if she followed him
as a wife should, would guide her
iteps to peidition. Marriage is a
solemn tLiing—a choice for life; be
careful in choosing.— [Belgravia.
How to succeed.
If your seat is hard to sit upon, stand
up. Sf a rock rise up between yon, roll
it away or clitnb over it. If you want
money earn it. It takes longer to skin
an elephant than it does a mouse, but
the skin is worth something. If you
want eonfidene prove yourself worthy of
it. Do not be content with doing what
another has done—surpass it. Deserve
success and it will come. The boy was
not born a man. The sun does not rite
like a rocket, or go dowu like a bullet
fired from a gun: slowly and surely it
makes its round and never tires. It is as
easy to be a leader as to be a wheel horsr.
If the job be long, the pay will be great
er; if the task be hard, the more comp
teut you must be to do it.—[Selected,
Ancient Pompeii.
A New Orleans lady now traveling
in Italy writes of a recent visit to Pom
peii!
“The streets are paved with immense
blocks of stone. They are rather narrow,
only admitting of ihe passage of one
vehicle at a time. Thev have sidewalks
on either side raised about eighteen
inches above the level of the street itsslf.
At the corners arelaigc slabs that serve
as stepping stones. The bouses are all
built upon the same plan, all have fres -
coes arid mosaic floors, but are particu
larly noticeable for the extreme smallness
of the rooms. They have recently come
upon a much wealthier part of the city
than any previously exaveated. The
houses are much larger, much richer in
their frescoes and mosaics, and contain
ing much gold and silver.
A number of caskets containing hand
some pen es of gold jewelry were found
in these houses. In these excavations,
when within about two feet ol the floor,
they stop and await the presence of roy
ally and distinguished personages to con
tinue their work. Several large houses
are now being delayed on this account.
The charred body of a man has lately
been found. Every feature of his face is
perfectly preserved.
A curious discovery has been made in
some of the richer houses. Olives were
found, put up in long glass tubes her
metically sealed. The tin can of New
England does not appear to have been
known in Pompeii. These olives on be
ing taken out were found peifectly fresh,
after two thousand years;
Kepler and Stevens traded wives
in Tipton, lowa, two years ago, the
latter getting S7OO on account of the
wife that he gave being far hand
somer than the one ho received.—
Stevens has since grown wealthy,
and his lawful wife seeks by a law
suit to reinstate herselj,
NEW GOODS
AT GOLD AND SILVER PRICES.
THE UNDERSIGNED UA VM JUST OPSENHJ) THEIR STOCK QF
Spring and Summer
<4 C
A)id, low as Cotton is, DRY GOODS, many of them, are lower than CbitO
ever was . fPe bought some of them cheaper than ntr, and will nil them at
GOLD and SILVER PRICES FOR CASH?
WB KEEP UP OUS UICAL STOcK OP
STAPLE DRY GOODB, POCKET and TABLB 00 CLIRT,
CLOTHING. UMBRELLAS,
CARPETS * MOTIONS,
HATS, TOBACCOS, .
SHOES, AC., SC.
Some Extra Fine Pocket Knives and “Kazdr 8 tee FT Scissor*.
IX OUR
HISS OOODR
We offer sCm ENTIRELY NEW FABRICS, BEAUTIESL IN DESIGN, and vary
STYLISH os well os very CHEAP t
OUR ASSORTMENT of CLOTHING
Woe NEVER BETTER —NEVER SO CHEAP It conoirta of Common ond fin* Coal*
Fonts and Vest, Linen Shirts and Collar*, Qooze, and Cheek lCoolln Cndenhirta.
OUR “BON-fOH” CORSETS
Have provan to be VERY SUPERIOR, FITTING PERFECTLY and GIVING SATIS
FACTION to all who have tried them.
\\7 E offer" no INDUCEMENTS to purchasers by selling a FEN LEADING ART I
V I CLES at LESS TEA'S COST, but we do, and will satisfy all who take ifito eonsid
eartion the AVERAGE PROFITS we charge, that wa sail goods as LOW as AS Y
HOUSE IS SOUTH WESTERS GEORGIA.
CmANBEBRY & BARLOW,
Amerlcusi G-oergia,
Latest War News I!
has run down the prices of Dry Goods of ALL Kinds to figures never known
before,
LOWE & RUSHIBi
during the panic bought a Large Stock of Dree* Goode, in lateet *tyl*g v
STAPLE DRY-GOODS, NOTIONS, WHITE GO O DS
CLOTHING for HEN and BOYS,
SHOES FOR IHE MULTITUDE,
HATS—(MIi MIS’,
HARDWARE, CROCKERY, GLASS-WARES and
TIN-WARES, and
soMßTHiara fob the m vom
A REVOLUTION IN CORSETS!
Tho celebrated CORK CORSET, recommended by Physicians, because iff
the most HEALTHY and COMFORTABLE.
LADIES AND GENTS’ KID GLOVES, A SPECIALTY.
LADIES and MISSES DRESS SHOES, from the best Factory, mnHo
to our order, every pair warranted-
We are now receiving our Spring Stock, and respectfully ask our
friends, and the trading pablic to call and see us.
Buena Vista, Ga., April 3rd, IS7B. Lowe k Kashin.
THE BUENA 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 Pall Session at the close of sixteen weeks, making
forty weeks for the scholastic year.
The rates of tuition will be 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. As the friends
and patrons of the Institution are vitally interested in this reduction,
we invoke their co-operation in making the school as large as possible.
We are assured that board can be had in the best families at |lo.ot
per month.
We would urge'upon patrons entering their children at the opeping
of the session. DUNHAM A DAVlS Principals,
Subeoriptioß.lt Oik
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