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DAILY ENQUIRER • RUN: COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 1886. ESTABLISHED IN 1828. 58 YEARS OLi Daily, W ookly mid Suiulii\ The KNQUIKKIl-HUN Ib Issued every day. o eept Monday. The Weekly is issued mi Manila*. The I>ailv including Sunday; is delivered h, carriers in the city or mailed, postage Tree, to sal- •cribers fur «.V. per month, 8:1.00 fur thrts months. 84.00 fur six months, or 8i.ini tt year The Sunday is delivered by carrier buys in tie city or mailed to subscribers, postage free, a* 81.(HI a year. The Weekly is issued oil Monday, and is mailei t o subscribers, postage free, at 81.10 a year. Transient advertisements will he taken for tin Daily at $1 per square of 10 lines or less turtle drat insertion, and 50 cents fur each subsequent insertion, and for the Weekly tit 81 fur each in aertion. All communications intended tu promote tin private ends or interests of corporations, soeietic- or individuals will be charged as advertisements, (special contracts^ made for advertising by the year. Obituaries will be charged for ut customary rates. None but solid metal cuts used. All communications should he addressed to the proprietor of the ENqriHKii-Sl'N. It was iii 17si>. just ago, that tlu* legislatin' posed the convention from the then several i hundred years of Virginia pro of eoinniissii mers tjites of the Atucri- ■ resident to comply with his wishe* attsed the ilisapj (tinted Vermont states- ■ tun to make another etrort to get thi ix iI service reform up to his standard. To this end lie lias introduced a hill a hit’ll not only relieves the president mm consulting the senate in large class of appointments, but takt •* uvav t'roni him the far more important >n iict i, >n of removal. If Senator Edmunds had any idea that it'ii a h'U would lierome a law, it shows t stupidity that lie lias never been ti'- •lised of possessing. If he could litnl re I'tililieaiis in siillieient numbers, eithei ,'iiiilisli or vieiniiH, enough to vote for it. tin- president would not sign it. If an attempt should be made to override I lit veto I lie president would most assuredly put ii|,<m it, the democrats would not give the republicans any assistance. can union to consider plans lor the im provement of the trade and commerce ol 1 he country, in short, to revise the eon- federation system. In May, 17x7, the commissioners met in I’hiladelphia. < hit of this Virginia proposition and Phila delphia meeting, with kindred move ments, and after three years of effort, grew the constitution of the United States. Tim weather prophets are tolerably unanimous in announcing the imminence of severe thunder-storms within the next two or three days, a prediction which is a pretty safe one to make at the beginning of July, w hen the summer heats begin to manifest their full strengtli on a soil sat urated with moisture. Hut there is a joint on which experts are puzzled, and that is the manifest increase in the num ber and destructiveness of thunder- ■ storms within the last fifty years. It j would seem that the general use of light- j ning-oondiictors would draw oil’the at-j niospheric electricity and prevent de structive discharges, but this is not the case. IIKHKand there a Blaine organ raises feeble how l on the pretext that anion pension hills lately vetoed by President Cleveland was one in tlie interest of a .soldier who, although marked a> a de serter oil the army roll, w as really a pris oner at Andersonville. Well.it is rather late in the day to do justice in this ease. The war ended over twenty-,me years ago. Since then the nation has been most oftlic time in republican hands. Why has not this ox-prisoner ofAndor- sonville been vindicated and re wart let I long ago? Was he a democrat ? Or are m» to believe that it lias taken twenty- one years to tind out thut lie was an An- dersonville prisoner, that he was not a deserter or that he ought to have a pen sion? If not, why did not the men w ho are now so much Jconcerncd Jahout him sw that ,justice was done him a dozen years ago? IMUKtsK IN Nl/K. Ptll’l I.ATION t.NIl lit SI- N 1 '.NS. It is a recognized fact that within the Iti-t few years Columlms has taken on new life. This is shown by the re markable increase in size, in population and in business importance. That Columbus has increased in size it is only necessary to make a few state ments of facts to prove. Three years ago there was hardly a residence east of Sixth, avenue, formerly Mercer street, any where south of the county jail, and hut few between that point and the union depot. Now the commons have been built up until the city extends three Mocks further east and down within two blocks of the base ball park. All these blocks are as thickly settled its it was possible to build houses that would he comfortable. In the upper part of the city, and near the Swift mills, entire new Mocks of buildings have been erected. In various parts of the city va cant lots have been ornamented with handsome residences. This, to say notin' ing of the block after block of new build ings recently erected just outside the city limits and in hearing of the church bells. That the population ! as increased needs no further argument, as these houses are all full of people. Blit there is even better proof than this. The cen sus taken in lsso shows that the popula tion of Columbus and immediate vicinity was a little more than fifteen thousand. A careful enumeration made in |sx| showed that it was nearly twenty-three thousand. If the increase has kept up in the same proportion since then,there are - | now more than twenty-live thousand in habitants in the city and surrounding suburbs. (Mir business importance lias very largely increased, as an investigation of the tax books on sales will demonstrate. Wholesale merchants have extended their territory and have increased their sales. But that this has not kept pace with tint increase of the city in other re spects is patent. AYe do not believe that our citizens are lacking in enterprise or in energy. Yet there is not that effort towards heavy sales and small profits that only can build up large cities and gain tiio reputation that is desirable. No city, content witii small transactions and larger margins can attain that promi nence which the reverse would give. In other words, we must have more whole* I stile houses than we have, and they Tup: legal technicalities involved in the j should lie able to sell in just its many car- fishery troubles between Canada and tin I idled Slates w ill no doubt clear them selves in due time. All passionate dis cussion of them is apt to be a good deal like stirring the waters in a muddy pool. But it is a sorry comment on the ad vanced civilization of two of the leading nations ot the world that the New Kng- b.uul men who go down to the sea in ships must not stop at < 'unadinn ports to gat a little needed bait ot coal. (If course tire trouble lias come in part from the na- 1 i tural smartness of these two ei\ilizatiotis j and in jsirt from the ingiuined churli-h- I ness and ugliness against the I'nited states except when a reciprocity treaty is i w anted. The policy for our people to j pursue is to abstain from breaking t ana 1 diun law. to teinembet titi- di-play of Canadian ugly feeling, and to W patient until some Canadian delegate or some 1 distinguished diplomat comes here with I a reeiproeitj treaty in bis band and much ' smooth talk about our common heritage «if the language of M iltou and -liak-pe.uv dropping from In- tongin . lots as tt purchaser may dt people of Columbus were ire. never getting along more harmoniously than now. All political elements of every kind have been settled for the next two years, and there is no reason why this harmony should not continue to exist and to extend w ith all its capacity into ottr mercantile lelutions. Let every one put a shoulder to the wheel, and more especially let us have more wholesale business liotl-es. ill si KI P I* I !• WI I’ll Tin: AUK. A~ Mr. John Bright bad till bis lile been known as a liberal statesman and a people’s man. and a man of convictions given to following those convictions, it ua» most natural that It is opposition to M r t dadsp .tie s borne rule scheme should be felt throughout the masses of England more keenly than the opposition of any other man. But for several years Mr. right has been dropping out of bis old posit ; on as an active leader of Knglish liberal public sentiment. New ijtiesiions have come up into which he could not NAM’ AN HOI K WITH KDITOHS. Kbit Thf j Hits ta '.ii suit Their (point W »< i KipruwInK Ii -A Kew Notes lij the Wijrnlde. Theodore Hurt, u member of the Pemisylvau . egialature tout editor of the t’iuston (Jarett. ,v«s convicted of libel in the criminal court . '.Vtlkesbarre last week. Thu libel complained vns published several months at”, to the efl'ec hat a Mrs. Patrick llart, residing near Pittstei, >n account of the unhappiness of tier marv.o .ife, had attempted suicide. Mr. Hart will ap ;ieal from the verdict to the supreme court. It is to be hoped that Mr. Hart's appeal will In sustained. The people amt the public are hede ing and encroaching upon the inalienable rigli of prevarication which belongs to the newspape. profession until Simmy extremists,openly deelar that an editor has no reserved rights whatever i. regard to lying. What is the country coining > !l and where are to get bread for our families if w, we are pinned down like serftto t lie dreary.ashei level of fhets V If lying becomes an indictab i offense what is to become of Whitelaw Reid, e: the New York Tribune t He is too old to lean another trade, and even if he were not, lie eon., never distinguish himself nortakea pride in any thing else. And there is our own proud aia. priceless Henry Grady, of the Atlanta t’onstiti. tion, who boasts that he was never “hampere* by facts.” Think of him dealing in am dealing out the truth and nothing but thetrutli. What a necklace of millstones it would benbou his neck. Think, if one can think, of the editor of the Macon Telegraph and the Atlanta Const.- tution conducting a gubernatorial campaign n. stricter! solely to the employment of facts. A cat tish turned loose to glare in a sun-baked brim patch, would be in a home ofluxury,compared to these men in such a predicament. And the court, must be called in to compel editors to tell the truth. Great Scott! Brethren, this is another form ofthe boycott aimed against the profession : and it must be suppressed. The judge who is to try Mr. Hart’s case is a lawyer, of course, and we have reason to hope for justice at his hands. A western paper is asking its readers to say what in their opinion is the highest testofhoii esty.—N. Y. Tribune. If civilization had reached the point in the west which esteems street cars a luxury, the western paper would not have to hunt around for an an swer. Any street ear driver in Columbus could tell him that the highest possible test of a man’s honesty is for a passenger to drop his nickle in the Iiox when the conductor lias forgotten to col lect. Thehe is a strong feeling that great injury has been inflicted on the city, hut the preachers and leading church members simply close their ears to the statement and shout, “Glory hallelujah” with renewed fervor. This, says the Indianapolis News, is the com ment from Atlanta as the result of tlie first day's closing of tlie liquor shops there. It recalls the ofl-told story of tire saloon-keeper who, com plaining to a friend of had business, waved his hand toward a new church spire that was climb- ing heavenward with the remark: “Them's the dam things that's rainin’the country.” It At lanta thinks she is injured by tlie closing of the whisky shops, let her keep account of the money thereby saved for the actual outlay of the stuff and on account of pauperism and crime, based on present statistics, and she will find site will have saved money enough in a short time to pay for the whole business and the value of tlie prop erty supposed to lie damaged, besides. Our young editorial friends who run the Uni versity Reporter ut Athens, have fallen into an other historical error in this: “1851 Robert J. Bacon, A. M., Albany, Ga., clerk of railroad com mission of Georgia; member Georgia legislature: senator Georgia legislature." Mr. Robert J. Un coil, of Albany, was never connected with the railroad commission. Mr. Robert A. Bacon, of Columbus, who can out-talk a whole legisla tire, was never a member of that body.-—Macon Tel: graph. The Telegraph is more in error than the Univer sity Reporter. Major Bacon is away from home, and we propose to see that he is not misrepresented. If he were to read the Telegraph’s description of him lie would be so wrathy that he would be tempted to say, "it is untrue;" but it is more probable that he would only shake his head in a negative manner. Tiik Chattanooga Commercial wants to bury Evarts and legati politically. The Nashville American thoroughly sympathizes with tha Commercial in its desire to bury these distin guished statesmen of its own party, and we trust that we may not tie deemed officious if we ven ture to give our contemporary a pointer on ttie way to do it. AVe suggest that tlie next repub lican convention nominate them for president and vice-president of tlie United States. That will do the business. Everv time a repitlican head falls with a dull thud and the eager earth drinks up his martyr’s gore, a sympathetic ivail goes up from iii: fellow- partisans all over ttie land. They cant* get used to it. somehow. They can’t rid themselves of the erroneous impression that the earth is theirs and the fulness thereof. There is one patriot jwho is willing to light for the cause of Ireland. It is John U. Sullivan. John proposes to tight anybody in tlie world, tlie receipts to go to the Irish nationalist fatal, tt is hoped that John’s fistic* abilities may lie thus utilized for tlie cause of humanity. I ’. Ii. G ha ham. who intends to ride through t tie whirlpool rapids at Niagara in a cask of his own construction, made a trial of his invention at Buffalo, N. Y., Thursday. The experiment was successful. The attempt will lie made at an early People’s Line OF STEAMERS! The Steamer Milton H. Smitl xV ill leave Columbus every Saturday at 8 a m f“ tainl’i'.iige and Apalachicola. Leave Apalaeli •ola Monday at t! p m for Dninbridge and Colon.- .. * . ... U n♦ I’liatt’ . Connect with evening trains at Chattu loochee Sundays going down and Tuesday.- joining up. river, fog, &c., permitting. The loe;*. utes of freight and passage to all points oil tm Jhatiahoocnee ana Apalachicola rivers will b is follows : Uiouv per barrel. * 10 cent Cotton per bale 25 cent Other freight* in proportion. Rates and schedule subject to change without lotice. Passage from Columbus to Apalachicola 0t. ’ )ther pi ’iiih in proportion. Through tickets suit bv this line to savannah, Jacksonville and a- points in East Florida. Shippers will please have their freight at bore ny 8.00 a in on day of leaving, ns none will be n • oeived after that hour. Boat reserves the right of not landing at an. point when considered dangerous by the pilot. Boat will not stop at any point not named i the published list of landings ftirnished shij pen* for 1880. 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