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TOE& Jt WINN
ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
% &V#A .YJLLEpEOR GIA.
Will practice in jtte’MidtflU Eastern, anil
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W. S. NORMAN,
'* Mclntosh, P. 0. No. 3 fk>t G.,tl R.
< J. W. FARMER,
I Attorney & Counsellor at LoW,
" lUXEST/LLE, GEORGIA.
ISTUI practice iu Eastern. Middle auil Brims
• wick Circuits. '■*! ir
JOHN U HARDEN,
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EL A R BEX’S, STORE, 13avax Cos.
C.t. I\ 0. EDEN, GA.
Vnr practice iu the Bi-unswiok, Eastern
ntl Middle Circuit.',
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lIINESVILLE, GEORGIA.
Appreciating the Bv.ors.Qf his friends of
Liberty and adjoining counties, he will cb
di-ayor be an honest and legitimate practice
io retain their patronage., coll
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DAFUEN, GEORGIA,
Respectfully calls the attention of his
friends and the puplic generally to the fact,
that hs has resumed the business of measu
ring timber at Darirn, and aaki for a share of
ttrt patronage. aSeM-tha
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VOL. V.; TILXESVILL]:, GA., I ' ')AY,JAX. 21. 187(5. • NO. 44-.
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)WRtTTEN FOR TilK OAZSTpE.
The . Feboonor, I’ijot, (’apt.
.Tin tile l fr >m'Ri< (=boro the
last T y hi ft 1 : 75, id tin ty
dvo bile of oopland, \vhe
touseu i.fKkliol o'Fo fl'-rice” bound
for . Savannah.—Sambo's elo
quence on parsimony : “’E born
win ’e band tie behind e’ back an 1
'e 'ent loose 'em yet,' 1
Thomas* the banner county of
Georgia, allows a colony of two of
more families lo come ami popu
late the east side of (Jol V. Island.
These may lay their '‘hands on
ocean's mane.'' Arc.
A well-to-do farther, frugart, do
mes tic —not a poliimaris Of pa! ri
archal bias requires umltrr rod, his
.sons and daughters in law a- well
aVhis own children to work \yhile
dins called to day.
A rice platv'Sr, in n adjoining
county, and whpso 1 e-cs by S?4J
and other fertilities foot up thou
sands, says anon to hungry iauor-.
ers ; “Til try jt again tli - year;
come on rten, and cut, your sticks,,
we'll frail it out this time.”—G ><i
btesSjhim fiotin ji'dr friend of the
poof—ft*’,fl him r, it.
Now he liberal; Imply Hie gold
[Mi rule; cotisjder to oe: a chris
• -
tian ; eea-e to scour the lati l hi
search of what may have bogged
and gone to the dogs or the other
- birds of prey, been eaten by yon
and your neighbors, or driven to
other portions. You are 100 back
off to spend anore uiotv?J| in tjjg
to the crop. And why, (), nun.
do you take for a hog or a cow
thief your fello w man, for only
doing what you have been doing a
lifetime—riding and roamTig the
wools, perhaps to your serious
detriment. )Ve are all poor. One
said of another, a supercilious
neiglibor‘dle needn't be so haugh
ty, I'm as poor,as he is.” In this
event, h<nv can wo demand of one
another th-e-tremendous fax, the
onerous and odious expense of
splitting and haulin 'thousands o!
rails and lifting and laying on
worm the staked and ride rod for
your benefit and behoof. Alien
l io;i, Close attention improves
stock. Under your eye, within
your enclosure you will fatten and
foster every pig. Domestic ties
•and domes'ic education are the
best. You have no' right (except
as inhumane statute confers) to
take my bir bright, tn.v patrimony,
my, purchase, the product ot iny
brain,my muscle, my energy, in
(lustry and honesty. Have you ?
Do the grand jury and the Code
require a lawful field fence? Yes,
the former demands a four Dot
one ; and all quadrupeds of th.it
height cam and they will climb
and jump the same. We know
they will.
■Now, Mr. of Mclntosh
County has a five mile fence. J
make no doubt, he can exhibit in
that p s’ ore. herds and flocks hon
oring to the best of pasture--. Let
us follow suite; and we beg Gen
era! Ass. of Georgia to judge from
our situ and on wbat b a model
’modification iu a populous, .y •>{
treeless, a fertile un i ill managed
district.
A. M. M.
A Buffalo limit.
It wnCa,Coliri, beautiful unarm
ing. in the month of October, - that
my friend, Dob Morton, and my
self mounted our houses and role
up the north bark of tire South
Platte on a pleasant hunt after
buffaloes. You will understand
that the Platte River, at St.
‘ Tlxer© ia Ibifo lirt w-u " fl yot.
Wains makes a joHnl be ii Jir
ri v- :• a ! ,\ o ttie fort runsraig ■;f||
■! r"i: is. cut! turning ! -
ijiost due epst at the
thought we would rule up the riv-i
era few miles) ant then., striklpS
•northwest into the hroud .
prairie, where we should
likely to find our game, return liw
a short cut across the prairie t(|
the fort; though it made littfg
d:fi'eret‘ce to ns whether wo
turned to-night or to-morrow,
we were accustonTed to camping
out. AfU
We role tip the river until a
most noon, seeing many d<ter anM
wolves—for one could hardly ri |! e!
tlmwigh this tail grass a milfl
wit firms seeing tlioin—-yet, as" wM
were not looking after this kina
oFjgtme, we paid no attention tfl
tliotn until nearly noun, wUmi,]
feeling some,v!mt tired mid -hurid
gry, B ib; who was • an exeelh nlj|
shot, killed a flue bucks aud,.dis;-j1
niquntingywe madea most delkll
cins meal ca the j'onng, fiendwn
venison. , J ' ‘ g
’Mounting, alter dinnCf, we
struck notti "qst. across (ho prai
rie, where, with the exccqAirm of]
t-iie, lalfgrass,-' u'u;o was not a free
or shrub oij all tlm vast; expanse?,
except along theiinvier bank. A
It was about lour o’clock in the
afternoon, just ns \ye were begin*
ning todiscouraged, and we:
were thinking amt-wDturning our
horses’ home, wJten
vve disc*jyere!,J. the object' Of £ gsaW
search. Tiled; were mm, immdoc.G
. o-m-. .. . wg>g-: Hf&g-'lPs
ibe j)f.aiffri- -the Jj'rsf 'r-ms ‘wc had I
discovered since leaving the river.
We were now many miles from
where we had left the river at
noon, but hopA! we were not far
from the fort by a direct, rou e
across the prairie, though we did
not know how far, neither of u<
having been out there before.
‘Murrili, Fred 1’ exclaimed Bob,
putting spurs to his horse, and
getting excited. ‘Now for some
sport, and away we went at a reck
less, breakneck speed.
Our game was a long distance
off when first dircovered, and bad
disappeared over the rise in the
prairie, and was out of sight.
We agreed to separate as soon
as we readied the top of the ridge,
and each take our game* and
charge down upon tli -m, and cap
tore both ii' possible. As we
came dashing up loflie top of the
hili they discovered us, and im
mediately took to flight. Buffa
loes c m run very fast, notwith
standing their weight ; they seem
to g -,t,her momentum as they pro
ceed, a id are not easily run down,
we made our choice immediately
and give pursuit.
My ho se wis 11 mt but the tall
grass tan 1 • l Jiis fe fl, and I had a
long, hurl chase b fore I came up
with my gains. I paid no atten
tion to Bib; his game bad taken
a different direction from mine,
mid we were soon widely separate
e ’.
Aft r a bar Ich i c e, I came near
enough, I thought, to von'are a
shot—perhaps,'f I did not kill
him, I could bripple him; and thus
stop him somewhat in Jiis mad j
career. I brought my rifle to my :
shoulder quickly ; but as I tired,
iny horse stumbled slightly, his
feet having become entangled in
Lite grasp, and I in Used iny aim
but struck the 1/eastjh the shoiil
der instKßd of the heart ; and the
ball being large, madea terrible
wound, from which the blood lie v
in a stream.
Tills maddened him ; and turn
ing quickly, he charged will* a
terrible half.snort, and half roam
i 'ing horse, 1 ran,knew not
1 i ; nfe life many
( flV'-': bat the tailgr.o imp. !•
' < t M-ey.revsy('d'' 1 know ]
y ,'ffiiu bold eui butf'Dw mom.arts.
■ miftJtv not t.lie slightest .chnhce*
!i . .-ileFdf; I upon
• .road ocean of prairie; Bob!
. i knew not • where,Dim. liadj
tnligtedo
atuDfakijig my.'i
SjfeYfgt h, ttmla wbiin(Jed* • buffa 1o j
lalm a few yai'ifa of ;.me, and
i |ih)g upon mo gt every -bonivL
ll ili'-oghl of and
bJfl- I would sell r&y life as dearly
iblfl
hit the bull in the eye. I had no
liope of Ihe ball doing him' any
hurt if it hit him anywhere else;
for you must know that these an
imals always have a thick m iss of
hair on their forehead, that is so
matted together with sand and
dirt, that no ball from a rifle will
penetrate it, I knew, if a ball
from my revolver struck his fore
head, it would have no more ef-
Icci than the wind blowing against
it.
I put my band to my belt ; but
my revolver was gone, the scab
hard was empty. It had probably
fallen out when I was thrown
from my horse.
It was with a feeling somewhet
ot despair t hat I found it gone.
It seemed as if there was nothing
but death before me; (or how
could I hope to escape from, or
cope successfully with, a 'wound
ed buffalo—wounded, as I knew,
in no vital part, but sufficiently to
madden him ?
I coni 1 hear more plainly his
half snort and half grunt close at
my heels—and could feel his
brealh upon my back—in another
instant he would be upon me—
would pierce me with his short,
stumpy horns, would grind me to
the earth with his monster head,
and trample me beneath his feet.
I indeed felt that iny time bad
come—that no earthly power
could save me; a id instinctively
I breathed a prayer to heaven.
At that instant my feet became
entangled, and I fell; the mad
dened creature had just touched
me as I went dowg, and was under
such teiriblo headway that he
passed directly over me without
touching me. As his tail brushed
over my face I grasped it, and
was dragged to my feet,- as the
buffalo, stopping Suddenly, ati
tamp'e'd to turn upon me. But I
had a now lease of my life. I held
on to his tail with a death-grasp;
and was dragged round and
round.
You may smile, dear reader, but
the tail-hold was iny best hold
now, and mv only hope of life;
and I#eld on with a grim deter
mination, while tlie bull Wheeled
rapidly round and round, roaivd,
snuffed, snorted and pawed tbe
ground in his terrible rage, bug
could not shake me iff. . ;
/ V
But what should I do now f I
know I could not bold.on to hpn
long, as iny strength was nearly
exhausted, having runftftO far be
love I fell. I had nothing t,o kill
him will)-, not'even a pen knife.
Mis wodmjAvas bleeding pro
fusely, and mv hope was that he
might become exhausted first;
but he seemed far from that now,
while I seemed very near to it. 1
knew my strength could hold out
but little longer, and to let go was
certain death. The bull would
suddenly take a. fixAk, and inn
and -bellow wit h all his might,
xnagging me with great velocity;
then lie wmil i stup, ajid with a
ttirriffie snort attempt to (urn .ffp-
on me, and it was more than I
could do with fey failing strength
to keep but. of his wW, nftd sevw
xl times his horus'i’enf my cloth
ing.'
This stnte-of things could '>of
long continue; 1 was growitig
wealtfei’/ftird felt my hold I'daxing.
I’\TUs jerked hither, antfc thither,'' 1
lAymi D)? m arly pulled from their
(sofekot-*, worried almost, to death,'
And about to los,; my hoU, when
.‘as-the ntnd qv!ip.sgd'- an
instant, the sharp crack' of a jrifle
rang cut. upon the tbr. abd-ri >
■ aft, r ‘ r ? ■
I wAs safe, but it .came not a‘
moment-too.soon. I, too, fell to
the ground, more dead than alive,
i'he sequel is soon tohl. It was
Bob who had saved me. He had
been more fortunate than I, and
ifler a hard chase Isa l killed his
game, and then looked round for
me. The first thing he saw was
my horse without a rider, aml
ihen he discovered me in the dis
tance clinging hold of the bull's
mil for dear life; and putting
spurs to bis horse, bo came to mv
assistance. It was some time be
fore lie could venture to shoot,
for fear ot hi! ting me; but he final
ly succeeded in planting a ball di
rectly in the animal’s breast.
After resting, capturing my
horse, and securing thy revolver,
which I easily found where I fell
from tiie uorse, we sat down to
smoke and relate ouradventures.
Kerr’s First Speech.
Now that Hon. Michael C. Kerr,
or as they cal! him in his gwn Hoo
sier State, ‘Mike Iverr,’ lias been
elected speaker of the House of
Representatives, it may not be
uninteresting to relate the some
what sensatiornl affair which first
attracted public attention to bis
remarkable qualities. It was a
good many years ago. Kerr had
just hung out his shingle as a law
yer in Now Albany. Indiana, and
was waiting for clients. One of
his first cases was a suit which
had to be argued at l'aoli, in Or
ange c unity, Paoli was then a
wretched little village of a hum
| dTed inhabitants, or so. ihe only
| decent building in it, pdsideS the
I court-house was the United States
i Hotel; a large frame house, of
which Mr. (Godfrey Tiatrisoii was
the proprietor. This Harrison was
at Wii of adventurer. Although
not fortyyears old he had been in
buisness all over the country.
Finally he had opened a grocery
store in the.thriving railroad town
of Seymour, and there he had ta
ken a leading part in' lynching a
fflie tfltrajcU
WEEKLY PAPER fiflgg STATE
ADfrißriSiNG KATES'
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Tran?unt advertisements fI,CO eqnare
first inseition, 75 cents tlrT each tubsequerl
$1 Section,
One inch and a lialf space the column
eonsG.utcs a hqnnre.
Liberal deductions made to those adver
tising largt W by the month ov year.
Speciat terms to County Officers.
gang of outlaws, am.i/ig whom
was the Eldest Ileno, whose five
brothers were afteiward summa
rily executed by a vigilance com
mittee at the same place. Harri
£m Was known io the Reno boys,
as they were called, to have ad
justed the noose round tkeir eld
est brother’s neck, and they had
sworn to take the executioner's
life for it.. Mysterious assassins
had repeatedly fired upon Barfi
■spn after dark-, and,finally, owing
to the supplications of his wife,
he had sold cut his store in Sey
mour mild moved to Paoli, where
he had bougt the above mentioned
hotel. When ‘jlike’. Iverr arrived
there in the evening preceding
-the day on which lie was fb argue
his case, he was the only guest at
the United States Hotel. He
went to bed at an each' hour, and
was awakened about midnight by
a furious pounding against the
front door, lie listenad a few
moments and heard patties- in
front pf the hotel shouting ‘Come
-nit,Uari ison ! Your hour has come
.po'.vUThe Reno bovsl am here t
jtemeru,l)er Jake Reno F Come 04,
or we will burn your house down!’
To these ; onlls were added horrible
oajdgs, a lid the pounding \vas ,re-
with redoubled
Suddenly Kerr's door.opot.ed, and
pale lyrtfi sheet, step
ped in. v'ir. Kerr" ho said liurri
•irty'-i .idly enemies are at
door. They want to revenge
themselves upon :nsf6j pariicipa*
tiag.iu the lynching of J.ike Reno
[at fin warn mP They h a vesworn to)
house, they will do it.’ ‘But will
they get in ?’asked Kerr. ‘They
j can not very easily." replied Hfir
| rison; ‘for the front and back
! doors are well secured, and it will
! be very difficult for them to open
| the window-shutters.’ ‘Wlujtf
j kind of arms have you incite
j house V asked Kerr. ‘Only a dou
i ble-barreled rifle, and 1 doubt if
I the people in the village would
dare to come to my assistance.
They knew the desperate charac
’er of ihe Reno boys too well. 7
‘Humph !' said young Iverr, ‘then
we are in a pretty bad box here i’
•Yes we are,, replied the landlord.
‘My poor wife, who has been ail
ing for some time, is now half
dead with terror, and the two ser
vant.girls are on their knees in
the kitchen, praying for help.’
Kerr reflected a moment, then he
jumped out of bed, and hurriedly
dressed himself. ‘What are you
going to do ? asked. Harrison. ‘I
am going out into the yard, and
shall speak to the fellows,’replied
! Kerr, quietly. ‘For God's sake,
don't! said Harrison. ‘They are a
desperate crowd. They will shoot
you like a dog!’ ‘I will risk it,’
rejoined Iverr, and slipped out of
the back door. Going round into
the front yard he saw in the dim
moonlight tour \ oung fellows bus
ily engaged in building afire in
dangerous proximity to the front
door. •When they caught sight of
his slender, straight form, one of
them shouted to him, ‘llalloo,
who the deuce are you V ‘I am
Michael (J. Kerr, from New- Al
bany, and who' are you?’ *My
name's Billy Reno,and them three
is my brothers.’ ‘What are you
making such a noise for at. this
unseemly hour?’ asked Kerr, with
the utmost imperturbability.
'Stranger,’ replied Billy Reno,
‘mind your own business. We’ve
come here to string that infernal
scoundrel Godfrey Harrison, who
murdered our brother at Seymour;
we’ll hang him on this ere tree, s
|we will !’ ‘My friend,’ said Kerr,
[ Concluded ov fourth pogc.\