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"SV A. SINGLETON, Editor and Proprietor.
VOLUME 111.
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ATTOHNKYAT LAW*
BUEVA VISTA. GA.
” SIMMONS & SIMMONS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
AMKItICUS, GEORGIA.
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WESLEY JEFFERSON, M D
RED BONE, GA.
BfHA. Patronage solicited. Calls
responded to promptly. '©#
WILLIAM IS. HINTON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
BUENA VISTA. GA
Will practice in the Courts of this State,
and the District uud Circuit Courts of the
United States.
"8- Special attention giveu to Collections,
Conveyancing and Bankruptcy. febG-ly
r. l. msnoii, m. u.
BUENA VISTA, GA.
may be left at my resi
dence at a hours of the day or
night .■“&
J. W. BRADY,
ATTORNEY; AT LAW,
!
AMERICUSi GEOHGIA,
Oilice ou I,uiiial* (Uriel.
Prompt attention given all business. Col*
lections made. Will practice in the eountie*
of Lee, Macon, Marion, Schley, Sumter, Web*
sti-r, Dooly, Terrell and Worth.
DENTAL WORK
v —H YOU WANT—,
Good Dental Work
CALL OK
Dr.D.P. HOLLOWAY
hi hi* office over Davenport & Smiths'
Di ng Store, Ameticun. o*.
t 11-1 yi-
Al X II BLASFOfB. LOOIS r. OAtrAin
BLANFORD & GARRARD,
ATTORNEYS A COUNSELLORS AT LAW
V'§ic No. fl 7, Broad Street, (ovet Wittich A
KiaioUtf Jewtliy Store,
tOMMIUS, - - iiLOHUA
w IL py special attention to nil ea*cs in j
BaiiKrutoy Will obtain dit-charge* for Bank
rui*'ts, anil fccuie hoinot-tendi in Bankiuptcy
under the Constitution of 1868. Will make >=po
oial contracts with pertonn desiring to avail
Iheni'elves of tho b jHefits of the Baukiupt act,
conditioned **n the results obtained,
jttir- All letters answered.
uiiwir
DENTIST*
nr ENA VISTA, GEORGIA.
Tender their professional services to
the citizens of Buena Vista and vicinity.
All work warranted, and satisfaction
guaranteed.
B¥3i, Office tip stairs above Harvey <fc
Story’s old stand.
X. G. GHIMIY,
DENTIST ;
ELLAVILLE, - - - GEORGIA
ggPBSI St TENDERS ms professional ser
vices to the people ot Marion
'UHOTandsn.rounding counties. Ho
will cal! at the residence of all parties desir
ing dental work done, when notified by ru lil
or otherwise. All work warranted, 'forms,
ash.
W. P. BURT,
DJEISTTIST
AMERICUS, . GA
Continue! to solicit the patronage of the good
people of Marion. Satisfaction guaranteed, and
at reasonable price!.
Special inducements offered to thoie who will
arrange to visit my office to have their opera
tions performed. my22-t
CAS. L.BR AS I N C T O N,
TAILOR,
HUENA VISTA. OA
Mould respectfully announce to the public
and his triends that lie is still at liia post;
readyforall kinds of tailoring—Cutting, Mak
ing Repairing, Cleaning, etc. Those want
ilig measures to send for suits can get them
of hiflft- £3f" Latest styles and fashions al
ways on Ihmd. JAS. L. BRASINGTON
3irodWL!
B. B. Hinton, Attorney and Councelor at
I,siw. Americus, Ga., is now preparodto pro
cure pensions for the widows of soldiers of
the war of 1812, as well as pensions for sol
diers of sail war.
” 7 B. B. HINTON.
j Don’t expect to be called a good
fellow a momelit longer than you con.
sent to do precisely what other people
wish you to do.
Sincerity is speaking as wc think,
believing as we pretend, acting as wc
profess, performing as we promise,
being as wc appear to be.
A firm taith is the best divinity; a
good life is tho best philosophy; a
clean conscience the best law; hou
esty the best policy.
*‘l should like to live to draw two
breaths alter 1 am acquitted, and then
I would die satisfied,” said John
Smart, of Burnette county, Tex., who
had lain in jail neuily a year on a
charge of murder, and was brought
into court ou his couch, sick. At 11
o'clock the verdict “not guilty” was
brought in, and at 12 tho o.d man
died.
Fifieeu years ago a workman of
Marseilles, France, lost his only child,
a baby boy, and to have some relic ot
the little one, cut off the hand of the
corpse, which he preserved in alcohol-
Now at last he has again been made
a father, and the infant is a bouncing
boy, but lacks the left hand.
The sad late ot Chatley Boss has
not been in vain. Air. Boss has ex
amined 41)7 unknown and friendless!
waifs in his search for the lost boy, j
More than 300 of these buys, who
had been drifting homeless over the
face of the earth, are now well pro- j
vided with comfortable homes through
ttie publicity given their cases by bo- ;
ing mistaken for Charley Ross.
Why pay a hundred dollars for a
phonograph when $1.50 judiciously
invested in ice cream, the coming sum'
oier, and two bushels turnips in the
; fall fora ninniage certificate, will give
you a file lease on a talking machine
that never requires any tin foil 011 tho
cylinder escapement. Young man
these are times for tho practice ol
economy ami you should reflect.
An Omaha poker player dud very
quietly the other day. He was play
ing in a saloon with three others,
when a dispute arose about the bet
ting. lie was loud in his assertions
though everybody believe him to be
lying, and at last he Paid, “I hope
Ohiist will kill me if it isn’t so!” He
had dealt the hand himself and then
passed it to tho next player, who
shuffle the card3 and asked him to
cut. But the blasphemous player did
not cut, and a look into his face dis
closed the fact that he was dead.
Mote from the Eye.—Take a
horse ha : r and double it, leaving a
loop. If the mote can be seen, lay
the loop over it close the eye, and
the mote will come out a.s the hair
is withdrawn. If the nutating ob
ject can not be seen, raise the lid of
the eye as far as possible, and place
the loop in it ns far as you can, close
the eye and roll the ball around a
few times, then draw out the hair;
the substance which caused so much
pain will be sure to come with it.
This method is practiced by axo
makers and other workers in steel.
"When Abraham Lincoln was a poor
lawyer, he found himself one cold day
at a village, somo distance from
Springfield, and with no moans ot
conveyance. Seeing a gentleman driv
ing along the Springfield road in a
carriage, he ran up to him arid politely
said :
“Sir, will you have the goodness to
take my overcoat to town for me ?”
“With pleasure!" answered the
gentlemen. “But how will you get it
again ?”
Oh ! very easily,” said Mr. Lincoln,
“as I intend to remain in it 1”
“Jump in!” said the gentleman,
laughingly and the future President
had a pleasant ride,
BUENA VISTA, MARION COUNTY, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JI VE 12, 1878.
“I Wish I Had Capital.”
So wc heard a great strapping
young man exclaim the other day
Wc concluded that 1 e wanted a
little practical advice, and we will
give it to him.
You want capital, do you ? And
suppose 3-011 had what you call
capital, what would you do with
it ? Haven’t you hands, feet, mus
cle, bone, brain, and health, and
don’t you call these capital?
i What more capital did God give
anybody 1
“Oh ! but they are not inone;,”
3'ou say r . But they are more than
11101103’, anti nobod3’ can take thorn
from you. Don’t you know how
ti use them ? If 3-011 don’t it is
tirno you were learning. Jake
hold of the plow, or hoe or jack
plane, or broad ax, and go to work.
Your capital will then, in due
time, yield you a largo interest.
Ay! but there’s the rub; you
don’t want to work; you want
money on credit, so 3’ou can plat
gentleman and speculate, and end
by playing the vagabond.
Or you want a farm with plenty
of hands upon it to do the work,
while you run over the country
and dissipate; or you want to mar
ry some rich girl who may be fool
ish enough to take you for your
good looks, that she may support
I you.
Shame on you, young man!
Go to work with the capital you
j have, and you’ll soon make inter
est mougli upon it to give you as
j much money as you need, and
j make you feel like a man. If you
can n<<t make money’ on what cap
ital you have, you could not if you
had *1 large amount in cash. If
you do not know how to use bone,
muscle and brain, you would not
| know how to nse gold. If you let
I the caoital you have lie idle, and
j waste and rust out, it would be the
;same with you if yon had gold;
j you w ould only know how to waste
| it.
1 Then do not stand about idle, a
great aimless boy, waiting for
| something t‘> turn up, but go to
| work. Take the first work you
. t-a 1 find, no inattar what it is so
I von do it well; always do your
| best. If you manage the capital
you already have, you will soon
have plenty’ more to manage.
Can’t Afford to Take Any
Chances. —Sarah’s brother Bill was
on the avenue, recently, watching
the flyers. /A- looked a bit lone
some, and a boy friend added more
burden to his feelings by asking:
“Say, Bill, why don’t the family
go riding and take you along?”
“Dad hain’t got no time.”
“And your mother ?”
“And sho hain’t got no nice
clothes.”
“Well, there’s Sarah.”
“Yes. but she’s skeered to go
riding —’fraid she’ll be tipped
out.”
“Sposen the cutter is upset—
never hurts anybody,” presisted
the hoy.
‘ Yes, but when a gal is walking
along,’.’ slowly replied Sarah’s
brother Bill, “her beau can’t tell
whether she wears No. 3 or 6
shoes, kaso her dress hides ’em;
but when she goes out in a sleigh
on a curve you—you understand ?”
There was a long and solemn
pause. Tho first boy at length
timidly ventured to say :
“What does she wear ?”
“Sevens fit her snug,” replied
Bill ; “and ’tween you and me her
head is level on this business. This
is tho fourth time she’s been en
gaged. and she can’t afford to take
any chances!”
Coffee.
Take any kind of coffee pot or
urn, and suspend a hag made of
lelt of very heavy flannel, so long
that it reaches the bottom, bound
on a wire just fitting the top; put
in tho fresh ground pure coffee,
and pour on freshly boiled water.
The fluid filters through the bag,
and may bo used at once; needs
no settling, and retains all tho
aroma. The advantage of this
over the ordinary filter is its econ
omy, as the coffee stands and
soaks out the strength, instead of
merely letting tho water pass
through it.
“What ia wisdom ?” asked a teach
er of a class of small girls. A bright
eyed little creature arose and an
swered, “Information of the brain,”
A. DEMOCRATIC FAMILY NEWSPAPER.
Hever Tempt a Jin 11.
Among the Mohcgans, an Indian,
by the name of Zachary was heir to
the chieftainship. He was a brave
man and an excellent hunter, but as
drunken and worthless an Indian as
could be well found. By the death
of intervening be ; rs, /Tachary found
himself entitled to the Royal power.
In this moment the better genius of.
the mail assumed sway, and he re
flected seriously: “How Cun such a
drunken wretch as I be chief of this
noble tribe what will uiy people say ?
What will my people say ? How will
the shades of my glorious ancestors
look down iniHgnant upon such a suc
cession? Can I succeed the great
Uncas. Aye, I will drink no more.”
And he solemly resolved to drink
nothing but water.
One day, at the annual election,
the Mohegan chief dined with the
Governer at Hartford. John, the
Governor’s son,mischievously thought
he would try tho sincerity of the
chief’s temperance. The family were
seated at dinner, and there was ex-
i cellent home brewed ale upon the ta-
I ble. John addressed the old chief:
| “Ziich, this beer is very tine; will
| you not taste it ?”
The old man dropped his knife and
leaned forward with a stern intensity
of expression, and his fervid eyes,
sparkling with angry indignation,
were fixed upon the boy. “John,’
said he, “you do not know what you
are doing. You are serving the
| devil, boy! Do you know that lam
jau Indian ? Iff should taste your
I beer, I should never stop until I got
rum, and I sloufd again become the
| same contemptable wretch your fa
! ther remembers me once to have
been. John, never again while you
live temmpt a man to break good
resolution."
Tiir Grit in Crop.
The exports of wheat from the
pmt of New York, alone, during the
past week have reached the impos
ing aggregate of 1,230,000 bushels,
while the transactions in that cereal
on the Produce Exchange have in
volved 1,300,000 bushels. The week’s
exports of other grain Imm Now York ;
have been 392, pOO bushels of corn
and 91,800 bushels of oats, besides 1
bailey and rye, and 20,000 barrels of!
flour. As showing ttic magnitude of
the supply of grain now at the lake
and seabord ports, East and West, it
may be stated that at the latest count
it reached the enormous total of 22,-
013.853 busho', against 19,516,312!
bushels at the same time last year, j
The present supply includes 8,394,883
bushels of wheat, 9,538,192 bushels
corn, and 2,063,303 bushels oats, be
sides considerable burley and rye.
The crop prospects in all parts of the
country are most flattering, and even
the large yield of 360,000,000 bushels
wheat, and 1,340,000,000 bushels corn
last year promises to be considerably
exceeded this year. The receipts Of
grain at New York arc steadily in
creasing, and during the week just
onded have been no less than 1,446,-
184 bushels of corn, 370,243 bushels
outs, 27,620 bushels barley, and 152,-
624 bushels rye, besides 83,486 bar
rels of flour. And our grain harvests,
more valuable than our gold and sil
ver mines, are annually adding enor
mously to the wealth of the country.
—[New York Express.
A New Version. —A young lady in
Vasar College, at an evening party,
found it appropriate to use the ex
pression, “Jordan is a hard road to
travel,” but thinking that too vulgar,
substituted the following: “Peram
bulating progression in pedestrian
excursion along the far-famed thor
oughfare of fortune cast up by the
banks of the sparkling river of pal
estino is indeed attended with a hete
rogenous conglomeration of unfore
seen difficulties.
A Hough Kctort.
In the city of Halifax there dwelt
a lawyer, crafty, suotle, and cute as
a fox. An Indian, of the Miami tribe,
named Simon, owed him some money.
The poor red man brought the money
to his creditor and waited, expecting
i the lawyer to write a receipt.
“What are you waiting lor?” said
J the lawyer.
“Receipt,” said the Indian,
A receipt,” said the lawyer, “ro-
Ct-ipt! what do you know about a re
ceipt ? Can you understand the na
ture of a receipt? Tell me the use
of one I will give it to you.”
The Indian looked at him a moment
and then said:
“S’pose may be die, I’m go to
heaven; me find gate locked; see the
Tostlo Peter; he say Simon, what do
you want? Me want to get in. He
say, You pay Mr. J. dat money?
What me do? I Lab no receipt; hab
to hunt all over hell to find you.”
He got a receipt.
Retrospect.—As the meridian of
! life is slowl} passing away, and the
evening of age is wearing to a close,
!it is very pleasant to look back
through the vista of old time with its
I m ngled tears of sorrow and gladness,
and feel that wc arc sheltered from
I,the storms of life, have hearts to re
joice with us, aud friends to gather
around our hearthstone to smooth
and make glad our decline in life.
How we love aud appreciate those
who have stood by us in the rough
places through which we have been
icalled to pass! Happy, indeed, are
we with those who have never chang
jed in tone or feeling toward us. How
! much happier they grow, how much
more beautiful they are to us as we
together g< ntly descend the declivi
ties of liie and listen to ttie musical
chords of the heaits that vibrate in
inch.dies so soft and tender in the
evening of life.
A Human Skeleton Inside of a
Hop.se.— A writer in the Black Hills
tells of a horrible reminder of the
fearful snow storms ot last winter, and
of the perils of those who were caught
out and lost their waj’ on the plains,
lie says that recently, while he and
two others were crossing the coffntry
they came upon tie skeleton of a
horse, within which was tLe skeleton
of a man, with the grinning skull
looking out at them fioni between the
ribs of the anitna'.like a'prisoner peer
ing through the bars of his cell. The
two skeletons told the whole story.
The man had killed bis horse, cut him
open and crawled inside of him, think
ing to thus escape perishing of cold,
out the flesh of the animal fioze solid,
and the man was as much of a pris
oner as if he had been shut in by walls
of iron. The wolves and carrion birds
had strtpped the greater part of the
flesh from both skeletons.
An Essay on Woman,
A woman is a mighty handy thing
to have about a bouse. She don’t
cost any more to keep than you will
give her, and she will take a great
interest in you. If you go out at night
she wifi be awake when you return
home, and then she will tell you all
about yourself—and more too. Of
couse she will kuow just where you
have been, and what kept you so late,
and will tell you; yet, right after she
gets through telling you that, she will
ask you where you havo been, and
what kept you out so late. And after
you tell her, she will not believe it;
you musn’t mind that; and if, alter
going to bed, she says she has not
closed her eyes the whole night, and
keeps up the matinee two hours long
er, and will not go to sleep when she
has a chance, you must not mind that
oithe.; it is her nature.—Newport
Local.
The potato bugs beat us last year.
This year we have beat them —wo
have planted no potatoes,
IEW GOODS
AT GOLD AND SILVER PRICES.
THE UNDERSIGNED HA YE JUST OPE EH El) THEIR STOCK OF
Spring and Summer
€4- MR 19 Hats-
And, low as Cotton is, DRY GOODS, many of them, artloivcr than Coito
ever was. We bought some of them cheaper than ever, and will sell them at
GOLD and SILVER PRICES FOR CASH.
WE KEEP UP OUR USUAL STOCK OF
STAPLE DRV GOODS, POCKET and TABLE CUTLERY,
CLOTHING. UMBRELLAS.
CARPETS NOTIONS,
HATS, TOBACCOS.
SHOES, ,tC., AC.
Some Extra Fine Pocket Knives and “Razor Steel* 5 Sclssots.
IN Ol R
We offer some ENTIRELY NEW FABRICS, BEAUTIFIL IN DESIGN, and very
STYLISH as well as very CUE A I’.
OUR ASSORTMENT 0! CLOTH Dili
NEVER BETTER — NEVER SO CHEAP- It cousists of Common and Fine Coata
Pants and Vest, Linen Shirts and Collars, Gauze, aud Check Muslin Undershirts.
OUR “JBON-TON” corsets
Have proven to be VERY SUPERIOR, FITTING PERFECTLY and GIVING SATIS
FACTION to all who have tried them.
VI7 E oftV-r'no INDUCEMENTS to'pureluu>ers by selling a LEW LEADING ARTE
I * CLES at LESS TEAS ('OS'T, but we do, and will satisfy all who take into consid
eration the AVERAGE PROFITS we charge, that wo sell goods as LO IF as AST
house is Southwestern Georgia.
UK A* RailH lift Y & IS.iMLOW,
Amcricua Goorgin.
Dr. E. T. MATHIS,
Physician and Druggist,
BUMA VISTA, BA.
Dealer In
DRUGS, MEDICINES
CHEMICALS, VARNISHES,
PAINTS, OILS, WINDOW GLASS,
PUTTY, POTASII, SOAPS, STARCH,
SODA, SULPHUR, GINGER, SPICES,
SAL SODA, PEPPER, COPPERAS, MACE,
PATENT MEDJICINES,
CLOVES, NUT-MEGS, FLAVORING EXTRACTS,
BAKING POWDERS, WRITING PAPER, INK,
ENVELOPES, PENS, BRUSHES, COMBS,
FLOWER EXTRACTS, • COLOGNES, COSMETICS.
LAMPS, BURNERS, WICKS, CHIMNEYS
TOBACCO, SNUFF, CIGARS,
KEROSENE OIL, TEA, OIL CANS, CANDLES,
MATCHES, CRACKERS, FEEDING BOTTLES,
TRUSSES, SARDINES, PEPPER SAUCE,
OYSTERS, CRACKERS, PICKLES, CANDIES,
COTSfFECTIOHSTS,
and various other things too tedious to be tot !
Medicines can be had at all hours day or night.
DR. E. T. MATHIS
~ COCKRELL & KXOIVLTUX'S ’
FLOUR MILLS,
We Annouce to the
EOPLE OF SCHLEY, MaKION, SUMPTER, WEBSTER, MACON AND
TAYLOR COUNTIES, THAT WE are making from GOOD WHEAT
FLOUR WHICH CIS NOT BE SURPASSED BV JM MILLS IN fit-
WE GUAR AS TEE AS GOOD ASD AS LARGE A YIELD OF FLOUR, FROM
SAME WHEAT, AS ANY MILL IN THE STATE, AND FAR SITE*
DIOR TO ANY WE HAVE SEEN IN THIS COUNTRY.
IW WE ASE BUI A TRIAL—CONVICTION ILL FOLLOW Jp|
COCKBEIL & KNOWMOIT,
Eiiaville, Ga., Aug. 29, 1877. Proprietors-
Subscription, $2 00
No. 40.