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©ft* guemi W;st .A. M . C. Kditor & Proprietor. Pueua "Vtaln, Marion Cos., (2n FRIDAY MORNI-NO, NOVEMBER lath, 1875. Americus Business Men Who Adver tise in the Argus. The public-spirited citizens of a county, like Marion, are nlwayc gratified to see the names of liberal advertisers in their county newspa per, and will, when opportunity of fers, remunerate them for their liber ality. This is the light in which advertisers should be regarded. They are con; abating to the support of an institution, whose only business is to defend the rights, advance the inter ests and proclaim to the world the advantages of the county and its citi zens, and tor this reason they should be patronized in preference to others. Therefore, we call the attention of our friends and patrons to those who are soliciting through our columus the trade of our people. Whatever the others may be, this is true: they are not contributing to the support of a Marion county enterprise. In our advertising columns the reader will find the advertisement of T. WHEATLEY, whose attractive corner is well known. He has a mammoth stock of dry goods, in which will be found a vast variety of everything that is needed or fancied in his line of merchandise. ; ; ,3 clerks are active and polite, at iive to all the wants of customers ,and prompt to fill orders. Mr. Wheatley’s prices compare favorably with the prices of any merchant in any railroad city. If the reader will buy of him he need not be cheated (as he probably whl be if he buys of those who sell in the dark and whis per in the ear) and the Aug us will be benefitted thereby. GRANBERRY & BARLOW. It gives us real pleasure to notice this house. It is as old as Americus itself, and its honesty and straight forwardness is extolled wherever the firm is known. They soil for a profit as all merchants do.—The idiot has long since died who sold his full line of goods for less than a profit—but their profits are but a small advance on cost, and their prices are as low as the lowest. They have but one price—they sell to one as low as to another, and to all as cheap as they can be sold. They have a complete stock, and we would call especial at tention to their fine line of carpets. He who trades with them loses noth ing and helps this paper. S. ANTHONY &. SON3 are heavy furniture dealers, and eve ry necessity and ornament in their line, they have on sale at most reas onable pi'ices. From the commonest and cheapest to the finest and cost liest furniture they have in abun dance. We have noticed them be fore, and therefore merely call atten tion to their new advertisement. DAVENPORT & SMITH have advertised with us from the start but are just now indulging in a short interlude, as it were. We are however so well pleased with their liberal prices, and gentlemanly de portment, that we arc constrained to give them one more for good meas ure. We have bought of them, com pared their prices and are conscien tious in the declaration that we nev er had a druggist to charge us less or give us better goods. We hope to send them many a bill from this section yet. TOOLE & PRICE’S snug and elegant warehouse is the proper place to deposit your cotton. We have never seen a cosier, safer, handsomer warehouse in any city. The gentlemen of the firm are as clever, prompt and business-like as it will be your lot to meet. They have no sharp-edged tool to shave you clean and grind you to powder. Their price will suit you, for all their rates are fur low. Wo htire tried the faro and sleep- ing accommodations of the FRENCH HOUSE, and pronouuce thorn good. We find many of our Marion county friends there. THE lI.VRLOW HOUSE, under the proprietorship of Mr. Wi ley Jones, retains its old friends and reputation, and is gaining new ones daily. Though their houses do not adver tise, wo cannot refrain from noticing our former citizens of Marion, Mr. D. C. N. Burkhalter and Mr. G. W. Stallings, both of whom arc deser vedly popular. They are now live citizens of Americus, but they have not yet forgotten their old homes. In the language of the linguist who choked to death on Latin, wo will say in closing, quantum sufficit, (“enough is sufficient”) for the pres ent. A Fine Number of a Good Pa per.—Our clever friend, Ed. Martin, published, his paper the Home Journal, in mammoth size on Friday last. It is a magnificent number and reflects great credit upon its editor and publisher and the citizens of Perry and Houston county, who gave him the liberal patronage, which ena bled him to publish a sheet of which they may well be proud. The paper before us contains fifty six columns, and is beautifully printed. Will not Marion county put forth her strength and liberal ity in support of her paper so that its publisher may bring it out oc casionlly in mammoth propor tion 2 ■O l> M Ornament Your Town. Citizens ! you are residents of this town, your own property here.—it is your interest to make residence pleasant and agreeable and your property attractive and valuable. Can you leelihat you a>e thriving and prosperous, when every thing partakes of delapidation and deteri oration ? Can you be pleasant and comfortable, with all this air of ruin and decay about you ? Will it improve the value of your property or con tribu;e to its attractiveness and desir ableness, to permit it to look like it was rotten, and damp, and old, and worn, and dilapidated, and out of repair generally ? We should think not. Therefore, turn anew leaf. Re solve to come out of the ruts. Brush up, fix up, paint up, repair, ornament and beautify your town and your homes. Make them ap pear tidy and neat, new and attract ive, comfortable and prosperous. Give the town an air of business and and thrift, industry and content ment, activity and life. Our word for it, it will be a safe invesstment. If you expect to remain here, it will infuse into you new life and en ergy, to have every thing about you in thrifty style. It will add happiness and peace. Your desire to leave will not be potent, and that paradise of Texas, California and Florida, which has its existence on ly in your imagination, will not be so aluring. Surrounding scenes have a great deal more to do with your feelings t tan you suspect. This new-ing up will be a good remedy for your discontent. If it is your intention 10 sell, it will almost double the value of your property to have it and the town look trim and nice, bright and love ly. If everything is suggestive of banbruptcies and desolation, it will so dampen the desire and arder of purchase, that they will arrive at the conclusion that it would confer a great favor on you to accept your resident lot as a gift. Pub ic enter prise always advances private inter est. Try public enterprise on your schoolhouse, your churches, your homes and your streets. l r ou will find that your property will advance aud your feelings will improve. Buying Stolen Produce- Tho nefarious practico of buy ing stolen produce from freedmen and low whites has reached such alarming proportions, fliat it be comes necessary for us to call public attention to tho fact, and suggest that speedy measures ho instituted for tho effectual obliteration of this vile disease. This clandestine traffic is a suorce of sore loss and grievous wrong to our planters, and to it the most of tho stealing is attribu table. The purchasing of stolen corn, peas and cotton multiplies thieving tenfold. Were there no markets for stolen goods, there would belittle incentive to Weft, and the hazard of detection wwftd be vastly increased. "Were the thief compelled to appropriate to his own individual needs, whatev er ho stole, his depredations would amount to a mere baga telle, or the goods would he found in hisposession and he he brought to just punishment. But, under ex isting circumstances, he can barter or sell almost as soon as stolen, and thereby destroy all evidence of his guilt, at the same time being paid for his criminality and inci ted to a continuance of his depre dations. Are our people to submit tame, ly and supinely to this stealing, buying and selling of their own goods f By no means. The sooner they rise in their pow er and, with concert and precision of action, wipe out from the land this traffic, the sooner they further the ends af justice and insure the safety of their “goods and chat tels.” Buying corn by the peck and cotton in seed at night, from impe cunious and disreputable per sons should be stopped and that without delay. Such practice is discreditable and censurable, done in broad day-light, where there is any probability of the things be ing stolen. We noticed public meetings and concerted action taking place among planters in other sections, and snek a course might he pur sued to great advantage in our own section. When a person is detect ed in the habit of buying or trad ing for stolen produce, lie having every reason to believe it to be stolen, he should he driven from the country and his name and memory made odious. Such men have al ready become as rascally and dis honest as men ever get to be, and every place should he made too warm for their abode. Decisive measures should he taken immedi ately for the riddance of this de testable evil from the land. Unfounded Rumors. Some mischievous or disaffected person or persons have been busy for several days past in sowing broadcast over the Sta-e reports to the prejudice ot the commercial standing of a large number of our most prominent merchants. Nor have at least two of our banking in institutions escaped animadversion. Yesterday the writer ni .de it his special business to cdl upon these gentlemen and ascertain by di rect questioning and investigation, the true condition of affairs. Near ly all of their uumber wore seen, and we can safely assert that, save in two instances, the above rumors are without the slightest f mdaiion, and simply lies manufactured out of whole cloth. Aud even in the case of the exc- ptions referred to, ther ■ h-s been no failing or closing of doors, the extention asked for hav ing been granted, and the parties still actively encaged in bus ness, and resolved by diligence and per sonal sacrifices to in ke good their 1 obligations. This statement is made by author ity, and can bo relied upon abso lutely.—Macon Telegraph, A gin-house, with threo bales of cotton, ,a quantity of oottou seed.aud all the machinery was burned on one of But,lor and Heath’s plantation.iu Mitch" ell county, last, Monday. No insurance There are some peculiar facts concer ning tho distribution of the nightingale in Europe. It is found us far north as Sweden and as far west as visits Scot land, Ireland or Wales. From the boun daries limiting its habitant in England, it appears flint the bird is restricted t_, those portions of country which aic covered with secondary or tertiary geological formations. Hence it. may be inferred that tho insect on which it lives do not obtain means of subsistence where fhe primary soil prevails. The gin-house of Mr. D. P. Montgomery, of McDuffie county, was burned by au incendiary on Wednesday night. Mr. W. W. Corcoran, of Washing ton, I). C., Ims given to tho Southern Historical Society five hundred dol lar.-, anil promises alike contribution each year hereafter. Brigham Young has been ordered to prison for cointmnpt in not paying alimony. He was arrested in bed and two doctors testified that ho was too iil for removal. Now Advertisements- No. 1 SOB. Notico in Bankruptcy. This is to give notice Hint on the 291!i day of October. A. I)., 1875, a warrant in Bank ruptcy was issued against the estate of Wil liam F. Collin-worth, of Americus, county of Sumter, and State ot Georgia, who has been adjudged a Bankrupt on Ilia own petition, and that the payment, of any Debts, and de livery of any Property belonging to Bald Bankrupt, to him, or for his ore, and the transfer of any Property by him, are forbid den by law; t hat a Meeting of Hie Creditors of the said Bankrupt, to prove their Debts, and to choose one or more Assignees of his Let at e, will be held at a Court of Bankruptcy to be holden at Americus, Oa., at the office of the Register, before 3. Wise Parker, Esq., Register, on the lath day of November, A.D., 175, at 2 o’clock, P. M. W.H. SMYTH, Nov. l'2-2t U. S. Marshal, as Messenger No. 1307- Notice in Bankruptcy. Thi? is to give notice that on t lie 291 h day of October, A I), 1875, a warrant in Bank ruptcy was issued against the estate of Alex ander M. Little, of Americus, county of Sum ter and state of Georgia, who has been ad judged a Bankrupt ou his own petition, and that the payment of any Debts, and delivery of any Property belonging lu said ankrupt, to him, or for his use, and the tmnsier o| any Property by him, are forbidden by law; that, a Meeting of the Creditors of the said Bankrupt, to prove their Debt*, and to choose one or more Assignees of his Estate, will be held ala Court of Dankrunicy, to he holden at, Americus, Oa., nt the office <->:* i, t . peg-si . r i before S. Wise Pinker. L quire. Jb*gisi.r on the 20 h duv of November, A. D., 187.3, at 10 o’clock, AM. W. 11. SMYTH. Novl2-2t US Marshal, as Messenger. 1172 SK BANKRUPTCY. In the Ihstrict (.'ouri of the United Stairs, for (he Southern District of Georgia. In the matter of Wm F. Kibesey, Bard;nipt The said B krnpt having petitioned the Court for a discharge from all his debts prov able Ui der the Bankrupt Act of March 2‘ and, i 817 . notice it hereby given to all persons in terested to appear on t he 20 h day of Novem ber 1875, at 10 o’clock, AM> a- Chain! e: sf said District Court before S Wise Parker, Esq, one of the Kcgisiers of said Couit in Bankruptcy at his office at Americus, Ga., and s'aow cause why the j raver of the said petition of the Bankrupt should not be grant ed. And further notice is given that the second and third meetings of Creditors, will b- held at the same time and place Dated ot Savannah, Georg a, this 4th day of Novembe., 1875. James McPherson, Clerk. No 1284, In Bankruptcy. In the District Court of tho United ‘‘ tates for tho southern District of Georgia. IN THE MATTER OF WRIGHT DR.IDY, flankrupta The said D'acl.vupt, having petitioned ihe Court Hr ;i discharge from ail his debts provable under thy Bankrupt Act of March 2nd, 1807. notice is herebh given to all persons interested to appear on the day of jYovember, 1875, at 10 o'clock, A. M. at Cliam hers of said District Court before *N\ Wise Parker, Esq one of the Registers of said Court in Bankruptcy at Ids other ut Americus 6’a-, and show cause why the prayer of the said petition of the Baukiupt should not be granted. Ami further no. ice is given that tho H'-euod and third meetings of Creditors will be held ut the same time and place. Dated atSuvanuah, Georgia, this 4th day of Novem ber, 1875. JstMRS AicPHEUSON, Clerk. jSBT My books will bo closed ou tlio FIRST DAY of DECEMBER. next, with no postponement, and executions will be issued forthwith against all defaulters. Oowe forward, pay promptly and save unnec essary costs. FRANK RUSH IN, Novo-iw T. C. M. C. BETTER KNOWN AS “Granges YartL” I have enlarged n.y Yard by an addition of stalls aud sheds, with Boaiding House, ltlackanilth ant Wood Siiopa convenient. A poml substantial enclo sure and a watchman at night, making it ono of Hie most secure and conveni ent. in the city. In connection I have a well supplied FA At ILY GROCERY, for the purchase and sale of Country Bro il nee. Grangers and Farmers ,n particularly invited. Charges moderate. fetr-SiGN —Vv heel and Plow. East of Planters’ Warehouse and J & J Kauf man s Wholesale Grocery House. Cjlumbus, Ga. PAN’L R. BIZE. MWSaiISHMf DXhiXMBS Ilf iMv swref ipff ru I til! % teie if) T t V 'TUg-Eiiaga, d*?£9. Arc new receiving the largest stock of BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, sc. that we have ever brought to cor market. Having banght car (seeds at BOTTOM FieUEEI We are prepared to sell as rheap as any first-class House in Columbus o Americus. We invite especial attention to our Stock of , rj tft wj ru, Kfi y-? y Ono Yard wide Bleaching at 10 cents, and good calico at 8 cents. Thankful for past favors, we cordially invite you to examine nur stock. Buena Vista, Oct. Stli, ISM. I.OAI C & liSis!ll.l. OIIF * 11 mmp I.r r.Hr r ijiK p JL UlilJp T- $ ipOf m ?■, |! ®\ i ir 1 m JM;& % DRUGGIST AND GROCER BUENA VISTA, GA. •* DRUGS MEDICINE KEROSENE, PATENT MEDICINES, POTASH, SOAP, STARCH, COLOGNES, FANCY SOAP, PAINTS, OILS, GARDEN SEEDS, PIPES, CIGARS, TOBACCO. STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES, WINDOW GLASS, CONFECTIONERIES, BACON, FLOUR, LARD, MEAL, CHEESE, SUGAR, COFFEE, CRACKERS, SALT, Ac., Ac. A ill' STOCK OF STAPLE IHIOIIIIS, Hats, Boots, shoos, Tinware, Hardware, Cutlery, Crockery, stationery, and Notions Generally. I have removed from my former stand, Soutli of the public square, to Wiggia’s Old Stand, West of Pnblie Square where I will be pleased to servo my old friends and as many new ones as wid favor me with their patronage. I have made a change in iny business, discontinuing the sale of some articles and substituting others in their places —have ordered a line of leading at tides of Staple Dry Goods —all of which I intend to sdl cheap. J-. "W. .A UNrszLE-sr, A October loth, 18*5.-ct Baena Vista, Gi.