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XTTOBNKYAT LAW,
BVEKA VISTA. OA,
SIMMONS &, SIMMONS*
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
AMKIUCUS, <*EOGIA.
IViareb 10-1 yr.
WESLEY JEFFERSON, M D
RED DONE, <SA,.
Patfotrage --solidled. Calls
responded to promptly. “©8
WILLIAM B. HINTON,
attorney at law,
BUENA TISTA, ©A
Will practice in the Uonrts of this State,
•tul the District and Circuit Courts of the
United States.
Special atteution.givcmtoCoHccTions,
Conveyancing and Bankruptcy. feb6-l y
~P. L. WISDOM, M. I*.
BUENA VISTA, GA.
jpj?-rnlls may be left at my resi
dence at a hours of the day or
night."®r
J. W. BRADY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
AMEIUCUSs GEOBGIA,
Office on Lamar Street.
I’rompt attention given all business. Col"
lootions made. Will practice in the counties
of l-ee, Macon, Marion, Schley, Sumter, Web
ster, Dooly, Terrell and Worth.
DENTAL WORK
v —Tf YOU WANT—,
Good Dental Work
call on
Dr.D.P. HOLLOWAY
nt hie office over Davenport & Smiths’
, Drug Store, Gs.
I 11-1 yr
Aftk H- BL VMF'irD. LORIS F* GA r r\ri>
BUNFORD & GARRARD,
ATTORNBYa COUNSELLORS AT LAW
-Office No. 67, Bread Street, (ovet Wittich A
Kineol’s Jewelty Store,
lOHIItHJA’S, - - GEORGIA
w ILL’py epeclal attention to all cares in
llankrutey Will, obtain discharges for Bonk
ropts, and secure hotnostends in Bankiuptcy
eadcr the Con.titutioo of 1868. Will make spe
clal contracts with persons desiring to avail
themselves ofithe b , Befits of tho Bankrupt act,
eondisioned en the results obtained.
p%r m letters answered.
L A. THORNTON & SON,
BENESST.
■RinBNA VISTA, GEORGIA.
Tender their .professional services to
the citizens of Buona Vista and vicinity.
All work warranted, a®& satisfaction
6 Office up stairs above Harvey &
Story's old stand.
T. Q. CHEJUTEY,
DENTIST,
ELLAVILLE, - - - GEORGIA
vices to the people of Marion
and spireundiag counties. He
wIU call at the resideuce of all Pities desir
ing dental work done, when notified by m ill
or otherwise. All work warranted. Terms,
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jW. p. BURT,
dentist
AMEBICUS, - Q-A.
Cowtiiwms to solicit the patronage of the good
people of Marion. Satisfaction g uarantoed, and
at reasonable prices. ... .
Speeial iuducements offered to tfcoee who will
arrange to visit my office to have their opera
tions perfumed.
JAB. L. BRABINCTON,
Bailor,
HITENA vista, GA
E'ould respectfully announce to the public
and bis friends that bests sUil at bis Wjst;
ready for all kinds aftsiloring—Gutting, Mak
ing Repairing, Cleaning, etc. Those want
ing measures to send for suits can get them
him ** Latest styles and fashions al
wayso. gd. JAj L. BKASINGTON
B B Hinton, Attorney and Councilor at
Law' Americas, Ga., is now prepared to pro
cure pensions for the widows ot aolduw of
the vat of 1812, as well as pensions for sol
diers of snid war. g p HINTON.
fte f isla -XtiitiN.
If Wc Kill Knew.
[Those verses ate a soft of curiosity, as
being written in monosyllables.]
flow near this life of ours would bo
To that bright sphere our faith has shown,
Could these poor eyes of otirs but seo
The way we go o’er tliorns anil stones.
Hmv sweet that pence of soul; that rest,
That sense of right. With naught to rue
How would wo be iu all things blest
If we but knew just what to do.
The fiiends we love so strong and tnio
H'nuM ne’er prove false in time of woe;
And with the gift of what we knew
We’d make a friend of each dark foe.
But hold ! this life would loose the zest
Of joys that oft through gloom we view ;
Our lives would know no tithe of rest
If we but knew just what to do.
There is no fault iu all the laws
By which our lives are kept and led ;
On God's great scroll no act or danse
Will starve a soul that should be fed.
Though dark to us may seem the way.
And death lurk hid where we pass.through
Thote’il bo more night iu life than day,
If We but knew just what do.
A Narrow Escape.
“Just one more story, grandma,
about when you were a little girl, and
lived in tbc woods,” said Prank.
And grandma pulled off her spec
tacles and shut her book. She leaned
her head back against the large easy
chair, and shut her eyes, thinking.
“I remember as if it were only
yesterday,” she said, raising head
towauls tire -children, who had gath
ered around her, “I was only seven,
and my little baby brother wasn’t a
year old.
“ ‘I atn going to the spring house,
and yon must stay in the room, and
rock the baby it he wakes,”’ said
mother. So I took my knitting, for
I had learned to knit, and was very
proud of the stocking that was grow
ing under my arm.
•‘lt was a coot day, late in the fall,
and the doors were all shut. Baby
slept, and 1 knitted for hall an hour.
Then he woke and began to cry. As
1 got down from mother’s gicat easy
chair, where I had been sitting, I
though I heard a st range noise outside.
It wasn’t Lion, for he had gone off
with lather to mill. Something rub
bed against the door and made the
latch rattle. I felt afraid, and went
to the door and fastened the bolt.
I stood s ill, listening with baby in
my arms—tie had stopped crying—
and I could hear my heart beat,
thump, thump, thump.
“All at once there came a short
cruel kind of bark, and lheii a snarl.
A moment after, the window broke
with a loud crash, and I saw the long
head, open jaws and fiery eyes of a
wolf glaring in upon me. An angel,
sent by our good Father in Heaven,
must have told me in that instance
of terror what to do. The wolf was
climbing in through the small win
dow, and to have linger but a second
or two would have been death.
Moved as if by power not my own,
and without thinking what it was
best to do, I ran with baby in my
arms, to the stairs that went into the
loft. Sarcely had my foot lelt the
last step when he was in the room
below. With a savage growl he
sprang after me. As he did so I let
the door, which shut like a cellar
door, fall over the stairway, and it
struck him on the nose and knocked
him back. A chest stood near, and
something told me to pull this over
the door. So I laid baby down, and
dragged the chest with all my
strength. Just as I got one corner
over the door the wolf’s head struck
it and knocked it up a little; But be
fore be could striko it again I had
the chest clear across. This would
not have kept him back if I had not
dragged another chest over the door,
and piled ever so mauy other things
on top of these. How savagely he
did growl and snarl! But we were
“And now I grew frightened about
mother. If she should come back
from the spring house, the wolf
would tear her to pieces. There was
only one window or opening in the
loft, and that wasn’t toward the spring
houses so there was no way in which
I could give her warning, or let her
know, if she had seen the wolf, that
we were safe.
“For a long time the wolf tried
and tried to gut at us, but at last I
could hear him going down the
stairs. He moved about .in the room
below, knocking things around for
ever so long, and then heard him
spring in tbc window. At the same
moment I heard my father’s voice
shouting not far off. O. how my
heart did leap for gladpess 1 Then
came Lion’s heavy bark which grew
excited, and I soon heard him yelling
down the road in the wildest way.
The wolf was still in the window. I
could hear him strughng and break
ing panes of glass. Lion was upon
him when my father called him off in
a stern command. All was silent
now, but tho silence was quickly
broken by the sharp, quick crack of a
rifle, which sent a bullet into the
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DUENA VISTA, MARION COUNTY, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1878.
wolfs head, killing lum instantly.
“‘Father! father!' 1 cried Rom the
loft window. He told mo afterward
that my voice came to him as if from
the dead. He ran around to that
side of the house, mother was with
him, looking as white as a sheet. I
saw them both clasp their hands
together, and lift their eyes in thank
lnlness to God.
“When I tried to pull the chests
away I could not move them an inch.
In my great danger God had given
me strength to drag them over the
loft, door, but, now that tho danger
had passed, my little hands were too
weak to move them. So father had
to Climb up by a ladder to the loft
window and release baby and me
from our place of refuge.
“Mother did not know anything of
our danger until! she had finished her
work in the spring house. Just as
she ciunc ont she saw the wolf’s head
at tho wtndoW, and at the same mo
ment father and lion appeared in
sight,”
“I wonder the wolf didn’t get you,”
said Frank, with wide open eyes,
breething deeply.
“God’s care was Over us,” answer
ed grandma, “and it is over us con
tinually. Wc are in danger every
hour, but He gives His angels charge
concerning us.
A Chinese Idea of Hell.
The sixth court is situated at the
bottom of the great ocean north of
the Wuchioa rock. It is a vast,
noisy Gehenna, many leagues in ex
tent, nnd around it are seventeen
wards. In the first ward the souls
arc made to kneel for long periods
on iron shot. In the second they are
placed up to their necks in filth. In
the third they arc pounded until the
blood runs out. In the fourth their
mouths are opened with iron pincers
nnd filled full of needles. In the
fifth they are bitten by rats. In the
sixt h they are enclosed in a net of
thorns and nipped by locust. In the
seventh they are crushed to jelly. In
the eighth their skin is lacerated and
they are beaten on the raw. In the
ninth their mouths are filled
with fire. In the tenth they arc
licked with flames. In the eleventh
they are subjected to noisome smells.
In the twcltli they are butted by oxen
nnd trampled on by horses. In the
thineenth their hearts are scratched.
In the fourteenth their heads are
rubbed till their skull come off. Iu
the fifteenth they arc chopped into at
the waist. In the sixteenth their
skin is taken off’ and rolled up into
spills.
A Valuable Recipe.
We consider the following receipt
of such value that we transfer it to
our columns from the Stockton (Cal.)
Herald ;
“I herewith append a receipt,
which has been used, to my knowl
edge, in hundreds of cases. It will
prevent or cure the small pox, though
the pittings are filling. When Jen
ner discovered cow-pox in England,
the world of science hurled an ava
lanche ot fame upon his head; but
when the most scientific school of
medicine in the world —that of Paris
—published this receipt as a panacea
for small pox it passed unheeded; it
is as unfailing as fate, and conquers
in every instance. It is harmless
when taken by a well person. It will
also cure scarlet fever. Hero is the
receipt as I have used it, and cured
scarlet fever; here it is as I have used
it to cure small pox; when learned
physicians said the patient must die :
Sulphate of zinc, one grain; half a
teaspoonful of sugar mix with two
tablespoonsful of water. When thor
oughly mixed, add four ounces of
water. Take a spoonful every hour.
Either disease will disappear in
twelve hours. For a child, smaller
doses, according to age. If counties
would compel their physicians to use
this there would be no need of pest
houses. If you value advice and ex
perience, use this for that terrible
disease,”
Au Affectionate Wife.
We know an old woman who poison
ed her husband, The old man was
rather tough and did not die before the
alarm was given and neighbors gath
ered in, and a doctor was Called. The
old woman acknowledged she adtuinis*
tered the poison, but when told if the
old mao died she Would be hung, she
began to abuse the doctor for not cur
ing ibe old man, and finally told the
doctor that if he let her dear husband
die, she would prosecute him to the law,
and if the law failed, she pointed to a
shot-gun in the room and said t “That
never fails.”-—[Lon Angles Star,
OH M • ■
A pair of twins with different
birthdays recently arrived in Brook
port, Mass. One was born five min
utes before and the other five min
utes after midnight,
THE MAY EATING TREE OF
MADAGASCAR.
How it Seises its Victims.
{From a letter from Carle Leehe, the discoverer)
If you can imagine a pineapple
eight feet high, and thick in propor
tion, resting upon its base, and de
nuded of leaves, you will have a good
idea of the trunk of the tree, which,
however was not the color of tbc
anana, but a dark) dingy brown, and
apparently hard as iron. From the
apex of this truncated cone (at least
two feet in diameter) eight, leaves
hung sheer to tho ground, like doors
swung back ou their hinges. These
leaves; which were joined at the top
of the treo at regular intervals, were
about eleven or twelve feet long, and
shaped very much like the American
agave, or century plant. They were
two feet through in their thickest
part, and three feet wide, tapering
to a sharp born that looked like a
cow’s horn, very convex on the outer
(but now under) surface, and on the
Inner (now upper) surface slightly
concave. This concave face was
thickly set with very strong thorny
hooks, like those upon the head of the
teazel. These leaves, hanging thus
limp and lifeless, dead green in color,
had in appearance the massive
strength of oak fibre. The apex of
the cone was a round, white concave
figure, like a smaller plate set within
a larger one. This was not a flower,
but a receptablo, and there exuded
into it a clear treacly liquid, honey
sweet, and possessed of violent intox
icating and soporific properties.
From underneath the rim, so to speak,
of the undermost plate, a series of
long, hairy, green tendrils stietched
in every direction towards the hori
zon. Tlie.se were seven or eight feet,
long each, and tapered from four
inches to a half inch in diameter, yet
they stretched out stilly as iron rods.
Above these (from between the upper
and under cup) six white, almost
transparent, palpi reared themselves
towards the sky, twirling and twist
ing with a marvelous incessant mo
tion, yet con tuntly reaching upward.
The natives surrounded one of the
women, and urged her at the point
ot the javelins, until slow.y, and with
despairing face she climbed up the
stalk of the tree, and stood on the
summit of the Cone, the palpi twirling
all around her. “Tisk! Tisk !’ (di ink,
drink) cried the men, and s'ooping
she drank of toe viscid fluid in the
cup. rising instantly again wild frenzy
m her face, and convuls.vc chorea in
her limbs, but eho did not jump
down as she seemethto intend to do.
Oh, no! The atrocious cannibal that
had been so inert and dead came to
sudden, savage life. The slender,
delicate palpi, with the fury of starv
ed serpents, quivered for a moment
over her head, then, as if by instinct,
with demoniac intelligence, fastened
upon her in sudden coils round and
round her neck and arms; then, while
her awful screams and yet more aw
ful laughter, rose wilder, to be in
stantly strangled down again into a
gurgling moan, the tendrils, one after
another, like great green serpents,
with brutal energy and infernal ra
pidity, rose, retracted themselves,
and wrapped her about in fold after
fold, ever tightening, with the cruel
swiftness and savage tenacity of ana
condas fastening upon their prey. It
was the barbarity of the Laocoon
withiout its beauty—this strange,
horrible murder. And now the great
leaves rose slowly and stiffly like the
arms of a derrick, erected themselves
in the air, approaching one another,
and closed about the dead and ham
pered victim with the silent force of
a hydraulic press. A moment more
and while I could see the basis of the
great leaves pressing more tightly
toward each oilier, from their inter
stices there trickled down the stalks
streams of vise-id boney-liko fluid,
mingled horribly with the blood and
oozing viscera of the victim.
India Ink.
The manufacture of vhat is com
monly known in commerce, as India
ink, is carried on upon' a vety large
scale at Shanghai, where a very supeiior
decscription is prepared The cause
of the difference in quality between
the various inks made in China, result
from the non-employment of a constant
material for the production of the lamp
black. In order to iinpjrt an agreea
ble odor to tho substance* the Shanghai
manufacturers add a small quantity of
mush and camphor fron the isle of
Bornoe, two articles which are exceed
ingly dear in the celestial empire. The
“India ink” manufacture! by the Ja
panese, is inferior in qualify to that of
tho Chinese* tho former riot being
so well versed in the manmrof prepar
ing the lampblack, which is the real
secret of the art,
100,000 foreigners hare reached
Paris to attend the Paris Exposition.
The exhibition, it is said, be supe
rior to any that has prececdod it.
Marvels of Memory.
The following examplesol the mar
vels of memory would seem entirely
incredible, had they not been given
to us upon the highest authority;
Cyrus knew the name of each sol
dier in his army. It is also related
of Themistocles that he could name
every citizen of Athens, although tho
number amounted to 200,000 Mithrl
date, King of Pontus, Knew all of
his 80,000 soldiers by their names.
Sophia knew all tho inhabitants of
Rome. Seneca complained of old
age because lie could not, as formerly,
repeat 2,000 names in the order in
which they were named to him, nnd
he stated that on one occasion, when
at his studies, 200 unconnected veises
having been repeated by the different
pupils of his preceptor, he repeated
them in a reversed order, proceeding
from tho last to the first.
Lord Granville could repeat, from
beginning to end, the Ni w Tostnment
in the original Greek. Cooke, tho
tragedian, is said to have committed
to memory all the contents of a largo
daily newspaper, Racine could re
cite all the tragedies of Eur.pides.
It is said that George 111. never for
got a face ho had once seen, nor a
name lie had ever heard. Mirond.i
would commit to memory the con
tents a book by reading it three
times, and could frequently repeal
the words backward as well as for
ward. Thomas Crammer, in three
months, committed to memory an
entire translation of the Bible. Enler,
the mathematicien, could repeat the
.Eiicrl; and Leibnitz, when an old
man, could recite the whole of .Virgil,
word for word. It is said that Buos
suet could repeat not only the whole
Bibie, but all ot Homer, Virgil and
Horace, b< sides many other works.
Mozart had a wonderful memory
of musical sounds. When only II
years of age lie went to Koine to assist
in the solemnities of the Holy Week.
linmediataly after his arrival he went
to the Sistine Chapel to hear the
famous “Miserere” of Allegro. Be
ing aware that it was forbidden to
take a copy of this renowned piece o(
music, Mozart placed liimsell in a
corner, and gave the strictest atten
tion to the music, and on leaving the
church noted down the entire piece
A few days afterwards he heard it a
second time, and following tbc music
with his own copy, in bis hand, satis
fied himself of the fidelity of his mem
ory, The next day he sang the
“Miserere” nt a concert, accompany
ing himself on the harpsichord, and
the performance produced such a sen
sation in Rome that Pope Clement
XIV. requested that this musical
prodigy should be introduced in his
presence.
Texas,
Houston Telegram says : There is
some talk of calling on the Federal
Government for troops to protect
trains on the Texas roads from the
ravages of the robbers. Such talk
is ridiculous, and for the State offi
cial to confess their own incapacity
by asking such help would be a dis
grace to the State. These rubbers
have been committeed by as few as
four men, and never by more than a
dozen, most probably half that num
ber. If the Siateof Texas is to sur
render to a half dozen, or a half
thousand cut-purses, then let us haul
down the Lone Star flag, burn up
our histories, and abolish San Jacin
to day, for it would be a shame to
claim connection with such a glori
ous past.
tkcggiiiiiing of llic Day.
Wc all know how hard it is to go
on pleasantly if wc have made a bad
beginning. Breakfast time gives tho
turn to the whole day. If lather is
stern and mothor cross; if the big
brother gives a short answer, the lit
tle children catch the feeling and the
infection; one discordant note sets
the whole household choir jarring;
one cross face lepcats itself in very
many variations; one angry word
challenges another,
Let us be careful to begin right iii
the morning. Sunny faces at the
breakfast table and cheerful good
morning to each othor are blessed
missionaries; they start everything
right, and all housekeepers know the
valuo of that. Others* who are not
housekeepers, know it* too, and ben
edictions follow the tnan or woman
who goes out in the morning with a
bright look and a word of cheer for
every one he meets on the way.
A iDeteelive’s Story.
Mr. Lonergan* of Lonergan &
Thie’s Railway Secret Service Agen
cy, believes that he has discovered
the existence of a secret order styling
itself the Knights of Labor, which,
springing up since the strikes, has
united the discontented laborers into
a secret, oath-bound brotherhood
with signs and passwords that are
bonds of fraternity with 700,000
members scattered through every
State iu the Uuion.
Em GOODS
AT GOLD AND SILVER PRICES.
*—■' —- ■ 1 ' ■ *— 1 ■■ ■ m
the undersigned iia ve just opeened their stock of
Spring and Summer
C*i € OIIN!
And, ton) as Cotton is, DR\ GOODS, many of them, are lower than Coito
ever teas. We bought some of them cheaper than ever, and will tell them at
GOLD and SILVER PRICES FOR CASIL
WE SEEP t’P OUR USUAL STOcK of
STAI*LU t)RY 0000S, I'OCKET and TABLE CUTLERY,
CLOTHING, UMBRELLAS,
CARPETS NOTIONS,
HATS, TOBACCOS.
SHOES, AC., AC.
Sonne Extra Fine Pocket Knives and “Razor Steel” Scissors.
IN 011 It
EIBS GOODS
We offer some ENTIRELY NEW FABRICS, BEAUTIEIL IN DESIGN, and very
STYLISH as well as very CHEAP, _
OUR ASSORTMENT of CLOTHING
Was NEVER BETTER—NEVER SO CHEAP' It consists of Common and Fine Coats
Pants and Vest, Linen Shirts and Collars, Ounce, and Check Muslin Undershirta
OUR “BON-TON” CORSETS
Have proven to be VERY SUPERIOR, FITTING PERFECTLY and Q LYING SATIS
FACTION to all who have tried them.
VI7 E offer-no INDUCEMENTS to purchaser? by selling a ffiW LEADING ART!
' * CLES at LESS Til AN T COS?’, but we do, and will satisfy all who take ipto consid
eartion the AVERAGE PROFITS we charge, that wo sell goods as LOW as -AN Y
HOUSE IS SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA.
Amerlcus. GoorgiA.
Latest War News I!
has run down the prices ol Dry Goods of ALL Kinds to figures never known
before,
LOWE k BUSHIN
during tlic pnnic bought a Large Stock of Drees Goods, in latest styles*
STAPLE DRY-GOODS, NOTIONS, WHITE GG O DS
CLOTHING for MEN and BOYS, '
SHOIS FOR THE MULTITUDE,
HATS—GEmmiM,
HARDWARE, CBOCKFRY, GLASS-WARES and
TIN-WARES, and
SOMETHOO FOR the 11l JiGRi
A REVOLUTION IN CORSETS t
The celebrated CORK CORSET, recommended by Physicians, because it I
the most IIEaLTHY and COUFOKTABLE,
LADIES AND GENTS’ KID GLOVES, A SPECIALTY.
LADIES and MISSES DRESS SHOES, from the best Factory, rririttft
tp our order* every pair warranted-
We are now receiving our Spring Stock, and respectfully ask bur
friends, and the trading pablic to call and see us.
Buena Vista, Ga., April 3rd, IS7B. Lowe & Rnshin.
THE BUENA VISTA =
mi mwk
The exercises of this school will be resumed on Monday, 15th Jan
uary, 1878. The Spring Session will ®loso at the expiration of twenty*
our weeks, and the Fall Session at the closo of sixteen Weeks, making
forty weeks for the scholastic j'ear.
The rates of tuition will be twenty, thirty arid forty dollars for the
year, unless an arrangement now inaugurated can bo 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 cooperation in making the school as large as possible.
We are assured that board cau be had in the best families at SIO.OO
per month.
We would urge’upon patrons enteriug their children at the opening
of the session. DUNIIANI &. AVIS-{ Principals.
Subscription, s‘2 00
N* 34.